We didn't get many of these in the States, but I remember seeing this (in all its various brands) frequently referenced on HowardForums back in the day. Thanks for the excellent tour!
Thanks Michael! I too have noticed when doing some research on it, that these were mostly sold in the EU market. It's a shame the US didn't get many of these. Again, thanks for stopping by the channel!
I was rocking a PPC-6600 back on Sprint and I remember lusting after the Universal and wondering when it would make its way to the US. I’m glad it didn’t because my upgrade ended up eventually being the excellent Treo 700wx.
This channel filled the void of youtube channel interests that I had, I usually follow 8bitguy for 80's stuff on computers, LGR for stuff from the 90's and now yours for content on the early 2000's, the eras that I couldn't get much info due to young age and simply no access to information, so thank you for the really good content
I had this phone and remember that this device was designed on Windows Mobile 2003 and had 128MB of ram and because of Windows Mobile 5 limitation at release they had to make it with 64MB of RAM. But here in Lithuania there was a repair shop that could replace RAM chips and make this model with 128MB of RAM, but at time that was too expensive for me... Still have this phone with broken screen and bigger battery (with it phone is 480g in weight)
Back when I studied in the UK, I'd got myself one of this, as it was an O2 XDA Exec. At that time it was fabulous comparing to other cell phones. Sadly that I lost it 10 years ago, and this video helps me rewind some memories with it. Many thanks.
I feel like I really missed out. This is the kind of mobile device I always wanted, but I could never afford one when I was in high school. By the time I was in a position to buy one, Apple had ruined everything with the iPhone. It makes me so mad seeing how close things came to my ideal device as the standard, right before the iPhone turned the entire tech industry into a dumbed-down, fat-fingered capacitive touch nightmare targeted at old people and babies.
I imported one into the states from Orange on eBay. Nobody ever seen anything like it! I wish I remember what happened to it, Its been so long since I had it! I eventually moved on and kept getting HTC phones until it just made no more sense (latest I had was the HTC 10) I do remember watching burn notice (I think) and in one episode they went to South America to do some undercover shit and had a "gps tracking device"... turned it out it was my phone (this phone) with some high-tech graphics overlay edited onto the screen!
I remember my beautiful toshiba pocket pc e330 & samsung sgh-i780 (windows pocket pc 2002 & Windows mobile 6.0)... A true mini pc in pocket... Today is too easy, in these years ago was a real dreams realized ❤️
Thanks you for making this video! I loved this device. I used this device for over 4 years straight, because there was nothing else that came out that could really replace it. Arguably, nothing ever really did, maybe until we got to the first folding devices. But even then, I still miss that keyboard! I remember using the Terminal Client for Windows Remote Desktop over cellular, wherever I was on this thing. As good as Opera mini was back in the day, by using my computer at home, I could navigate full flash websites (that dominated the web back then). Also having access to my full email archive was unheard of at the time (unless you were running a full exchange server with ActiveSync set up). I also ran TomTom navigation on this device with an external Bluetooth GPS receiver. Also not something other devices could do at the time. I felt like I was living in the future. And if I remember correctly, you actually didn't mention two of the ports, that I am sure NOBODY ever used. They are covered by the 2 small circular rubber pieces, but they are ports for external 3G and Wi-Fi antennae. Thank for taking me back memory lane!
I loved this phone so much that when it died ... I got another one exactly the same. Got Quake running on it too! The pinnacle of mobile computing and I'm still waiting for a modern equivalent. Currently planning on getting a GPD Win 1, slapping linux on it and tethering it to my normal mobile. But I just know it won't be the same
A powerful device and today I wear it like a new device, a few days ago a man offered me his iPhone 11 for my spv m5000, unfortunately I couldn't say goodbye to my favorite...
I used this phone in the early 2010s, using opera mini and some russian website to download all the software. The only thing it was missing was ability to play TH-cam 😥 It is still the best keyboard experience of my life.
I had a Qtek 9000 in light gray. I loved that device even when it really was really prone to crashing and malfunctions. When I bought something better (HTC HD2), I used it as a GPS navigator on my car using an external bluetooth GPS unit.
I got to enjoy some of HTC's best smart devices. My favorite phone of all time was the HTC Touch Pro 2. My favorite Android phone is the HTC One M7. I still have one as a media player.
Used to have an Xperia X2 on windows mobile, moved on to HTC Desire S. The ability to tinker with windows mobile was great but early android was also pretty fun.
I got out of jail one time and I had my HTC O2 executive with me. totally didn't care that I had nowhere to go or eat. i just watched movies on my O2 executive
I remember the Nokia phone dance by that I mean whenever the Nokia phone rings you quickly try and search where I put my phone I still remember it there was an advert on TV called the Nokia dance
I kinda feel like you're having a US based experience about these devices, because HTC Universal wasn't anything new at that point, literally SE P800i could do everything it can do, years before Universal was a concept... On the innovation side of HTC, HTC Shift X9500 was a really cool UMPC with dual OS, windows mobile and full windows Vista(by stock) we've seen win 10 running on it as well, sadly never got my hands on one of those X9500, but even today there really isn't a lot of products competing with it, you could argue that GDP pocket PC's do, but well only partially.
The days when the blind had to pay huge sums of money to utilize the Windows Mobile platform with speech, and now to have it for free, I wish we could have a free screenreader for Windows Mobile.
I realy hope that some devices come back, with the exactly same design but new technic inside. Not like the Gemini PDA... nice try, but only the Keyboard look like from a Psion Series 5.
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We didn't get many of these in the States, but I remember seeing this (in all its various brands) frequently referenced on HowardForums back in the day. Thanks for the excellent tour!
Thanks Michael! I too have noticed when doing some research on it, that these were mostly sold in the EU market. It's a shame the US didn't get many of these. Again, thanks for stopping by the channel!
I was rocking a PPC-6600 back on Sprint and I remember lusting after the Universal and wondering when it would make its way to the US.
I’m glad it didn’t because my upgrade ended up eventually being the excellent Treo 700wx.
This channel filled the void of youtube channel interests that I had, I usually follow 8bitguy for 80's stuff on computers, LGR for stuff from the 90's and now yours for content on the early 2000's, the eras that I couldn't get much info due to young age and simply no access to information, so thank you for the really good content
Many thanks! :)
I had this phone and remember that this device was designed on Windows Mobile 2003 and had 128MB of ram and because of Windows Mobile 5 limitation at release they had to make it with 64MB of RAM. But here in Lithuania there was a repair shop that could replace RAM chips and make this model with 128MB of RAM, but at time that was too expensive for me... Still have this phone with broken screen and bigger battery (with it phone is 480g in weight)
Back when I studied in the UK, I'd got myself one of this, as it was an O2 XDA Exec. At that time it was fabulous comparing to other cell phones. Sadly that I lost it 10 years ago, and this video helps me rewind some memories with it. Many thanks.
Thank you for this wonderful comment!
My dad gave me his!
I feel like I really missed out. This is the kind of mobile device I always wanted, but I could never afford one when I was in high school. By the time I was in a position to buy one, Apple had ruined everything with the iPhone. It makes me so mad seeing how close things came to my ideal device as the standard, right before the iPhone turned the entire tech industry into a dumbed-down, fat-fingered capacitive touch nightmare targeted at old people and babies.
spot on. apple killed the golden age of phones then android put the last nail in the coffin
there still was a blackberry at that time.
This phone is still the most exciting phone I've ever owned. It was such a big leap. People were still using dumb phones and I had this.
same here
I imported one into the states from Orange on eBay. Nobody ever seen anything like it!
I wish I remember what happened to it, Its been so long since I had it! I eventually moved on and kept getting HTC phones until it just made no more sense (latest I had was the HTC 10)
I do remember watching burn notice (I think) and in one episode they went to South America to do some undercover shit and had a "gps tracking device"... turned it out it was my phone (this phone) with some high-tech graphics overlay edited onto the screen!
I remember my beautiful toshiba pocket pc e330 & samsung sgh-i780 (windows pocket pc 2002 & Windows mobile 6.0)... A true mini pc in pocket... Today is too easy, in these years ago was a real dreams realized ❤️
Thanks you for making this video! I loved this device. I used this device for over 4 years straight, because there was nothing else that came out that could really replace it. Arguably, nothing ever really did, maybe until we got to the first folding devices. But even then, I still miss that keyboard!
I remember using the Terminal Client for Windows Remote Desktop over cellular, wherever I was on this thing. As good as Opera mini was back in the day, by using my computer at home, I could navigate full flash websites (that dominated the web back then). Also having access to my full email archive was unheard of at the time (unless you were running a full exchange server with ActiveSync set up).
I also ran TomTom navigation on this device with an external Bluetooth GPS receiver. Also not something other devices could do at the time.
I felt like I was living in the future.
And if I remember correctly, you actually didn't mention two of the ports, that I am sure NOBODY ever used. They are covered by the 2 small circular rubber pieces, but they are ports for external 3G and Wi-Fi antennae.
Thank for taking me back memory lane!
Thanks for the comment! It was an awesome device for sure - way ahead of its time for 2005… I didn’t know about the external antennae connectors!
Came from the pixel talk discord. Solid review, maybe later on do a comparison between other high end mobile devices from that time era.
good vid kid. keep it up.
Thanks, that’s cheered me up a lot! :)
I see you playing Gigi D’Agostino on Windows Media Player! Fantastic work as always, my friend - your production quality is stellar as ever!
Thanks Darren! :D
Cool vid, I had one and it was the bomb. Playing games, watching xvids, browsing the web and shooting photos in 2006. Man...
Ha nice
gj youtube i found this dude talking about old stuff amazing gj dude :)
I absolutely loved this phone and had to part with it in the us as the bands didn't support us 3G. It was a sad day for me
I loved this phone so much that when it died ... I got another one exactly the same. Got Quake running on it too! The pinnacle of mobile computing and I'm still waiting for a modern equivalent. Currently planning on getting a GPD Win 1, slapping linux on it and tethering it to my normal mobile. But I just know it won't be the same
A powerful device and today I wear it like a new device, a few days ago a man offered me his iPhone 11 for my spv m5000, unfortunately I couldn't say goodbye to my favorite...
The closest I got was via my old GPS unit uses windows ce, it did that job while having ok and acceptable performance!
Also my first smartphone HTC Desire in 2010 is quite memorable
I used this phone in the early 2010s, using opera mini and some russian website to download all the software. The only thing it was missing was ability to play TH-cam 😥
It is still the best keyboard experience of my life.
I had a Qtek 9000 in light gray. I loved that device even when it really was really prone to crashing and malfunctions. When I bought something better (HTC HD2), I used it as a GPS navigator on my car using an external bluetooth GPS unit.
Wow I can almost daily drive this thing
I wish the old smartphone come back
I got to enjoy some of HTC's best smart devices. My favorite phone of all time was the HTC Touch Pro 2. My favorite Android phone is the HTC One M7. I still have one as a media player.
Used to have an Xperia X2 on windows mobile, moved on to HTC Desire S. The ability to tinker with windows mobile was great but early android was also pretty fun.
pulling out of the phone market was one of Intel's worst decisions
Win ce is from the 90s and was even on sega dreamcast
@@friendlysloth yes exactly
I think you forgot the T-mobile MDA Pro and the O2 XDA Exec, two prominent HTC Universal models
I got out of jail one time and I had my HTC O2 executive with me. totally didn't care that I had nowhere to go or eat. i just watched movies on my O2 executive
I remember the Nokia phone dance by that I mean whenever the Nokia phone rings you quickly try and search where I put my phone I still remember it there was an advert on TV called the Nokia dance
I hope they bring back Retro phones i miss it i can't use today phone to techno to me
I kinda feel like you're having a US based experience about these devices, because HTC Universal wasn't anything new at that point, literally SE P800i could do everything it can do, years before Universal was a concept...
On the innovation side of HTC, HTC Shift X9500 was a really cool UMPC with dual OS, windows mobile and full windows Vista(by stock) we've seen win 10 running on it as well, sadly never got my hands on one of those X9500, but even today there really isn't a lot of products competing with it, you could argue that GDP pocket PC's do, but well only partially.
The days when the blind had to pay huge sums of money to utilize the Windows Mobile platform with speech, and now to have it for free, I wish we could have a free screenreader for Windows Mobile.
Nowadays you need a phone + notebook 🤔
I realy hope that some devices come back, with the exactly same design but new technic inside. Not like the Gemini PDA... nice try, but only the Keyboard look like from a Psion Series 5.
Please send it to JerryRigEverything :D
There's a HTC phone that duo boots with vista
My phone 😢
6110*
so its a ps vita that flips
seems like an interesting video but i can't stand this forced way of talking.
htc be dead now