Alex Krycek you know 170m is pennies to Amazon. Their revenue will hit 800bill this year. That’s like if i had 100 bucks and tossed out 2 cents. Lol come on now.
N-gage was a huge flex, and the design was honestly pretty good. I remember seeing someone play tomb raider on it and thinking wow this is some alien tech.
13:16 Swastika still continues to be used as a symbol of good luck and prosperity in Hindu and Buddhist countries such as Nepal, India, Mongolia, and China. Swastika is very commonly used in Hindu marriage ceremonies.
I remember Vertu being a huge failure. They sold insanely overpriced phones for what they were and then fell into bankruptcy, and collapsed. I would really like to see you do a video on that company
They were never meant to be a phone company. It was more like a jewelry company. People (albeit not a lot of people) did buy them before iPhone came around. Not as big of a failure as you’d think. They had a great clientele of some of the richest people in the world when people didn’t need a new phone and camera every year because they just used phones to text and talk. Vertu also provided personal assistant services with the push of a button. That was a very popular feature.
I liked my Ngage but they put the screen the wrong way round and designed it so you couldn't hold it flat to your head when you were making calls so you looked like an idiot. it was a pretty decent phone and with some messing with the OS you could do some good stuff with it.
@@adilammarbaig Also late to the Windows party. I think both would have survived if they went with Windows quicker. Plus, they had another great OS on their hands: Maemo/Meego. They just stuck with Symbian for some reason.
They went from number 1 mobile phone company in the world to the grave yard in no time, probably no other company in any market ever managed something like that.
Great video as always. Also Hi5 from India, I was so frustrated at that time when I could not place an order for 4$ phone, later came to know they lied and scammed and felt good actually, for not placing order by paying 251 INR. Thanks Dagogo sir.
N gage was HUGE in my country. Me and all of my friends have it. I use it from 2004 to 2011. It's my longest lasting phone to this day. What a cool machine
I had the n-gage too, this is news to me that it was a failure , it was one of my favorite phones and lasted a while with me so did some of my friends.
i had a windows phone. i'd be listening to music, then get an sms, the music would stop and the screen goes active and the thing goes mental, trying to bankrupt you before you have time to fish it out your pocket. It was too hot to pick up, had a battery life measured in seconds and frequently forgot what it was doing. Finding anything in the menu system was impossible and you'd get phone rage.. but enough about the features
What's funny is that we always look for a justified reason for why something failed, but then we have products like the Windows phone that failed simply due to bad lack and being a little too late to the party...
I remembered when I heard about it from my friends at work, it had 8GB storage and was cheaper than 8GB memory stick🤣, but I admit that I registered it just to use it as a memory stick
Never understood that Amazon picture an item and buy it off Amazon feature... If its already right in front of me for sale, why the hell would i get it off Amazon and wait 2 days for it??
@@fhm4 Even in that situation I would just ask my friend "Where did you get that?", not take a picture of it like I planned on robbing their house later.
Currently, Amazon has a similar app, that can use photo recognition and/or a barcode scanner, to allow people to scan products in shops and see if they're cheaper at Amazon. In this way, we can go window shopping (handy for clothes, and other items we don't feel confident just ordering "blindly" online) and then we can order them from Amazon later. I'm sure most of us have five something similar, even if it's just by going to Amazon's website on our phones to check prices while at a physical shop.
@@primalconvoy I avoid checking a product in physical store and then buying it online. It feels wrong and is just not fair for the physical stores. They need to pay rent, staff, present the product and deal with shoplifters. I'm ok with paying a bit more in physical shop because of that, especially when buying clothes or shoes.
You should do a rundown on the failure of Microsoft to capitalize on the mobile space. Especially considering that they were into it far further back than most people these days even know.
I remember when in 4th grade, me and friends were talking about PSP and I mentioned the NGAGE and one of them said “NGAGE? That thing looks like it’s from when the pioneers were born!” 😂😂😂 I’ll never forget that ps: we were learning about the pioneers in US history.
And he will say “This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you. I’m doing this because I love you remember. We grow up together we hurt together, it’s a bonding through fire 🔥 “ 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
You could have added the BB Passport, the last true BB phone ^^ BB10 with its simple and efficient keystrokes (I took ages to IOS & Android to get the sames) and its hub was both clear and efficient. Its keyboard was a true piece of art (large keys + the whole keyboard acting as a touchpad). But with no advertising (almost no one knew about it...) + the big apps stopping their supports the fail was just inevitable ...
The Nothing phone is going to be on the sequel to this list someday. Introducing a new phone brand while the market is consolidating is a fool's errand.
I still remember seeing the 7280 in a shop display when it was new and being blown away by how cool it was. At the end of the day function was totally unimportant for that phone, it was just an awesome looking toy.
You make a really good point about that dot on the Kin. A scrap book where you can store everything you like is a great idea. And yes, not necessarily for sharing just having the content for yourself. That's a great idea.
Brought to you by the guy who toss the brand new iPhone in the fish tank and also try to fire a guy who wasn't even his employee 😉 but hey he did make Pixar films and toy story wait now that I think about it every time he left the company he worked for they did better than before 😱
Ngage was my first phone ever.. I loved it so much for one reason.. I could play THPS2 on it at anytime i wanted.. For kid me, thats all i needed in the world.. good times... I still to this day cant play that game on anything.. it used to be for phones but never got updated so it does not work anymore..
2:58 4 USD. Too good to be true. 7:05 Kyocera had the right idea! EDIT: Samsung with the right idea for the Galaxy Beam too! Microsoft losing $1 billion + on development costs, fuck me 😨
I actually love how the Serene looks and would've loved to get one- but only as curiosity and only if I was rich enough to have money to spare on extra phones. Doesn't really look like the kind of phone that would be able to take a lot of usage.
1:48 taking a photo and find the product. Wechat has that function, too, along with option for QR code scan and OCR translation. well... JD, Taobao, Pinduoduo, all shopping apps in china nowadays can scan products made in China.
It wasn''t that bad of a flop compared to the rest of the phones on this list. It still received updates until this year and the phone itself wasn't particularity bad after updates but its launch given the hype at the time was one of the most disappointing launch ever for a phone.
2:35 this is how record companies used to fudge the top 40 music charts before iTunes and MP3s. Ship millions of singles to record stores in sync with distribution to the radio stations and count them as sold. Then kids would think they were buying Top 10 records before they even had a chance to actually be popular enough to sell enough to even be legitimately top 1,000.
I particularly liked the slo mo shot of the bullet going through the smartphone : ). well done Dagogo, another great video! (and quite funny in lots of places too!)
No IBM Simon, the first smartphone? It was so bad all but a few models were crushed after the one year lease expired. They weren't sold and the very few out in the wild were "redirected" on their way to the recycler.
Ok, so I got to test and use the KIN phone for a previous job many years ago. I actually really liked it, and I think it might have gained some ground if it weren't for their data pricing structure. The phone wasn't a smartphone, so it didn't have a full OS or apps. But it did have internet features, so you needed a data plan. You could pay $30 a month for data on a full-fledged smartphone or for a niche feature phone. It just didn't make sense, making the KIN DOA. But it was a useful phone, had some awesome features, and a great keyboard. And yes, RIP, Windows Phone. Still my favorite mobile OS to this day, and I will die on that hill. :D
I got my entire family on the Kin 2 as a transition from flip phones but before we could afford smartphones. I still have those phones laying around in my old phones bin.
2:55 Freedom 251... an Indian iPhone knock-off? Moreover it was made in China where Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo and oh yes.... Huawei! Are made in India! Not just that, All Chinese brands have development teams/facilities in India with local people off course! Freedom 251 was surely been outgunned by Indian made (AND developed) Chinese phones. Oh dear! Neverless I just know about Freedom 251.
Nokia,Motorola,BlackBerry were very Big brands,captured the whole World's market but they refused to change and denied to accept Android and they vanished from the market.I wonder who's Next..
Wow. Every coldfusion video has been promoted in my feed as soon as it was uploaded.... except this one. I only knew it existed because you mentioned it in the Wire card video.
As an Indian , I can confirm most of the Micromax phones should be in this category. It started as a great , fast developing company which simply imported phones from China and resold them in India. And then , came Xiaomi , Oppo and Vivo.
I loved the n-gage, not for its gaming, but for stereo audio with a standard audio port, mini-USB without drivers or the nokia software, and the amount of software it packed into the hardware. The two-handed style also made it awesome for huge amounts of typing and navigating around. It was the first phone that worked as a computer replacement for me. And the audio quality with its hardware based MP3 playback was out of the world for its time!
Cool video or even series idea could be when big companies failed in big market-defining ways. Kodak with digital cameras, Microsoft with mobile computing, etc. What changed in the market and how they missed the mark or why they were to slow to adapt.
I remember I played tony hawk pro skater all day on n-gage and it had one of the best quality music player at that time, I loved it a lot, never thought it was a failure
The next big thing I bet is augmented reality glasses powered by your smart phone, you can see movies or adult content everywhere and nobody sees what you are seeing. Intense. Video games sports where you use your body Be in the same room as 3d characters and interact. Its like magic.
8:49 I own one of the earliest moto-mod phones that came out in 2016 where you can add on a case that is a projector and has speaker on it as well. My phone is pretty cheap nowadays and I'm still surprised not a lot of people use it, the photography level was also 3 years ahead of apple.
I still miss the Windows Phone. The idea that the phone is more about people than it is about apps was really an underrated feature. Why do I need to care if my friend uses Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or any other social media platform, just use the messages app to send them a message. Use the people app to see what they have been up to. Mute notifications based on a person, not an app, or the other way around. Things like that made Windows Phone 7 really great IMO. Also making sure that the thumb can do it all, like moving the address bar or navigation buttons to the bottom. Still miss that. To bad the social media platforms barelly supported the idea of WinPhone and real-support got dropped quickly.
Hahaha! You mentioned about the Indian phone Freedom 251, what I loved is I had forgotten about it and got reminded. Their ads were so shady that it was better to ignore. There are many other companies in India as shady but supported by a section of wannabe population and government!
I worked for Sprint when they partnered with Kyocera to launch the Echo. That thing was a piece of junk the minute we got our hands on it. On top of that, the public event Sprint and Kyocera hosted with David Blaine was absolutely over the top that many of us hoped it was the iPhone coming to Sprint. We sold maybe 5 units total in the largest store in STL. Less than 4 months later, we had someone come in complaining about a defective piece on it. Sprint had already suggested to swap them out to a higher grade phone, no questions asked. In my 6 years working for Sprint, I had never seen them open to swapping out as fast as they did with the Echo.
I remember the LG GD900 as a quirky mix out of a smartphone with a way to small touchscreen and a transparent keyboard which was barely usable either by being touch. In addition to this impracticality, it had huge software issues, no apps, being super slow and restarting itself or just freezing every second day. The freezing was the worst, because the phone seemd functional by a look on the display but was practically out of order ... so nobody could call you, and if used as an alarm clock, well you know what happens then ...
No mention of the IBM Simon? IBM only leased them and after the first year recalled them all to be recycled. Only a few managed to survive. They must of lost many millions on that one.
This was a very interesting video as always. I actually had a Nokia N-Gage but after about 6 months I had already moved on to another phone due to the ridiculous way you had to make phone calls with it sideways.
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The software on Amazon’s phone should’ve been called BezOS
How did he miss that
That’s puny
BaldFukOS
How are there not more comments on this 😂
The Chinese phone’s selling point was that it was shaped like a star 🤣🤣🤣
"You call that a Fire phone? *THIS* is a Fire phone!" - Samsung, probably.
Alex Krycek you know 170m is pennies to Amazon. Their revenue will hit 800bill this year. That’s like if i had 100 bucks and tossed out 2 cents. Lol come on now.
Isn't the Samsung note 7 the official phone of achmed
@TMTK1348 It's never too late to diss on multi-billion companies. Maybe this way fever people would take their every word as gospel.
More like a Dumpster Fire Phone xd
just to let you know ,I read that in my head with an Australian accent....
going all the way to the store to take a picture of the toilet paper so amazon can send it to you lmao
That's a display model. 😂
Big brain
Very aggressive
You are stupid, you could take a pic of the empty toilet paper roll and they will send you an empty one... oh wait...
Why not if one can actually get toilet paper that way in 2020 :p
But N-gage was an official Certificate rich kid status in my childhood lol
THPS 2 💪
That clearly didn't mean anything in retrospect.
Damn I would've been a king at your school then lol
More like the loser
N-gage was a huge flex, and the design was honestly pretty good. I remember seeing someone play tomb raider on it and thinking wow this is some alien tech.
13:16 Swastika still continues to be used as a symbol of good luck and prosperity in Hindu and Buddhist countries such as Nepal, India, Mongolia, and China. Swastika is very commonly used in Hindu marriage ceremonies.
@erik masterchef yes
That is an inverse swastika, which should never be used
I foresee trouble for newly married Asian couples visiting Israel
Ok. He didn’t even mention this in the video but alright
problem is, most people now associate it with the horror of the nazis. yes it was for thousands of years another meaning but..
I remember Vertu being a huge failure. They sold insanely overpriced phones for what they were and then fell into bankruptcy, and collapsed. I would really like to see you do a video on that company
They were never meant to be a phone company. It was more like a jewelry company. People (albeit not a lot of people) did buy them before iPhone came around. Not as big of a failure as you’d think. They had a great clientele of some of the richest people in the world when people didn’t need a new phone and camera every year because they just used phones to text and talk. Vertu also provided personal assistant services with the push of a button. That was a very popular feature.
I went to their store in Singapore. Really cool phones but very overpriced
Nokia made some terrible business decisions whilst they were on top
Being reluctant to adapt to Android, the prime one.
I liked my Ngage but they put the screen the wrong way round and designed it so you couldn't hold it flat to your head when you were making calls so you looked like an idiot. it was a pretty decent phone and with some messing with the OS you could do some good stuff with it.
@@adilammarbaig Also late to the Windows party. I think both would have survived if they went with Windows quicker.
Plus, they had another great OS on their hands: Maemo/Meego. They just stuck with Symbian for some reason.
They went from number 1 mobile phone company in the world to the grave yard in no time, probably no other company in any market ever managed something like that.
sorta like skype during the pandemic. totally dropped the ball there, didn't they
Great video as always.
Also Hi5 from India, I was so frustrated at that time when I could not place an order for 4$ phone, later came to know they lied and scammed and felt good actually, for not placing order by paying 251 INR.
Thanks Dagogo sir.
Indian chor 🤣
he forgot to mention with the 251 the ceo threatened to kill one of his customers
Freedom 251 is the biggest scam ever 😂😂😂 I still remember my school friends ordered it...
🤣Those were the days 😆
fortunately i was saved by the laggy servers,lol
at least it was only 4 bucks
The indians love ponty scams.
I'm not even from India and I wanted to order that phone. Biggest scam of my life
N gage was HUGE in my country. Me and all of my friends have it. I use it from 2004 to 2011. It's my longest lasting phone to this day. What a cool machine
You must be the dude who designed that phone.
They remake it with N Gage QD which is pretty good
@@ariedevs semua tenen gua sukanya yg ori
@@ariedevs N gage qd was a stripped down version of the real deal. I own both, yet i end up taking the old one out much more often to play games.
I had the n-gage too, this is news to me that it was a failure , it was one of my favorite phones and lasted a while with me so did some of my friends.
I'm watching this on a smartphone that would blow everyone's mind in the years of these phone failures.
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i had a windows phone. i'd be listening to music, then get an sms, the music would stop and the screen goes active and the thing goes mental, trying to bankrupt you before you have time to fish it out your pocket. It was too hot to pick up, had a battery life measured in seconds and frequently forgot what it was doing. Finding anything in the menu system was impossible and you'd get phone rage.. but enough about the features
The Nokia Ngage failed because it was too big, that's all.
Now i'm laughing watching this on my 6 inch phone...
*Too big, but still a tiny screen this was the actual reason*
You had to remove battery to change games...
Nokia later released the N-Gage QD which is significantly smaller. I have one and it's very nice.
@@kilowatti Back when batteries took 3 seconds to swap 😏🔁🔋
Ngage wasn't just big. It was bulky! Like a box.
What's funny is that we always look for a justified reason for why something failed, but then we have products like the Windows phone that failed simply due to bad lack and being a little too late to the party...
The Indian phone makes me think about Escobar phone xdxd still waiting for Escobar phone 3 😂
Ya it's scam.
Check MKBHD's videos on that
I remembered when I heard about it from my friends at work, it had 8GB storage and was cheaper than 8GB memory stick🤣, but I admit that I registered it just to use it as a memory stick
@@nishantdesai3705 lol
I was about to order two units of freedom phone.. luckily my card expired at that moment😂
I often wonder: "what ever happened to that overhyped Mozilla phone"
I don't think it ever got released
Well, technically it was released
It's just in another form known as KaiOS, and not as a single phone
@@jl86_ I hope KaiOS survives. I'm waiting for the project to mature a bit so later I can buy a feature phone with KaiOS.
@@Dac_DT_MKD Jio phones works on KaiOS.
@@Dac_DT_MKD it will survive, if I'm right I believe Google has invested a ton of money into it.
Considering that Linux phones will come out, I don't think it has any reason to exist
Never understood that Amazon picture an item and buy it off Amazon feature... If its already right in front of me for sale, why the hell would i get it off Amazon and wait 2 days for it??
er. i guess if you saw an item at a friend's house, you could order it?
.... yeah, it doesnt make sense to me either
@@fhm4 Even in that situation I would just ask my friend "Where did you get that?", not take a picture of it like I planned on robbing their house later.
Currently, Amazon has a similar app, that can use photo recognition and/or a barcode scanner, to allow people to scan products in shops and see if they're cheaper at Amazon.
In this way, we can go window shopping (handy for clothes, and other items we don't feel confident just ordering "blindly" online) and then we can order them from Amazon later.
I'm sure most of us have five something similar, even if it's just by going to Amazon's website on our phones to check prices while at a physical shop.
@@primalconvoy I avoid checking a product in physical store and then buying it online. It feels wrong and is just not fair for the physical stores. They need to pay rent, staff, present the product and deal with shoplifters. I'm ok with paying a bit more in physical shop because of that, especially when buying clothes or shoes.
@@pingwingugu5
Good for you. Although not all physical shops are so "moral" themselves, such as Walmart.
You should do a rundown on the failure of Microsoft to capitalize on the mobile space. Especially considering that they were into it far further back than most people these days even know.
I remember when in 4th grade, me and friends were talking about PSP and I mentioned the NGAGE and one of them said “NGAGE? That thing looks like it’s from when the pioneers were born!” 😂😂😂 I’ll never forget that
ps: we were learning about the pioneers in US history.
I was thinking StarTrek, honestly. lol
7:42 "you'll see the speed at how fast this thing really moves."
Which is hilarious cuz I was just thinking in my head, wow that looks really slow xD
You just saved me from a boring dinner. Perfect timing
Someone having a dinner and someone having breakfast and just woke up what a world
Oh, so I'm not the only one - bon appétit!
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same here dude same here 🔥
😂
I love hearing that Amazon lost!
Love how the guy with the exploding phone throws it in his mates direction 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣
Only a Real friend would do that. My mate would have used me as fire blanket.
Rikil Shah me too 🤣😂🤣😂
And he will say “This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you. I’m doing this because I love you remember. We grow up together we hurt together, it’s a bonding through fire 🔥 “ 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
5:16 Vidhayak banwa do, shaadi karwa do !!! hahahaahha epic stuff
Classic Indian media
Speak English, Ganesh
I don't speak The Sims 4
I do miss the ngage. It had some exclusive games I hope someone out there has kept preserved.
You can guarantee there's an emulator and ROMs
@@dougsteel7414 There are none
@@raziele.1105 seriously? Well, that's a gauntlet to throw down in the vast vintage programming nerd community. They'd bite your hand off
Hi I have one available, it works but not in great condition. Willing to sell? Dm me
you mean like the one where you mowed the lawn?
You could have added the BB Passport, the last true BB phone ^^ BB10 with its simple and efficient keystrokes (I took ages to IOS & Android to get the sames) and its hub was both clear and efficient. Its keyboard was a true piece of art (large keys + the whole keyboard acting as a touchpad). But with no advertising (almost no one knew about it...) + the big apps stopping their supports the fail was just inevitable ...
The bang and olufsen phones were specifically designed to be as user unfriendly as possible
Yeah. That's what shocked me. Aren't Bang and Olufsen supposed to be good at design?
The Nothing phone is going to be on the sequel to this list someday. Introducing a new phone brand while the market is consolidating is a fool's errand.
I still remember seeing the 7280 in a shop display when it was new and being blown away by how cool it was. At the end of the day function was totally unimportant for that phone, it was just an awesome looking toy.
You make a really good point about that dot on the Kin.
A scrap book where you can store everything you like is a great idea. And yes, not necessarily for sharing just having the content for yourself. That's a great idea.
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Brought to you by the guy who toss the brand new iPhone in the fish tank and also try to fire a guy who wasn't even his employee 😉 but hey he did make Pixar films and toy story wait now that I think about it every time he left the company he worked for they did better than before 😱
Gabrielle Leiba none the less, the quote is still a good quote
Apple didn't want to admit any mistakes about the shitty Iphone 4. "Just hold it in the other hand!"
The watch-phone at 6:00 is basically a Pip-Boy.
6:42 “due to its unfortunate design” 😅😂🤣
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The Galaxy Beam was a really good idea! With today's technology it should be way better.
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Kyocera dude: "You'll see the speed and how fast this thing really moves."
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Ngage was my first phone ever.. I loved it so much for one reason.. I could play THPS2 on it at anytime i wanted.. For kid me, thats all i needed in the world.. good times... I still to this day cant play that game on anything.. it used to be for phones but never got updated so it does not work anymore..
Why don't you play it on the N-gage? I still play it sometimes.
The Harry Potter Series 2
@@uiopuiop3472 Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2
almost
My classmate legit made a presentation using her Galaxy Beam. Shit was cool.
1:56 Imagine going to the store to scan an item just to have Amazon deliver it for you.
2:58 4 USD. Too good to be true.
7:05 Kyocera had the right idea!
EDIT: Samsung with the right idea for the Galaxy Beam too!
Microsoft losing $1 billion + on development costs, fuck me 😨
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PSA: The swastika is an ancient religious symbol in India. No the swastika on the Buddha phone isn’t a Nazi swastika.
I actually love how the Serene looks and would've loved to get one- but only as curiosity and only if I was rich enough to have money to spare on extra phones. Doesn't really look like the kind of phone that would be able to take a lot of usage.
1:48 taking a photo and find the product. Wechat has that function, too, along with option for QR code scan and OCR translation.
well... JD, Taobao, Pinduoduo, all shopping apps in china nowadays can scan products made in China.
The Essential Phone belongs on this list of phone flops as well.
It wasn''t that bad of a flop compared to the rest of the phones on this list. It still received updates until this year and the phone itself wasn't particularity bad after updates but its launch given the hype at the time was one of the most disappointing launch ever for a phone.
@@abrararififyif they had refined the software before launch with a reasonable price point... It would have been a hit
That bracelet phone with the little speaker ring attachment is awesome!
I loved my N-Gage so much back in the day. I never knew it was a failure.
It was not. Ppl these days never lived back then, so they wouldn't understand
@@mayaparamita2254 You must be right.
2:35 this is how record companies used to fudge the top 40 music charts before iTunes and MP3s. Ship millions of singles to record stores in sync with distribution to the radio stations and count them as sold. Then kids would think they were buying Top 10 records before they even had a chance to actually be popular enough to sell enough to even be legitimately top 1,000.
The Microsoft Kin was my first phone back in high school. I liked the big, tactile fold-out keyboard, but otherwise it was total garbage.
I particularly liked the slo mo shot of the bullet going through the smartphone : ). well done Dagogo, another great video! (and quite funny in lots of places too!)
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Damn I still remember my brother's first phone was N-Gage. I always begged him to borrow it to play games
The exploding Samsung really did it for me! 🤣🤣🤣Those two dudes are true internet legends
Woah I used to have a Kin back in the day! Ironically I had no social media at the time 😅
No IBM Simon, the first smartphone? It was so bad all but a few models were crushed after the one year lease expired. They weren't sold and the very few out in the wild were "redirected" on their way to the recycler.
Ok, so I got to test and use the KIN phone for a previous job many years ago. I actually really liked it, and I think it might have gained some ground if it weren't for their data pricing structure. The phone wasn't a smartphone, so it didn't have a full OS or apps. But it did have internet features, so you needed a data plan. You could pay $30 a month for data on a full-fledged smartphone or for a niche feature phone. It just didn't make sense, making the KIN DOA.
But it was a useful phone, had some awesome features, and a great keyboard.
And yes, RIP, Windows Phone. Still my favorite mobile OS to this day, and I will die on that hill. :D
I'm sure Bill Gates appreciated you shilling for their effort to monopolize software
I got my entire family on the Kin 2 as a transition from flip phones but before we could afford smartphones. I still have those phones laying around in my old phones bin.
The Windows Phone UI was awesome!! I wish they'd port it to Android.
@@jimroscovius I use Before Launcher, nice and clean and minimalist, very Windows Phone-like.
All’s fine and dandy ‘till he brings our the star phone LMAO
Lmao covered original phone with white out. Definitely sounds Indian.
Right?? 😂
"There must be someone who is conspiring against me" lmao
No, that definitely sounds Chinese.
2:55 Freedom 251... an Indian iPhone knock-off? Moreover it was made in China where Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo and oh yes.... Huawei! Are made in India! Not just that, All Chinese brands have development teams/facilities in India with local people off course! Freedom 251 was surely been outgunned by Indian made (AND developed) Chinese phones. Oh dear!
Neverless I just know about Freedom 251.
Nokia,Motorola,BlackBerry were very Big brands,captured the whole World's market but they refused to change and denied to accept Android and they vanished from the market.I wonder who's Next..
5:15 “And the pre-orders were never fulfilled”
Me: welp there goes skipping lunch and dinner to save up for a smartphone.
"Android was relatively new at the time"? Amazon Fire phone got released in 2014, Android got released in 2008. Come on dude.
6 years is old now or what?
That Galaxy Note 7 footage, homie straight up fled the room. "That's your fire to deal with, buddy. I'm out!"
What about the Droid X back in 2010? I remember seeing a million commercials for it, but never saw someone actually using the phone in person.
Is that the one who released what storm on the Verizon wireless platform
It wasn't a flop. You just didn't see it that's all.
The golden Buddha phone looks like an expensive birth control dispenser lol
Galaxy Beam was a really good phone, sad Samsung is not making that phone anymore. I believe it will be a hit if they release such phone now.
Lenovo yoga tab had the same feature but idk if it was called a success or a failure
its called Lenovo yoga tab 3 Pro
@@zainik yeah you are right.
It would be great for Samsung to build a few of those phones alongside the Galaxy Zoom. However, the Blackview Max 1 is a great alternative.
Wow. Every coldfusion video has been promoted in my feed as soon as it was uploaded.... except this one. I only knew it existed because you mentioned it in the Wire card video.
Shame I actually loved N-Gage that I bought it three times (N-Gage classic, QD, and back to classic again)
N-Gage was a real hit, i've played a lot of games on mine and listened endless music and never had any issues with it!
I still have my Ngage & a few games 😂🤣
EXCELLENT DAGOGO
REALLY EXCELLENT!
AS ALWAYS
As an Indian , I can confirm most of the Micromax phones should be in this category. It started as a great , fast developing company which simply imported phones from China and resold them in India. And then , came Xiaomi , Oppo and Vivo.
Did they all cover up the brand name with white-out, too?
@@WobblesandBean nope
I loved the n-gage, not for its gaming, but for stereo audio with a standard audio port, mini-USB without drivers or the nokia software, and the amount of software it packed into the hardware. The two-handed style also made it awesome for huge amounts of typing and navigating around. It was the first phone that worked as a computer replacement for me. And the audio quality with its hardware based MP3 playback was out of the world for its time!
Video idea: skeuomorphism to flat design
Can't beat the good old red public phone box . Very spacious inside too .
Cool video or even series idea could be when big companies failed in big market-defining ways. Kodak with digital cameras, Microsoft with mobile computing, etc. What changed in the market and how they missed the mark or why they were to slow to adapt.
Love the green dot save concept. It could be a simple quick double button tap to eliminate the on screen UI.
I remember I played tony hawk pro skater all day on n-gage and it had one of the best quality music player at that time, I loved it a lot, never thought it was a failure
The next big thing I bet is augmented reality glasses powered by your smart phone, you can see movies or adult content everywhere and nobody sees what you are seeing. Intense.
Video games sports where you use your body
Be in the same room as 3d characters and interact.
Its like magic.
8:49 I own one of the earliest moto-mod phones that came out in 2016 where you can add on a case that is a projector and has speaker on it as well. My phone is pretty cheap nowadays and I'm still surprised not a lot of people use it, the photography level was also 3 years ahead of apple.
I still miss the Windows Phone. The idea that the phone is more about people than it is about apps was really an underrated feature. Why do I need to care if my friend uses Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or any other social media platform, just use the messages app to send them a message. Use the people app to see what they have been up to. Mute notifications based on a person, not an app, or the other way around. Things like that made Windows Phone 7 really great IMO. Also making sure that the thumb can do it all, like moving the address bar or navigation buttons to the bottom. Still miss that. To bad the social media platforms barelly supported the idea of WinPhone and real-support got dropped quickly.
Hahaha! You mentioned about the Indian phone Freedom 251, what I loved is I had forgotten about it and got reminded. Their ads were so shady that it was better to ignore. There are many other companies in India as shady but supported by a section of wannabe population and government!
I worked for Sprint when they partnered with Kyocera to launch the Echo. That thing was a piece of junk the minute we got our hands on it. On top of that, the public event Sprint and Kyocera hosted with David Blaine was absolutely over the top that many of us hoped it was the iPhone coming to Sprint. We sold maybe 5 units total in the largest store in STL. Less than 4 months later, we had someone come in complaining about a defective piece on it. Sprint had already suggested to swap them out to a higher grade phone, no questions asked. In my 6 years working for Sprint, I had never seen them open to swapping out as fast as they did with the Echo.
10 years now, I remebered my friend talking about her mom lipstick phone... Damnn it was really unique
I remember the LG GD900 as a quirky mix out of a smartphone with a way to small touchscreen and a transparent keyboard which was barely usable either by being touch.
In addition to this impracticality, it had huge software issues, no apps, being super slow and restarting itself or just freezing every second day. The freezing was the worst, because the phone seemd functional by a look on the display but was practically out of order ... so nobody could call you, and if used as an alarm clock, well you know what happens then ...
Awesome video. Really enjoyed the content Dagogo!
That $4 phone though, the balls on that guy.
Thanks for the enlightenment brought ....
An ameture I have to give another try to fully comprehend about wifi...
Keep up the good work...
LMAO That Kyocera Echo was slow as hell during the launch event.
Thanks for heads up in the last video... I also did not see this video in my notications.
No mention of the IBM Simon? IBM only leased them and after the first year recalled them all to be recycled. Only a few managed to survive. They must of lost many millions on that one.
Good video, but you missed out all the Vertu phones.
6:58 WTH? So dual screen Smartphones existed way back in 2011, very interesting...
This was a very interesting video as always. I actually had a Nokia N-Gage but after about 6 months I had already moved on to another phone due to the ridiculous way you had to make phone calls with it sideways.
I had the bell icon clicked and didn't get notified of this vid .... i really enjoyed it .. sad I didn't get to see it sooner