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My first Android phone had Cupcake on it. It was the HTC Eris i believe. I remember upgrading to Donut and was blown away how much better it ran lol. Before that i had the Nokia 5180 (with a banging leather zipper case), 5310 and 8210.
It's funny to see the phone running on a locked bootloader and a "release" signed software. Makes you think these units were made to sell or release for the public. I used to have an engineering black (HTC EXCA300) unit "SOONER DVT" which had a unlocked bootloader. The software it got shipped with was Android m3-rc22a. The m stands for milestone. Personally the m5-rc14 build was the game changer. Released in February 2008, they got rid of the BlackBerry interface and went towards a finger-friendly interface. This build made it possible to run on existing hardware, since most Windows Mobile smarthpones had touchscreens. You could create your Android build and kernell, and boot it from Windows to Linux with Haret. I used to boot it on my HTC TyTN II, HTC Touch HD and SE Xperia X1. From build 0.9 came the Android look and feel we all know this day. Kinda sad I left Android (2.3.7) to iOS. Had a lot of fun developing and testing it. The Android prototype devices I had tested were: HTC Sooner, HTC Sapphire, HTC Legend, HTC Bravo and Acer Liquid S100. Fun fact: People think the HTC Desire (Bravo) was the first Android smartphone running the Snapdragon 1Ghz chip but it was the Acer Liquid S100. However Acer had down scaled the CPU to 700 or 800 Mhz due to battery drain issues (imo). Another fun fact: Android 1.5 Cupcake was suppose to be Android 2.0 Cupcake. You can find it in early test builds for the HTC Bravo and Acer Liquid S100. These two devices had a lot of similarities due to the Snapdragon chip-set. Enjoy the phone bud! Making me regret selling or giving away all my prototype phones.
"monkey" is likely an internal testing tool which would randomly submit inputs for a set period of time. This is a common automated QA test for apps - no matter what inputs you submit, your app should never crash. I believe a similar tool is available today in androids sdk or developer settings which submits taps at random x y coordinates for testing.
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Kinda reminds me of the Samsung blackjack. I had both versions as a personal phone about 10 years or so ago along with the BlackBerry for work. Both remind me of this phone a bit. It has a lot to be desired but for the year, it probably wasn't too bad of a phone.
My first smart phone was the HTC PPC-6700, which ran Windows Mobile. It had a stylus, which Steve Jobs hated, but I loved. I still miss that slide out, backlit keyboard. I never liked iPhones until the iPhone 7, but I did have the G1 for a while. The whole time I had it, I missed my Windows phones. The HTC Evo was probably the first Android phone I really liked.
Lol loved this! I was cracking up and the wall paper is fire. Really enjoyed the ASMR🤣 mybsister and I are all about it. Never thought about screen peels! I'm all about android so it's nice to see the beginnings of it. My 2008 first smart phone was an HTC mogul that ran off windows. Thanks for doing this🤣🙏🏾
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As long as you can get a SIM card that will fit in there or can transfer a file to it I have the original Pak files for the original quake.... if you want those files for say that phone or any other emulator or device that you're using I would gladly send you the full version .pak files required
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🚨 *QOTD: What do you think about the Google "Sooner" prototype development device? What are your thoughts about the beginning of Android and how far we've come? Are there any things you want me to check out? *
lol, I think they're all sold out!
Can you record and digitalise the ringtones? I kinda like the googlerz one
oh, interesting. I can see what I can do!
@@ThisIsTechToday I bet they all expired by now
All the penguins are an Easter egg because Android uses the Linux kernel I would think :)
Ahhhhh! Interesting!
2G with no WiFi... wow no wonder no one got my texts back in the day.
😂😂😂
My first Android phone had Cupcake on it. It was the HTC Eris i believe. I remember upgrading to Donut and was blown away how much better it ran lol. Before that i had the Nokia 5180 (with a banging leather zipper case), 5310 and 8210.
Man, those are some memories!
7:30 that “sim” slot is the micro sd card slot...
was about to say that sjdhbd
Back in the day we were amazed at this technology 😂. We’ve progressed really fast in a little over a decade.
It's crazy how much has changed!
It's funny to see the phone running on a locked bootloader and a "release" signed software. Makes you think these units were made to sell or release for the public.
I used to have an engineering black (HTC EXCA300) unit "SOONER DVT" which had a unlocked bootloader. The software it got shipped with was Android m3-rc22a. The m stands for milestone. Personally the m5-rc14 build was the game changer. Released in February 2008, they got rid of the BlackBerry interface and went towards a finger-friendly interface. This build made it possible to run on existing hardware, since most Windows Mobile smarthpones had touchscreens. You could create your Android build and kernell, and boot it from Windows to Linux with Haret. I used to boot it on my HTC TyTN II, HTC Touch HD and SE Xperia X1. From build 0.9 came the Android look and feel we all know this day. Kinda sad I left Android (2.3.7) to iOS. Had a lot of fun developing and testing it. The Android prototype devices I had tested were: HTC Sooner, HTC Sapphire, HTC Legend, HTC Bravo and Acer Liquid S100. Fun fact: People think the HTC Desire (Bravo) was the first Android smartphone running the Snapdragon 1Ghz chip but it was the Acer Liquid S100. However Acer had down scaled the CPU to 700 or 800 Mhz due to battery drain issues (imo). Another fun fact: Android 1.5 Cupcake was suppose to be Android 2.0 Cupcake. You can find it in early test builds for the HTC Bravo and Acer Liquid S100. These two devices had a lot of similarities due to the Snapdragon chip-set.
Enjoy the phone bud! Making me regret selling or giving away all my prototype phones.
I just missed buying this on eBay. You were the lucky bidder!
Haha, I bought it so fast 😅
@@ThisIsTechToday yeah. Thanks...but I know you would have made a much better video than me. As you always do.
I can only imagine penguins symbolize Linux kernel.
Haha, you're probably right!
I got the G1 after I gave up on my Sidekick. Now I'm waiting for my Pixel 6 Pro to arrive. Evolution.
Haha! You've been waiting a long time 😝
"monkey" is likely an internal testing tool which would randomly submit inputs for a set period of time. This is a common automated QA test for apps - no matter what inputs you submit, your app should never crash. I believe a similar tool is available today in androids sdk or developer settings which submits taps at random x y coordinates for testing.
Oh, wow. That's so neat!
@@ThisIsTechToday it's supposed to simulate an untrained monkey banging on the controls - thus, monkey!
This is great! Thank you. I go back to the pager days so i got to watch it all unfold and love old tech
Nokia had a similar phone that ran Symbian. Miss my old Nokia and Blackberry
Those were the days!
Feel like it would have been better to compare them to Googles first phones series, The Nexus phones... Loved my Nexus 5.
The sidekick is one of the coolest phones ever made
If you're ever selling this, please let me know first, I'm desperate beyond belief for one if these. None of the ebay listings shipped to my country. Thanks for reading
Sorry, man. No plans to sell it.
This reminds me of my Sony Ericsson that was “touch screen” back in the early 2000s
Haha, awesome
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Aw, thank you so much!!
Kinda reminds me of the Samsung blackjack. I had both versions as a personal phone about 10 years or so ago along with the BlackBerry for work. Both remind me of this phone a bit. It has a lot to be desired but for the year, it probably wasn't too bad of a phone.
So satisfying video!
Does it connect over the ADB if so you could export the APK's and see if they work on a modern device.
I know Ryne Hagar from Android Police and Ron From Ars Technica bave been trying but no luck
@@ThisIsTechToday I doubt there's an APK extractor for that old of a version of Android too. So probably close to impossible.
It's really cute.
It reminds me of the HTC chacha, anyone remember
Another excellent video as always!!! 😁
Thank you so much!
This is Tech Today, Absolutely! This was a very interesting video!
🙏
My first smart phone was the HTC PPC-6700, which ran Windows Mobile. It had a stylus, which Steve Jobs hated, but I loved. I still miss that slide out, backlit keyboard. I never liked iPhones until the iPhone 7, but I did have the G1 for a while. The whole time I had it, I missed my Windows phones. The HTC Evo was probably the first Android phone I really liked.
Haha, wow, that takes me back. J totally remember windows phone 😅
4:04 : YOOOOOO , THATS KITT
Haha!
6:57 Is the home button on Chrome gone for anyone else? I can't find the option in Chrome settings anymore on Android and I miss it 😗
in some ways I miss the old school earphones. I would happily have a physical keyboard again.
holy crap, I didn't know about that earbud trick
Can you install apps on that, from the Google Play Store I mean
Nope!
I wonder if you could flash TWRP on that
Can't wait for the release (if any). Hello from Philippines.
Lol, it won't come out
@@ThisIsTechToday sad. I just loved qwerty keypad, though. Am still using blackberry now. 😊
sad you didn't start the comparisons against the nexus devices.
Unfortunately, I don't have those anymore
Lol loved this! I was cracking up and the wall paper is fire. Really enjoyed the ASMR🤣 mybsister and I are all about it. Never thought about screen peels! I'm all about android so it's nice to see the beginnings of it. My 2008 first smart phone was an HTC mogul that ran off windows. Thanks for doing this🤣🙏🏾
Haha, yeah, this one was really fun!
Pixel is following the battery life game from that time 🙀
nah.
Well now I feel stupid. I never knew that was how you used old school wired earbuds.
Lol. Now you know!
It's cool to see! I wonder if you could still make an app for this thing using Android studio 🤔
I'm not that skilled, tbh.
Software keyboards get my vote.
I thought I would prefer the physical keys, but I actually like software more. So crazy!
I wish someone back in the day told me that's how you used to use those bloody headphones 🤣
Man u did the oixel 4 nasty over there
The reason why it has a lot of penguin photos it is to show that android is based of Linux
There was a series of google phones before pixel's
Called Nexus
You ate up all those years
I'm aware. Do you want to buy all of them for me so I can compare them or can you be okay with just the pixels I own?
so cool!
Thanks, Brandon!
Hello!
Thanks for being first!!
Maybe HTC Cha Cha was inspired from this...
It's free and it's 5% off your purchase. So much for this free
Huh?
@@ThisIsTechToday I thought you said free service and suddenly you're saying 5% off purchase.
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@@ThisIsTechToday oh, now I understand. I thought you said we're going to purchase it with 5% off. Thanks for more explanation
It's must a very good phone they must have Launch that phone
Why self isolation
The top of the phone looks like a face haha
One of my favorite things in the world is "faces in the wild." haha.
._.
HTC - Nexus - PiXEL
The penguins i guess is bc of linux and if you pay atention the pixel one has a design that look like the sooner maybe they took inspiration of it
Watching this makes me miss my BlackBerry pearl.. haha
Haha, those old school keyboards.
Charger with a *mini USB plug
Whoops!
That is like the Adam and Eve of smartphones..
Haha, totally.
Just imagine what phones would look like if iphone never took off.
Yay, old school snake game. :)
Sooo I know it’s 3 years ago but still I have to say the slotyou thought is for sim cards is for sd card lul
As long as you can get a SIM card that will fit in there or can transfer a file to it I have the original Pak files for the original quake.... if you want those files for say that phone or any other emulator or device that you're using I would gladly send you the full version .pak files required
Wow
Penguins, it's a Linux thing.
Makes sense!
Roasting google at 1:15
nah.
After This
Nobody Complain About
Specs Again Okay
lol, fr.
Sup dude
yo!
Can I play fnf on it?
No
TELL ME WHERE THE DEVICE IS!
Sold out!