Awesome video. My dad actually had one of these. He worked for a CBS news station as a camera guy, he carried one of these and two beepers on his belt. And 3 extra batteries for his camera on his belt, huge betamax camera. The 90s were nuts, but not long ago. He had to keep about a dozen batteries at the station and in our basement on charge at all times. As each battery only lasted about half an hour despite weighing two pounds each. And his camera car with a reporter was a 1st gen explorer. And he had to have a CDL back then to drive the SAT truck. Wasn't so long ago. Today ALL of that can be done on a mid range camera and a Ford Focus
Yeah a lot of people thought Beta went out of the country in the late 80's early nineties, which for the public, it kinda did (they sent most of the players and tapes down to Mexico), but TV stations still used the Beta hifi cams because of their better recording/image quality. I think it wasn't until the past few years that many of the long shots at football games were still shot with either non-hd or betacams, and it was the closer up cams that were HD. so they blended the feeds. You could def tell which camera was NOT an HD one. lol
@@matthewdropco Yep, ithey used little tapes like about the size of a poker card. They even had a machine that could instawipe the things in like 5 seconds. So you had a clean tape every time you went out. Sony even came out with a 540P version of it which was kinda HD. But the station my father worked for kinda saw 720P and all digital coming, so they held out a few years and never sprung for the tape based 540P system. Ended up being a good choice, atm theyre going to 8K next year
My wife and I built these at the factory in Harvard Il.. I was a line analyzer and she was my repair person... very cool product.. 😎 True story, you have more tx power with the antenna down.. These were very popular on the prepaid market in South and Central America after the initial run failed in the U.S. market.. very, very cheap. Funny though - the guts of the "bag phone" it replaced soldiered on for years as the brain of the original "OnStar" system for GM.. Cool overview.
I don't think i had this but I did have the StarTac.. that was a flip.. i had a candybar style, but man i cannot rememer the name of it.. Great video tho JR. So much fun back then with the analog system
My dad had this, and he said in the UK he's pretty sure it said you had 5-10 seconds to swap batteries in the manual. He remembers doing it (his work bought him multiple batteries with the phone as he needed to be in contact 24/7) and he doesn't remember rushing to do it and he always made it.
I had this phone stole off my belt at a Nationals game back in 2001. I bought a flip phone replacement that year which I am still using today. I know, I know, 3 G is going away. I will use it until it is gone.
Sounds like 8 bit or less audio. The easily swapped battery is a big plus, most phones today like to make impossible to even take your phone apart to replace your battery. I have a Motorola G5plus and it's getting older and I recently found out you have to pull the lcd screen just to get to it. Had some cool features that are laughable now but were cutting edge back then. I still have a couple of my first cell phones and picked up a Motorola Brick phone at a garage sale just because it was cool and one of the first ones out there. I think it still charged and powered on when I got it. You could drop it off your roof and run over it and it would still work.
Is it the same as the Tango 300 that came to South America? I remember it being moderately successful over here in the mid-late 90s, but overshadowed by both micro/teletacs and startacs as well.
Wasn't there a phone that had battery shaped panel that had a charging port on it, to basically make it a plugin phone? I think you could plug it in your cigarette lighter, or in a wall plug. It didn't charge the phone obviously, but you could talk without changing the battery, and you could have your actual batteries charging. So maybe taking a long drive somewhere. I don't remember the brand. It could have been motorola.
That's funny, I was with southwestern bell and they turned me into alltel who turned into Verizon. Maybe they broke up and sold to multiple companies? I have actually never switched providers of my own free will.
I could swear the word "buttons" has a couple of T's in there! What are "buhuhns"?? 😁😁. I know that can't be a Kansas thing. Enjoying the non-Corvette tech stuff......
Cannot remember the style of the phone but I had a Motorola flip phone that had a little round flip that had nothing on it it just uncovered the Numbers and answered the phone when you opened it proposed it it aint gonna hung up. That charger got my phone rang over because my foot hooked it when I drugged out of the truck I didn't realize it drove off ran over it if the charger unplugged we'd have been great but nope charger and I'll just jerk right out of the vehicle and cool and how I didn't notice it I don't know I was on the side of the road one night with a battery issue when I got the truck running I just jumped in and drove off I had no idea my phone was on the ground that thing was flat as a pancake but still Ill worked you couldn't dial but you could answer or dial from the phone book
Nickle Caddium. Must be a GM battery. It's okay...it's older tech than you man. Yeah you really had to have the manual to do ANYTHING on phones back in those days. I had an old GE phone in 1995...basically my first serious job where I could actually afford things. Only had it for about a year as it was sooo expensive. I worked at HP then, every one of the HP employees were getting StarTacs but a decree came out that unless you had AT&T you couldn't use a cell phone on site. They had set up they're own private repeaters there as back then there was no real coverage but because of how things worked...they HAD to make the repeaters accessible to ANY cell phone in the area...even other providers. They (HP) would then be charged for the call that the outside provider phone made...yikes! So naturally they wanted to stop that. Because they were also having buildings and facilities being built still...that decree only lasted a few weeks. Tough to go tell your biggest fabricator foreman that he can't use his cell phone to call for materials and stuff to build the structure you want him to build with a straight face. Especially when all the smaller contractors heard of it.
Awesome video. My dad actually had one of these. He worked for a CBS news station as a camera guy, he carried one of these and two beepers on his belt. And 3 extra batteries for his camera on his belt, huge betamax camera. The 90s were nuts, but not long ago. He had to keep about a dozen batteries at the station and in our basement on charge at all times. As each battery only lasted about half an hour despite weighing two pounds each. And his camera car with a reporter was a 1st gen explorer. And he had to have a CDL back then to drive the SAT truck. Wasn't so long ago. Today ALL of that can be done on a mid range camera and a Ford Focus
Yeah a lot of people thought Beta went out of the country in the late 80's early nineties, which for the public, it kinda did (they sent most of the players and tapes down to Mexico), but TV stations still used the Beta hifi cams because of their better recording/image quality. I think it wasn't until the past few years that many of the long shots at football games were still shot with either non-hd or betacams, and it was the closer up cams that were HD. so they blended the feeds. You could def tell which camera was NOT an HD one. lol
@@matthewdropco Yep, ithey used little tapes like about the size of a poker card. They even had a machine that could instawipe the things in like 5 seconds. So you had a clean tape every time you went out. Sony even came out with a 540P version of it which was kinda HD. But the station my father worked for kinda saw 720P and all digital coming, so they held out a few years and never sprung for the tape based 540P system. Ended up being a good choice, atm theyre going to 8K next year
My wife and I built these at the factory in Harvard Il.. I was a line analyzer and she was my repair person... very cool product.. 😎 True story, you have more tx power with the antenna down.. These were very popular on the prepaid market in South and Central America after the initial run failed in the U.S. market.. very, very cheap. Funny though - the guts of the "bag phone" it replaced soldiered on for years as the brain of the original "OnStar" system for GM.. Cool overview.
The old analog OnStar! That's pretty wild! 😳
I’m digging this channel JR!
I don't think i had this but I did have the StarTac.. that was a flip.. i had a candybar style, but man i cannot rememer the name of it.. Great video tho JR. So much fun back then with the analog system
That's interesting. I love those older phones, and its fun to review the features. I felt like I was standing at the Cellular One counter.
Thank for this "Alternate Channel" John!
My dad had this, and he said in the UK he's pretty sure it said you had 5-10 seconds to swap batteries in the manual. He remembers doing it (his work bought him multiple batteries with the phone as he needed to be in contact 24/7) and he doesn't remember rushing to do it and he always made it.
OMG those old Motos were the definition of cool back in the day!
I had this phone stole off my belt at a Nationals game back in 2001. I bought a flip phone replacement that year which I am still using today. I know, I know, 3 G is going away. I will use it until it is gone.
Sounds like 8 bit or less audio. The easily swapped battery is a big plus, most phones today like to make impossible to even take your phone apart to replace your battery. I have a Motorola G5plus and it's getting older and I recently found out you have to pull the lcd screen just to get to it. Had some cool features that are laughable now but were cutting edge back then. I still have a couple of my first cell phones and picked up a Motorola Brick phone at a garage sale just because it was cool and one of the first ones out there. I think it still charged and powered on when I got it. You could drop it off your roof and run over it and it would still work.
The StarTAC was where it was at though
That style menu was the worst! Great video!
Is it the same as the Tango 300 that came to South America? I remember it being moderately successful over here in the mid-late 90s, but overshadowed by both micro/teletacs and startacs as well.
I have a Blackberry! Would love to see you do a video on those. if you need one, I can ship one to you
I have a 2021 Motorola smartphone. Motorola makes reliable phones. I haven't had a issue in two years.
Love the old ringtones, made mine an old Sony Ericsson triple tone ring
GOTTA do 3310 next :D
Wasn't there a phone that had battery shaped panel that had a charging port on it, to basically make it a plugin phone? I think you could plug it in your cigarette lighter, or in a wall plug. It didn't charge the phone obviously, but you could talk without changing the battery, and you could have your actual batteries charging. So maybe taking a long drive somewhere. I don't remember the brand. It could have been motorola.
I had one of those phones. 30 to 40 minutes talk time with the big battery.
We used to listen to these on my scanner.
my first phone was the MAXON CM-H400 PLUS
nice, i had one worked great
That's funny, I was with southwestern bell and they turned me into alltel who turned into Verizon. Maybe they broke up and sold to multiple companies? I have actually never switched providers of my own free will.
Are you out of your damn mind I got one of those.. that was a sweet analog phone and it would use a aa battery pack.. I had one.. loved
Cool phone.
I could swear the word "buttons" has a couple of T's in there! What are "buhuhns"?? 😁😁. I know that can't be a Kansas thing.
Enjoying the non-Corvette tech stuff......
Did you get the blackberry pearl in the USA?
I had the pearl. Then I got the blackberry touch with it's tactile push screen
Get a brick arguably the greatest cell phone
that is when phones had good reception,analog ya,great reception espesally in a valley
Cannot remember the style of the phone but I had a Motorola flip phone that had a little round flip that had nothing on it it just uncovered the Numbers and answered the phone when you opened it proposed it it aint gonna hung up. That charger got my phone rang over because my foot hooked it when I drugged out of the truck I didn't realize it drove off ran over it if the charger unplugged we'd have been great but nope charger and I'll just jerk right out of the vehicle and cool and how I didn't notice it I don't know I was on the side of the road one night with a battery issue when I got the truck running I just jumped in and drove off I had no idea my phone was on the ground that thing was flat as a pancake but still Ill worked you couldn't dial but you could answer or dial from the phone book
Nickle Caddium. Must be a GM battery.
It's okay...it's older tech than you man. Yeah you really had to have the manual to do ANYTHING on phones back in those days. I had an old GE phone in 1995...basically my first serious job where I could actually afford things. Only had it for about a year as it was sooo expensive. I worked at HP then, every one of the HP employees were getting StarTacs but a decree came out that unless you had AT&T you couldn't use a cell phone on site. They had set up they're own private repeaters there as back then there was no real coverage but because of how things worked...they HAD to make the repeaters accessible to ANY cell phone in the area...even other providers. They (HP) would then be charged for the call that the outside provider phone made...yikes! So naturally they wanted to stop that. Because they were also having buildings and facilities being built still...that decree only lasted a few weeks. Tough to go tell your biggest fabricator foreman that he can't use his cell phone to call for materials and stuff to build the structure you want him to build with a straight face. Especially when all the smaller contractors heard of it.
do u know amberginnii??
I have those can i sell it
Hey!
Think everyones dad had one of these with the leather case 😆
Hey
Hahhaahha Prepaid... "We know how they love their 24 month contracts"
Function 0 + 000000000000 or 123456123456 to program the phone number and SID in that phone!! I sold many of those phones