This brings back memorys, as a kid i wanted to have this phone so badly. As a german, my father was demanding to always use Siemens phones. So he started with an S3, then the S6 and S10. The first phone i had was the S6, i was one of the first kids having a personal own cellphone. Didn't help me with being popular, but that's another story. After the S6 came the C25power, was a great beginner phone, after it came my most beloved phone, the S25i it had everything for me, a wonderful three color screen, those lovely buttons, i loved to use the chronometer with the side buttons, and the ring tone generator. Then came the S35i, and the S45i, i was lusting for the sl45. The last one i got was the last real Siemens cell, he S65. I got it before christmas sometime december 2004, these twenty years had been flying by. My father got his hands on a rare SL10, but his last girlfriend did with it what my father had done with their relationship, she threw it in the dumpster. Love your channel man, really great selections of topics style and music.
The S25i had a really interesting three colour LCD. I think it used a similar method to some Casio devices and a Nintendo Pokemon pocket thing. I'd like to get one of those phones. And more Siemens phones in general.
14:30 this game just gave me a flashback. My 13 year older sister had a high end siemens phone back around 2001 and indeed it could run Java games on its monochromatic LCD. She had Prince of Persia on it! Absolutely smooth with the character animating as you jump around the platform world. And it had PCM sound effects! Those really ate through the battery.
What a nice phone. I had one around 2002. The MP3 capability was one thing, but what I really loved was the modding community. I even turned it into an automated answering machine with a custom ROM.
My father used to buy and sell phones in 2000 to 2013. I am confident that I tried all the phones of that era thanks to him. Siemens and Sagem were popular phones at the beginning of the 2000s, but Sony Ericsson and Nokia gobbled up the European market.
In America everyone wanted a BlackBerry, but nobody wanted to pay for data because it added $35/mo per phone line. Unless you got the Danger Sidekick, which had a special $15/mo data plan.
It was a similar story here in South America, Siemens and Sagem kinda just disappeared one day, it was particularly noticeable with Sagem because they only had two or three popular phones before vanishing. Although Motorola was very popular here and managed to stay relevant as a brand to this day somehow unlike Nokia and SE that also ended up being pushed out of the market eventually.
I remember my mom getting her first phone sometime between 1996 and 1998, and it was a Sagem. After the two-year contract ended, the next one was a Sagem as well, but then she got a Sony CMD-J70 (one of the first phones with polyphonic ringtones) and then a Sony Ericcson T610. That shows quite well how the market was changing. Other brands, like Mitsubishi's Trium, Alcatel, Siemens or Sendo also disappeared from the European market. (I had a Sendo S200, but it was stolen - it had a very Nokia-like UI, and I think it was even compatible with Nokia's RTTTL notation). Sagem's last efforts (at least in Central Europe) was the my-X line, but I knew maybe 2-3 people, who had one.
i am GenX boy so i went through all of this and got to test at my company at the time every single new phone that came out.....But this phone i never seen
oh yeah Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola were the kings of Cellular Phones over here. I lusted over a few of their models. Especially the Motorola ones were just right down my alley.
I wasn't born during the Y2K era, as I was born in 2010. Nevertheless, I enjoyed using old phones, just like you, and I meant everyone who was, is, and will watch these videos.
Honestly, I love this channel. Been watching it for several years already and everything about it is great - its the one and only channel AFAIK that showcases old tech w/ software in sorta "hacky" way bringing back the memories bout underground community there was with a bit of humor while others can only yap copy and past texts. Keep the good work man 👍
Thanks. I must admit, when I started I had no idea if anyone would be interested. I only knew I was interested in this stuff. I'm pleased you are still enjoying the channel :)
Oh, I remember how much I wanted to have such serial cable to deeply customize my Siemens CX75. Without it you were still able to change color schemes or customize menu icons, but you couldn't patch your firmware with ELFes. Oh, what a memory; when you used your very limited Internet access to download as much Java games and different themes for your phone from several Russian forums :)
You actually don't need to remove battery every time you wanna eject memory card, the battery clip can snap off every moment. Instead poke the small point on the side with soft object. Also if you want headphones for this you can make one from 2 chargers, just disassemble the connector and you can shuffle pins in desired positions. Waiting for part 2!
I had this phone in 2005/2006. My Grandfather found it in the Tech Dumpster of the company he worked for. I found it really impressive even as a Kid I was like „Whoa! This old monochrome Phone has MP3 playback and all this features“. This was before my Sony Ericsson Firmware Hacking Era. I am very interested in Part 2
As someone born in Jan 2000 I don't think there was any better time to go through evolution of tech n world so fast so far but I mostly got to see it through sidelines than actually being able to experience it sigh.. miss my childhood wonder and fascination trying to making sense of ever growing complex world back then.. I feel so nostalgic for these early 2000s stuff despite I never had them..
This brings back some memories... The phone was truly amazing. You could install mods to the firmware to get more functionality - there was a huge community around it. You could buy a larger battery that lasted for ages. You could get different keyboards and mod the colours of the backlight...I remember reading whole books ( "ebooks" ) on this phone. Ah, I miss this phone now 😌
I remember I had that phone SL45 flashed with java (and still have it somewhere) I used to play a very nice volleyball game on it a lot, and of course the MP3 playback was amazing back in the days. I remember I modded a charging cable to use my own 3.5 mm jack headphone on it.
The UI too. I bet Flipper team took inspirations from this very phone when they were designing it (or other Siemens devices that probably share similar hardware and/or software).
I had this phone when I was a kid. There was a way to play audio with those monochrome videos. First, you needed to install a patch that gave you the ability to play the dictaphone in the background. Then, you need to run an app on your pc where you could convert audio to a voice memo and inserted 15 seconds of silence at the beginning. So this 15 secs would allow you to hide the dictaphone app on the sl45, go to the videos Java app, and launch the video while the audio played from the dictaphone app. Oh, it was funny trying to squeeze all this functionality out of a phone that wasn't designed for it. Thanks for the video!
Oh the SL45i was one of my most beloved phones as a teenager. I stuck with SIEMENS till the bitter BenQ end. Indeed it was so easy to hack those phones, get modified firmware and so on, because you didn't need a special cable. And with the S class phones, in most cases you even got the cable with the phone. Because the S class was always business oriented. Before the SL45i I had the M35. A more rugged style phone, covered in a rubbery coating. Later I also owned the S55 (my first mobile camera experience), S65 (my personal number 1) and then the BenQ SIEMENS EF81. The last in the row.
Such a great video. The early phones and software are almost a forgotten world now, everything was so overshadowed by the iPhone technology leap. It’s great you are exploring this old world!
That takes me back... i had a Siemens M35 back in the day, one of those blue and yellow squishy bumper things... i love the styling and the font Siemens used. Reminds me of the Siemens/Nixdorf character set used on their Scenic line of PC's back in the day, so recognizable and yet so different from the rest of the market...
I actually remember this phone. I’m a little too young to have had one when it came out, but the first time we moved I found one inside an old cabinet we’d bought second hand. It’s probably what inspired my love of amber backlights. I used to play with it for hours since there wasn’t much to do and I always found it interesting to just look at, just scrolling through the menus and looking at stuff.
somber rolling rick there on a Janus Cycle , loved it.
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When I was a kid, I used to have a Siemens S 55. That phone was a work horse, it had so many features, and as you said, even without a SIM card, it worked fine.
I remember getting SL42 in 2001 and later regretting for not buying SL45, because it already had everything inside, like headphones, com port cable, charging dock and even a memory card as I remember. I then had to separately purchase all of the accessories, which eventually ended up being much more expensive. The MP3 quality was just insane, also by using the software from the CD I was able to draw custom wallpapers and my friends were amazed like how are you able to do all this ? ))))
I'm impressed what this thing could do in the year 2000, I also really like that orange screen. I like how multiple flash utilities utilize Norse mythology for their names, Freia, Odin and Thor are the ones I have seen there could be more, Lol. I didn't get my first cell phone until 2005 but I remember seeing the older ones. This escaped me, I didn't know much in the way of Siemens phones, I only knew they existed and not much more than that.
This reminded me of how back in the early 2000's you could sometimes guess the model of a phone in the dark by the color of its screen and keypad backlights, some used very distinct shades and combinations. And then there were the rare ones with rhythmic lights on the sides.
Pretty cool video thanks for sharing. I was repairing mobile phones for an Ericsson service point ,when these were brand new out. They were nowhere near as tough as their Nokia counterpart and we're nearly twice the price. This had a direct effect on popularity. They were pretty nicely laid out internally, A pleasure to repair.
I love your videos a lot, I really like having a breath of fresh air with videos that just show information and the content you were exactly expecting for. It’s really nice.
I love how they used very similar software (well without mp3 player tho) a year or 2 later in much more entry level phones as well as Siemens A50, C45, M50 etc. Especially lovely was M50 what even supported java apps.
I had one. And there was no limitation, once you can operate with soldering iron: I integrated 3.5mm jack into standard headset after Mic to use it with my favorite headphones. The only limitation for me was - phone wasn`t able to play music on its own, as there was no music speaker. And no LED flashlight (of course if you don`t want to solder it in).
I bought an SL42 brand new, flashed the firmware to a 45i. AMAZING PHONE. The side button could be assigned to the voice recorder, and it used hardware compression or phone data rate compression, during a phone call I could hold the button down and RECORD THE ENTIRE PHONE CALL for hours and hours on that card. Was very useful at the time for something I won't go into. Sadly, in the mid 2000's, mine just totally died, suddently. New battery didn't help. Just 100% dead. :( I'd already gone to Sony P800, P900 by then, then iPhone.
Oh man, the ME45 was my first phone that I had when I was in elementary school. I remember being surprised at being able to play mp3 files but as midi tones... that was something
I remember hacking my Siemens M55 to install debloated and smaller firmware with unnecessary stuff, languages removed so it has more storage for photos using it's attachable camera dongle :)
My friend had the SL45i and I had an M45. It was so cool. You could put monochrome background images in 64x64 resolution and I took pictures from Shenmue that was for the VMU and put into my phone. It felt so cool back then. My first phone was the Siemens S25 that I won from a Pepsi competition.
I remember when this phone came out... it was basically the first phone to do something else (apart the Nokia 9xxx series) its price was more then the Nokia 8850, it was really expensive like an entire avarage worker month check
I think my first Phone that could play music was the Sony Ericsson T68 and then the P800 released in 2002 the T68 was another revolutionary phone that had an MMC card expansion module, and a camera module as well, and many more gadgets over the years such as speakers that you could plug in, and also FM radio that was pluggable, overall one of the coolest phones back then. the P910 was my favorite, and since i worked at a sony ericsson service center at the time i remember all of these devices, and component level repair was done on all of them under warranty, it was pretty cool!
The T68 was the first colour screen phone (sold worldwide, not just Japan and not a second screen Nokia 9210). It's an amazing phone, but not an mp3 phone. The P800 is another very cool device that I don't know enough about yet.
@@JanusCycle It seems my memory didnt fool me, i found the attachement that allowed the T68 to play MP3, its the HPM-10 its from ericsson, it has a headphone jack and MMC card slot and ive used it with the T68
Nice video, mate! I remember my cousin had the SL45, though I never got to experience the MP3, because he didn’t have the headphones. I think I was 11 or 12 back then. The video playback part blew me away! I like how your Windows 98 has Vista’s loading cursor 😂
I've already bought almost every 3310 and 3410 Nokia phone that was available on a local ads site because I discovered what you could do with them and now it seems like I will be collecting SL45 and maybe other Siemens phones as well😂
I had this phone back in 2001/2002. I was a student and couldn't afford to buy an MMC. The saddest part is, I never had the pleasure to play music on it. Goodbye Samsung SL 45.
Never saw this phone in the wild, but hear a lot about it and it's great to see just how capable it is. Looking forward to part 2 and seeing what you can get it doing! Great ending too, by the way!
I found SDcard from this phone laying near my music school. I was like wtf, this thing support that. Yes, exactly one that shown on the video. I had CX70, it didn't have memory slot, nor mp3 support, despite being newer and having colour screen.
Im alway impressed how good the audio is from your videos. You probably use a good mic. Im watching your videos in my living room on a sonos arc and its spind amazong. The base just everything. I just wanted to share that. Keep on posting yout amazing content. Love it 🥰
Actually it's an average mic. My older video didn't have good sound, some were bad at times. So I been learning and improving over time. Getting better recording and mixing the audio. Thanks for noticing and saying this. That means I've really improved and can now buy a better mic
I'm shocked that java and mp3 playback was even possible on monochrome phones. Feels like one of those things that would have come out a few years later.
I had the SL42 and I don’t remember what the difference was but it was amazing. I used the MP3 player a lot and had an adapter to 3.5mm. It was a wonderful phone because it could store all the messages on the MMC as well. I firmware modded the heck out of the menus and wrote software for tower scanning over the serial port. Weird times :).
There was an attachable MP3 player for earlier versions of Siemens phones btw. And most Siemens Phones from the 35 and 45 series as well as many gigaset DECT home phones were running on the C166. They stuck with this for a long time.
Great video. Just a side note about the Libretto: It's beautiful, but, if you haven't done it yet, you should make sure there is no CMOS battery inside it ready to leak. Lithium coin cells should be safe, but Toshibas from that era usually don't have lithium coin cells :( If it doesn't have a lithium coin cell, open the laptop and remove it's nasty battery(ies).
I own sl42 with sl45i soft. Great phone, Lots of vkp patches changing apperance , behavior, fixing Bugs on oryginal soft. Its my first ebook reader. Java app +256mb MMC + Lots of pirated books in txt file format 😁
I had a sl45 back in the day. When the sl45i was introduced, Siemens offered to updated your sl45 to the sl45i. You could post your phone and Siemens would up date the firmware and change the outer shell, for the sl45i shell adding the import i. Also the the sd card was filled full of demo's after the up date. I'm now thinking where is my sl45i....... It was a stunning phone back on the day and I would buy an updated 2024 version is one was ever made.
Can't believe he Rick roll us twice
Not only that, we let him do it without complaint.
Thank's for the heads up
Thrice!
With his annoying cracking voice 🤡
I have never been so insulted in my life🤯
That ending 🤌😂
"Never gonna give you up" by Charles Bukowski
Best version ever
Hello USBC iPhone man.
@@AmirRazan 👋
15:09 the best way to rickroll without getting copyright matched
part 2 coming next week
Thanks 🙏
Looking forward to it
How many more Rickrolls will have part 2?
@@Spyd77 It's not as much fun if you are expecting it :)
Rick Roll part 2 lol
This brings back memorys, as a kid i wanted to have this phone so badly.
As a german, my father was demanding to always use Siemens phones.
So he started with an S3, then the S6 and S10.
The first phone i had was the S6, i was one of the first kids having a personal own cellphone.
Didn't help me with being popular, but that's another story.
After the S6 came the C25power, was a great beginner phone, after it came my most beloved phone,
the S25i it had everything for me, a wonderful three color screen, those lovely buttons, i loved to use the chronometer with the side buttons, and the ring tone generator.
Then came the S35i, and the S45i, i was lusting for the sl45.
The last one i got was the last real Siemens cell, he S65.
I got it before christmas sometime december 2004, these twenty years had been flying by.
My father got his hands on a rare SL10, but his last girlfriend did with it what my father had done with their relationship, she threw it in the dumpster.
Love your channel man, really great selections of topics style and music.
The S25i had a really interesting three colour LCD. I think it used a similar method to some Casio devices and a Nintendo Pokemon pocket thing. I'd like to get one of those phones. And more Siemens phones in general.
14:30 this game just gave me a flashback. My 13 year older sister had a high end siemens phone back around 2001 and indeed it could run Java games on its monochromatic LCD. She had Prince of Persia on it! Absolutely smooth with the character animating as you jump around the platform world. And it had PCM sound effects! Those really ate through the battery.
What a nice phone. I had one around 2002. The MP3 capability was one thing, but what I really loved was the modding community. I even turned it into an automated answering machine with a custom ROM.
I had SL42, SL45 with SL45i and a lot of mod's like Push SMS (Self displayed SMS)
My father used to buy and sell phones in 2000 to 2013. I am confident that I tried all the phones of that era thanks to him. Siemens and Sagem were popular phones at the beginning of the 2000s, but Sony Ericsson and Nokia gobbled up the European market.
In America everyone wanted a BlackBerry, but nobody wanted to pay for data because it added $35/mo per phone line. Unless you got the Danger Sidekick, which had a special $15/mo data plan.
It was a similar story here in South America, Siemens and Sagem kinda just disappeared one day, it was particularly noticeable with Sagem because they only had two or three popular phones before vanishing.
Although Motorola was very popular here and managed to stay relevant as a brand to this day somehow unlike Nokia and SE that also ended up being pushed out of the market eventually.
I remember my mom getting her first phone sometime between 1996 and 1998, and it was a Sagem. After the two-year contract ended, the next one was a Sagem as well, but then she got a Sony CMD-J70 (one of the first phones with polyphonic ringtones) and then a Sony Ericcson T610. That shows quite well how the market was changing. Other brands, like Mitsubishi's Trium, Alcatel, Siemens or Sendo also disappeared from the European market. (I had a Sendo S200, but it was stolen - it had a very Nokia-like UI, and I think it was even compatible with Nokia's RTTTL notation). Sagem's last efforts (at least in Central Europe) was the my-X line, but I knew maybe 2-3 people, who had one.
i am GenX boy so i went through all of this and got to test at my company at the time every single new phone that came out.....But this phone i never seen
oh yeah Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola were the kings of Cellular Phones over here. I lusted over a few of their models. Especially the Motorola ones were just right down my alley.
never expected a rickroll in this corner of youtube
:)
@@JanusCycle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RICKROLLED OVER A 2000s PHONE
GONNA CATCH THEM ALL
I wasn't born during the Y2K era, as I was born in 2010. Nevertheless, I enjoyed using old phones, just like you, and I meant everyone who was, is, and will watch these videos.
FYI "Move the Box"-type games have a name, Sokoban. Cool device!
More specifically, "Sokoban clones".
Honestly, I love this channel. Been watching it for several years already and everything about it is great - its the one and only channel AFAIK that showcases old tech w/ software in sorta "hacky" way bringing back the memories bout underground community there was with a bit of humor while others can only yap copy and past texts.
Keep the good work man 👍
Thanks. I must admit, when I started I had no idea if anyone would be interested. I only knew I was interested in this stuff. I'm pleased you are still enjoying the channel :)
That outro was haunting.
Oh, I remember how much I wanted to have such serial cable to deeply customize my Siemens CX75. Without it you were still able to change color schemes or customize menu icons, but you couldn't patch your firmware with ELFes. Oh, what a memory; when you used your very limited Internet access to download as much Java games and different themes for your phone from several Russian forums :)
You actually don't need to remove battery every time you wanna eject memory card, the battery clip can snap off every moment. Instead poke the small point on the side with soft object. Also if you want headphones for this you can make one from 2 chargers, just disassemble the connector and you can shuffle pins in desired positions. Waiting for part 2!
The ending made me cry ;-)
Shatner-esque, but in a good way :)
Glorious video. Impeccable ending
Thanks Budgie
I had this phone in 2005/2006. My Grandfather found it in the Tech Dumpster of the company he worked for. I found it really impressive even as a Kid I was like „Whoa! This old monochrome Phone has MP3 playback and all this features“. This was before my Sony Ericsson Firmware Hacking Era. I am very interested in Part 2
The way you did that outro sounded so heartfelt, I’m inclined to believe you really meant it :')
Thanks, I do really mean it.
As someone born in Jan 2000 I don't think there was any better time to go through evolution of tech n world so fast so far but I mostly got to see it through sidelines than actually being able to experience it sigh.. miss my childhood wonder and fascination trying to making sense of ever growing complex world back then.. I feel so nostalgic for these early 2000s stuff despite I never had them..
This brings back some memories... The phone was truly amazing. You could install mods to the firmware to get more functionality - there was a huge community around it. You could buy a larger battery that lasted for ages. You could get different keyboards and mod the colours of the backlight...I remember reading whole books ( "ebooks" ) on this phone. Ah, I miss this phone now 😌
Holy shit, I just got Janus rolled....
I remember I had that phone SL45 flashed with java (and still have it somewhere) I used to play a very nice volleyball game on it a lot, and of course the MP3 playback was amazing back in the days. I remember I modded a charging cable to use my own 3.5 mm jack headphone on it.
The display reminds me in the "Flipper Zero". I want old tech back!
The UI too. I bet Flipper team took inspirations from this very phone when they were designing it (or other Siemens devices that probably share similar hardware and/or software).
I had this phone when I was a kid. There was a way to play audio with those monochrome videos. First, you needed to install a patch that gave you the ability to play the dictaphone in the background. Then, you need to run an app on your pc where you could convert audio to a voice memo and inserted 15 seconds of silence at the beginning. So this 15 secs would allow you to hide the dictaphone app on the sl45, go to the videos Java app, and launch the video while the audio played from the dictaphone app. Oh, it was funny trying to squeeze all this functionality out of a phone that wasn't designed for it. Thanks for the video!
Very interesting. Thank you!
Oh the SL45i was one of my most beloved phones as a teenager. I stuck with SIEMENS till the bitter BenQ end. Indeed it was so easy to hack those phones, get modified firmware and so on, because you didn't need a special cable. And with the S class phones, in most cases you even got the cable with the phone. Because the S class was always business oriented. Before the SL45i I had the M35. A more rugged style phone, covered in a rubbery coating. Later I also owned the S55 (my first mobile camera experience), S65 (my personal number 1) and then the BenQ SIEMENS EF81. The last in the row.
Such a great video. The early phones and software are almost a forgotten world now, everything was so overshadowed by the iPhone technology leap. It’s great you are exploring this old world!
That takes me back... i had a Siemens M35 back in the day, one of those blue and yellow squishy bumper things... i love the styling and the font Siemens used. Reminds me of the Siemens/Nixdorf character set used on their Scenic line of PC's back in the day, so recognizable and yet so different from the rest of the market...
I had the A35 that had an antenna, and I wanted a sleek M35 but it was a bit pricier...
I actually remember this phone. I’m a little too young to have had one when it came out, but the first time we moved I found one inside an old cabinet we’d bought second hand.
It’s probably what inspired my love of amber backlights. I used to play with it for hours since there wasn’t much to do and I always found it interesting to just look at, just scrolling through the menus and looking at stuff.
what a memory, i still remember playing song on my SL 45. my sd card can only hold three mp3 songs
My uncle had one of these, for many years. I remember being shocked - mp3 AND java on a monochrome phone? Insane!
somber rolling rick there on a Janus Cycle , loved it.
When I was a kid, I used to have a Siemens S 55. That phone was a work horse, it had so many features, and as you said, even without a SIM card, it worked fine.
I remember getting SL42 in 2001 and later regretting for not buying SL45, because it already had everything inside, like headphones, com port cable, charging dock and even a memory card as I remember. I then had to separately purchase all of the accessories, which eventually ended up being much more expensive. The MP3 quality was just insane, also by using the software from the CD I was able to draw custom wallpapers and my friends were amazed like how are you able to do all this ? ))))
I'm impressed what this thing could do in the year 2000, I also really like that orange screen.
I like how multiple flash utilities utilize Norse mythology for their names, Freia, Odin and Thor are the ones I have seen there could be more, Lol.
I didn't get my first cell phone until 2005 but I remember seeing the older ones.
This escaped me, I didn't know much in the way of Siemens phones, I only knew they existed and not much more than that.
This reminded me of how back in the early 2000's you could sometimes guess the model of a phone in the dark by the color of its screen and keypad backlights, some used very distinct shades and combinations. And then there were the rare ones with rhythmic lights on the sides.
Honestly, how can a phone that old and "simple" runs a video... In pure black & white even! Tech is just amazing 🤩
Pretty cool video thanks for sharing. I was repairing mobile phones for an Ericsson service point ,when these were brand new out. They were nowhere near as tough as their Nokia counterpart and we're nearly twice the price. This had a direct effect on popularity. They were pretty nicely laid out internally, A pleasure to repair.
Ericsson had some very good phones at the time. I really liked their approach to design. Though the T28 did seem a little too fragile.
I love your videos a lot, I really like having a breath of fresh air with videos that just show information and the content you were exactly expecting for. It’s really nice.
I really appreciate hearing this, thanks
From the era when WAP meant something entirely different to what it does now.
Janus is a real G for that ending
:)
Janus, ur videos are so great that I want them in 4K pls
Yessssss
Interesting that Windows 98 on the Libretto has the Vista/7-style "waiting" cursor with the spinner!
I was thinking the exact same thing!
The display lighting was mesmerizing.
Thanks for reminding me of a wonderful time with this phones less capable cousin (the SL42)
Thanks Julia, I'm really pleased you enjoyed this :)
This video reminded me that I had a Siemens A56 over 20 years ago
So many trips down the memory lane - including the soft modding. And you do this on my favourite phone - I lost my first one :(
I love how they used very similar software (well without mp3 player tho) a year or 2 later in much more entry level phones as well as Siemens A50, C45, M50 etc. Especially lovely was M50 what even supported java apps.
Thank you so much for another epic video. Cannot wait for part two!
I had this phone, it was pretty good. I remember upgrading to a Panasonic that was one of the first to go colour screen. Such a better time
15:06 - I really like these few seconds!
20 minutes for one song, now I can download 100 songs under a minute
I had one. And there was no limitation, once you can operate with soldering iron: I integrated 3.5mm jack into standard headset after Mic to use it with my favorite headphones.
The only limitation for me was - phone wasn`t able to play music on its own, as there was no music speaker. And no LED flashlight (of course if you don`t want to solder it in).
nice hardware hack there!
I bought an SL42 brand new, flashed the firmware to a 45i. AMAZING PHONE. The side button could be assigned to the voice recorder, and it used hardware compression or phone data rate compression, during a phone call I could hold the button down and RECORD THE ENTIRE PHONE CALL for hours and hours on that card. Was very useful at the time for something I won't go into. Sadly, in the mid 2000's, mine just totally died, suddently. New battery didn't help. Just 100% dead. :( I'd already gone to Sony P800, P900 by then, then iPhone.
The future, Conan? Yes, all the way to the year 2000.
My most favourite phones of the old were Nokia 3310 and 5110 . I had much more of them - "V" phone and other ones. But those two were perfect.
The ending performance art almost brought a tear to my old hog's eye 😗👌
I'm glad you enjoyed this :)
beaUTIFUL ending my lost hippy friend
Amazing to see this! I was a big Siemens fan at the time and had the ME45 which had a very similar display, but no memory card or mp3 player, I guess.
Oh man, the ME45 was my first phone that I had when I was in elementary school. I remember being surprised at being able to play mp3 files but as midi tones... that was something
Glad and Proud to use this phone 😊
9:39 My Reddit post with "MS card backup from TH55" made it to your video :)
Great content, as always. Thank you.
Great post, I really like the Palm subreddit.
I do remember modding this phone and the 'videos' it could play.
Janus Cycle The best content creator in the world of old phones and micro computers... Janus Wick ❤
Awesome thanks. I live the computers and phones in John Wick.
@@JanusCycle Winston : What do you need ??
John wick : Janus video ... lot of Janus videos
@@JanusCycle Winston : What do you need ??
John wick : Janus video ... lot of Janus videos
the outro is pure poetry
amazing video! love your content
beautiful, thanks
I remember hacking my Siemens M55 to install debloated and smaller firmware with unnecessary stuff, languages removed so it has more storage for photos using it's attachable camera dongle :)
every video of this channel brings a smile to me
My friend had the SL45i and I had an M45. It was so cool. You could put monochrome background images in 64x64 resolution and I took pictures from Shenmue that was for the VMU and put into my phone. It felt so cool back then. My first phone was the Siemens S25 that I won from a Pepsi competition.
listening to mp3s on that thing was insane back in the days !!
I used to do this way back, when having these kind of phones. Nothing new . Very old stuff. We used to install java games with no problem
Your camera work is so good! And of course, a gorgeous subject! Well produced videos as always, always happy to see a video from you. Thank you!
I'm glad your enjoying the channel, thanks :)
I had an SL45. I think. It was a long time ago. Either way, these were great phones and fun times!
The ending was unexpected! Good work once again!
:) thanks
I remember when this phone came out... it was basically the first phone to do something else (apart the Nokia 9xxx series) its price was more then the Nokia 8850, it was really expensive like an entire avarage worker month check
I think my first Phone that could play music was the Sony Ericsson T68 and then the P800 released in 2002 the T68 was another revolutionary phone that had an MMC card expansion module, and a camera module as well, and many more gadgets over the years such as speakers that you could plug in, and also FM radio that was pluggable, overall one of the coolest phones back then. the P910 was my favorite, and since i worked at a sony ericsson service center at the time i remember all of these devices, and component level repair was done on all of them under warranty, it was pretty cool!
The T68 was the first colour screen phone (sold worldwide, not just Japan and not a second screen Nokia 9210).
It's an amazing phone, but not an mp3 phone. The P800 is another very cool device that I don't know enough about yet.
@@JanusCycle It seems my memory didnt fool me, i found the attachement that allowed the T68 to play MP3, its the HPM-10 its from ericsson, it has a headphone jack and MMC card slot and ive used it with the T68
Nice video, mate! I remember my cousin had the SL45, though I never got to experience the MP3, because he didn’t have the headphones. I think I was 11 or 12 back then.
The video playback part blew me away!
I like how your Windows 98 has Vista’s loading cursor 😂
I've already bought almost every 3310 and 3410 Nokia phone that was available on a local ads site because I discovered what you could do with them and now it seems like I will be collecting SL45 and maybe other Siemens phones as well😂
I've heard colour screen Siemens phone can also be patched. One day I will try.
I had this phone back in 2001/2002. I was a student and couldn't afford to buy an MMC. The saddest part is, I never had the pleasure to play music on it. Goodbye Samsung SL 45.
I always insta-click any time one of your videos pop up. Love me some retro portable tech goodness.
thanks, I'll always do my best to make good videos then :)
I still get mine. Great phone from Siemens
I had this phone back then and loved it :)
7:27 you said my name, justin case
Never saw this phone in the wild, but hear a lot about it and it's great to see just how capable it is. Looking forward to part 2 and seeing what you can get it doing! Great ending too, by the way!
I found SDcard from this phone laying near my music school. I was like wtf, this thing support that. Yes, exactly one that shown on the video. I had CX70, it didn't have memory slot, nor mp3 support, despite being newer and having colour screen.
The Windows 7 cursor on 98 gave me a mind fuck.
Im alway impressed how good the audio is from your videos. You probably use a good mic.
Im watching your videos in my living room on a sonos arc and its spind amazong. The base just everything. I just wanted to share that. Keep on posting yout amazing content. Love it 🥰
Actually it's an average mic. My older video didn't have good sound, some were bad at times. So I been learning and improving over time. Getting better recording and mixing the audio. Thanks for noticing and saying this. That means I've really improved and can now buy a better mic
I'm shocked that java and mp3 playback was even possible on monochrome phones. Feels like one of those things that would have come out a few years later.
Siemens phones my beloved, still own a ME45, a few M65s and a S65.
Really changes the mood of that song hahaha
Awesome. I still have mine.
Google Maps on Java on pre smart phones saved me so many times
Amazing 🤩
I had the SL42 and I don’t remember what the difference was but it was amazing. I used the MP3 player a lot and had an adapter to 3.5mm. It was a wonderful phone because it could store all the messages on the MMC as well. I firmware modded the heck out of the menus and wrote software for tower scanning over the serial port. Weird times :).
There was an attachable MP3 player for earlier versions of Siemens phones btw. And most Siemens Phones from the 35 and 45 series as well as many gigaset DECT home phones were running on the C166. They stuck with this for a long time.
windows 98 startup sound - angelic
Great video.
Just a side note about the Libretto: It's beautiful, but, if you haven't done it yet, you should make sure there is no CMOS battery inside it ready to leak.
Lithium coin cells should be safe, but Toshibas from that era usually don't have lithium coin cells :(
If it doesn't have a lithium coin cell, open the laptop and remove it's nasty battery(ies).
Thank you, I did remove the battery from my 50CT, just as it began to leak!
I own sl42 with sl45i soft. Great phone, Lots of vkp patches changing apperance , behavior, fixing Bugs on oryginal soft. Its my first ebook reader. Java app +256mb MMC + Lots of pirated books in txt file format 😁
Awesome, great to hear from an original SL42/45i owner and modder. This phone is awesome!
1:23 HOLY SH** the phone got stereo speakers ! damn ! the sound quality is even better than apple !
The 80C166 is very similar to the classic 8051 microcontroller lineup, but updated to 16-Bit from 8-Bit
I had a sl45 back in the day.
When the sl45i was introduced, Siemens offered to updated your sl45 to the sl45i.
You could post your phone and Siemens would up date the firmware and change the outer shell, for the sl45i shell adding the import i.
Also the the sd card was filled full of demo's after the up date.
I'm now thinking where is my sl45i.......
It was a stunning phone back on the day and I would buy an updated 2024 version is one was ever made.
That's interesting. I know Siemens never released a tool for people to update it themselves. I didn't know they had a post in option.
Great as always. Can't wait to se part 2