THIS Piece of JUNK was my first phone!

[nicklmg]

 

[r2724r16]

1:05 - Grandpa Linus

[nicklmg]

Hey look the whole video uploaded this time! Wahoo!

[YaBoiWill]

14 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Hey look the whole video uploaded this time! Wahoo!

Still unlisted for the plebs tho...

[3 Lions]

@LinusTech

 

When you got this in 2003, it was already 3 years out of date since it was initially released in 2000  

[nicklmg]

Just now, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

@LinusTech

 

When you got this in 2003, it was already 3 years out of date since it was initially released in 2000  

Back in the day when people actually bought phones that were like 2-3 years old because it actually made sense to do so 

[LukeSavenije]

oh boy, i rememeber my parents having a nokia 6310i untill 2010-2012, that thing was a tank. it felt down down on a ship into the underdeck. worked like nothing happened. it still works to this day, only the battery that had it's time. that were times... nostalgia

[corrado33]

20 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

Back in the day when people actually bought phones that were like 2-3 years old because it actually made sense to do so 

And now people buy phones that are.... older or newer? I'd still be perfectly happy with an iPhone 6 (released in 2014).

[Freebo]

360p quality, youtube is having some mad issues recently. Another channel I follow had to wait like 4 days for a 4k video to finally be available in 1080p...

[Shreyas1]

Another folding phone???

[Guest]

I remember my first one was a Motorola too with a gigantic antenna and an orange orangy screen

However I'm sure you could still make calls with it, GSM is still present at least in Europe
Looked pretty much like this, standing from google is from 1993 lol and I was using it in 2004

[xnamkcor]

My first phone was the v200.

[The Ran]

My first was a Philips TCD308, from 1997 but it was a hand down from my older sister around 2000-2001. Strange to think that Linus is like 4 years older than me but I had a mobile phone 2-3 years before him. That said I didn't get my first new phone until about 2003-2004, a Sagem MY V-65 which was well ahead of the V100.

[H3gemon]

@nicklmg I noticed that the videos for LTT on YouTube have changed to 2560x1280p instead of 2560x1440p over the last two weeks.  This was confusing at first as I thought there was a bug in the YouTube app that had the video permanently zoomed in on my Pixel 2 XL.  However, after looking at the "stats for nerds", I had noticed that the video format resolution had changed and the videos now take up the full screen on my Pixel 2 XL without having to zoom in, which is nice.

 

My question to LMG is what prompted the reason for the resolution change and how come it is not consistently done across all of your channels?  I created an account here instead of posting on YouTube in order to hopefully get a reply because I am genuinely curious about the design change decision that was made.

[skywake]

My first phone was a motorola c201 "coke phone", I believe I got it the same year @LinusTech got his. It was part of a promo with Coke here in Australia where you could get a phone on a Telstra Pre-Paid Contract for I believe $50 if you brought in a certain number of labels from bottles of Coke to a post office. I believe it had Snake, don't remember what the other games were.
 

[YogiBehar]

Haha that's cute guys I had a MicroTAC 9800X with the huge Battery pack in 2000

 

[JCHelios]

We're concerned that people might associate our upcoming product's name with something vulgar, so we've decided to rename it from "the Box," to "the V-Box."  

 

— (how I choose to imagine that marketing meeting went down)

[BulliT]

Is this a coincidence or what!?

[Mr Technician]

4 hours ago, nicklmg said:

Back in the day when people actually bought phones that were like 2-3 years old because it actually made sense to do so 

I bought a new iPhone 6S last July because it was cheap and it's working great. There's nothing wrong with buying 2-3 old phones today depending on what you need to do.

[XR6]

1 hour ago, ThatFlashCat said:

I bought a new iPhone 6S last July because it was cheap and it's working great. There's nothing wrong with buying 2-3 old phones today depending on what you need to do.

My current phone is a Galaxy S7. It works but the battery could be better.

 

My first phone was a Nokia 3310 that my dad gave to me in 2010. It looked exactly like this:

Spoiler

 

[caincha]

2 hours ago, BulliT said:

Is this a coincidence or what!?

How about this then:

 

[skywake]

1 hour ago, ThatFlashCat said:

I bought a new iPhone 6S last July because it was cheap and it's working great. There's nothing wrong with buying 2-3 old phones today depending on what you need to do.

Yeah, it has kinda turned around again in the last couple of years. It used to be that buying an older model or a cheaper model meant you were missing out on a lot of features. These days even entry level phones have 720p 5" screens, wireless AC, 4G, 2GB RAM, ~8MP cameras. For what I use my phone for i.e. messenger, email, web browser, occasional photos, gps and music? That's enough for me.

[Canada EH]

Ya'll are young pups, including Linus if thats his first cell phone!

 

two words and two words only

 

BAG PHONE

yes I had one

 

then I remember I had gotten a brick of a cell phone with a large antenna.

 

 

 

 

[TechyBen]

My First Phone Nokia 3210, features MULTIPLE LINES OF TEXT, amazing for usage and texting and snake:

 

(I had smooth grey trim version, but image massive for that one)

Second phone SE T68i features COLOUR and (WAP) Internet!:

Third Phone, SE K800, Features CAMERA and much better screen:

(Battery for scale only)

Fourth Phone LG Viewty, Features TOUCH SCREEN and massive better screen:

I then had a Samsung Monte because I dropped the LG (it was like 3-4 years old by then) and a friend gave me their old Samsung. It was so run of the mill, it's not listed much online, it's just a reskin of a S3370:

Then I got a Note 3 and still rocking it today. Note 3 added a massive screen, performance, apps, Android, camera quality, pen, SD card capacity (the SE K800 was the first with Sony SD cards for me ).

 

I've always aimed for massive upgrades when I do upgrade. So my next phone needs to be like, Note 9, Samsung X (folding phone), or something REALLY out of the ball park, as even though the Note 3 is old, how am I gonna beat it for features I use (finger print lock I don't need, 3d cameras, notches, etc no need for them ).

[DezGalbie]

My first was the Sony CMD J6

https://mobile.softpedia.com/phones/Sony/Sony-CMD-J6.shtml

Obviously it has nothing on modern smartphones, but I still actually really dig the aesthetics of this little guy. If I was one of these people who decided to make the switch away from having a smartphone to having a phone that just makes and receives calls (and assuming there was still network support) then I would happily go back to the CMD J6.