Linus said that he chickened out of trying to hide it so they could test it. This means at one point in time they genuinely had a discussion about whether or not Linus should take one for the team and they decided to go for it until the last moment. I totally get it but that
linus is too much funny. couldn't focus on video because of my ocd, camera seemed sligthly tiled throughout the whole video. but comments are fun as heck
There's another market for these phones. It's easy to get fixated on the up the butt, prison scenario. But they can also be incredibly useful in Close Protection and Personal Security scenarios. I've seen one stashed in the sole of a shoe, James Bond style. Pretty handy to have on you if you're kidnapped by someone serious enough to target your main phone, and think job done.
Thank God it will be used to make calls in a personal security scenario. At first I thought you should stick it up on your butt and then throw it at the kidnapper.
As an ex inmate from 2008-2011. I can confirm this is a thing. Not quite sure about the phone model though, never asked. You catch an additional escape charge and possession of an unauthorized tool added to what ever your already in for if you get caught with them. Typically only shot callers had them. Also to add, two of the maximum security facilities I stayed at, never used any fancy devices for finding things.
US Prison security is not as great as you'd think except for maybe Angola Louisiana, ive been there (not as an imate, but i have family that worked there) That place is tight, surrounded by a river on 3 sides out of 4, only 2 ways in and 2 ways out. You cant leave that place with an enclosed trailer without them looking in it first. They likely screen those that come to see the angola rodeo but i dont know for sure.
I used to work in a prison Can confirm these were regularly inserted up the prison pocket.. typically inside a kinder egg or black cellophane/vaseline The biggest phone I've personally seen concealed though was an IPhone 8 and THAT wasn't pretty. We used to call it the Nokia shakes when a prisoner had a phone concealed up there, they receive a text but forgot to turn off vibrate.
Zanco actually makes a smaller version of that phone, which I have. But when you get these phones they are already banned from many mobile networks in the UK
@@TheFalseShepphard not 100% banned, but to my knowledge it has on the three network, I tried using it and it wouldn’t work, so looked online that’s how I found out. The ex justice secretary David Lidington wants to ban them fully
@@digger66a I don't think that one was fake, looks like the stickiness of the glove snagged it. Besides, it is owned by one of his employees this time, he's not going to drop their personal phone on purpose, total dick move.
A security guard of the local prison once showed me how they charge phones in prison: most lamps nowadays are LED. LED lamps have circuits that convert AC to DC (4-5V). They carefully open up the lamp, stick a cut cable on the circuit and voila, you have a charger.
"Three days standby time. That's good in case you need to keep it in hiding. You can't just charge it." The visual that was brought to mind was both hilarious and disturbing. Imagine a wire coming out of someone's... mellon. He's laying face down on his bed in his cell, looks over his shoulder and says, "...and Linus said I couldn't charge it."
I know these are the two most pedantic comments I can make and I'm so embarrassed by them, I'm hiding them in a reply to my own comment. But my brain won't let them go until I type them out. Optimus Prime wasn't a Deception. The shark isn't what jumps. Fonzie jumps over a shark. There. Now I've ruined my actual comment with this reply but my brain can move on now.
@@Xfade81 I know! I know. You're right. I can't help it, though. I'm sorry. By the way: "Pedantic is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter." Damn it! I'm doing it again! I'm so, so sorry.
I can't believe Linus chickened out on giving the phone a full and thorough review. Its not like its a Pixel XL. C'mon, where is your sense of adventure? Back in my day we had to smuggle rotary house phones in the old fashioned way.
" It was your great-granddaddy's bag phone, made by the first company to ever make bag phones. You see, up until then, people just carried change for pay phones."
I was a backer on the 2018 Kickstarter campaign, even though the project was funded initially they ended up cancelling the project and refunding all backers. There was a massive disagreement between the marketing firm running the Kickstarter campaign (Clubit New Media) and the actual manufacturer of the device (Zini Mobiles ltd). It was a total mess and the backers had nothing to show for it. At least I got my refund out of it. Imagine my surprise seeing this thing pop up on LTT 4 years later!
Tbh this product has existed for a long time, you could easily find it in the electronic market of Shenzhen even back in 2013-2014. In all aspects, all kickstarters pertaining to this product will be drop shipping with the label of the campaign pasted on the product.
@@acorgiwithacrown467 it's an investment drive and another source of capital than venture capital or their own reserves. It's also a marketing analysis to see how much interest there is in the product.
@@acorgiwithacrown467 There are a lot of projects that will never get greenlit in even the most cash rich company. But the "pay for it and you can do it" loophole gets some things done. It's often a bad idea but a good example is Hasbro and the Ghostbusters proton pack. It's pretty hard to greenlight such an expensive toy. They are going to attack your proposal from 2 directions. It's too expensive for the general market and the best potential target market is made up of people who mostly already built one and have high standards. It takes millions of dollars up front to build something that might never make the money back.
But will the call or message still go through by it being turned off on the - Suitcase cellular balloon knot rap girl thingamajig? It's these questions that make us feel alive or?
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou Good point! I have one situation where I am extra careful and usually turn it on airplane mode and ringtones off before turning it off, and that's before a chess match (I play in a team league on a reasonably high level, and you immediately lose in case of any cellphone action). While I know it's exaggerated, this is probably what's appropriate in a situation like this. Preventing butt dials and all ;D
I was getting transferred to a higher level prison back when I was "not such a great guy" and I was able to "smuggle" in a pack of Marlboro reds and a mini bic in my prison wallet. I'm so happy those days are "behind" me.
@@mattbrown5120 If they live in the US it makes sense, no two prisons are alike and many are lacking on security. Especially when you look into the private vs state owned ones.
@@waterandsteel4713 I definitely did. It's extremely stressful. In my state getting caught doing that is an extra felony. I'm blessed to have had a 2nd chance. My love for computers and tech pretty much saved my life.
Oh my actual God! I didn't really appriciate how absolutely TINY this thing was, until I was like "why is there an HDMI on the bottom of it" realising it was a freaking micro USB port....
Have you watched the video? 14:30 I know airplane mode isn't the same, but really the previous tests are just for the content, to arrive at the pretty clear and not surprising conclusion.. This video is one of these highly at the mainly entertainment less learning side.
@@KaitouKaiju Phones aren't magic, they cant send if they have no power. problem is many phones don't actually disconnect power from components when they are turned "off." instead they just have a deep sleep function that replaces the off function. these functions were added by phone companies so your phone starts up faster not an alphabet agency. doesn't mean they don't take advantage of any means available to them obviously. Given recent current events, there is probably a larger market for a phone modern smart phone with a hardware disconnect for the transmitters and battery. so you can be sure its truly off or in airplane mode.
Firstly, why would you leave the phone on when smuggling it? Secondly, I remember in the days before smart phones the trend was to make them as small as possible, I swear some company made one around that size and the battery would last like a week.
The fact that Linus had to explain how the button navigation worked. And I was just like oooh neat. *Memory unlocked* My last dumb phone was probably like 12 years ago. This would be pretty sick for pocket texting cause it's so small. You were a real cool kid if you could text under your desk at school, one handed without looking at the screen. Which is impossible nowadays because touchscreens don't have any positional feedback by design.
I can vouch against you on this, If you are good enough predictive text will save you. I have multiple videos of me staring my friends dead in the eye talking to them while I reply text prefect messages. It kinda freaked them out. If you don't believe me irdc, just pointing out it is possible.
I was so comfortable with T9 texting for this reason, but I never held out hope! I use an android phone with the Google default keyboard, which supports swipe typing. I've had so much practice now that I can legitimately type without looking at my screen simply by swiping through all of the letters. The only downside is that every few weeks it's ability to figure out words seems to tank since *it's claimed* that it uses some machine learning to help assist people with slightly different swipe styles.
There's some inherent humor to sticking things up your butt. But I want to say that I applaud you guys for not degrading prisoners and calling them names or whatever for feeling the need/having to do this. You gave this phone the same respect you give all phones. And that shouldn't be overlooked.
Prisoners are still people and people don't always resort to crime because they want to. It could be lack of choice. I had a friend who a few of his family members were known for crime. Because of this he struggle to find employment cos they associated him with them even thou he didn't even live with them but shared the last name. He managed to find a path being self employed working on motorbikes but an example of how people could end up choosing a different path.
@@jorgeporras9262 I mean, I'm sure that happens here too (I'm in the US). But we also have very restrictive systems regarding communication with the outside (even with loved ones).
A friend of mine had a very small phone around the year 2000. I wondered why anyone would like to have a tiny phone that you can barely hold and dial on. It was as thick as wide and had rounded corners everywhere. Now I finally know why there was an audience for that!
@@Gainn Your suggestions would make sense, but ... back in the day I had just bought a Nokia 6150 that was brand new to the market. That would place it in the year 1998. It was my second Nokia, so I was very familiar with Nokia Designs. The 6150 measured 129 x 47 x 28 mm (just looked it up) which is somewhat close to the 101.5 x 44.5 x 17.4 mm of the Nokia 8210. No, I clearly remember this tiny Cellphone was about half the width and length of my Nokia with Pinpoint small keys that seemed to be almost unusable with fingers. If I had to guess I'd say it measured 70 x 30 x 25 mm. Design language boring like the Zanko T1 shown here. I tried to find it in google, but there's nothing that rings my memory. I think it was some grey import from Japan. He was a rich tech enthusiast and very proud of it, so I assume it was quite expensive.
@@Gainn Oh, yes, the design of the Sony "Mars Bar" rings my memory bell ! Very similar key to body ratio and also the other aspect ratios. But of course not from Sony and smaller, maybe the Mitsubishi you suggested. Sadly I found no pictures about that.
Reminds me of the pre-smartphone, pre-color mobile phone age in the late 90s and early 2000s when the jokes were about the trend for phones getting ridiculously smaller.
I was going to buy something like this for emergency calls if I'd had an accident when out running but the shopkeeper was so sure that I'd needed it for the sort of use in this video that I was too embarassed to actually get it.
Any old cellphone can make emergency calls even if it's not activated. It's the law. You could also buy any pre-paid phone, burner phone, etc, with no account and still make emergency calls. Old cellphones, especially non smart phones, ones that stay charged for months when powered off, make great emergency phones.
@@OutdoorsIQ The GSM spec requires that 112 calls be made over whatever network. In Australia, and presumably other countries, 112 will redirect to your local equivalent.
The voice changing features are useful, but rather.. suspicious. I would imagine if they were to transport it, it would be best to do with the battery off, so that it doesn't ring unexpectedly and will also extend the battery life by a lot.
on a phone *designed* to be smuggled into prison, you find the voice changing feature to be the thing that's suspicious? got a real sherlock phones here.
Personal phones in prison are for privacy, if you’re spending big bucks for one it’s because you have serious and very illegal business to conduct on the outside and can’t use the prison phones which are monitored. So while the voice changer is kind of niche, it could be useful for someone who is worried about their associates being wire tapped and then being recognized. The other option is it’s for someone truly messed up who wants to make threatening phone calls against people or entities they may hold a grudge against. You can imagine the things someone like Manson or another deranged psycho would use such a feature for.
Looks like they’re really cheap. I’m looking through Amazon right now at this whole world of tiny cell phones and it’s kind of a trip. There’s even a TEENY TINY FLIP PHONE. Linus should have done a tiny phone shootout.
They need a fart ring tone, that way if the phone goes off when it's been hooped (friend went to prison,) then it just seems like the person ripping some farts.
This might be useful as a backup phone when traveling or something. If you lose your phone/get it stolen etc., you have a little backup phone in your bag... or your butt, if that's what you're into.
I’ve actually spent a little time in prison, I was caught with mdma when I was much younger, and this really made me laugh. I saw first hand the crazy lengths some of the guys would go to just to have a mobile phone. Fun fact, as long you behaved well, they’d give you a cell with a pay phone in anyway haha, so this solution is only for the truly dedicated delinquent!
It should really have a ringtone that sounds like a normal human noise. like a coughing fit, voice clearing, burp, etc. With a few different versions of each to keep guards from getting used to them all too quickly.
I'm guessing the cable is small enough, they could put it in the "suitcase" along with the phone. That's what Larry Lawton referred to the container used to hide stuff they weren't supposed to have. Like drugs or even blades. But in the end, all of this doesn't matter because if they really think you're hiding something. An X-Ray is going to catch it. Remember the toy car in Jackass?
@@TheOmegaRiddler of course I did, and the phone uses microusb to charge, but in low security prisons you might be able to own other types of devices that can run off microusb and so you may not need to hide the charger as you would be allowed to own a charger.
I was really hoping Linus would find an employee desperate enough to do it for a bonus, but then just not actually have them go through it, but reward them anyway for being so brave.
LTT employee: "Hey honey, guess what - I just got a bonus from Linus himself!" Honey: "Well done! What was it for?" LTT employee: "Oh... Er... Being *brave*." Or as Apple would call it, *COURAGE*.
At least u will never need to ask ur family members or roommates "have u seen my phone?" . . . . . . But if one day someone say, 'Lemme help u find ur phone, where u last put it?' .... u know they're your 'true friend'
Not gonna lie, if you had a similarly portable way of storing (without self-discharge) or generating power, this could make for a really nifty bug-out-kit item.
@@shinyhappyrem8728 More like just general self-discharge of any battery, I'm talking like extreme doomsday prep where you'd want something that'll keep for years. Just looked it up and seems non-rechargable lithium batteries have a the longest shelf life with about 12 years. But yeah, like mentioned by nebulous, a small solar panel would probably be the smartest solution.
@@LordHonkInc It seems like a mechanical, hand cranked generator might be a better choice? This wouldn't need much power and you'd be able to charge the phone regardless if you can get out side or not. Might even be able to relatively simply DIY a generator for this.
More Prison Tech!!! but heres the catch, linus needs to be in a makeshift cell with only stuff a prisoner would have to review the item. (no screwdriver etc..)
You're 100% full of sh*t. As a former prison guard in the US we don't come across this. It died WAY TOO QUICKLY and you can only use it on SPEAKER. So you'd either get caught or have to charge it after any call. Prisoners want smartphones. They watch TH-cam... Smh
@@secprofile4622 I mean I used this phones to brighten up the not so good times. People payed a lot of tobacco for a way to contact theire wifes /partners whatever.
Damn, imagine living in a country with an incarceration rate so high that people are now creating profitable business models to cater to prisoners. America really needs to do something about these for-profit prisons.
They are being phased out now, biden put that legislation through during his first week in office. Still the only thing he's done I've agreed with though.
@@guilhemjusserand3205 One of the only countries with a prison system that’d necessitate a device like this is the US. So the comment is still relevant.
Funny you did a video on this Linus! I was a correctional sergeant for 6 years and have used the Boss chair more times than I can remember. Never ran into this little device though. Thanks for sharing!
These were popular in my boarding school. Phone booths were a pain to use to call home because of homesick freshmen. We used to use the voice change function for prank calls. Luckily there were no metal detectors or the memories wouldn't be so pleasant to remember.
"Look daddy, Linus is reviewing a tiny phone. Can we watch it?" "Are they really going to put it in a cantaloupe? I wanna see." Thanks Linus.... Thanks a lot.
This phone reminds me of the trend in the early 2000s, when phone manufacturers were having what was essentially an arms race to make the tiniest phone possible.
I mean sure, that would work, if it wasn't for the fact that they phased out the Boss chair in most if not all Canadian provincial jails quite some time ago in favour of full body x-rays for this very reason.
Great vid, but I was really hoping for just the reaction shot of Linus's face while he was bent over a table on set conducting a feasibility study. Thanks for getting captions done for this!
It’s so crazy to me that this is a product specifically designed to be smuggled into prisons as contraband. I can’t imagine another legitimate use case for this thing. But if you can, let me know.
it would be nice to have as a phone that you don't care about breaking when doing high-movement exercises such as skateboarding. Like, my phone fell out of my pocket twice already while skating and its terrifying to watch hit the asphalt. Thankfully, the case has saved it both times.
@@koigoi Yeah, but there are dirt cheep dumb phones out there that aren't ultra small like this one and in a bigger inclosure you get a better battery and the phone lasts for days, or weeks which can be helpful to you more often then this ultra compact size.
honestly im clicking like button because you didnt automatically start checking your friends texts- thats like, extremely polite. I love little things like that.
There is a type of CRT TV shaped kind of like the old iMacs that had the built in monitors. They were designed to be allowed in prisons since you couldn't hide things in them easily. (And ironically, for a long time after things like tape decks weren't common they were still used in prisons, which led to a weird situation where many of the 'retro' tape decks available outside of prison had clear shells because their main market was for prison. I tried emailing you once when I saw a video about the CRTs because I thought with an LCD mounted in them they might make a pretty cool PC case build, but you prefer people join your forum to suggest stuff and I'm too lazy to do that, but here is the link for anyone interested. th-cam.com/video/O3PfsndsihY/w-d-xo.html
10:30 "You gotta use your imagination" Depends on the prison. If you've seen enough Larry Lawton content you'll know that using your imagination can also get you thrown in solitary. TLDR: USA prisons are a complete mess.
I can almost imagine Linus in the meeting when this topic was brought up. You can hear the excitement in his voice.
I read excitement as excrement.
420
The excitement in his voice: 8:09
He made a mistake on his taxes. He was just preping
This comment hits different after watching the video
No butt-dial jokes? I am frankly shocked
This is 2022 TH-cam, pal.
@@caflee7801 my father still butt dials me but he gets cheaper smart phones.
Came here to say just that.
Just don't be an a hole about it
@@88flack Yeah well. I get butt dialed from people who have IPhone 9000s. So not a very good example.
I don't think Linus has had this much fun with a piece of tech in a long time.
🤣 agreed
The steam deck.
he is probaly clearing his eyes after that vid with bleach
@@Kuri_Vone 🤣
Wait until it goes in the 👢 🤣
Thats not a phone, that's a multitool. Especially with the vibrations.
Well just u do what u wanna do i guess. Hhahah
Just call me nonstop, I lost my phone, I’ll answer when I find it.
@@kexler11 lol
@@DaxanDaxter rather the opposite
So Gross....
Linus said that he chickened out of trying to hide it so they could test it.
This means at one point in time they genuinely had a discussion about whether or not Linus should take one for the team and they decided to go for it until the last moment.
I totally get it but that
maybe if the thing _accidentally_ vibrates it could accidentally _untie some knots_ inside him?
@@mfaizsyahmi nice one...
😂I wish I could like this comment twice
linus is too much funny. couldn't focus on video because of my ocd, camera seemed sligthly tiled throughout the whole video. but comments are fun as heck
whether or not [whether]: if you don’t say so yourself
I'm sure it has a good personality
Just like me fr
I am sure it would treat him well too
It really is "It's what's on the inside that counts".....in soo many ways in this video.
@@nicke1903 haha yes!
Bro 💀💀💀
There's another market for these phones. It's easy to get fixated on the up the butt, prison scenario. But they can also be incredibly useful in Close Protection and Personal Security scenarios. I've seen one stashed in the sole of a shoe, James Bond style. Pretty handy to have on you if you're kidnapped by someone serious enough to target your main phone, and think job done.
I store mine in my butt, James Bond style. If I'm ever kidnapped.
"James Bond style". Don't you mean Maxwell Smart style?
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Thank God it will be used to make calls in a personal security scenario. At first I thought you should stick it up on your butt and then throw it at the kidnapper.
As an ex inmate from 2008-2011. I can confirm this is a thing. Not quite sure about the phone model though, never asked. You catch an additional escape charge and possession of an unauthorized tool added to what ever your already in for if you get caught with them. Typically only shot callers had them. Also to add, two of the maximum security facilities I stayed at, never used any fancy devices for finding things.
MAXIMUM SECURITY????
wtf did you do to get into maximum security
@@finnoboy6506 there are some things you just dont need to know.
US Prison security is not as great as you'd think except for maybe Angola Louisiana, ive been there (not as an imate, but i have family that worked there) That place is tight, surrounded by a river on 3 sides out of 4, only 2 ways in and 2 ways out. You cant leave that place with an enclosed trailer without them looking in it first. They likely screen those that come to see the angola rodeo but i dont know for sure.
@@rysterstech Why not, though? It's a perfectly reasonable question
I used to work in a prison
Can confirm these were regularly inserted up the prison pocket.. typically inside a kinder egg or black cellophane/vaseline
The biggest phone I've personally seen concealed though was an IPhone 8 and THAT wasn't pretty.
We used to call it the Nokia shakes when a prisoner had a phone concealed up there, they receive a text but forgot to turn off vibrate.
"forgot" huh? 😏
"forgot"
that some stimulation lol
an iphone 8 tho wtf, just buy a Nokia lmao
iPhone 8 wtf
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined because of Linus chickening out
REVOLT !
WE NEED THE UNCUT VIDEO OF THIS
Yeah I mean nobody wants him to put it in sideways…
@@thrash1337 speak for yourself
🤣
@@thrash1337 are you sure about that
Zanco actually makes a smaller version of that phone, which I have. But when you get these phones they are already banned from many mobile networks in the UK
why are they banned in the uk ?
@@TheFalseShepphard not 100% banned, but to my knowledge it has on the three network, I tried using it and it wouldn’t work, so looked online that’s how I found out. The ex justice secretary David Lidington wants to ban them fully
Change your IMEI to a non-banned one.... Come on guys, these are not hard things.
@@fitybux4664 I will be honest i don’t know how to do that, also they are normally pre programmed and can’t be changed.
@@zigma182 can't is a weird word in the realm of flash chips and such. It might be challenging. But improbable? Nah...
4:36 There it is everyone. No matter how big or small Linus has the ability of the more than likely chance of dropping it.
That is the best drop ever.... rofl...
Linus Drop Tips!
Thats the most obvious fake drop he has done in a while.
He didn't drop that one, he launched it by waving his hand near it... lol
@@digger66a I don't think that one was fake, looks like the stickiness of the glove snagged it.
Besides, it is owned by one of his employees this time, he's not going to drop their personal phone on purpose, total dick move.
A security guard of the local prison once showed me how they charge phones in prison:
most lamps nowadays are LED. LED lamps have circuits that convert AC to DC (4-5V). They carefully open up the lamp, stick a cut cable on the circuit and voila, you have a charger.
Damn they’re smart.
@@rgkong8783 They have a LOT of time on their hands.
@@rgkong8783 if only they used that smarts for good rather than evil hey
They're really not. They try EVERYTHING and eventually something works,and word spreads like aids in a gay bathhouse.
@The Program then again how you want to hide those metal contacts from a detector
"Three days standby time. That's good in case you need to keep it in hiding. You can't just charge it."
The visual that was brought to mind was both hilarious and disturbing. Imagine a wire coming out of someone's... mellon. He's laying face down on his bed in his cell, looks over his shoulder and says, "...and Linus said I couldn't charge it."
I know these are the two most pedantic comments I can make and I'm so embarrassed by them, I'm hiding them in a reply to my own comment. But my brain won't let them go until I type them out.
Optimus Prime wasn't a Deception.
The shark isn't what jumps. Fonzie jumps over a shark.
There. Now I've ruined my actual comment with this reply but my brain can move on now.
Charging like an Apple mouse, ass up? XD
@@Bularistan4o LOL! Hahaha
@@xliquidflames wouldn't call them pedantic, just a bit crappy.
@@Xfade81 I know! I know. You're right. I can't help it, though. I'm sorry.
By the way:
"Pedantic is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter."
Damn it! I'm doing it again! I'm so, so sorry.
Whole new meaning to the phrase, "Sorry dude, I must have butt dialed you".
Don't you *DARE* change the title of this video, you just don't mess with perfection
Lmao 😂
did it change ?
@@kiyu3229 is it perfect？
@@sfbptank yes
For posterity: currently says "This Phone Fits in your ( * )… but WHY???"
I can't believe Linus chickened out on giving the phone a full and thorough review. Its not like its a Pixel XL. C'mon, where is your sense of adventure? Back in my day we had to smuggle rotary house phones in the old fashioned way.
Which was the movie with the watch from the POW camp?
@@jtsyo8364 pulp fiction
JT Syo th-cam.com/video/kWp6hZ-5ndc/w-d-xo.html
" It was your great-granddaddy's bag phone, made by the first company to ever make bag phones. You see, up until then, people just carried change for pay phones."
@@nobody7817 I’m just envisioning cable coming out of their pants every where they walk. I cannot stop laughing.
I was a backer on the 2018 Kickstarter campaign, even though the project was funded initially they ended up cancelling the project and refunding all backers. There was a massive disagreement between the marketing firm running the Kickstarter campaign (Clubit New Media) and the actual manufacturer of the device (Zini Mobiles ltd). It was a total mess and the backers had nothing to show for it. At least I got my refund out of it. Imagine my surprise seeing this thing pop up on LTT 4 years later!
Tbh this product has existed for a long time, you could easily find it in the electronic market of Shenzhen even back in 2013-2014. In all aspects, all kickstarters pertaining to this product will be drop shipping with the label of the campaign pasted on the product.
Why the hell are established company's running kick-starters?
@@acorgiwithacrown467 it's an investment drive and another source of capital than venture capital or their own reserves. It's also a marketing analysis to see how much interest there is in the product.
@@acorgiwithacrown467 Ask Platinum Games that with the Wonderful 101 port. It's all about easy money without having to go through official investors.
@@acorgiwithacrown467 There are a lot of projects that will never get greenlit in even the most cash rich company. But the "pay for it and you can do it" loophole gets some things done. It's often a bad idea but a good example is Hasbro and the Ghostbusters proton pack. It's pretty hard to greenlight such an expensive toy. They are going to attack your proposal from 2 directions. It's too expensive for the general market and the best potential target market is made up of people who mostly already built one and have high standards. It takes millions of dollars up front to build something that might never make the money back.
When Linus talked all about building a lab to give true tech reviews and testing, this wasn't the type of device I envisioned...
...and I'm not mad.
What are the first things we need in the lab? A cantaloupe and a drill.
I’ve never seen Linus laugh so genuine as when he first heard the gun shot ringtone 😂
Airplane mode? Of course that'll work, but have you thought about turning it OFF prior to insertion, by any chance?
Great video idea!
Not that I encourage criminal activity of any sort, but that was the first thing that occurred to me.
But will the call or message still go through by it being turned off on the - Suitcase cellular balloon knot rap girl thingamajig? It's these questions that make us feel alive or?
It can be switched on inadvertently though, and once inside, one would not be in a _position_ for quick adjustment.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou Good point! I have one situation where I am extra careful and usually turn it on airplane mode and ringtones off before turning it off, and that's before a chess match (I play in a team league on a reasonably high level, and you immediately lose in case of any cellphone action). While I know it's exaggerated, this is probably what's appropriate in a situation like this.
Preventing butt dials and all ;D
LOL
I was getting transferred to a higher level prison back when I was "not such a great guy" and I was able to "smuggle" in a pack of Marlboro reds and a mini bic in my prison wallet. I'm so happy those days are "behind" me.
Do they not have the ol squat and cough where you’re from? In Australia new entrants or transfers have to squat over a mirror lol
@@mattbrown5120 If they live in the US it makes sense, no two prisons are alike and many are lacking on security. Especially when you look into the private vs state owned ones.
@@mattbrown5120 They do but that's only in case you have anything sharp hidden in there. Coughing isn't going to make a pack fall out.
Lol I hope that you are feeling better "in the end."
Sorry my dude I couldn't resist.
@@waterandsteel4713 I definitely did. It's extremely stressful. In my state getting caught doing that is an extra felony. I'm blessed to have had a 2nd chance. My love for computers and tech pretty much saved my life.
Oh my actual God! I didn't really appriciate how absolutely TINY this thing was, until I was like "why is there an HDMI on the bottom of it" realising it was a freaking micro USB port....
yea I thought it was HDMI first as well.
I mean, mini and micro HDMI exists so yea
@@Mom19 True true, but I literally thought it was a full size one, it was almost covering the whole bottom of the phone
@@MrTomvik I know what you mean, but I just wanted to note there is HDMI at micro USB size xD
@@Mom19 Gotcha :)
This one is a new favorite. I wouldn't mind seeing more tech with hidden purposes
A room full of tech nerds seems to have forgotten that you can simply turn a phone off, to keep it from sending/receiving something.
Yeah my first thought too...why would you transport it while on?
Have you watched the video? 14:30
I know airplane mode isn't the same, but really the previous tests are just for the content, to arrive at the pretty clear and not surprising conclusion..
This video is one of these highly at the mainly entertainment less learning side.
Cell phones can be traced even turned off
Thank the NSA
@@KaitouKaiju Phones aren't magic, they cant send if they have no power. problem is many phones don't actually disconnect power from components when they are turned "off." instead they just have a deep sleep function that replaces the off function. these functions were added by phone companies so your phone starts up faster not an alphabet agency. doesn't mean they don't take advantage of any means available to them obviously.
Given recent current events, there is probably a larger market for a phone modern smart phone with a hardware disconnect for the transmitters and battery. so you can be sure its truly off or in airplane mode.
@@purplepenguin43 PinePhone has that I believe, but the phone isn't exactly usable for dailying yet unfortunately.
Firstly, why would you leave the phone on when smuggling it? Secondly, I remember in the days before smart phones the trend was to make them as small as possible, I swear some company made one around that size and the battery would last like a week.
necklace phone iirc?
> Why leave the phone on when smuggling
Because criminals usually aren't the sharpest tool in the shed.
@@ZeroUm_ there are smart criminals but a lot of them just don’t get caught!
I remember SNL had a skit about the smallest phone trend.
@@ZeroUm_ alot of caught criminals, the ones that would need this phone
The fact that Linus had to explain how the button navigation worked. And I was just like oooh neat. *Memory unlocked*
My last dumb phone was probably like 12 years ago. This would be pretty sick for pocket texting cause it's so small. You were a real cool kid if you could text under your desk at school, one handed without looking at the screen. Which is impossible nowadays because touchscreens don't have any positional feedback by design.
I miss being able to use a phone by sheer muscle memory without having to look at the screen.
I can vouch against you on this, If you are good enough predictive text will save you. I have multiple videos of me staring my friends dead in the eye talking to them while I reply text prefect messages. It kinda freaked them out. If you don't believe me irdc, just pointing out it is possible.
I was so comfortable with T9 texting for this reason, but I never held out hope! I use an android phone with the Google default keyboard, which supports swipe typing. I've had so much practice now that I can legitimately type without looking at my screen simply by swiping through all of the letters. The only downside is that every few weeks it's ability to figure out words seems to tank since *it's claimed* that it uses some machine learning to help assist people with slightly different swipe styles.
doltphone
@@Mr-Broccoli “prefect”
I really expected him to write "Hi Colon".
Missed opportunity.
Most contemporary smartphones fit in a body cavity if you're committed enough.
😮
Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.
I regret scrolling through comments section
True, but getting them out is the hard part.
Or you can just aks the guards to help you get it out. I'm sure they would be more then happy to help ;)
Fun fact: this phone was designed for space travel. Specifically to travel to Uranus. But Linus read the instructions wrong
smort
🙄
Lmfaoo😂😂
One of the highest entertainment value videos you guys have done in a long time! Reminiscent of the older janky videos of yesteryears. *BRAVO!*
Just like the good old days
only because most of his viewers are young males who are anally fixated lol..
For sure. I was howling with laughter.
Kitchen table flashbacks.
There's some inherent humor to sticking things up your butt. But I want to say that I applaud you guys for not degrading prisoners and calling them names or whatever for feeling the need/having to do this. You gave this phone the same respect you give all phones. And that shouldn't be overlooked.
Prisoners are still people and people don't always resort to crime because they want to. It could be lack of choice.
I had a friend who a few of his family members were known for crime. Because of this he struggle to find employment cos they associated him with them even thou he didn't even live with them but shared the last name. He managed to find a path being self employed working on motorbikes but an example of how people could end up choosing a different path.
they alwasy wrap a phone in a condm and shove it insdie a melon.. damn i havnt watch them in a while, there content must hvae changed
@@LG1ikLx absolutely!
@@jorgeporras9262 I mean, I'm sure that happens here too (I'm in the US). But we also have very restrictive systems regarding communication with the outside (even with loved ones).
A friend of mine had a very small phone around the year 2000. I wondered why anyone would like to have a tiny phone that you can barely hold and dial on. It was as thick as wide and had rounded corners everywhere. Now I finally know why there was an audience for that!
Nokia 'lipstick phone'? (7280)
@@Gainn more likely 8210.
@@Gainn Your suggestions would make sense, but ... back in the day I had just bought a Nokia 6150 that was brand new to the market. That would place it in the year 1998. It was my second Nokia, so I was very familiar with Nokia Designs. The 6150 measured 129 x 47 x 28 mm (just looked it up) which is somewhat close to the 101.5 x 44.5 x 17.4 mm of the Nokia 8210. No, I clearly remember this tiny Cellphone was about half the width and length of my Nokia with Pinpoint small keys that seemed to be almost unusable with fingers. If I had to guess I'd say it measured 70 x 30 x 25 mm. Design language boring like the Zanko T1 shown here. I tried to find it in google, but there's nothing that rings my memory. I think it was some grey import from Japan. He was a rich tech enthusiast and very proud of it, so I assume it was quite expensive.
@@genius1a there was a mitsubishi one that was along those lines. Like a slimmed down version of the old Sony 'Mars bar'.
@@Gainn Oh, yes, the design of the Sony "Mars Bar" rings my memory bell ! Very similar key to body ratio and also the other aspect ratios. But of course not from Sony and smaller, maybe the Mitsubishi you suggested. Sadly I found no pictures about that.
Reminds me of the pre-smartphone, pre-color mobile phone age in the late 90s and early 2000s when the jokes were about the trend for phones getting ridiculously smaller.
1:35 So instead of a physical search, a guard just does a search for nearby Bluetooth devices 🤔😂
I found 4 phones using my OG LG G Watch doing that.
The default Bluetooth tag on these is 'buttphone'
@@WeighedWilson kinda shocked it has Bluetooth, why would that be useful. Some people's prison pockets must be huge ...
@@Dracossaint Maybe to be used for HSUPA tethering on bt enabled devices or as a modem for other things.
I work in a jail and now I gotta make a whole safety breif about these, thanks linus
I was going to buy something like this for emergency calls if I'd had an accident when out running but the shopkeeper was so sure that I'd needed it for the sort of use in this video that I was too embarassed to actually get it.
Any old cellphone can make emergency calls even if it's not activated. It's the law. You could also buy any pre-paid phone, burner phone, etc, with no account and still make emergency calls. Old cellphones, especially non smart phones, ones that stay charged for months when powered off, make great emergency phones.
@@Subparanon I get the feeling they specifically wanted something lightweight
Also best the check within your own country if emergency calls can be made without a SIM card
You could just get a smart watch with a phone line
@@OutdoorsIQ The GSM spec requires that 112 calls be made over whatever network. In Australia, and presumably other countries, 112 will redirect to your local equivalent.
The voice changing features are useful, but rather.. suspicious.
I would imagine if they were to transport it, it would be best to do with the battery off, so that it doesn't ring unexpectedly and will also extend the battery life by a lot.
or you know, just turn it off?
It's literally a phone designed to put up your ass and smuggle into a prison, there's nothing suspicious here, only obvious
@@ademiravdic But then they'd lose the vibrating feature. Given the mode of transportation, I feel like this may be stashed in a few prison purses.
on a phone *designed* to be smuggled into prison, you find the voice changing feature to be the thing that's suspicious? got a real sherlock phones here.
Personal phones in prison are for privacy, if you’re spending big bucks for one it’s because you have serious and very illegal business to conduct on the outside and can’t use the prison phones which are monitored. So while the voice changer is kind of niche, it could be useful for someone who is worried about their associates being wire tapped and then being recognized. The other option is it’s for someone truly messed up who wants to make threatening phone calls against people or entities they may hold a grudge against. You can imagine the things someone like Manson or another deranged psycho would use such a feature for.
Screw prison, I want one of these tiny cell phones. The voice changer and laughable size is awesome.
Looks like they’re really cheap. I’m looking through Amazon right now at this whole world of tiny cell phones and it’s kind of a trip. There’s even a TEENY TINY FLIP PHONE. Linus should have done a tiny phone shootout.
I love the voice changer! I haven't actually seen one of those on a recent smartphone. Maybe as an app, but not installed on the phone itself.
They need a fart ring tone, that way if the phone goes off when it's been hooped (friend went to prison,) then it just seems like the person ripping some farts.
We've reached a new level of Linus teaching us how to do something that we will never get the chance to do
If you put some effort into it, you will.
Nothing is impossible
Don't let your dreams be dreams
Speak for yourself, buddeh.
In time, some of us would.
4:36 In terms of Linus dropping things, this is a top tier drop.
Finally, a modern phone that makes even Linus's hands look big..
You know what they say.
Tiny hands......
Tiny phone
@@OmniDan26 Tiny gloves.
This might be useful as a backup phone when traveling or something. If you lose your phone/get it stolen etc., you have a little backup phone in your bag... or your butt, if that's what you're into.
Watching Linus get excited about a phone that easily fits in his hand was actually entertaining.
and he still drops it
@@FurryMetalFerretVT That's because the more excited he is about something the more likely he is to drop it.
no, it's not that it fits in his HAND that he likes it.........
Wait the moment e make crysis run on this phone.
Maybe try going out.
I’ve actually spent a little time in prison, I was caught with mdma when I was much younger, and this really made me laugh. I saw first hand the crazy lengths some of the guys would go to just to have a mobile phone.
Fun fact, as long you behaved well, they’d give you a cell with a pay phone in anyway haha, so this solution is only for the truly dedicated delinquent!
Those pay phones are absolutely insanely expensive to use
It's not the same everywhere dude...
Also they can monitor those calls.
im sure this is not the case for every prison out there mate!
@@Docosi to be fair, people are paying 500-1000 bucks for this too
It should really have a ringtone that sounds like a normal human noise. like a coughing fit, voice clearing, burp, etc. With a few different versions of each to keep guards from getting used to them all too quickly.
Fart, obviously. Then it's no problem if you forget to turn it off.
09:40 Bruh LMAOOOOO LTT is aiming for accuracy on this roleplay scene.
I'm guessing the cable is small enough, they could put it in the "suitcase" along with the phone. That's what Larry Lawton referred to the container used to hide stuff they weren't supposed to have. Like drugs or even blades. But in the end, all of this doesn't matter because if they really think you're hiding something. An X-Ray is going to catch it. Remember the toy car in Jackass?
Prison wallet
if you own a legal device that uses microusb to charge then you wont have to hide the charger and cable.
@@A.Martin did you not watch the video?
@@TheOmegaRiddler of course I did, and the phone uses microusb to charge, but in low security prisons you might be able to own other types of devices that can run off microusb and so you may not need to hide the charger as you would be allowed to own a charger.
@@A.Martin yeah vape pen = microusb & charger
I was really hoping Linus would find an employee desperate enough to do it for a bonus, but then just not actually have them go through it, but reward them anyway for being so brave.
As funny as that would be, I could also see it turning into a case of sexual harassment.
@@ventilate4267 depends on how you went about it.
LTT employee: "Hey honey, guess what - I just got a bonus from Linus himself!"
Honey: "Well done! What was it for?"
LTT employee: "Oh... Er... Being *brave*."
Or as Apple would call it, *COURAGE*.
I was hoping Dennis
That would definitely be a lawsuit for asking employees to put something up their butt
I hope I never have to carry this phone as described. Thanks for the lolz Linus 😂
At least u will never need to ask ur family members or roommates "have u seen my phone?"
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But if one day someone say,
'Lemme help u find ur phone, where u last put it?' .... u know they're your 'true friend'
Hey Pewds...
Oh hi Karl, fancy seeing you here :)
@@gr8potatosaurusofthunderfart "Hey Stepbro, let me find your phone" 😏😏😏
"#NahiChaiye yeh phone Linus" 😂
2 years later and still waiting for Linus to invite Shaq over to hand him the phone... man is a giant
My brain mistook the micro USB port for HDMI at first, because the proportions of this phone are so off.😂
Next version will have microHDMI for streaming TV shows in prison.
In the 80s it could've been a serial port (or printer...)
Linus: I am not going to put this thing up my butt no way...
Sponsor: Will give you lots of money.
Linus: Yvonne hand me the lube.
Someone get Dbrand on the phone
he would probably do it for a The wall.
Linus - the consummate shill
Why would he need lube? This man bought Apple's Mac Studio, I've seen narrower openings on the 401
There are just no words... Imagine the look on the guy's face who approved the sponsorship 🤣
If they'd had any balls it should've been sponsored by Dudewipes
Imagine all the criminals of all different types tying to figure out how this janky phone works lol
Not gonna lie, if you had a similarly portable way of storing (without self-discharge) or generating power, this could make for a really nifty bug-out-kit item.
I mean it's a tiny dumbphone with like 0.75wh battery. You can probably charge it with like 0.5w solar panel. 😛
Yeah i did some calculations and i am fairly confident that you could fit big enough solar panel to charge this in a wallet. That's really tiny.🙂
Self-discharge a la Samsung?
@@shinyhappyrem8728 More like just general self-discharge of any battery, I'm talking like extreme doomsday prep where you'd want something that'll keep for years. Just looked it up and seems non-rechargable lithium batteries have a the longest shelf life with about 12 years. But yeah, like mentioned by nebulous, a small solar panel would probably be the smartest solution.
@@LordHonkInc It seems like a mechanical, hand cranked generator might be a better choice? This wouldn't need much power and you'd be able to charge the phone regardless if you can get out side or not. Might even be able to relatively simply DIY a generator for this.
I’m not gonna lie, this episode feels like from a different universe, a universe where it’s LPT!😂
LinusPrisonTips?
LinusPornTips?
LinusPenisTips?
LinusPenetrationTips?
LinusPhoneTips?
What LPT?
@@kibe2134 Prison!
@@kibe2134 I thought Linus Prostate Tips lol
@@mirano15 ah yes, the doctor linus universe
@@kibe2134 prolapse
More Prison Tech!!! but heres the catch, linus needs to be in a makeshift cell with only stuff a prisoner would have to review the item. (no screwdriver etc..)
Imagine Linus reviewing a usb shank. 😂
The thumbnail with brown “stuff” around the phone makes me love LTT more
Linus, if you had actually keister'd that phone, it would have been fucking LEGENDARY my dude.
Zancos are popular in UK prisons.
Source: I served 13 years and the dealers used them 😬
Cool bro.
Since your out play guardian tales
@@Leo.K. You're showing your age thinking serving a decade in prison is "cool" especially saying it sarcastically lmao
@@johnromine6914 I didn't mean it in a bad way just saying its cool he is out and he should play guardian tales. So should you
You're 100% full of sh*t. As a former prison guard in the US we don't come across this. It died WAY TOO QUICKLY and you can only use it on SPEAKER. So you'd either get caught or have to charge it after any call. Prisoners want smartphones. They watch TH-cam... Smh
Glad your on the up and up buddy 😉
"if your gonna sneak this in somewhere wed recommend..." i love the progression of these tech tips.
"What is rap woman"
Implying he understands "rap man" slightly more 🤣
Finally the video is here have been waiting for this one since the teaser👍
I used a lot of this in the past... Me and the Boys had a really good time with this phones, awesome memorys!
what you mean by that
@@secprofile4622 you know exactly what he means
@@secprofile4622 I mean I used this phones to brighten up the not so good times. People payed a lot of tobacco for a way to contact theire wifes /partners whatever.
Now THIS is the video I’ve been waiting for
So true
Damn, imagine living in a country with an incarceration rate so high that people are now creating profitable business models to cater to prisoners. America really needs to do something about these for-profit prisons.
And they won’t. Cause the people in the system who’d vote for an overhaul can’t vote. America.
They are being phased out now, biden put that legislation through during his first week in office. Still the only thing he's done I've agreed with though.
@@graxtheswampgoblinarchmage5356 Of course it could always get fucked over by SCOTUS since Donald packed it with his cronies.
he lives in Canada..
@@guilhemjusserand3205 One of the only countries with a prison system that’d necessitate a device like this is the US. So the comment is still relevant.
Funny you did a video on this Linus! I was a correctional sergeant for 6 years and have used the Boss chair more times than I can remember. Never ran into this little device though. Thanks for sharing!
😂😂 this is one hell of an endorsement
These were popular in my boarding school. Phone booths were a pain to use to call home because of homesick freshmen. We used to use the voice change function for prank calls.
Luckily there were no metal detectors or the memories wouldn't be so pleasant to remember.
Greetings brother
were you not allowed to have phones?
"Look daddy, Linus is reviewing a tiny phone. Can we watch it?" "Are they really going to put it in a cantaloupe? I wanna see."
Thanks Linus.... Thanks a lot.
9:44 damn they really got the black child playing the prisoner in this little play-pretend scene, my jaw is absolutely dropped lol
This phone reminds me of the trend in the early 2000s, when phone manufacturers were having what was essentially an arms race to make the tiniest phone possible.
There is a reason why Zoolander mocked this craze in 2001
13:49 yes, we get Colin callin' colon
This phone brings a whole new meaning to butt dialing
in-butt dialing
Day 2 of sitting in bed with covid and 4:36 just made me feel 100x better. Nobody else can drop something like Linus.
I remember that about a year ago my classmate had a phone smaller than a pack of tictac's. I was so mindblown to see that phones can be that small.
1:57 "it's so much smaller than I expected"
-Yvonne (Probably)
I mean sure, that would work, if it wasn't for the fact that they phased out the Boss chair in most if not all Canadian provincial jails quite some time ago in favour of full body x-rays for this very reason.
Fun fact, most countries arent canada...
@@cycadaacolyte6349 hence why I specificed "Canadian" but I'm sure you couldn't help yourself and had to point this out.
Great vid, but I was really hoping for just the reaction shot of Linus's face while he was bent over a table on set conducting a feasibility study.
Thanks for getting captions done for this!
This is one of the most enjoyable videos I've seen in a while. Informative, and downright stupid, I love it!
0:01 That's what she said
*he
@@rhebucks_zh joke flee over your head
@@flynntaggart7216 1 month late
Even world's smallest phone has a headphone jack while flagship phones have left it giving the excuse of less space
its all an excuse to get you to buy airpods
GIVES A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO BUTT DIALING..
Clearly Linus is unfamiliar with the American prison system...
It’s so crazy to me that this is a product specifically designed to be smuggled into prisons as contraband. I can’t imagine another legitimate use case for this thing. But if you can, let me know.
it would be nice to have as a phone that you don't care about breaking when doing high-movement exercises such as skateboarding. Like, my phone fell out of my pocket twice already while skating and its terrifying to watch hit the asphalt. Thankfully, the case has saved it both times.
Maybe some people might want to put one in their bug out bag 🙂
@@koigoi Yeah, but there are dirt cheep dumb phones out there that aren't ultra small like this one and in a bigger inclosure you get a better battery and the phone lasts for days, or weeks which can be helpful to you more often then this ultra compact size.
Probably whistleblowers and undercover journalists
This phones for chumps. Real convicts suitcase iPhone 13 Pro XL in their rectum
Wait, you didn't actually try a boss scanner? I felt like that was the whole point.
Or put it up his bum.
Nice to see Hetzner as a sponsor. Been using them for a decade, they're excellent!
I can't believe you went through this whole video without making ONE joke about a butt dial...
This phone gives a whole new meaning to the term "butt-dialing".
underrated
I've been watching Linus for years and by far this is the greatest video on the channel. 😂
honestly im clicking like button because you didnt automatically start checking your friends texts- thats like, extremely polite. I love little things like that.
There is a type of CRT TV shaped kind of like the old iMacs that had the built in monitors. They were designed to be allowed in prisons since you couldn't hide things in them easily. (And ironically, for a long time after things like tape decks weren't common they were still used in prisons, which led to a weird situation where many of the 'retro' tape decks available outside of prison had clear shells because their main market was for prison. I tried emailing you once when I saw a video about the CRTs because I thought with an LCD mounted in them they might make a pretty cool PC case build, but you prefer people join your forum to suggest stuff and I'm too lazy to do that, but here is the link for anyone interested.
th-cam.com/video/O3PfsndsihY/w-d-xo.html
oh y eah nice i remem ber seeing an awesome video on clear tech. some fascinating stuff.
There's a Techmoan video about the subject
@@TheTjoconnor funny you say that considering they linked it in their comment :p I thought of it too till I clicked it.
@@nexaentertainment2764 yeah I commented before checking the link lol
Can do wonders if it has dual shock vibrations in it.
13:20 Funnily enough, people in my place calls regular silicone phone cases “condoms” 😂
Never in my fucking life did I expect to see a tutorial on boofing a cell phone on this channel yet here we are. Incredible.
9:55 you missed an opportunity here, you should have texted "Hi ColOn".
10:30 "You gotta use your imagination"
Depends on the prison. If you've seen enough Larry Lawton content you'll know that using your imagination can also get you thrown in solitary.
TLDR: USA prisons are a complete mess.
or your cellmate...
Answering a call while it's... concealed... would be a pain in the ass
💀
literally
I heard that guy was talking shit
Some would actually like it, ( no, I don't speak from experience ).
When someone really is talking out of their arse.
14:04 best out of context pic I have seen in a while.