I used to work for NEC where they made this phone. NEC made the most robust analogue mobile phones you can imagine. They could withstand the most brutal use and it would still work. No SIM cards in the analogue days. It all fell apart when they switched to digital mobile phones. The separate sections of the phones electronics were electrically shielded using a special rubber membrane. It was like rubber walls around the separate sections of the circuit board. After about a year the rubber would shrink and the powerful RF signals being generated by the phone would enter the other parts of the circuit board and cause all sorts of weird problems.
I was gonna say, NEC made some tanks when it came to phones back in the day, and when it said most advanced phone on the market I kinda believed it because did you see how small that thing was for 1993?
Honestly, as someone who was around at the time I can say that this artwork would already have been pretty old-fashioned even in the early 90s. That pencil/watercolour style seems to have been most common in the 70s. It's the sort of thing that would have seemed somewhat uncool when I was growing up in the 80s and early 90s, and used to the more modern airbrushed look. But I'll admit that, like you, I have lot more time in hindsight for many of the better examples of the style. (See many late-1970s Atari game covers- "Kingdom", for example). That said, the cover art seen here definitely *isn't* one of the better examples.
Texting was first invented a few months before this phone came out so yeah, it was a portable house phone. Being able to take your phone out to the other side of town and still use it, while not being GIGANTIC, would have been a big deal. I was a toddler at the time...
Texting was a part of the shiny new GSM (digital 2G) standard, which would have been just coming out when this phone was new. However, a bit of checking suggests that this particular model is still analogue, i.e. intended for use with the older first-generation networks, so it couldn't have supported SMS texting. That said, it might not seem like a big deal now, but even bog-standard voice-only analogue mobile was pretty impressive (and expensive) when it came out in the mid-80s. Interestingly, Wikipedia says Australia switched off their analogue (AMPS) mobile network in September 2000, so this phone would have been obsolete within just a few years.
Based on the thumbnail of the package, I thought the same thing (that it was a walkie-talkie for adults... You know, talk to the construction foreman while you're on the worksite and he's at the office trailer, or talk to your wife while you're on the tennis court and she's at the tennis club bar.
I imagine the type of person that would mail out those stupid postcards would be absolutely insufferable.
Probably more of a joke
I used to work for NEC where they made this phone. NEC made the most robust analogue mobile phones you can imagine. They could withstand the most brutal use and it would still work. No SIM cards in the analogue days. It all fell apart when they switched to digital mobile phones. The separate sections of the phones electronics were electrically shielded using a special rubber membrane. It was like rubber walls around the separate sections of the circuit board. After about a year the rubber would shrink and the powerful RF signals being generated by the phone would enter the other parts of the circuit board and cause all sorts of weird problems.
I was gonna say, NEC made some tanks when it came to phones back in the day, and when it said most advanced phone on the market I kinda believed it because did you see how small that thing was for 1993?
@@oldgoat381 Yep it was pretty small for the time.
seems sporty
Like my penis
Sportz!
Hawaii part II
MIRACLE MUSICAL REFERENCE??
@@Subject3910erm acshully thats hawaii part ii: part ii
As dorky as they seem decades later in the future, I kinda miss this old pencil/watercolour style for illustrations
Honestly, as someone who was around at the time I can say that this artwork would already have been pretty old-fashioned even in the early 90s.
That pencil/watercolour style seems to have been most common in the 70s. It's the sort of thing that would have seemed somewhat uncool when I was growing up in the 80s and early 90s, and used to the more modern airbrushed look. But I'll admit that, like you, I have lot more time in hindsight for many of the better examples of the style. (See many late-1970s Atari game covers- "Kingdom", for example).
That said, the cover art seen here definitely *isn't* one of the better examples.
Texting was first invented a few months before this phone came out so yeah, it was a portable house phone. Being able to take your phone out to the other side of town and still use it, while not being GIGANTIC, would have been a big deal. I was a toddler at the time...
Texting was a part of the shiny new GSM (digital 2G) standard, which would have been just coming out when this phone was new. However, a bit of checking suggests that this particular model is still analogue, i.e. intended for use with the older first-generation networks, so it couldn't have supported SMS texting.
That said, it might not seem like a big deal now, but even bog-standard voice-only analogue mobile was pretty impressive (and expensive) when it came out in the mid-80s.
Interestingly, Wikipedia says Australia switched off their analogue (AMPS) mobile network in September 2000, so this phone would have been obsolete within just a few years.
I didn't exist at that time!
4:02 “Noinnynoinny-three” lol
Based on the thumbnail of the package, I thought the same thing (that it was a walkie-talkie for adults... You know, talk to the construction foreman while you're on the worksite and he's at the office trailer, or talk to your wife while you're on the tennis court and she's at the tennis club bar.
The antenna is like a non lethal weapon!
I literally have a Ford F250 from 1993, and I can that being stuffed somewhere in the glove box lol
My first mobile. Still have it and well it turns on.
1993-1995 based on the Telecom Australia logo on the box.
1:00 good to see Alan Partridge is still in a job
Thank you for the content gift
Everything things going up... except for wages haha
I hate when we had to circumcise our phones to charge them
It's not really sporty unless it has a Z on the end!
a youtube aftershow? very nice
atleast 6 aftershows just caem out.
six is an understatement @@shanthoshamadhavan2631
@@shanthoshamadhavan2631 I've watched at least 20 of them so far.
He discontinued his Patreon campaign and released his Patreon exclusive content for free
@kbhasi I know that now, I was just surprised because at the time this was the only notification I got. Before 9 billion of them were uploaded
I remember thinking at the time that the aerial on a Nokia 5110 was a bit big 😂
I even bought an aerial for it that flashed when it rang
Amazing times
Woo hoo! Sportz
I had one
3:52 I'm really surprised he didn't mention the poo stain at the top of the page.
Sports 😎
No, SPORTZ!
S P O R T Z
SportZ
Can I just say, fuck you for making 20 video's in one go... I am losing count of which video I'm supposed to watch LOL
0:24 why dankpods is gonna be my most watched channel this year!
the shrimp tech nug???!
Hi
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