This was challenging but fun video to put together, so I hope you all enjoy! Make sure you comment any weird phones that I missed- and have any of you owned any of these phones? Very curious on that one. Detailed timestamps below: (WARNING: SPOILERS!) 1:12 - 25. Motorola Atrix (2011) 3:09 - 24. Nextbit Robin (2016) 4:46 - 23. Motorola Moto Z (2016) 6:38 - 22. Asus Padfone (2012) 8:08 - 21. LG DoublePlay (2011) 9:30 - 20. Nokia 3650 (2003) 10:51 - 19. Neptune Pine (2014) 12:41 - 18. Blackberry Priv (2015) 14:28 - 17. Pantech Pocket (2011) 15:36 - 16. Nokia N90 (2005) 16:45 - 15. LG G Flex (2013) 18:43 - 14. Yota YotaPhone (2012) 19:58 - 13. Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom (2013) 21:43 - Intermission 22:51 - 12. Huawei Mate XT Ultimate (2024) 24:11 - 11. Caterpillar CAT S60 (2016) 25:30 - 10. Sharp Aquos Crystal (2014) 26:38 - 9. Vertu Signature Touch (2014) 28:25 - 8. Palm Phone (2018) 29:56 - 7. Nokia 7600 (2003) 31:20 - 6. Energizer Power Max P18K Pop (2019) 32:56 - 5. Motorola MPx (2004) 34:28 - 4. Blackberry Passport (2014) 36:18 - 3. Sierra Wireless Voq (2004) 38:01 - 2. Honor V Purse (2023) 40:59 - 1. LG Wing 5G (2020)
LG wasn't afraid to push the envelope and the wing is great for delivery drivers. Also for content creators you can film yourself and the background in front of you. I'm tired of same-y smartphones, we need innovators again instead of cookie cutter ones. Very interesting list tho. I love the Aquos Crystal design.
I am a bit sad the Mi Mix Alpha with it's screen that COMPLETELY wrapped around the device and acted as both it's screen AND chassis (literally the ONLY part of the phone that was NOT screen was the top, bottom, and a sliver on the back just big enough for the camera lenses), wasn't on this list. Especially since it's from 2020.
Yeah I was looking for it but that's not a good one that can emulate the controller to the bottom The phone is great but it's lacking a lot app up to take advantage of the screen One thing I hate about the LG is that the keyboard when you go to the bottom it doesn't rotate. you have to trick it to do it
Honestly I love how experimental all of these are, unlike Apple's same "refined" same-y UI. Cell phone technology was progressing at a fast rate because of these experimental phones and we learned what worked and what didn't
That’s what I love about iPhones that they are refined and mostly stay the same, but I can respect the experimental phones that helped us get to where we are today.
I actually had a Moto Z back in the day and I had the battery pack Moto Mod. I actually had to get a replacement at one point due to a cracked screen and funnily enough the first device didn't have functioning Bluetooth. The second one did. Good phone.
It is such a head turner. Mostly use TH-cam on my phone, holding in landscape mode with one hand is a hassle especially with how heavy and large phones have because. This solves that beautifully
BlackBerry Passport was one of the best phones I ever had. And BBOS10 was the best OS I ever used. It was all so ahead of its time. And device itself was just premium. You could feel it. And it worked perfectly well. Until BB died.
I remember my aunt had the Galaxy S4 Zoom back then. 12 year old me thought it was the coolest thing ever, but ofc looking back at it now I see how impractical it was. But I think it’s still a cool relic of its time.
I miss the "wierdness." Having something a little different from everybody else felt nice even if it wasn't necessarily top of the line or the absolute best device. Had the LG Tritan, Moto Rokr z6, and LG Rythm as my weird devices. T9 texting is a lost art imo 😆
I had the BlackBerry Priv back in 2016 and to this day it's still in my top 3 phones of all time, the keyboard swipe to choose auto correct was fantastic and the camera was god tier for the time
The HONOR V Purse is basically a repurposed HUAWEI MATE XS with screen folding outward, and the HUAWEI MATE XT is the evolution of HUAWEI’s foldable smartphone design.
God I LOVED my Moto Z(ed) Play, the battery booster would get me through entire weekends without charging, and the speaker was just fun to use. First new phone I ever bought!
I had a roommate in college that found the perfect niche for the palm phone, kids whose parents made them install Life360 or some similar tracking software. When he would go out for the night he would disable Life360 on his phone and then turn on Life360 on the Palm phone and leave it in the dorm room.
My biggest problems with smartphones these days are app creep, basically apps becoming bigger a bloated too tons of pointless updates and not being able to remove stock apps. It's 2024, sure the company gets money for having these apps preinstalled on phones from the app dev. But you shouldn't have to be forced to root your phone to remove them. Just let us uninstall them, they can still be in the phone ROM and be reinstalled if the phone is factory reset, but enough is enough. As for physical keyboards? Sure, the demand flagged for a bit. But given how bad touch screen keyboards still are (you're lying to yourself if you say they're good), if a phone company were to introduce another physical keyboard phone and not charge the down payment on a car for it, you'd see a resurgence in interest.
Ooh! I had a lapdock for my Droid 4. A lot of the stock was liquidated and you could find them on eBay for cheap. Gonna be honest, I really enjoyed it. Was great for the bus trips to and from colleges, I could work on assignments or watch whatever shows I downloaded onto my phone. Fun fact, it wasn't uncommon for modders to use RPi's with the lapdock. I never did, but I know it was a thing people did.
The fact that NexDock and UPerfect still sell lapdocks means there is a market for the idea. Just that it doesn't make sense to have it locked to a single phone. (I use a desktop dock with an external monitor... in fact, typing using this set-up right now with my phone and a TV screen).
The wing, I have a 16 pm, I watch lots of videos in iPod video sized portrait mode because it’s more comfortable to hold. I’d love to swing the screen up like that. Not practical but I get the appeal.
Mr.whosetheboss explained the padphones failure very well. Simply, when you are selling something that is a tablet and a phone, you leave out buyers that only want a phone or a tablet. There are few people who want a tablet and a phone at the same time
Apparently it had something to do with patenting, but most likely they just found it a funny way to advertise new versions. Back in the days each version used to have some easter eggs surrounding the name hidden in the menus, and google would put special android statues at its hq
I can see the Honor Purse actually being solid for someone who lives and frequents places that take NFC everything. I'd imagine that's part of what they were considering. NFC payments, wifi keys. Someone with a 99% digital lifestyle. The Blackberry Priv seems like something that would be amazing now. Far more robust slide mechanisms that only take the bottom half of the device. Modern day internals are way smaller and more flexible with the layouts compared to back then. Especially when Samsung Google and Apple are on a race to the bottom copying eachother, I feel it could be a hit today. I definitely thought it looked neat back then
Weird is relative, i guess. So, to summarize. If it is not like the iPhone, or like every other smart phone on the market today, it is weird. The winner is a plain smooth slab. So.Much.Fun. Weirdest phone was Moto Atrix? Samsung DEX is being used today very effectively by some people, and you still need accessories to make it work. Again, I guess weird is relative.
Did they have a Moto Maker website? I'm sure they did. You could choose your mod online, then order. I think that's how it went. I thought the whole idea was very Moto. That is, excellent.
I still rather use the qwerty keyboard than the touchscreen for my texting or typing needs. My HTC windows 7 phone had the biggest one of the phones I've had, and it was great. Didn't even need to look at it, far more accurate than tapping or glyde typing has ever been.
I had a Yotaphone. I loved the eink screen for reading and it also meant you could take selfies with the main camera. I found that the phone overheated a bit too much for comfort though. I cracked the eink screen and that was the end of it as no one was prepared to repair it.
Love the P5 music 👍 The Moto Z phones were sick, the mods were great and the Z2 Force was the best one, I remember always using the gamepad mod back in the day
I had that Sharp Aquos Crystal. When all phones were mostly had large forehead and chin, this tiny almost no bezel display and no earpiece definitely turned heads.
I love your videos but hearing Persona 5 music in almost every single one of them is getting a little tiring. Maybe try switching things up a little more in terms of background music.
Lol honor purse dont sound that weird to me. My wife currently using a flip phone as a crossbag, but she does carry her card in it. Wow love lg wing. But my broke because there no case to protect the screen. It have it flaw but was sp great as multi tasking. I still consider buying one now . Since today marketplace lacking creativity
It had a slight bend to it because most phones tend to break if you accidentally sit on your phone while it was in your back pocket.. the bend was to prevent breakage
Awwww, I had the G Flex 2. At 5,5" it was a pretty nice phone. I think I played pokemon go on it in 2016. yep. A lil overheating, but a champ. Oh, also had the moto flip out. best GBA machine, since the gba.
The purse phone wasn’t that bad honestly, it was really cute and I could actually see myself wanting to buy it lol. Just wish I would’ve heard about it when they first released it 😭
I think for the gflex it positions the mic nearer your mouth. for the power button finger print sensor being positioned at the back, that is where your finger is normally positioned to make it easier to disconnect calls i guess. I owned an LG G3 and it is actually my favorite among my previous phones, more than I loved my Galaxy s3 and my Galaxy A50 and my xperia z5. I actually miss the fingerprint sensor at the back.
I had a nextbit robin! I enjoyed it, for the most part, but it didn’t last very long I think I had it for a little over a year and it stopped working right when I was getting a new phone.
The S4 Zoom's biggest issue was that it was based on the S4 Mini architecture, which meant a slow dual core processor running the camera, which meant it was pretty slow. Even for the time. The S5 Zoom / K Zoom that followed had a faster processor and was a much better phone overall, with a slimmer profile and better pocketability, but in the end, the issue of the bulk and the fact that the zoom lens wasn't waterproof and collected dust like crazy - compared to slab phone cameras which are relatively well protected - meant that it wasn't worth the hassle for the extra zoom reach. (I still have both. Quite fun, but picture quality out of the 1/2.3" sensor is only superior to standard smartphones when you're using the extra reach of the zoom. Otherwise, you will get similar or better out of a more traditional phone with bigger main sensors)
14:32 that was my first Android device and my favorite modern smartphone, I had a Nokia E5-00 for years after my mother gave it to me when she got and Android, but when Symbian died and my phone lost support for many apps and services, one day at the mall there was this kiosk with second hand phones and my parents told me to get an Android phone to use Whatsapp and other communication apps, and it was love at first sight, people at my uni really loved it as well since it was like a "mini tablet" also it included an early version of the Swiftkey keyboard, and since I never liked the lack of tactile feedback with moder touch screen keyboards, Swiftkey was the best way for me to "type" text in, and now that GBoard also has the same functionality, I still use swift moves to type in today.
I had the ASUS PadFone Infinity. It was great! This was in 2013, before synching between devices was as seamless as it is now. I didn't take the tablet attachment everywhere, and it was quite thin by then, in any case (unlike the one shown in the video). With a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, it made a perfect little computer for writing or easy tasks. The phone itself packed awesome specs and took excellent photos, too. It was expensive, though.
My dad had a Palm Pre 2 phone when I was 15 and I thought it was the coolest thing at the time. It was touch screen and had a slider keyboard much like the Blackberry Priv. I remember him being pretty disappointed in it and when he was done with it he let me keep it for a time. I loved the idea of it's slider function and the look of the glossy keyboard buttons, but I realized why he disliked it so much. First off the buttons were kind of small so typing errors happened often, but I noticed my dad dropping it a lot. I chalked it up to him just being clumsy but after fidgiting with it for a while I kept dropping it too. The sliding function was terrible. It was bad enough that the weight would shift more top heavy when it slid, but it for some reason it would slide really fast and it practically jumped out of your hand. You had to brace yourself or cup the phone when preparing to type something haha. I'm not sure if it would entirely qualify as a wierd phone, but it was definitely my wierdest phone experience.
VIDEO IDEA- all carrier exclusive phones from back when that was a thing lol. Essential phone and HTC Evo 3D & 4G were Sprint exclusives, T-Mobile sidekick, HTC droid incredible from Verizon, ETC. Compare all the carrier exclusive phones that they were using to convince people to switch
Some of the phones I used in the past and really enjoyed were other LG and Motorola's not mentioned such Motorola Milestone, Motorola Milestone 2 and Motorola Droid Razr, LG Prada and LG Chocolate. The Milestone was their flip to full size keyboard, Droid Razr was light and super thin and LG phones with some of the first capacitive touchscreens.
Thank you. I enjoyed this walk down memory lane since I owned some of these phones. I just have to say that I had a miserable time with every LG phone I owned. I stopped after trying three of them over the years.
I'm dutch and I work 22 years now in the mobile industry. i've seen many these weird phones but not the pantech, it never sold here or anywhere else in Europe.
Hear me out, as a student a modern padfone concept would actually be very useful if done right because being able to turn a 6.7' display into a tablet is great for note taking and drawing
I think the LG VX9400, the device the LG Wing more closely resembles, would be a great honorable mention. This device came out to showcase the new live TV service from Verizon's 3g network. The screen swiveled out, and it also had a tv antenna
I really wanted a Padfone but they were hard to find in the US. I think they were a carrier exclusive. You have to remember these convertible phones/laptop/tablets were attractive because cloud services were not ubiquitous like they are now so it would have been convenient to carry your files on your phone and then be able to work on them on a bigger screen. Also, massive phablet phones were not the norm yet and we wanted to text and call from a bigger screen at home and office.
I sell phones and was at a major carrier when that small palm phone thing came out. Instantly knew it was a terrible idea. All the training we got for it made it seem like it was a cutting edge game changer. It's so dumb.
A phone that relies entirely on the cloud for storage is going to be murder on your phone's bandwidth plan, and could be vicious if you happen to wander into a roaming zone.
The Nokia 3650 was great. The keypad was great after a little fine tuning of the old muscle memory. Calling it weird or bad basically means you never used it longer than five minutes.
I'm watching this on a Moto Z 2 play and JBL Boost 2 speaker mod. I've also got the project mod which is create for watching this in bed and camping. I got all 3 from cex here in the uk
Great video , I think smartphones are mature now and that's fine but I do miss the experimental phones. I like my phones function over form . But at the same time when I get bored I customize a lot and prolly the reason why I don't use 1 phone but 2 even if it's because of my old phone or a second hand. The boredom comes simply when I'm not doing something , there is lots of time to look at your phone and think , my block of rectangle is the same as everyone else's . Specs don't matter once you realize you don't like mobile games as much or maybe in other reasons , and camera don't matter once your past the phase of taking pictures , it get boring sometimes. basic camera is fine. but then again things repeat and you use your camera again , find a new game to play and boredom happen in next few months
A weird phone I remember fondly is the Pepsi phone, it wasn’t a huge bold departure from the usual phone experience, but it was a pretty decent mid range phone that somehow got branded completely by Pepsi, sadly I never got to see one irl
Brings back a lot of memories, mostly unpleasant, having purchased the Nokia 7600 when it came out along with many other strange Nokia phone(ngage) I do wonder what I was thinking back in the day.. Although seeing a blackberry priv & my all time favourite phone the blackberry passport makes me long for days gone by.
I still use my Moto Z2 Play with the speaker mod every day. Most practical phone I have ever owned. I wish Motorola hadn't discontinued the Z line with mods.
I never had the Moto Atrix but I did have a secondhand LapDock which I got for about $100. I used it with some DROID model that was only a bit more recent, possibly the DROID RAZR MAXX. A friend had the Moto Z. The battery pack and camera were her favorites.
I had a BB Passport back in the day and I loved it. The form factor was great for actually getting things done, and the qnx operating system was a tour de force. The next time I would be ask satisfied with a phone was when I got my current Galaxy z fold which goes a long way in restoring that workwide capability. The z fold is also an awesome game player too.
Had the Atrix and it was awesome. The lap dock went on sale really fast and I got one for $150. It was my on the go laptop for the day and worked well.
I see a lot of people in my city with their phones on straps to carry it on their arm, wrist or neck so... that purse idea is not really THAT out there 😅 It just made it prettier
i loved my 3650, nobody dared to borrow it since the keypad was weirdly placed 🤣 it was so hard for other people to type, so they usually gave up 😋 the only downside is that if you get so used to the keypad, you'll have trouble typing on a normal keypad 😅🤣
the thing I dream to have is a phone with a slide down controller like the psp go, I know that there was a xperia phone like that but no modern phones !!!! I want something like a redmagic 9 with integrated slide down controller, it would literally be perfect for gaming, sadly I cant find any phones like that that are modern, I would love something with at least a snapdragon 8gen2 or 3 to be able to do things like emulate the switch full speed and play every high end games like zzz and genshin and war thunder mobile at max settings with propper controls without being a separated controller
Lapdocks that are only usable with a single device makes no sense, but a laptop shell that uses your phone either via wire or wireless connection to run with a desktop interface that you can upgrade if and when necessary by just buying a new phone instead of upgrading both makes seriously too much sense for IMO, the vast majority of people. Usually, when people upgrade their laptop/desktop, it's because it runs too slow or doesn't have the storage they need. But usually not because the display is inefficient. If the lapdocks from Motorola and Asus weren't device specific, they'd still be usable today without running like a potato. I'm actually writing this with my Motorola using "smart connect" on my TV with wireless keyboard. Basically Motorola's version of Samsung Dex.
This was challenging but fun video to put together, so I hope you all enjoy! Make sure you comment any weird phones that I missed- and have any of you owned any of these phones? Very curious on that one.
Detailed timestamps below: (WARNING: SPOILERS!)
1:12 - 25. Motorola Atrix (2011)
3:09 - 24. Nextbit Robin (2016)
4:46 - 23. Motorola Moto Z (2016)
6:38 - 22. Asus Padfone (2012)
8:08 - 21. LG DoublePlay (2011)
9:30 - 20. Nokia 3650 (2003)
10:51 - 19. Neptune Pine (2014)
12:41 - 18. Blackberry Priv (2015)
14:28 - 17. Pantech Pocket (2011)
15:36 - 16. Nokia N90 (2005)
16:45 - 15. LG G Flex (2013)
18:43 - 14. Yota YotaPhone (2012)
19:58 - 13. Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom (2013)
21:43 - Intermission
22:51 - 12. Huawei Mate XT Ultimate (2024)
24:11 - 11. Caterpillar CAT S60 (2016)
25:30 - 10. Sharp Aquos Crystal (2014)
26:38 - 9. Vertu Signature Touch (2014)
28:25 - 8. Palm Phone (2018)
29:56 - 7. Nokia 7600 (2003)
31:20 - 6. Energizer Power Max P18K Pop (2019)
32:56 - 5. Motorola MPx (2004)
34:28 - 4. Blackberry Passport (2014)
36:18 - 3. Sierra Wireless Voq (2004)
38:01 - 2. Honor V Purse (2023)
40:59 - 1. LG Wing 5G (2020)
I love your videos they are great quality bro but im sad that you dont get much recognition anymore algorithm aint fair is it
This is epic, thanks for putting in the work!
I love out of the ordinary tech gadgets or smartphones , your list will be useful for me , I'll search the internet to buy them for my collection
LG wasn't afraid to push the envelope and the wing is great for delivery drivers. Also for content creators you can film yourself and the background in front of you. I'm tired of same-y smartphones, we need innovators again instead of cookie cutter ones. Very interesting list tho. I love the Aquos Crystal design.
now mix both and search for lg crystal
I loved my LG G6. And my nexus 5. LG made good phones, sadly gone now.
I am a bit sad the Mi Mix Alpha with it's screen that COMPLETELY wrapped around the device and acted as both it's screen AND chassis (literally the ONLY part of the phone that was NOT screen was the top, bottom, and a sliver on the back just big enough for the camera lenses), wasn't on this list. Especially since it's from 2020.
that, along with the meizu phone with zero ports were among the most memorable for me
Vivo Apex
most of these phones were from states...soo
That was a concept phone and never made it to consumer production.
From what I remember it never made it to market so its not relevant for that list
LG wing can be the ultimate emulator machineee, especially emulating dual screen consoles (DS, Wii U)
Yeah I was looking for it but that's not a good one that can emulate the controller to the bottom
The phone is great but it's lacking a lot app up to take advantage of the screen
One thing I hate about the LG is that the keyboard when you go to the bottom it doesn't rotate. you have to trick it to do it
Honestly I love how experimental all of these are, unlike Apple's same "refined" same-y UI. Cell phone technology was progressing at a fast rate because of these experimental phones and we learned what worked and what didn't
That’s what I love about iPhones that they are refined and mostly stay the same, but I can respect the experimental phones that helped us get to where we are today.
@@CaramelCraftYeah, I agree.
the refined-ness is why the iPhone is such a market beast right now and why all of these phone companies on this list are dead.
I actually had a Moto Z back in the day and I had the battery pack Moto Mod.
I actually had to get a replacement at one point due to a cracked screen and funnily enough the first device didn't have functioning Bluetooth. The second one did. Good phone.
I still rock the LG Wing today and love it!
It does do a lot
It is such a head turner. Mostly use TH-cam on my phone, holding in landscape mode with one hand is a hassle especially with how heavy and large phones have because. This solves that beautifully
So much that it got featured on Blue Beetle the movie
BlackBerry Passport was one of the best phones I ever had. And BBOS10 was the best OS I ever used. It was all so ahead of its time. And device itself was just premium. You could feel it. And it worked perfectly well. Until BB died.
I remember my aunt had the Galaxy S4 Zoom back then. 12 year old me thought it was the coolest thing ever, but ofc looking back at it now I see how impractical it was. But I think it’s still a cool relic of its time.
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Why is babe always asleep
I miss the "wierdness." Having something a little different from everybody else felt nice even if it wasn't necessarily top of the line or the absolute best device. Had the LG Tritan, Moto Rokr z6, and LG Rythm as my weird devices. T9 texting is a lost art imo 😆
I had the BlackBerry Priv back in 2016 and to this day it's still in my top 3 phones of all time, the keyboard swipe to choose auto correct was fantastic and the camera was god tier for the time
The HONOR V Purse is basically a repurposed HUAWEI MATE XS with screen folding outward, and the HUAWEI MATE XT is the evolution of HUAWEI’s foldable smartphone design.
The Priv could have been so amazing, but of course they self sabotaged.
Also kind of surprised the BL40 wasn't here.
God I LOVED my Moto Z(ed) Play, the battery booster would get me through entire weekends without charging, and the speaker was just fun to use. First new phone I ever bought!
I’m still using one as a media player. It can’t handle TH-cam reliably anymore, but it’s a great music device.
I had a roommate in college that found the perfect niche for the palm phone, kids whose parents made them install Life360 or some similar tracking software. When he would go out for the night he would disable Life360 on his phone and then turn on Life360 on the Palm phone and leave it in the dorm room.
My biggest problems with smartphones these days are app creep, basically apps becoming bigger a bloated too tons of pointless updates and not being able to remove stock apps. It's 2024, sure the company gets money for having these apps preinstalled on phones from the app dev. But you shouldn't have to be forced to root your phone to remove them. Just let us uninstall them, they can still be in the phone ROM and be reinstalled if the phone is factory reset, but enough is enough.
As for physical keyboards? Sure, the demand flagged for a bit. But given how bad touch screen keyboards still are (you're lying to yourself if you say they're good), if a phone company were to introduce another physical keyboard phone and not charge the down payment on a car for it, you'd see a resurgence in interest.
Ooh! I had a lapdock for my Droid 4. A lot of the stock was liquidated and you could find them on eBay for cheap. Gonna be honest, I really enjoyed it. Was great for the bus trips to and from colleges, I could work on assignments or watch whatever shows I downloaded onto my phone.
Fun fact, it wasn't uncommon for modders to use RPi's with the lapdock. I never did, but I know it was a thing people did.
The fact that NexDock and UPerfect still sell lapdocks means there is a market for the idea. Just that it doesn't make sense to have it locked to a single phone. (I use a desktop dock with an external monitor... in fact, typing using this set-up right now with my phone and a TV screen).
The wing, I have a 16 pm, I watch lots of videos in iPod video sized portrait mode because it’s more comfortable to hold. I’d love to swing the screen up like that. Not practical but I get the appeal.
Mr.whosetheboss explained the padphones failure very well. Simply, when you are selling something that is a tablet and a phone, you leave out buyers that only want a phone or a tablet. There are few people who want a tablet and a phone at the same time
Marshmallow, jelly bean, gingerbread, oreo, why are they using the names of snackfoods to describe the stuff pertaining to your phone?
Apparently it had something to do with patenting, but most likely they just found it a funny way to advertise new versions. Back in the days each version used to have some easter eggs surrounding the name hidden in the menus, and google would put special android statues at its hq
I can see the Honor Purse actually being solid for someone who lives and frequents places that take NFC everything. I'd imagine that's part of what they were considering. NFC payments, wifi keys. Someone with a 99% digital lifestyle.
The Blackberry Priv seems like something that would be amazing now. Far more robust slide mechanisms that only take the bottom half of the device. Modern day internals are way smaller and more flexible with the layouts compared to back then. Especially when Samsung Google and Apple are on a race to the bottom copying eachother, I feel it could be a hit today. I definitely thought it looked neat back then
It was a good video, and your choice of background music made the video even better.
This is a perfect video, as I love weird stuff, and I love phones. Thank you!
I LOVED my Nokia 3650 back in college and got used to the keypad quickly
it is sad that LG left the smart phone market
Weird is relative, i guess. So, to summarize. If it is not like the iPhone, or like every other smart phone on the market today, it is weird. The winner is a plain smooth slab. So.Much.Fun. Weirdest phone was Moto Atrix? Samsung DEX is being used today very effectively by some people, and you still need accessories to make it work. Again, I guess weird is relative.
Always loved that Canucks logo
I have two Moto Z's. One with a speaker mod, and one with a battery mod.
Did they have a Moto Maker website? I'm sure they did. You could choose your mod online, then order. I think that's how it went.
I thought the whole idea was very Moto. That is, excellent.
I had the Moto Z Play. It was a solid phone
I miss my Moto Z, I had both (and only) Force phones and man not having to worry about whenever I dropped my phone was sooo nice.
lg wing was my main for 6 years , i used the second screen constantly
I still stand that the LG Wing was LG's final hurrah and they did a pretty damn good job with it despite it all.
I still rather use the qwerty keyboard than the touchscreen for my texting or typing needs. My HTC windows 7 phone had the biggest one of the phones I've had, and it was great. Didn't even need to look at it, far more accurate than tapping or glyde typing has ever been.
I had a Yotaphone. I loved the eink screen for reading and it also meant you could take selfies with the main camera. I found that the phone overheated a bit too much for comfort though. I cracked the eink screen and that was the end of it as no one was prepared to repair it.
Love the P5 music 👍 The Moto Z phones were sick, the mods were great and the Z2 Force was the best one, I remember always using the gamepad mod back in the day
I had that Sharp Aquos Crystal.
When all phones were mostly had large forehead and chin, this tiny almost no bezel display and no earpiece definitely turned heads.
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Ok I'm gonna have to stop the video mid modular Motorola to point out the weird way you pronounce "MagSafe" as "Mayg-Safe".
I love your videos but hearing Persona 5 music in almost every single one of them is getting a little tiring. Maybe try switching things up a little more in terms of background music.
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I had the HTC Wildfire S growing up, it was super small but not bad enough or weird enough to make any of these lists 🤣 cool video!
LG G Flex 2 was my mom's and stepdad's favorite phone for some reason lol
Lol honor purse dont sound that weird to me. My wife currently using a flip phone as a crossbag, but she does carry her card in it.
Wow love lg wing. But my broke because there no case to protect the screen. It have it flaw but was sp great as multi tasking. I still consider buying one now . Since today marketplace lacking creativity
I loved going to phone stores to bend the g flex. I seriously don’t understand why it needs to be just slightly bendable, but hey, it was fun
It had a slight bend to it because most phones tend to break if you accidentally sit on your phone while it was in your back pocket.. the bend was to prevent breakage
Awwww, I had the G Flex 2. At 5,5" it was a pretty nice phone. I think I played pokemon go on it in 2016. yep. A lil overheating, but a champ.
Oh, also had the moto flip out. best GBA machine, since the gba.
Says they’re in no particular order then goes on to say had a hard time ranking them.
The purse phone wasn’t that bad honestly, it was really cute and I could actually see myself wanting to buy it lol. Just wish I would’ve heard about it when they first released it 😭
I think for the gflex it positions the mic nearer your mouth. for the power button finger print sensor being positioned at the back, that is where your finger is normally positioned to make it easier to disconnect calls i guess.
I owned an LG G3 and it is actually my favorite among my previous phones, more than I loved my Galaxy s3 and my Galaxy A50 and my xperia z5. I actually miss the fingerprint sensor at the back.
grate video josh
Bro 😪 completely forgot about the Nokia N-Gage and the SideKick 3 by Sharp.
Worst had n-gage
I had a nextbit robin! I enjoyed it, for the most part, but it didn’t last very long I think I had it for a little over a year and it stopped working right when I was getting a new phone.
love your videos, always high quality content
Loved the 7600, had three of them in the end. Really comfortable to use once you got used to it.
The S4 Zoom's biggest issue was that it was based on the S4 Mini architecture, which meant a slow dual core processor running the camera, which meant it was pretty slow. Even for the time. The S5 Zoom / K Zoom that followed had a faster processor and was a much better phone overall, with a slimmer profile and better pocketability, but in the end, the issue of the bulk and the fact that the zoom lens wasn't waterproof and collected dust like crazy - compared to slab phone cameras which are relatively well protected - meant that it wasn't worth the hassle for the extra zoom reach. (I still have both. Quite fun, but picture quality out of the 1/2.3" sensor is only superior to standard smartphones when you're using the extra reach of the zoom. Otherwise, you will get similar or better out of a more traditional phone with bigger main sensors)
14:32 that was my first Android device and my favorite modern smartphone, I had a Nokia E5-00 for years after my mother gave it to me when she got and Android, but when Symbian died and my phone lost support for many apps and services, one day at the mall there was this kiosk with second hand phones and my parents told me to get an Android phone to use Whatsapp and other communication apps, and it was love at first sight, people at my uni really loved it as well since it was like a "mini tablet" also it included an early version of the Swiftkey keyboard, and since I never liked the lack of tactile feedback with moder touch screen keyboards, Swiftkey was the best way for me to "type" text in, and now that GBoard also has the same functionality, I still use swift moves to type in today.
I had the ASUS PadFone Infinity. It was great! This was in 2013, before synching between devices was as seamless as it is now. I didn't take the tablet attachment everywhere, and it was quite thin by then, in any case (unlike the one shown in the video). With a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, it made a perfect little computer for writing or easy tasks. The phone itself packed awesome specs and took excellent photos, too. It was expensive, though.
My dad had a Palm Pre 2 phone when I was 15 and I thought it was the coolest thing at the time. It was touch screen and had a slider keyboard much like the Blackberry Priv. I remember him being pretty disappointed in it and when he was done with it he let me keep it for a time. I loved the idea of it's slider function and the look of the glossy keyboard buttons, but I realized why he disliked it so much. First off the buttons were kind of small so typing errors happened often, but I noticed my dad dropping it a lot. I chalked it up to him just being clumsy but after fidgiting with it for a while I kept dropping it too. The sliding function was terrible. It was bad enough that the weight would shift more top heavy when it slid, but it for some reason it would slide really fast and it practically jumped out of your hand. You had to brace yourself or cup the phone when preparing to type something haha. I'm not sure if it would entirely qualify as a wierd phone, but it was definitely my wierdest phone experience.
VIDEO IDEA- all carrier exclusive phones from back when that was a thing lol. Essential phone and HTC Evo 3D & 4G were Sprint exclusives, T-Mobile sidekick, HTC droid incredible from Verizon, ETC. Compare all the carrier exclusive phones that they were using to convince people to switch
16:12 this one is actually really cool looking too. Imagine this now with really good cameras and camera software
Some of the phones I used in the past and really enjoyed were other LG and Motorola's not mentioned such Motorola Milestone, Motorola Milestone 2 and Motorola Droid Razr, LG Prada and LG Chocolate.
The Milestone was their flip to full size keyboard, Droid Razr was light and super thin and LG phones with some of the first capacitive touchscreens.
God. I remember wanting the original Asus Padfone bad. Phone, tablet, laptop, it blew my mind. It should be brought back.
Sweet Jeez, i did not expect you to start off with the Atrix
Thank you. I enjoyed this walk down memory lane since I owned some of these phones. I just have to say that I had a miserable time with every LG phone I owned. I stopped after trying three of them over the years.
I'm dutch and I work 22 years now in the mobile industry. i've seen many these weird phones but not the pantech, it never sold here or anywhere else in Europe.
Hear me out, as a student a modern padfone concept would actually be very useful if done right because being able to turn a 6.7' display into a tablet is great for note taking and drawing
always love to hear persona ost in your vids
I think the LG VX9400, the device the LG Wing more closely resembles, would be a great honorable mention. This device came out to showcase the new live TV service from Verizon's 3g network. The screen swiveled out, and it also had a tv antenna
I really wanted a Padfone but they were hard to find in the US. I think they were a carrier exclusive. You have to remember these convertible phones/laptop/tablets were attractive because cloud services were not ubiquitous like they are now so it would have been convenient to carry your files on your phone and then be able to work on them on a bigger screen. Also, massive phablet phones were not the norm yet and we wanted to text and call from a bigger screen at home and office.
I love the LG Wing. I think it would be brilliant for multi tasking and gaming too.
I sell phones and was at a major carrier when that small palm phone thing came out. Instantly knew it was a terrible idea. All the training we got for it made it seem like it was a cutting edge game changer. It's so dumb.
A phone that relies entirely on the cloud for storage is going to be murder on your phone's bandwidth plan, and could be vicious if you happen to wander into a roaming zone.
The Nokia 3650 was great. The keypad was great after a little fine tuning of the old muscle memory. Calling it weird or bad basically means you never used it longer than five minutes.
I love my LG wing! I carry it in my backpack for whenever I need to Remote Desktop
I remember when the Priv came out I really wanted it for some reason. Went so far as the side load it’s touch keyboard onto my LG G2
Really expected the Panasonic CM1 on the list. Great phone, that felt like a genuine camera.
I'm watching this on a Moto Z 2 play and JBL Boost 2 speaker mod. I've also got the project mod which is create for watching this in bed and camping. I got all 3 from cex here in the uk
Great video , I think smartphones are mature now and that's fine but I do miss the experimental phones. I like my phones function over form . But at the same time when I get bored I customize a lot and prolly the reason why I don't use 1 phone but 2 even if it's because of my old phone or a second hand. The boredom comes simply when I'm not doing something , there is lots of time to look at your phone and think , my block of rectangle is the same as everyone else's . Specs don't matter once you realize you don't like mobile games as much or maybe in other reasons , and camera don't matter once your past the phase of taking pictures , it get boring sometimes. basic camera is fine. but then again things repeat and you use your camera again , find a new game to play and boredom happen in next few months
A weird phone I remember fondly is the Pepsi phone, it wasn’t a huge bold departure from the usual phone experience, but it was a pretty decent mid range phone that somehow got branded completely by Pepsi, sadly I never got to see one irl
For me, it's the Nokia 7280. Good luck texting with that phone. 🤣
Brings back a lot of memories, mostly unpleasant, having purchased the Nokia 7600 when it came out along with many other strange Nokia phone(ngage) I do wonder what I was thinking back in the day..
Although seeing a blackberry priv & my all time favourite phone the blackberry passport makes me long for days gone by.
I still use my Moto Z2 Play with the speaker mod every day. Most practical phone I have ever owned. I wish Motorola hadn't discontinued the Z line with mods.
The Samsung Omnia i900 was one I owned in the past, if I remember correctly, it had a Windows operating system with and Android experience as well.
I never had the Moto Atrix but I did have a secondhand LapDock which I got for about $100. I used it with some DROID model that was only a bit more recent, possibly the DROID RAZR MAXX.
A friend had the Moto Z. The battery pack and camera were her favorites.
Had the LG G Flex when I was still in high school, and damn I loved that phone a lot.
I had a BB Passport back in the day and I loved it. The form factor was great for actually getting things done, and the qnx operating system was a tour de force. The next time I would be ask satisfied with a phone was when I got my current Galaxy z fold which goes a long way in restoring that workwide capability. The z fold is also an awesome game player too.
Had the Atrix and it was awesome. The lap dock went on sale really fast and I got one for $150. It was my on the go laptop for the day and worked well.
I see a lot of people in my city with their phones on straps to carry it on their arm, wrist or neck so... that purse idea is not really THAT out there 😅 It just made it prettier
Why everyone forgets about asus padphone,the biggest what if.
i loved my 3650, nobody dared to borrow it since the keypad was weirdly placed 🤣 it was so hard for other people to type, so they usually gave up 😋 the only downside is that if you get so used to the keypad, you'll have trouble typing on a normal keypad 😅🤣
They're not weird, they're cool and more distinct than the others
The honor v purse is a clone of the first huawei foldable
LG Velvet 2Pro was their last flagship, but it was released very limited
its been nearly a decade and youtubers still cannot escape the Persona 5 OST
the thing I dream to have is a phone with a slide down controller like the psp go, I know that there was a xperia phone like that but no modern phones !!!! I want something like a redmagic 9 with integrated slide down controller, it would literally be perfect for gaming, sadly I cant find any phones like that that are modern, I would love something with at least a snapdragon 8gen2 or 3 to be able to do things like emulate the switch full speed and play every high end games like zzz and genshin and war thunder mobile at max settings with propper controls without being a separated controller
I want the huawei mate xt
Will be buying every single phone on this list that I don't have 😍
Blackberry passport is by far the best phone I’ve ever owned. Call quality and reception was better than any 2024 phone. By far
I'd like to think Nokia made those weird smartphones to make themselves a topic of discussion decades later even if they don't stay on the top forever
Curved screen was always an utterly stupid idea, it was never neat.
Lapdocks that are only usable with a single device makes no sense, but a laptop shell that uses your phone either via wire or wireless connection to run with a desktop interface that you can upgrade if and when necessary by just buying a new phone instead of upgrading both makes seriously too much sense for IMO, the vast majority of people. Usually, when people upgrade their laptop/desktop, it's because it runs too slow or doesn't have the storage they need. But usually not because the display is inefficient.
If the lapdocks from Motorola and Asus weren't device specific, they'd still be usable today without running like a potato.
I'm actually writing this with my Motorola using "smart connect" on my TV with wireless keyboard. Basically Motorola's version of Samsung Dex.