This is a $2000 smartphone. From 1996.

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  • @HeavyTanker-vx4oq
    @HeavyTanker-vx4oq 2 года назад +5291

    We need a stream of him just playing with the composer feature.

  • @drewbacca1981
    @drewbacca1981 2 года назад +6261

    I'm astonished you didn't "compose" Scarlet Fire on it

    • @not_even_known_yet3167
      @not_even_known_yet3167 2 года назад +149

      We wouldn't be able to handle it

    • @Sprinkles0139
      @Sprinkles0139 2 года назад +155

      Or Never Gonna Give You Up

    • @patrickmartin3322
      @patrickmartin3322 2 года назад +15

      That would have been amazing

    • @Blyatuber
      @Blyatuber 2 года назад +156

      @today was a good day spammer

    • @Bane_Amesta
      @Bane_Amesta 2 года назад +26

      Oh right, we didn't got Scarlet Fire today!
      Still that one was awesome xD

  • @hotchpotch3278
    @hotchpotch3278 2 года назад +154

    My first mobile! Still got it! Used just about everything it could do including the composer. Used it for ages and it always worked. The replacement was slightly more compact but not as much fun to use. Towards the end I got laughed at a few times until I opened it up. I'd still prefer a built-in decent sized miniature keyboard built in to the onscreen ones if it could be part of a decent device.

  • @sebastienmonette6659
    @sebastienmonette6659 2 года назад +224

    4:02 It'a actually interesting what they did here, the RS232 communication standard only requires two data wires and a ground wire to function. So the use of a audio jack, which has exactly what it needs, makes alot of sense.
    They had to use a serial plug for the input as the phone needed a serial interface to be able to use external devices like a modem.

    • @idontknowwhattocallmyaccou349
      @idontknowwhattocallmyaccou349 Год назад

      That spy ain’t on our side

    • @sebastienmonette6659
      @sebastienmonette6659 Год назад

      The engineer is a spy!

    • @servissop151
      @servissop151 7 месяцев назад +1

      The iPod Shuffle used this same setup, except with USB

    • @sebastienmonette6659
      @sebastienmonette6659 7 месяцев назад

      @@servissop151 True, but in a much less cooler way

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 7 месяцев назад

      @@servissop151I frigging _wish_ Apple went back to that instead of Lightning when they went loony and dropped a port.

  • @Azeria
    @Azeria 2 года назад +9502

    Sit down Samsung… this is the real foldable phone.

    • @aeyde
      @aeyde 2 года назад +33

      azeria here lol

    • @archivushka
      @archivushka 2 года назад +41

      Or flippable

    • @ehsanshahzad4971
      @ehsanshahzad4971 2 года назад +15

      AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

    • @jays.6843
      @jays.6843 2 года назад +113

      Any phone is foldable if you're angry enough.

    • @gamingnubs7628
      @gamingnubs7628 2 года назад +65

      @@jays.6843 except the 3310, that thing will break whatever is trying to bend it

  • @sado_3939
    @sado_3939 2 года назад +608

    This man created a coffin meme score on a Nokia brick. This is so meta that my own coffin started dancing on its own

  • @mindofmarisa
    @mindofmarisa 2 года назад +128

    Whoa that phone is pretty baller! When you unfolded it I was like "whoa it's like a mini-laptop!" and then realized so is the smartphone that I'm typing this on lol.

    • @TheDawnofVanlife
      @TheDawnofVanlife Год назад +2

      A smartphone is more like a mini slate or tablet computer. The Nokia is more mini laptop.

    • @DUKE_of_RAMBLE
      @DUKE_of_RAMBLE Год назад

      ​@@TheDawnofVanlife Unless she means she's using an older one still, with a full slide-out keyboard. 😉

  • @the_merc9918
    @the_merc9918 2 года назад +74

    Somehow over the years, companies have forgotten how to make batteries and devices like Nokia used to. That still work after 24 years…

    • @PhoenicopterusR
      @PhoenicopterusR Год назад +7

      Shout out to older Nintendo handhelds for this exact reason.

    • @MarioKartSuperCircuit
      @MarioKartSuperCircuit Год назад +6

      honestly the game boy is a great example of a very durable object
      It survived a bombing and still functions
      Only thing that rivals it is the legendary Wii remote, that if you literally throw it at something like a TV there's a high chance the TV will break compared to the remote itself lol

  • @sortfaar3
    @sortfaar3 2 года назад +644

    people: you're a musician, right? whats your favorite instrument?
    dank pods: the nokia

    • @erj9434
      @erj9434 2 года назад +11

      The Nokia is a banger of a instrument

    • @Churbas
      @Churbas 2 года назад +12

      You joke but that was basically every teenager in the early 2000s.

    • @sortfaar3
      @sortfaar3 2 года назад +4

      @@Churbas dude i remember my old phone, it might have been an old Sony Ericsson Walkman nugget or something, and Buried deep in the rabbithole that is the Menu for that phone there was this thing for making real basic Songa. It was great

    • @Olflix
      @Olflix Год назад

      just a reminder that dankpods is also a drummer
      that doesn't make the joke any less funny, but still

  • @Steel_
    @Steel_ 2 года назад +2908

    Okay, the fact that you were able to compose a meme song on it, and have it sound like the meme song, is amazing all on its own.

    • @Phoenixflame87
      @Phoenixflame87 2 года назад +8

      what song?

    • @Steel_
      @Steel_ 2 года назад +77

      @@Phoenixflame87 astronomia by tony igy, or just "coffin dance" works

    • @zydiz
      @zydiz 2 года назад +14

      well almost all of the nokias have had this feature.

    • @jt74125
      @jt74125 2 года назад +57

      I thought it was gonna be Scarlett fire lmao

    • @G-Mastah-Fash
      @G-Mastah-Fash 2 года назад +29

      My Nokia 3330 I got cheap off ebay came with In the End by Linkin Park as a custom ringtone.

  • @Albeit_Jordan
    @Albeit_Jordan Год назад +18

    9:58 the earliest version of garageband

  • @charlesmtaylor31
    @charlesmtaylor31 6 месяцев назад +3

    At the heat death of the universe, this thing will still exist and it will still work.

  • @raghav9000
    @raghav9000 2 года назад +2316

    When he opened up the keyboard flap, It felt the most revolutionary thing to ever exist. I can feel people going real mad to get one of these. Its beautiful

    • @TheDudey
      @TheDudey 2 года назад +17

      True, maybe it is comparable to the z flip phones samsung makes?

    • @makotomachiyuki
      @makotomachiyuki 2 года назад +31

      @@TheDudey i don't think so, the samsung flip phones's idea based on old flip phone like "what if we make smartphone like flip phone"
      but in 1980 it's really new like u never seen it before or think about it about flip phone idea
      i think?

    • @TheDudey
      @TheDudey 2 года назад +5

      @@makotomachiyuki yeah i understand what you mean. Samsung is trying to make modern flip phones in a sense.

    • @muhammadaimanharithbinjame8863
      @muhammadaimanharithbinjame8863 2 года назад +4

      Same, I'm amazed

    • @jordanrichards3585
      @jordanrichards3585 2 года назад +3

      My mind broke in half

  • @LyK0sa
    @LyK0sa 2 года назад +564

    I was kinda hoping 10:45 was going to be a glorious, monophonic rendition of scarlet fire :(

  • @Exposingscammers
    @Exposingscammers 2 года назад +97

    I owned one of these once. Great phone for their time. You didn't need a data plan to fax either. You could compose and fax via your normal telephone line. No spyware / adware / bloatware like todays phones.

    • @alarmy5211
      @alarmy5211 Год назад +9

      yeah but i can play angry birds on my snapple X megapixel 3 pro S after a good 30 minutes of treading the slow melting of the components

    • @eetuthereindeer6671
      @eetuthereindeer6671 Год назад +6

      You owned one of these really? How could you afford the price? Its slightly more expensive than todays priciest phones

  • @CarnivalChimera
    @CarnivalChimera 2 года назад +54

    The squeal that escaped my vocal cords when you opened that amazing brick phone was just full of pure joy

  • @user-ts8bv2ti5c
    @user-ts8bv2ti5c 2 года назад +338

    When the NOKIA takes place, even the 1 grit starts sweating.

    • @user-ts8bv2ti5c
      @user-ts8bv2ti5c 2 года назад +3

      @Pete Harrison If you're implying that I'm Chinese, you're wrong. I'm Korean.

    • @user-ts8bv2ti5c
      @user-ts8bv2ti5c 2 года назад +4

      @Pete Harrison ...But I apologize if you didn't mean to.

    • @squirrelwithabanana
      @squirrelwithabanana 2 года назад +9

      @@user-ts8bv2ti5c its a bot

    • @user-ts8bv2ti5c
      @user-ts8bv2ti5c 2 года назад

      @@squirrelwithabanana hmm

    • @SkittlesNinja1000
      @SkittlesNinja1000 2 года назад +2

      Don't be sad my guy, it's natural selection. Just how nature works.

  • @maple7093
    @maple7093 2 года назад +1471

    Dankpods: "dad come pick me up I'm scared"
    Dadpods: "5 minutes."

    • @cassandra3524
      @cassandra3524 2 года назад +6

      Ohhh, I’m scared

    • @gamepotato
      @gamepotato 2 года назад +31

      D A D P O D S

    • @stijnvdv2
      @stijnvdv2 2 года назад +8

      haha. But to be honest; I'm kind of like a 'tweener'... like too young to be called a boomer; too old to be called a millennial.... I remember that when I was a young kid in early 90's, we had a phone where you actually had to dial a number; you know, with a circular plate where you had to bring each number back to zero.

    • @mr.bobcyndaquil4214
      @mr.bobcyndaquil4214 2 года назад +4

      @@stijnvdv2 so the return spring was broken on it?

    • @bensoncheung2801
      @bensoncheung2801 2 года назад

      777 👍

  • @Hammerjockeyrepair
    @Hammerjockeyrepair 2 года назад +11

    the reason for the charger was most likely due to being short production and it being cheaper to only have to manufacture the charging adapter vs having an entire charging brick made for the units. It comes down to price availability and safety in a short schedule

    • @HNedel
      @HNedel Год назад

      The solution for it was to have the barrel plug on the phone itself, like with every other nokia, at least the ones i remember from around 2000

  • @AAFREAK
    @AAFREAK Год назад +8

    I did the Leo DiCaprio finger pointing thing at the RS232 connector. I use that at work. It's a port which is now hooked up to a wireless antenna, but basically the port is used for transferring files. The fact that there was one for a phone like this is surprising to me, but makes sense. Nowadays it's either via USB cables or Bluetooth, which goes to show how things changed over time.

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 7 месяцев назад

      I know there’s a few TV brands that use RS232 for maintenance stuff, so if it’s acting up the TV tech can hook up a dedicated diagnostic program and have a look.

    • @AAFREAK
      @AAFREAK 7 месяцев назад

      @@joshuahadams *Wayne Campbell voice* I was not aware of that.

    • @jetaddict420
      @jetaddict420 24 дня назад

      @@joshuahadams rs232 is the defacto standard for most industrial and scientific serial communication and is used with many different ports besides the dsub and 3.5mm jack you see in the video

  • @TheDwarvenDefender
    @TheDwarvenDefender 2 года назад +1209

    DankPods: "Nobody laugh at this poor boy. He was revolutionary."
    DankPods: [Proceeds to laugh at it.]

    • @TheDwarvenDefender
      @TheDwarvenDefender 2 года назад

      P.S.: I wrote this comment before seeing the very similar comment from Em's Tek Tube.

    • @dae1925
      @dae1925 2 года назад

      @@TheDwarvenDefender copycat

    • @TheDwarvenDefender
      @TheDwarvenDefender 2 года назад +3

      @@dae1925 Ah, yes. "Abcd Xyz," the channel with the most _original_ name in existence, accusing me of being a copycat for making the most obvious observation of the video and commenting about it despite the fact that 400+ other people are sure to notice it. Who made the bot that you stole your username from, BTW?

    • @dae1925
      @dae1925 2 года назад

      @@TheDwarvenDefender holy fracking sheet bro chill 😂

    • @dae1925
      @dae1925 2 года назад +1

      @@TheDwarvenDefender I heard your dad once showed you a presentation on the consequences and implications of having unprotected intercourse
      All the slides were pictures of you.

  • @prestonwattsjr
    @prestonwattsjr 2 года назад +311

    Oh my god the coffin dance composition killed me. This kind of brilliant nonsense is why we love you so much, Dank. Keep up the amazing work man!

    • @boimcpickle
      @boimcpickle 2 года назад +1

      @Joshua Roehl Your brain is so small, that it made a micron jelious

    • @SpammableHam
      @SpammableHam 2 года назад +2

      Wished it was a rickroll honestly.

  • @chrizbie
    @chrizbie 2 года назад +10

    This is super impressive for the time, the screen looks great and the interface is really competent

  • @marksilgram80
    @marksilgram80 Год назад +3

    That phone would've been extremely high tech when I was a teenager!

  • @ethand4784
    @ethand4784 2 года назад +411

    I just stopped watching Hot Ones to watch this, this is what I live on

    • @brycescott9265
      @brycescott9265 2 года назад +3

      Literally same. Not hot ones but stopped doing what I’m supposed to do

    • @tpmartin210
      @tpmartin210 2 года назад

      9 likes

    • @ethand4784
      @ethand4784 2 года назад

      @@brycescott9265 nah man, this is what you're supposed to do

    • @aeyde
      @aeyde 2 года назад

      haha same

    • @ffoulkes
      @ffoulkes 2 года назад +3

      same but it was cold ones

  • @akrybion
    @akrybion 2 года назад +708

    It's always so cool to see technology older than yourself. Especially if it's cooler than you.

    • @Glassmuncher1
      @Glassmuncher1 2 года назад

      Relatable

    • @xSoqui
      @xSoqui 2 года назад +29

      I just can't compete... I don't have Fax Modem capabilities...

    • @gray8874
      @gray8874 2 года назад +1

      That’s probably the reason why I love film cameras.

    • @freddieparrydrums
      @freddieparrydrums 2 года назад +1

      Most certainly is lol. Sorry about the bots :(

    • @ziqqerlad
      @ziqqerlad 2 года назад

      "hey gottem"

  • @noahmizrahi9834
    @noahmizrahi9834 Год назад +8

    That looks like my dad's 1,600$ iridium satellite phone, same size too
    Except the antenna on the satellite phone is huge.

  • @airpixelsuk
    @airpixelsuk Год назад +1

    I was promoted to an IT Manager back in 1996 (I was just 26) and was given a brand new BMW 325i coupe and that phone and let me tell you now, using Intellisync sucked using that RS-232C serial cable. What a time though!

  • @CommieGIR
    @CommieGIR 2 года назад +970

    Worth noting: if you find a USB to Serial adapter, you may actually be able to setup a modem connection over that and get this on the internet. The question being if it can render anything worthwhile

    • @20blog28
      @20blog28 2 года назад +62

      Google will probably still load on that thing

    • @IchWillNicht0119
      @IchWillNicht0119 2 года назад +142

      The Action Retro youtube channel has a non-HTTPS site designed for pre-1994 Macs that converts news sites to basic HTML. The Nokia should easily render that.

    • @arthurnonimus
      @arthurnonimus 2 года назад +4

      I doubt that frequency it works on is even still supported.

    • @EdwardJamesBickels
      @EdwardJamesBickels 2 года назад +25

      @@arthurnonimus wouldn't matter if it's using a serial connection to a pc.

    • @UhOhUmm
      @UhOhUmm 2 года назад +22

      Or you can just buy a cheap used work oriented pc from any of the main manufacturers and it will still have a serial port. Serial ports are still being used today for all kinds of shit in the industry.

  • @DrathVader
    @DrathVader 2 года назад +160

    6:54
    This thing was actually more like two mostly separate devices in one casing, a regular Nokia brick phone and a PDA. That's why it's complaining the phone is turned off.
    For 1996 it was an absolute marvel of engineering.

    • @krzbrew
      @krzbrew 2 года назад +26

      Actually, it has an Intel 386 inside! And the phone hardware on a separate board.

    • @DrathVader
      @DrathVader 2 года назад +21

      @@krzbrew I knew it was two separate devices but I didn't knew one of them ran straight up PC CPU. That's amazing

    • @oliviersavard8676
      @oliviersavard8676 2 года назад +3

      @@DrathVader i'm wondering now how much ram it's got

    • @LeoMkII
      @LeoMkII 2 года назад +12

      @@oliviersavard8676 128kb maybe? it's got 2mb of storage so I'd not expect much... for modern standards, the thing must have felt like skynet back in the day

    • @Pasi123
      @Pasi123 2 года назад +4

      @@LeoMkII It has 4MB RAM and 4MB storage

  • @lowkeydiegoduran4724
    @lowkeydiegoduran4724 2 года назад +3

    8:33 "I need to be the person on the school bus that goes through every one of them" that is suprisingly accurate lol

  • @pilcrow1546
    @pilcrow1546 Месяц назад

    That compose feature is straight up amazing! Works beautifully - even on a machine older than half the viewers of this video.

  • @EmTekTube
    @EmTekTube 2 года назад +213

    “Alright No one laugh..”
    Proceeds to laugh his ass off at that giant brick of a phone 10 seconds later 😂🤣

  • @Lawlsomedude
    @Lawlsomedude 2 года назад +882

    Genuinely astounding. Not only does it look like a shoe, but it is legitimately impressive. For one of the actual first smartphones ever to have so many features and also be (mostly) well designed even by today's standards is astounding.

    • @fryke
      @fryke 2 года назад +18

      Yeah, it's as if there were people actually interested in computer stuff in the before times, too, eh? :P

    • @lero.official
      @lero.official 2 года назад

      @Pete Harrison mate what is this?

    • @user-og5oh9ku3n
      @user-og5oh9ku3n 2 года назад

      @@lero.official 💀💀

    • @kosztaz87
      @kosztaz87 2 года назад

      @@lero.official Probably some spam, only bots and fucking retards post comments containing a single link without any explanation. Just report his ass, that's what I always do.

  • @oriain
    @oriain 2 года назад +1

    Watching this video and hearing you say “you aren’t ready” when I REMEMBER this phone being released and wanted it so bad… makes me feel old

  • @JayImmortalTV
    @JayImmortalTV Год назад

    I've watched for ages.
    But seeing this dude have this much fun with an expensive device from '96 and even make a meme reference with the Composer tool...
    Subbed, bruh.

  • @PostApocolyptica
    @PostApocolyptica 2 года назад +136

    09:14 "What an incoherent ditty" - DankPods, 2021, commenting on the Nokia 9000 Communicator's polyphonic rendition of Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood" from his 1875 incidental music, "Peer Gynt", written as an accompaniment to the 1867 play of the same name, written by Henrik Ibsen

    • @xXTomokoKurokiXx
      @xXTomokoKurokiXx 2 года назад +7

      I knew I recognized it, the polyphony threw me off.

  • @bluezircon1432
    @bluezircon1432 2 года назад +298

    How as he said “Tell…Frank…she….stinks.”
    I was saying “Tell…Frank…she’s…lovely- oh.”

  • @jessesinclair161
    @jessesinclair161 2 года назад

    Broooo, that serial cable adapter is so baller, I'm a systems/network admin right now and I actually use serial every single day, that thing is so cool. Imagine configuring a switch from that thing.

  • @SteveFidelity
    @SteveFidelity 10 месяцев назад

    Lmao! You’re so funny! I love watching your videos. My kid brother introduced me to your channel and I’m so glad he did lol

  • @SuperPerry1000
    @SuperPerry1000 2 года назад +609

    Honestly for 1996, this thing is so freaking COOL. A proto smartphone and mini laptop for the time, it's so charming! And it's two years older than me.

    • @snichelsticks8653
      @snichelsticks8653 Год назад +4

      its cool for today

    • @futuristicentity2417
      @futuristicentity2417 Год назад

      Movies like The Matrix used technology like this when I was a kid before Smartphones were invented. Basically Smart devices are malware imo they log your keystrokes and sell your data I am about to go back to being old school if they got 4G basic phones.

    • @kunaalsharma1039
      @kunaalsharma1039 Год назад

      I'm 9 yrs older then Nokia communicator

    • @YaowBucketHEAD
      @YaowBucketHEAD Год назад +2

      I was 13 when this revolutionary piece of technology dropped.
      Now I'm at the age that this is required for me to look at _the facebook,_ call my kids all the time *(AND WASTE A BUNCH OF MINUTES)* over simple questions that are not important at all, and "manage" _stuff_ with spreadsheets.
      I never wanted something so bad in my life.

    • @velk0mmen
      @velk0mmen Год назад

      Yes

  • @CommieGIR
    @CommieGIR 2 года назад +100

    Serial RS-232 Cable - The original USB. Seriously. Nearly all the original Palm Pilots used Serial like the one you have, USB adoption wasn't widespread until 1996-1997.

  • @YoDooDSup
    @YoDooDSup Год назад +1

    This is one of the best episodes by far. Then when he made his own ringtone. That’s like icing on a cake. Bravo sir. Bravo.

  • @berdansargol1577
    @berdansargol1577 2 года назад +2

    Weirdly enough, this has the same philosophy behind the Galaxy Fold. They both are designed to be used as a phone folded and as a computer unfolded. We may have better technology, but we still have the vision of 1996

  • @Judgement_Kazzy
    @Judgement_Kazzy 2 года назад +1762

    Dank: "stop giggling, I can hear you"
    My drunk ass: "oh fuck he's onto me"

  • @LoosGuccreen
    @LoosGuccreen 2 года назад +456

    I believe the "phone" part and the "smart" part are physically distinct, and you covered only one of them.
    That's also probably the reason why you got a "phone is not on" error.
    Although the "phone" part is likely to be much less fun than the "smart" part, I'd be very curious to see it

    • @jderrick1994
      @jderrick1994 2 года назад +33

      I came here to say this, I bet that bad boy has snake on it.

    • @megamixkiller622
      @megamixkiller622 2 года назад +25

      @@jderrick1994 Yeah the phone is not turned on, I remember the vertical bar line on the right when the battery died and you plugged it in. Also idk if this is the case with this phone, but when you had set the alarm, it could ring even when the phone was turned off.

    • @djneo92nl
      @djneo92nl 2 года назад +21

      Yup. I have a 9300 and for that it's also a separate part. It's basically a phone and pda slapped together. With minimal integration

    • @thehobnob
      @thehobnob 2 года назад +14

      Yup, it took until the Nokia E90 for a Communicator to run the same OS on the phone and PDA sides (i.e. you could start an app on the cover screen then open the phone up and carry on with a bigger screen). (PS - I also have a 9300!)

    • @andrewdunn4344
      @andrewdunn4344 2 года назад

      Its a 90s cell phone lol. I had one and I hated it

  • @kevinnaber790
    @kevinnaber790 Год назад

    The ‘headphone jack’ is just a 2.5mm barrel connector. While the majority are used for audio, many people have had a device that uses the 2.5mm jack as a serial connection- a graphic calculator like the TI-81, which you can actually overclock and even run games like Dune on.

  • @neogeo1670
    @neogeo1670 2 года назад +1

    nice, remember having one of these for "fun" in 2009 but then it was a 1995 model... worked like a charm and was nice typing sms from

  • @spenceduggs
    @spenceduggs 2 года назад +195

    I genuinely didn't expect the unfolding, my jaw dropped to the floor.

  • @peterjames5887
    @peterjames5887 2 года назад +332

    9:08 Wade, how could you not recognize the classical "Morning Mood" by Evard Grieg? If I recognized that tune, you should too, right?

    • @XGamin1
      @XGamin1 2 года назад +11

      EXPOSED

    • @hjessop101
      @hjessop101 2 года назад +1

      I came here to say this!

    • @estoysplootin
      @estoysplootin 2 года назад +1

      Totally did not hear it the first time.

    • @RATCONQUESO
      @RATCONQUESO 2 года назад +1

      Honestly thought it was the shire theme from lotr

    • @gold4963
      @gold4963 2 года назад

      Same. And I’m just an amateur pianist.

  • @thanksomuch1557
    @thanksomuch1557 9 месяцев назад

    6:40 Best place for a midroll ad ever. I even got one of the "this service can help you with..." ones.

  • @BlueXonar
    @BlueXonar 3 месяца назад

    That thing is actually super cool, and it could genuinely still be useful to this day. I bet there are people out there still keeping their diary on one of these things!

  • @americanmcgeesalicefanatic8904
    @americanmcgeesalicefanatic8904 2 года назад +531

    God, your voice just makes me happy.

  • @KILOPOWER
    @KILOPOWER 2 года назад +463

    Bruh, usually when RUclipsr goes like "it's gonna be hillarious"? or "you gonna be shocked" I usually really sceptic, because it's not really easy to impress someone by a RUclips video, but DankPods said those phrases twice and both times he blew my expectations out of the water! Great job!

    • @freddieparrydrums
      @freddieparrydrums 2 года назад +2

      @today was a good day shut it

    • @SonicBoone56
      @SonicBoone56 2 года назад +1

      Cute icon. And yeah Dankie is way funnier than most RUclipsrs lol.

    • @SonicBoone56
      @SonicBoone56 2 года назад +3

      @@freddieparrydrums we all gotta report these bots for the algorithm to start filtering them out

    • @freddieparrydrums
      @freddieparrydrums 2 года назад

      @@SonicBoone56 Yeah man agree

  • @techyrock
    @techyrock Год назад +5

    The Communicator Series were fun, I had the 9210i and the 9300, That antenna actually boosted signals, Side Note when it said turn on the phone it meant the Phone on lid, the phone on lid actually had a different OS, I am not sure about the 9000 but the later verions has S40 OS on lid and S80 inside, I bet it has snake and other games on the lid phone,I was hoping you'd turn on the lid phone

  • @cwjdog57
    @cwjdog57 2 года назад +141

    You know, it's been a little over a year since I first found this channel and the growth from "just iPod Mods" to "vintage and modern tech overviews without being reviews" is pretty excellent.
    Wade, here's to the 1M mark soon. You've been nothing but incredible the entire time.

  • @domramsey
    @domramsey 2 года назад +116

    These were quite popular in the tech community, particularly amongst sysops. Being able to remotely fix a server when on call was game changing. That cable that you thought looked useless is a serial cable that would let you plug directly into a server on site and troubleshoot problems / reboot without having to carry a heavy laptop around.
    You kids today are so spoiled. 😂

    • @coten
      @coten 2 года назад +4

      i remember going through a college couse with some early cisco networking classes in 2011 (never went much further than that) and needing a specific model of laptop, provided by the school, because it was equipped with an in-built serial port. the moment he pulled that cable out i knew that this would definitely be a dream device for any sort of IT bigwig in '96!

    • @Andy.Bennett
      @Andy.Bennett 2 года назад +2

      Man that’s so cool, thanks for this little info bite! Were you one of those sysops perchance? I love hearing about this era and all the crazy stuff they were figuring out

    • @domramsey
      @domramsey 2 года назад +4

      @@Andy.Bennett No, but I was working as a web developer for an ISP in the mid 90s and my colleagues did. Many of them worked shifts or needed to be on call 24/7 if something broke. Much easier to have one of these than to carry a laptop out to dinner or the pub on a Friday night.

    • @marem3038
      @marem3038 2 года назад

      You are old 😂.Good info.

    • @domramsey
      @domramsey 2 года назад +2

      @@marem3038 I prefer "experienced" 😂

  • @sleepnclass
    @sleepnclass Год назад +2

    10:05 gave me serious letsgameitout vibes lmfao. Loved it.

  • @adamreid5901
    @adamreid5901 2 года назад +251

    My friend's dad actually had one of these, it runs DOS! It's a full PC, You can install DOS games on it like commander keen and Wolfenstein etc as it has an Intel 386 cpu.

    • @thelastmotel
      @thelastmotel 2 года назад +51

      I had one (I'm old). It doesn't run MS-DOS. It uses PEN/GEOS as an OS. That's powered by ROM-DOS, which is MS-DOS compatible... mostly... kinda... it's compatible with certain versions of MS-DOS.

    • @adamreid5901
      @adamreid5901 2 года назад +16

      @@thelastmotel I very vaguely remember my friend's dad showing me dos games and command prompt on it circa 2001 when he'd upgraded to a 9210, I'm 35 years old now for reference.

    • @thelastmotel
      @thelastmotel 2 года назад +23

      @@adamreid5901 You could kinda get it to run some MS-DOS stuff, but it did it sketchily. Lot of crashes. It ran the stuff that came installed on it well, but anything you added, not so much. (I'm 50 in a few weeks. Time flies, it really does.)

    • @ChimericWhite
      @ChimericWhite 2 года назад +16

      DOOM on the Nokia 9000

    • @adamreid5901
      @adamreid5901 2 года назад +8

      @@thelastmotel you’ve certainly got more experience with it than I do so I’ll defer to you on this, time sure does fly

  • @SlaterGator409
    @SlaterGator409 2 года назад +94

    I almost shit myself when you opened it horizontally lol

    • @oliviersavard8676
      @oliviersavard8676 2 года назад +2

      same i fucking recoiled

    • @mathbookhero
      @mathbookhero 2 года назад +1

      I straight up made a noise which a cross between a duck and someone choking in shock/love of it.

    • @insert_username_here
      @insert_username_here 2 года назад +1

      I just said a mix between “what” and “woah” in shock.

  • @EdgyShooter
    @EdgyShooter 2 года назад

    Ay, always great to see love for the UK plugs!

  • @Decentricity
    @Decentricity Год назад

    Both my mom and my dad had different versions of this when I was a kid. I remember the internet running well here, and how it blew everyone's minds when we showed them how we can access the "information superhighway" on here

  • @syedammarkhalid3695
    @syedammarkhalid3695 2 года назад +106

    "No one laugh!"
    Mate, nobody could laugh at that, phones today are the things which make us laugh. Apple I am eyeing you

    • @syedammarkhalid3695
      @syedammarkhalid3695 2 года назад

      @today was a good day ah yes, Qur'an recitation. I am a Muslim already btw

  • @mrdr0pb3ar
    @mrdr0pb3ar 2 года назад +156

    As someone in AV I can tell you it's crazy to see a 20+ year old phone with rs-232 we still use this protocol in so many applications. It's primitive but solid!

    • @AxionSmurf
      @AxionSmurf 2 года назад +9

      Hello. It's also used in router and switch debug and BIOS debug, though within the past several years this is often an RJ-45 port used with a transceiver that outputs to DB9. Data collection about UEFI modules, MRC training, CPU stepping, SPD data in the RAM population, etc. Whereas in routers and L3 switches it is used to load a secure configuration before placing the device on a network where it is subject to potential exploitation and infiltration in a zero-trust modeled environment. I think that it would be weird to see it disappear completely, given as you say it has been a reliable technology. It still has many applications in engineering.

    • @hoytdotblohm
      @hoytdotblohm 2 года назад +4

      I've been called the same thing many times myself.

    • @clintgolub1751
      @clintgolub1751 Год назад +3

      Closer to 30 years than 20! It’s incredible how little things can still stick around almost 3 decades later in little niches of technology.

    • @Mister_Brown
      @Mister_Brown Год назад

      rs232 has been around long before this and seeing rs232 on a device of this era is pretty much the only interface you could expect, irda is just rs232 over infrared, the palm pilot dock was rs232, most dot matrix printers from the 80's were rs232, every single modem made before about 1998 was entirely rs232 based (the later ones speak 8n1 serial just like a real modem but never actually convert to rs232 internally and do it all in software), it's been around since the 60's.

    • @cascadecontroller
      @cascadecontroller Год назад

      Yeah. It's crazy how well supported it still is! You can automate testing with different equipment that was made like 30 years apart and it still works like a charm.

  • @yeety1208
    @yeety1208 Год назад +1

    that music composer actually surprised me, i was not expecting an actual visual note view; it's not like the newer nokias with a crappy text looking thing

  • @eatmyfrigginshorts
    @eatmyfrigginshorts Год назад +1

    the tune at 9:08 is actually peer gynt - morning mood, it's kind of garbled there though, but it's an iconic song

  • @cutetogekisspl3417
    @cutetogekisspl3417 2 года назад +150

    I like the fact he said: "I don't have a computer with a floppy drive... yet."

    • @Masterofcreat
      @Masterofcreat 2 года назад +1

      I still have my win95 pc in the basement, WITH a floppydisk-drive, because, according to my dad, I will need it for school! Well, by the time I needed to use the pc floppies were no longer used. Sad really, I like them.

    • @brendanrandle
      @brendanrandle 2 года назад +3

      @@Masterofcreat they took soo long to write so little data and still managed to corrupt it somehow, one of if not the worst digital storage solutions ever

    • @suprshin
      @suprshin 2 года назад

      Hah! Came into that part while reading the comment.

  • @tpmartin210
    @tpmartin210 2 года назад +194

    Been watching since 200. Love the channel. “Don’t put the nuggets in the microwave!” -some kid somewhere

    • @RedMarcus14
      @RedMarcus14 2 года назад

      @Machiko......🤗🍎 No

    • @tpmartin210
      @tpmartin210 2 года назад

      @@RedMarcus14 maybe

    • @ThreeIrishMen
      @ThreeIrishMen 2 года назад +2

      @@tpmartin210 yes - whats after yes?

    • @tpmartin210
      @tpmartin210 2 года назад

      @@ThreeIrishMen salamander

    • @skyyed
      @skyyed 2 года назад

      @Machiko......🤗🍎 no

  • @cloud9935
    @cloud9935 2 года назад +1

    I love that headphone jack to 232 converter. I work with proprietary cables ALL DAY and that one is the weirdest fucking one I've ever seen.

  • @NanashiCAST
    @NanashiCAST 2 года назад

    my mind was actually blown when you opened it sideways.
    was expecting some kind of trickery with the small screen lmao

  • @wyvern4588
    @wyvern4588 2 года назад +359

    I miss when stuff was intuitive, useful and didn't break every 2 years.

    • @HealyHQ
      @HealyHQ 2 года назад +6

      Ah, the good ol' days...

    • @TheDwarvenDefender
      @TheDwarvenDefender 2 года назад +34

      [ _Louis Rossman has entered the chat._ ]
      *Louis Rossman:* "Have you heard about our lord and savior, Right To Repair?"

    • @mr.hitchens
      @mr.hitchens 2 года назад +4

      That's what my wife says about me......

    • @kirti3839
      @kirti3839 2 года назад +17

      I don't wanna sound like know it all... but most stuff lasts longer than 2 years. My phone for example is over 5 years old now. My old pc still works. I still upgraded after like 7 years. If you take care of your stuff it will last you.

    • @terribleidea4872
      @terribleidea4872 2 года назад +9

      midrange phones can last a good 3-4 years now.. but the budget ones..

  • @Azguella
    @Azguella 2 года назад +48

    "He would never text" yeah sounds about right about dads

    • @DimT670
      @DimT670 2 года назад

      My dad on the other mocks me because i dont have viber and refuses to switch platforms and gets into arguments about the merits of viber vs messenger 😂

    • @hornedowl_
      @hornedowl_ 2 года назад +1

      @today was a good day shut up bot

    • @LeoMkII
      @LeoMkII 2 года назад

      tbf mothers don't do it either, at least mine, she just sends audios via WhatsApp lol

  • @TheDawnofVanlife
    @TheDawnofVanlife Год назад

    Ahhhhh, old tactile phones I miss them. You basically had to drag my blackberry from my hands. I loved that thing, so I would have adored this back in the day.
    Also your dad sounds like my Mum (R.I.P.) it took forever to get her to text back, especially on quick easy reply stuff.

  • @maxdutiel
    @maxdutiel Год назад +6

    Around 6:10 did it beep like a Panasonic cordless landline handset does when you place it in the charger?

  • @geekboy6655
    @geekboy6655 2 года назад +1175

    I miss the days when phones were differentiated and replacing an older one with a newer model actually added new features, not just a number in software.

    • @zeki99zeki99
      @zeki99zeki99 2 года назад +75

      Than do not replace your phone. No one is forcing you. I use my samsung s10 since 2 years and I guess it will last the next 2-3 years also.

    • @wolfetteplays8894
      @wolfetteplays8894 2 года назад +7

      iPhone 13 pro max adding cinematic mode: am I a joke to you?

    • @nolkerss
      @nolkerss 2 года назад +105

      @@wolfetteplays8894 literally one feature? Not worth it for whatever exorbitant price they charge for it

    • @doriangrigorie7345
      @doriangrigorie7345 2 года назад +36

      well back then they were not limited by water resistance, content aspect ratios and so on. The market was so young the posibilities looked endless but we reached peak smartphone like 2 years ago, since then phones look kinda the same, they are just faster with better cameras

    • @nickwallette6201
      @nickwallette6201 2 года назад +39

      @@nolkerss It is if you're ready to buy a new phone anyway.
      I think people get hung up on the idea that _every_ phone release is meant to be a reason to buy a new phone. That's as silly as having every car model year be a reason to buy a new car. Ride it until the wheels fall off. Material science and engineering hasn't changed enough that you're going to witness a revolution since this time last year -- stop expecting it, and you won't be disappointed.
      Then the "exorbitant price" for "one feature" is just ... what a new phone costs, for a whole bundle of new features. It's probably still not going to change your life, but it's a mature device. It's not the 90s anymore - there isn't as much room for improvement. It'll just be a nice upgrade to do all the things you rely on that tool to do for you. That should be enough.

  • @leothefox9524
    @leothefox9524 2 года назад +390

    This actually kinda' made me tear up remembering how the tech was much fun and quirkier back in the day. Especially when you opened up the Composer. It reminded me of my 3310 and how I used to try to make theme songs from TV shows and movies as a ringtone. Great and nostalgic video! x)
    Keep up the good work!

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios Год назад +4

      there is an android app to make good old Nokia ringtones

    • @leothefox9524
      @leothefox9524 Год назад +1

      @@HappyBeezerStudios I’m an iOS user but I’m sure that there’s probably some version of that on the App Store. Thanks for the heads up, brotha’!

  • @FernandoMojicaJ
    @FernandoMojicaJ Год назад +2

    09:36 "The Game Boy of the Business World..." 😂

  • @angryDAnerd
    @angryDAnerd 2 года назад

    I saw this in a videogame magazine back in 1996, Edge Magazine used to have a technology section. Back then I thought this phone looked amazing. It's so interesting seeing this video after forgetting this existed for decades.

  • @Dant2142
    @Dant2142 2 года назад +197

    4:00 Serial is weird. You only really need transmit, receive, and ground: three wires. The 9-pin connectors have a bunch of extra pins for other things that aren't just data transfer. DCD/DTE so that computers and modems/serial terminals (how you hooked up a keyboard and monitor before, ya know, computers output anything at all other than text) could identify themselves, ring notification on a modem, etc. This being a device only needs those three connections.

    • @AndrejaKostic
      @AndrejaKostic 2 года назад +13

      Fun fact: There are still new devices being manufactured, which use serial cables similar in style to the one pictured.

    • @MattExzy
      @MattExzy 2 года назад +4

      Technically you can get away with 2 wires... clock and data. I2C. But I think that wasn't out 'til the mid-90s, and even then it was more of a Motorola thing. Still used today in lots of stuff. But it might've been doing something similar with 3 wires.

    • @AndrejaKostic
      @AndrejaKostic 2 года назад +5

      @@MattExzy I2C still requires ground line too, and it came out in the 1980s.
      There is also the 1-Wire bus, developed by Dallas/Maxim, which only needs 2 wires, but it was very new back then.
      Also, we shouldn't forget the background: RS-232 was the main interface standard for many decades back then, and sticking to it does have its benefits.

    • @bracco23
      @bracco23 2 года назад +6

      @@AndrejaKostic RS-232 is still taught and used, together with I2C, in many embedded applications. For consumers, it is pretty much dead, but for developers and tinkerers, it's still there doing its job every day. And while the PHY and DATA layers are pretty much gone, many USB devices are actually serial devices in disguise. If it ain't broken, don't fix it I guess.

    • @AndrejaKostic
      @AndrejaKostic 2 года назад

      @@bracco23 Yeah, exactly!

  • @jjlegend3922
    @jjlegend3922 2 года назад +32

    You unfolded that chungus of a phone, and my jaw dropped. Just wow.

  • @StevoE7
    @StevoE7 Год назад +2

    The Nokia communicator was a baller phone throughout its different iterations.
    Also pretty much every Nokia phone up until about 2010 came with a CD because most computers didn't have drivers to talk to phones. Was useful for data/music transfer etc.
    And I did use the IR transfer which was incredible at the time. "WOW my file just appeared!"
    I love the music part! Hahahaha!!

  • @TsoLIt
    @TsoLIt 2 года назад

    SO for the headphone jack cable. On the RS232 standard, there's really only like 3 pins used for data transfer. RX,TX and Ground.
    Old AV systems would use a TRS connection on the back of commercial TVs to do automated control

  • @demon4256
    @demon4256 2 года назад +35

    Honestly, for the time, it’s amazing!
    The composition feature would have sold it to me, to be sure!

    • @demon4256
      @demon4256 2 года назад

      @Pete Harrison P E R F E C T I O N !

  • @edwardj5571
    @edwardj5571 2 года назад +38

    When you’re sat on RUclips knowing it’s been a week and DankPods is uploading today.
    It’s not sad, it’s, yeah it’s sad.

  • @TheGlitched64
    @TheGlitched64 Год назад +1

    Nokia in 1996 kicking the crap out of the Nokia 2020 phone. Actually mind blowing

  • @Thewaterspirit57
    @Thewaterspirit57 2 года назад

    Him making that silly coffin meme IN THE OLD PHONE, with beeps and boops was hilarious XD

  • @EthanStandel
    @EthanStandel 2 года назад +243

    I had no idea this kind of technology existed in 1996. I was blown away just that it's even had a real full pixel array. I figured it was like a digital character away. What a high quality device.

    • @Mike-qb4gh
      @Mike-qb4gh 8 месяцев назад

      we really do!!!!

  • @CGR89
    @CGR89 2 года назад +31

    "1.8 megabytes" is a little generous for the actual capacity

    • @yeshuinfinity5963
      @yeshuinfinity5963 2 года назад

      Wasn't it kilobytes?

    • @RapidAssaultEuro
      @RapidAssaultEuro 2 года назад

      @@yeshuinfinity5963 1800kb is 1.8mb

    • @yeshuinfinity5963
      @yeshuinfinity5963 2 года назад

      @@RapidAssaultEuro OMFG how tf did I not get that someone please burn my degree🤦

    • @fiqirr
      @fiqirr 2 года назад

      @@yeshuinfinity5963 we've all had one of those moments man, youre good.

  • @jimzucker
    @jimzucker 2 года назад +2

    Dude i remember that in 1996. It was unreal back in the days that something so small was doing all those things.
    Back then internet wasn't even a thing yet and not everyone has a cellphone. Good days.

  • @Rod-bp8ow
    @Rod-bp8ow Год назад +1

    Features and functionality that speaks as well, ultraportable and most of all convenient to use. Communication that serves its purpose.

  • @andymiller1597
    @andymiller1597 2 года назад +25

    I must have a 20 minute patreon video just with you composing on this thing.

  • @TristianHill
    @TristianHill 2 года назад +25

    Imagine having a custom track maker and not pulling out Scarlet Fire. Coffin dance was a good consolation, mind

  • @the_chillin_guy
    @the_chillin_guy Год назад +1

    Back then clicking the internet button by accident could cost you your house, family and probably future

  • @OtakuUnitedStudio
    @OtakuUnitedStudio 2 года назад

    My parents had a 5390 at one point. It survived falling out of a huge pickup truck (the kind with steps to get in the cab) multiple times.
    I love how this thing basically has the Mario Paint music feature as an app, so you can make your own ring tones!

  • @tharun7290
    @tharun7290 2 года назад +307

    It's AWESOME that they put in the composer feature instead of being like "this is a business phone ,do you think anybody is gonna sit in their spare time and make music ? "
    So cool !! also , I was not ready for the unfold !

    • @JNJNRobin1337
      @JNJNRobin1337 2 года назад +6

      Its Good For Ringtones
      And People Like Buisnessmen May Need Custom Personalized Ringtones

    • @zanemcewen1343
      @zanemcewen1343 2 года назад +16

      I think Nokia was also known back in the day for letting people compose their own ringtones if they wanted. I heard a lot of their older phones had this feature built in

    • @RikuoNura383
      @RikuoNura383 2 года назад +3

      it was a thing at that time to make midi ringtones...it started to disappear when mp3 became more of a norm

    • @CanIHasThisName
      @CanIHasThisName 2 года назад +1

      Being able to compose a ringtone was a big deal for the same reason polyphonic ringtones were. It allowed you to immediately know that it is your phone ringing. It was practical and made the phone more of a personal device rather than just a utility. And it was incredibly cool at the time to hear a recent song as a ringtone of a phone.

  • @alfonzo9289
    @alfonzo9289 2 года назад +128

    That part where you can make your own ring tone was absolutely magical ✨

  • @SQUAREC4T
    @SQUAREC4T Год назад +1

    not going to lie, this is amazing. this was probably groundbreaking technology back in the days, and i want this phone so bad.

  • @jflopez30
    @jflopez30 Год назад

    I like your composition. Very funny 😂

  • @deathdogg0
    @deathdogg0 2 года назад +22

    Finally someone with musical knowledge uses the composer on RUclips. Thank you!

  • @ThreeIrishMen
    @ThreeIrishMen 2 года назад +61

    Needed it, been sick and was just waiting for “this medicine”. Just great!

    • @ThreeIrishMen
      @ThreeIrishMen 2 года назад +1

      @today was a good day i thought you were someone replying, your a bot.

    • @theuncalledfor
      @theuncalledfor 2 года назад +2

      @@ThreeIrishMen
      Report them on sight. Spamming is against the rules.

    • @ThreeIrishMen
      @ThreeIrishMen 2 года назад +2

      @@theuncalledfor already one step ahead