The Kyocera SE-47: My First Cell Phone Slider'd Right Into My Heart
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2024
- 2003 was the beginning of the mobile data revolution, and I was right there with my Kyocera SE-47 on Virgin Mobile. The SE-47 slider had what seemed like features for days at the time: 1xRTT data, downloadable ringtones, images, games, music, a 65k color screen and a sliding screen for you to fidget with. With Verizon you could get everything, with Virgin you had the MTV store, and with Alltel (SE-44) the whole phone was built around Push-To-Talk features. We're throwing it back with an unboxing and full review of the SE-47 sliding cell phone.
#CellPhone #Kyocera #TechThrowback
This was the first phone I ever bought when I got my first job at 16. Got my first paycheck, went to cricket and bought it.. I felt like I was the shit because I had my own phone, and my own phone bill/plan lol.. 2 months later I dropped it in a slush puddle when I was outside pushing carts at work, and insurance gave me some basic crap ass flip phone as a replacement. What a throwback lol
Best quote "If you don't remember dial up.....I'm happy you didn't have to live through that!"
I worked at a Verizon dealer from 95-2012, I remember these well. The screws that connected the slider mech loved to back out and the phone would fall apart.
If you didn't tear the ribbon cable it was actually quite easy to fix, just had to open the rear half, pull the PCB, align everything and put the screws back in.
Also, the antenna port was common on most phones from this era, it was there for testing and not intended to be used by the end user, but a few companies did market external antenna kits. They really didn't gain you much.
Probably dating myself but my first phone was the Motorola DynaTac, also some favorite old phones were the StarTac and the Razr, my favorite early smartphone was the Palm Centro
The Motorola Razr was indeed an awesome phone, I had a Razr V3 on AT&T GoPhone service, and I even had a few different custom shells for that phone, but I sadly after about a year 1/2 of owning that phone I went out on a friend of my family's pontoon boat for the 4th of July, and late that night while trying to catch the dock returning home after a cruise down the Savanna River to see fireworks, I got a call, and the phone was set to ring/vibrate as I've been heard of hearing all my life, and the phone vibrated out of my pocket before I could catch it, and now too this very day it sits about 50 - 75ft down at the bottom of the mucky Savanna River lol!
Great channel idea, JRL. Closer video of the objects would be good. Maybe compare devices over time like show the evolution of your phone. Some ideas for next videos: dedicated GPS and geocaching devices (old tech and types of fun people don't do now much), old stereos/walkman, comparisons of tech you used to use 10 yrs ago to what you use now for the same function, old car tech oddities and features you don't see today, your old flashlight vs the LED flashlight you use today (assuming you have a multithousand lumen one like I do), retro gaming devices....
Scrolling through RUclips and I was like man that guy looks exactly like watch JR go..
It's his twin but from the past. 🤔
Love the new channel! Excellent throwback!
So looking forward to watching this channel JR. Also love anything tech as well as cars, bikes, AV systems, PA… the lot! How about some vintage car audio from the late 90’s early 2000’s next time?
Hmh, it's about the region where you live.. and when you were born. My 1st phone was a finnish Nokia 101 that was released 1992. I bought it 1995 as 2nd hand. The first GSM phone I had was a Philips Spark. It was unstable and also flammable :D One burnt to my jeans pocket, causing a burn mark to my skin. The first reliable one was Ericsson GA 628 at 1998 which after I replaced it with more advanced, also brick-like GH 688, which after I got SonyEricsson T28s. Then W880 and just after that, I went to Nokia brand again at the beginnings of 2000's. and oh boy did I have plenty of those.
Nice! Cool to watch the birth of a new channel. Keep on being you JR, but try not to burn yourself out!
Always fun to "revisit" the old stuff....or does that just make me old? HA! Found a few of my old phones on a recent "house cleaning". LG Optimus L9...Think it was their first Android phone. iPhone 5s, LG Voyager and Motorola E815 flip phone. My "First" cellphone? Was a Motorola phone, service with Cellular One and it was mounted in my 1993 Ford Taurus (1995 install). Had the phone de-installed from the Taurus when I sold it, but never used the phone again of course. Recycled it a couple years later.
I had a Voyager as well. Watched way too many hours of tv while on break at work.
God I’m old!! My first one was an AT&T 3010 bag phone!! 2 hours of charging for 30 minutes talk time…..if you were lucky! 😖
lol I forgot about the bag phones. My parents had one for the car until they got a built in car phone thru CellularOne =)
I was SO excited about 1X back in the day... growing up in the country with no home computer in 2004 my cell phone was my access point to the internet. I had browsed on the old Digital network on a Motorola v120 and could not wait to upgrade to a 1X phone for its faster data... ahh the CDMA days
My first phone i got was a nextel Motorola I90 back in middle school in 2005. I miss old phones, i dont care what anyone saids. Old phones will always be cool to me. I kept every phone i ever owned and its a hell of a list and they all still work
I dig it! I still remember my first phone, a Motorola W376G TracFone I got freshman year of high school (circa 2009). I replaced that a year later with a black Motorola RAZR V3 on AT&T GoPhone. It took a beating for the next three years til I finally got a smartphone. But I still have it today and it still works!
The Motorola Razr was indeed an awesome phone, as I also had a Razr V3 on AT&T GoPhone service, and I even had a few different custom shells for that phone I bought off eBay, but sadly after about a year 1/2 of owning that phone I went out on a friend of my family's pontoon boat for the 4th of July, and late that night while trying to catch the dock returning home somewhat drunk after a cruise down the Savanna River to see fireworks, I got a call, and the phone was set to ring/vibrate as I've been heard of hearing all my life, and the phone vibrated out of my pocket before I could catch it, and now too this very day it sits about 50 - 75ft down at the bottom of the mucky Savanna River lol!
Throwback Tech? I wonder if I can watch this channel on my Apple Newton PDA which still works. Of course I need to hook it into a dial up modem (which I still have) to get on the internet.
That was my first phone too!! My was a prepaid version you had to top up with minutes. Used it for 6 years.
back then those phones lasted days between charges.... I had virgin mobile as well
Although I had cell phones earlier that work provided me, my first phone that I bought for myself was the half moon shaped Nokia 3300. It had most the features people want today...Headphones (But with a proprietary connection), Mp3 playing from an SDcard, FM radio, JAVA games, GSM networks, and the one feature that really set it apart was the keyboard. A full QWERTY keyboard, split on either side of a square display. It's the only phone that I could thumb type without looking at the keyboard at all. It was just the right size to hold between your two hands and type away.
Omg. Never thought I'd see this again. Mine was the virgin mobile version as well. I can still feel the slide mechanism...and remember paying per minute to access the wap browser thingy to get ringtones
All this made me think of was Kansas Cellular and seeing their advertisements in Manhattan when I lived out there back in 98.
I remember when these were new! I was carrying a Motorola T730 at the time~
Good first video, excited to see what ya come up with. Vintage tech is awesome
Nothing was more satisfying than ending a call by flipping the slider closed!! I had the Samsung flavor as my favorite!
I'm not sure if you are familiar with the channel "Mr Mobile", but he has an ongoing series from time to time called "When phones were fun". Great old phone tech!! And easily one of the more polished channels I follow. Good dude, Michael Fisher.....
Looky looky fun new content. 👍 Love it !
Sliders 😂 brings back so many memories
Good luck with the new channel. My first phone was also a pre-paid Virgin Mobile Kyocera, although a slightly downscale model. Basically same screen and functions though. Worked well and was tough as nails. Worst "feature" was it's weird proprietary charging port. You were SOL if the battery ran down and you'd forgotten your charger. Odds of finding a compatible one to buy or borrow were slim to none.
I actually had a Kyocera Slider phone back in 2003 or 04 ! But mine was from US Cell and it was also in blue
Great idea. I look forward to future content.
WJRG needs its first LAN party
I missed the bag phone and brick/Dynatac era. My first cellphone was the Microtac and then the Startac. I had to get the Startac repaired twice. Fortunately I could just run up to the factory in Libertyville and they would fix it in about an hour. That’s something you can’t do now.
My plan was $10 per month plus 25 cents per min peak and 12 cents per min off-peak. No free minutes.
Data? I had an adapter box where I could hookup my laptop’s modem to the Microtac and get a 48k connection.
Nice, my first phone was a Motorola "bag" phone where the radio was in a separate housing that I carried in a bag. One suggestion: overhead cam.
My first mobile phone was the Philips savvy. So simple but brilliant in its day .
I had the blue one, from cricket. Attached it to a lanyard and used it as a stopwatch on the go
I still remember my first phone, a blue Samsung N200. It seemed cool to be able to "browse the web" on my phone, when in reality it was all text based. I then moved on to the LG Voyager (woohoo, I can watch TV on my phone!), before a couple HTCs (TouchPro 2 (which I loved), Rezound, One M8, M10), before falling back to Samsung once Verizon stopped carrying HTCs (currently a Galaxy S8 until my S22 Ultra ships in a week or so).
Interesting content. My one suggestion is this really needs to be a 2 camera set up so that we can actually see what you are talking about.
Back when companies hadn't yet discovered they could force you to throw away your phone because the battery was flat.
Awesome video, I am on the lower age range (27) so I did not have much opportunity to see some of these kinds of phones. I went from a basic brick Nokia in like 2006ish to a flip phone in 2010 (poor kid problems) to a kyocera qwerty keyboard in late 2010 to finally touchscreen android phone in 2011.
Great stuff, my late stepdad was a Verizon diehard for years, and got sold one of these, so I remember it well, but at that time in late 04 I had gotten out of a bad relationship, and had to stay with my parents for about a year, or so till I got my shit back together, but I was rocking an AT&T GoPhone prepaid Motorola C139 Hockey puck as the first cell phone I had that was not from my work, and it was $0.25 a min for calls, and $0.10 a page for text, but I was frugal with my calls, and text, so a $100 top off would get me through a year of service, and I also carried around a cheapo generic 2GB stick Mp3 player with a built in FM radio for my on the go entertainment.
Fancy, I was late to cell phones and was 100% flip phones until I finally got in the smart phone world. There were definitely some Moto RAZR from att prepaid back in the day...
i remember my first slider, it was back in 07 with the moto rizr z3 (a razr that slides) that thing had those spring slides you were talking about, they were great when they worked and then they would ass when they'd jam. i even had the moto mobile phonetools bootleg software with (one of my early ebay purchases) a chinese data cable to load my own mp3 ringtones (that was a hit with the ladies back then)
My first phone was a Motorola brick phone. I wish I had kept it.
My first phone was a Kyocera but I forget the model. It was flip and two tone blue and gray and it was new in 2001. It basically had call/text. It had an internet function but it was basically worthless. My plan charged me for any sent and received texts over 300 so I had to constantly tell people not to text me lol.
What is your tech background ?
12 years in IT, from help desk to enterprise storage support 🍻
Reminds me of one my mom had around that era.
If you ever find a Samsung flip that had the dancing Panda I"m dead!!! haha loved that phone
I managed 2 RadioShack stores in 2001 & 2002 and stood plenty of Kyocera phones made prior to this one. When I left, Bluetooth was just starting to appear.
I was looking for the classic verizon default ring tone and this popped up and I was wiping my eyes like is that watch Jr go???
Never knew Kyocera made cellphones :)
Great to see you with a tech channel John! Maybe you like Lenovo ThinkPads like I do - would love to see you presenting them here ;) need contacts? Ping me ...
I remember dialup...
Weee ka kan kan .. wee ka kan kan..
Wow 4.5 kB!!!
Finally texted Amberghini..... delivery failed 😭
I can't remember the name of my first phone but it was similar to this one, but a flip phone! Got it in 2005. Then after that I got the RAZR!
Great. Now I need JR to talk about the Voodoo 3
Totally different vibe than watchjrgo! I hope to see lots of these videos :)
I never thought about the predecessor of TFT screens. When you mentioned STN I had to look it up.
Never heard of the technology even though I've used phones with those screens.
Oh boy, and I thought TFT was bad.
My first phone was a Motorola C331 got it in 2002 when I started driving.
Mi primer celular Kyocera slider s44
My only critique is to have some more close-ups on the phones. Great job on the reviews
My first cell phone was a Nokia 3310 (the indestructible one lol). So so basic. Then I got some sort of Samsung flip phone with polyphonic ringtones, a color screen, AND a front screen for time and date (huge deal back then around 2003) . Then I rocked a Moto Razr for years until I got a Samsung Blackjack II which ran Windows CE. Super buggy phone. Then eventually, I bought an iPhone 4 and have subsequently had a 5, 6, 8Plus, 10s, and 13 ProMax.
Can you give video updates here you did or doing in your warehouse also. ?
Next show that antique Apple Watch on your wrist.
I now feel so old
Was the razor phone a phone people collect in the USA?
Remember the old Razor flip phones?
I had some early phones with cool features too.
Motorola brick phone, cool feature: it was a phone! And you could take it with you! Kind of... had to bring a fanny pack.
Damn our first cell phone in our house was a primeco phone the one where the little aliens came out in the commercials! I remember it was like 100 bucks and you got like 3000 minutes!
My brothers first phone, it became mine later.
This is really good JR. I like the premise. But I do wonder since you are a techie like me if this limits or pigeon holes you into discussing just old tech as opposed talking all things tech.
Look at Mr. Mobile for instance. Its a good assortment of new and old
Best phone I have and still use is the JCB Sitemaster2, bullet proof. Can use it to knock someone out selfdefence.
I had one of those I remember how cool thay where
This reminds me of DankPods, very good video!
AH, MY PUKCELL!!
Heh...the first 50 or more episodes on this channel could be "Tools and electronic devices that have now all been replaced by a single smart phone". Looking beyond the obvious ones like digital cameras, I'm thinking of my electronic dictionary, my decibel meter, my spirit level, my voice recorder, various Game Boys...
Reminded me a lot of my Samsung SGH-E800. The Samsung had better features but I think it was also the Next Generation 2004. I just remember feeling like such a baller every time I bought a $300+ phone 🤣.
Hyyyyyype for a tech channel!!!
Damn I miss it
Talking about I lived through the age daily up enternet and dail up cd disc that pick in the grocery
in the check out lane went to store cleck to pay your things those were the days all right.
Hey your watch jR go right? Lol I get so many people wrong on here but I think you look just like him 😅
It is him
Go find a tmobile sidekick! my favorite phone
I figured it would be automotive tech lol
I had the nokia 8210 from Charlie's angels in red
Need to go full hog here and get service for these old tech gadgets...
Can you hear me now?
JR, I think tarot is pronounced terr-oh. Double check me though.
Yep, but I respect him more for not knowing that than I would if he was into that nonsense.
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The antenna on most phones was just for show. Extending a piece of plastic with no connection to anything that would conduct anything was pretty funny...and useless!
You definitely need something in the background.. right now you look like you giving the news to North Korean people.. 🙃
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