The Experimental Phones of the 2000s...
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- I hate you iphone......*continues to use iphone*
I love these phones so much man. This video is not meant to be some huge analysis of phone designs, trends, and things, I just love the phones this era produced and wanted to show off some that I found so cool, so I hope you found them cool also, I think they are very neat :3, Thank you so much for watching.. and reading the description, I wonder how many people actually read the description down here? Maybe nobody.. Maybe I can say whatever I want and no one will know..... In 2011 I ki-
Thank you so much for being here though, please let me know of any phones you loved from the time, or even any memories of other tech from the time you found cool. Hearing other peoples stories is so so cool to me.
Ok I'm gonna go eat that coffee crisp I broke in this video, I literally recorded that maybe an hour before finishing lol
Have a wonderful day
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0:00 WHAT IS THIS VIDEO ABOUT?
2:05 Slide Phones
5:20 Flip Phones
6:30 Shapes
8:31 Gimmicks
12:28 Internet Phones
16:32 Outro
Music Used (In Order):
Ratman - Sole Sentiment
Ashley Beedle Presents Uschi Classen Band - Do You Believe In Love?
FORSAKEN - Pure (bad word) Power
Wii U Eshop - Menu 7
Ape Escape 3 - Training Room
Smoke + Switcher Stage - Magnetica OST
▽:3~ ⸜ (My brothers custom made emoticon. I thought you might like it) 
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why of all things did you make that the thumbnail
thought it looked hard
@@bjiru_ real, honestly
I hadn’t noticed 💀
@@bjiru_search up sonic x black knuckles fat gay seggs
It's beautiful
i miss when phones all looked different and everyone could actually pick something that it their vibe and use case
So much this
holy shit f4mi!!
4real, was going to go more into the self expression and the "personal"-ness this variety in phones allowed for, but didn't end up working it in
hai f4mi :)
F4mi!! =D
The 2000s sometimes feels like a fever dream.
Especially if you were born in the mid 2000s
Well, it literally was the turn of the millenium.
I was born in 2002 so literally everything in the 2000s is like a weird multicoloured haze lol
By 2009, things started to feel the same as now. I was 10 in 2000 and 20 by 2009.
As someone who was a teenager in the early 2000’s, present day feels way more like a fever dream. You have people taking videos of themselves all day long, looking at themselves in their selfie cam all day long, and getting so much filler that the “beauty standard” is now to look like an alien. I promise in ten years you will look back on the 2020’s with horror.
Nothing like opening up RUclips trying to decompress after work, and getting greeted with Sonic and Rainbow Dash swapping spit. Thanks man
I member
I was the perfect age to experience the phones of the early 2000s. Old enough to dream of having one, but not old enough to actually be able to own one and realize how bad they were.
Mood, early touchscreens sucked ass
@@elisehalflightI had one touch screen/sliding keyboard phone that would unlock itself in my pocket all the time. The touch screens were sensitive to any sort of touch, it was awful 😭
@Kasia3127 interesting. My first phone was a Sony Ericson and I had the exact opposite problem. You needed force to press the screen
@@ren.pfa.99 It required force rather than actual skin contact but somehow would slide to unlock itself in my pocket during class, which is when I was barely moving. I have no idea why it did it so consistently, but no other phone was that bad lol
Dude I'm born to late to see flip phones anywhere and here I am wishing I had one of these
I still remember being nine years old and watching teenage girls text their boyfriends on their BlackBerry phones, lol. I thought teenagers were so cool as a kid.
I thought the same too bro. But when I turned like 12/13 I started realizing phones and social media was getting lame af in the mid 2010s. It was new and exciting in the 2000s. But in the 2010s the BRAINROT started consuming us and nowadays teens are so lost all "different subcultures" look the same. Metal,skate,emo,punk,etc. It all feels the same now.
people in spy movies always had stuff like that, even 007 i think
Me too. I thought my aunt was the coolest ever and hoped that when I was a teen I'd be like her and what I saw on TV.
There weren't any parties, there wasn't any band for me to join, there wasn't anymore cool emo scene stuff, there wasn't any edge, there weren't any cool boyfrends, there weren't any nights out, no cool videogames, just lamenting how lame the 2010s and 2020s are.
i texted my high school crush on facebook on my blackberry that i got from my sister 😭😭 i feel SO OLD RN
I speak Spanish (I'm from South America) and it's true I saw them as superior with those cell phones, now I'm more than one of those, I'm an adult and I'm not superior☹️ XD 😂😂
Kids these days will never know the joys of learning to text quickly and accurately on a numpad
And without even looking at the phone itself
T9
I could never get t9.
you absolute trickster... the suspended phone by the wire at 2:00 I had simply tuned out as "aha... bjiru has superimposed a gif of a rotating GW520 - how awesome" until you GRABBED IT
you will rue the day mr schemes
You're so silly
@@Candyrock15 thanks i try
Didn't know you were so good at CGI. I've never seen a realistic phone like that floating in the background
its a wire that holds the phone, not cg
@@Someone69769r/woosh
@@Someone69769 nah dog. Definitely CGI
@@Someone69769 nah it's cgi 100%
@@Someone69769 I'm a marvel fan, I know when something it's CGI
i remember wanting a phone with a slide out keyboard so bad
i still do but they are either bricked or their specs are godawful, running a version of android from 5 years ago for some reason
I still miss mine
I had one! It was so cool! But its screen broke kinda early so I feel like I didn't play a lot with it :(
I had a couple of them~ one had a keypad and setup similar to a blackberry and I had a purple cheetah print case on it. I miss it so much~ 😭 I loved when people would ask to use my phone and I'd slide it up all dramatically 😅
@@Hexagonian yep, this. I love physical keyboards and I hate typing on touch screens. Back in 2010-2011 they rolled out more full keyboard phones and I had one for a while until I ended up getting a nicer newer touch screen phone... and those touch screens were absolutely terrible. later on they got better of course, but gosh. it was really bad for a bit.
now I just avoid using my phone as much as possible... at this very moment I am even using google voice to call the county x3
I really miss these weird phones back in the day, but unfortunately I was poor and couldn't afford to buy
Real
Same, being poor saved me a lot of money on tech that is now painfully outdated 😂
Blackberry was the pinnacle design, having a full physical qwerty keyboard and touch screen with trackball functionality was amazing.
Nah they were awful but successful for lack of anything better. The user experience was a nightmare, the apps were so basic and useless. BB was not more than a trend, thankfully.
yeah, it's essential. I bought a Key2, the last one, it's decent and it's trustworthly, now there's Unihertz's Titan that works well on LineageOS or any alternative that are worth considering, dunno bout reliability; since it's chinese, BUT it's intresting.
@@user-hx9gu5nh9p dunno man, i still have a Q10 that works as a secondary phone, mostly for IRC and firefox as a default browser. Ah and WINAMP for the webradios. it literally spends its comfy retirement as a streaming device hooked to my hifi.
Agreed
The physical buttons allowed for an incomparable level of accuracy.
I’m glad I was a teen back then and got to experience some of these phones. It was an unusual time of experimentation but also a beautiful time we will never see again.
I owned the N-Gage. I was so incredibly proud of that device, until it stopped working literally 1 month after I got it. I returned it to the shop and they wouldn't do anything. I also got the N95, which to this day was the most beautiful phone I ever owned. I dropped that down the toilet 2 weeks after buying it and that never worked again. I then got the 6600 which I still have in my draw today - and it works brilliantly. Toughest phone ever! Forget the 3310.
The most comfortable phone I ever owned though was the Sony Ericsson K800i (James Bond edition). It was beautiful and so cosy, like an extension of my arm. Pressing those buttons felt wonderful. I used to just lay on the carpet when I was younger admiring its curvy design and smooth texture. Even today, I miss that phone.
aw man, sorry to hear about your other phones 😭
I can relate, laying on the carpet just admiring a phone or device you got, that takes me back man...
No the N95 was awful, I had one. If you held it wrong it would turn off - the battery locking mechanism was dodgy. And the keyboard was useless. I quickly went to a Sony K850i and later a HTC Desire before going to the first “good” iPhone - the iPhone 4. The iPhones before the 4 were half baked IMHO.
I had the Nokia E70. Probably my all time favorite one of the classic type ones along with the 8210 which was absolutely tiny. I also had the 3300 which looked very much like an N-Gage and could play music and had radio, which was very awesome at the time. I remember listening to a rock station before sleep with my crappy headphones and waiting for a specific song so I could record it for later. Apparently they can go for over a 100$ second hand these days, I wonder if it's still at my parents house...
Me too it was a fairly forgettable and flawed piece of tech i got mine around 4th or 5th grade between the end of the gba era and just before i got the psp it was a strange & transitional time for tech
I know these were always meant as experiments, but i want to always live in an era where you can get phones, computers, etc. In any shape and style imaginable.
I got to say I clicked because of the thumbnail, and I stayed for the content. your clickbait worked and the content was enjoyable. thank you.
The rainbow dash x sonic always gets em’
Also thank you so much :3
I had a Samsung flip phone through Verizon that had a camera in the middle of the hinge that you could rotate to face you and turn outwards to take pictures. Samsung did selfies way before they were called that. It was my favorite
That’s such a rad concept omg
My mom had that phone (but i think it was LG), &I was obsessed with taking pictures with it. And I had another phone that was Virgin Mobil and when the flip phone was closed you could use the camera one the front and see yourself on the screen. All super awful quality but still, I remember taking selfies way before iphones lol
I had that same phone! But I went into the ocean with it in my pocket after having it for like 3 months and it basically became a shitty salt crystal 🥲
ah when phones actually had a personality of their own, i remember fondly the time i received my hand me down Nokia N95 8GB for my 10th birthday back in the day that i used all the way to 2012. good memories.
man you have such a friendly and fun way of being, it really makes the subjects you talk about entertaining to watch. instant sub
I have a feeling you'd LOVE the When Phones Were Fun series by Mr Mobile here on youtube
dude this is such a good video!!! the editing is so like engaging and omg... the transparent phone my beloved..... i want one so bad
the edit is sooooo "poppy" and its so cool hahaha
2:21 That was pretty smooth ngl
I graduated high school in 2005. I had like half of these phones lol. Around that time that was also super popular was the Boost mobile bleep bleep “where you at?” 2 way radio phone phase. My favorite phone was my blackberry storm or my LG chocolate. There were a few but there was NO better feeling than texting away on one of those and then calling someone and having that tactile feedback of hanging up on a call with the click, slide or flip of the phone. It was genuinely the best. I was 13 on New Years 2000 and around this time I think everyone got into the futuristic vibe. Like we thought by the year 2000 we’d have flying cars but we didn’t so everything was just made to look more futuristic through stuff like this.
I feel kind of old here (43) so cell phones werent really a thing until after my freshman year of college, but I remember my first one was one of those Nokia bricks and i thought it was absolutely mind blowing lol. I guess i laid dormant for most of the 2000s though because i dont remember any of these. i transitioned straight from the Nokia to a Samsung Galaxy in probably 2016? That brick lasted forever.
Oh my goodness to see a cell phone when it first became a thing must've been such a sight to behold I cannot imagine. Not everybody remembers these days of phones also, I'm just a nerd for tech ;P
*also Your not old!! I feel like the internet and in life there is a notion a lot of the time that once your 30 your life's over haha, when that's just not the case, you barely even at the half way point, I hope you have such a good rest of it :)
Never watched any of your videos before but man, I absolutely adore your editing style. It's so bombastic and fun--one could call it cool even!
That transitioning era was something else, everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE, was throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck.
I happen to own a device running Windows Mobile called the iMate JASJAR, that thing might as well not have existed because documentation for it is very scarce. Have you even heard of a company called iMate?
It's a PDA with phone capabilities, it has front and rear cameras, a stylus and a keyboard, it flips kinda like a Nintendo DS but also the hinge on the screen makes it rotate so that you can use it as if it was a modern phone (it even detects from that hinge the orientation the screen should use, landscape or vertical).
Sadly the battery has died a long time ago and replacements are impossible to find. Still, it's a really nifty little thing even if it has to stay plugged to the wall, a lot of thought went into the design but other than being cool it's just another PDA in a sea of Windows Mobile devices.
While I miss the experimentation era, at the end of the day it ended as it should have: something stuck on the wall and that thing was the iPhone.
I HAVE AN IMATE TOO!! IT STILL WORKS
@@MarvinMakesArt ah nice! Might as well ask, does the battery work? If so, do you know where to buy it? Maybe a compatible one
@@aTaryum mine works. Nope idk where to buy one. Its the original battery
@@MarvinMakesArtjesus, how is that battery still alive?
I think you can rebuild the battery using another that matches the same voltage and current rate of the original.
the way you edit your video essays is so whimsical and cool all the lil motion graphics and visuals i love it!
not often do i put my hand on my mouth when watching a youtube video, seriously, you are the future of editing + the topic was extremely interesting and something i've been thinking about myself
great job, man, 10/10 vid
You’re the embodiment of adhd, and my youngest cousin, and I’m here for it lol
I truly miss the era that they weren’t just screen bricks . We don’t need to simplify everything 😢
Actual phones' design is not a simplification, it's the design answer to a very complex problem.
bjiru another absolute banger of a video this was soooooo fun to watch.. i laughed, i cried but most importantly i smiled... LOTS! you have such a way of going back in time and talking about older niche online things like its the present which i admire so much. never stop making videos i love you and you're so cute 😭
This is the type of channel i like. Talking about obsucre early 2000s technology trends that i vaguely remember from my childhood. Subbed
Sick video!!! I love the editing. I had the LG chocolate but I desperately wanted the blackberry pearl just because of the tiny roller ball
Lest we forget that during the early 2010s, we kinda got the best of both worlds for smart phones.
My first ever cell phone that I could actually call my own and not my parents was a Samsung Replenish. It had a physical keyboard as well as being the typical Android phone of the time with a touchscreen. After that, I also had a Motorola one with a vertical sliding keyboard and then later a Kyocera one with a horizontal sliding keyboard.
And again, both with touchscreens and the Android OS of the time.
i could eat this editing style for breakfast, i love how you make videos so much- just the way you speak and add little bits and segments as you’re explaining stuff is awesome!! happy to see you posted today :)
(that thumbnail is so cursed i’m crying)
I had a Sony Ericsson T707 flip phone. The special thing about it was that there's a second screen on the outside. It could only show text so if you got a call it would show the name of the person calling you. Or if you got a text message, it would show that too. Best about it for me tho that it would show you the name of the song you're listening to. It also looked pretty cool!
Holy ham and eggs!!! i havent seen that iphone concept in years!!!!!! thank you so much for resurfacing all this. keep it up sir!!!
Oh no! I was late this time 🥲 Anyway; I feel you keep getting better every time, still! The pacing is so on point, and the editing is way more professional than it should be as a single person making videos :3 Great video as always!
your still plenty early haha, thanks for always watching and saying such nice things, glad I could teach you something, hope your april was swell
That editing was on point! This video was entertaining! Nice work!
This video actually made me subscribe to the channel tho I never saw this channel before! It was exactly what I needed. I always loved the 2000s gadgets for their experimental looks!
I love these videos.
Keep being -cool- swell
Thumbs up and subscribed, especially for that Sonic x Rainbow fanfic haha!
I had a Sony Ericsson flip phone with play/ff touch “buttons” and a tiny display. It was like the baby of a phone and an mp3 player. I loved it soooooo much
This was a really fascinating look at the phones of this era. I’m weirdly nostalgic for this time and I could never figure out why. I watched your video on skins and customization too, and both of those ideas really pieced together well. My first 2 phones were Nokia brick phones where they came with additional covers that you could change out or mix and match, the one had fun designs. And don’t get me started on slider phones, I looooved my LG Banter in high school/university.
flip phones are having a renaissance and i think eventually were gonna have analog keyboards back in some way or form
Lack of real keyboard is the only reason I have to use 6.7" large so-called "phablet" to type as fast as on any Siemens I ever used.
bjiru i have a hyperfixation on blackberry this made my day
hell fucking yea, sorry for no blackberry mention, I also love the blackberry, just couldnt find any """CrAzaY" ones
@@bjiru_ personally i think the ‘crazy’ blackberry was the blackberry storm where it was touchscreen but the entire screen pressed down to simulate the click from the keyboard of prior generations ^__^ they were all broken and basically every single one was returned and it’s argued to be the reason they don’t make phone today
@@realpauldano oh my goodness I had no idea that is fucking cool, what an interesting idea
@@bjiru_ hehe or the blackberry bold which had a trackpad on the main button ^__^ sort of like the laptop nipple! many of them were touchscreen, but i prefer navigating with the trackpad
This was a great trip down memory lane. You must have been pretty little when these came out, and it's cool to me that these phones are something you're nostalgic about. Great video, man!
Another great video, really captures the nostalgia of the 2000s’. I do miss those days of when tech was just customizable to fit your personality, and when you had a cell phone back then showed your status in school, now pretty much most downloaded apps are either a social media app, or rewards app.
Came for thumbnail, stayed for the history
Can we address the thumbnail
oh yeah the vaio in ther? or maybe the moto v70? oh or the nokia 7600? thats it I think, cant think of anything else, nothing else really there that would be in call of any attention I believe to my knowledge
Literally lol'd 😂😂😂😂
you clicked on it 🐠
@@KenzersCollie so true 🤣
Also 9:49
This video is so well made! 10/10 I love the editing
Love my zfold4. Thanks for the effort you put into this vid, it's a gift
entertaining and informative! this crash course on experimental 2000s phones is so nostalgic for a time i don’t really remember (born 2002) :,)
I love your use of the Magnetica soundtrack!
Love the vaio UX and the Xperia pureness, especially loved the part where you showed the sonic x rainbowdash art while im watching this video on the living room tv😭
the editing n flow of this video is so good n funny :D super great video
1st off, love the content, first vid in and im already with it, really feels like og youtube
Absolutely love the videos. Thumbnail goes hard.
Great video. I miss a lot of those phones you mentioned especially the sidekick that was my favorite and the NEXTEL blackberry
Super entertaining video. The special effect with the turning phone in the background you suddenly picked was the cherry on the cake.
Going to the phone store used to be such a fun adventure when younger. So many choices and so many new ideas you never knew what you were going to see once you had your current phone for 2 years and got to get an upgrade.
That was exquisite when the subscribe button lit up exactly as you said the word at 17:25… thought I was seeing things at first 😮
Informative, different and delivered with a great sense of humour....keep it up!
i like ur vibes so much just from this video alone. also yay coffee crisp mention 🎉
Had the LG ENV2 and then 3 back in the day and UGH clicking that clamshell QWERTY to text, the tactile buttons, the landscape format, that was the best texting I've ever done and will ever do.
I'm hoooked, you got yourself a new subscriber!!!
dude your content is GREAT, i thought you had like a millions subs, but you’ll get there for sure
Thank you for including the beam! I never hear it get brought up and i love the idea
Dude, this was well put together. We'll done. You have a new subscriber.
A fun trip down memory lane! Used to have an N-Gage (awful phone, surprisingly great THPS port) and definitely miss that gimmick era. Also you've got great energy and enthusiasm, definitely gonna check out your other vids!
Great video!!!! I miss all these crazy but interesting phones !
Awesome video, I enjoyed it alot, the era of experimentation was sure time to be alive
Really happy to see someone still appreciates our old phones❤
I‘ve been one of the test managers for Siemens Mobile (incl. the SK65 and the Xelibries)) and later LG (e.g. KU990 and KS20). I can tell you we poured our souls into those babes. Still sad how it ended with that BenQ betrayal 😓 My all time fav is the SL55. Still got most of our phones and use them sometimes. My daily is an iPhone though. And yeah, it does the job but it’s really kinda boring. Keep up the good stuff. Hugs from Germany 🍻
Thanks for the nostalgia rundown
lol I haven’t finished the video but the lg breeze on invisible string made my day. Thank you 😂
Randomly ended up here, and this was a fun watch. I think I'll check out your other stuff too.
your videos make me very happy
I just found your channel, great vid. Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽
Cool video, first time seeing you, subbed. Your vibe is cool! I like your editing and attitude. Thanks for the good content.
Loved this video! One interesting phone I remember is the Motorola Chirp, which was a flip phone with a walkie talkie built in. A lot of kids in my school had them and I remember the “chirp” sound always annoying me, especially because the kids would almost always use the (very loud) loud speaker rather than the private speaker.
Just want you to know that your excitement over the garbage truck was what got you the subscription. Adorable.
I was waiting for you to introduce the wizard phone! You did talk about windows phones though, I just wish that section of the video was longer. This was amazing, I love old devices
Sir your editing skills and sense of humour has earned you a new subscriber 🍻
I love the items floating in the background once you drop them from your inventory! XD
oh my god this video was so good, i love all those gizmos and gadgets 😁😁😁
Great shot! My thing was the SonyEriccsson vs Nokia Gimmick times when The Walkman and Cibershot would take on the 9300 and N series, respectively.
so many cool creative edits and other choices in this video! very modest. very in vogue
Hahahehe thank you so much :3, you are very… “in vogue” ;p
the editing of this video is absolutely perfect
I’m subscribing about 5 mins. Charmed!
This was so entertaining!! Now I want all of these phones…
I'm almost 40 and you really the captured the whimsy of choosing a new phone and considering what your life would look like if you went with one of the weirder options.
My red & white Sony Ericsson Z200 flip phone w/the round display was always my favorite in college!
Oh i also had a Sony Clie PDA organizer and the sold-separate Internet adapter, which let me check my email in 2004 and theoretically surf the web, but websites were just not compatible with these janky early mobile browsers.
Aaaaah! Just looked up the Sony Ericsson Z200c that thing looks so cool! I love the clock on the outside oh my goodness, thanks for sharing :]
I’ve never seen this dude until today but for some strange reason, he gives me Dr Evil vibes 😂😂😂. And for that reason, I’m subscribing
My favourite thing about my old slide phone was texting. I just loved the tactile feel of the buttons when typing out my texts. I could write a whole book with that keyboard.
First video I have watched by you, its really funny and entertaining :), subbed.
Thanks for the nostalgia I didn’t even know I had
I had an A1200 just like the one @ 5:56 and that thing was THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!!! Literally yelled at my screen when it showed up in the video 😂
It was the coolest phone ever, with the plastic flip, full touchscreen, the little pen that you had to use… it was seriously soooo snazzy for the time.
My previous phone had a pop up camera, that's the last innovationy thing I've aeen in phones. I amhad a bunch of interesting phones with some interesting feature. Love the stuff. Good video
My first ever smartphone if you could call it that was the Siemens SX1-the form factor is definitely worth checking out. It had a large screen with awkwardly placed keypad on the sides. When released in 2003, it was the most feature-packed Symbian phone on the market. For instance, with a little bit of hacking (I mean very little) you could run N-Gage games natively. Also it came with probably the first ever AR game on a phone: a mosquito shooter where the aiming was done by moving the phone. Unforgettable device!
I had the Samsung Alias 2 (Zeal). Flipped up like a regular flip phone, but could also be opened on its hinges for a full sized keyboard. It used an e ink display for the keyboard, which I thought was cool. You could play MP3s too and use the buttons on the front display to control playback. Loved that little phone.
I cant believe am this old. I played on the n-gage experimetation pods when it came out..