Every video this guy does is perfection! My all-time favorite RUclips channel. Not favorite tech channel. Favorite of all categories. This guy is the best!
This video gives me all the feels... Thanks for all the CrackBerry and CBK Love! What a fun era. ❤ And that shoutout at the end... I don't have any kids, so helping to bring MrMobile into the world is maybe my fatherly achievement? Does that mean you inherit all my things? 😂
I am waiting for the next Blackberry video as much as I am waiting for the next Blackberry phone to buy it ..... Is Blackberry Key 2 still usable in 2023 ?????? and is there any hope that something like the Blackberry Passport Silver edition will ever be available again with the blackberry software but able to use all the ordinary google apps 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I was in high school in the UK at the time and I remember the obsession behind Blackberry and BBM. Anyone with an iPhone was a social outcast, and Android? Never heard of it. I also remember that one week in 2011 where every single blackberry failed due to a server outage. The speed at which my classmates abandoned their BlackBerrys and moved straight to iPhone and WhatsApp still blows my mind. Lovely episode Michael, you’re my favourite tech RUclipsr by a huge margin
Haha, I was just leaving a similar comment. Indeed, my schoolmates were annoyed at me with an iPhone because they had to pay to text me, unlike their BBM friends and family. After that outage a lot of them asked (in a cafe on our lunch break) to learn about how mine worked. Clearly Apple was paying attention, since iMessage had that social role today.
@@kaitlyn__L True, and Apple had some major carrier deals back then. Android was pretty much nowhere, which is a shame because it's always nice to have more variety
I remember it being mostly a thing for popular girls at my school. Most of us guys didn’t bother, and still rocked our pre-android LGs/Samsungs. iPhones were for the few rich kids, until around the 3GS/4 when they became more mainstream.
i remember this too and there was a resurgence years later when BBM released as an app for Android and iPhone but it never fully managed to capture the same hype again sadly
When Michael released a When phones were fun episode, as usual, a flow of nostalgia that I both did have and didn't suddenly running strong around my mind, making me feel melancholy of an exciting era of mobile phone history, thanks Michael, you made my day!
When you said "these photos have a 2010 vibe" you gave me flashbacks of 2010 in London when I was trying out those phones in showrooms that was a good year. Thanks for bringing back memories brother ❤️💯. I bought a nokia e55 though... Best phone I've ever had and it had the same sure type layout
« When phones were fun » is an amazing series of content, and the way you are thinking (philosophing?) about smartphones, our attachment to them, and how they are directly linked to our way of thinking time, is just amazing! Congratulations from France from a once Blackberry user and lover!
I love this series, and there is no phone I've loved as much before or since my Blackberry Bold. There was a unique magic to that device. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
I love these videos. You are very thorough and cohesive. I really miss the Blackberry days... Even the Evo 4G days. Simpler times. It wasn't that long ago, but seems like so much has changed since.
I genuinely cannot express how much I love your tech videos. You put so much thought and effort into your presentations, I cannot miss any video you post. Thank you, Mr. Mobile.
Another really well-put video with a lot of nostalgia on how things were back then. Thanks again, Michael, I absolutely love this series and remember my old pals that were eventually left behind in theirs dues.
9:06 "Phones? Well they can really be a time machine, of sorts." I love this statement. This isn't particularly too new or too old but I picked up a iPhone X on iOS 12 recently and I've been using old apps that (somehow still work!) and it feels like a time machine by itself. I even modified the Apple Pay images to be recreations of my bank's old card designs! Love this video even in 2024!
Love it. So that palm pre retrospective is still coming, right? Remember when they said you could sync with iTunes? And apple was like, what? Then they eventually said their phone was an apple product over USB so it could sync? Remember? You da best!
Of all the things I would have never expected from this video, at the top of them would be a mention of one of the most popular film series ever Pro in my country. Your research truly knows no bounds and no equal. Amazing work.
I will quite honestly never tire of your nuanced predilection for all things ever-nostalgically “BlackBerry”, and the profoundly timeless series of periodical iterative instalments that follow suit, as a natural, if all too warmly welcome, consequence of which. These videos just do it for me as a quintessentially visceral feature of deeply relatable and resonant catharsis I could not quite articulate, even if I wanted to.
Hard-hitting nostalgia here! The Pearl Flip review was my first big review video for CrackBerry. Production value of which has never been matched. Thanks for this!
Great episode! Blackberry devices were EVERYWHERE in the mid-late aughts. Losing the Signal was an incredible retrospective. Would love to see an episode on departed MVNOs like Virgin Mobile, Helio, etc (RIP). And the exclusive hardware for each. Phones like the Helio Ocean were bonkers for the time. Stay mobile, Mr. M!
Helio was the first phone to have Google Maps! I thought that was so cool, lol. It was like a transition period between PDAs & feature phones, but before smartphones.
Title was a bit confusing, didn’t click on it for a couple days because I thought it was only about a flip blackberry phone. Love the history of blackberry tour you brought us on!
Oh man, what a walk down memory lane. I had my first blackberry when I was 17, and kept them thru the passport. Very well done video, thanks for making me have the feels haha. thanks.
Fun fact: The Nigerian film industry, aka Nollywood, is the 3rd biggest in the world -behind Bollywood and Hollywood. Nigerian are rich and it's quite common to see US products (tech gadgets, cars, etc) in Nigeria during the launch week due to pre-orders. ...posted this because Michael sounded surprised when he mentioned Nigeria.
I follow quite a few tech youtubers,even MrWhoseTheBoss,but,you are by far my favourite tech youtuber,plus,i am also absolutely obsessed with foldables,i own a fold4 and i love it to bits,i would like to also buy a flip4 or even a motorola razr.The thing is i love your reviews,you are by far the coolest tech youtuber i've seen
I’m *so* excited for this episode! I’ve had almost every model of Blackberry and I still miss it to this day! I’d love to see a review of the tablet! I ordered it, but never ended up using it back in the day.
Love this😍 the Blackberry 8520 curve was my first real smart phone. After watching this video, I pulled it out of storage to reflect on how far we’ve come with technology. Holding it side-by-side to my Samsung galaxy 22 ultra and iPhone 12 it’s baffling to compare how little screen real estate we had on these things and yet, that keyboard! just made the device so functional. Can’t wait for the blackberry movie. I’m see if I can get mine working in time for the first showing! Wish me luck
Even being only 26, I still remember that the first two phones I was dreaming to get as a kid were a Blackberry Curve and Motorola Razr. They were the ultimate "grown up" phones.
Great video as usual. I truly miss these times when phones were fun. There was so much variety and different coming out all the time, it truly was a euphoric era to have lived in.
Blackberry was awesome with the Z10 and Q10. I absolutely loved the z10 since I could sideload apps and have that fantastic blackberry keyboard and messaging app that kept everything organized
Z10 was such a great phone. Gestures way back at that time, the BB Hub for all messages from all apps, the extra button between volume keys, the general smoothness of BB10 OS, omg I miss it so much
@@nordic-chan I was a webOS man myself, but I never saw BB10 as competition -- rather it was another elegant alternative to the iOS/Android juggernaut. I wish either one had lasted longer.
I remember seeing the Flip at the Sprint store so many time, always thought it was so cool. Ended up getting an LG Lotus though since we didn't want to get a smartphone plan. (On a side note speaking of weird Sprint phones, really hope to see the Kyocera Echo in an episode one day!)
WOW, that mention of the LG Lotus brought up a long-dormant memory. My wife coveted the purple Lotus so much, that I literally can't remember whether we actually bought one, or just spent a lot of time *talking* about buying one! Up until right now I had completely forgotten about that phone! (I do know for a fact that she eventually got a red Palm Centro, because we still have it along with the original Sprint packaging.)
Blackberry was SUPER popular in Nigeria in its time. Off the top of my head I remember the Curve and Bold were the most popular, with the torch, storm and pearl right after those. The playbook and passport weren't as popular because other devices were climbing up the same ladder but the brand is definitely cemented in Nigerian popular culture's history, at least to my memory 😄
Once I was finally able to buy my own phones, I only got to try a single BlackBerry; The OG Storm. I absolutely LOVED it. The physical click was super satisfying and it remains one of my favorite phones I've used to this day.
Blackberry babes was the biggest movie at that time in Nigeria because it served as a cautionary tale for what the addiction to the phone causes to society 😂😂😂. Thanks bringing a big Nigerian pop culture reference to limelight
So glad my donation of the red Blackberry Pearl has finally showed up in a video. Nicely done little mini-history of Blackberry. Glad I could help contribute to it.
My dad still uses my old playbook to play his music from over his stereo. Still works fine apart from the comically long time it takes to turn on which was there from new.
I really miss physical keyboards. I’d love a phone like the Style to come back but with a better camera, larger touch screen and Android. One of the best phones ever made. I had the Bold 9700, hands down the best phone I ever owned.
My BlackBerry journey start with BB Pearl 8100 in 2008 (i still got it in my drawer), then in short time i switched to BB 8800 and few others (Bold’s models)….my BB journey ended in 2011 with BB Bold 9900. Those were great times & missed them. BBM, fantastic keyboard and many others features. 😢
Keep making these vids!! Still use my playbook as a pure video player... but miss my BB World Edition.... I actually was a BES Admin for my company back in 2009...
9:37 Blackberry design is from Motorola Korea's 2008 V9M design. When South Korea Motorola branch still produced its own unique design for Korean market.
My blackberry pearl 9100 was the best work phone I ever had. I think I kept it for three years... Which aside from my titanium nokia 8890 slide phone is the longest I've ever kept a phone. That one was the first thing I ever bought after getting a job and lasted me four years.
Former user of 7105, Bold 9700, Bold 9900, Q10, Z10, and Priv. Bold 9700 will forever be my favorite mobile device form factor. The cleverly designed call answer/decline/mute buttons at the top of the device (holster compatibility), optical track pad, full keyboard with "toolbelt" buttons (which BB tried with mixed success to replace with gestures and touch screen on Q10), the clever smart typing software. That rig was an email and music/podcast playing powerhouse. I didn't even realize at the time just how bad the resolution was and web browsing pre-BB10 was abysmal. The small battery went a long way at least the first two years in service after which the spare battery and external charger were small inconveniences. If BB had kept pace with the industry on app ecosystem and had a successor to bold with slightly bigger, high res display, capacitive keyboard, and track pad I would still be rocking a BB today. I would even ditch the touch screen! When Phones Were Fun, indeed!
As much as I really like the polish and sparkle of my Samsung devices since I had to move away from BB, I still miss BB. My absolute favorite device after the Bold 9000 was the Z10. I was so upset when the cell antenna stopped working and I had to move to the Passport. The Passport is a nice device but the Z10 is still the best slab BB IMO. I have the Motion, that I won from a CB giveaway, but never put a SIM in it. I wasn't fond of the basic Android UI on it. But only kept is as a backup if ever needed as one. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I'll be sure to check out the book and movie!
My love for blackberry is one of the many reasons why I enjoy and trust your reviews wayyyy back from pocketnow ❤️🇳🇬 love what you did with the blackberry babes😅
thx for continuing to do blackberry content; as a QWERTY phone fan, it still pains me to use a touchscreen phone daily, still hoping for new/modern QWERTY phones
Another nostalgic beauty of this series is a reminder of what it feels like NOT to be able to binge on a whole season or show at once! Nope, I have to patiently wait until another *single* "episode" of WPWF uploads from MrMobile, rekindling other memories from the distant aughts. Another job well done, Michael!!
I have a suggestion for the series if you don't mind Michael, it's the Sony Ericsson Jalou, a cute little flip phone designed with the facets of a jewel. I'm not sure if it was sold in the States but it's a great looking phone, even if the specs weren't something to shout about. Love the series, I hope the phone designers are watching the series for inspiration
A secondhand grayscale “blueberry” was my first phone. God I loved that thing. I eventually got my mom’s Pearl Flip. I WISH I could’ve had a full sized flip as the time lol.
I too sold phones back then... first job at Radio Shack when 16 or 17 years old.... stayed there for 4 or 5 years, leaving around 2004. Of course we sold Sprint and VZW, and after this I'd ended up managing two VZW stores, one in downtown PGH PA, and one in a new mall that had just popped up (PGH Mills), which is now all but as dead as dead can be. Crazy to have been there during opening, at its best, and also now... seeing it at its near condemned worst. Regardless, I skilled Blackberry the entire way through... it just wasn't in ANY way for me. In the very early days I had an SPH-i300, PalmOS based, very Palm Pilot like, phone. Also had an Audiovox Thera 2032, and many many many Windows Mobile iterations, most being from HTC and coming in well before its first real success with the Apache. But BB just never held any interest to me, it was too bland, useless, etc. It had a few redeeming subsets of features that would win over folks who ONLY needed to email and communicate within a closed ecosystem / company, where the units were all purchased and managed via said company. But, as an individual personal phone, I never saw the point. It was expensive, lacked ALL the fun features of other, better units... and would basically tie your hands with corporate "no fun for you" handcuffs the whole time. All of these other ecosystems of "smart phones", of which all existed so so SO long before apple ever did anything related to the sort, all offered far more individuality. Gaming, apps, sideloading, official app sources, official Microsoft suites (and others), messaging, video, camera, it was all just SO MUCH FURTHER ahead, or simply present at all and in general, on other handsets.. while BB lacked it. But regardless, it was the best of the eras for sure. Same with computers and tech in general... heck, even cars for that matter... things were just FAR more exciting back then. Somehow the world has gone entirely malaise now, or at least beige.
I used to drool over blackberry when I was in high school. My dad had a bold and I got a curve. Their Z10 was just amazing. I wish their brand succeeded in gaining more market share.
4:18 so true i distinctly remeber people loving blackberries when mobile phone first got popular in my primary school and beyond because of messaging ( this was the UK)
I'm loving this series. I notice it's light covering the Windows Mobile world, and maybe that's coming soon. My favorite phone *ever* was the Motorola Q. I still miss mine. Windows Mobile 5/6 was so hackable and had so many apps.
I have been patiently waiting for this ever since you hinted at in the last crackberry podcast, and as always you did not disappoint! So good :) Thank you
my mother had the Blackberry Pearl for so long that it had half of its keys by the time she got too annoyed with using it that way. To put it bluntly, she LOVED the thing probably more than me..
Blackberry messenger became infamous when i was at college they was used for cute things like dating but also bad things. A lot of people forget the tablet that was shocking in how easily it could work with the phones
I had a BlackBerry 9700 bold and a z3 and this video made me all nostalgic. I genuinely miss the good old days of using a phone that could fit in my pocket comfortably and still managed to have a full fledged physical keyboard. Not to mention the fact that most features of BlackBerry was way ahead of their time.
Hey Miguel! Watched this awesome video on my KEY2 ..had to do it! BTW there is strong rumour that Next BlackBerry movie Part 2 will star You Mister Mobile and CBK Kevin!! 🎉Let the Good Times Roll!!!
I always wondered what it was that Blackberry users so loved about the devices. I had multiple managers who couldn't be more than a few feet from theirs. Never had one myself because those employers weren't assigning devices to non-managers, even those of us they expect to be on-call. I look forward to your video on the Storm. I remember a few consultants who had them and told of the trials and tribulations of making them usable.
i used curve once before. as a vehicle inspector, my hands usually will have engine oil here and there. the side button cracked and revealing the button inside. but having a blackberry back then is really fun with the bbm. we can send much longer sentence in one go. but then i have to change to a new phone which is a samsung galaxy y duos for its slighgtly better camera which I can afford at that time. then i changed to galaxy s3 which is way better in terms of camera, screen and storage. but blackberry really is the one that make a change in the handphone industry which is for me, BBM is the grandfather of whatsapp and other messenger that use data rather than credit by using a handphone.
Gosh that purple QWERTY flip is literally my DREAMMMM. I like to hope that people miss the simplicity of a call/text/typing phone, but so long as we’re all hooked on our iPhones, there’s no reason anyone would restart that market, which genuinely breaks my heart. My bf is an engineer, maybe he could rig one for me. But it’s not that simple. 😢
My first smart phone was a blackberry bold. I got it in 2013 as a hand me down from my parents and I used it for all through my fifth grade year. I loved it To death.
I still have my mother's blackberry pearl. I remember listening songs on it and playing the brick breaker game. Unfortunately its trackball doesn't work due to years of use and the battery its dead, but maybe one day i might repair it if i find the parts for it somehow
At three years old, I had a pink Verizon RAZR V3M, an AT&T Motorola V60T Color, and a T-Mobile BlackBerry 7105T. Man, I LOVED that 7105T. Got it from a girl at church who for whatever reason decided I needed one. At the same time, my Uncle Sean had a Nextel BlackBerry 7100i.
i was born in 03 so i’m pretty young but i distinctly remember that circa 2008 a kid in my kindergarten class’s dad got a blackberry from his work and that shit was so damn cool i love this channel so much for giving me context to my vague childhood memories about tech i found cool!
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To this day, no other mobile creator has the vocab that Mr Mobile has. Well done.
Every video this guy does is perfection! My all-time favorite RUclips channel. Not favorite tech channel. Favorite of all categories. This guy is the best!
You must be more of a literature fan than a tech fan.
@@avinash_1341 both since I run a tech channel.
I actually come here for that! I love how he speaks. Sometimes, even learn a new word or two.
You said it. Crystal clear!
This video gives me all the feels... Thanks for all the CrackBerry and CBK Love! What a fun era. ❤
And that shoutout at the end... I don't have any kids, so helping to bring MrMobile into the world is maybe my fatherly achievement? Does that mean you inherit all my things? 😂
“Kevin out”
Hey Kevin...the rumour has that the next BlackBerry movie Part 2 will star you CBK and Mister Mobile ! Let the GOOD TIMES Roll!
I am waiting for the next Blackberry video as much as I am waiting for the next Blackberry phone to buy it .....
Is Blackberry Key 2 still usable in 2023 ?????? and is there any hope that something like the Blackberry Passport Silver edition will ever be available again with the blackberry software but able to use all the ordinary google apps 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
LoL - you already "gave" me your blue BlackBerry Classic, so I'm not sure what else I could ask for!
@@TheMrMobile Hmm... so that's where that one is. I kinda want that back! LOL
As a 40-year-old that worked at a Cell phone accessories mall kiosk in the 90's, I absolutely love this series!
I was in high school in the UK at the time and I remember the obsession behind Blackberry and BBM. Anyone with an iPhone was a social outcast, and Android? Never heard of it.
I also remember that one week in 2011 where every single blackberry failed due to a server outage. The speed at which my classmates abandoned their BlackBerrys and moved straight to iPhone and WhatsApp still blows my mind.
Lovely episode Michael, you’re my favourite tech RUclipsr by a huge margin
Haha, I was just leaving a similar comment. Indeed, my schoolmates were annoyed at me with an iPhone because they had to pay to text me, unlike their BBM friends and family. After that outage a lot of them asked (in a cafe on our lunch break) to learn about how mine worked. Clearly Apple was paying attention, since iMessage had that social role today.
@@kaitlyn__L True, and Apple had some major carrier deals back then. Android was pretty much nowhere, which is a shame because it's always nice to have more variety
I remember it being mostly a thing for popular girls at my school. Most of us guys didn’t bother, and still rocked our pre-android LGs/Samsungs. iPhones were for the few rich kids, until around the 3GS/4 when they became more mainstream.
i remember this too and there was a resurgence years later when BBM released as an app for Android and iPhone but it never fully managed to capture the same hype again sadly
Absolutely loved my Pearl. I got so good at typing with that incredible keyboard I could tell if I made a typo without looking. Great video as always!
SureType was underrated!
Wow. The BlackBerry Pearl. I sold many of em. I like it a lot.
I was a Palm Treo guy - but the BlackBerry flagships were always amazing.
I love your “When phones were fun” series. I used to work for a Telecommunications company in the UK, and your series just brings back so much memory.
When Michael released a When phones were fun episode, as usual, a flow of nostalgia that I both did have and didn't suddenly running strong around my mind, making me feel melancholy of an exciting era of mobile phone history, thanks Michael, you made my day!
Very few tech reviewers delve into the past and future of technology like Mr Mobile. It's like watching a documentary. Thank you Mr. Mobile!❤
When you said "these photos have a 2010 vibe" you gave me flashbacks of 2010 in London when I was trying out those phones in showrooms that was a good year. Thanks for bringing back memories brother ❤️💯. I bought a nokia e55 though... Best phone I've ever had and it had the same sure type layout
That Nigerian Movie reference shows how well-written and produced your reviews are. Hats off to you champ.
I kid you not when I say I literally cried myself to sleep when I read BlackBerry was scrapping the BB10 OS. That OS was just so good.
« When phones were fun » is an amazing series of content, and the way you are thinking (philosophing?) about smartphones, our attachment to them, and how they are directly linked to our way of thinking time, is just amazing! Congratulations from France from a once Blackberry user and lover!
I love this series, and there is no phone I've loved as much before or since my Blackberry Bold. There was a unique magic to that device. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
I love these videos. You are very thorough and cohesive. I really miss the Blackberry days... Even the Evo 4G days. Simpler times. It wasn't that long ago, but seems like so much has changed since.
No matter the brand...I just love this series from MrMobile.... Pure nostalgia...
I genuinely cannot express how much I love your tech videos. You put so much thought and effort into your presentations, I cannot miss any video you post. Thank you, Mr. Mobile.
Another really well-put video with a lot of nostalgia on how things were back then. Thanks again, Michael, I absolutely love this series and remember my old pals that were eventually left behind in theirs dues.
9:06 "Phones? Well they can really be a time machine, of sorts." I love this statement. This isn't particularly too new or too old but I picked up a iPhone X on iOS 12 recently and I've been using old apps that (somehow still work!) and it feels like a time machine by itself. I even modified the Apple Pay images to be recreations of my bank's old card designs! Love this video even in 2024!
I love this series, how it captures the social and personal aspects phones, especially older ones used to have
Love it.
So that palm pre retrospective is still coming, right?
Remember when they said you could sync with iTunes? And apple was like, what?
Then they eventually said their phone was an apple product over USB so it could sync? Remember?
You da best!
Of all the things I would have never expected from this video, at the top of them would be a mention of one of the most popular film series ever Pro in my country. Your research truly knows no bounds and no equal. Amazing work.
I will quite honestly never tire of your nuanced predilection for all things ever-nostalgically “BlackBerry”, and the profoundly timeless series of periodical iterative instalments that follow suit, as a natural, if all too warmly welcome, consequence of which. These videos just do it for me as a quintessentially visceral feature of deeply relatable and resonant catharsis I could not quite articulate, even if I wanted to.
At one point in time, everyone in my family had a BlackBerry device. It's incredible how things have changed since then. Great video as always!
Let me guess. At present, everyone in your family uses an iPhone. Am I right?
Hard-hitting nostalgia here! The Pearl Flip review was my first big review video for CrackBerry. Production value of which has never been matched. Thanks for this!
Great episode! Blackberry devices were EVERYWHERE in the mid-late aughts. Losing the Signal was an incredible retrospective.
Would love to see an episode on departed MVNOs like Virgin Mobile, Helio, etc (RIP). And the exclusive hardware for each. Phones like the Helio Ocean were bonkers for the time.
Stay mobile, Mr. M!
Helio was the first phone to have Google Maps! I thought that was so cool, lol. It was like a transition period between PDAs & feature phones, but before smartphones.
Title was a bit confusing, didn’t click on it for a couple days because I thought it was only about a flip blackberry phone. Love the history of blackberry tour you brought us on!
Oh man, what a walk down memory lane. I had my first blackberry when I was 17, and kept them thru the passport. Very well done video, thanks for making me have the feels haha. thanks.
One thing I loved on backberry was the ability to search in songs and the ability to suffle the results.
Fun fact: The Nigerian film industry, aka Nollywood, is the 3rd biggest in the world -behind Bollywood and Hollywood. Nigerian are rich and it's quite common to see US products (tech gadgets, cars, etc) in Nigeria during the launch week due to pre-orders.
...posted this because Michael sounded surprised when he mentioned Nigeria.
I remember watching my first nollywood movie in college, was actually blackberry babes lmao
I follow quite a few tech youtubers,even MrWhoseTheBoss,but,you are by far my favourite tech youtuber,plus,i am also absolutely obsessed with foldables,i own a fold4 and i love it to bits,i would like to also buy a flip4 or even a motorola razr.The thing is i love your reviews,you are by far the coolest tech youtuber i've seen
I’m *so* excited for this episode! I’ve had almost every model of Blackberry and I still miss it to this day! I’d love to see a review of the tablet! I ordered it, but never ended up using it back in the day.
I am always hoping for the latest "When Phones Were Fun" video from MrMobile,and when we do get it always makes my day !!
Love this😍 the Blackberry 8520 curve was my first real smart phone.
After watching this video, I pulled it out of storage to reflect on how far we’ve come with technology.
Holding it side-by-side to my Samsung galaxy 22 ultra and iPhone 12 it’s baffling to compare how little screen real estate we had on these things and yet, that keyboard! just made the device so functional.
Can’t wait for the blackberry movie. I’m see if I can get mine working in time for the first showing! Wish me luck
Blackberry will always have a special place in my heart...Its very sad it was unable to maintain it phone business
Even being only 26, I still remember that the first two phones I was dreaming to get as a kid were a Blackberry Curve and Motorola Razr. They were the ultimate "grown up" phones.
Great video as usual. I truly miss these times when phones were fun. There was so much variety and different coming out all the time, it truly was a euphoric era to have lived in.
Blackberry was awesome with the Z10 and Q10. I absolutely loved the z10 since I could sideload apps and have that fantastic blackberry keyboard and messaging app that kept everything organized
BB10 is still my fav mobile OS ever. I used my Passport up until it's outdated TLS certs wouldn't allow it to browse the web anymore.
Z10 was such a great phone. Gestures way back at that time, the BB Hub for all messages from all apps, the extra button between volume keys, the general smoothness of BB10 OS, omg I miss it so much
@@nordic-chan I was a webOS man myself, but I never saw BB10 as competition -- rather it was another elegant alternative to the iOS/Android juggernaut. I wish either one had lasted longer.
Such a nice back for this series! I'm so glad to watch this kind of flashback!
I remember seeing the Flip at the Sprint store so many time, always thought it was so cool. Ended up getting an LG Lotus though since we didn't want to get a smartphone plan.
(On a side note speaking of weird Sprint phones, really hope to see the Kyocera Echo in an episode one day!)
WOW, that mention of the LG Lotus brought up a long-dormant memory. My wife coveted the purple Lotus so much, that I literally can't remember whether we actually bought one, or just spent a lot of time *talking* about buying one! Up until right now I had completely forgotten about that phone!
(I do know for a fact that she eventually got a red Palm Centro, because we still have it along with the original Sprint packaging.)
Nice video, I am big synthwave fan and you often choose the best tracks for the background!
Blackberry was SUPER popular in Nigeria in its time.
Off the top of my head I remember the Curve and Bold were the most popular, with the torch, storm and pearl right after those.
The playbook and passport weren't as popular because other devices were climbing up the same ladder but the brand is definitely cemented in Nigerian popular culture's history, at least to my memory 😄
Once I was finally able to buy my own phones, I only got to try a single BlackBerry; The OG Storm.
I absolutely LOVED it. The physical click was super satisfying and it remains one of my favorite phones I've used to this day.
Fun fact, at one point Blackberry controlled 43% of the smartphone marketshare.
The bigger they are ...
@@TheMrMobile Nokia…
Fun…er fact? Idk. Anyway, at one point they used to own more than 50% of the smartphone market. They were EVERYWHERE.
@@TheMrMobile are we saying that apple is on the clock? 👀
Blackberry babes was the biggest movie at that time in Nigeria because it served as a cautionary tale for what the addiction to the phone causes to society 😂😂😂. Thanks bringing a big Nigerian pop culture reference to limelight
Good, another Mr Mobile Movie 🙂
So glad my donation of the red Blackberry Pearl has finally showed up in a video. Nicely done little mini-history of Blackberry. Glad I could help contribute to it.
I loved the blackberry phones when they came out wish I could have had one.
My dad still uses my old playbook to play his music from over his stereo. Still works fine apart from the comically long time it takes to turn on which was there from new.
I really miss physical keyboards. I’d love a phone like the Style to come back but with a better camera, larger touch screen and Android. One of the best phones ever made. I had the Bold 9700, hands down the best phone I ever owned.
My BlackBerry journey start with BB Pearl 8100 in 2008 (i still got it in my drawer), then in short time i switched to BB 8800 and few others (Bold’s models)….my BB journey ended in 2011 with BB Bold 9900. Those were great times & missed them. BBM, fantastic keyboard and many others features. 😢
I think mr mobile put the flips back in style with these uploads
My favourite..Mr Mobile is back ...please make more of these ❤
I miss blackberry
Whew! This brings back memories. Working in mobile at the time, I replaced so many of those Pearl trackballs. They came on a roll.
Babe dis fud luks dry, I expected kim to oda 4 wine, am tired of all these
I just came here to indulge in the nostalgia from 20 years ago. Appreciate the commentary.
You’re like my 2023 version of PhoneDog and I mean that in the best way possible. PhoneDog was my RUclips childhood lol
Keep making these vids!! Still use my playbook as a pure video player... but miss my BB World Edition.... I actually was a BES Admin for my company back in 2009...
9:37 Blackberry design is from Motorola Korea's 2008 V9M design. When South Korea Motorola branch still produced its own unique design for Korean market.
I was a blackberry specialist for Nextel and corporate sales rep. Miss these phones and good times :( nice video man.
My blackberry pearl 9100 was the best work phone I ever had. I think I kept it for three years... Which aside from my titanium nokia 8890 slide phone is the longest I've ever kept a phone. That one was the first thing I ever bought after getting a job and lasted me four years.
AH, Mr. Mobile, always there for me when I need you the most! I'm sick and have to work, but this will things a little bit more bearable
Former user of 7105, Bold 9700, Bold 9900, Q10, Z10, and Priv. Bold 9700 will forever be my favorite mobile device form factor. The cleverly designed call answer/decline/mute buttons at the top of the device (holster compatibility), optical track pad, full keyboard with "toolbelt" buttons (which BB tried with mixed success to replace with gestures and touch screen on Q10), the clever smart typing software. That rig was an email and music/podcast playing powerhouse. I didn't even realize at the time just how bad the resolution was and web browsing pre-BB10 was abysmal.
The small battery went a long way at least the first two years in service after which the spare battery and external charger were small inconveniences. If BB had kept pace with the industry on app ecosystem and had a successor to bold with slightly bigger, high res display, capacitive keyboard, and track pad I would still be rocking a BB today. I would even ditch the touch screen!
When Phones Were Fun, indeed!
This series is the best thing that happened to mobile tech journalism
I mean, the BlackBerry Film just recently came out and it’s quite cool how the rise and fall of RIM’s Smartphone division might be heartwarming.
As much as I really like the polish and sparkle of my Samsung devices since I had to move away from BB, I still miss BB. My absolute favorite device after the Bold 9000 was the Z10. I was so upset when the cell antenna stopped working and I had to move to the Passport. The Passport is a nice device but the Z10 is still the best slab BB IMO. I have the Motion, that I won from a CB giveaway, but never put a SIM in it. I wasn't fond of the basic Android UI on it. But only kept is as a backup if ever needed as one. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I'll be sure to check out the book and movie!
I love how you tell the story and the choice of vocabulary .
My love for blackberry is one of the many reasons why I enjoy and trust your reviews wayyyy back from pocketnow ❤️🇳🇬 love what you did with the blackberry babes😅
thx for continuing to do blackberry content; as a QWERTY phone fan, it still pains me to use a touchscreen phone daily, still hoping for new/modern QWERTY phones
I still miss my blackberry passport. My favorite phone, loved the size,the keyboard and feel in the hand. Really durable too.
It's a great video and brings back some memories. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 .
Another nostalgic beauty of this series is a reminder of what it feels like NOT to be able to binge on a whole season or show at once! Nope, I have to patiently wait until another *single* "episode" of WPWF uploads from MrMobile, rekindling other memories from the distant aughts.
Another job well done, Michael!!
I have a suggestion for the series if you don't mind Michael, it's the Sony Ericsson Jalou, a cute little flip phone designed with the facets of a jewel. I'm not sure if it was sold in the States but it's a great looking phone, even if the specs weren't something to shout about. Love the series, I hope the phone designers are watching the series for inspiration
A secondhand grayscale “blueberry” was my first phone. God I loved that thing. I eventually got my mom’s Pearl Flip. I WISH I could’ve had a full sized flip as the time lol.
I too sold phones back then... first job at Radio Shack when 16 or 17 years old.... stayed there for 4 or 5 years, leaving around 2004. Of course we sold Sprint and VZW, and after this I'd ended up managing two VZW stores, one in downtown PGH PA, and one in a new mall that had just popped up (PGH Mills), which is now all but as dead as dead can be. Crazy to have been there during opening, at its best, and also now... seeing it at its near condemned worst. Regardless, I skilled Blackberry the entire way through... it just wasn't in ANY way for me. In the very early days I had an SPH-i300, PalmOS based, very Palm Pilot like, phone. Also had an Audiovox Thera 2032, and many many many Windows Mobile iterations, most being from HTC and coming in well before its first real success with the Apache. But BB just never held any interest to me, it was too bland, useless, etc. It had a few redeeming subsets of features that would win over folks who ONLY needed to email and communicate within a closed ecosystem / company, where the units were all purchased and managed via said company. But, as an individual personal phone, I never saw the point. It was expensive, lacked ALL the fun features of other, better units... and would basically tie your hands with corporate "no fun for you" handcuffs the whole time. All of these other ecosystems of "smart phones", of which all existed so so SO long before apple ever did anything related to the sort, all offered far more individuality. Gaming, apps, sideloading, official app sources, official Microsoft suites (and others), messaging, video, camera, it was all just SO MUCH FURTHER ahead, or simply present at all and in general, on other handsets.. while BB lacked it.
But regardless, it was the best of the eras for sure. Same with computers and tech in general... heck, even cars for that matter... things were just FAR more exciting back then. Somehow the world has gone entirely malaise now, or at least beige.
I used to drool over blackberry when I was in high school. My dad had a bold and I got a curve. Their Z10 was just amazing. I wish their brand succeeded in gaining more market share.
Ahhhh…thanks for taking us back mrmobile😊
4:18 so true i distinctly remeber people loving blackberries when mobile phone first got popular in my primary school and beyond because of messaging ( this was the UK)
I’ve been waiting for this video since you posted that Blackberry style image on Twitter.! 🎉 NOSTALGIC ❤
I'm loving this series. I notice it's light covering the Windows Mobile world, and maybe that's coming soon. My favorite phone *ever* was the Motorola Q. I still miss mine. Windows Mobile 5/6 was so hackable and had so many apps.
I have been patiently waiting for this ever since you hinted at in the last crackberry podcast, and as always you did not disappoint! So good :) Thank you
my mother had the Blackberry Pearl for so long that it had half of its keys by the time she got too annoyed with using it that way. To put it bluntly, she LOVED the thing probably more than me..
You are the standard. The quality in the tech review vloggers.
I loved my Blackberry for work in a time where true productivity mattered, and the Blackberry was the perfect productivity tool.
These videos always remind me of my time as a sprint tech. Pearl was the 1st smart phone I kept, even 20 day returned the original iphone
Blackberry messenger became infamous when i was at college they was used for cute things like dating but also bad things. A lot of people forget the tablet that was shocking in how easily it could work with the phones
Not going to lie, I miss the blackberry keyboard til this day.
I have never been as productive on any other phone as I have on a BlackBerry.
I had the tracberry. The trac phone with a full keyboard from straight talk. Really reliable actually. Can probably still use it if I find it.
I had a BlackBerry 9700 bold and a z3 and this video made me all nostalgic. I genuinely miss the good old days of using a phone that could fit in my pocket comfortably and still managed to have a full fledged physical keyboard. Not to mention the fact that most features of BlackBerry was way ahead of their time.
Hey Miguel! Watched this awesome video on my KEY2 ..had to do it! BTW there is strong rumour that Next BlackBerry movie Part 2 will star You Mister Mobile and CBK Kevin!! 🎉Let the Good Times Roll!!!
Mr mobile is goated as a tech reviewer . Presentation and story telling is always top notch. Love you man 💙 - 18 year old kid
I always wondered what it was that Blackberry users so loved about the devices. I had multiple managers who couldn't be more than a few feet from theirs. Never had one myself because those employers weren't assigning devices to non-managers, even those of us they expect to be on-call.
I look forward to your video on the Storm. I remember a few consultants who had them and told of the trials and tribulations of making them usable.
i used curve once before. as a vehicle inspector, my hands usually will have engine oil here and there. the side button cracked and revealing the button inside. but having a blackberry back then is really fun with the bbm. we can send much longer sentence in one go. but then i have to change to a new phone which is a samsung galaxy y duos for its slighgtly better camera which I can afford at that time. then i changed to galaxy s3 which is way better in terms of camera, screen and storage.
but blackberry really is the one that make a change in the handphone industry which is for me, BBM is the grandfather of whatsapp and other messenger that use data rather than credit by using a handphone.
Gosh that purple QWERTY flip is literally my DREAMMMM. I like to hope that people miss the simplicity of a call/text/typing phone, but so long as we’re all hooked on our iPhones, there’s no reason anyone would restart that market, which genuinely breaks my heart. My bf is an engineer, maybe he could rig one for me. But it’s not that simple. 😢
My Blackberry Storm, Bold 9900 and Curve are some of my favorites Blackberries of all time- this took me down memory lane
My first smart phone was a blackberry bold. I got it in 2013 as a hand me down from my parents and I used it for all through my fifth grade year. I loved it To death.
I still have my mother's blackberry pearl. I remember listening songs on it and playing the brick breaker game. Unfortunately its trackball doesn't work due to years of use and the battery its dead, but maybe one day i might repair it if i find the parts for it somehow
At three years old, I had a pink Verizon RAZR V3M, an AT&T Motorola V60T Color, and a T-Mobile BlackBerry 7105T. Man, I LOVED that 7105T. Got it from a girl at church who for whatever reason decided I needed one. At the same time, my Uncle Sean had a Nextel BlackBerry 7100i.
i was born in 03 so i’m pretty young but i distinctly remember that circa 2008 a kid in my kindergarten class’s dad got a blackberry from his work and that shit was so damn cool
i love this channel so much for giving me context to my vague childhood memories about tech i found cool!
Every time you pull out that photo of you working at Sprint, your expression is still hilarious and reeks of Clerks.