Back when the speed of your fingers typing was faster than the phone could handle so at the end you’d be done and just watch the text finish writing itself :’)
When I was a kid, I remember being excited every time I would get a catalog for mobile phones and flip through the pages in awe of all the different and unique designs. Yeah, almost all of them were Nokia.
i remember that to, all thoose designs were so cool to look at and futuristic at the time, now i tend to think everything looks the same except the new flip phones
yeah, i feel half dread and half nostalgia. Sometimesbi forgot that year 2000 was 20 years ago, i will be probably be meeting new office mates at work who were born at year 2000.
"When Phones Were Fun" is literally the best and most enjoyable mobile phone related content on the internet right now. Thanks for the huge amounts of nostalgia Michael !
There's something oddly warm about having so many phone choices, and going into a shop to pick one that suits your unique personality and lifestyle. You whip that thing out like it's an extension of you. It's YOUR gadget.
You mean nowadays? All the phones look exactly the same, have the same features and same Operating systems. The only choice you have whether you're gonna buy a "cheap" 400 euro one, or splash for an over 1000eu.
Just so you know, I watched this episode with the biggest smile on my face. This made the inner teenage dork me glad in ways I can't quite explain. I honestly can't wait for you to cover the N-Series of Nokia devices. Those were well ahead of their time.
I had several models from this video, my favourite one was 6600i due to its functionality. I had loads of apps installed, including a universal remote control. Used to have a lot of fun with it in shops. The camera was not that bad for that time.
In 2001 I had the watch with Built-in remote control I used to hide behind the bushes and turn the TV on and off and change the channels while people watching the soccer In the shops I will never forget that was so funny
As a kid in the 90s and 2000s Finland people really followed all the new models and if some kid got the latest Nokia model everyone was around him checking it out. It was a fun time for sure.
I was the first in my class to get a phone with a real music player incorporated.... Nokia 6200. Was the very first to come with real dual headphones (until then all phones came with just one side call handlers) and was among the first with color screen. I was like a celebrity for a week lol. Even managed to get the hotest girls to take themselves photos with it and gave me a free date with the hottest one.... sadly she was so dumb that all attraction I had for her died on that date.
I loved those times in high school, everyone had a different phone, and every time a new phone came out you had no idea how it would look like or what it could do.
Weird yet good phones still exist, but your typical teenager girl will only have the latest apple device. Even if it they removed the cameras, they would get it.
"when phones were fun" is a great title for this series. just the other day, i was talking with my friends about how all phones are the same now, and how they all used to be wildly different. all of us had a COMPLETELY different phone. there was no "is that my phone?" confusion, you can tell which one was who's phone from across the room.
My friend owned a Nokia 3650. She was happy she did not have to always charge her phone because no one wants to use it, because of it’s keypad. But I did. I love the style.
*Nokia were the days when u didn't really have to care about ur screen after mistakingly dropping the phone* _Just pick up ur battery , back cover, put them back & ur phone is alright_ 📱
That was the same with my Nokia Asha 311. I keep dropping that multiple times and I kid you not, it cracked one of the tiles of my old house but the phone was just fine.
@@liveletlive3348 I wish other phone brands has the same resiliency as the older Nokias. I beleive that Nokia was bought by Microsoft so I doubt the Nokias of today are just as strong as the originals.
The Nokia “Double 6 Double 0” 6600 was such a gem. Me being a kid would envy seeing this on the hands of the elders and wanted to replace it with my 3310. Grew up with these phones wow!
I always got handmedown phones from my sister when she upgraded and got the 6600, It was the first phone I ever played a FPS game (wolfenstein) it had a 32mb memory, ended up upgrading it to 2gb. My sister got the N93 that thing was a beast, remember conecting it to the TV and playing games on that thing.
I`ve been looking to downgrade my phone to a dumb phone to get kinda detoxed from social media! and found your channel! that's nostalgia right there! can't believe I didn't find you earlier haha.
watching this series is really making me miss those days. There's just something sooooo satisfying about flipping a phone closed, or slapping it shut, sliding it closed, etc. They were all so different from each other. I remember walking through the phone stores shopping for the phone with the best aesthetic.
I remember how incredibly annoying those phones were as someone with a hearing impairment! Boyfriends and my parents kept buying me phones which I never charged and never remembered to carry. At first, I would send a text but people answered text with a call back. When I didn't answer the phone and didn't check my voicemail, they'd nag. It wasn't until the advent of the smartphone, that phones became relevant. Not that having a smartphone meant I suddenly started answering my phone or calling people. Just that they had the ability to check what time places opened, helped me find restaurants, bus schedules, check flight departure time, had information that I wanted on me when I was out. When people saw me using it and not just leaving it at home, they started to learn if they answered a text with a text, I'd answer.
@@MuhammadKharismawan Pretty much, or at least who can afford them. But man some of those Nokia phones were my dream phone back in the day. Each phone models back in the day has its own unique personality, on all price range. Back in the day it's either Nokia or Sony Ericsson would be one of the choice.
I remember going to my neighbor's house and her husband had this monster (Nokia 6600) chilling on the dinner table back in 2004. I was with my father and brother, and when I saw it I screamed & I kept telling them don't you know what this is? It's the greatest phone in existance, it's super expensive! And they looked at me weird like ok so what? I was the only one hyped as fuck, I couldn't believe my eyes what I was seeing, I was only 11 years old. After 3-4 years I was able to buy an used 6600, but at that point it wasn't as popular, the price dropped significantly and nobody cared about it haha, but I cared A LOT, I was so happy I had it, and I still feel sad that I sold it later on. God what an impact that phone made on me, the design, the feel in the hand, the placement of the buttons, the fact that it was so wide.... That device made a statement when you saw it, it was very destinctive and unique, it stood out so much from the rest of the phones that were out, in my opinion to this date its the greatest design of a phone ever. Even now when I just see a picture of that device I get a tingly feeling that reminds me of the best times in my life, a feeling I will never be able to describe with words unfortunately.. Miss those days
yeah the mighties 6600. i was the happiest when i first got it in 2005, install all apps and games i could find to fully utilize it, never wished for another phone while i got it. funnily enough, soap is what i call it in 2013 when i got my 2nd 6600, it was the time when andriod is rising and new phones became flat and rectangle.
Exactly! And their software as well. Their Symbian and its app ecosystem were second to none. I understood why they were such a smug when the iPhone came out and quickly dismissed it. Well, they were the king then and dominated both the hardware and software department.
Paul Aldo, I personally think that Symbian was better than Android back then, I mean it has so much potential, even with such inferior specifications it can run many apps at the same time way better than android, it even can run Phyton. Android only feels good lately with the major specs bumps. Not even to mention Maemo OS. God, Nokia just too early to abandon its own OS. Nokia just needs to adapt the new touch UI interface and convince the devs to port their apps to Symbian. Nokia could take on both Android and iOS with its own self but sadly it fell for Windows Phone. Sadly everything can only be remembered as a sad tragedy in the smartphone industry. As a result, we stuck with Both Android or iOS, Apple vs Samsung vs Other Chinese brands.
I bought the N95 because it beat the iPhone in every way.. still to this day don't understand the hype of the iphone, it was AWFUL.. No 3g, no flash, no expandable storage..
When i was using Nokia 1. Where did i kept my charger not seen in 5 days. 2. I can jump and run without holding my pocket. 3. Wet hands no problem. 4. Need to type message without looking in class room. 5. Why my thumbs hurt? 6. What is meant by lagging, i know only loading. 7. I am not a selfie freak. Camera? Please i need for wallpaper.
Mate I love this series. I live was raised in eastern europe. I remember dreaming about many of those phones when I was in my early teens. They were my young geek object of desire. I've recently purchased Samsung z fold 3, it's a downgrade in many terms to my old device. But bought it inspired by your videos. The form factor is just fun, like in the old days. I love it. Keep the series going its still so much to cover. Nokia communicators, Sony Ericsson P series...
Really, I don't be amazed that much in present with newly launched current phones with any new featrure, camera or build like in those days with Nokia and Sony. I remember Samsung, Apple was nothing those days in front of Sony and Nokia in smartphone category.
Nokia PC Suite 7 allowed one to send and receive SMS, make and receive calls, all from the PC via cable connection or Bluetooth. This was way back in 2006-ish.
Back in the days when life was fun full stop. Nowadays, most people are simply not as happy because of an inferiority complex caused by social media. People crave attention because they see others more successful online and feel pressured to promote themselves in ever more desperate ways to boost their own self esteem. It started with Facebook and the competition to see who could get as many “friends” as possible to convince themselves they are popular. A grotesque pursuit of false happiness through jealousy and insecurities. We had none of that shit before the internet.
Wait another 20 years, youtuber that time will be making old Android and apple fon, if TH-cam's still exists , cant wait if the smartphone still can function after several decade
Holy crap these phones were cementing my childhood as being “poor” for rocking Siemens phones while my friends were sporting all these gems. And Sony Ericssons.
Siemens phones were not all bad. I used to have an SX1 which combined the wacky designs of the Nokia phones of the time with I think Symbian S60 and I think the inside was a beefed up 6600.
Yall, I used the Siemens C35, with antenna protruding out of the body and a screen that could only accommodate 4 lines (remember those?)! Sony Ericsson T610 was my dream back then 😂
As a 28yo Finnish guy i remember all of these and i was even only one in my school to own a 7710. It was super cool as a kid. To me 2003-2009 will always be golden era of mobile phones, companies were really trying something new and innovative vs. Now when everything looks and feels same.
I think, for now we're at a standpoint. Maybe foldables will bring back some of those excitement. I said some, cos they're just crazily expensive and might stay that way for a long time perhaps.
The Nokia 3650 was my first phone, I thought it was awesome that I could listen to MP3s and take pictures with it. And it had great battery life! Those were good times.
I remember when the first iPhone came out. I was so confused as to why a phone with such obsolete specs was so popular. I only now realized that the US didn't have this constant barrage of high end Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones every year like we had in the UK and Europe.
It eas moteso yhat Apple marketed thr shit outta them. Jobs KNEW his product wouldnt compete technically; so they just pushed them as the hip/trendy option for young in-touch twentysomethings. It wasn't until those twentysomethings got older, that yhey looked back and realized that buying a $1000 phone every year because a commercial had Justin Long and U2 in it was f*cking stupid.
Lol in Canada we got the iPad touch before the iPhone and a couple people brought unlocked American iphones and it was so crappy lol "but it has a zippo app!!" So slow the only thing it had was the larger screen but they were such slower than my phone at the time
No it got famous because it had everything that you need and doesn't look like a child's toy. Yes Nokia was fun, but for a few days. iPhone was a perfect combination of size, usability, features, design and software support.
@@arkodeepsen3627 The iPhone, at launch, barely offered anything more than the Nokia/Sony Ericsson phones at the time. It actually offered much less. It had a 2MP Camera, no expandable storage, no App Store, you couldn't even do basic things like changing your wallpaper. It was more of a dumbphone than a smartphone. Meanwhile, the K850i released the same year gave you a 5MP + VGA selfie camera setup with expandable storage, 3G Video calling, 3.5G Internet browsing and a plethora of features. The only thing the iPhone had going for it (and still does) was its software and pre-existing ecosystem.
Had the 7650 myself in the UK when I was about 16. Needless to say the ability to shoot video (10secs worth), view webpages and boot up Doom on it was absolutely mind blowing to me and my friends. I also had a Samsung P300 (the calculator phone) a few years after that, which although more simple, you'd probably like from a design perspective. I'd love to send you it to review, but a girlfriend lost mine back in 2007.
That's likely because were only starting to get far enough away from them for it to be a bygone era. The same reason I think there's now so much nostalgia for 90s computing I've seen growing over the decade when not too long ago, nostalgia seemed to start at the 80s
Living through that era, I really loved the Nokia phones. I had a few of the phones you showed, brought back some nostalgia. Thanks for the great channel. Mike from sunny South Africa, Cape Town
oh yeah that's my favorite part on old phones. I used to record songs on my nokia and use them as ringtones, I LOVE THAT!! Then I got disappointed when I found out that my smartphone can't do that :(
I can’t lie, I am a bit surprised and deluded that you didn’t mention the N90: It is basically a flip phone & a Camera. It looks to be quite professional. It wasn’t just an original brand but also an innovative one. Nokia,Apple and Asus are top tier brands that redefined the industry. (Of course Samsung and Huawei have done great things and Samsung is literally one of the best in terms of performance but in my opinion non as revolutionary as others).
They are not "cheap and plasticky" it was part of the design, to make them more durable,also you could change out kb and panels on some phones,either oem or aftermarket. The insides were usually metal,again for resistance
There was one Nokia model i had that had transparent case and a cutout maker in the box - you could print whatever picture you wanted, cut it and put it underneath the case. It was the coolest thing ever! This is the phone shown at 1:10 Nokia 3200 :D
th-cam.com/video/LMItYlaahF0/w-d-xo.html Now watching this video I remember they had those fancy holographic cutouts for it too, so the back and front was "animated" when looking at different angles. This was to me probably the best phone ever made, since I always liked to have different colors of phones as a kid. I actually wish the back plates of today's phones would be replaceable too, or even just made like the 3200. Dbrand is kinda doing that, but stickers on the phone are not as premium as putting something under a case.
True and also not true, the plastic IS a cheap feeling, lame material, its just that the reason it was used was a utilitarian one. That being said, plastic is actually pretty good for mobile devices, however modern smartphones aren't really treated as such by consumers or companies (which is why they ALL fare infamously horribly upon the slightest drops). They're used more like mini PCs than like actual phones, which is the reason they got so large and glassy in the recent years, carrying it around outside is literally quite often NOT the intended use case for them. Which is incredibly annoying to anyone who actually uses their phone outside of their bed or their table. Like i broke EVERY SINGLE smartphone i have EVER owned, the recent glass trend not making it easier on me at all lmao
This makes me understand why americans seem to believe apple invented the smartphone, and nokia peaked around the nineties. You guys got no new tech inbetween?
@@Alexandra_Hill I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that's not true. A smartphone is not a device with touchscreen, it's a device with an OS that allow you to install and run applications, and that's what these Nokias were able to do, so they predated the iPhone and LG Prada as true smartphones
@@jackbushmate It did have an operating system and you could download and install apps. Albeit it didn't have a chunk of space so you were limited, I mean really limited, of how much you could download on to it. I'm not bullshitting you dude, I honestly remember it. I absolutely loved the damn thing, it had a cracking camera as well.
In the Philippines Nokia was THE phone in 2000s! These odd phones were very popular here at that time. My sisters had 3210 in 2000, N-Gage(game centric phone), 3300(another taco shaped phone that glows in the dark lol), 3310 and other odd Nokia phones that were also on this vid!
This definitely brings me back to the "recent" days when everyone was walking around with some sort of Nokia. I really wish they were still on top of their game now, because (aside from the mentioned foldables) phones are not as inspired and crazy. Thanks for the throwback and keeping up with this near series
@@resneptacle It's hard to appreciate the fun of simple games like Snake or Brick Breaker today because our brains have been fried by 10+ years of having always-on Internet
I owned a 6630 and a N95, they were both awesome. But especially the N95, because it had all the best features of its day. It even supported playing Doom II, which worked perfectly. I don't think it's even possible to play it properly on a touchscreen.
The number is (1) 909-595-2262. I got a call from you, and your hair was wet, remember that? Call me back when you know more information, okay? Maybe you'll need to drive down there, see if he's under another name
The “When Phones Were Fun” series is the best. Brings back so many memories. I myself was a phone buff. I used so many of the phones of that time (mostly Nokia). Wish I had preserved and kept them too. But I was in school/ college and didn’t care enough at that time. Anyway it’s always good to come back and watch your videos and reminisce the good times of mobile phones. Don’t think such a time would get repeated ever again. PS - watching this video series for the hundredth time since upload
Had one for a month but was stolen. Bought the Motorola V3 RAZR next which I used from 2004 to 2013 amazingly. Only swaped the battery once and I didn't use it for social media.
Omg you literally showed up all Nokia phones that I owned back then: my first phone 3310, then 6600 who got stolen, and the last, 7650. Man, Nokia was king of handphones in early 2000. I am so glad living in that era and experienced what the technology has become to today :)
Nostalgic to say the least, I was born in Portugal and had almost every phone in this video, the ones with Symbian s60 OS were definitely ahead of their time with apps, games and multiple features...
I miss those times running around with my best friend and everyone had a different phone (mostly nokia, but also motorola's) those were the days growing up inbetween 90's and 2010 :D Greetings from Austria
And Sony Ericsson ones too, especially those models with flipping keyboard cover.. Though Nokia at that time was the king of the hill.. And certain numbers of Siemens..
@@JanoyCresvaZero you mean back when you could make your OWN ringtones? I remember some magazines had a page with ringtone composer codes for phones with a music composing feature like Nokia did
@@JoCaTen what? You can still make your own ringtone. There’s whole apps for that & apple allows you to import your own favorite music as your ringtone
I had a 3650 as a 15 year old. I saved and scrimped for ages to get it. The 7650 had come out first and I played with my mates one. It was unbelievable - but only had 4mb of built in storage. The 3650 had an MMC slot. I converted Battle Royale, the Japanese Lord of the Flies type film, and watched it at school with my mates. It was unbelievable at the time!
This brings back so many memories, when i was a teen i used to watch these phones on the display at stores with magnificent detailed displays and just drool while i carried my alcatel ( wich everyone at the time were using) , the commercials were amazing and almost hollywood blockbuster like, i smiled so much watching this video, thank Mr.Mobile for making me relive the awesomeness of yesterday. Much love from Portugal
I really do miss this era of phones from Nokia, here in the UK, in the noughties. Every model was unique, not one friend or classmate had the same phone. Love to go back to basics. Simple life. Sharing music via bluetooth or IR. Texting in classes. Comparing whos phone is the best.
This era of phones was like the cars from Japan in the late 80s-early 90s, and we'll never see anything like again. It wasn't just Nokia, Sony Ericsson was doing some interesting things too (as was Siemens, especially through their Xelibri line). Literally ALL of my friends had the 6600 at one point. It was nicknamed, "Panda" in certain parts of the world.
Nokia 6600 was pure love, only taken over by the N73. The games that these guys could run, the software the screen....everything was out of this world for the time.
Wonder what happened to Sony Ericsson's W series. I was so much into it in the year 2008 and managed to get one from my parents in exchange of scoring good at University. 😅
Michael: "This is without question, the most ridiculous phone I ever held." The Nokia 7280 wich will be featured at some point in this section: "Sure it is buddy, sure it is"
I had a 7280 years ago. My sister had some crazy designer Nokia. That 7280 was a godsend in school where we weren't allowed to have a phone, but none of the teachers thought it was one.
@@KaiserAllen oh shit, I don't think I ever knew the 7280 had a successor in the 7380 :o I mean, their naming scheme didn't exactly encourage product lineup exploration, you just browsed what was on display physically in the shop. I think I prefer how the 7380 looks, design-wise.
Yeah 7280 was in my mind when he said that lol. I had tried my friend’s 7280 back then, its was very cool, but the only problem was i need to scroll the wheel letter by letter whenever i want to type. Imagine when you want to save a girl’s contact haha
Seeing this phones just gave me a ton of nostalgia! Just a quick note: The leading S in S40, S60, etc. Doesn't mean 'Symbian', it actually stands for 'Series'. Only the more advanced platforms (S60, S80, S90) are Symbian based, and the rest (S30, S40) being completely different beasts.
so, fun fact, when my dad was working at T-Mo on the certification end of things obviously there was a plethora of phones he got to have that either just passed network testing or that he had to help rewrite software for, the 7650 was one of those phones, when he had finished rewriting part of the SMS app, he gave it to my older who took it to school and within a week had gotten a Bluetooth worm, bricking the phone.
My dad has a nokia somewhere in the house, that thing has dropped out of our 1st story window... TWICE. It was dropped from chest height dozens of times, been through water dmg, heat dmg and it still works to this day... purely amazing.
My 3310 and the 7610 (CDMA phone), been fallen out from 3rd stories, dropped and run over by cars, 2x, and i had to throw it at a creep as self defense weapon, and it still runs like a bull. ....miss the old Nokia.
I'm from Germany and those phones were everywhere. I always wanted the last phone but it was too expensive for me, as I was just a kid. I remember all of the Sony Ericssons, the Nokias and the Motorolas from back then... They were everywhere. The nostalgia hit when you let the polyphonic ringtone play out was immense. It was so awesome back then to hear your phone play an almost actual song, even though it was just midi.
I love those days. The time humans used phones as a TOOL. As 18 years old, I didn't have those kinds of phones but I can remember when I was a kid my father had a Nokia 3310. That snake game was so good. Wish I can go back to my childhood.
I could be your dad then and I'm only 35. I had a nokia 3310. Those were the days.... Each phone had it's own "personality" and uniqueness even if it was from the same brand like nokia. Nowadays phones are just the same old sh*t with slightly different hardware across the board. Nothing fancy or extraordinary looking. I missed the fun of watching so many varieties of phones, colors, shapes, styles, designs....
My grandpa still uses Nokia button phones, and trust me, those are THE best phones. I especially loved diamond rush, bounce, snake and that building game. Ah the good times...
@@RichardJoashTan I think Because Nowadays in 2020 People Take care of their phones more than their own lives so there is a rare chance of Losing or Breaking it. And Nowadays We use a phone only upto 3-4 years because of Old Androids/iOS and Phones become slow
The 3650 was one of my favorite phones ever in terms of the memories I had with it. So many people didn’t know wtf it was and I had a great time with it. That, the OG iPhone and the LG g3 are my favorite phones ever owned due to the memories. Great video. Thanks for the nostalgia.
It's not quite the same, but the Evernote widget on Android can start taking an audio note at one press. Unlock the screen with a fingerprint and tap once. I use it regularly. It's great, but if you wanted to go further it's certainly possible to remap the volume keys to basically whatever you want. I'm sure you could remap it to start taking an audio note in a similar manner. That said, I'd love a dedicated button dedicated to uses like this, but natively customisable.
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Back when the speed of your fingers typing was faster than the phone could handle so at the end you’d be done and just watch the text finish writing itself :’)
Damn! You are so true 🤣
Lmao. Good one
yes!
Oh shit so true
😂😂 ah yes!
When I was a kid, I remember being excited every time I would get a catalog for mobile phones and flip through the pages in awe of all the different and unique designs. Yeah, almost all of them were Nokia.
i remember that to, all thoose designs were so cool to look at and futuristic at the time, now i tend to think everything looks the same except the new flip phones
Same here. I used to get mad
yeah nokia had a lot of cool design... only wish they work a bit more on usable software...
Robert Von Raccoon I hate the same looking notch phones ,I prefer a bit of bezels ...or a blackberry .
i remmeber that toooooo... and comparing our phones who had the best designs...now, all are just colorful rectangulars....
The era when Nokia could only be defeated by other nokia.
wow !!! really absolutely true.
in total units sold nokia's bestsellers haven't even been beaten yet.
Yes yes.. absolutely 😵😂
True
Nah. There was challenging over horizon named SonyEricsson. Not maybe fun as Nokia but quite unique functionality for the price in those years.
ah good old days when life was simple yet crazy in a fun way
Yeah
Never thought I would see the day when people would talk about the 2000's like how my dad would talk about the late 70's.
Just like yesterday
yeah, i feel half dread and half nostalgia. Sometimesbi forgot that year 2000 was 20 years ago, i will be probably be meeting new office mates at work who were born at year 2000.
When i realise 1990 was 30 years ago... 🤯🤯
Hey my dad is a NOKIA dealer
@@deadsoulvamp great scott@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first thing I always did when bought a new phone is listening to the ringtones and checking out the games
Omg same
I AM THE ALMIGHTY 69TH LIKE
The most popular game in nokia! The Snake eat bug things! Dang i miss those game
The ringtones were the first songs I listened to on a phone
Then ask someone to send u a whole mp3 song via bluetooth and now you will have a 4mins song for a message tone.
We've grown up with nokia's snake game. Thank you nokia.
You forget space impact??
@@JK-xy7ci I don't remember that so much but I slightly remember the mine sweeper game. If it's right.
Thank you Snokia
3510 didn't had snake. I mostly had SE phones.
SNAKE OF EDEN??
Golden old days. Miss those days. It was really fun to play with these toys.
"When Phones Were Fun" is literally the best and most enjoyable mobile phone related content on the internet right now. Thanks for the huge amounts of nostalgia Michael !
YESS!! That's why I subscribed. 😁
Brings back childhood memories
There's something oddly warm about having so many phone choices, and going into a shop to pick one that suits your unique personality and lifestyle. You whip that thing out like it's an extension of you. It's YOUR gadget.
You mean nowadays? All the phones look exactly the same, have the same features and same Operating systems. The only choice you have whether you're gonna buy a "cheap" 400 euro one, or splash for an over 1000eu.
Shot on Iphone
lol true
And now they are all brick shaped lol.
you seem to be taking this way too seriously, you can do the same with a phonecase or accessories
Just so you know, I watched this episode with the biggest smile on my face. This made the inner teenage dork me glad in ways I can't quite explain.
I honestly can't wait for you to cover the N-Series of Nokia devices. Those were well ahead of their time.
FUCKING. YES.
Hell yeah
Went through maybe 90% of the N-series roster before I was finished with Nokia and switched to Samsung Notes
Or the 6300. God that thing was so popular!!
One thing that wasn't highlighted was how Symbian s60 could keep many apps in memory and allow for true multitasking!
I hope that gets mentioned in the N-Series videos... if at all!
I had several models from this video, my favourite one was 6600i due to its functionality. I had loads of apps installed, including a universal remote control. Used to have a lot of fun with it in shops. The camera was not that bad for that time.
In 2001 I had the watch with Built-in remote control I used to hide behind the bushes and turn the TV on and off and change the channels while people watching the soccer In the shops I will never forget that was so funny
As a kid in the 90s and 2000s Finland people really followed all the new models and if some kid got the latest Nokia model everyone was around him checking it out. It was a fun time for sure.
Really miss that era mate. Am missing my qwerty phone esp
Damn I remember when I got my first touch screen Nokia and was the first in my class to get one. That was so damn cool lol
It happened all over the world not just finland.
Everyone: What does it do? Show us!!
I was the first in my class to get a phone with a real music player incorporated.... Nokia 6200. Was the very first to come with real dual headphones (until then all phones came with just one side call handlers) and was among the first with color screen. I was like a celebrity for a week lol. Even managed to get the hotest girls to take themselves photos with it and gave me a free date with the hottest one.... sadly she was so dumb that all attraction I had for her died on that date.
I loved those times in high school, everyone had a different phone, and every time a new phone came out you had no idea how it would look like or what it could do.
Or even how to go though menu 😅
Those good ole days
Weird yet good phones still exist, but your typical teenager girl will only have the latest apple device. Even if it they removed the cameras, they would get it.
Yea...
Every phone is like a fun puzzle! Just like when i (siemens user) swapped phone with my buddy (Moto User) for kicks and giggle.
"when phones were fun" is a great title for this series. just the other day, i was talking with my friends about how all phones are the same now, and how they all used to be wildly different. all of us had a COMPLETELY different phone. there was no "is that my phone?" confusion, you can tell which one was who's phone from across the room.
That and the gazillion different fascias you could dress your phone in
My friend owned a Nokia 3650. She was happy she did not have to always charge her phone because no one wants to use it, because of it’s keypad. But I did. I love the style.
Nokias were ubiquitous in the early 2000s.
Their sturdiness is still to be found in the phones of this generation
i still use a 2100 at work daily.
I still have my 1100. It's still functional but the battery drains too fast and i can't find replacement.
At least until the 2010's where smartphones became more popular with the masses, although keypad phones are still used today
My E63 was working until 2015 but I lost it on my way home hahaha
*Nokia were the days when u didn't really have to care about ur screen after mistakingly dropping the phone*
_Just pick up ur battery , back cover, put them back & ur phone is alright_ 📱
That was the same with my Nokia Asha 311. I keep dropping that multiple times and I kid you not, it cracked one of the tiles of my old house but the phone was just fine.
@@damebeing yeah Nokia could also be used as melee weapon 😀 , it was literally so strong
@@liveletlive3348 I wish other phone brands has the same resiliency as the older Nokias. I beleive that Nokia was bought by Microsoft so I doubt the Nokias of today are just as strong as the originals.
@@damebeing we are talking about phones , but in today's world even people are not that reliable enough 🙃😄
That era was still best
And just after starting it, Reset the Clock also 😁😁
The Nokia “Double 6 Double 0” 6600 was such a gem. Me being a kid would envy seeing this on the hands of the elders and wanted to replace it with my 3310. Grew up with these phones wow!
Nokia Double 6 Double 0 was my very first Mobile Phone. Got a lot of wonderful and crazy memories with it.
I always got handmedown phones from my sister when she upgraded and got the 6600, It was the first phone I ever played a FPS game (wolfenstein) it had a 32mb memory, ended up upgrading it to 2gb. My sister got the N93 that thing was a beast, remember conecting it to the TV and playing games on that thing.
@@thetechfromheaven Good Times; Good Times.
I live in Saudi Arabia
It was my second phone
We call it (the panda) 🐼 because it looked like a panda 🐼
I had the red and black 7610. The coolest phone I've ever had
I`ve been looking to downgrade my phone to a dumb phone to get kinda detoxed from social media! and found your channel! that's nostalgia right there! can't believe I didn't find you earlier haha.
watching this series is really making me miss those days. There's just something sooooo satisfying about flipping a phone closed, or slapping it shut, sliding it closed, etc. They were all so different from each other. I remember walking through the phone stores shopping for the phone with the best aesthetic.
I fondly remember my 7650. That phone was just awesome. My only wished for a memory card slot.
I remember how incredibly annoying those phones were as someone with a hearing impairment!
Boyfriends and my parents kept buying me phones which I never charged and never remembered to carry. At first, I would send a text but people answered text with a call back. When I didn't answer the phone and didn't check my voicemail, they'd nag.
It wasn't until the advent of the smartphone, that phones became relevant. Not that having a smartphone meant I suddenly started answering my phone or calling people. Just that they had the ability to check what time places opened, helped me find restaurants, bus schedules, check flight departure time, had information that I wanted on me when I was out. When people saw me using it and not just leaving it at home, they started to learn if they answered a text with a text, I'd answer.
I would go out lf my way to thisbone phone shop who got the latest phones each time just to fondle with them, flip, twist, slide, etc
People nowadays: "Samsung is better than iPhone"
Me in 2000s: "My Nokia is better than your Nokia."
Btw always a great video from MrMobile.
Right 👉 man
more like my Nokia is better than your SonyEricsson
Yeah they’re all so different you can pick a person’s character from what Nokia they carry
@@MuhammadKharismawan Pretty much, or at least who can afford them. But man some of those Nokia phones were my dream phone back in the day. Each phone models back in the day has its own unique personality, on all price range.
Back in the day it's either Nokia or Sony Ericsson would be one of the choice.
I find it a bit annoying that for many people android = samsung and no other phones exist besides Samsung and iphone
Ahhhh, classic Nokia, those were the days!
Yeah, we had many choices in one brand to show off our phones.
I remember going to my neighbor's house and her husband had this monster (Nokia 6600) chilling on the dinner table back in 2004. I was with my father and brother, and when I saw it I screamed & I kept telling them don't you know what this is? It's the greatest phone in existance, it's super expensive! And they looked at me weird like ok so what? I was the only one hyped as fuck, I couldn't believe my eyes what I was seeing, I was only 11 years old. After 3-4 years I was able to buy an used 6600, but at that point it wasn't as popular, the price dropped significantly and nobody cared about it haha, but I cared A LOT, I was so happy I had it, and I still feel sad that I sold it later on. God what an impact that phone made on me, the design, the feel in the hand, the placement of the buttons, the fact that it was so wide.... That device made a statement when you saw it, it was very destinctive and unique, it stood out so much from the rest of the phones that were out, in my opinion to this date its the greatest design of a phone ever. Even now when I just see a picture of that device I get a tingly feeling that reminds me of the best times in my life, a feeling I will never be able to describe with words unfortunately..
Miss those days
yeah the mighties 6600. i was the happiest when i first got it in 2005, install all apps and games i could find to fully utilize it, never wished for another phone while i got it. funnily enough, soap is what i call it in 2013 when i got my 2nd 6600, it was the time when andriod is rising and new phones became flat and rectangle.
It's design is stand out but too loud over the years, it is content that became important not the design.
Nokia was always ahead it's time back then. Remember when a phone was unique with Every model has its own personality.
Came here to say the same.
Nokia was all I ever used back then. They were great devices.
Exactly! And their software as well. Their Symbian and its app ecosystem were second to none. I understood why they were such a smug when the iPhone came out and quickly dismissed it. Well, they were the king then and dominated both the hardware and software department.
Back when they thought "we haven't found the best way to make phones yet, let's try everything"
Paul Aldo, I personally think that Symbian was better than Android back then, I mean it has so much potential, even with such inferior specifications it can run many apps at the same time way better than android, it even can run Phyton. Android only feels good lately with the major specs bumps. Not even to mention Maemo OS. God, Nokia just too early to abandon its own OS. Nokia just needs to adapt the new touch UI interface and convince the devs to port their apps to Symbian. Nokia could take on both Android and iOS with its own self but sadly it fell for Windows Phone. Sadly everything can only be remembered as a sad tragedy in the smartphone industry. As a result, we stuck with Both Android or iOS, Apple vs Samsung vs Other Chinese brands.
When I bought Nokia N95 as a teenager, I thought it was the peak. It had everything.
I still want it today.. like its rear camera is still better than my smartphones front camera.
When the only N95 we knew was a phone. Things were simple back then
I bought the N95 because it beat the iPhone in every way..
still to this day don't understand the hype of the iphone, it was AWFUL..
No 3g, no flash, no expandable storage..
Oh man! The N95. My classmate had one, the 4GB model. Damn he had girls all around him 😂
@@doomguy2.0 😂😂 this comment deserves millions of likes.
When i was using Nokia
1. Where did i kept my charger not seen in 5 days.
2. I can jump and run without holding my pocket.
3. Wet hands no problem.
4. Need to type message without looking in class room.
5. Why my thumbs hurt?
6. What is meant by lagging, i know only loading.
7. I am not a selfie freak. Camera? Please i need for wallpaper.
Today’s kids will never know how to type on a phone without looking. 😂
i know that feel , how fast we can type without looking.
great memories
Ah, the 9x3 keyboard...huh? What do you mean, teach? (Slips the phone back into the desk-selves)
No 4 is so truuuuueee, and sometime with just one hand. This legendary skill are no longer exist☹️
There're still Nokia keypad phones or it was called feature phones today.
Mate I love this series. I live was raised in eastern europe. I remember dreaming about many of those phones when I was in my early teens. They were my young geek object of desire.
I've recently purchased Samsung z fold 3, it's a downgrade in many terms to my old device. But bought it inspired by your videos. The form factor is just fun, like in the old days. I love it.
Keep the series going its still so much to cover. Nokia communicators, Sony Ericsson P series...
Really, I don't be amazed that much in present with newly launched current phones with any new featrure, camera or build like in those days with Nokia and Sony. I remember Samsung, Apple was nothing those days in front of Sony and Nokia in smartphone category.
@@GauravMishra-kj4tg As they say "Those were really the days man" 🖤 Golden Times
@@rkaybeniwal12 Yeah😣😔😢😭
I miss those days
Remember when you could change the keypad and casing? I miss those times
We case our phones, so, technically you can change the casing of your phones haha.
lol 😂 well had a casing first.
yeah i used to do it everytime i bought an nokia
yes. the 3310.5110,
Yes
I always use Nokia PC Suite in my Windows XP laptop to connect my Nokia phones back in days. Good times.
Remember Nokia Ovi?
@@Neel631 Absolutely dude.
@@Neel631 Ovi was trash. PC Suite is the OG.
Nokia PC Suite 7 allowed one to send and receive SMS, make and receive calls, all from the PC via cable connection or Bluetooth. This was way back in 2006-ish.
I remember using PC suite with my mom's Nokia E5 and my Windows XP desktop. Those were the good days
ah yes, the era where I was able to text without looking at the screen.
I do that with ease on my iPhone all the time lol
Yes...we need to redesign our keyboards to achieve this.
@@jakestanton5871 still, you aren't always sure if you made a typo
Autocorrect usually sorts me
I still has a keypad phone but Samsung brand.
Back in the days when life was fun full stop. Nowadays, most people are simply not as happy because of an inferiority complex caused by social media. People crave attention because they see others more successful online and feel pressured to promote themselves in ever more desperate ways to boost their own self esteem. It started with Facebook and the competition to see who could get as many “friends” as possible to convince themselves they are popular. A grotesque pursuit of false happiness through jealousy and insecurities. We had none of that shit before the internet.
Remember kids, they are working after almost 20 years.
Wait another 20 years, youtuber that time will be making old Android and apple fon, if TH-cam's still exists , cant wait if the smartphone still can function after several decade
Well built phones
Meanwhile my sd845 (2018 flagship) phone struggling with chrome.
phones now will still work, as long as you got the battery or the charge cable still
My iPhone 2G is like new.
Holy crap these phones were cementing my childhood as being “poor” for rocking Siemens phones while my friends were sporting all these gems. And Sony Ericssons.
Siemens phones were not all bad. I used to have an SX1 which combined the wacky designs of the Nokia phones of the time with I think Symbian S60 and I think the inside was a beefed up 6600.
hey! siemens sl45i was the best shit there was back then
Siemens, with the use of patches, were basically smartphones, allowing them to run binaries meant for Linux. Except they weren't running Linux.
Yall, I used the Siemens C35, with antenna protruding out of the body and a screen that could only accommodate 4 lines (remember those?)! Sony Ericsson T610 was my dream back then 😂
I used to dream about the 6600 while sitting there with my 3310 that I stole from grandma for a few hours untill she noticed it was gone.
As a 28yo Finnish guy i remember all of these and i was even only one in my school to own a 7710. It was super cool as a kid. To me 2003-2009 will always be golden era of mobile phones, companies were really trying something new and innovative vs. Now when everything looks and feels same.
I think, for now we're at a standpoint. Maybe foldables will bring back some of those excitement. I said some, cos they're just crazily expensive and might stay that way for a long time perhaps.
The Nokia 3650 was my first phone, I thought it was awesome that I could listen to MP3s and take pictures with it. And it had great battery life!
Those were good times.
Omg I just remembered how much I wanted a nokia n-gage when I was a kid
Same as me
I was senior in High School but I also wanted one but I was saving to buy a GameCube at the time instead
Me too
I had a ngage QD and I loved it!!
Man, I convinced my parents to buy me a nokia n-gage but it got stolen 3 months later. The heartbreak was real at that age.
I remember when the first iPhone came out. I was so confused as to why a phone with such obsolete specs was so popular. I only now realized that the US didn't have this constant barrage of high end Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones every year like we had in the UK and Europe.
It eas moteso yhat Apple marketed thr shit outta them. Jobs KNEW his product wouldnt compete technically; so they just pushed them as the hip/trendy option for young in-touch twentysomethings.
It wasn't until those twentysomethings got older, that yhey looked back and realized that buying a $1000 phone every year because a commercial had Justin Long and U2 in it was f*cking stupid.
Lol in Canada we got the iPad touch before the iPhone and a couple people brought unlocked American iphones and it was so crappy lol "but it has a zippo app!!" So slow the only thing it had was the larger screen but they were such slower than my phone at the time
Yea Apple wiped their ass with Nokia. @@MrComradebuttons
No it got famous because it had everything that you need and doesn't look like a child's toy. Yes Nokia was fun, but for a few days. iPhone was a perfect combination of size, usability, features, design and software support.
@@arkodeepsen3627 The iPhone, at launch, barely offered anything more than the Nokia/Sony Ericsson phones at the time. It actually offered much less. It had a 2MP Camera, no expandable storage, no App Store, you couldn't even do basic things like changing your wallpaper. It was more of a dumbphone than a smartphone. Meanwhile, the K850i released the same year gave you a 5MP + VGA selfie camera setup with expandable storage, 3G Video calling, 3.5G Internet browsing and a plethora of features. The only thing the iPhone had going for it (and still does) was its software and pre-existing ecosystem.
I remember in highschool when the rich kids are the only ones with the 6600.
payabangan ng cellphone nung highschool. hahaha
@@travelisttv7747 totoo. Pero sila sila lang dahil wala naman akong maipagyayabang that time 🤣🤣🤣
Mere pass bhi tha school me
We are on the same age 😂😂😂
Ya sis my friends using this beauty at the time n i feel alky
Had the 7650 myself in the UK when I was about 16. Needless to say the ability to shoot video (10secs worth), view webpages and boot up Doom on it was absolutely mind blowing to me and my friends. I also had a Samsung P300 (the calculator phone) a few years after that, which although more simple, you'd probably like from a design perspective. I'd love to send you it to review, but a girlfriend lost mine back in 2007.
dude, the whole video ive just smiled.... thanks for bringing my childhood memories back....
People always talk about the 90s and 80s and forget the awesomeness of the 2000s.
That's likely because were only starting to get far enough away from them for it to be a bygone era. The same reason I think there's now so much nostalgia for 90s computing I've seen growing over the decade when not too long ago, nostalgia seemed to start at the 80s
*People still need to get past the troubles and the worries of the 2020s to be able to appreciate the 2000s and the '10s* 😂
We had the fun of iPods and texting, not messaging.
@@Inaworldoflove We definitely had messaging, though. I had an IRC client on my nokia phone.
@@shodan658 oh I didn't do that. In Australia we didn't get much data so people only used MSN Messenger on their desktops.
I’ve had almost all of those phones back in the day and they really served their purpose. Nokia’s battery life lasts for days.
Living through that era, I really loved the Nokia phones. I had a few of the phones you showed, brought back some nostalgia. Thanks for the great channel. Mike from sunny South Africa, Cape Town
Ahhh the days of trying to create your own ringtones with the "Ringtone Composer"👍🏻
Eventually having to delete one to make space for a new one you found online lol
oh yeah that's my favorite part on old phones. I used to record songs on my nokia and use them as ringtones, I LOVE THAT!! Then I got disappointed when I found out that my smartphone can't do that :(
It was way too fun to create your own little tunes.
My supreme rendition of Super Mario 1-1 forever stuck on my 6310i because its com cable broke :(
I remember that! That was fun
Back in the days where the cool kids had bluetooth to share mp3s and i had to beg them for the patiemce to send over infrared XD
this guy doesn't know the feeling of having a nokia back in the days specially in asia...In asia if you have nokia you're already considered rich lol
Shut up!
Back then Nokia was equal to modern day Apple...
im indonesian. and this guy is a liar, thats not heppening here
@@Nuriil i know right!
Which part of Asia are you taking about exactly? Asia is huge, you know.
I can’t lie, I am a bit surprised and deluded that you didn’t mention the N90: It is basically a flip phone & a Camera. It looks to be quite professional.
It wasn’t just an original brand but also an innovative one. Nokia,Apple and Asus are top tier brands that redefined the industry. (Of course Samsung and Huawei have done great things and Samsung is literally one of the best in terms of performance but in my opinion non as revolutionary as others).
They are not "cheap and plasticky" it was part of the design, to make them more durable,also you could change out kb and panels on some phones,either oem or aftermarket. The insides were usually metal,again for resistance
There was one Nokia model i had that had transparent case and a cutout maker in the box - you could print whatever picture you wanted, cut it and put it underneath the case. It was the coolest thing ever!
This is the phone shown at 1:10 Nokia 3200 :D
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Now watching this video I remember they had those fancy holographic cutouts for it too, so the back and front was "animated" when looking at different angles. This was to me probably the best phone ever made, since I always liked to have different colors of phones as a kid.
I actually wish the back plates of today's phones would be replaceable too, or even just made like the 3200. Dbrand is kinda doing that, but stickers on the phone are not as premium as putting something under a case.
True and also not true, the plastic IS a cheap feeling, lame material, its just that the reason it was used was a utilitarian one.
That being said, plastic is actually pretty good for mobile devices, however modern smartphones aren't really treated as such by consumers or companies (which is why they ALL fare infamously horribly upon the slightest drops). They're used more like mini PCs than like actual phones, which is the reason they got so large and glassy in the recent years, carrying it around outside is literally quite often NOT the intended use case for them.
Which is incredibly annoying to anyone who actually uses their phone outside of their bed or their table. Like i broke EVERY SINGLE smartphone i have EVER owned, the recent glass trend not making it easier on me at all lmao
They were cheap and plasticky, and fall into pieces on impacts ... trust me, I had a few Nokia.
the truth is plastic phone was more durable than now!
When Nokia mobile falls on the ground, the ground apologise
When the 3310 falls to the ground, the ground trembles in fear of getting hurt.
shooting with 12 years old phone Nokia N97 :)
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This comment is Gold💯🔥😂
When you hit somebody with a Nokia phone they felt the pain
This makes me understand why americans seem to believe apple invented the smartphone, and nokia peaked around the nineties. You guys got no new tech inbetween?
the lg prada was the first non business smart phone..
@@Alexandra_Hill I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that's not true. A smartphone is not a device with touchscreen, it's a device with an OS that allow you to install and run applications, and that's what these Nokias were able to do, so they predated the iPhone and LG Prada as true smartphones
@@jackbushmate It did have an operating system and you could download and install apps. Albeit it didn't have a chunk of space so you were limited, I mean really limited, of how much you could download on to it. I'm not bullshitting you dude, I honestly remember it. I absolutely loved the damn thing, it had a cracking camera as well.
@@jackbushmate actually I have to eat my last comment lol - mine wasn't the prada it was the viewty..... you're right of course.
Apple isn't invented smartphone lol. They bring multitouch.
In the Philippines Nokia was THE phone in 2000s! These odd phones were very popular here at that time. My sisters had 3210 in 2000, N-Gage(game centric phone), 3300(another taco shaped phone that glows in the dark lol), 3310 and other odd Nokia phones that were also on this vid!
This definitely brings me back to the "recent" days when everyone was walking around with some sort of Nokia.
I really wish they were still on top of their game now, because (aside from the mentioned foldables) phones are not as inspired and crazy.
Thanks for the throwback and keeping up with this near series
Once upon a time your phone didn't need internet connection to be fun.
Life was good and fun without WiFi and data
Cause you could play... snake for five minutes?
What was so fun about them during a time where internet wasn't broadly available on mobile devices?
@@resneptacle So many other games on the ovi store you had and even without them you had the ball one, the capsule one. Fun times
@@resneptacle It's hard to appreciate the fun of simple games like Snake or Brick Breaker today because our brains have been fried by 10+ years of having always-on Internet
@@aniym21000 it's not hard appreciate simple games but they get boring in 5 minutes of playing.
I'm loving MrMobile's quarantine content! Into the Fold and When Phones Were Fun are two of my fave series on TH-cam right now :)
Me too
No one is following the fascist quarantine
I owned a 6630 and a N95, they were both awesome. But especially the N95, because it had all the best features of its day. It even supported playing Doom II, which worked perfectly. I don't think it's even possible to play it properly on a touchscreen.
this just shows that Nokia dominated the phone scene in the early 2000's
they can literally make any kind of phone, and people would buy that shit
Hmmm... sounds like Apple today.
The number is (1) 909-595-2262.
I got a call from you, and your hair was wet, remember that?
Call me back when you know more information, okay? Maybe you'll need to drive down there, see if he's under another name
@@angeladominique But today you have samsung as well
I remember the Nokia N95 was my dream phone back when I was little. It costed 800€ in my country
But today, you can buy it 150 Dollar only, or $15 second..
My wife first present to me was a n95, still have it til this day. Lol
True!!
How smartphones should look like?
Apple: simple
Nokia: yo pass me that blunt
The “When Phones Were Fun” series is the best. Brings back so many memories. I myself was a phone buff. I used so many of the phones of that time (mostly Nokia). Wish I had preserved and kept them too. But I was in school/ college and didn’t care enough at that time. Anyway it’s always good to come back and watch your videos and reminisce the good times of mobile phones. Don’t think such a time would get repeated ever again.
PS - watching this video series for the hundredth time since upload
6600 was THE phone. The father, the GOAT.
In my country, we call it SOAP
Had one for a month but was stolen. Bought the Motorola V3 RAZR next which I used from 2004 to 2013 amazingly. Only swaped the battery once and I didn't use it for social media.
Actually the GOAT was 7610..
I remember it was SO expensive lmao
We called it the PANDA 🐼 or the bear 🐻 sometimes (middle east)
Phones in 80's - 90's:
We will innovate!
Phones in 20xx:
r e c t a n g l e []
It's the most eficient shape for Us Humans.
In 2010! Let's copy iPhone....
😂😂😂
When I owned a Nokia 3300, the most asked question I got was, "Is that a phone!?" It was great!
Omg you literally showed up all Nokia phones that I owned back then: my first phone 3310, then 6600 who got stolen, and the last, 7650. Man, Nokia was king of handphones in early 2000. I am so glad living in that era and experienced what the technology has become to today :)
People who dislike this video probably never had a Nokia
and a childhood.
I just hate tech videos where they insist on long shots of themselves standing there in a suit. Sometimes a voiceover is really all you need.
The people who are so furious at bezels and notches
They all are from Chinese smartphone users generation..
I had one
Dude that "potato phone" was my dream phone when I was a kid 😂
we called it the 'soap' phone 😆
we called this "cobra" phone 😁😂
That was not a potato don't defame dearest nokia phones they are love
We called it Panda
Mine tooooo, it was so fucking cool!
Nostalgic to say the least, I was born in Portugal and had almost every phone in this video, the ones with Symbian s60 OS were definitely ahead of their time with apps, games and multiple features...
Symbian phones were popular in Italy, i had the 5800 and it worked very well.
Exactly, those S60s were actually the harbinger of smart phones.
Even could switch between open apps on S60..
I loved my nokia 5233 so much
You must be a rich fella. back in those days we could only dream of those phones sadly 😖
2:38 I tried to type my name with that phone dial and boy I understand the frustration people gone through.
I miss those times running around with my best friend and everyone had a different phone (mostly nokia, but also motorola's)
those were the days growing up inbetween 90's and 2010 :D
Greetings from Austria
I remember that pretty much everybody had a 3210 or 3310 :)
oh yes, good old days :)
And Sony Ericsson ones too, especially those models with flipping keyboard cover.. Though Nokia at that time was the king of the hill.. And certain numbers of Siemens..
Back then when phone has a ton of design and just not like a "thin black brick"
@Evangelos Killer mike but they had personality
@Evangelos Killer mike look better now? Lol. All phones now look the same😂what are you talking about.
@@daimos6686 yeah not like before people use different phones
I remember when my fliphone can be used like a small Handicam
and boi the flex i did to my fellow classmate...
@Evangelos Killer mike Are u a millennial?
The era when you hear ringtones rather than music playlists.
Back when it was almost IMPOSSIBLE to get decent custom ringtones... Haha
@@JanoyCresvaZero you mean back when you could make your OWN ringtones? I remember some magazines had a page with ringtone composer codes for phones with a music composing feature like Nokia did
@@JoCaTen what? You can still make your own ringtone. There’s whole apps for that & apple allows you to import your own favorite music as your ringtone
@@nateclipps yes but back then the concept was innovative, some phones couldn't even play MP3s
@@JoCaTen agreed 😭
I had a 3650 as a 15 year old. I saved and scrimped for ages to get it. The 7650 had come out first and I played with my mates one. It was unbelievable - but only had 4mb of built in storage. The 3650 had an MMC slot. I converted Battle Royale, the Japanese Lord of the Flies type film, and watched it at school with my mates. It was unbelievable at the time!
The amount of talent Michael earned since the days of pocket now is unreal!! The flow is 👌👌👌👌
Why did he separate again?
This brings back so many memories, when i was a teen i used to watch these phones on the display at stores with magnificent detailed displays and just drool while i carried my alcatel ( wich everyone at the time were using) , the commercials were amazing and almost hollywood blockbuster like, i smiled so much watching this video, thank Mr.Mobile for making me relive the awesomeness of yesterday. Much love from Portugal
Remember those time when you can type on the keypad without looking?
@kim Jong Un...Don't forget your people are still doing it till date
You are absolutely right
yup missed that days..now ,i cant do that in my phone.. before was very convenient in txting and calling and very handy to use
😌
I still do that on my Blackberry Passport (2014) and keyone.
I really do miss this era of phones from Nokia, here in the UK, in the noughties. Every model was unique, not one friend or classmate had the same phone. Love to go back to basics. Simple life. Sharing music via bluetooth or IR. Texting in classes. Comparing whos phone is the best.
My father bought one nokia on the day I was born, and my whole village came to know about that.
Kerala?
@@ranjanbiswas3233 village is bihar, but at that time we used to live in mumbai
We had the first phone ever in the whole town, it was Nokia 6100 and everyone used to come to listen to the ringtones 😂
teacher : put your phone on your pocket
me : *put my hand on pocket and keep texting
You be genius. I almost had it forgotten. 😁😁
Yes. I miss how you could text even without looking at the screen lol
Dialtone keypads felt so nice than just sliding and accidentally breaking a touch screen.
@@cypresswillow2591 You break a touchscreen by typing on it?
This era of phones was like the cars from Japan in the late 80s-early 90s, and we'll never see anything like again. It wasn't just Nokia, Sony Ericsson was doing some interesting things too (as was Siemens, especially through their Xelibri line).
Literally ALL of my friends had the 6600 at one point. It was nicknamed, "Panda" in certain parts of the world.
Alcatel
Nokia 6600 was pure love, only taken over by the N73. The games that these guys could run, the software the screen....everything was out of this world for the time.
But everything changed when the rectangular shaped smartphone attacked
BlackBerry attacked first though.
all-black rectangular brick
Wonder what happened to Sony Ericsson's W series. I was so much into it in the year 2008 and managed to get one from my parents in exchange of scoring good at University. 😅
Michael: "This is without question, the most ridiculous phone I ever held."
The Nokia 7280 wich will be featured at some point in this section: "Sure it is buddy, sure it is"
The Nokia 7380: *laughs in L'Amour Collection*
I had a 7280 years ago. My sister had some crazy designer Nokia. That 7280 was a godsend in school where we weren't allowed to have a phone, but none of the teachers thought it was one.
@@KaiserAllen oh shit, I don't think I ever knew the 7280 had a successor in the 7380 :o
I mean, their naming scheme didn't exactly encourage product lineup exploration, you just browsed what was on display physically in the shop. I think I prefer how the 7380 looks, design-wise.
Yeah 7280 was in my mind when he said that lol. I had tried my friend’s 7280 back then, its was very cool, but the only problem was i need to scroll the wheel letter by letter whenever i want to type. Imagine when you want to save a girl’s contact haha
I was going to mention the 7280 too and then I read Kaiser Allen's comment... totally forgot about that one.
Seeing this phones just gave me a ton of nostalgia! Just a quick note: The leading S in S40, S60, etc. Doesn't mean 'Symbian', it actually stands for 'Series'.
Only the more advanced platforms (S60, S80, S90) are Symbian based, and the rest (S30, S40) being completely different beasts.
Trip down memory lane this is! Miss the excitement of seeing all the new and wacky Nokia designs back in the day
so, fun fact, when my dad was working at T-Mo on the certification end of things obviously there was a plethora of phones he got to have that either just passed network testing or that he had to help rewrite software for, the 7650 was one of those phones, when he had finished rewriting part of the SMS app, he gave it to my older who took it to school and within a week had gotten a Bluetooth worm, bricking the phone.
Oh man. I remember the fake antivirus apps back then.
My mum still uses her Nokia she’s had it since she was 30 and it’s never broken
My dad has a nokia somewhere in the house, that thing has dropped out of our 1st story window... TWICE. It was dropped from chest height dozens of times, been through water dmg, heat dmg and it still works to this day... purely amazing.
My 3310 and the 7610 (CDMA phone), been fallen out from 3rd stories, dropped and run over by cars, 2x, and i had to throw it at a creep as self defense weapon, and it still runs like a bull.
....miss the old Nokia.
@@nurlindafsihotang49 Ahahaha thankyou so much for this comment
I used to own a c3 when i was a kid, and dropped it too many times to count for all i know xd, and it survived so long as i had it lul.
Nokia era is best phone ever
I'm from Germany and those phones were everywhere. I always wanted the last phone but it was too expensive for me, as I was just a kid. I remember all of the Sony Ericssons, the Nokias and the Motorolas from back then... They were everywhere.
The nostalgia hit when you let the polyphonic ringtone play out was immense. It was so awesome back then to hear your phone play an almost actual song, even though it was just midi.
Nokia 6600 was a legend. İt was beautiful to remember those days . Thank you man
These phones are such a nostalgia hit, it's unbelievable!
Let's be true :
If these phones never existed, then smartphones of today never existed too
Ikr
No shit
Why doss this have so much likes for stating the fucking obvious
@@gala8903 that's what I'm saying...
I remember how happy I was when I knew it had 3 MB inbuilt memory!!!
😂😂😂😂🤣 if come to think of that storage these days, that won't accommodate a pic
I loved the look of the 6600! I actually loved the look of most of Nokias from 2001-2006.
nokia 6600 was not less than any iphone 13 pro max or s22 ultra those days. Was a VVIP status of owner
@@GauravMishra-kj4tg True,whenever a friend or any person bought,his social stature automatically rose in society.
The best thing for me for these phones is how I could buy a different “housing” for my phone
Yes .. literally can change the look every now and then
This was a literally understated underrated feature😂
I love those days. The time humans used phones as a TOOL.
As 18 years old, I didn't have those kinds of phones but I can remember when I was a kid my father had a Nokia 3310. That snake game was so good. Wish I can go back to my childhood.
I could be your dad then and I'm only 35. I had a nokia 3310. Those were the days.... Each phone had it's own "personality" and uniqueness even if it was from the same brand like nokia. Nowadays phones are just the same old sh*t with slightly different hardware across the board. Nothing fancy or extraordinary looking. I missed the fun of watching so many varieties of phones, colors, shapes, styles, designs....
@@dotdata-m8m @Josh I agree with you guys!
I had the old phones because of how bad I am with tech, they were amazing!! The battery life alone 😍
My grandpa still uses Nokia button phones, and trust me, those are THE best phones. I especially loved diamond rush, bounce, snake and that building game. Ah the good times...
Reason getting new phone:
2005: new model, camera, can play mp3, lost
2020: slow, low storage, stolen, trend
Why lost in 2000 and stolen and trendy in 2020?
@@RichardJoashTan I think Because Nowadays in 2020 People Take care of their phones more than their own lives so there is a rare chance of Losing or Breaking it.
And Nowadays We use a phone only upto 3-4 years because of Old Androids/iOS and Phones become slow
Ansh Raina People take care of their phones nowadays. That’s a good one.
The 3650 was one of my favorite phones ever in terms of the memories I had with it. So many people didn’t know wtf it was and I had a great time with it. That, the OG iPhone and the LG g3 are my favorite phones ever owned due to the memories. Great video. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Oh my, all the good memories. Every time I watch this kind of videos, I feel like I'm captured in some kind of a time capsule.
Riiiight but the way he reviewed the phones has no sense of nosgalgia and connection to viewers. Better to watch it on silent mode :))
I miss when phones had their own personalities.
Journal Worm ahh yes, you could buy different keychains or get one from some brand promotion. Wow, I feel old now
"A dedicated memo button"
I need this.
It's not quite the same, but the Evernote widget on Android can start taking an audio note at one press. Unlock the screen with a fingerprint and tap once. I use it regularly.
It's great, but if you wanted to go further it's certainly possible to remap the volume keys to basically whatever you want. I'm sure you could remap it to start taking an audio note in a similar manner.
That said, I'd love a dedicated button dedicated to uses like this, but natively customisable.
They were so creative!