4:02 It'a actually interesting what they did here, the RS232 communication standard only requires two data wires and a ground wire to function. So the use of a audio jack, which has exactly what it needs, makes alot of sense. They had to use a serial plug for the input as the phone needed a serial interface to be able to use external devices like a modem.
When he opened up the keyboard flap, It felt the most revolutionary thing to ever exist. I can feel people going real mad to get one of these. Its beautiful
@@TheDudey i don't think so, the samsung flip phones's idea based on old flip phone like "what if we make smartphone like flip phone" but in 1980 it's really new like u never seen it before or think about it about flip phone idea i think?
My first mobile! Still got it! Used just about everything it could do including the composer. Used it for ages and it always worked. The replacement was slightly more compact but not as much fun to use. Towards the end I got laughed at a few times until I opened it up. I'd still prefer a built-in decent sized miniature keyboard built in to the onscreen ones if it could be part of a decent device.
@@Churbas dude i remember my old phone, it might have been an old Sony Ericsson Walkman nugget or something, and Buried deep in the rabbithole that is the Menu for that phone there was this thing for making real basic Songa. It was great
@@dae1925 Ah, yes. "Abcd Xyz," the channel with the most _original_ name in existence, accusing me of being a copycat for making the most obvious observation of the video and commenting about it despite the fact that 400+ other people are sure to notice it. Who made the bot that you stole your username from, BTW?
@@TheDwarvenDefender I heard your dad once showed you a presentation on the consequences and implications of having unprotected intercourse All the slides were pictures of you.
haha. But to be honest; I'm kind of like a 'tweener'... like too young to be called a boomer; too old to be called a millennial.... I remember that when I was a young kid in early 90's, we had a phone where you actually had to dial a number; you know, with a circular plate where you had to bring each number back to zero.
Worth noting: if you find a USB to Serial adapter, you may actually be able to setup a modem connection over that and get this on the internet. The question being if it can render anything worthwhile
The Action Retro youtube channel has a non-HTTPS site designed for pre-1994 Macs that converts news sites to basic HTML. The Nokia should easily render that.
Or you can just buy a cheap used work oriented pc from any of the main manufacturers and it will still have a serial port. Serial ports are still being used today for all kinds of shit in the industry.
honestly the game boy is a great example of a very durable object It survived a bombing and still functions Only thing that rivals it is the legendary Wii remote, that if you literally throw it at something like a TV there's a high chance the TV will break compared to the remote itself lol
Genuinely astounding. Not only does it look like a shoe, but it is legitimately impressive. For one of the actual first smartphones ever to have so many features and also be (mostly) well designed even by today's standards is astounding.
@@lero.official Probably some spam, only bots and fucking retards post comments containing a single link without any explanation. Just report his ass, that's what I always do.
6:54 This thing was actually more like two mostly separate devices in one casing, a regular Nokia brick phone and a PDA. That's why it's complaining the phone is turned off. For 1996 it was an absolute marvel of engineering.
@@oliviersavard8676 128kb maybe? it's got 2mb of storage so I'd not expect much... for modern standards, the thing must have felt like skynet back in the day
09:14 "What an incoherent ditty" - DankPods, 2021, commenting on the Nokia 9000 Communicator's polyphonic rendition of Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood" from his 1875 incidental music, "Peer Gynt", written as an accompaniment to the 1867 play of the same name, written by Henrik Ibsen
I believe the "phone" part and the "smart" part are physically distinct, and you covered only one of them. That's also probably the reason why you got a "phone is not on" error. Although the "phone" part is likely to be much less fun than the "smart" part, I'd be very curious to see it
@@jderrick1994 Yeah the phone is not turned on, I remember the vertical bar line on the right when the battery died and you plugged it in. Also idk if this is the case with this phone, but when you had set the alarm, it could ring even when the phone was turned off.
Yup, it took until the Nokia E90 for a Communicator to run the same OS on the phone and PDA sides (i.e. you could start an app on the cover screen then open the phone up and carry on with a bigger screen). (PS - I also have a 9300!)
You know, it's been a little over a year since I first found this channel and the growth from "just iPod Mods" to "vintage and modern tech overviews without being reviews" is pretty excellent. Wade, here's to the 1M mark soon. You've been nothing but incredible the entire time.
Bruh, usually when TH-camr goes like "it's gonna be hillarious"? or "you gonna be shocked" I usually really sceptic, because it's not really easy to impress someone by a TH-cam video, but DankPods said those phrases twice and both times he blew my expectations out of the water! Great job!
the reason for the charger was most likely due to being short production and it being cheaper to only have to manufacture the charging adapter vs having an entire charging brick made for the units. It comes down to price availability and safety in a short schedule
Honestly for 1996, this thing is so freaking COOL. A proto smartphone and mini laptop for the time, it's so charming! And it's two years older than me.
Movies like The Matrix used technology like this when I was a kid before Smartphones were invented. Basically Smart devices are malware imo they log your keystrokes and sell your data I am about to go back to being old school if they got 4G basic phones.
I was 13 when this revolutionary piece of technology dropped. Now I'm at the age that this is required for me to look at _the facebook,_ call my kids all the time *(AND WASTE A BUNCH OF MINUTES)* over simple questions that are not important at all, and "manage" _stuff_ with spreadsheets. I never wanted something so bad in my life.
I did the Leo DiCaprio finger pointing thing at the RS232 connector. I use that at work. It's a port which is now hooked up to a wireless antenna, but basically the port is used for transferring files. The fact that there was one for a phone like this is surprising to me, but makes sense. Nowadays it's either via USB cables or Bluetooth, which goes to show how things changed over time.
I know there’s a few TV brands that use RS232 for maintenance stuff, so if it’s acting up the TV tech can hook up a dedicated diagnostic program and have a look.
@@joshuahadams rs232 is the defacto standard for most industrial and scientific serial communication and is used with many different ports besides the dsub and 3.5mm jack you see in the video
Serial RS-232 Cable - The original USB. Seriously. Nearly all the original Palm Pilots used Serial like the one you have, USB adoption wasn't widespread until 1996-1997.
This actually kinda' made me tear up remembering how the tech was much fun and quirkier back in the day. Especially when you opened up the Composer. It reminded me of my 3310 and how I used to try to make theme songs from TV shows and movies as a ringtone. Great and nostalgic video! x) Keep up the good work!
As someone in AV I can tell you it's crazy to see a 20+ year old phone with rs-232 we still use this protocol in so many applications. It's primitive but solid!
Hello. It's also used in router and switch debug and BIOS debug, though within the past several years this is often an RJ-45 port used with a transceiver that outputs to DB9. Data collection about UEFI modules, MRC training, CPU stepping, SPD data in the RAM population, etc. Whereas in routers and L3 switches it is used to load a secure configuration before placing the device on a network where it is subject to potential exploitation and infiltration in a zero-trust modeled environment. I think that it would be weird to see it disappear completely, given as you say it has been a reliable technology. It still has many applications in engineering.
rs232 has been around long before this and seeing rs232 on a device of this era is pretty much the only interface you could expect, irda is just rs232 over infrared, the palm pilot dock was rs232, most dot matrix printers from the 80's were rs232, every single modem made before about 1998 was entirely rs232 based (the later ones speak 8n1 serial just like a real modem but never actually convert to rs232 internally and do it all in software), it's been around since the 60's.
Yeah. It's crazy how well supported it still is! You can automate testing with different equipment that was made like 30 years apart and it still works like a charm.
I had no idea this kind of technology existed in 1996. I was blown away just that it's even had a real full pixel array. I figured it was like a digital character away. What a high quality device.
My friend's dad actually had one of these, it runs DOS! It's a full PC, You can install DOS games on it like commander keen and Wolfenstein etc as it has an Intel 386 cpu.
I had one (I'm old). It doesn't run MS-DOS. It uses PEN/GEOS as an OS. That's powered by ROM-DOS, which is MS-DOS compatible... mostly... kinda... it's compatible with certain versions of MS-DOS.
@@thelastmotel I very vaguely remember my friend's dad showing me dos games and command prompt on it circa 2001 when he'd upgraded to a 9210, I'm 35 years old now for reference.
@@adamreid5901 You could kinda get it to run some MS-DOS stuff, but it did it sketchily. Lot of crashes. It ran the stuff that came installed on it well, but anything you added, not so much. (I'm 50 in a few weeks. Time flies, it really does.)
I miss the days when phones were differentiated and replacing an older one with a newer model actually added new features, not just a number in software.
well back then they were not limited by water resistance, content aspect ratios and so on. The market was so young the posibilities looked endless but we reached peak smartphone like 2 years ago, since then phones look kinda the same, they are just faster with better cameras
@@nolkerss It is if you're ready to buy a new phone anyway. I think people get hung up on the idea that _every_ phone release is meant to be a reason to buy a new phone. That's as silly as having every car model year be a reason to buy a new car. Ride it until the wheels fall off. Material science and engineering hasn't changed enough that you're going to witness a revolution since this time last year -- stop expecting it, and you won't be disappointed. Then the "exorbitant price" for "one feature" is just ... what a new phone costs, for a whole bundle of new features. It's probably still not going to change your life, but it's a mature device. It's not the 90s anymore - there isn't as much room for improvement. It'll just be a nice upgrade to do all the things you rely on that tool to do for you. That should be enough.
These were quite popular in the tech community, particularly amongst sysops. Being able to remotely fix a server when on call was game changing. That cable that you thought looked useless is a serial cable that would let you plug directly into a server on site and troubleshoot problems / reboot without having to carry a heavy laptop around. You kids today are so spoiled. 😂
i remember going through a college couse with some early cisco networking classes in 2011 (never went much further than that) and needing a specific model of laptop, provided by the school, because it was equipped with an in-built serial port. the moment he pulled that cable out i knew that this would definitely be a dream device for any sort of IT bigwig in '96!
Man that’s so cool, thanks for this little info bite! Were you one of those sysops perchance? I love hearing about this era and all the crazy stuff they were figuring out
@@Andy.Bennett No, but I was working as a web developer for an ISP in the mid 90s and my colleagues did. Many of them worked shifts or needed to be on call 24/7 if something broke. Much easier to have one of these than to carry a laptop out to dinner or the pub on a Friday night.
Whoa that phone is pretty baller! When you unfolded it I was like "whoa it's like a mini-laptop!" and then realized so is the smartphone that I'm typing this on lol.
It's AWESOME that they put in the composer feature instead of being like "this is a business phone ,do you think anybody is gonna sit in their spare time and make music ? " So cool !! also , I was not ready for the unfold !
I think Nokia was also known back in the day for letting people compose their own ringtones if they wanted. I heard a lot of their older phones had this feature built in
Being able to compose a ringtone was a big deal for the same reason polyphonic ringtones were. It allowed you to immediately know that it is your phone ringing. It was practical and made the phone more of a personal device rather than just a utility. And it was incredibly cool at the time to hear a recent song as a ringtone of a phone.
I don't wanna sound like know it all... but most stuff lasts longer than 2 years. My phone for example is over 5 years old now. My old pc still works. I still upgraded after like 7 years. If you take care of your stuff it will last you.
that music composer actually surprised me, i was not expecting an actual visual note view; it's not like the newer nokias with a crappy text looking thing
I was promoted to an IT Manager back in 1996 (I was just 26) and was given a brand new BMW 325i coupe and that phone and let me tell you now, using Intellisync sucked using that RS-232C serial cable. What a time though!
My dad on the other mocks me because i dont have viber and refuses to switch platforms and gets into arguments about the merits of viber vs messenger 😂
Weirdly enough, this has the same philosophy behind the Galaxy Fold. They both are designed to be used as a phone folded and as a computer unfolded. We may have better technology, but we still have the vision of 1996
2:45 "If you had a CD drive at this point, you were a baller." I was in IT in the 90's and early 2000's. By 1996, CDs were extremely common, and definitely the norm in new computers.
I remember when CD drives where connected to sound cards (like Soundblaster) with a ribbon cable. Yes, there was a time when sound cards weren't integrated into motherboards.
Broooo, that serial cable adapter is so baller, I'm a systems/network admin right now and I actually use serial every single day, that thing is so cool. Imagine configuring a switch from that thing.
4:02 FYI, the 1.5 mm jack type connector is surprisingly still used in a fair few things. it is capable of data transfer (thin about it, 2 segments for power (or something) and one for data) for example, this phone uses that connector to connect to a pc, rather surprisingly it would most likely work on the latest Casio classpad graphing calculators that some schools in Australia use, heck that same jack connector is used to transfer code from one calc to another, it can even let you use external instruments like thermometers so you can directly put the temperatures into a graph! so yeah, they are amazing little connectors for what they are.
@@jump_ifn0tzero779 yeah it would make sense, after all it’s really just dependent on the hardware (so if it supports it) and the software to recognise the connector type.
The fact that you even had the thought of a touchscreen is just adorable. I still rememberr my second daugher, when she was a in kindergarden in the early 2010s and couldn't understand why the TV was not touch sensitive.
I often forget how far we've come along, as it feels like we've had the glass slabs forever now. I didn't get to see these gems growing up though as I was born the year after this was released. By the time I was old enough to have my own phone, smart phones were released.
Oh god, this is bringing back memories. My dad briefly worked for Nokia and had one of these. This thing was obsolete so fast I got to use it as a toy something like 2 years later.
I hope you know I’m gonna forever be a patron after today just for you making the Coffin Dance as a ringtone. That brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard
I owned one of these once. Great phone for their time. You didn't need a data plan to fax either. You could compose and fax via your normal telephone line. No spyware / adware / bloatware like todays phones.
My 6 years old saw me watch this video and she was “What is that?” “An old mobile phone” “ WOOOOAAAAH!! When I grow up I’m gonna buy that!!!” “But it’s very old!” “I’d still buy it!”
I've watched for ages. But seeing this dude have this much fun with an expensive device from '96 and even make a meme reference with the Composer tool... Subbed, bruh.
We need a stream of him just playing with the composer feature.
Oh my god yes please
I'd pay for that.
absolutely
Please, This legit little app Nokia made ages ago intrigues me.
Yes
Okay, the fact that you were able to compose a meme song on it, and have it sound like the meme song, is amazing all on its own.
what song?
@@Phoenixflame87 astronomia by tony igy, or just "coffin dance" works
well almost all of the nokias have had this feature.
I thought it was gonna be Scarlett fire lmao
My Nokia 3330 I got cheap off ebay came with In the End by Linkin Park as a custom ringtone.
I'm astonished you didn't "compose" Scarlet Fire on it
We wouldn't be able to handle it
Or Never Gonna Give You Up
That would have been amazing
@today was a good day spammer
Oh right, we didn't got Scarlet Fire today!
Still that one was awesome xD
4:02 It'a actually interesting what they did here, the RS232 communication standard only requires two data wires and a ground wire to function. So the use of a audio jack, which has exactly what it needs, makes alot of sense.
They had to use a serial plug for the input as the phone needed a serial interface to be able to use external devices like a modem.
That spy ain’t on our side
The engineer is a spy!
The iPod Shuffle used this same setup, except with USB
@@real151kmh True, but in a much less cooler way
@@real151kmhI frigging _wish_ Apple went back to that instead of Lightning when they went loony and dropped a port.
Sit down Samsung… this is the real foldable phone.
azeria here lol
Or flippable
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
Any phone is foldable if you're angry enough.
@@jays.6843 except the 3310, that thing will break whatever is trying to bend it
When he opened up the keyboard flap, It felt the most revolutionary thing to ever exist. I can feel people going real mad to get one of these. Its beautiful
True, maybe it is comparable to the z flip phones samsung makes?
@@TheDudey i don't think so, the samsung flip phones's idea based on old flip phone like "what if we make smartphone like flip phone"
but in 1980 it's really new like u never seen it before or think about it about flip phone idea
i think?
@@makotomachiyuki yeah i understand what you mean. Samsung is trying to make modern flip phones in a sense.
Same, I'm amazed
My mind broke in half
This man created a coffin meme score on a Nokia brick. This is so meta that my own coffin started dancing on its own
Wait, what?
Hol up
hol up
hol up
@@HavaNDay
True love is special
My first mobile! Still got it! Used just about everything it could do including the composer. Used it for ages and it always worked. The replacement was slightly more compact but not as much fun to use. Towards the end I got laughed at a few times until I opened it up. I'd still prefer a built-in decent sized miniature keyboard built in to the onscreen ones if it could be part of a decent device.
Will you sell it to me? I am an antique phone collector.. I'll buy this phone for 5000$ please let me have it
people: you're a musician, right? whats your favorite instrument?
dank pods: the nokia
The Nokia is a banger of a instrument
You joke but that was basically every teenager in the early 2000s.
@@Churbas dude i remember my old phone, it might have been an old Sony Ericsson Walkman nugget or something, and Buried deep in the rabbithole that is the Menu for that phone there was this thing for making real basic Songa. It was great
just a reminder that dankpods is also a drummer
that doesn't make the joke any less funny, but still
wade
DankPods: "Nobody laugh at this poor boy. He was revolutionary."
DankPods: [Proceeds to laugh at it.]
P.S.: I wrote this comment before seeing the very similar comment from Em's Tek Tube.
@@TheDwarvenDefender copycat
@@dae1925 Ah, yes. "Abcd Xyz," the channel with the most _original_ name in existence, accusing me of being a copycat for making the most obvious observation of the video and commenting about it despite the fact that 400+ other people are sure to notice it. Who made the bot that you stole your username from, BTW?
@@TheDwarvenDefender holy fracking sheet bro chill 😂
@@TheDwarvenDefender I heard your dad once showed you a presentation on the consequences and implications of having unprotected intercourse
All the slides were pictures of you.
Dankpods: "dad come pick me up I'm scared"
Dadpods: "5 minutes."
Ohhh, I’m scared
D A D P O D S
haha. But to be honest; I'm kind of like a 'tweener'... like too young to be called a boomer; too old to be called a millennial.... I remember that when I was a young kid in early 90's, we had a phone where you actually had to dial a number; you know, with a circular plate where you had to bring each number back to zero.
@@stijnvdv2 so the return spring was broken on it?
777 👍
The squeal that escaped my vocal cords when you opened that amazing brick phone was just full of pure joy
I was kinda hoping 10:45 was going to be a glorious, monophonic rendition of scarlet fire :(
it's still glorious
Its amazing
I was honestly expecting to get rickrolled
I was expecting darude sandstorm
Same
Oh my god the coffin dance composition killed me. This kind of brilliant nonsense is why we love you so much, Dank. Keep up the amazing work man!
@Joshua Roehl Your brain is so small, that it made a micron jelious
Wished it was a rickroll honestly.
Worth noting: if you find a USB to Serial adapter, you may actually be able to setup a modem connection over that and get this on the internet. The question being if it can render anything worthwhile
Google will probably still load on that thing
The Action Retro youtube channel has a non-HTTPS site designed for pre-1994 Macs that converts news sites to basic HTML. The Nokia should easily render that.
I doubt that frequency it works on is even still supported.
@@arthurnonimus wouldn't matter if it's using a serial connection to a pc.
Or you can just buy a cheap used work oriented pc from any of the main manufacturers and it will still have a serial port. Serial ports are still being used today for all kinds of shit in the industry.
Somehow over the years, companies have forgotten how to make batteries and devices like Nokia used to. That still work after 24 years…
Shout out to older Nintendo handhelds for this exact reason.
honestly the game boy is a great example of a very durable object
It survived a bombing and still functions
Only thing that rivals it is the legendary Wii remote, that if you literally throw it at something like a TV there's a high chance the TV will break compared to the remote itself lol
Genuinely astounding. Not only does it look like a shoe, but it is legitimately impressive. For one of the actual first smartphones ever to have so many features and also be (mostly) well designed even by today's standards is astounding.
Yeah, it's as if there were people actually interested in computer stuff in the before times, too, eh? :P
@Pete Harrison mate what is this?
@@lero.official 💀💀
@@lero.official Probably some spam, only bots and fucking retards post comments containing a single link without any explanation. Just report his ass, that's what I always do.
It's always so cool to see technology older than yourself. Especially if it's cooler than you.
Relatable
I just can't compete... I don't have Fax Modem capabilities...
That’s probably the reason why I love film cameras.
Most certainly is lol. Sorry about the bots :(
"hey gottem"
When the NOKIA takes place, even the 1 grit starts sweating.
@Pete Harrison If you're implying that I'm Chinese, you're wrong. I'm Korean.
@Pete Harrison ...But I apologize if you didn't mean to.
@@조용준-g9e its a bot
@@squirrelwithabanana hmm
Don't be sad my guy, it's natural selection. Just how nature works.
At the heat death of the universe, this thing will still exist and it will still work.
Yes even when its frozen at absolute zero degrees
6:54
This thing was actually more like two mostly separate devices in one casing, a regular Nokia brick phone and a PDA. That's why it's complaining the phone is turned off.
For 1996 it was an absolute marvel of engineering.
Actually, it has an Intel 386 inside! And the phone hardware on a separate board.
@@krzbrew I knew it was two separate devices but I didn't knew one of them ran straight up PC CPU. That's amazing
@@DrathVader i'm wondering now how much ram it's got
@@oliviersavard8676 128kb maybe? it's got 2mb of storage so I'd not expect much... for modern standards, the thing must have felt like skynet back in the day
@@LeoMkII It has 4MB RAM and 4MB storage
I just stopped watching Hot Ones to watch this, this is what I live on
Literally same. Not hot ones but stopped doing what I’m supposed to do
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@@brycescott9265 nah man, this is what you're supposed to do
haha same
same but it was cold ones
09:14 "What an incoherent ditty" - DankPods, 2021, commenting on the Nokia 9000 Communicator's polyphonic rendition of Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood" from his 1875 incidental music, "Peer Gynt", written as an accompaniment to the 1867 play of the same name, written by Henrik Ibsen
I knew I recognized it, the polyphony threw me off.
This is super impressive for the time, the screen looks great and the interface is really competent
Imo it could have used backlighting and a contrast control.
I believe the "phone" part and the "smart" part are physically distinct, and you covered only one of them.
That's also probably the reason why you got a "phone is not on" error.
Although the "phone" part is likely to be much less fun than the "smart" part, I'd be very curious to see it
I came here to say this, I bet that bad boy has snake on it.
@@jderrick1994 Yeah the phone is not turned on, I remember the vertical bar line on the right when the battery died and you plugged it in. Also idk if this is the case with this phone, but when you had set the alarm, it could ring even when the phone was turned off.
Yup. I have a 9300 and for that it's also a separate part. It's basically a phone and pda slapped together. With minimal integration
Yup, it took until the Nokia E90 for a Communicator to run the same OS on the phone and PDA sides (i.e. you could start an app on the cover screen then open the phone up and carry on with a bigger screen). (PS - I also have a 9300!)
Its a 90s cell phone lol. I had one and I hated it
You know, it's been a little over a year since I first found this channel and the growth from "just iPod Mods" to "vintage and modern tech overviews without being reviews" is pretty excellent.
Wade, here's to the 1M mark soon. You've been nothing but incredible the entire time.
So true man
@@Brian-jv8iy your opinion
Bruh, usually when TH-camr goes like "it's gonna be hillarious"? or "you gonna be shocked" I usually really sceptic, because it's not really easy to impress someone by a TH-cam video, but DankPods said those phrases twice and both times he blew my expectations out of the water! Great job!
@today was a good day shut it
Cute icon. And yeah Dankie is way funnier than most TH-camrs lol.
@@freddieparrydrums we all gotta report these bots for the algorithm to start filtering them out
@@SockyNoob Yeah man agree
the reason for the charger was most likely due to being short production and it being cheaper to only have to manufacture the charging adapter vs having an entire charging brick made for the units. It comes down to price availability and safety in a short schedule
The solution for it was to have the barrel plug on the phone itself, like with every other nokia, at least the ones i remember from around 2000
How as he said “Tell…Frank…she….stinks.”
I was saying “Tell…Frank…she’s…lovely- oh.”
First
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Dank: "stop giggling, I can hear you"
My drunk ass: "oh fuck he's onto me"
LMAO
LOL
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
pog
Lol
Honestly for 1996, this thing is so freaking COOL. A proto smartphone and mini laptop for the time, it's so charming! And it's two years older than me.
its cool for today
Movies like The Matrix used technology like this when I was a kid before Smartphones were invented. Basically Smart devices are malware imo they log your keystrokes and sell your data I am about to go back to being old school if they got 4G basic phones.
I'm 9 yrs older then Nokia communicator
I was 13 when this revolutionary piece of technology dropped.
Now I'm at the age that this is required for me to look at _the facebook,_ call my kids all the time *(AND WASTE A BUNCH OF MINUTES)* over simple questions that are not important at all, and "manage" _stuff_ with spreadsheets.
I never wanted something so bad in my life.
Yes
I did the Leo DiCaprio finger pointing thing at the RS232 connector. I use that at work. It's a port which is now hooked up to a wireless antenna, but basically the port is used for transferring files. The fact that there was one for a phone like this is surprising to me, but makes sense. Nowadays it's either via USB cables or Bluetooth, which goes to show how things changed over time.
I know there’s a few TV brands that use RS232 for maintenance stuff, so if it’s acting up the TV tech can hook up a dedicated diagnostic program and have a look.
@@joshuahadams *Wayne Campbell voice* I was not aware of that.
@@joshuahadams rs232 is the defacto standard for most industrial and scientific serial communication and is used with many different ports besides the dsub and 3.5mm jack you see in the video
Serial RS-232 Cable - The original USB. Seriously. Nearly all the original Palm Pilots used Serial like the one you have, USB adoption wasn't widespread until 1996-1997.
“Alright No one laugh..”
Proceeds to laugh his ass off at that giant brick of a phone 10 seconds later 😂🤣
Cute dog in ur pfp
@@Virtual_Bastard art of zoo
I genuinely didn't expect the unfolding, my jaw dropped to the floor.
lmao same
You should go get checked at the hospital
SAME
9:58 the earliest version of garageband
9:08 Wade, how could you not recognize the classical "Morning Mood" by Evard Grieg? If I recognized that tune, you should too, right?
EXPOSED
I came here to say this!
Totally did not hear it the first time.
Honestly thought it was the shire theme from lotr
Same. And I’m just an amateur pianist.
God, your voice just makes me happy.
@UC54HgC_csZoGT4DIX6G54hQ 😳😳😳😳
@UC54HgC_csZoGT4DIX6G54hQ umm
if You see my comment you will see why i agree
Me too :)
@@ThreeIrishMen this man's voice is the cure for the common cold
This actually kinda' made me tear up remembering how the tech was much fun and quirkier back in the day. Especially when you opened up the Composer. It reminded me of my 3310 and how I used to try to make theme songs from TV shows and movies as a ringtone. Great and nostalgic video! x)
Keep up the good work!
there is an android app to make good old Nokia ringtones
@@HappyBeezerStudios I’m an iOS user but I’m sure that there’s probably some version of that on the App Store. Thanks for the heads up, brotha’!
9:34 Fun fact: the gameboy was inspired by a board person typing on a calculator on a train to pass the time.
As someone in AV I can tell you it's crazy to see a 20+ year old phone with rs-232 we still use this protocol in so many applications. It's primitive but solid!
Hello. It's also used in router and switch debug and BIOS debug, though within the past several years this is often an RJ-45 port used with a transceiver that outputs to DB9. Data collection about UEFI modules, MRC training, CPU stepping, SPD data in the RAM population, etc. Whereas in routers and L3 switches it is used to load a secure configuration before placing the device on a network where it is subject to potential exploitation and infiltration in a zero-trust modeled environment. I think that it would be weird to see it disappear completely, given as you say it has been a reliable technology. It still has many applications in engineering.
I've been called the same thing many times myself.
Closer to 30 years than 20! It’s incredible how little things can still stick around almost 3 decades later in little niches of technology.
rs232 has been around long before this and seeing rs232 on a device of this era is pretty much the only interface you could expect, irda is just rs232 over infrared, the palm pilot dock was rs232, most dot matrix printers from the 80's were rs232, every single modem made before about 1998 was entirely rs232 based (the later ones speak 8n1 serial just like a real modem but never actually convert to rs232 internally and do it all in software), it's been around since the 60's.
Yeah. It's crazy how well supported it still is! You can automate testing with different equipment that was made like 30 years apart and it still works like a charm.
I had no idea this kind of technology existed in 1996. I was blown away just that it's even had a real full pixel array. I figured it was like a digital character away. What a high quality device.
we really do!!!!
My friend's dad actually had one of these, it runs DOS! It's a full PC, You can install DOS games on it like commander keen and Wolfenstein etc as it has an Intel 386 cpu.
I had one (I'm old). It doesn't run MS-DOS. It uses PEN/GEOS as an OS. That's powered by ROM-DOS, which is MS-DOS compatible... mostly... kinda... it's compatible with certain versions of MS-DOS.
@@thelastmotel I very vaguely remember my friend's dad showing me dos games and command prompt on it circa 2001 when he'd upgraded to a 9210, I'm 35 years old now for reference.
@@adamreid5901 You could kinda get it to run some MS-DOS stuff, but it did it sketchily. Lot of crashes. It ran the stuff that came installed on it well, but anything you added, not so much. (I'm 50 in a few weeks. Time flies, it really does.)
DOOM on the Nokia 9000
@@thelastmotel you’ve certainly got more experience with it than I do so I’ll defer to you on this, time sure does fly
Watching this video and hearing you say “you aren’t ready” when I REMEMBER this phone being released and wanted it so bad… makes me feel old
Been watching since 200. Love the channel. “Don’t put the nuggets in the microwave!” -some kid somewhere
@Machiko......🤗🍎 No
@@RedMarcus14 maybe
@@tpmartin210 yes - whats after yes?
@@ThreeIrishMen salamander
@Machiko......🤗🍎 no
I miss the days when phones were differentiated and replacing an older one with a newer model actually added new features, not just a number in software.
Than do not replace your phone. No one is forcing you. I use my samsung s10 since 2 years and I guess it will last the next 2-3 years also.
iPhone 13 pro max adding cinematic mode: am I a joke to you?
@@wolfetteplays8894 literally one feature? Not worth it for whatever exorbitant price they charge for it
well back then they were not limited by water resistance, content aspect ratios and so on. The market was so young the posibilities looked endless but we reached peak smartphone like 2 years ago, since then phones look kinda the same, they are just faster with better cameras
@@nolkerss It is if you're ready to buy a new phone anyway.
I think people get hung up on the idea that _every_ phone release is meant to be a reason to buy a new phone. That's as silly as having every car model year be a reason to buy a new car. Ride it until the wheels fall off. Material science and engineering hasn't changed enough that you're going to witness a revolution since this time last year -- stop expecting it, and you won't be disappointed.
Then the "exorbitant price" for "one feature" is just ... what a new phone costs, for a whole bundle of new features. It's probably still not going to change your life, but it's a mature device. It's not the 90s anymore - there isn't as much room for improvement. It'll just be a nice upgrade to do all the things you rely on that tool to do for you. That should be enough.
These were quite popular in the tech community, particularly amongst sysops. Being able to remotely fix a server when on call was game changing. That cable that you thought looked useless is a serial cable that would let you plug directly into a server on site and troubleshoot problems / reboot without having to carry a heavy laptop around.
You kids today are so spoiled. 😂
i remember going through a college couse with some early cisco networking classes in 2011 (never went much further than that) and needing a specific model of laptop, provided by the school, because it was equipped with an in-built serial port. the moment he pulled that cable out i knew that this would definitely be a dream device for any sort of IT bigwig in '96!
Man that’s so cool, thanks for this little info bite! Were you one of those sysops perchance? I love hearing about this era and all the crazy stuff they were figuring out
@@Andy.Bennett No, but I was working as a web developer for an ISP in the mid 90s and my colleagues did. Many of them worked shifts or needed to be on call 24/7 if something broke. Much easier to have one of these than to carry a laptop out to dinner or the pub on a Friday night.
You are old 😂.Good info.
@@marem3038 I prefer "experienced" 😂
That looks like my dad's 1,600$ iridium satellite phone, same size too
Except the antenna on the satellite phone is huge.
Whoa that phone is pretty baller! When you unfolded it I was like "whoa it's like a mini-laptop!" and then realized so is the smartphone that I'm typing this on lol.
A smartphone is more like a mini slate or tablet computer. The Nokia is more mini laptop.
@@TheDawnofVanlife Unless she means she's using an older one still, with a full slide-out keyboard. 😉
"No one laugh!"
Mate, nobody could laugh at that, phones today are the things which make us laugh. Apple I am eyeing you
@today was a good day ah yes, Qur'an recitation. I am a Muslim already btw
It's AWESOME that they put in the composer feature instead of being like "this is a business phone ,do you think anybody is gonna sit in their spare time and make music ? "
So cool !! also , I was not ready for the unfold !
Its Good For Ringtones
And People Like Buisnessmen May Need Custom Personalized Ringtones
I think Nokia was also known back in the day for letting people compose their own ringtones if they wanted. I heard a lot of their older phones had this feature built in
it was a thing at that time to make midi ringtones...it started to disappear when mp3 became more of a norm
Being able to compose a ringtone was a big deal for the same reason polyphonic ringtones were. It allowed you to immediately know that it is your phone ringing. It was practical and made the phone more of a personal device rather than just a utility. And it was incredibly cool at the time to hear a recent song as a ringtone of a phone.
I love that headphone jack to 232 converter. I work with proprietary cables ALL DAY and that one is the weirdest fucking one I've ever seen.
I miss when stuff was intuitive, useful and didn't break every 2 years.
Ah, the good ol' days...
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*Louis Rossman:* "Have you heard about our lord and savior, Right To Repair?"
That's what my wife says about me......
I don't wanna sound like know it all... but most stuff lasts longer than 2 years. My phone for example is over 5 years old now. My old pc still works. I still upgraded after like 7 years. If you take care of your stuff it will last you.
midrange phones can last a good 3-4 years now.. but the budget ones..
I almost shit myself when you opened it horizontally lol
same i fucking recoiled
I straight up made a noise which a cross between a duck and someone choking in shock/love of it.
I just said a mix between “what” and “woah” in shock.
When he unfolded the phone, it truly blew me away, and then the Astronomia ringtone..... This was a truly legendary episode!!!
that music composer actually surprised me, i was not expecting an actual visual note view; it's not like the newer nokias with a crappy text looking thing
When you’re sat on TH-cam knowing it’s been a week and DankPods is uploading today.
It’s not sad, it’s, yeah it’s sad.
You unfolded that chungus of a phone, and my jaw dropped. Just wow.
That part where you can make your own ring tone was absolutely magical ✨
I was promoted to an IT Manager back in 1996 (I was just 26) and was given a brand new BMW 325i coupe and that phone and let me tell you now, using Intellisync sucked using that RS-232C serial cable. What a time though!
Honestly, for the time, it’s amazing!
The composition feature would have sold it to me, to be sure!
@Pete Harrison P E R F E C T I O N !
Needed it, been sick and was just waiting for “this medicine”. Just great!
@today was a good day i thought you were someone replying, your a bot.
@@ThreeIrishMen
Report them on sight. Spamming is against the rules.
@@theuncalledfor already one step ahead
Finally someone with musical knowledge uses the composer on TH-cam. Thank you!
That phone would've been extremely high tech when I was a teenager!
It's always fun looking at old technology seeing how it evolved to what we have today.
Life was great before smartphones and social media
@@ACommenterOnTH-cam says the user whose name is "You Tube"
@@LeeDee5
"He would never text" yeah sounds about right about dads
My dad on the other mocks me because i dont have viber and refuses to switch platforms and gets into arguments about the merits of viber vs messenger 😂
@today was a good day shut up bot
tbf mothers don't do it either, at least mine, she just sends audios via WhatsApp lol
I must have a 20 minute patreon video just with you composing on this thing.
Weirdly enough, this has the same philosophy behind the Galaxy Fold. They both are designed to be used as a phone folded and as a computer unfolded. We may have better technology, but we still have the vision of 1996
2:45
"If you had a CD drive at this point, you were a baller."
I was in IT in the 90's and early 2000's. By 1996, CDs were extremely common, and definitely the norm in new computers.
Yeah, I remember my broke family saved and bought a packered bell in about ‘96 and it had a cd drive
I remember when CD drives where connected to sound cards (like Soundblaster) with a ribbon cable. Yes, there was a time when sound cards weren't integrated into motherboards.
CD burners were still expensive, but yeah just regular CD drives were pretty common place by then.
Was that the case worldwide, or specifically in the US?
BALLER
Imagine having a custom track maker and not pulling out Scarlet Fire. Coffin dance was a good consolation, mind
"1.8 megabytes" is a little generous for the actual capacity
Wasn't it kilobytes?
@@yeshuinfinity5963 1800kb is 1.8mb
@@RapidAssaultEuro OMFG how tf did I not get that someone please burn my degree🤦
@@yeshuinfinity5963 we've all had one of those moments man, youre good.
that thing is cooler than any smartphone today
This is actually amazing, it actually looks still functional if you wanted to commit to it
When all the nerds saw telnet, we all simultaneously had a moment of pure happiness
Could've watched star wars on it
It's revolutionary
Oh shit I remember hearing about telnet, wasn't that like ascii films?
We need to get this man a Windows 98 laptop, the true big chunk special.
Inviting LGR on the chat
Broooo, that serial cable adapter is so baller, I'm a systems/network admin right now and I actually use serial every single day, that thing is so cool. Imagine configuring a switch from that thing.
4:02 FYI, the 1.5 mm jack type connector is surprisingly still used in a fair few things. it is capable of data transfer (thin about it, 2 segments for power (or something) and one for data) for example, this phone uses that connector to connect to a pc, rather surprisingly it would most likely work on the latest Casio classpad graphing calculators that some schools in Australia use, heck that same jack connector is used to transfer code from one calc to another, it can even let you use external instruments like thermometers so you can directly put the temperatures into a graph! so yeah, they are amazing little connectors for what they are.
Iirc USB can use a TRRS 3.5 mm right?
@@invictusstratus4887 not sure, ive never seen it be done before but remember the jack style connector is more versatile than people realise.
As long as you have the right amount of conductors you can send any communication standard down any connector.
@@jump_ifn0tzero779 yeah it would make sense, after all it’s really just dependent on the hardware (so if it supports it) and the software to recognise the connector type.
serial only needs 3, send, receive and ground, and occasionally power, but power is provided by the device itself
Telnet on a phone from the 80s must've been exciting as hell. Imagine being able to log into your work computer using a phone in the 80s.
90s*
It's actually insane that you didn't compose Megalovania on it.
My thoughts exactly
It's good that he didn't.
A small price to pay for salvation?
literally what I was thinking
If someone will compose Bad Apple on it...
This is one of the best episodes by far. Then when he made his own ringtone. That’s like icing on a cake. Bravo sir. Bravo.
The fact that you even had the thought of a touchscreen is just adorable. I still rememberr my second daugher, when she was a in kindergarden in the early 2010s and couldn't understand why the TV was not touch sensitive.
I actually really dig dankpods direction into reviewing old retro techs
I often forget how far we've come along, as it feels like we've had the glass slabs forever now.
I didn't get to see these gems growing up though as I was born the year after this was released. By the time I was old enough to have my own phone, smart phones were released.
8:33 "I need to be the person on the school bus that goes through every one of them" that is suprisingly accurate lol
Oh god, this is bringing back memories. My dad briefly worked for Nokia and had one of these. This thing was obsolete so fast I got to use it as a toy something like 2 years later.
Ouch, those must be the growing pains of a successful technology!
I hope you know I’m gonna forever be a patron after today just for you making the Coffin Dance as a ringtone. That brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard
Ya know it’s gonna be a good day when dank makes his vid
Back then clicking the internet button by accident could cost you your house, family and probably future
I don’t remember the 90s, too young. But something about “high tech” 90s stuff is so cool.
Aight let’s get this straight
Phone requirements:
Dads: messenger so they can type with one finger
Moms: Facebook
Grandpas/grandmas: a literal brick
I owned one of these once. Great phone for their time. You didn't need a data plan to fax either. You could compose and fax via your normal telephone line. No spyware / adware / bloatware like todays phones.
yeah but i can play angry birds on my snapple X megapixel 3 pro S after a good 30 minutes of treading the slow melting of the components
You owned one of these really? How could you afford the price? Its slightly more expensive than todays priciest phones
That compose feature is straight up amazing! Works beautifully - even on a machine older than half the viewers of this video.
Seeing that Dank is reviewing a Nokia phone as it releasing a new version of its classic 6310 ‘brick phone'.
It's a sign of the heavens.
Actually, CDs / CD drives were pretty ubiquitous by 1996. My dad got our first cheap one in 1991. They came out in the mid-80s.
phone:*plays amazing 8 bit version of "Morning mood" by Edvard Grieg*
Dankpods:"what an incoherent diddy"
My 6 years old saw me watch this video and she was “What is that?” “An old mobile phone” “ WOOOOAAAAH!! When I grow up I’m gonna buy that!!!” “But it’s very old!” “I’d still buy it!”
This was quite the status symbol back then. Bit like having a PC with 16 mb of ram.
Now 8gb of ram is bare minimum. Tech is crazy.
My pc got 18 mb of ram B)
@@themadman6310 I think you mean gb
@@ruanaur that comment was a year ago. In that year I learned it was not 18 gb but 16 and its gb not mb
You’ve composed an absolute banger there. I love that tune given a Nokia twist
10:44 Back in the times, companies would charge you a dollar or two for such complex mono ringtone :D
I've watched for ages.
But seeing this dude have this much fun with an expensive device from '96 and even make a meme reference with the Composer tool...
Subbed, bruh.