I am going to blow your mind! They actually did make cars in the 90s without radios and AC... technically most cars actually came "without" and they were an add on, just most defaulted to only ordering lot stock with them installed so it seemed like all cars came with them. On your bill even today it probably lists a price of your radio/sound system if it has a breakdown list XD. But yeah, it was dealerships that made things "standard" even though they were optional.
A fun one is the van I drive for work has things like air con, android auto, lane keeping and blind spot monitor a 360 cam. You know what it doesn't have? Cruise control. Its an ev the throttle is as drive by wire as it gets. It has automatic wipers and a massive touch screen but can't drive at a fixed speed.
Our 1990 Chevy Suburban _Scottsdale_ package even has a radio, WITH cassette! That package, for reference, was like... BELOW the base model!! It's basically the Farmer's Package - Power NOTHING (except steering and rear tail gate window) - NO carpet, just vinyl... stuff to cover the metal - NO sound dampeners - all road noise, so the time! - NO AirCon - NO cruise control _(thanks mromutt! haha)_ - Front BENCH seats - TAIL GATE - Only TWO speakers, which are in the dash (it might have 3, but I dunno if the center grille is populated) _[I think ABS was mandatory, so likely has it]_ Compared to our other 90 that was a _Silverado_ package... - Stereo/Cassette with EQ (1.5 DIN vs Scott's single-DIN *and* it had the knobs, so pre-DIN standard) - Power windows and locks - Carpeted, WITH sound dampening - Front AirCon AND Rear AirCon - Had cruise control - Dual captains chairs with center console and cup holders - Rear barn doors - 4 speakers: 2x in the dash, 2x 4"x10" in the rear I miss that one... The Scottsdale still lives at the cabin, nearing 200,000 miles. _(gets 15mpg too, which is impressive for such a heavy girl with that many miles)_ [/boredom-induced ramble]
Some REALLY base model Dacia's and Renault's models in some markets don't have radio although there is wiring and speakers installed in the car itself.
The 8110i is the one they used in the Matrix that had the spring-loaded cover. It wasnt faked, probably just never released down in Ausie town for you upside-downers
One quick comment - talking as someone that spent many, many hours repairing hundreds of those Nokia 8110 phones back in the day - yes they did do the shuh-shunk open, it just broke a lot. You need to strip the phone down and re-grease the rails. If you do that, it will work as it did in the movie.
How to tell if a phone is actually a burner phone: - No Text Support - No Camera - No Bluetooth - No Games - No Internet Access - Colour screen without MMS
Yeah but the biggest thing about a burner phone is that it's cheap, widely available, and disposable. As a collector's item that they only made 10,000 (or probably less) of, this misses the mark big time
@@Walter-The-Cat had :;edit: almost ten years ago, and never knew it was special.... I got it at a pawn shop, lol.:; . I lost it around 2015/16 when I came on hard times and ended up losing like 90% of my belongings when I had them in storage. Ended up homeless for a while and couldn't pay my u-store-it fee. Not a good time in my life. Fucking phone sucked anyway, I still have the RAZR though.
Something I'll never get over is how the history of Sprint is DIRECTLY connected with a former railroad here in the states During the 1970s, the Southern Pacific Railroad was looking to utilize its existing communications lines for long distance calls. A contest was held within the company to decide on the name for the new system and the company ultimately settled on SPRINT- Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony
Siblings and I loved the first matrix movie to death and begged our parents to get 'the Matrix phone'. The one they found actually was spring-loaded but it was 2006 so it was still dead cheap. We broke it within a week lmao
It can receive them but NOT send them according to the Wikipedia article. "No web browser or means of sending text messages was included in the firmware."
I remember seeing it in ads and it looking considerably more, I dunno, quality? Seeing it in a video like this you really realize how plasticky it is. The moulding looks fine at least.
@@Aeduo It might be we got used to non-plastic expensive stuff so much now, but back then any, like, ANY tech stuff was plastic, no matter the price, OR it was a desktop PC. The monitor still plastic. It was quite rare for something like a high end laptop having an aluminium/magnesium shell or such, we were used to it I guess.
@@Kalvinjj pretty sure that razr he showed in the video had a metal casing. The plastic numpad would be a joke for an expensive phone today though yeah. It might've even had a plastic screen.
@@Aeduo Yeah forgot that one had a metal casing, every now and then something with a little piece of metal or more rarely more of it popped, but yeah that screen from my memory (friend had it, not me) was such a thin plastic sheet you could easily press the LCD under it. Then again not like it matters all that much on a flip, outer screen had a more durable one.
First saw this on Micheal Fisher's When Phones Were Fun series, and when you said "this was back when phones were still fun" I'm clocking a fellow When Phones Were Fun watcher
@@christianmirto1597with the 3330 you could do internet a year after and SMS with something like the 5510 a bit before 3310 or 9000i Communicator if you had the money back in 1997'.
It wasn't a real one. It was part of the software they injected into the matrix from their loader so I'm guessing it could bend the rules just like they could..... I doubt anyone on the product placement team actually thought of that though 😅
I know, it might sound rediculous, but your videos always give me a comfort in rough times. I love to watch them, sometimes just to forget about any problems for a moment. Thanks for this
PCS stands for Personal Communication Services and is a range of technologies related to 2G mobile phones using either GSM or CDMA networks. Sprint used CDMA
yep my town has this stupid company that monopolizes everything. 250mbps download/10 upload all for the low price of 140 a month. America. ain’t it great?
@@shup6969 pretty sure Biden set over 2 billion aside for Fibre Optic to every house in aermica by 2045 or some shit but then Trump used it for some else as he always does, was a good idea for the Fibre Optic runs tho😂
@@techgeeknzl it might be possible to add custom ringtones, though idk maybe you need to download them from the phone network like you did in the olden days
@@TheHenirik if it were a Nokia, it would have that ringtone maker they all had. There is/was even an android app that works exactly like the old Nokia thing. And now I wonder if there is a way to set up a contained local mobile network just to connect the phone. Like burning a sim card and setting up a "tower" with a signal the card will accept.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I think LTT were looking into doing that for their new lab, but when it comes to radio there is a lot of licencing and regulation involved. It could possibly be done if you could connect directly to the antenna connector and be sure you won't interfere with anything. But idk, i can't claim to have much knowledge in the radio space.
I had the Nokia matrix style phone and loved it. Then, something even more special was the o2 Cocoon. Would love an episode on that phone!! What a unique nugget that was!
Very off-topic suggestion: the thumbnail reminded me of the Logitech Harmony Elite remote for some reason. If you have a many remotes like I do, this is genuinely the best solution you can get. It is a part button, part touchscreen remote that loads the function of pretty much any electronic device operated with infrared (amps, tv's, cd players, game consoles) from the last 3 decades, and lets you control it from one remote. The Elite with the hub and two blasters is the best option. It can operate stuff in your whole room as the hub, remote and blasters send the signal in all directions. Logitech stopped making them as the market was too niche, but it feels like more and more people are getting dvd and cd players, dedicated amps and more. This is how I ended up with 5 remotes so far and will probably get a few more. So far, this thing has done it all. Even 25 year old stuff. It has all the functions and you can program them as well.
@@tim3172 I know right, but it is happening. Wade posted a video a couple of days ago where he bought 2700 cd's. Sounds ridiculous but with streaming you don't really own the music. You get to listen to it until it is gone. Video streaming is especially bad in that regard. The sound quality is genuinely better. CD's are where sound quality peaked. It was completely lossless, unlike streaming. On a good sound system you can definitely tell the difference. Same with DVD's, although BluRay was the best in the end.
@@anaaji1418 In a company it would make sense as well, as you don't have to have tons of remotes to use all the electronics. If a TV is replaced, you just load the functions and use the same remote. Quite an expensive system for a company, they were 300,- new.
Yeah I've got one too, pain in the ass to get working or adjust, but once it's good it's good. My hifi system is just too complex to manage with disparate remotes.
The worst thing about no SMS/MMS is that that was the best way to get ringtones and sounds on your phone back in the early days. The trick was that a lot of carriers have a way to email an SMS/MMS message to a phone. So you could pop a music file into your email, send it off and now you could have whatever you wanted for a ring tone without having to buy one via one of those stupid services.
Hollow it out, swap in an OLED screen, you got yourself the sickest device in the land. Doesn't matter if it becomes a phone, an MP3 player or a hallway light, it's awesome.
Hyundai Matrix was one of the ugliest and shittiest cars ever built. Getz, Accent and Matrix, the holy trinity of shit. Oh and the Matrix was designed by Pininfarina. Every legend needs its Jack and Jill moment I guess
I find it funny how they even show Pininfarina logo of the side, if fells like Hyundai did it on purpose, like "we paid this famous design studio and that's what we got"
My dad got two of these as a gift. He gave them to me and my brother when we were lil tots to use as spy/pretend phones. We destroyed them eventually, but i still miss it.
genuinely had a kid at school who used the 8110i (this was 3-4 years after it released so it was already in the early 3310 days, right before 9/11) because it was in matrix and he was the coolest kid at the school. And I remember him being mad THIS phone was not released where I live because it was SPRINT exclusive and they do not operate here. He did get the Motorola Z8 (the Bourne Identity phone) tho. Made him cool again after he had a boring Siemens.
You are one of the VERY few youtubers that carried content during covid imo. Fast forward to now and seeing ur channel at nearly 2 mil is awesome. Thx for the last 4 years man keep up the amazing work
4:31 The main difference between 1960s - 2000s and now: Back then, things were built to last and these days things are built to fail when a new model or version releases.
@@no1DdC I still use DVD player, VHS player, cassette player (my Walkman that I ACTUALLY OWNED back in 1989), vinyl record player, old computers and consoles for retro gaming, CRT TV for my old consoles. All still works and I've never had an issue yet. Take care of old technology and it'll love you right back.
Survivorship Bias. Your grandmother's fridge that lasted for decades isn't representative of the tech as a whole. Almost all of those fridges ended in landfills
I remember the Ford Gran Torino my dad had when I was young. It kept blowing holes in the muffler, and he finally traded it in for a new but barebones 1985 Ford Escort. The Gran Torino was later found abandoned by it's new owner in a ditch. The advantage cars from the 70s and before was that almost none of them had an ECU, or any other kind of computer. They were all mechanical with very basic electrics. So if a major EMP event happens, all electric cars such Tesla, or even newer ICE cars (as in roughly 1980s and later) becomes a giant door stop, and any Ford Gran Torinos left will still keep on rolling.
The 7110 had it. The phone from The Matrix uses the mechanism from the 7110 on the 8110 for the slide out seen in the movie. I have no idea why they didn't just use the 7110, as it came out in 1999, and the movie would have been excellent advertising.
@@durrell246 Well, they didnt share the same mechanism. 8110 from the movie was customized by the special effect crew. Also, the film premiered in march of 1999, and the 7110 came out in february so how could they use it when the movie was probably already on its way to theatres?
yea, I mean Im not understanding these youtubers who are getting 20 plus year old devices and going "wow what junk lololololol wow this so horrible". well yea in comparison to a modern cell phone that are basically just mini computers in your pocket yea its crappy but at the time it was a good phone. Also when these tech youtubers getting laptops that are clearly not for gaming and then make a whole video about how its junk because it wont game...well duh. Maybe its because im in IT and understand these things and these videos are made for the mainstream idk. Its just kinda irritating now coming on youtube and its always some stupid video about how 20 to 30 year tech isnt like what we have now, no you dont say!?
In 2003 I had an HTC Andes (O2 XDA II) that had Windows mobile, so it could do phone calls, texts, MMS, take (very 🥔 quality) photos, play mp3s, do satnav with an external satellite receiver, emails, run Word / Excel / Powerpoint, do stuff on Internet Exploder, ...
Sure, but 99% of the general public would have no practical need for nearly many of those features at that point in time. All in a phone that cost even more than the limited edition collectors Samsung phone that was already priced to be extremely high. But for those that did have a use, some people within their job and/or business would, then of course it was a great tool.
Finally, a video on this phone :) Hearing the familiar sounds of a Yamaha SMAF FM chip was a surprise, I did not think any Samsung SPH-series phones from this time used such sound chip. And by all accounts you are right... software wise it is no different from any other Samsung Sprint SPH-phone from the time. If anything it's even *more* downgraded as those typically had Java MIDP 1.0 support! I can only dream when this phone's ROM is finally dumped...
I had one too, the fancy spring loaded cover thing was real flimsy and sometimes it'd get stuck so often I'd just move things around manually like with the 8110. Also it took surprisingly little time to get used to the scrollwheel, I thought it would've taken longer.
It's great that one of the sounds is the sound of the mechanical sliding of the cover recorded and played back digitally, or so it seems. It honestly sounds the best without any sound effects.
When I was sixteen, the year the Matrix came out, there was nothing I wanted more than one of the kachunk phones from the movie. Devo that you had to pull it down yourself. A real stab in the ageing feels!
My mother worked at Sprint during this thing's release. Among the phones for standard workers that were off-limits to employees, especially in their discount program.
Genuinely cannot get over a phone made and released in 2003 NOT HAVING SMS. That's like a car in 1990 not having a radio.
I am going to blow your mind! They actually did make cars in the 90s without radios and AC... technically most cars actually came "without" and they were an add on, just most defaulted to only ordering lot stock with them installed so it seemed like all cars came with them. On your bill even today it probably lists a price of your radio/sound system if it has a breakdown list XD. But yeah, it was dealerships that made things "standard" even though they were optional.
A fun one is the van I drive for work has things like air con, android auto, lane keeping and blind spot monitor a 360 cam. You know what it doesn't have? Cruise control. Its an ev the throttle is as drive by wire as it gets. It has automatic wipers and a massive touch screen but can't drive at a fixed speed.
Our 1990 Chevy Suburban _Scottsdale_ package even has a radio, WITH cassette! That package, for reference, was like... BELOW the base model!! It's basically the Farmer's Package
- Power NOTHING (except steering and rear tail gate window)
- NO carpet, just vinyl... stuff to cover the metal
- NO sound dampeners - all road noise, so the time!
- NO AirCon
- NO cruise control _(thanks mromutt! haha)_
- Front BENCH seats
- TAIL GATE
- Only TWO speakers, which are in the dash (it might have 3, but I dunno if the center grille is populated)
_[I think ABS was mandatory, so likely has it]_
Compared to our other 90 that was a _Silverado_ package...
- Stereo/Cassette with EQ (1.5 DIN vs Scott's single-DIN *and* it had the knobs, so pre-DIN standard)
- Power windows and locks
- Carpeted, WITH sound dampening
- Front AirCon AND Rear AirCon
- Had cruise control
- Dual captains chairs with center console and cup holders
- Rear barn doors
- 4 speakers: 2x in the dash, 2x 4"x10" in the rear
I miss that one... The Scottsdale still lives at the cabin, nearing 200,000 miles. _(gets 15mpg too, which is impressive for such a heavy girl with that many miles)_
[/boredom-induced ramble]
Some REALLY base model Dacia's and Renault's models in some markets don't have radio although there is wiring and speakers installed in the car itself.
@@mgkleym Oh wow that is weird it comes so loaded but no cruise control. I wonder if its still wired up behind everything for it though.
The 8110i is the one they used in the Matrix that had the spring-loaded cover. It wasnt faked, probably just never released down in Ausie town for you upside-downers
Came here to say this, literally had the matrix phone here in Britain with the spring loaded nonsense 😂
This needs more upvotes. Came here to say the same. Everyone wanted that phone 😅
100% agree, I had one. Wore out the spring, loved it. UK resident, as far as I know nearly all of them were the sprint-loaded versions here.
I had the Nokia, it had a spring mechanism in the UK.
Yeah I had one spring loaded..but I also think it was slightly different? Was there a few similar models?
This isn't land waste!
Remember, one mans e-waste is another mans... e-waste.
Could be Ocean waste! Or space waste!
it looks like the empire state building, totally worth something!
le mans
One Man's Paste is Another Man's Taste.. 💀
BRINGUS STUDIOS REFERENCE????
One quick comment - talking as someone that spent many, many hours repairing hundreds of those Nokia 8110 phones back in the day - yes they did do the shuh-shunk open, it just broke a lot. You need to strip the phone down and re-grease the rails. If you do that, it will work as it did in the movie.
so it can, but most of them didn't
@@dropkickedmurphy6463 they all did! Just... briefly. :)
Nokia 7110 had a button-release slider, 8110 didn't
I bet they were plastic too...*shivers*
@@Elotaskalo some other commenter said it was the 8110i
Half of owining a snake is poking it once a week just to check if it’s still alive.
Don't y'all have to feed it?
@@toidIllorTAmIyeah thats during the poking time
@@hellohaveagoodday that sounds dangerous lmfao
@@toidIllorTAmI most snakes go long periods between eating naturally, they have pretty slow metabolism
@TheHenirik i had no idea. I've clearly never owned a snake, but i do have tortoises and they are a handful for how slow they move!
6:15 the absolute humor of the two flip sounds just being a keyboard/loading a pistol and then ✨fairy dust ✨
Ah yes the age old tale of the enchanted handgun
How to tell if a phone is actually a burner phone:
- No Text Support
- No Camera
- No Bluetooth
- No Games
- No Internet Access
- Colour screen without MMS
Right, it's more privacy based which fits the matrix theme
Fr fr. Trappin on a Flip Phone.
Yeah but the biggest thing about a burner phone is that it's cheap, widely available, and disposable. As a collector's item that they only made 10,000 (or probably less) of, this misses the mark big time
@@SaltExarch awwh when you used to be able to buy a £20 phone on Tesco with £10 free credit. Sell a couple oz and throw the bugger in a canal.
@@SaltExarch You forgot about burner phones being inconspicuous, which this is very much not.
I had one of these! I bought it at a pawn shop for like $20 in 2007.
Rolled with this and a razr for like 5 years.
Whats the number
@@Walter-The-Cat WHAT'S THE SERIAL NUMBER!!!!! IS IT HIGHER THAN 2500!?!?!?!?
@@koolaid33keyword "HAD"
@@Walter-The-Cat had :;edit: almost ten years ago, and never knew it was special.... I got it at a pawn shop, lol.:; . I lost it around 2015/16 when I came on hard times and ended up losing like 90% of my belongings when I had them in storage. Ended up homeless for a while and couldn't pay my u-store-it fee. Not a good time in my life.
Fucking phone sucked anyway, I still have the RAZR though.
we want the bringus collab (don’t show him the cds)
Optical media bad
As we all know @@Enanout
@@Enanout*good
Mr. Bringle would have a heart attack if he would see Mr. Danks optical media collection IRL :D
@@Enanout optical media good >:)
Something I'll never get over is how the history of Sprint is DIRECTLY connected with a former railroad here in the states
During the 1970s, the Southern Pacific Railroad was looking to utilize its existing communications lines for long distance calls. A contest was held within the company to decide on the name for the new system and the company ultimately settled on SPRINT- Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony
Siblings and I loved the first matrix movie to death and begged our parents to get 'the Matrix phone'. The one they found actually was spring-loaded but it was 2006 so it was still dead cheap. We broke it within a week lmao
that's funny, at least you had fun with it
Probably the Nokia 7110?
@@simondUK I saw someone else say the 8110i had the spring loaded cover (i personally have no clue)
@@CentreMetreNah, thr 8110i just had GPRS e.g. internet. Physically it was the same.
@@CentreMetre possibly it could be they had one of those 3rd party housings which had the spring loaded cover ..
5:04 you can see a "Messaging" option
Lmao....doh
Literally lol
It can receive them but NOT send them according to the Wikipedia article. "No web browser or means of sending text messages was included in the firmware."
@@lydiagalantmotherf gg Samsung
@@lydiagalantmotherf how did someone think to do that thats so messed up
it looks like a spy toy for kids
I remember seeing it in ads and it looking considerably more, I dunno, quality? Seeing it in a video like this you really realize how plasticky it is. The moulding looks fine at least.
@@Aeduo It might be we got used to non-plastic expensive stuff so much now, but back then any, like, ANY tech stuff was plastic, no matter the price, OR it was a desktop PC. The monitor still plastic.
It was quite rare for something like a high end laptop having an aluminium/magnesium shell or such, we were used to it I guess.
@@Kalvinjj pretty sure that razr he showed in the video had a metal casing. The plastic numpad would be a joke for an expensive phone today though yeah. It might've even had a plastic screen.
Kinda reminds me of a Digivice or a Henshin device
@@Aeduo Yeah forgot that one had a metal casing, every now and then something with a little piece of metal or more rarely more of it popped, but yeah that screen from my memory (friend had it, not me) was such a thin plastic sheet you could easily press the LCD under it.
Then again not like it matters all that much on a flip, outer screen had a more durable one.
First saw this on Micheal Fisher's When Phones Were Fun series, and when you said "this was back when phones were still fun" I'm clocking a fellow When Phones Were Fun watcher
I love Michael Fisher!
Why escape the matrix when you can get a phone that escaped the production expectations and text messaging!!
Ye the Nokia 3310 from 3 years prior is way better end cheaper
@@christianmirto1597with the 3330 you could do internet a year after and SMS with something like the 5510 a bit before 3310 or 9000i Communicator if you had the money back in 1997'.
The best bit is that in the film, Trinity uses it as a modem! And the real one can't do that!
It wasn't a real one. It was part of the software they injected into the matrix from their loader so I'm guessing it could bend the rules just like they could..... I doubt anyone on the product placement team actually thought of that though 😅
I like how it manages to look like a phone and a taser at the same time. Missed opportunity there! It would be much cooler if it was a Taser Phone!
I know, it might sound rediculous, but your videos always give me a comfort in rough times. I love to watch them, sometimes just to forget about any problems for a moment. Thanks for this
same
PCS stands for Personal Communication Services and is a range of technologies related to 2G mobile phones using either GSM or CDMA networks. Sprint used CDMA
Thank you for being the only one to explain this
Yep and the CDMA network has been deactivated for a few years now.
RIP Sprint. Pray for us Americans who are heading back into a telecom monopoly/duopoly 😭
At least there is Starlink 😅 No competition with coverage at least. Though the bandwidth is not great with a small antenna.
Oligopoly
yep my town has this stupid company that monopolizes everything. 250mbps download/10 upload all for the low price of 140 a month. America. ain’t it great?
@@shup6969 pretty sure Biden set over 2 billion aside for Fibre Optic to every house in aermica by 2045 or some shit but then Trump used it for some else as he always does, was a good idea for the Fibre Optic runs tho😂
Deny and depose.
SMASNUG MATRIX NUGG?????!
THE NUGGTRIX?!?!?!?!
[to the tune of “riders on the storm”]
@@thunderbirds9001 I would watch a movie where some hyped up needs discover a shit ton of nuggs
@@ObeseChess ‼️‼️‼️
What if we are all just living in the matrix running on a nugget...
5:44 - "Dial to neb"
I guess it stands for the Nebuchadnezzar, the ship Morpheus and his team flew in the movies.
The one right before it is in the AniMatrix
Its the exact phone call tone from Matrix.
7:23 DankPods evolves by adding some sweet sound effects. Spot on.
Holy shit, Loser BFB
you know your product is a maximum nugget when wade adds a sound effect to bash it
I'm pretty sure I've replied to you with "Holy s@#$, Loser BFB" a long time ago.
@@AhDollar true.
try to play scarlet fire on it
How? There's no media player.
@@techgeeknzl it might be possible to add custom ringtones, though idk maybe you need to download them from the phone network like you did in the olden days
@@TheHenirik if it were a Nokia, it would have that ringtone maker they all had. There is/was even an android app that works exactly like the old Nokia thing.
And now I wonder if there is a way to set up a contained local mobile network just to connect the phone. Like burning a sim card and setting up a "tower" with a signal the card will accept.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I think LTT were looking into doing that for their new lab, but when it comes to radio there is a lot of licencing and regulation involved.
It could possibly be done if you could connect directly to the antenna connector and be sure you won't interfere with anything.
But idk, i can't claim to have much knowledge in the radio space.
@@TheHenirikI would think a lot of it would have to do with licensing. The FCC doesn't take too kindly to just letting people blast out RF
Pt cruiser vibes means youre living life the way its intended
I had the Nokia matrix style phone and loved it. Then, something even more special was the o2 Cocoon. Would love an episode on that phone!! What a unique nugget that was!
Had to google the cocoon: ohmygod. the inside is kinda mid ngl but the outside....... *chef's kiss*
@@dxBarByxP ikr?! It was all about the outside and tbf, everything else about the phone kinda sucked ha!
Just looks like a razr.
Very off-topic suggestion: the thumbnail reminded me of the Logitech Harmony Elite remote for some reason. If you have a many remotes like I do, this is genuinely the best solution you can get.
It is a part button, part touchscreen remote that loads the function of pretty much any electronic device operated with infrared (amps, tv's, cd players, game consoles) from the last 3 decades, and lets you control it from one remote. The Elite with the hub and two blasters is the best option. It can operate stuff in your whole room as the hub, remote and blasters send the signal in all directions.
Logitech stopped making them as the market was too niche, but it feels like more and more people are getting dvd and cd players, dedicated amps and more. This is how I ended up with 5 remotes so far and will probably get a few more. So far, this thing has done it all. Even 25 year old stuff. It has all the functions and you can program them as well.
"it feels like more and more people are getting dvd and cd players"
What year is this?
@@tim3172 I know right, but it is happening. Wade posted a video a couple of days ago where he bought 2700 cd's. Sounds ridiculous but with streaming you don't really own the music. You get to listen to it until it is gone. Video streaming is especially bad in that regard.
The sound quality is genuinely better. CD's are where sound quality peaked. It was completely lossless, unlike streaming. On a good sound system you can definitely tell the difference. Same with DVD's, although BluRay was the best in the end.
I use them at work, I always wonder what's the use case before but yours makes sense
@@anaaji1418 In a company it would make sense as well, as you don't have to have tons of remotes to use all the electronics. If a TV is replaced, you just load the functions and use the same remote.
Quite an expensive system for a company, they were 300,- new.
Yeah I've got one too, pain in the ass to get working or adjust, but once it's good it's good. My hifi system is just too complex to manage with disparate remotes.
The worst thing about no SMS/MMS is that that was the best way to get ringtones and sounds on your phone back in the early days.
The trick was that a lot of carriers have a way to email an SMS/MMS message to a phone. So you could pop a music file into your email, send it off and now you could have whatever you wanted for a ring tone without having to buy one via one of those stupid services.
As much as you are bashing it you know that phone warmed your dark heart
Hollow it out, swap in an OLED screen, you got yourself the sickest device in the land. Doesn't matter if it becomes a phone, an MP3 player or a hallway light, it's awesome.
Agreed
There is also a car called the Hyundai Matrix. I saw them IRL.
Also Toyota Matrix (Corolla hatchback)
Hyundai Matrix was one of the ugliest and shittiest cars ever built. Getz, Accent and Matrix, the holy trinity of shit. Oh and the Matrix was designed by Pininfarina. Every legend needs its Jack and Jill moment I guess
THERE'S BLUE COMMENTS ON TH-cam
I find it funny how they even show Pininfarina logo of the side, if fells like Hyundai did it on purpose, like "we paid this famous design studio and that's what we got"
I just watched that comment turn blue in real time, wtf
3:10 OCTOTHORPE!
Well I guess they stayed true to the movie. I mean they only ever used cell phones for calls 📱
My dad got two of these as a gift. He gave them to me and my brother when we were lil tots to use as spy/pretend phones. We destroyed them eventually, but i still miss it.
I was thinking about this exact device yesterday. Iconic design. Useless feartures.
genuinely had a kid at school who used the 8110i (this was 3-4 years after it released so it was already in the early 3310 days, right before 9/11) because it was in matrix and he was the coolest kid at the school.
And I remember him being mad THIS phone was not released where I live because it was SPRINT exclusive and they do not operate here.
He did get the Motorola Z8 (the Bourne Identity phone) tho. Made him cool again after he had a boring Siemens.
it looks like a phone a villain would use
You are one of the VERY few youtubers that carried content during covid imo. Fast forward to now and seeing ur channel at nearly 2 mil is awesome. Thx for the last 4 years man keep up the amazing work
7:00 Imagine if the number was 1337
what's special about 1337?
@@_invencible_ I assume you're joking, but it's "leet". that is, the Internet practice of replacing letters with similar-looking numbers
That would instantly quadruple it's value
@@LordofDiamondsMetal never heard that before. I guess i’m one of today’s lucky 10,000
4:31 The main difference between 1960s - 2000s and now: Back then, things were built to last and these days things are built to fail when a new model or version releases.
So, how much stuff from the 1960s - 2000s are you still using?
@@no1DdC I still use DVD player, VHS player, cassette player (my Walkman that I ACTUALLY OWNED back in 1989), vinyl record player, old computers and consoles for retro gaming, CRT TV for my old consoles. All still works and I've never had an issue yet. Take care of old technology and it'll love you right back.
Survivorship Bias.
Your grandmother's fridge that lasted for decades isn't representative of the tech as a whole. Almost all of those fridges ended in landfills
@@boredincan Exactly my point. Also, old appliances tend to be unbelievably inefficient and, in extreme cases, dangerous to use.
I remember the Ford Gran Torino my dad had when I was young. It kept blowing holes in the muffler, and he finally traded it in for a new but barebones 1985 Ford Escort. The Gran Torino was later found abandoned by it's new owner in a ditch.
The advantage cars from the 70s and before was that almost none of them had an ECU, or any other kind of computer. They were all mechanical with very basic electrics. So if a major EMP event happens, all electric cars such Tesla, or even newer ICE cars (as in roughly 1980s and later) becomes a giant door stop, and any Ford Gran Torinos left will still keep on rolling.
I distinctly remember other, maybe older Nokias with these slide out keyboard covers that did have a button to make it pop out.
Nokia 7110
My pops had one, it did the button pop
@@grenoblica I still have mine! :) Kept it out of sentiment
The 7110 had it. The phone from The Matrix uses the mechanism from the 7110 on the 8110 for the slide out seen in the movie. I have no idea why they didn't just use the 7110, as it came out in 1999, and the movie would have been excellent advertising.
@@durrell246 Well, they didnt share the same mechanism. 8110 from the movie was customized by the special effect crew. Also, the film premiered in march of 1999, and the 7110 came out in february so how could they use it when the movie was probably already on its way to theatres?
Dude you were 20 off getting 1337. You've no idea how powerful that phone would've been.
@2:54 that’s Brian Cox
😂
5:55 that ringtone sounded so good... i wonder if there's a full version somewhere
To be honest.... For the time... That phone is pretty dam cool lol.
yea, I mean Im not understanding these youtubers who are getting 20 plus year old devices and going "wow what junk lololololol wow this so horrible". well yea in comparison to a modern cell phone that are basically just mini computers in your pocket yea its crappy but at the time it was a good phone. Also when these tech youtubers getting laptops that are clearly not for gaming and then make a whole video about how its junk because it wont game...well duh. Maybe its because im in IT and understand these things and these videos are made for the mainstream idk. Its just kinda irritating now coming on youtube and its always some stupid video about how 20 to 30 year tech isnt like what we have now, no you dont say!?
It does get annoying when people do that not considering the context of the analysis. What a shame.
"back when phones were fun"
*Mr. Mobile has entered the chat
In 2003 I had an HTC Andes (O2 XDA II) that had Windows mobile, so it could do phone calls, texts, MMS, take (very 🥔 quality) photos, play mp3s, do satnav with an external satellite receiver, emails, run Word / Excel / Powerpoint, do stuff on Internet Exploder, ...
I had a Nokia 8310. It... had FM radio functionality and Snake 2!
Sure, but 99% of the general public would have no practical need for nearly many of those features at that point in time. All in a phone that cost even more than the limited edition collectors Samsung phone that was already priced to be extremely high.
But for those that did have a use, some people within their job and/or business would, then of course it was a great tool.
@@wyterabitt2149 Most people had the need, they just didn't know it yet. 😂
@@wyterabitt2149 yet they somehow magically have the need for it today. Something doesn't add up.
I had an O2 Atom, really liked that phone. Replaced it with a HTC Touch when that came out a few years later.
bruh, that samsung looks like galactus' head
Ye 🤣
Dunno why this channel popped up in my feed but I'm glad it did. F ing HILARIOUS! Love your sense of humour mare. Keep up the top work x
4:40 Ngl that’s still cool to have that wallpaper
Your videos are the only thing getting me through the week m8
6:24 i actually kinda love this a lot ngl this is awesome
The genuine, unbridled excitement about the battery still being a battery...
Never change, dank pods. Never change.
Finally, a video on this phone :)
Hearing the familiar sounds of a Yamaha SMAF FM chip was a surprise, I did not think any Samsung SPH-series phones from this time used such sound chip.
And by all accounts you are right... software wise it is no different from any other Samsung Sprint SPH-phone from the time. If anything it's even *more* downgraded as those typically had Java MIDP 1.0 support!
I can only dream when this phone's ROM is finally dumped...
"In the movie they faked it..."
My childhood is ruined.
This bugger sure is wacky.
Just the good ol late 90s to early 2000s
the booklet that came with it is honestly the best part. very well designed
I thought they modified the phone to do that just for the movie.
You would think they would have just used the same phones in the sequels and remanufactured that particular model.
Craig netbook when? (or literally any other android netbook which the craig has the same chassies of, literally just brand slapping)
Craig is so good that many steal their designs. 😭
@@CarrotConsumer they cost like 90$ usd, dankpods should make a video on them.
The genuine enthusiasm in the first half of this episode got me high. Thank you. 🙏
I remember that weird slogan Samsung had, "DigitAll - Everyone's invited", it was always in their commercials.
My God, where has this amazing channel been all my life? Absolutely hilarious.
4:55 messaging isn't sms?
One thing I loved about the lates 90s earlier 00s tech was that they would just have fun with it. 20 years later, the "beige" effect is in full force.
I know how it feels to be land waste. Don't give up, little nugget.
The Nokia 8146 was a variant of the Nokia 8110 made for UK.
thats what theyre talking about with "escaping the matrix"?
7:35 - DankPods has given me many expansions to my vocabulary, but "High-tech McGumpery" is a new favorite.
That Smashnug phone is like a bad Transformers toy for kids.
The real ones don’t do that, ahhh what a bummer.
Half the reason I always wanted one was just to do that
2:36
2003 => 13 years old
meaning Dank pods was born in 1990 and is currently 34 years old.
Yup. That's how math works. xD
3:09 "IT'S A HESHTEG" MOOD MAN, MOOD. Genuinely laughed so hard at that
I always thought that phone (from Matrix 2 not Matrix 1) looked dumb.
7:25 I can’t stop laughing at this. Who in their right mind would even consider to buy this for legit use 😂
I remember having a Nokia 7110 which WAS spring loaded. Wasnt the one used in the film but close enough.
I had one too, the fancy spring loaded cover thing was real flimsy and sometimes it'd get stuck so often I'd just move things around manually like with the 8110. Also it took surprisingly little time to get used to the scrollwheel, I thought it would've taken longer.
Man, you just memory flashbanged me with that little bunny holding the carrot ringtone commercial. I am in awe
THE MATRIX??
DA VINKY???
At that time it was also cool just having a network connected clock in your pocket
this looks like a money laundering scam
It's great that one of the sounds is the sound of the mechanical sliding of the cover recorded and played back digitally, or so it seems. It honestly sounds the best without any sound effects.
Week 3 of asking for another nugget lucky dip, as we haven't had one since the beginning of the year.
This feels like they made a movie prop and then thought "You know what? We could sell this."
9:28 frank time
"Just making sure you're alive" is so relatable when your pet is sleeping
Now this is what I needed today!
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When I was sixteen, the year the Matrix came out, there was nothing I wanted more than one of the kachunk phones from the movie.
Devo that you had to pull it down yourself. A real stab in the ageing feels!
1:38 cute dog
dog
Your enthusiasm is infectious
3:22 underrared doritos flavor
I love that outside the US it's Cool American. Ah the Midwest and our love of ranch dressing.
4:34 the seller : "let me charge the phone to test it"
Thuh Motrix
Honestly one of the coolest items in your collection
watched the movie while listening to kid a... absolute surreal experience.
Hey - HEY! You take that back. PT Cruisers are bloody adorable and you cannot convince me otherwise.
0:28 Don't forget that it could also play SNAKE 🎉❤
That part is at 9:28 😀
My mother worked at Sprint during this thing's release. Among the phones for standard workers that were off-limits to employees, especially in their discount program.
13 minutes ago is Chungusly Nuggettable
I visited the fan art page of the website and was not prepared for the *sexy dank* picture with frank wrapped around your head
10/10
0:11 it’s charli xcx lol
Someone who has only ever seen the Brat album cover when the see the color green
@@jgjackpot1546no it’s from her 1999 music video
Oh my god no one cares
@@gorpazorp7309Just like your life
@@alfiey9201that's literally impossible, she would've been a child in 1999