True Story: When I was a kid my dad heard on the radio something about a free Razr at the mall. He actually went just to discover that it wasn’t a shaving razor and just a stinkin cell phone! 😂
The Razr is real iffy with charging! It uses standard mini-USB, yes. But the charging lead has a resistor in the plug to tell the phone it's a charger. So without that you wont have much luck. You can find working knockoff chargers at the bay of E's.
@adambevillI believe it was a shift of reliability. Mini made the plug skookum but the port suffered, so micro reversed that because it's easier to replace the cable
this threw me for a loop when i tried fixing up my razr from way back when a few months ago. glad i found the original charger in my junk drawer after a while
Oh. My God. I remember this beautiful flipping basto. I remember recording out a car window going 80 down a open highway and it flying out of my hand and bouncing across the pavement. Snapping shut as it landed, we turned around and came back to grab it. Picked it up and it was not only STILL RECORDING. it only had 3 scuffs on it.
My girlfriend in high school had one of these and she hated it with a passion and just wanted a "normal" phone. The only reason she had one was because her dad bought her the most expensive version he could find of anything she wanted/needed even if that wasn't the _kind_ she wanted in exchange for never leaving his office to be a parent. I bet you can guess how that relationship went; she taught me that beauty on the outside doesn't necessarily make its way inside.
I love old tech and let me tell you, the Siemens looks GORGEOUS. I have a couple of old Sony Ericssons and they work fantastically well.. still to this day I sometimes play old mobile games on them just 'cause of nostalgia and such.
Those Razr phones were absolute hotness in their day. When a phone was expected to... Make phone calls. Anything else was amazing. If I recall correctly, the camera was actually good for the time, n such a sleek bit of industrial design. The monolithic black slab we all carry around today, very lame. My mates were all nerds, we all had weird n wonderful telephony devices, definitely a competition as only teenage males can do. I never owned one myself, but mad respect at the Razr. Such a decent bit of kit.
I've always loved this phone-to this day by FAR my favourite cell phone, if all you need it for is calling people. So satisfying to snap it shut. But I've always had a soft spot for mid-2000's phones and bits of electronic jank, the same way I love ancient power tools; while things are usually easier to use once things hit the "optimum design" (Ie; screen rectangle for phones), things are so much more interesting when everyone is trying to figure out how things worked. Like-now one friend has a google and one has an Iphone-big deal, they've got nearly identical features and work the same way. But back when this came out people could roll up with ANYTHING-slide out keyboard? Sure. Folding? Yes. Weird form factors? Absolutely.
I used to have this exact model (right down to the colour). Loved it still the best mobile I ever owned! Only thing the iTunes link up was kind of a gimmick, it had internal space for like 1 song, and no expandable storage (not even kidding)
This was THE phone. This was the first cell phone I remember "everyone" wanted or had. People had phones before, of course. But the Razr was the first time that I remember people talking about a SPECIFIC phone. It was the first time I remember people pulling out their phone not just to brag about having a cell phone in school at all, but to show off WHICH cell phone they had. It was the evolution of phones being "wow, you have your own cell phone!" to "Wow, you have THAT cell phone!"
I used to be able to power old phones by taking out the battery and plugging in the charger. Not sure if it works on all phones, but Nokia used to be able to do that.
German technology 👌😂 I had a Siemens C45 as a teen (I didn't want a Nokia, because every bastard in school had one, even in Germany) and I loved it so much and had it for four years, before I bought a Sony Ericsson from my first proper salary. I gifted the Siemens to a neighbour of my grandparents and it worked another three (!) years with the same battery. This phone refused to die. 😊 My replacement phone is a Nokia 8210 from 1999, my mom had it in a cardboard box in the (fortunately dry as a bone) basement, forgot about it and found it in 2021 during moving and gifted it to me with the charger cable and it came to life after 20 minutes recharging. The battery lost a lot of it's capacity and I bought a new one, but the phone still works a charm. And a lot of smartphones don't survive three years nowadays.
This is by far one of my two favorite phones of all time (Other being the Blackberry Curve) and it is in a museum now. I'm not kidding . I would love to have one even though they won;t work anymore in the US. Just to have it!
I've had so many Razrs throughout history, from when I was in high school in the 00s all the way up through 2017 when my poor v9x handed it in. And the networks that supported them are offline in America, so I can't do anything with any of my old ones or anything.
My mom was late to cell phone adoption, and within 2 years she had one of these given to her by a coworker even though to her it was just a phone the same as any other. Was always so jealous.
@dankpods, on the off chance you see this, take out the battery from the back. Most phones back then work on just the wall cord plugged into the phone and no battery. My project red razr still works this way. Good luck!!
Oh man, I remember when my dad owned one of these (he bought the green one) around like back in mid 2000s (i forgot which year basicaly before Blackberry is a thing). If this phone still exist by now, i maybe will used it as Music player only.
Are you sure that travel adapter is supposed to be used like that? Looks like you've plugged the european plug into the earth for UK/USA/AU plugs, and the other prong into maybe the center earth for Italian plugs? Might explain killing one of the lights. Could be wrong (and it would be amazing if that battery still had a charge) but I just can't figure out how one hole could be both earth and live.
Dead ass, I had one of these as a kid and it was unbreakable. Over time both the back and front screens had not only broken, but were gone completely. I could stick my finger through the phone. IT STILL WORKED. Obviously I couldn't see what I was doing but it still sent and received calls and (I imagine) texts. After that my grandpa had got me a blackberry and that thing was.. interesting lol. I'm not even sure what happened to that thing, it's like this weird little blip in my life lol
First it was the sprint flip phone that made that satisfying click when you opened and closed it then it was this one. Those were the two gotta have it flip phones when I was a kid before touch screen was ever a thing.
someone in my family had one of these just laying around. i used to pretend it was a phone from the future due to how cool it looked. it was long dead and was eventually either lost or thrown out.
Man I remember having this one for the longest. Loved it. That 1.5 camera was actually decent. Furthermore the thing was indestructible, I dropped it on wet snow, the squishy dirty black snow that gathers outside of an apartment building at pick hour... ALL NIGHT! I realize I dropped it in the morning and went for it looking... Started calling it and bam... There it is not giving a single fuck... And not a single text or call lol
This was my first one without the iTunes unfortunately. I still have mine, not sure it turns on but it still looks beautiful. I remember the headphones 😂
Old Motorolas used a proprietary usb charger. You can’t charge them with a normal usb. That probably the reason why it’s not working (also the battery is probably cooked)
The Siemens S 10 was something like a Mercedes S Class among cell phones back in the 90s. Even with an overpriced cell phone contract, it was still unaffordable. For the average user, there was the C series. In Austria, it was standard to get either a Nokia or a Siemens phone with your cell phone contract. The cheapest contracts did not allow you to make a single minute of calls and cost 200 ATS upwards. 1996 16 US Dolla today approx. 30 Euro A minute of calling costs 10 ATS 0,80Euro
Funny thing is I actually took mine to a grinding disc, and filed the top of the phone to a razor edge. So you can technically shave with it. This was after I use the phone and moved on from it.
I used mine 15 years and yeah the batteries are their weakness, both mine got unusable thanks to their batteries and even replacement batteries didn't helped, though it lasted 15 years
True story: I nicked one of the fake display models of these from a really old phone shop and walked around for about a good month pretending it worked. I was like 7, give me a break.
I have a STACK of old Motorola phones that don't work anymore. This reminded me of how much I should never get Motorola, especially their lower end phones--
bro, I'd buy a razr this very second, whatever the price (as long as its around $2k ) if they kept the externals the same and updated the innards. swapped the main screen with a touch screen. ive had a smartphone since the iphone 2 and i used to use a smartphone for everything but now ive realized specialized devices are way better than using a smartphone for everything. so now i use a tablet for entertainment, a laptop for serious business and email, and now i just use a smartphone the same as the old razr phones; taking pics on the go, listening to music, texts, and phone calls. if the batteries werent an issue and RAZRs took modern sim cards i would just buy an old RAZR right now.
One of my favorite mobile games was in this Moto Razr. It's named Crazy, and it is like subterranean warfare. You blast the ground and try to hit each other. Think of it like the Worms game.
DankPods I love you and I would never want to shame you for being an Apple guy. But. No phones did not "only have headphone jacks for a short time". This android I bought last year has one.
True Story: When I was a kid my dad heard on the radio something about a free Razr at the mall. He actually went just to discover that it wasn’t a shaving razor and just a stinkin cell phone! 😂
Did he give it to you?
😂😂😂 that is so funny
@@camairlines he never got it because of course “free” didn’t truly mean free.
@@ColtonKiefer ahh I see what your saying. They meant free like you could buy one like they had them in stock.
@@camairlines naw it was something like the phone itself is free, but you had to lock into a contract for a certain amount of time.
The Razr is real iffy with charging! It uses standard mini-USB, yes. But the charging lead has a resistor in the plug to tell the phone it's a charger. So without that you wont have much luck. You can find working knockoff chargers at the bay of E's.
My razrs USB port wore out.
The bay of E's what a nice name. Better than ebay
@adambevillI believe it was a shift of reliability. Mini made the plug skookum but the port suffered, so micro reversed that because it's easier to replace the cable
this threw me for a loop when i tried fixing up my razr from way back when a few months ago. glad i found the original charger in my junk drawer after a while
Oh. My God. I remember this beautiful flipping basto. I remember recording out a car window going 80 down a open highway and it flying out of my hand and bouncing across the pavement. Snapping shut as it landed, we turned around and came back to grab it. Picked it up and it was not only STILL RECORDING. it only had 3 scuffs on it.
My girlfriend in high school had one of these and she hated it with a passion and just wanted a "normal" phone. The only reason she had one was because her dad bought her the most expensive version he could find of anything she wanted/needed even if that wasn't the _kind_ she wanted in exchange for never leaving his office to be a parent. I bet you can guess how that relationship went; she taught me that beauty on the outside doesn't necessarily make its way inside.
let me guess: the relationship lasted about at most a month after this event
@Eeeeeeeee75282 the phone's battery life was probably longer than that relationship.
3:18
Dankpods: “Oh shut up!”
Razr: shuts off
Dankpods: “Oi! Oh you piece of junk!”
😂😂😂😂😂
Razr: “I was only doing what you asked of me!”
I love old tech and let me tell you, the Siemens looks GORGEOUS.
I have a couple of old Sony Ericssons and they work fantastically well.. still to this day I sometimes play old mobile games on them just 'cause of nostalgia and such.
Ah yes, the golf game you had to hold sideways was actually pretty addicting.
Those Razr phones were absolute hotness in their day. When a phone was expected to... Make phone calls. Anything else was amazing. If I recall correctly, the camera was actually good for the time, n such a sleek bit of industrial design. The monolithic black slab we all carry around today, very lame. My mates were all nerds, we all had weird n wonderful telephony devices, definitely a competition as only teenage males can do. I never owned one myself, but mad respect at the Razr. Such a decent bit of kit.
Never seen so many dankpods uploads in one day… ever
nevertr everrr
Only like 177 videos
Its actually crazy ngl
@@Im_helpless174
AI broke... lol
The chaos of the ending might be some of my favorite Dankpods content 😂
As a kid I always wanted to have one of these Razer Phones. They had been like WHOA! IT'S FOLDING! IT HAS TWO SCREENS! - I never got one
I've always loved this phone-to this day by FAR my favourite cell phone, if all you need it for is calling people.
So satisfying to snap it shut.
But I've always had a soft spot for mid-2000's phones and bits of electronic jank, the same way I love ancient power tools; while things are usually easier to use once things hit the "optimum design" (Ie; screen rectangle for phones), things are so much more interesting when everyone is trying to figure out how things worked.
Like-now one friend has a google and one has an Iphone-big deal, they've got nearly identical features and work the same way.
But back when this came out people could roll up with ANYTHING-slide out keyboard? Sure. Folding? Yes. Weird form factors? Absolutely.
I had the Razr when it came out and to this day it’s still my favorite phone ever. If it worked on modern bands I would probably still use it
Oh my god you just unlocked a memory that my mom had this phone when it first came out 😂
I used to have this exact model (right down to the colour). Loved it still the best mobile I ever owned!
Only thing the iTunes link up was kind of a gimmick, it had internal space for like 1 song, and no expandable storage (not even kidding)
This was THE phone. This was the first cell phone I remember "everyone" wanted or had. People had phones before, of course. But the Razr was the first time that I remember people talking about a SPECIFIC phone. It was the first time I remember people pulling out their phone not just to brag about having a cell phone in school at all, but to show off WHICH cell phone they had. It was the evolution of phones being "wow, you have your own cell phone!" to "Wow, you have THAT cell phone!"
My old Razr is one of the very few bits of old gear I truly miss.
"For maximum sparky electric business" is the best way to say "charge"
I used to be able to power old phones by taking out the battery and plugging in the charger. Not sure if it works on all phones, but Nokia used to be able to do that.
German technology 👌😂 I had a Siemens C45 as a teen (I didn't want a Nokia, because every bastard in school had one, even in Germany) and I loved it so much and had it for four years, before I bought a Sony Ericsson from my first proper salary. I gifted the Siemens to a neighbour of my grandparents and it worked another three (!) years with the same battery. This phone refused to die. 😊 My replacement phone is a Nokia 8210 from 1999, my mom had it in a cardboard box in the (fortunately dry as a bone) basement, forgot about it and found it in 2021 during moving and gifted it to me with the charger cable and it came to life after 20 minutes recharging. The battery lost a lot of it's capacity and I bought a new one, but the phone still works a charm. And a lot of smartphones don't survive three years nowadays.
Wow interesting.
I have used a Sony Ericsson 750 or something for a week last year and it still worked flawlessly. Amazing.
My grandma had one of those that still worked up until 3 years ago when it was lost in a house fire. It was pretty great
So many uploads of yer secrets content....feels like christmas morning all over again. 🎉😊
I really said "How do you pronounce that? SEE-MENS?" Wholeheartedly said that out loud.
Man, when anti consumer practiced just were made even more the norm by adding DRM to a non smart phone.
This is by far one of my two favorite phones of all time (Other being the Blackberry Curve) and it is in a museum now. I'm not kidding . I would love to have one even though they won;t work anymore in the US. Just to have it!
What is a DankPods video without *EUUUGHHGHGHGH MY PKCELL*
I've had so many Razrs throughout history, from when I was in high school in the 00s all the way up through 2017 when my poor v9x handed it in. And the networks that supported them are offline in America, so I can't do anything with any of my old ones or anything.
Happy new year dank pods :)
I tell you what, the LAST thing I was expecting in a dankpods video was for Wade to recite some Hank Williams lyrics.
So many dankpods vids, its like a 2nd Christmas! 🎄
i had the Razer back in the day and absolutely loved that Phone.
My mom was late to cell phone adoption, and within 2 years she had one of these given to her by a coworker even though to her it was just a phone the same as any other. Was always so jealous.
@dankpods, on the off chance you see this, take out the battery from the back. Most phones back then work on just the wall cord plugged into the phone and no battery. My project red razr still works this way. Good luck!!
Oh man, I remember when my dad owned one of these (he bought the green one) around like back in mid 2000s (i forgot which year basicaly before Blackberry is a thing). If this phone still exist by now, i maybe will used it as Music player only.
Happy New Year! Start the year off right with a nugget!
Wow this is unlocking memories.
5:06 is the best song i’ve ever heard
Are you sure that travel adapter is supposed to be used like that? Looks like you've plugged the european plug into the earth for UK/USA/AU plugs, and the other prong into maybe the center earth for Italian plugs? Might explain killing one of the lights. Could be wrong (and it would be amazing if that battery still had a charge) but I just can't figure out how one hole could be both earth and live.
The V3i m was the first phone I was excited about buying.
I was 20.
Dead ass, I had one of these as a kid and it was unbreakable. Over time both the back and front screens had not only broken, but were gone completely. I could stick my finger through the phone. IT STILL WORKED. Obviously I couldn't see what I was doing but it still sent and received calls and (I imagine) texts.
After that my grandpa had got me a blackberry and that thing was.. interesting lol. I'm not even sure what happened to that thing, it's like this weird little blip in my life lol
First it was the sprint flip phone that made that satisfying click when you opened and closed it then it was this one. Those were the two gotta have it flip phones when I was a kid before touch screen was ever a thing.
The thing about all these old phones is at least you can easily and safely replace them with new battery cells still!
someone in my family had one of these just laying around. i used to pretend it was a phone from the future due to how cool it looked. it was long dead and was eventually either lost or thrown out.
I had my Razr phone that i bought from a pawn shop in 2012 for 5yrs. I replaced the Batt. 3 times before the screen went out
Man I remember having this one for the longest. Loved it. That 1.5 camera was actually decent. Furthermore the thing was indestructible, I dropped it on wet snow, the squishy dirty black snow that gathers outside of an apartment building at pick hour... ALL NIGHT! I realize I dropped it in the morning and went for it looking... Started calling it and bam... There it is not giving a single fuck... And not a single text or call lol
I would love to buy one of these old phones just for the nugget camera lol
I had the slvr. Kinda always wished I had gotten the razr after though
3:14 one of the best feelings in the world🥲
Dankpods excitement made me smile bc it’s genuine :)
This was my first one without the iTunes unfortunately. I still have mine, not sure it turns on but it still looks beautiful. I remember the headphones 😂
A friend in high school had one of these. We paid him out for having such a stupidly expensive phone for no reason. How times have changed.
Wait you gave money to a kid just for having an expensive phone?
@@lasarousi the currency “paid out” was insults.
Old Motorolas used a proprietary usb charger. You can’t charge them with a normal usb. That probably the reason why it’s not working (also the battery is probably cooked)
The Siemens S 10 was something like a Mercedes S Class among cell phones back in the 90s.
Even with an overpriced cell phone contract, it was still unaffordable.
For the average user, there was the C series.
In Austria, it was standard to get either a Nokia or a Siemens phone with your cell phone contract.
The cheapest contracts did not allow you to make a single minute of calls and cost 200 ATS upwards. 1996 16 US Dolla today approx. 30 Euro
A minute of calling costs 10 ATS 0,80Euro
Silver one looks best. The battery is removable so it can be easily fixed.
Funny thing is I actually took mine to a grinding disc, and filed the top of the phone to a razor edge. So you can technically shave with it.
This was after I use the phone and moved on from it.
German engineering FTW. They just work. And will work forever
1:01 POV u got a gift and pretending to like it 😂
I used mine 15 years and yeah the batteries are their weakness, both mine got unusable thanks to their batteries and even replacement batteries didn't helped, though it lasted 15 years
I had the pre-itunes model and I felt like the hottest shit, was fantastic at the time (for me)
True story: I nicked one of the fake display models of these from a really old phone shop and walked around for about a good month pretending it worked. I was like 7, give me a break.
I have a STACK of old Motorola phones that don't work anymore. This reminded me of how much I should never get Motorola, especially their lower end phones--
dude, you can still knock-off batts for the razr,
i expect to see a dank follow-up!
bro, I'd buy a razr this very second, whatever the price (as long as its around $2k ) if they kept the externals the same and updated the innards. swapped the main screen with a touch screen. ive had a smartphone since the iphone 2 and i used to use a smartphone for everything but now ive realized specialized devices are way better than using a smartphone for everything. so now i use a tablet for entertainment, a laptop for serious business and email, and now i just use a smartphone the same as the old razr phones; taking pics on the go, listening to music, texts, and phone calls.
if the batteries werent an issue and RAZRs took modern sim cards i would just buy an old RAZR right now.
Seeing a mid roll ad on an aftershow feels cursed
If I had a dollar for every time I've seen the PKCell be abused in some way I would be a millionaire
5:43 too many emotions in too little time. reminded me of my friend who had bipolar
One of my favorite mobile games was in this Moto Razr. It's named Crazy, and it is like subterranean warfare. You blast the ground and try to hit each other. Think of it like the Worms game.
Those old batteries have memory effect. You better keep it plugged until it's charged or else you won't have that battery anymore.
I thought that Siemens was called "SOD Active" for a second.
Bruh I remember my first phone was the Redish-orange razr, makes me miss it
These days I find myself saying or thinking "MY PKCELL!!!" when I bump or knock something over, even if it's not a battery.
I loved the razer even if I didn't have one lol
You can prolly find refurbished betts for this stuff ?
To this day the best phone I ever had !
Back when every tech was Apple level of proprietary dongles.
my dad had one of these for about a week before he jumped into a lake with it in his pocket. tragic at the time
Content overload 🥴
I have one of those too
Of course the Siemens works. It was made in a time when "Made in German" still meant something.
My Childhood
Watching this on a razr :)
The second phone is a gameboy color that only calls
new year nuggs
good vid
I thought the batteries could came out of those Razr phones?
Can we get an LG Chocolate video
the first color screen phone looks like a gameboy
thought someone was dying with all the notifications i was getting turned out it was just dankpods!
if you press 3 and 6 on the numpad rapidly you can male a song just dont forget to end it with 5
I'm severely disappointed that you didn't put a sim in the siemens S10! If you completed a phone call with it, you would win the internet.
No network supports the OG 1G mobile signals anymore. Heck, even 3G is done in most countries.
@@ToTheGAMES I know! But you can always try. These videos are not about succeeding!
5:33
Dank bandicoot
this was my first ever phone, hot pink, age 12. i love the aesthetic but i can't do that little keyboard anymore :'3 smartphones spoilered me
DankPods I love you and I would never want to shame you for being an Apple guy. But.
No phones did not "only have headphone jacks for a short time".
This android I bought last year has one.
To here Wade say hey good looking is so cool because Hank Williams is my cousin
my mom had this phone in like 2006 or 7
"Netzepribibpribib"
My meth dealer had one of these back in 05. I was jealous
Tbh I thought this was going to be a phone that doubled as a razor lol
Coulda just taken the battery out and kept it plugged in lol
After Shave