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I Bought Ten of the WEIRDEST Phones EVER
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0:00 Intro
1:10 Kyocera Echo M9300
3:45 Motorola V.Box 100
4:55 Xelibri 2 and 4
6:55 Nokia N93
8:34 Nokia 8110
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11:20 Motorola Flipout MB511
12:52 Virgin Mobile Lobster 700TV
14:20 Nokia 7600
16:00 Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
17:50 Motorola StarTac Rainbow
19:01 Outro
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@marcbusby3625

1 year ago

Having owned the Xperia play personally the best part of it is that it was not only moddable but highly overclockable (mine ran stable at 1.8-2 GHz) and there is an app you can download for PC that converts PS1 games to run on the inbuilt Sony emulator. All controls worked perfectly.

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@irishjoedy

1 year ago

I had one of those Sony Play phones, it was amazing! Linus missed the fact that it came with a custom version of Minecraft which fully worked with the buttons and it also had a store for other popular games which had the controls integrated, it was great!

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@GrandmaKeys

1 year ago

I feel deceived, that isn't Linus' hand in the thumbnail photo.

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@painreliever83

1 year ago

I worked at a mobile phone retailer for 15 years starting in the early 2000s, I not only remember but used, sold and set up every single one of these phones over the years... aah, memories.

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@cncgeneral

1 year ago

The funky Nokia shapes absolutely did sell massively. Most people had standard brick phones but there were bragging rights with having one of the weird or high end ones. Phones didn't do much and designs were so varied that a weird keypad wasn't really a problem

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@a.r.1611

1 year ago

As someone who is somewhat of a PSP fanatic, the Xperia Play is such a cool device. I remember being super jealous of a classmate who used to have one.

Also very interesting how much they borrowed from the PSP Go for the physical design

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@spizzeh

1 year ago

The Xperia Play was amazing, but you definitely needed a custom ROM and kernel to get the most out of it, you could OC the CPU to 2Ghz. I developed the Aurora Play ROM 10 years ago for it and still use it sometimes today, runs all PS1 and below consoles but since android 2.3.7 is dead now you need to side load most APKs.

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@loslosbaby

1 year ago

The StarTAC was a GodPhone: You could have a thin or "bulge" battery (as seen in video) on the lid, and then one of two sizes of backpack battery on the other side of the phone... this gave you the ability to A/B batteries without dropping a call. I called mine, a blue Brazilian-only color, "The Endless Customer Support Phone" and it was. It helped me sell a company. Still have it, with both batteries!

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@Zaļā_Tēja

1 year ago

You feel kinda old watching this video and remembering the majority of those phones 😅 Sidenote about Nokia - they were just so big at the time that they could do all kinds of crazy phones, the lipstick one was from a series ''La Fleur'' if I remember correctly, all of them were kind weird like that, but considered very cool at the tim

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@GoTeamScotch

1 year ago

Would have been nice to have someone there to explain the phones after Linus was done guessing and exploring. Seems like there's a lot of cool stuff going on in each phone that's being glossed over.

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@Vandel212

1 year ago

I had the Xperia Play, and loved it, great for emulation as there weren't a ton of games that supported game pads in the play store at the time. They dropped the ball with those specs though. Wish Sony would give it another go. The native game market has way more options than it did back in 2011. Also there was probably something wrong with that hinge, mine never had that much play.

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@---GOD---

1 year ago

"It's android so it's not that old"
Meanwhile, android is approaching 15 years since v1.0

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@obsidianchao

1 year ago

I knew the Xperia Play would show up in this list. Underrated device - well, appropriately rated device, but the IDEA was underrated. Shocked we have not seen more devices in a similar style - not sure if it’s a marketability issue or a patent issue. Would love more Play-style phones.

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@rajanbhateja6844

1 year ago

It's crazy to realize how far tech has come when you do videos like these

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@jazzmickge1

1 year ago

I loved this episode. Brought back memories of all the Pre-Smartphone Era mobile phones I used to own. I had a variety of Nokias, Sony's and Motorolas growning up. The 2 phones I remember most fondly fom those early days where the Sony Ericsson K800i and the Nokia N95-2, which was the Black version and I think I remeber it being pre-loaded with a full movie on it (I think Spiderman or something like that) 😁

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@xavierclarke5940

1 year ago

i owned 2 xperia plays between the years 2011 and 2015, The phone was actually amazing at the time, With lots of support on XDA around custom roms it extended the life on this phone quite a bit.

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@Voltaic_Fire

1 year ago

I really do miss creative design and taking risks with phones, they didn't always work out but it was wonderful when they did.

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@alexandermason-sx2og

4 months ago

13:55 the “lmao” as a subtitle for Plouffe’s hysterical laughing absolutely sent me

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@xxtokenxx

1 year ago

Never felt as old as I did today remembering how badly i wanted some of these phones when they came out 😂

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@ImmortalInflames

1 year ago

I owned the Nokia 7380, the updated lipstick phone with a 2MP camera. The rotary dial for typing was really fast & one handed. Perfect for banging out quick text on the go!
Back then we were very used to Nokia's T9 predictive text & knew what would come up ahead of time which would further increase the wpm of our texts. Loved that phone, I still regret selling it when I did finally upgrade!

My father had the Nokia N93i, the upgrade to the N93, most notably it did have expandable SD card storage, so no limits on recording! It also had 3x optical zoom & in a very stylish packing.. complete with a little screen on the outta case to say who's calling with out needing to open the phone.

Do I love my current phone? Yes!
But do I wish phones were not always slabs still? Yes!

Nokia 6800, 6820, 9000i, e90, N95, 8910 & 7650 are some other very cool, practical & stylish phones!

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