This brings back memorys, as a kid i wanted to have this phone so badly. As a german, my father was demanding to always use Siemens phones. So he started with an S3, then the S6 and S10. The first phone i had was the S6, i was one of the first kids having a personal own cellphone. Didn't help me with being popular, but that's another story. After the S6 came the C25power, was a great beginner phone, after it came my most beloved phone, the S25i it had everything for me, a wonderful three color screen, those lovely buttons, i loved to use the chronometer with the side buttons, and the ring tone generator. Then came the S35i, and the S45i, i was lusting for the sl45. The last one i got was the last real Siemens cell, he S65. I got it before christmas sometime december 2004, these twenty years had been flying by. My father got his hands on a rare SL10, but his last girlfriend did with it what my father had done with their relationship, she threw it in the dumpster. Love your channel man, really great selections of topics style and music.
The S25i had a really interesting three colour LCD. I think it used a similar method to some Casio devices and a Nintendo Pokemon pocket thing. I'd like to get one of those phones. And more Siemens phones in general.
The UI too. I bet Flipper team took inspirations from this very phone when they were designing it (or other Siemens devices that probably share similar hardware and/or software).
I wasn't born during the Y2K era, as I was born in 2010. Nevertheless, I enjoyed using old phones, just like you, and I meant everyone who was, is, and will watch these videos.
My father used to buy and sell phones in 2000 to 2013. I am confident that I tried all the phones of that era thanks to him. Siemens and Sagem were popular phones at the beginning of the 2000s, but Sony Ericsson and Nokia gobbled up the European market.
In America everyone wanted a BlackBerry, but nobody wanted to pay for data because it added $35/mo per phone line. Unless you got the Danger Sidekick, which had a special $15/mo data plan.
It was a similar story here in South America, Siemens and Sagem kinda just disappeared one day, it was particularly noticeable with Sagem because they only had two or three popular phones before vanishing. Although Motorola was very popular here and managed to stay relevant as a brand to this day somehow unlike Nokia and SE that also ended up being pushed out of the market eventually.
I remember my mom getting her first phone sometime between 1996 and 1998, and it was a Sagem. After the two-year contract ended, the next one was a Sagem as well, but then she got a Sony CMD-J70 (one of the first phones with polyphonic ringtones) and then a Sony Ericcson T610. That shows quite well how the market was changing. Other brands, like Mitsubishi's Trium, Alcatel, Siemens or Sendo also disappeared from the European market. (I had a Sendo S200, but it was stolen - it had a very Nokia-like UI, and I think it was even compatible with Nokia's RTTTL notation). Sagem's last efforts (at least in Central Europe) was the my-X line, but I knew maybe 2-3 people, who had one.
i am GenX boy so i went through all of this and got to test at my company at the time every single new phone that came out.....But this phone i never seen
oh yeah Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola were the kings of Cellular Phones over here. I lusted over a few of their models. Especially the Motorola ones were just right down my alley.
What a nice phone. I had one around 2002. The MP3 capability was one thing, but what I really loved was the modding community. I even turned it into an automated answering machine with a custom ROM.
14:30 this game just gave me a flashback. My 13 year older sister had a high end siemens phone back around 2001 and indeed it could run Java games on its monochromatic LCD. She had Prince of Persia on it! Absolutely smooth with the character animating as you jump around the platform world. And it had PCM sound effects! Those really ate through the battery.
Honestly, I love this channel. Been watching it for several years already and everything about it is great - its the one and only channel AFAIK that showcases old tech w/ software in sorta "hacky" way bringing back the memories bout underground community there was with a bit of humor while others can only yap copy and past texts. Keep the good work man 👍
Thanks. I must admit, when I started I had no idea if anyone would be interested. I only knew I was interested in this stuff. I'm pleased you are still enjoying the channel :)
I love your videos a lot, I really like having a breath of fresh air with videos that just show information and the content you were exactly expecting for. It’s really nice.
I had this phone when I was a kid. There was a way to play audio with those monochrome videos. First, you needed to install a patch that gave you the ability to play the dictaphone in the background. Then, you need to run an app on your pc where you could convert audio to a voice memo and inserted 15 seconds of silence at the beginning. So this 15 secs would allow you to hide the dictaphone app on the sl45, go to the videos Java app, and launch the video while the audio played from the dictaphone app. Oh, it was funny trying to squeeze all this functionality out of a phone that wasn't designed for it. Thanks for the video!
This reminded me of how back in the early 2000's you could sometimes guess the model of a phone in the dark by the color of its screen and keypad backlights, some used very distinct shades and combinations. And then there were the rare ones with rhythmic lights on the sides.
Oh, I remember how much I wanted to have such serial cable to deeply customize my Siemens CX75. Without it you were still able to change color schemes or customize menu icons, but you couldn't patch your firmware with ELFes. Oh, what a memory; when you used your very limited Internet access to download as much Java games and different themes for your phone from several Russian forums :)
You actually don't need to remove battery every time you wanna eject memory card, the battery clip can snap off every moment. Instead poke the small point on the side with soft object. Also if you want headphones for this you can make one from 2 chargers, just disassemble the connector and you can shuffle pins in desired positions. Waiting for part 2!
I had this phone in 2005/2006. My Grandfather found it in the Tech Dumpster of the company he worked for. I found it really impressive even as a Kid I was like „Whoa! This old monochrome Phone has MP3 playback and all this features“. This was before my Sony Ericsson Firmware Hacking Era. I am very interested in Part 2
This brings back some memories... The phone was truly amazing. You could install mods to the firmware to get more functionality - there was a huge community around it. You could buy a larger battery that lasted for ages. You could get different keyboards and mod the colours of the backlight...I remember reading whole books ( "ebooks" ) on this phone. Ah, I miss this phone now 😌
That takes me back... i had a Siemens M35 back in the day, one of those blue and yellow squishy bumper things... i love the styling and the font Siemens used. Reminds me of the Siemens/Nixdorf character set used on their Scenic line of PC's back in the day, so recognizable and yet so different from the rest of the market...
Such a great video. The early phones and software are almost a forgotten world now, everything was so overshadowed by the iPhone technology leap. It’s great you are exploring this old world!
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When I was a kid, I used to have a Siemens S 55. That phone was a work horse, it had so many features, and as you said, even without a SIM card, it worked fine.
I'm impressed what this thing could do in the year 2000, I also really like that orange screen. I like how multiple flash utilities utilize Norse mythology for their names, Freia, Odin and Thor are the ones I have seen there could be more, Lol. I didn't get my first cell phone until 2005 but I remember seeing the older ones. This escaped me, I didn't know much in the way of Siemens phones, I only knew they existed and not much more than that.
As someone born in Jan 2000 I don't think there was any better time to go through evolution of tech n world so fast so far but I mostly got to see it through sidelines than actually being able to experience it sigh.. miss my childhood wonder and fascination trying to making sense of ever growing complex world back then.. I feel so nostalgic for these early 2000s stuff despite I never had them..
I actually remember this phone. I’m a little too young to have had one when it came out, but the first time we moved I found one inside an old cabinet we’d bought second hand. It’s probably what inspired my love of amber backlights. I used to play with it for hours since there wasn’t much to do and I always found it interesting to just look at, just scrolling through the menus and looking at stuff.
I had a sl45 back in the day. When the sl45i was introduced, Siemens offered to updated your sl45 to the sl45i. You could post your phone and Siemens would up date the firmware and change the outer shell, for the sl45i shell adding the import i. Also the the sd card was filled full of demo's after the up date. I'm now thinking where is my sl45i....... It was a stunning phone back on the day and I would buy an updated 2024 version is one was ever made.
I remember I had that phone SL45 flashed with java (and still have it somewhere) I used to play a very nice volleyball game on it a lot, and of course the MP3 playback was amazing back in the days. I remember I modded a charging cable to use my own 3.5 mm jack headphone on it.
Pretty cool video thanks for sharing. I was repairing mobile phones for an Ericsson service point ,when these were brand new out. They were nowhere near as tough as their Nokia counterpart and we're nearly twice the price. This had a direct effect on popularity. They were pretty nicely laid out internally, A pleasure to repair.
Oh the SL45i was one of my most beloved phones as a teenager. I stuck with SIEMENS till the bitter BenQ end. Indeed it was so easy to hack those phones, get modified firmware and so on, because you didn't need a special cable. And with the S class phones, in most cases you even got the cable with the phone. Because the S class was always business oriented. Before the SL45i I had the M35. A more rugged style phone, covered in a rubbery coating. Later I also owned the S55 (my first mobile camera experience), S65 (my personal number 1) and then the BenQ SIEMENS EF81. The last in the row.
I remember getting SL42 in 2001 and later regretting for not buying SL45, because it already had everything inside, like headphones, com port cable, charging dock and even a memory card as I remember. I then had to separately purchase all of the accessories, which eventually ended up being much more expensive. The MP3 quality was just insane, also by using the software from the CD I was able to draw custom wallpapers and my friends were amazed like how are you able to do all this ? ))))
Oh man, the ME45 was my first phone that I had when I was in elementary school. I remember being surprised at being able to play mp3 files but as midi tones... that was something
Never saw this phone in the wild, but hear a lot about it and it's great to see just how capable it is. Looking forward to part 2 and seeing what you can get it doing! Great ending too, by the way!
Nice video, mate! I remember my cousin had the SL45, though I never got to experience the MP3, because he didn’t have the headphones. I think I was 11 or 12 back then. The video playback part blew me away! I like how your Windows 98 has Vista’s loading cursor 😂
Im alway impressed how good the audio is from your videos. You probably use a good mic. Im watching your videos in my living room on a sonos arc and its spind amazong. The base just everything. I just wanted to share that. Keep on posting yout amazing content. Love it 🥰
Actually it's an average mic. My older video didn't have good sound, some were bad at times. So I been learning and improving over time. Getting better recording and mixing the audio. Thanks for noticing and saying this. That means I've really improved and can now buy a better mic
I bought an SL42 brand new, flashed the firmware to a 45i. AMAZING PHONE. The side button could be assigned to the voice recorder, and it used hardware compression or phone data rate compression, during a phone call I could hold the button down and RECORD THE ENTIRE PHONE CALL for hours and hours on that card. Was very useful at the time for something I won't go into. Sadly, in the mid 2000's, mine just totally died, suddently. New battery didn't help. Just 100% dead. :( I'd already gone to Sony P800, P900 by then, then iPhone.
Man, this was my dream phone back in the day. The mp3 functionality was mind blowing. Of course I could never afford it being a kid. I had forgotten about it entirely! Thank you for bringing me back!
I found SDcard from this phone laying near my music school. I was like wtf, this thing support that. Yes, exactly one that shown on the video. I had CX70, it didn't have memory slot, nor mp3 support, despite being newer and having colour screen.
Siemens SL45 was rare where I live. Siemens A50 was my first and I loved the game Stack Attack on it. I first remember MP3 phones becoming very popular with the Nokia 6230 few years later. Very interesting video, thank you for sharing. :)
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Can't believe he Rick roll us twice
Not only that, we let him do it without complaint.
Thank's for the heads up
Thrice!
With his annoying cracking voice 🤡
I have never been so insulted in my life🤯
That ending 🤌😂
"Never gonna give you up" by Charles Bukowski
Best version ever
Hello USBC iPhone man.
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part 2 coming next week
Thanks 🙏
Looking forward to it
How many more Rickrolls will have part 2?
@@Spyd77 It's not as much fun if you are expecting it :)
Rick Roll part 2 lol
15:09 the best way to rickroll without getting copyright matched
This brings back memorys, as a kid i wanted to have this phone so badly.
As a german, my father was demanding to always use Siemens phones.
So he started with an S3, then the S6 and S10.
The first phone i had was the S6, i was one of the first kids having a personal own cellphone.
Didn't help me with being popular, but that's another story.
After the S6 came the C25power, was a great beginner phone, after it came my most beloved phone,
the S25i it had everything for me, a wonderful three color screen, those lovely buttons, i loved to use the chronometer with the side buttons, and the ring tone generator.
Then came the S35i, and the S45i, i was lusting for the sl45.
The last one i got was the last real Siemens cell, he S65.
I got it before christmas sometime december 2004, these twenty years had been flying by.
My father got his hands on a rare SL10, but his last girlfriend did with it what my father had done with their relationship, she threw it in the dumpster.
Love your channel man, really great selections of topics style and music.
The S25i had a really interesting three colour LCD. I think it used a similar method to some Casio devices and a Nintendo Pokemon pocket thing. I'd like to get one of those phones. And more Siemens phones in general.
RICKROLLED OVER A 2000s PHONE
GONNA CATCH THEM ALL
The way you did that outro sounded so heartfelt, I’m inclined to believe you really meant it :')
Thanks, I do really mean it.
never expected a rickroll in this corner of youtube
:)
@@JanusCycle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The display reminds me in the "Flipper Zero". I want old tech back!
The UI too. I bet Flipper team took inspirations from this very phone when they were designing it (or other Siemens devices that probably share similar hardware and/or software).
That outro was haunting.
I wasn't born during the Y2K era, as I was born in 2010. Nevertheless, I enjoyed using old phones, just like you, and I meant everyone who was, is, and will watch these videos.
My father used to buy and sell phones in 2000 to 2013. I am confident that I tried all the phones of that era thanks to him. Siemens and Sagem were popular phones at the beginning of the 2000s, but Sony Ericsson and Nokia gobbled up the European market.
In America everyone wanted a BlackBerry, but nobody wanted to pay for data because it added $35/mo per phone line. Unless you got the Danger Sidekick, which had a special $15/mo data plan.
It was a similar story here in South America, Siemens and Sagem kinda just disappeared one day, it was particularly noticeable with Sagem because they only had two or three popular phones before vanishing.
Although Motorola was very popular here and managed to stay relevant as a brand to this day somehow unlike Nokia and SE that also ended up being pushed out of the market eventually.
I remember my mom getting her first phone sometime between 1996 and 1998, and it was a Sagem. After the two-year contract ended, the next one was a Sagem as well, but then she got a Sony CMD-J70 (one of the first phones with polyphonic ringtones) and then a Sony Ericcson T610. That shows quite well how the market was changing. Other brands, like Mitsubishi's Trium, Alcatel, Siemens or Sendo also disappeared from the European market. (I had a Sendo S200, but it was stolen - it had a very Nokia-like UI, and I think it was even compatible with Nokia's RTTTL notation). Sagem's last efforts (at least in Central Europe) was the my-X line, but I knew maybe 2-3 people, who had one.
i am GenX boy so i went through all of this and got to test at my company at the time every single new phone that came out.....But this phone i never seen
oh yeah Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola were the kings of Cellular Phones over here. I lusted over a few of their models. Especially the Motorola ones were just right down my alley.
What a nice phone. I had one around 2002. The MP3 capability was one thing, but what I really loved was the modding community. I even turned it into an automated answering machine with a custom ROM.
I had SL42, SL45 with SL45i and a lot of mod's like Push SMS (Self displayed SMS)
somber rolling rick there on a Janus Cycle , loved it.
14:30 this game just gave me a flashback. My 13 year older sister had a high end siemens phone back around 2001 and indeed it could run Java games on its monochromatic LCD. She had Prince of Persia on it! Absolutely smooth with the character animating as you jump around the platform world. And it had PCM sound effects! Those really ate through the battery.
Holy shit, I just got Janus rolled....
Honestly, I love this channel. Been watching it for several years already and everything about it is great - its the one and only channel AFAIK that showcases old tech w/ software in sorta "hacky" way bringing back the memories bout underground community there was with a bit of humor while others can only yap copy and past texts.
Keep the good work man 👍
Thanks. I must admit, when I started I had no idea if anyone would be interested. I only knew I was interested in this stuff. I'm pleased you are still enjoying the channel :)
Interesting that Windows 98 on the Libretto has the Vista/7-style "waiting" cursor with the spinner!
I was thinking the exact same thing!
The ending made me cry ;-)
Shatner-esque, but in a good way :)
Glorious video. Impeccable ending
Thanks Budgie
Janus is a real G for that ending
:)
FYI "Move the Box"-type games have a name, Sokoban. Cool device!
More specifically, "Sokoban clones".
beaUTIFUL ending my lost hippy friend
The ending performance art almost brought a tear to my old hog's eye 😗👌
I'm glad you enjoyed this :)
I love your videos a lot, I really like having a breath of fresh air with videos that just show information and the content you were exactly expecting for. It’s really nice.
I really appreciate hearing this, thanks
I had this phone when I was a kid. There was a way to play audio with those monochrome videos. First, you needed to install a patch that gave you the ability to play the dictaphone in the background. Then, you need to run an app on your pc where you could convert audio to a voice memo and inserted 15 seconds of silence at the beginning. So this 15 secs would allow you to hide the dictaphone app on the sl45, go to the videos Java app, and launch the video while the audio played from the dictaphone app. Oh, it was funny trying to squeeze all this functionality out of a phone that wasn't designed for it. Thanks for the video!
Very interesting. Thank you!
This reminded me of how back in the early 2000's you could sometimes guess the model of a phone in the dark by the color of its screen and keypad backlights, some used very distinct shades and combinations. And then there were the rare ones with rhythmic lights on the sides.
The display lighting was mesmerizing.
Oh, I remember how much I wanted to have such serial cable to deeply customize my Siemens CX75. Without it you were still able to change color schemes or customize menu icons, but you couldn't patch your firmware with ELFes. Oh, what a memory; when you used your very limited Internet access to download as much Java games and different themes for your phone from several Russian forums :)
You actually don't need to remove battery every time you wanna eject memory card, the battery clip can snap off every moment. Instead poke the small point on the side with soft object. Also if you want headphones for this you can make one from 2 chargers, just disassemble the connector and you can shuffle pins in desired positions. Waiting for part 2!
Sicko, Cant believe i watched this.
Honestly, how can a phone that old and "simple" runs a video... In pure black & white even! Tech is just amazing 🤩
I had this phone in 2005/2006. My Grandfather found it in the Tech Dumpster of the company he worked for. I found it really impressive even as a Kid I was like „Whoa! This old monochrome Phone has MP3 playback and all this features“. This was before my Sony Ericsson Firmware Hacking Era. I am very interested in Part 2
Thanks for reminding me of a wonderful time with this phones less capable cousin (the SL42)
Thanks Julia, I'm really pleased you enjoyed this :)
This brings back some memories... The phone was truly amazing. You could install mods to the firmware to get more functionality - there was a huge community around it. You could buy a larger battery that lasted for ages. You could get different keyboards and mod the colours of the backlight...I remember reading whole books ( "ebooks" ) on this phone. Ah, I miss this phone now 😌
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Awesome thanks. I live the computers and phones in John Wick.
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every video of this channel brings a smile to me
That takes me back... i had a Siemens M35 back in the day, one of those blue and yellow squishy bumper things... i love the styling and the font Siemens used. Reminds me of the Siemens/Nixdorf character set used on their Scenic line of PC's back in the day, so recognizable and yet so different from the rest of the market...
I had the A35 that had an antenna, and I wanted a sleek M35 but it was a bit pricier...
the outro is pure poetry
amazing video! love your content
beautiful, thanks
The ending was unexpected! Good work once again!
:) thanks
Such a great video. The early phones and software are almost a forgotten world now, everything was so overshadowed by the iPhone technology leap. It’s great you are exploring this old world!
When I was a kid, I used to have a Siemens S 55. That phone was a work horse, it had so many features, and as you said, even without a SIM card, it worked fine.
I'm impressed what this thing could do in the year 2000, I also really like that orange screen.
I like how multiple flash utilities utilize Norse mythology for their names, Freia, Odin and Thor are the ones I have seen there could be more, Lol.
I didn't get my first cell phone until 2005 but I remember seeing the older ones.
This escaped me, I didn't know much in the way of Siemens phones, I only knew they existed and not much more than that.
Glad and Proud to use this phone 😊
As someone born in Jan 2000 I don't think there was any better time to go through evolution of tech n world so fast so far but I mostly got to see it through sidelines than actually being able to experience it sigh.. miss my childhood wonder and fascination trying to making sense of ever growing complex world back then.. I feel so nostalgic for these early 2000s stuff despite I never had them..
My uncle had one of these, for many years. I remember being shocked - mp3 AND java on a monochrome phone? Insane!
Thank you so much for another epic video. Cannot wait for part two!
9:39 My Reddit post with "MS card backup from TH55" made it to your video :)
Great content, as always. Thank you.
Great post, I really like the Palm subreddit.
I actually remember this phone. I’m a little too young to have had one when it came out, but the first time we moved I found one inside an old cabinet we’d bought second hand.
It’s probably what inspired my love of amber backlights. I used to play with it for hours since there wasn’t much to do and I always found it interesting to just look at, just scrolling through the menus and looking at stuff.
Shit ... Listening to your calm and confident voice while watching useful content ... Awesome
I had a sl45 back in the day.
When the sl45i was introduced, Siemens offered to updated your sl45 to the sl45i.
You could post your phone and Siemens would up date the firmware and change the outer shell, for the sl45i shell adding the import i.
Also the the sd card was filled full of demo's after the up date.
I'm now thinking where is my sl45i.......
It was a stunning phone back on the day and I would buy an updated 2024 version is one was ever made.
That's interesting. I know Siemens never released a tool for people to update it themselves. I didn't know they had a post in option.
I remember I had that phone SL45 flashed with java (and still have it somewhere) I used to play a very nice volleyball game on it a lot, and of course the MP3 playback was amazing back in the days. I remember I modded a charging cable to use my own 3.5 mm jack headphone on it.
Pretty cool video thanks for sharing. I was repairing mobile phones for an Ericsson service point ,when these were brand new out. They were nowhere near as tough as their Nokia counterpart and we're nearly twice the price. This had a direct effect on popularity. They were pretty nicely laid out internally, A pleasure to repair.
Ericsson had some very good phones at the time. I really liked their approach to design. Though the T28 did seem a little too fragile.
Nice format 👍
Oh the SL45i was one of my most beloved phones as a teenager. I stuck with SIEMENS till the bitter BenQ end. Indeed it was so easy to hack those phones, get modified firmware and so on, because you didn't need a special cable. And with the S class phones, in most cases you even got the cable with the phone. Because the S class was always business oriented. Before the SL45i I had the M35. A more rugged style phone, covered in a rubbery coating. Later I also owned the S55 (my first mobile camera experience), S65 (my personal number 1) and then the BenQ SIEMENS EF81. The last in the row.
So many trips down the memory lane - including the soft modding. And you do this on my favourite phone - I lost my first one :(
15:06 - I really like these few seconds!
I always insta-click any time one of your videos pop up. Love me some retro portable tech goodness.
thanks, I'll always do my best to make good videos then :)
Really changes the mood of that song hahaha
Your camera work is so good! And of course, a gorgeous subject! Well produced videos as always, always happy to see a video from you. Thank you!
I'm glad your enjoying the channel, thanks :)
20 minutes for one song, now I can download 100 songs under a minute
I remember getting SL42 in 2001 and later regretting for not buying SL45, because it already had everything inside, like headphones, com port cable, charging dock and even a memory card as I remember. I then had to separately purchase all of the accessories, which eventually ended up being much more expensive. The MP3 quality was just insane, also by using the software from the CD I was able to draw custom wallpapers and my friends were amazed like how are you able to do all this ? ))))
Amazing video again! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed, this was a fun video to make.
Amazing to see this! I was a big Siemens fan at the time and had the ME45 which had a very similar display, but no memory card or mp3 player, I guess.
Oh man, the ME45 was my first phone that I had when I was in elementary school. I remember being surprised at being able to play mp3 files but as midi tones... that was something
From the era when WAP meant something entirely different to what it does now.
Great as always. Can't wait to se part 2
This video reminded me that I had a Siemens A56 over 20 years ago
Never saw this phone in the wild, but hear a lot about it and it's great to see just how capable it is. Looking forward to part 2 and seeing what you can get it doing! Great ending too, by the way!
Nice video, mate! I remember my cousin had the SL45, though I never got to experience the MP3, because he didn’t have the headphones. I think I was 11 or 12 back then.
The video playback part blew me away!
I like how your Windows 98 has Vista’s loading cursor 😂
The future, Conan? Yes, all the way to the year 2000.
listening to mp3s on that thing was insane back in the days !!
That outro is possibly the best Rick Roll ever... possibly.
У меня такой ещё лежит ! Активно им пользовался в 2000х
Очень громко и качественно играет
I do remember modding this phone and the 'videos' it could play.
I had this phone back then and loved it :)
Best outro. Ever.
:) thanks
Thank you bro.
I'm glad you enjoyed this.
That was a cool phone, had it for a while, but very often my beard stuck in the keyboard while talking on the phone. outch😂
Im alway impressed how good the audio is from your videos. You probably use a good mic.
Im watching your videos in my living room on a sonos arc and its spind amazong. The base just everything. I just wanted to share that. Keep on posting yout amazing content. Love it 🥰
Actually it's an average mic. My older video didn't have good sound, some were bad at times. So I been learning and improving over time. Getting better recording and mixing the audio. Thanks for noticing and saying this. That means I've really improved and can now buy a better mic
Really a beautiful phone.
Good job, captain!
cool, thanks
windows 98 startup sound - angelic
Holy hell that outro
Nice outro, man. 🤣
I still get mine. Great phone from Siemens
Awesome video as always! Love the outro,I totally believe you Janus, you wouldn't give me up. 😂
Awesome. I still have mine.
I bought an SL42 brand new, flashed the firmware to a 45i. AMAZING PHONE. The side button could be assigned to the voice recorder, and it used hardware compression or phone data rate compression, during a phone call I could hold the button down and RECORD THE ENTIRE PHONE CALL for hours and hours on that card. Was very useful at the time for something I won't go into. Sadly, in the mid 2000's, mine just totally died, suddently. New battery didn't help. Just 100% dead. :( I'd already gone to Sony P800, P900 by then, then iPhone.
damm you for making me feel emotion again
Siemens phones my beloved, still own a ME45, a few M65s and a S65.
Man, this was my dream phone back in the day. The mp3 functionality was mind blowing. Of course I could never afford it being a kid.
I had forgotten about it entirely! Thank you for bringing me back!
Holy shit, that remix at 1:40 is a banger
yep
I had an SL45. I think. It was a long time ago. Either way, these were great phones and fun times!
I found SDcard from this phone laying near my music school. I was like wtf, this thing support that. Yes, exactly one that shown on the video. I had CX70, it didn't have memory slot, nor mp3 support, despite being newer and having colour screen.
Siemens SL45 was rare where I live. Siemens A50 was my first and I loved the game Stack Attack on it. I first remember MP3 phones becoming very popular with the Nokia 6230 few years later. Very interesting video, thank you for sharing. :)
I had this phone, it was pretty good. I remember upgrading to a Panasonic that was one of the first to go colour screen. Such a better time
7:27 you said my name, justin case
Ending is like rephrasing for your 90 yo grandma😂
1:23 HOLY SH** the phone got stereo speakers ! damn ! the sound quality is even better than apple !
damn it 😂 subscribed for part 2