Funny how I could tell it was Polish, despite not knowing a word of it. Polish just has that certain gibberish (to me) look. Random letters everywhere.
Nokias weren't bad, you just unknowingly bought the lemon in the N Series. I had a 5800 Xpressmusic, a N95 8GB and the N93, and they were leagues above anything else out at the time. The sheer feature list and the camera of the N95 8GB was WAY better than at least the first two iPhones, it was only with the iPhone 4 that it was worth upgrading.
@@chimrichalds81 Sony Ericsson did make some amazing phones. I had the K800i for a short time before getting the N95 and the camera was very impressive, the Walkman phones were brilliant too.
If you for whatever reason want to use the phone the language is in settings then the phone and then the map icon "jezyk", or give it to Tony, he can speak polish
As a czech who can somewhat understand polish since our languages are vaguely similar, this was hillarious to watch as I had fun guessing along with Wade what button did what XD
I love when people are trying to do something on device with polish language, next time i really prefer using translator like in google lens that translates everything instantly with a snap of a finger.
It set out the "mini version of flagship" trend. Nokia tried to make Symbian touchable by upscaling every Symbian UI element. And it was very terrible. 😂 Until Symbian Anna, it looked like it can be touch, but sadly, Symbian couldn't keep up with iOS and Android, it disappeared.
Symbian managed to kill off Sony Ericssons business phone line (things like the M600i) in record time as well. Nobody bought the stupid things after it became clear what a laggy, convoluted sjitshow the OS is (which at the time you normally wouldn't know unless you've had a laggy nokia before). And whoops.. suddenly Sony Ericsson started messing around with Windows Mobile at first, and after a mere 2 models switched to very early Android (1.6 Donut I think?) on phones called "xperia". Sound familar? Still around, minus the ericsson part
Nokia’s biggest mistake IMO was not jumping to Android early on. They were in the middle of creating a successor to Symbian called Maemo (later called MeeGo) but killed it off after a last minute switch to Windows Phone.
I loved the physical qwrty keyboards. Personally I think they are way better than the touch screen on my iPhone. I had a LG env touch. It was a flip phone and my mom’s old phone but still loved the keyboard. I always wanted a slider.
Just quietly, I friggin loved this phone. Took it with me to a bunch of festivals, ventured around Europe with it, for its time it recorded pretty good video.
Mmm, I LOVED my E63. Such a ballin phone. excellent keyboard, stout OS, built like a brick shithouse. Mine looks about as scuffed up as yours, that thing was a proper warhorse. My Aunt worked for a corp that ran exclusively on blackberries, and for quite a few years I ran on whatever the previous generation was. I was pretty friendly with their IT guys, so I could literally pop in to the head office, say something like "Im here to see Steve in IT" and get buzzed in. and Steve would have a whole filing cabinet draw just overflowing with Blackberries that hadn't made it to landfill yet (and I made myself useful, far more mechanical than them so had a knack for fixing printers n stuff, and always showed up with coffee and pastries. do not underestimate the power of a danish). I didnt buy a phone for years. got very used to having a nice keyboard. I miss that. But once I got the E63... I kept that phone for YEARS. Still runs. entirely useless, but she still boots up. I wonder if there is a way to turn it into a bluetooth keyboard or something? a VT100 terminal? seriously, they are great bits of gear. The only other phone I liked more was essentially a 3310, but in a magnesium pop up case. stock, It was a mission brown color, so intensely ugly, but after disassembly and hours of sanding, I got it to a beautiful metal shine, with just a trim of brown. An OK phone (just a 3310), awful keypad, but it looked SO good. and super cool that it was so heavily armoured. actually kept on going for years as a work phone, cos it could live in the toolbox safely, and the primary function of talking to people was all I needed it for. try that with your smartphone, she aint gonna take a 12mm socket to the face and survive. Anyway, on with the show, I just needed to gush for a sec. Thanks for uploading all these aftershows,
I had an N95, and it was good. Then something running android 2.1, and it was soooo sloooow. Took a while for phones to catch up to having usable hardware for the job To think nokia went from the N95, to that turd, to making the windows phones which were actually surprisingly good. Not that I had one at the time, but I picked up a couple as a joke a year or two back and they're better than I expected for phones from that era.
I still have a windows phone(8.1) as a secondary, it really was iphone level performance at a mid-range price, my 1520 from 2013 even has wireless charging, sadly it never caught on due to microsoft being stupid with their licensing of the thing, and w10m was just crap.
Because Nokia stubbornly stuck to Symbian (when it wasn’t optimized for touch screens at all); while trying to develop their own Linux based successor (known as Maemo/MeeGo) that was honestly DoA after Android came out.
@@Yeen125 Yeah, Microsoft's acquisition really did everything they could to ruin OG Nokia. I got the N9 in blue and _really_ enjoyed using it despite all the quirks. But between being the first phone I was CONSTANTLY terrified of damaging and Nokia dropping their promised updates/support of the device shortly after Microsoft bought them, it became something I couldn't keep. MeeGo had so much promise, but needed a LOT of work that suddenly wasn't going to happen. There was effort to get Android ported over to it, but at the time it was super rough and introduced more problems of reliability/performance. So I begrudgingly sold it. I ended up trying out a black one a few years later, but the problems were even more apparent from various security/protocol changes on the backend that broke from simply staying the same. It's sad how that works for older/unique devices. We loved the external hardware but the internal tech and software got aged out and force us away from using it.
I had one of these! And I loved it! It was my first "smart" phone, and I had it for like 3-4 years until the batt started bulging so much the back panel wouldnt close. Great guy, I might still have it in a box somewhere. Although mine had android from what I remember.
The biggest thing that makes menus "feel good" on touch screens is the movement being mapped directly to where your finger is and the implementation of inertial scrolling. It's what makes the macbook touchpads feel so good to use is that things are mapped to how your fingers move, rather than being set on timers like this appears to.
I had this phone for quite some time, and honestly I loved it The phone itself felt so premium and the typing was amazing. The vibration motor also just felt right. Symbian was pretty bad though, but it you knew its limitations it was perfectly workable. It was also waaay cheaper than an iPhone, around 20 euros per month cheaper combined with the same voice/text/data plans. We didn't have a lot of Android phones with keyboards here and if you didn't need to keyboard, Both Android and iPhone OS were way more user friendly
One thing to point out about Symbian is that, at that time, it could actually do multitasking (sort of), which Android could not yet do. You'd long press the home button and quickly switch between open apps, and the phone would be running them in the background, you could copy-paste stuff inbetween apps and all that, it was super neat. Meanwhile Android would just kill the app as soon as you left it, dunno if you could even quick-switch between them, but I think not iirc.
Had a hand-me-down N97 (the full size kind) and it worked pretty alright for teenage me. The physical d-pad, keyboard and 1 camera (shoulder) button worked really well for emulating GBA stuff.
I was disappointed as soon as I loaded mine up with music. The thing had like 32GB internal memory. I threw like a couple gigs of Music on there and the music player didn't enjoy that in the slightest. Had a loading screen every time you opened it, if I remember right. I was like: great that this thing has a ton of storage, but what use is it, if I can't use it. I liked it at first but moved on to a used iPhone 3G which was a game changer in every way, except the camera.
I had a Nokia E71 (I guess the successor to your E63) and I LOVED THAT KEYBOARD. I don't think that I'm able to type as fast on a touchscreen as I did on that keyboard. It was awesome.
I loved my 5800. It was the first touchscreen smart(ish) phone. It had resistive screen, so you needed fingernail or the given stylus. I even flashed the C6-00 ROM onto it which really modernized it's look, the default software was nothing like this - on the N97 - . As some other comments say these phones used Symbian S60v5 which was nothing more than a glorified, touch optimized S60v3... Also the processing power was just not there for the animations and everything. I also went for Android after that, but for years the speed of cheapo droid nuggets was nowhere near even these Nokia phones...
Nokia was the innovator with their app store (renamed as "Ovi Store"), the real problem was that 2.5G (WAP 2.0) was the only data networking available at the time and as a result, it was mind-numblingly slow to download apps. Apple was just *incredibly lucky* that 3G came along, just before the first iPhone was released and made using the Apple App Store vastly more enjoyable. It was frustrating to hear you natter about "no internet", when there was literally a World Globe icon labelled "internet" right next to the tip of your finger when you said it. Nokia consumer phones have had internet access right back to at least the candybar shaped 3330 in 2001, which had WAP networking and before that, their professional "Communicator" line had dial-up internet from the mid 1990s.
I feel your pain - I had the Nokia N95 and LOVED it. The iPhone 3/3GS was doing the rounds, but I traded my N95 for the N96 and HATED it. Could not wait to getting rid of it and getting the iPhone 4.
I think it was about this time I had the HTC s710. A similar idea to the N97. It was a good little phone, even though it crashed if it sniffed a video file.
As far as I remember this one was considered as a kind of flagship phone back those days. I have personally owned a 5800 - loved it a lot. It had all I've ever needed back those days.
I had an iPhone 3G, then moved on to a Nokia N97... for about a week. Moved right back to the 3G and kept that boy until I upgraded to a 4S some years later.
My dad worked on the app store type thing a bit before this phone, sort of 2000-2005ish. They did a good job, but there's a major issue regarding the fact that none of them were compatible with each other. Often these nugs would use totally incompatible CPUs or operating systems, making cross compatibility really really annoying. Prior to modern app stores there were network operator libraries, which is what my dad worked directly on, which was a way for users to get apps/wallpapers/ringtones in a platform agnostic way. As you can see, by this point^, a lot of phone companies had abandoned this in favour of their own stores, which were much crappier
Never thought I'd see the day Dankpods does a video on something Polish! But hey, always love to see it! Even if its on a channel that reviews random audiophile junk!
W sumie kupił malucha z importu więc to jest kontent który uwielbiam haha I pamiętam jeden odcinek w którym też było coś polskiego, i na głównym kanale ale teraz sobie nie przypomnę który odcinek to był
at 6:44 when he went "i can'to speako the language" it reminded me of my great grandma who is italian listening to the rest of the family speak english
N95 was a legend and then it just went downhill. When i saw polish box i was immediately hooked and it went terrible as i expected. What i didn't expect is wyprodukowano w Finlandii, and some later models were still made in Europe.
I have one an I loved it. The keyboard was great for chatting as it didn't take up any screen space, watching CZcams was good, and the tilted screen was great for taking photos at gigs as I could hold it up high and still see the screen. I could also put a decent amount of music on it and listen with wired headphones. Genuinely my favourite phone ever. At the time it was really good but modern phones are just so much better that it looks really bad now.
That ised to be my dream phone! I remmber looking at it from a tech magazine and used to thibk it was soo cool! This video title kinda majes me sad, yet its enterntaining to watch how far did the the tech go 😂
Ahh, the 3mobile network!. Remember a heap of qork colleagues getting on that bus in the early noughties because they had the latest hot phones, turns out phones dont do much without a network. And this was in sydney!
I visited the US back in '08 and ended up buying an iPhone 3G just a few months after its release from a store that sold it to me with a "turbo-sim" which allowed you to use sim cards from other carriers (was AT&T locked of course), and I used it for a few days when I got back home then sold it for a loss because it was absolutely awful, literally had no features, not even MMS, and was nowhere to be found in my country. I replaced it with a Spider-Man edition N95 and it was fantastic, one of the best Nokia phones I've had, and it came pre-loaded with the movie lmao. I really miss Nokia, I was a huge fanboy of the company growing up and the fact that they came in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and aesthetics was awesome. I really miss having a variety to choose from almost every year, whereas every device now looks like a slab of a touchscreen with some minor modifications to the body. By the way, that N97 mini may have been a dud, but there were so many amazing N series Nokia phones already that were far better than this. The Nokia 6600 gets a shout too, one of the coolest looking devices back then.
My worst phones were a Blackberry Pearl 8110 and some LG android phone I don't even remember anymore because I returned it to AT&T within a couple of days. The Blackberry was bought in the days before Android really took off and I got it cheap off eBay but it didn't work for me, I honestly have no memory of what the exact problem was, but I returned it and went back to my LG Rumor until I upgraded to my first Android phone, the Motorola Backflip. The forgotten LG phone was nice but the battery literally lasted like half a day, and it was during my time in college when I didn't want to have it die on me and it wasn't convenient to carry around an extra battery pack and leave it in my backpack while it charged.
had what i think was the motorola version of this, also absolute trash. was riding the bus to stay with my grandma over the weekend after school so i packed my phone even though they weren't allowed, just muted it and turned it off. it turned itself back on and blasted the low battery alarm at full volume in my silent history class. alarm song was "gun powder and lead" by miranda lambert. been a decade and a half and i still can't listen to that song without viscerally remembering the shock of horror i experienced that day. even more shockingly, i didn't even get in trouble. after it went off, i turned it off again and shoved it into my locker. apparently the teachers went through my locker and found it and i'm guessing that since i already had been publically embarrassed and i clearly wasn't using it in the middle of class, they just told me not to do it again. usually they took phones away for weeks at a time back then.
I rember my first phone being the 5800 XPress Music around 2009-ish when I was in 6th grade. Used that phone a lot since it has wifi. Since the store was basically a collection of basic apps, I used to look for apps online kinda like with APKs nowadays. Then that got replaced with an X6 around 2012 which had an amazing camera at that time, an 8 megapixel nugget! I was always the designated photographer during school events and such. Lol. And those phones were Korean locked 😂 (dad worked there then) and didn't have service here in the Philippines. Oh those good ol' days!
AFAIK Nokia seemed to be one of the first to adapt micro-USB, my dad got a 6500 classic by his employer around 2008 and it had micro-USB while many others at the time still used some proprietary connectors. In Germany not only Symbian and their poor build quality (the N95s were okayish, but the N96 real plasticky with that typical piano black) were the nails in their coffin, but they've also shut down their factory in Bochum in early 2008 and that caused a large controversy and protests but they closed it anyway and moved to Cluj in Romania but closed that after just three years, seemingly to just grab some cash subsidies (at least they paid it back after the state of Romania almost forced them).
I had the N97 (not mini) for about a year.. it did kinda what I wanted, but there were so many things wrong with it, and it wasn't any cheaper than an android (which was better). Soon after, an android came out supporting flash, so I jumped across to that phone, even though it didn't have a keypad (nexus one or the HTC desire I think) and I was so much happier with an actual capacitance screen. ... Those were the days! Edit: although I had an LG shine before this, and I would class it as one of my worst. A flash phone, with a scroller. About the only thing that it had going for it was build quality that could almost rival a Nokia 3210/3310 while also being solid enough to double as a murder weapon.
I remember my first smartphone was a Samsung gem. Hands down the worst phone I have ever had in my life, it was a horrendous cheap and slow thing. Been getting iPhones since the 7 came out and I’ll never go back. Current phone is a 14 pro max. Love it.
I had the N97, not the mini version and I'm not gonna lie. Everything ran way smoother, and when I say smoother I mean like, not a tonne smoother but like comparable to the iPhone 3G. It had a better camera, 32GB of storage with expandable storage up to 32GB as well and the key feature that I used it for was the built FM transmitter. Before Bluetooth in a car was a thing this feature reigned supreme
I have the proper version of that the HTC Touch Pro 2 / Tilt 2. Telstra at the time was ripping people off for $1399 for that barely flag ship phone. Even though it was running Windows Mobile 6 it was still my favourite phone I have ever owned. The hardware was just amazing and that hinge and keyboard is something we will never get again.
This actually reminds me of the second phone I ever had. it was a purple LG Rumor Touch, and unlike this Nokia that had the same slide out keyboard gimmick, the Rumor Touch was *designed to be a good phone.* It had an SD card reader to store pictures (like the much dumber OG LG Rumor) OR EVEN MUSIC with a BUILT IN MP3 PLAYER. That was the function I used the MOST on it.
I had this phone. It was awesome. Unfortunately I lost it after our town was affected by flooding. I still feel sad that it was stolen and I never got to use it again.
My mom used to have a 5800 Xpressmusic I think and I remember it being alright, it was like 14 years ago though so I'm not sure but I used to game on it and stuff.
I only bought Nokias untill they started to use Windows Phone and I decided to buy a Galaxy S2. I really loved that brand, the best I got were the flip phone 6131, the landscape C3-00 and my first Symbian 5300. They were the best
Brother had the N97, he loved it....until he dropped it in the pub toilet drunkenly trying to text. It died immediately, only destructible Nokia I ever came across 😂
Oof. Had a full size N97, and yeah, resistive touch screens are horrid. Especially after using a capacitive touch screen. Went to android after and what a difference it was.
Watching this as a polish person and watching him stumble through the ui not understand a word is hilariois
I'm not polish, but I more or less could understand some polish words and he was that close to changing the language...
@@lazy_termite yeah, he could've just used a translator app's camera feature to get around the UI. Sad he didn't think of that.
@@PvtAnonymous or just type into google translate. except that weird L thing that sounds like w.
Same thoughts 😂
THIS CONTENT SUCKS UTTP IS BETTER 🤣
As a polish fellow it was fun to watch you miss the language option in the settings menu (the map icon, język) 🤣
Even as a German fellow I thought "COME ON PRESS THE MAP"
as a russophone it was also fun to recognize that word ыыыы
Polish 🇵🇱 nugget
Funny how I could tell it was Polish, despite not knowing a word of it. Polish just has that certain gibberish (to me) look. Random letters everywhere.
Nokias weren't bad, you just unknowingly bought the lemon in the N Series. I had a 5800 Xpressmusic, a N95 8GB and the N93, and they were leagues above anything else out at the time. The sheer feature list and the camera of the N95 8GB was WAY better than at least the first two iPhones, it was only with the iPhone 4 that it was worth upgrading.
Sony Erickson passed Nokia around this time
@@chimrichalds81 Sony Ericsson did make some amazing phones. I had the K800i for a short time before getting the N95 and the camera was very impressive, the Walkman phones were brilliant too.
The 3gs was pretty good tbh.
I had the n91, n95, 5800, n97 mini, and later the n9 with meego a Jesus christ n97 mini was a tormenting experience.
5800 yeah i got one too. absolutely kills iphones 😂😂
If you for whatever reason want to use the phone the language is in settings then the phone and then the map icon "jezyk", or give it to Tony, he can speak polish
gozzila had a stroke reading this and fucking died
wait who's tony
@@PlutoTheSynth oh dont tell me you dont know Tony
@@mrgameboy6261 i dont know tony :c
@@PlutoTheSynth i cant belive you dont know vital reoccurring dankpods character tony, the polish speaking crazy guy
3:52 Godzina
5:09 Wróć
5:19 Na zewnątrz
5:26 Mapy🥰
What
He's polish does that explain it lol
Siema jestem z Polski I cię rozumję😅
@@taylancatsaregood4294Godzina = hour
Wróć = go back
Na zewnątrz = outside
Mapy = maps
Idk what this means but it sounds cool
As a Polish person, I thank you for the extra layer of hilarity.
As a czech who can somewhat understand polish since our languages are vaguely similar, this was hillarious to watch as I had fun guessing along with Wade what button did what XD
MAPI!!!!
I'm gonna guess that you imported it from Poland.
To change it to English I think it's: Ustawienia>Telefon>Język and you can change it right there
Not like there was a map symbol there lol
he is right @@yuichitachibana6
Man got it from wocktopia
Nah, that's something else. Seen "mowa" in one of menus in video
I love when people are trying to do something on device with polish language, next time i really prefer using translator like in google lens that translates everything instantly with a snap of a finger.
Oh, it's Polish! I was guessing Czech but it didn't look quite right.
It makes the video funnier him trying to navigate it without knowing what any of the words mean
You already have a polish car, now polish phone, you're practically polish now
Kocham kiedy ludzi z zagranicy próbują rozszyfrować nasz zawiły język😂
Piękne.
It set out the "mini version of flagship" trend.
Nokia tried to make Symbian touchable by upscaling every Symbian UI element. And it was very terrible. 😂 Until Symbian Anna, it looked like it can be touch, but sadly, Symbian couldn't keep up with iOS and Android, it disappeared.
Symbian managed to kill off Sony Ericssons business phone line (things like the M600i) in record time as well. Nobody bought the stupid things after it became clear what a laggy, convoluted sjitshow the OS is (which at the time you normally wouldn't know unless you've had a laggy nokia before). And whoops.. suddenly Sony Ericsson started messing around with Windows Mobile at first, and after a mere 2 models switched to very early Android (1.6 Donut I think?) on phones called "xperia". Sound familar? Still around, minus the ericsson part
Nokia’s biggest mistake IMO was not jumping to Android early on.
They were in the middle of creating a successor to Symbian called Maemo (later called MeeGo) but killed it off after a last minute switch to Windows Phone.
I loved the physical qwrty keyboards. Personally I think they are way better than the touch screen on my iPhone. I had a LG env touch. It was a flip phone and my mom’s old phone but still loved the keyboard. I always wanted a slider.
Just quietly, I friggin loved this phone. Took it with me to a bunch of festivals, ventured around Europe with it, for its time it recorded pretty good video.
Mmm, I LOVED my E63. Such a ballin phone. excellent keyboard, stout OS, built like a brick shithouse. Mine looks about as scuffed up as yours, that thing was a proper warhorse. My Aunt worked for a corp that ran exclusively on blackberries, and for quite a few years I ran on whatever the previous generation was. I was pretty friendly with their IT guys, so I could literally pop in to the head office, say something like "Im here to see Steve in IT" and get buzzed in. and Steve would have a whole filing cabinet draw just overflowing with Blackberries that hadn't made it to landfill yet (and I made myself useful, far more mechanical than them so had a knack for fixing printers n stuff, and always showed up with coffee and pastries. do not underestimate the power of a danish). I didnt buy a phone for years. got very used to having a nice keyboard. I miss that. But once I got the E63... I kept that phone for YEARS. Still runs. entirely useless, but she still boots up. I wonder if there is a way to turn it into a bluetooth keyboard or something? a VT100 terminal? seriously, they are great bits of gear. The only other phone I liked more was essentially a 3310, but in a magnesium pop up case. stock, It was a mission brown color, so intensely ugly, but after disassembly and hours of sanding, I got it to a beautiful metal shine, with just a trim of brown. An OK phone (just a 3310), awful keypad, but it looked SO good. and super cool that it was so heavily armoured. actually kept on going for years as a work phone, cos it could live in the toolbox safely, and the primary function of talking to people was all I needed it for. try that with your smartphone, she aint gonna take a 12mm socket to the face and survive. Anyway, on with the show, I just needed to gush for a sec.
Thanks for uploading all these aftershows,
why would you want to use the e63 as a bluetooth keyboard the bluetooth on it sucks
awesome story
Damn XD I always wanted one of those XD
ALSO. Always a treat to somene struggle with Polish XD
HAPPY NEW YEAR from Poland!
I had an N95, and it was good. Then something running android 2.1, and it was soooo sloooow. Took a while for phones to catch up to having usable hardware for the job
To think nokia went from the N95, to that turd, to making the windows phones which were actually surprisingly good. Not that I had one at the time, but I picked up a couple as a joke a year or two back and they're better than I expected for phones from that era.
I still have a windows phone(8.1) as a secondary, it really was iphone level performance at a mid-range price, my 1520 from 2013 even has wireless charging, sadly it never caught on due to microsoft being stupid with their licensing of the thing, and w10m was just crap.
Because Nokia stubbornly stuck to Symbian (when it wasn’t optimized for touch screens at all); while trying to develop their own Linux based successor (known as Maemo/MeeGo) that was honestly DoA after Android came out.
@@Yeen125 Yeah, Microsoft's acquisition really did everything they could to ruin OG Nokia. I got the N9 in blue and _really_ enjoyed using it despite all the quirks. But between being the first phone I was CONSTANTLY terrified of damaging and Nokia dropping their promised updates/support of the device shortly after Microsoft bought them, it became something I couldn't keep. MeeGo had so much promise, but needed a LOT of work that suddenly wasn't going to happen. There was effort to get Android ported over to it, but at the time it was super rough and introduced more problems of reliability/performance. So I begrudgingly sold it. I ended up trying out a black one a few years later, but the problems were even more apparent from various security/protocol changes on the backend that broke from simply staying the same. It's sad how that works for older/unique devices. We loved the external hardware but the internal tech and software got aged out and force us away from using it.
Thank you so much, I enjoy watching this with my 9 and 10 years Olds. They laugh so hard.
I had one of these!
And I loved it!
It was my first "smart" phone, and I had it for like 3-4 years until the batt started bulging so much the back panel wouldnt close.
Great guy, I might still have it in a box somewhere.
Although mine had android from what I remember.
I had that phone. It would randomly turn off and just not accept any input if it was too cold outside... Great times
I’m surprised he didn’t think of using the translate app on his phone to navigate or find where to change the language
Yeah sometimes he can be frustrating when he doesn't do easy stuff like that
The biggest thing that makes menus "feel good" on touch screens is the movement being mapped directly to where your finger is and the implementation of inertial scrolling. It's what makes the macbook touchpads feel so good to use is that things are mapped to how your fingers move, rather than being set on timers like this appears to.
I had this phone for quite some time, and honestly I loved it The phone itself felt so premium and the typing was amazing. The vibration motor also just felt right. Symbian was pretty bad though, but it you knew its limitations it was perfectly workable. It was also waaay cheaper than an iPhone, around 20 euros per month cheaper combined with the same voice/text/data plans. We didn't have a lot of Android phones with keyboards here and if you didn't need to keyboard, Both Android and iPhone OS were way more user friendly
One thing to point out about Symbian is that, at that time, it could actually do multitasking (sort of), which Android could not yet do. You'd long press the home button and quickly switch between open apps, and the phone would be running them in the background, you could copy-paste stuff inbetween apps and all that, it was super neat. Meanwhile Android would just kill the app as soon as you left it, dunno if you could even quick-switch between them, but I think not iirc.
Had a hand-me-down N97 (the full size kind) and it worked pretty alright for teenage me. The physical d-pad, keyboard and 1 camera (shoulder) button worked really well for emulating GBA stuff.
I was disappointed as soon as I loaded mine up with music. The thing had like 32GB internal memory. I threw like a couple gigs of Music on there and the music player didn't enjoy that in the slightest. Had a loading screen every time you opened it, if I remember right. I was like: great that this thing has a ton of storage, but what use is it, if I can't use it. I liked it at first but moved on to a used iPhone 3G which was a game changer in every way, except the camera.
Oh wow. Same here! Hand-me-down N97, full size, and emulated GBA!
I had a Nokia E71 (I guess the successor to your E63) and I LOVED THAT KEYBOARD. I don't think that I'm able to type as fast on a touchscreen as I did on that keyboard. It was awesome.
Thanks a bunch for all these aftershows, youre the best.
I love that you have polish version of this phone, because I’m from Poland and it was the first phone with touch screen that I encountered 😅
Omfg I just realized you released a ton/ all of your after shows 😃 what did we do to deserve this blessing 💚
I loved my 5800. It was the first touchscreen smart(ish) phone. It had resistive screen, so you needed fingernail or the given stylus. I even flashed the C6-00 ROM onto it which really modernized it's look, the default software was nothing like this - on the N97 - . As some other comments say these phones used Symbian S60v5 which was nothing more than a glorified, touch optimized S60v3... Also the processing power was just not there for the animations and everything. I also went for Android after that, but for years the speed of cheapo droid nuggets was nowhere near even these Nokia phones...
Nokia was the innovator with their app store (renamed as "Ovi Store"), the real problem was that 2.5G (WAP 2.0) was the only data networking available at the time and as a result, it was mind-numblingly slow to download apps. Apple was just *incredibly lucky* that 3G came along, just before the first iPhone was released and made using the Apple App Store vastly more enjoyable.
It was frustrating to hear you natter about "no internet", when there was literally a World Globe icon labelled "internet" right next to the tip of your finger when you said it.
Nokia consumer phones have had internet access right back to at least the candybar shaped 3330 in 2001, which had WAP networking and before that, their professional "Communicator" line had dial-up internet from the mid 1990s.
I feel your pain - I had the Nokia N95 and LOVED it. The iPhone 3/3GS was doing the rounds, but I traded my N95 for the N96 and HATED it. Could not wait to getting rid of it and getting the iPhone 4.
I think it was about this time I had the HTC s710. A similar idea to the N97. It was a good little phone, even though it crashed if it sniffed a video file.
Happy New years everyone!
Seeing this, I just remembered that my wife got an old Desire Z laying around in a drawer. That was very nice back in the days.
I had the Nokia E7, and I loved that thing. The keyboard was really nice and the updated symbian os was refreshing.
Awh hell yeah, slide out keyboards are sick. I used to own the LG neon and Pantech Crossover. Felt like such a badass when I slid that thing open
"It's like these are crap or something?!"🤣💀
As far as I remember this one was considered as a kind of flagship phone back those days. I have personally owned a 5800 - loved it a lot. It had all I've ever needed back those days.
Me and a mate had this one and it worked for 4 years I gave it to my grandma and she broke it. I loved this one.
HAPPY NEW YEAR BRO!!!
I had an iPhone 3G, then moved on to a Nokia N97... for about a week. Moved right back to the 3G and kept that boy until I upgraded to a 4S some years later.
I loved my E71 - got it when the E72 was just released and got it cheap. Was amazing for the time.
that long boot up time really reminded me of my nokia back in the day lmao. the worst one was around 10 minutes of waiting
I had a Motorola Droid 4 with a custom rom on it as my first phone as a teen. I absolutely loved the damn thing. Glorious.
My dad worked on the app store type thing a bit before this phone, sort of 2000-2005ish. They did a good job, but there's a major issue regarding the fact that none of them were compatible with each other. Often these nugs would use totally incompatible CPUs or operating systems, making cross compatibility really really annoying. Prior to modern app stores there were network operator libraries, which is what my dad worked directly on, which was a way for users to get apps/wallpapers/ringtones in a platform agnostic way. As you can see, by this point^, a lot of phone companies had abandoned this in favour of their own stores, which were much crappier
I love how you ordered it from Poland where I live 😂
Plot twist those manual language its POLISH
Tony Kowalski would like to say hello 😂
Wade my guy, that's a POLISH NOKIA
I bought this phone as an upgrade to the Nokia e90. I still have both in a drawer.
Never thought I'd see the day Dankpods does a video on something Polish! But hey, always love to see it! Even if its on a channel that reviews random audiophile junk!
W sumie kupił malucha z importu więc to jest kontent który uwielbiam haha
I pamiętam jeden odcinek w którym też było coś polskiego, i na głównym kanale ale teraz sobie nie przypomnę który odcinek to był
@@ukaszzielinski8100 Och, wow, więc to nawet nie jest pierwszy raz? To wspaniale! Muszę w takim razie przejrzeć niektóre odcinki!
Even I'm not Polish nor can I understand the Polish language and I can tell that's all written in Polish
I remember playing Minecraft demo on my desire z as a wee child. Banger memories tbh.
at 6:44 when he went "i can'to speako the language" it reminded me of my great grandma who is italian listening to the rest of the family speak english
The N97 mini. Best phone my mom ever loved. Made texting easy for her. Until it broke. Still have it in my drawer.
As a polish person it’s just so funny when he says wróć and mapy (MAPI❤❤❤)
I had one of these, was a steaming pile, the OS was terrible if I recall. Ended up returning it after a couple of weeks and getting a iPhone 4.
N95 was a legend and then it just went downhill.
When i saw polish box i was immediately hooked and it went terrible as i expected. What i didn't expect is wyprodukowano w Finlandii, and some later models were still made in Europe.
I have one an I loved it. The keyboard was great for chatting as it didn't take up any screen space, watching CZcams was good, and the tilted screen was great for taking photos at gigs as I could hold it up high and still see the screen. I could also put a decent amount of music on it and listen with wired headphones. Genuinely my favourite phone ever. At the time it was really good but modern phones are just so much better that it looks really bad now.
That ised to be my dream phone! I remmber looking at it from a tech magazine and used to thibk it was soo cool!
This video title kinda majes me sad, yet its enterntaining to watch how far did the the tech go 😂
Ahh, the 3mobile network!. Remember a heap of qork colleagues getting on that bus in the early noughties because they had the latest hot phones, turns out phones dont do much without a network. And this was in sydney!
I visited the US back in '08 and ended up buying an iPhone 3G just a few months after its release from a store that sold it to me with a "turbo-sim" which allowed you to use sim cards from other carriers (was AT&T locked of course), and I used it for a few days when I got back home then sold it for a loss because it was absolutely awful, literally had no features, not even MMS, and was nowhere to be found in my country. I replaced it with a Spider-Man edition N95 and it was fantastic, one of the best Nokia phones I've had, and it came pre-loaded with the movie lmao.
I really miss Nokia, I was a huge fanboy of the company growing up and the fact that they came in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and aesthetics was awesome. I really miss having a variety to choose from almost every year, whereas every device now looks like a slab of a touchscreen with some minor modifications to the body. By the way, that N97 mini may have been a dud, but there were so many amazing N series Nokia phones already that were far better than this. The Nokia 6600 gets a shout too, one of the coolest looking devices back then.
My worst phones were a Blackberry Pearl 8110 and some LG android phone I don't even remember anymore because I returned it to AT&T within a couple of days. The Blackberry was bought in the days before Android really took off and I got it cheap off eBay but it didn't work for me, I honestly have no memory of what the exact problem was, but I returned it and went back to my LG Rumor until I upgraded to my first Android phone, the Motorola Backflip.
The forgotten LG phone was nice but the battery literally lasted like half a day, and it was during my time in college when I didn't want to have it die on me and it wasn't convenient to carry around an extra battery pack and leave it in my backpack while it charged.
Poland in video always give thumbs up even if Australian shepherd puppy can't read "WRÓĆ" correctly 😂😂😂
had what i think was the motorola version of this, also absolute trash. was riding the bus to stay with my grandma over the weekend after school so i packed my phone even though they weren't allowed, just muted it and turned it off. it turned itself back on and blasted the low battery alarm at full volume in my silent history class. alarm song was "gun powder and lead" by miranda lambert. been a decade and a half and i still can't listen to that song without viscerally remembering the shock of horror i experienced that day.
even more shockingly, i didn't even get in trouble. after it went off, i turned it off again and shoved it into my locker. apparently the teachers went through my locker and found it and i'm guessing that since i already had been publically embarrassed and i clearly wasn't using it in the middle of class, they just told me not to do it again. usually they took phones away for weeks at a time back then.
I've only ever had hand me downs so I'm happy if they work 😂
I rember my first phone being the 5800 XPress Music around 2009-ish when I was in 6th grade. Used that phone a lot since it has wifi. Since the store was basically a collection of basic apps, I used to look for apps online kinda like with APKs nowadays. Then that got replaced with an X6 around 2012 which had an amazing camera at that time, an 8 megapixel nugget! I was always the designated photographer during school events and such. Lol. And those phones were Korean locked 😂 (dad worked there then) and didn't have service here in the Philippines. Oh those good ol' days!
AFAIK Nokia seemed to be one of the first to adapt micro-USB, my dad got a 6500 classic by his employer around 2008 and it had micro-USB while many others at the time still used some proprietary connectors.
In Germany not only Symbian and their poor build quality (the N95s were okayish, but the N96 real plasticky with that typical piano black) were the nails in their coffin, but they've also shut down their factory in Bochum in early 2008 and that caused a large controversy and protests but they closed it anyway and moved to Cluj in Romania but closed that after just three years, seemingly to just grab some cash subsidies (at least they paid it back after the state of Romania almost forced them).
Full size N97 was one of the best phones I've ever had loved it.
I had (and actually stil have!) The nokia C6-00, the previous version to this one. And goddamn i loved that thing
After show on NYD. Thanks mate :D. The language looks like Polish.
100% Polish. Jest mówisz po Polsku XD
I had the N97 (not mini) for about a year.. it did kinda what I wanted, but there were so many things wrong with it, and it wasn't any cheaper than an android (which was better).
Soon after, an android came out supporting flash, so I jumped across to that phone, even though it didn't have a keypad (nexus one or the HTC desire I think) and I was so much happier with an actual capacitance screen.
... Those were the days!
Edit: although I had an LG shine before this, and I would class it as one of my worst. A flash phone, with a scroller. About the only thing that it had going for it was build quality that could almost rival a Nokia 3210/3310 while also being solid enough to double as a murder weapon.
Best in line n95 8g and still use with my iPhone 3 day batteries with Wi-Fi and CZcams too!😂❤
Tony Phone
3 Mobile is a throwback
Loved my XpressMusic 5800 and N73 back then! :)
I had the N97, normal size. Loved the thing myself even though it was pretty sluggish and had some Wifi issues
I remember my first smartphone was a Samsung gem. Hands down the worst phone I have ever had in my life, it was a horrendous cheap and slow thing. Been getting iPhones since the 7 came out and I’ll never go back. Current phone is a 14 pro max. Love it.
when his finger kinda went to language in the settings but went past it my heart sank
I had the N97, not the mini version and I'm not gonna lie. Everything ran way smoother, and when I say smoother I mean like, not a tonne smoother but like comparable to the iPhone 3G. It had a better camera, 32GB of storage with expandable storage up to 32GB as well and the key feature that I used it for was the built FM transmitter. Before Bluetooth in a car was a thing this feature reigned supreme
I enjoyed understanding everything in this video.
Never ever did i have a bad Nokia, loved all of them, specially my C5-03, that was an absolute treasure to me.
I bought this for my wife when it was released and she actually loved it. Used it for quite a while without any problems
I have the proper version of that the HTC Touch Pro 2 / Tilt 2. Telstra at the time was ripping people off for $1399 for that barely flag ship phone. Even though it was running Windows Mobile 6 it was still my favourite phone I have ever owned. The hardware was just amazing and that hinge and keyboard is something we will never get again.
Język was language. It's in Polish. I guess you aren't Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz XD
Honestly you didn’t even need to speak polish to know that, i was screaming at him in my head saying “IT’S THE ONE WITH THE WORLD MAP ICON”
This actually reminds me of the second phone I ever had. it was a purple LG Rumor Touch, and unlike this Nokia that had the same slide out keyboard gimmick, the Rumor Touch was *designed to be a good phone.* It had an SD card reader to store pictures (like the much dumber OG LG Rumor) OR EVEN MUSIC with a BUILT IN MP3 PLAYER. That was the function I used the MOST on it.
I had this phone. It was awesome. Unfortunately I lost it after our town was affected by flooding. I still feel sad that it was stolen and I never got to use it again.
I don't remember what type of phone it was but I remember my first phone that was sliding keyboard like that. Calls and texts and that was it
My mom used to have a 5800 Xpressmusic I think and I remember it being alright, it was like 14 years ago though so I'm not sure but I used to game on it and stuff.
I had an N86 8gb ran like a champ, loved it!
My sister had the 5800, my other sister had the N95, i had the E64
They were fantastic phones
I only bought Nokias untill they started to use Windows Phone and I decided to buy a Galaxy S2. I really loved that brand, the best I got were the flip phone 6131, the landscape C3-00 and my first Symbian 5300. They were the best
In some ways, I miss actually getting stuff with my phone... however, this box had way too much useless crap in it.
Brother had the N97, he loved it....until he dropped it in the pub toilet drunkenly trying to text. It died immediately, only destructible Nokia I ever came across 😂
I worked at optus repair while these were live and in-store, and I can confirm these are the worst phones anybody has ever owned
3:52; It could mean time
5:11; You have forgot something. Język could mean "Language" in Polish.
Yeah, godzina is time and język is language
Yeah how hard was that @@dinkyeepy
That was fun. I just tried reading the Aaafricaaanz text with Oz accent. No lies were told.
the word mapy is now my favorite word ever
i got so excited when i saw the text was in polish 😂😂
Oof. Had a full size N97, and yeah, resistive touch screens are horrid. Especially after using a capacitive touch screen. Went to android after and what a difference it was.
It's so funny watching you strugling with Polish language XD