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That poor Nokia woke up for the first time and was like “Ah, easy life in someone’s glove box 😎” and the last thing it saw was its grandpa winding up to beat it to death.
Random Fact: I was actually one of the developers for the iOS version of Gameloft's Siberian Strike back in like 2008/9 I think lol. I actually screamed when I saw it popped up on the video.
@@СимонЦанков You can but don't expect it to work like a new Iphone. I currently use a LG Stylus4+ that cost me new $120 (US) and I was complaining because I usually buy my phones at $80. It's a little slow.
@@СимонЦанков that dumb Nokia phone that looked like shit costs 10€ in my country. For 129 Australian, thats like 80€, you can always get some brand new low spec xiaomi or realme smartphones that aren't even that bad. I have a secondary phone that i use for work and its a xiaomi redmi note 10 pro, oled screen 120hz, 120mpx main camera, 5020mah battery, nice device overall and it costed me 200€.
I bought the first phone as a travel phone. It ain’t bad for that purpose. The thing I like most about it is the FM radio functionality. I can take with me to Italy and be able to listen to the radio without buying a set once I arrive.
This is probably one of my favorite videos from Dankpods. I love it cuz I want a manky work phone. So this honestly helps. Been mostly looking at Nokias lol. Some Apples too, but mostly old. Like OG old.
i love how he tested the durability of the first phone by smashing the Nokia brick against it instead of 1 Grit. looks like ol' Gritty Boy has some competition
Am I the only one that noticed the elderly phone has a SOS function and a legit dedicated red button on the back? Is the SOS function a normal thing in Australia?
Hey Dank, the reason the smartphone might keep dimming and brightening is because of something called adaptive brightness. Depending on where the front camera is, whether in the dark or by bright light, the display adapts to it regardless of what you set it to. You can turn it off in the settings I believe.
"Things that were made to be good have every chance of staying good. Built cheap = always cheap." My man mr.pods here dropping out truth bombs. This is gonna be my go to principle for buying used now.
You're right a phone should prolly cost more than 100 dollars however ur drinking the coolaid if you think 1000 dollars is reasonable or you're getting bang for your buck Poco has been killing it with 300 dollar flagship killers for a while. I had the Poco F1 which was probably a once in a lifetime value with it being 300 dollars and the iPhone being 1000 and it having every single feature as an iPhone X and was as fast as the top android at the time now I have a Poco X3 which isn't as killer of a deal with it being 50 dollars more and it's not an 888 chip its only and 870. But heck it still has a headphone jack!!!
Th trouble is when companies lie about quality to inflate prices because of decreased regulation they paid for behind the scenes. At least there's still some honest reviewers out there.
DankPods: "What phone should I take?" I was like: "Nokia Flip, obviously!" And I was right, I miss flip phones (mine is still in the drawer somewhere...)
I'm very much waiting for the day that either phones like the new moto razr or Samsung z flip become affordable to us normal folk. No way in hell can I spend that much money for a phone but man do I really like the concept of them. At the same time I wish the Asian smart flip phones in Japan and whatnot had the right wireless bands to be used more internationally because they seem pretty cool too.
Now I almost want a beefed up flip phone. None of that bendy glass business, no. Just a button flip phone with a touch screen that goes out to the edges, and decent power and memory. Maybe even a dedicated scroll wheel/touchpad. That would be sweet.
I had my friend over, we got in the hottub, he accidentally dropped his phone in it, so we went to walmart to get a phone, we fooled around there for awhile and found a phone for 10$. I thought there was no way it would actually be legit. But my friend just went ahead and bought it, we were laughing the whole time. When we got out of the store , he ripped the phone out and it actually didnt work too bad. We had such a good laugh.
"Hard of vision" is absolutely hilarious to me as someone who's partially sighted. Also, with the shifting brightness there's usually like an auto brightness setting
2 years ago my phone was an iPhone 5, and having it in my pocket bent the frame of the screen out of the metal frame. Now my phone is an iPhone 6S Plus, and it’s still pretty good
hey Dank! i’m sure i’m buried at this point but I would love to see a video where you use the shit burner flip phones as music players. you’d be surprised how few videos talk about that. surely they must rival some of the more obscure nuggets out there.
I actually use an old galaxy mini 2 that a friend of mine gave me as my sports-music player. Light, small and the battery lasts weeks! Very nice considering its age, and it has bluetooth, which makes it many times better than something like an old iPod!
The Iphone screen might not be broken. As far as I know the screen is connected via a flat cable with a flimsy connector. This connector can loosen itself for example if the phone was dropped or shaken. It might be possible to reconnect the cable, but not at an Apple store because they will just try to sell you a new one.
I mean, there's still warranty so why not. Even if its as simple as a loose connector, I'll still bring to a first party store rather then voiding my warranty
yeah, I try to get things repaired at apple while they are under warranty but they are so frigging slow to repair... it is faster to just trade for a refurb. Such an inefficient use of recourses. God I wish they would stop fighting 3rd party repair industry and let them be good.
Don't you know if you attempt to take apart an Apple phone and you're not an apple technician it will immediately explode and then it will send a Google maps location straight to the nearest Apple store so that they know that you attempted to open your Apple phone and they will refuse to get you a new one because you voided the warranty
@@Bawrabawla no because until I looked up his name I had no clue who that was I know nothing about Apple or products except for it's all very closed and proprietary the reasons why I buy Android
The backlight brightness changing is a setting dank, you can turn it off. It tries to change it according to the brightness of the room, it usually sucks.
Having lived off a Nokia nug for a good two years, my heart was thoroughly warmed to see that first brick. Only really used it for music but you can't escape the jank. The text messaging application can only send messages under 300 KILOBYTES so if you want to send a photo, you can't as the average size ranges from 400kbs to 1 meg. The base storage is 30 megs and once the 32 gig SD card has 3 gigs on it, the speed just tanks. When a song switches over, it takes a good half second to play so blended tracks are soiled. A little while back the charging port broke so I had to buy another and keep that one plugged into the outlet and switch over the batteries when my main was getting low. Needless to say, the iPhone 6 is quite the upgrade.
Kinda wish Dank had mentioned that the old Nokia cost $210 AUS when released and was one of the most expensive phones at the time so comparing build quality is kinda whack. It's like comparing Armani to George by Asda. LOL. Or comparing a 90s supercar to a modern kit car.
The ZTE Flip 2 and 3 are also Android, except without touch. I've got a custom launcher on my Flip 2 for shits n giggles, it's actually pretty capable despite being so low-spec. BT keyboard and mouse, it functions nicely as a head-turner lol
My friend that has a flip phone from a different company has the same games and music. So he put it at full blast in my school and was vibing to it while people were crowding around.
That's exactly what I do. Saved a load of money. I usually buy something between mid-tier and flagship, and always used. I got a Samsung A52S ($500 at the time) for $100. I got a 400% discount because the daughter of the the guy I bought it from wanted an iPhone. I'll take it!!!!
Depends on your country In a lot of countries old flagships are still expensive since no one bought them, so prices soar. Same thing applies with used cars, a car worth $2000 in Europe can easily go for $5-6000 in africa
Random tip: "MicroSD up to 32 GB" most often means it will work with bigger cards up to at least 128 GB and likely even larger, BUT only if you reformat them to FAT32 first. On Windows you need a 3rd party utility like Fat32formatter. It just means that it doesn't support exFAT and you'll just get error messages if you insert an exFAT formatted card.
I love that the first phone you reviewed is my current phone. It's actually really good as a phone and mp3 player, just not anything else. Battery lasts forever, though.
This is why I have kept all my old phones...so I have not only the memories tied to something tangible, but also because they are each a solid representation for the way that the phones of the time were and comparatively how the tech changed in such short spans of time between each. From a flip from 2008 back to a 1g, screenless, telescioping antannae cell phone from roughly 1990. Yaaay.
@@rnaval6000official I wish, some of htem so old they dont work, nor would a company allow me ot use em. Also companies been shutting down their 3g bands, which is dumb because htye left the 2g weaker band operating.
There is literally nothing wrong with getting a used Sony Ericsson at this point. Even the W995, one of their latest flagships, sells new for 160 eurobucks.
I used to have a BLU Grand m2 as my first phone that I shared with my brother. The camera sucked for a phone from 2018, but the performance was ok. The only thing I liked about it was the ringtones. Unfortunately, my parents got rid of it, so I don’t have it anymore. It was a great first phone
@@natfrailadler1995 oh, I see. I just assumed it’d be in display settings, but I couldn’t find it. Putting it in accessibility still seems like Apple’s trying to hide the option to turn it off though.
The screens dimming randomly is a universal android feature name of "Adaptive Brightness" which can be turned off from the pull down menu or settings. I have no idea why it's enabled by default, it's kinda doodoo. But hey at least it isn't some weird defect
Yeah was gonna comment the same thing. I guess he's more used to ios so wouldn't have thought of that feature. Definitely annoying to have on by default I never use it on my phones.
@@jaykstah iOS has it, too. It's called "auto-brightness" and it can be disabled in the Accessibility section. I'm thinking those phones just have poorly positioned ambient light sensors, possibly causing them to pick up light from the screen or something like that. I don't remember my old Android tablets being too spastic, even with adaptive brightness enabled.
It's pretty bad by default, you set a base brightness and it goes up or down a certain amount. Samsung did it right though, you set the brightness a few times and it learns. I haven't had to mess with the brightness on my Note 10+ since the first week I bought it.
@@Spectere the sensor stares into the sky and the screen gets real bright. then you actually look at your phone and now the bright sky is blocked so it suddenly plummets.
@@stevy2 My last Android device was a Samsung tablet, so that probably explains why my screen experience was generally positive. :P As far as USB-C, yeah, Apple needs to rip off the band-aid and just do it. They've completely switched over to USB-C chargers, and they've already taken the leap for their laptops and most of the new iPads, so hopefully that trend continues.
My brother and I both have Galaxy S8s, and they're still going pretty strong (if a little slow due to aging). As a backup in case one of our phones carks it, we got what we call a "Dumb Smart Phone" from JB Hi-Fi. It's basically the kind of phone you'd give to a your kid who needs a phone, but doesn't need all the features of a smart phone, but they can still use WiFi and all that. This thing is SO slow, and it's ridiculously light for a touchscreen phone. It overheats at the slightest inconvenience. This is why it's a backup. We only plan on using it for a week at the most while we wait for phone repairs or replacement.
The Nokia brick smashing the newer Nokia made me laugh harder than it should
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I hated that. Sure, it was not a good phone, but adding to e-waste for laughs rubs me the wrong way every time. People buy and use these Nokias, it's not like 20 year old iPod knockoffs that he keeps smashing.
@@arnox4554 Yeah, I agree. Tbh, I wasn't expecting that either. I just thought it was funny/ironic that the newer phone was less sturdy than the older one.
@@20blog28 Opel in Europe, Vauxhall in Australia/UK/New Zealand(i think), and every Opel car thats on the US market is branded as Chevrolet (GM owns Opel)
@@F2PMegaGod Not true, a few of them are marketed as Buicks (Buick Regal being the Vauxhall/Opel Insignia, Buick Encore being the Vauxhall/Opel Mokka, etc.)
The thing with the brightness changing is a setting of android called like "adaptivity brightness' where it changes based on available light. It actually works ok on the flagships.
Yeah I finally got a nice phone after years of nursing my old LG and the adaptive brightness is sick. I can always see the screen. It reeked on my old phone though I always fiddled with the brightness manually.
Auto brightness I had a Samsung (not a flagship) that would randomly brighten up really bright and then heat up and then dim really low where I couldn’t see the screen anymore. It was god awful.
@@irvin295 My phone (Redmi 8) does something similar where if I'm on max brightness and it heats up too much it just lowers my brightness at the hardware level, while the control center still says maximum brightness
Holdenphone: Costs $49, weighs as much as a solid lump of steel, is suprisingly comfortable to use, and has a button on the side that makes smoke come out the back.
Dank wished apple replaced the lightning conector, and after a while they heard the complaints and completely removed the lightning conector and left absolutely nothing
@@matiasaguilar2500 I like how people online always single out Apple as if all companies aren't pulling the exact same bullshit after mocking Apple for doing it.
This man breaks phones faster than me. I’ve had an 11 pro since Christmas 2019 and while the battery is beyond fucked and the screen has a ton of minor scratches, it’s not broken.
I've had an XR since late 2018/early 2019, and it is working just as good as day 1, i only replaced it recently because the back glass shattered and replacement was cheaper than repair, still a perfectly good phone as a backup. No idea what you did to make your 11 pro so cooked in only 3 years
@@ashtonculp2952 ew, a person that feels as if their irrational hate towards people who just want to do what they enjoy is justified. I’m disappointed a fellow doge has this mindset.
@@ashtonculp2952 When you're so upset over someones hobby that you need to go out of your way to tell someone who probably doesn't care that you dislike their hobby. Y'all need to get a hobby and maybe you would have better things to do :^J
The screen dimming or getting brighter is a setting on android that people generally turn off. It's usually depends on the brightness or darkness of a room.
Damn, if only I had found this video for my grandma before she committed to the flip phone she has now. It’s a solid flip phone, but some of the flip phones in this vid are so much better. Should’ve done online shopping for her tbh, because Walmart, target, Best Buy, every brick-and-mortar retailer DO NOT have flip phones or physical buttons anymore.
The problem with a lot of flip phones is the 3g shutdown and limited band support on 4g for a lot of them. There's lots of good ones but if it doesn't have the particular bands you need for your carrier you're screwed.
a year ago i was in america when your comment was made. i can tell you flip phones were still a thing in wallmart, straight talk wireless burners, work well enough for calls and text. all you need out of a burner.
You getting on UA-cam on that thing reminds me of the time I was bored in a T-Mobile store with my dad. While he was doing whatever, I spotted a flip-phone on display in the corner. I saw it had internet and decided to see if I load UA-cam in it. About one minute later I had a PBG video running at like 5-10 frames per second at a resolution of 360p or something. It was glorious
14:38 long name reads: "Whether We Wanded It Or Not, We've Stepped Into A War With The Cabal" another at the last: "[weird symbol] She was reserved and pretty mean to be honest, I was obnoxious [possibly emoji with incompatible font]"
First one is a quote of Commander Zavala from Destiny, in case you didn't know. It's hilarious to me bcs it's a community-wide known meme at this point 😂
Yeah seem the Aussies get screwed on pricing on a lot of stuff do to the currency values, logogetics, and political reasons that make things cost more there. Speaking of cheap flip phones, I got a KaiOS Cricket Debut Flip for $15 new in the box off eBay as my backup phone, and to play around with, and if you sign up for a new line, or transfer your phone # Cricket Wireless will give you one for free.
That poor Nokia woke up for the first time and was like “Ah, easy life in someone’s glove box 😎” and the last thing it saw was its grandpa winding up to beat it to death.
Hate to be that guy, but it’s actually “its grandpa”
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@@syllvanis_ This is valid. I am usually pretty good at monitoring autocorrect’s erotic fascination with slipping ‘ into everything
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@@agenericaccount3935 It gets annoying when you go back and correct it and then it just does it again
Random Fact: I was actually one of the developers for the iOS version of Gameloft's Siberian Strike back in like 2008/9 I think lol. I actually screamed when I saw it popped up on the video.
What are the odds that you've stumbled across this video
@@tytv6920 well, close to 100% since i've been subscribed for a very long time lol... However I never thought I'd see that game ever again lol
Hey. That's cool. Are you still at gameloft?
Why does the name gameloft sound so familiar to me?
@@ferna182 what was the game about? If you dint mind me asking
My man wanted to find a cheap phone and ended up buying FIVE different phones for a grand total of over 600$
Who tf says goat
@@HD3ternity yeah...mate is pulling 100k a month minimum
aussie buckaroos?
@@abcd124 USD
Total madlad
It makes me weirdly happy to see flip phones still, they are just so cool to me still
They still are still? Still? Or still
@@RealRealist515 i think they're actually still
still?
a little redundant 😂
well with all these clutter from the internet, it is good to see flip phones Or " dumb phones" coming back and making sales again
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> "That touchscreen really makes it work, so much better"
> Opens camera app
> Crashes instantly
@@riponrip4574 but the battery, its gonna be utter dogshit
@@Mez352 that’s fine because it runs everything smoothly and he said all he does on a work phone is either call or text
@@riponrip4574 everything else was better. iphone is stuck with iOS so it's shit.
@@marceelino ios is fine wym
@@Mez352 i use an iphone 6 and yeah the battery is dogshit lol
Ah yes, burner phones; for when you want to conduct "business".
The thing is im sure you can get smartphones for way less than 124$
Well it is Australia..
@@СимонЦанков You can but don't expect it to work like a new Iphone. I currently use a LG Stylus4+ that cost me new $120 (US) and I was complaining because I usually buy my phones at $80. It's a little slow.
@@joshroehl6098 cant wait for another banger
/hj
@@СимонЦанков that dumb Nokia phone that looked like shit costs 10€ in my country. For 129 Australian, thats like 80€, you can always get some brand new low spec xiaomi or realme smartphones that aren't even that bad. I have a secondary phone that i use for work and its a xiaomi redmi note 10 pro, oled screen 120hz, 120mpx main camera, 5020mah battery, nice device overall and it costed me 200€.
When this man crushed the modern Nokia with the Og Nokia brick I lost it.
Not only that on top of his IPad. Lol
I bought the first phone as a travel phone. It ain’t bad for that purpose.
The thing I like most about it is the FM radio functionality. I can take with me to Italy and be able to listen to the radio without buying a set once I arrive.
You forgot the best part about flip phones: Slamming them shut at the end of a call.
You forgot.
"With style".
That’s the problem with smartphones
Angrily tapping the end call button just isn’t the same
Or breaking them in half after an illegal transaction, except the actual phone part would still be intact.
Flicking your wrist to close them
Surely it's flipping it open and saying, "Scotty, beam me up."
man, watching as the patreon list go faster and longer puts a smile to my face
A comma after man, A COMMA AFTER MAN
I need 1$
I know something else that goes faster and longer that puts a smile on my face
a selfie stick
Omg what joke
@@OmarShtaiwi_ soz lemee fix
i cant believe we’re moving from dirtypods to dirtyphones
we’re evolving y’all
@yeah shut up
You have forgotten the dirtyheadphones
In the future well be seeing dirtycomps
dirtypeakers
Well i also can't believe that i also have old phones for am video
This is probably one of my favorite videos from Dankpods. I love it cuz I want a manky work phone. So this honestly helps. Been mostly looking at Nokias lol. Some Apples too, but mostly old. Like OG old.
Like IPhone 4 old?
@@LGK10mybelovedthey said OG. how is the 4 og
"It's 3 months old. And it's dead." What a rough sentence to be taken out of context.
- every no vaxxer parent ever
@@pascalsimioli6777 I have turned a anti vaxxer after my second covid shot, Biontech needs to improve
@@BauhauF that ain't an anti vaxxer, that's just a consumer with criticism. An anti vaxxer is low key insane.
@@sivvinod3187 true, I was kinda dead yesterday but the vaccine needs some work done
Same thing I could say to that child on the street that I committed late abortion to
We gotta get this man on Cold Ones. There would be so much Aussie energy.
Bloody oath
Deez
yes just yes
Lol
YES
i love how he tested the durability of the first phone by smashing the Nokia brick against it instead of 1 Grit. looks like ol' Gritty Boy has some competition
who drew your profile picture
@@suspiciouslyBee I'm low-key curious too
Nokia brick will always reign supreme. Sorry, but 1 Grit can't reach that level.
The 1 grit was looking at the nokia with fear
It was so funny
When my phone broke I bought a 40 dollar track phone that is touch screen and its surprisingly good lol
Tracfone is awesome
My dad had a Motorola Razr believe it or not
It was hilarious
"Finally a phone to share the same pockets as my keys"
Well, I wouldn't do that, it's a Nokia, so you probably should protect your keys
And your leg.
@@skyolo4923 Nah, that's only a 2720 flip. Now the 3310 on the other hand...
No-“key”a
The phone could scratch his keys.
@@IsM1ku Weapons too brutal for war. #10: A Nokia 3310 taped to a stick.
Oh no, he’s realized that we love basically anything he makes on any topic! Variety videos incoming!!!!
But there needs to have 'Frank' and microphone test "funny stories". Okay??
Am I the only one that noticed the elderly phone has a SOS function and a legit dedicated red button on the back? Is the SOS function a normal thing in Australia?
I’ve seen that on American phones. It is handy but doesn’t do anything proprietary.
It simply calls a set of contacts and 911
yeah but the touchscreen is the bong in it and also camera beats the others by a mile
as an aussie, no. its just because its, as you said, for elderly people.
I would be afraid of bumping the button in my pocket and having emergency services turn up
no just cause it's for elderly
Me: Buys a Car
Me: 'This car is great, but I think I need a new phone too'
Opel: You're Not gonna believe this.
Which leads us to the billion dollar question: how the heck isn't the Opel branded as Holden?
Imagine Holden Special Vlipvone.
@@Zestyclose-Big3127 makes sense too. A flip phone with a touch screen. It's basically an ute
Technically it'd be a Stellantis nowadays... sounds more like a phone brand anyway
Maybe you can get it from Vauxhall or buick in the uk or the us
I literally live like 20 km away from Opels first factory
Imagine being able to replace your own screen…
Apple: Next joke
You can. But you’ll lost True Tone and get bombarded with notifications of a non genuine screen
one of many reasons i avoid apple, they will rip and tear your wallet
i was wondering why he didn't just do it himself... then i remembered lol. fuck apple's new phones
Imagine just getting a decent case so you don’t have too
@@John-Doe-Yo Imagine a phone case preventing his screen from randomly turning black
He almost created a singularity by hitting two Nokias together. Thank god one of them broke.
Almost got out of hand
@@delarosapaulo7236 Almost went south
i remember getting my first samsung galaxy mini for 115 euro back in the day, man that thing took a lot of falls
Hey Dank, the reason the smartphone might keep dimming and brightening is because of something called adaptive brightness. Depending on where the front camera is, whether in the dark or by bright light, the display adapts to it regardless of what you set it to. You can turn it off in the settings I believe.
I think that's why when he said that he put his finger over the sensors but it didn't change toe brightness when he did so
Came to the comments to say this lol
@@nooneinpart I wonder if rooting or installing a custom rom would enable a setting for it?
Exactly, the phone i bought did that, changed it.
Yeah I had the same issue. Just turned it off in setting.
"Things that were made to be good have every chance of staying good. Built cheap = always cheap."
My man mr.pods here dropping out truth bombs. This is gonna be my go to principle for buying used now.
You're right a phone should prolly cost more than 100 dollars however ur drinking the coolaid if you think 1000 dollars is reasonable or you're getting bang for your buck Poco has been killing it with 300 dollar flagship killers for a while.
I had the Poco F1 which was probably a once in a lifetime value with it being 300 dollars and the iPhone being 1000 and it having every single feature as an iPhone X and was as fast as the top android at the time now I have a Poco X3 which isn't as killer of a deal with it being 50 dollars more and it's not an 888 chip its only and 870. But heck it still has a headphone jack!!!
Yep
Especially stuff from the 1950s-80s
Nothing will beat my anodized steel frame on my note 9
Th trouble is when companies lie about quality to inflate prices because of decreased regulation they paid for behind the scenes. At least there's still some honest reviewers out there.
DankPods: "What phone should I take?"
I was like: "Nokia Flip, obviously!"
And I was right, I miss flip phones (mine is still in the drawer somewhere...)
I'm very much waiting for the day that either phones like the new moto razr or Samsung z flip become affordable to us normal folk. No way in hell can I spend that much money for a phone but man do I really like the concept of them.
At the same time I wish the Asian smart flip phones in Japan and whatnot had the right wireless bands to be used more internationally because they seem pretty cool too.
@@NiSE_Rafter Z Flip 3 is pretty affordable now, costs the same as any other flagship.
I have a razr v3 laying around somewhere. Coolest flip-phone ever.
I'm getting the Z flip3 soon :D itll be nice to relive the flip phone days
@@hailstorm7868 yea!
Now I almost want a beefed up flip phone. None of that bendy glass business, no. Just a button flip phone with a touch screen that goes out to the edges, and decent power and memory. Maybe even a dedicated scroll wheel/touchpad.
That would be sweet.
I had my friend over, we got in the hottub, he accidentally dropped his phone in it, so we went to walmart to get a phone, we fooled around there for awhile and found a phone for 10$. I thought there was no way it would actually be legit. But my friend just went ahead and bought it, we were laughing the whole time. When we got out of the store , he ripped the phone out and it actually didnt work too bad. We had such a good laugh.
2 bros sitting in a hot tub 5 feet apart cause their not gay
that's amazing, and hilarious!
_two bros chillin in a hot tub_
@@lvbboi9 anything can happen 😏😏😏
@@lvbboi9 5 feet apart cause they're not gay
"Hard of vision" is absolutely hilarious to me as someone who's partially sighted. Also, with the shifting brightness there's usually like an auto brightness setting
or adaptive brightness or something like that
Older Android versions (or cheaper phones) didn't have that feature. It was either always on adaptive brightness or always off.
@@poeskey Couldn't remember what it was called, so thanks
Yeah i always turn those off because it's annoying
@@RustyRenesis I didn't know that. Thanks
I like how he bought 5 phones just to keep one
Starting to see new scuffs on the new iPad case, soon it’s going to look like the old one.
The old one feels more natural for a reason
Its just patina. Gives it character.
Yeah, soon our "new iPad case" anxiety will go away!
@yeah Game over yourself at the earliest convenience
@yeah stop
Dank: "My phone broke. Gotta need a backup."
Dank: **gets **-six-** five backup phones**
For someone who hates dankpods, you sure are watching him a lot on various devices
Yeah… and, notice that we never see him and dankpods in the same video together
@Dont Check My About Page Link ok I won’t
@Paradise ok I won’t
@Paradise ok I won’t
@Earn Money Online ok I won't
2 years ago my phone was an iPhone 5, and having it in my pocket bent the frame of the screen out of the metal frame. Now my phone is an iPhone 6S Plus, and it’s still pretty good
hey Dank! i’m sure i’m buried at this point but I would love to see a video where you use the shit burner flip phones as music players. you’d be surprised how few videos talk about that. surely they must rival some of the more obscure nuggets out there.
A takodachi here? With nuggets? Rejoice!
@@MrAsh1100 Takodachi's are cultured alright
I actually use an old galaxy mini 2 that a friend of mine gave me as my sports-music player. Light, small and the battery lasts weeks! Very nice considering its age, and it has bluetooth, which makes it many times better than something like an old iPod!
This shan't be buried
@@RaoulB. try iPod nano 7 gen with Bluetooth
The Iphone screen might not be broken. As far as I know the screen is connected via a flat cable with a flimsy connector. This connector can loosen itself for example if the phone was dropped or shaken. It might be possible to reconnect the cable, but not at an Apple store because they will just try to sell you a new one.
I mean, there's still warranty so why not. Even if its as simple as a loose connector, I'll still bring to a first party store rather then voiding my warranty
yeah, I try to get things repaired at apple while they are under warranty but they are so frigging slow to repair... it is faster to just trade for a refurb. Such an inefficient use of recourses. God I wish they would stop fighting 3rd party repair industry and let them be good.
Don't you know if you attempt to take apart an Apple phone and you're not an apple technician it will immediately explode and then it will send a Google maps location straight to the nearest Apple store so that they know that you attempted to open your Apple phone and they will refuse to get you a new one because you voided the warranty
@@zen4realfightman426 Tim Apple told you about his dreams didn’t he
@@Bawrabawla no because until I looked up his name I had no clue who that was I know nothing about Apple or products except for it's all very closed and proprietary the reasons why I buy Android
The backlight brightness changing is a setting dank, you can turn it off.
It tries to change it according to the brightness of the room, it usually sucks.
He's an iPhone user through and through. Although I'm pretty sure ios has that option. I don't know who likes auto brightness lol
auto brightness sucks because the light sensor is always covered by our hands lel
@@g6a0912 Exactly.
@@g6a0912 In this case, it has more to do with his shitty lighting setup, and the phone looking straight into it.
@McFlickers my hands always cover the sensor on my phone, so the brightness will always spike randomly
8:27 D-A-N-K-P-Oo-D-EEEeeeeesssss
Having lived off a Nokia nug for a good two years, my heart was thoroughly warmed to see that first brick. Only really used it for music but you can't escape the jank. The text messaging application can only send messages under 300 KILOBYTES so if you want to send a photo, you can't as the average size ranges from 400kbs to 1 meg. The base storage is 30 megs and once the 32 gig SD card has 3 gigs on it, the speed just tanks. When a song switches over, it takes a good half second to play so blended tracks are soiled. A little while back the charging port broke so I had to buy another and keep that one plugged into the outlet and switch over the batteries when my main was getting low. Needless to say, the iPhone 6 is quite the upgrade.
Damn, this explains why you shouldnt use a cheap phone as your main phone
Does the music sound good on it?
Kinda wish Dank had mentioned that the old Nokia cost $210 AUS when released and was one of the most expensive phones at the time so comparing build quality is kinda whack. It's like comparing Armani to George by Asda. LOL. Or comparing a 90s supercar to a modern kit car.
That might’ve been an MMS limitation. It’s a really old and janky protocol
@@CODMarioWarfare Yup it was s limitation of the technology because it sent the texts through phone lines.
Man, that Opel one was literally just Android on a small screen with a T9 keyboard, way overkill lol
How else would you make a cheap modern flip phone? Make a new os? With their budget?
The ZTE Flip 2 and 3 are also Android, except without touch.
I've got a custom launcher on my Flip 2 for shits n giggles, it's actually pretty capable despite being so low-spec.
BT keyboard and mouse, it functions nicely as a head-turner lol
@@trashtrash2169 there exists a relatively new OS made for these kind of "dumb phones", called KaiOS, so there's an option
@@vlco_o the nokia 2720 runs it
@@trashtrash2169 you could use KaiOS like the Nokia did
"I don't know how I'm going to mount it into my rig."
Zip ties and duct tape.
If it doesn't get the job done, you're just not using enough
Bailing wire!
@Natasha
Thots and prayers. 😆
My friend that has a flip phone from a different company has the same games and music. So he put it at full blast in my school and was vibing to it while people were crowding around.
It's always seemed to be the case where buying an older top of the line smartphone is just better budget wise than a brand new budget smartphone lol
That's exactly what I do. Saved a load of money. I usually buy something between mid-tier and flagship, and always used. I got a Samsung A52S ($500 at the time) for $100. I got a 400% discount because the daughter of the the guy I bought it from wanted an iPhone. I'll take it!!!!
Depends on your country
In a lot of countries old flagships are still expensive since no one bought them, so prices soar.
Same thing applies with used cars, a car worth $2000 in Europe can easily go for $5-6000 in africa
Plus it's better for the environment! Always buy used as long as it's a good referb
Random tip: "MicroSD up to 32 GB" most often means it will work with bigger cards up to at least 128 GB and likely even larger, BUT only if you reformat them to FAT32 first. On Windows you need a 3rd party utility like Fat32formatter. It just means that it doesn't support exFAT and you'll just get error messages if you insert an exFAT formatted card.
Thank you for sharing; that's brilliant.
I think you're preaching to the choir on this one. My man built a 4tb iPod classic
@@o0Avalon0o all my ( very ) old nokia can handle an 128gb card. But you must format in the phone ... Nokia E51 / Nokia N8 and other.
That's a big but
your FAT
"Why did that make that two words, I'm an idiot." - The man that runs the channel.
I love that the first phone you reviewed is my current phone. It's actually really good as a phone and mp3 player, just not anything else. Battery lasts forever, though.
Same
0:13
As a trombone player, that single note made me feel the player's entire mood.
When it went WHOOOMP!
I felt that.
Yes i 100% agree
Lol
I like that you started with iPods and now you’re basically Australian Ashens (except cooler because Ashens doesn’t have a snake)
nor does he play the drums
Yeah, but Ashens has a PhD in psychology, so I'd say it balances out.
and ashens is obnoxious
He actually made an Ashens reference in one of his videos
@@MenkoDanybut if Ashens and you would compete to see who's the most obnoxious, you'd win solely by being there!!
This is why I have kept all my old phones...so I have not only the memories tied to something tangible, but also because they are each a solid representation for the way that the phones of the time were and comparatively how the tech changed in such short spans of time between each. From a flip from 2008 back to a 1g, screenless, telescioping antannae cell phone from roughly 1990. Yaaay.
I keep my old ones as backups, id just need to buy a cheap sim now that I have e sim
you can also use old phones as backups just in case you break your phone
@@rnaval6000official I wish, some of htem so old they dont work, nor would a company allow me ot use em. Also companies been shutting down their 3g bands, which is dumb because htye left the 2g weaker band operating.
There is literally nothing wrong with getting a used Sony Ericsson at this point. Even the W995, one of their latest flagships, sells new for 160 eurobucks.
I used to have a BLU Grand m2 as my first phone that I shared with my brother. The camera sucked for a phone from 2018, but the performance was ok. The only thing I liked about it was the ringtones. Unfortunately, my parents got rid of it, so I don’t have it anymore. It was a great first phone
I wonder how his metrics look for this video. I just wonder how many people dropped out 4:17 because he said don't watch that channel
The screen brightness changing automatically is an android feature, it's just on by default for some reason.
…and iphone.
Except with iPhone, you can’t turn it off. It doesn’t bother me though, as it’s actually good.
@@insert_username_here it's also good on android phones that have a properly placed sensor
@@natfrailadler1995 oh, I see. I just assumed it’d be in display settings, but I couldn’t find it. Putting it in accessibility still seems like Apple’s trying to hide the option to turn it off though.
@@trevor245 Yep! On my LG v60 it's fantastic. Pretty much always at an appropriate brightness for the setting. Easy to read, but low on eye strain.
The screens dimming randomly is a universal android feature name of "Adaptive Brightness" which can be turned off from the pull down menu or settings. I have no idea why it's enabled by default, it's kinda doodoo. But hey at least it isn't some weird defect
Yeah was gonna comment the same thing. I guess he's more used to ios so wouldn't have thought of that feature. Definitely annoying to have on by default I never use it on my phones.
@@jaykstah iOS has it, too. It's called "auto-brightness" and it can be disabled in the Accessibility section.
I'm thinking those phones just have poorly positioned ambient light sensors, possibly causing them to pick up light from the screen or something like that. I don't remember my old Android tablets being too spastic, even with adaptive brightness enabled.
It's pretty bad by default, you set a base brightness and it goes up or down a certain amount. Samsung did it right though, you set the brightness a few times and it learns. I haven't had to mess with the brightness on my Note 10+ since the first week I bought it.
@@Spectere the sensor stares into the sky and the screen gets real bright. then you actually look at your phone and now the bright sky is blocked so it suddenly plummets.
@@stevy2 My last Android device was a Samsung tablet, so that probably explains why my screen experience was generally positive. :P
As far as USB-C, yeah, Apple needs to rip off the band-aid and just do it. They've completely switched over to USB-C chargers, and they've already taken the leap for their laptops and most of the new iPads, so hopefully that trend continues.
Kid: Can we have Temple Run?
Mom: No, we have Temple Run at home
Temple run at home: 5:56
@@joshroehl6098 wtf is this weak shit, smh damn zoomers
besides asphalt 8 and below its horrible. A9 has freaking AUTODRIVE on a racing game
My brother and I both have Galaxy S8s, and they're still going pretty strong (if a little slow due to aging). As a backup in case one of our phones carks it, we got what we call a "Dumb Smart Phone" from JB Hi-Fi. It's basically the kind of phone you'd give to a your kid who needs a phone, but doesn't need all the features of a smart phone, but they can still use WiFi and all that.
This thing is SO slow, and it's ridiculously light for a touchscreen phone. It overheats at the slightest inconvenience. This is why it's a backup. We only plan on using it for a week at the most while we wait for phone repairs or replacement.
So much Frank this episode, therefore, one of the best episodes
frank's pronouns are sssssshe/her
The Nokia brick smashing the newer Nokia made me laugh harder than it should
I hated that. Sure, it was not a good phone, but adding to e-waste for laughs rubs me the wrong way every time. People buy and use these Nokias, it's not like 20 year old iPod knockoffs that he keeps smashing.
@ In fairness, I don't think he expected the screen to give out that easily.
@@arnox4554 Yeah, I agree. Tbh, I wasn't expecting that either. I just thought it was funny/ironic that the newer phone was less sturdy than the older one.
Fun fact: Opel is a car manufacturer AND a local business that fixes things lol
1. All of those 3 Opels are different companies
2. I think that Opel is called Vauxhall in Australia and some other countries
@@20blog28ye it’s vauxhall in the uk too but opel in mainline europe
@@20blog28 Opel in Europe, Vauxhall in Australia/UK/New Zealand(i think), and every Opel car thats on the US market is branded as Chevrolet (GM owns Opel)
@@F2PMegaGod Not true, a few of them are marketed as Buicks (Buick Regal being the Vauxhall/Opel Insignia, Buick Encore being the Vauxhall/Opel Mokka, etc.)
@@_thorkon tell 'em, Thorkon!
“A fantastic phone for elderly or real young kids” I’ll let my elderly kids know, thanks
Underrated
he had an ipad infront of him
issue resolved
@Dovenets heremiah clerksan, live host of the gear and tour de grand
*yesnt*
@@B14z3rather I'm not really sure what that's supposed to solve
Yeah IPhone 12’s do that. It’s caused by the earpiece.
Just as good as always dank you never fail to make me laugh
@yeah no.
@yeah no thanks
Yup
Thing is you talk about the shitest things but make it so unbelievably funny and enjoyable
@@solomon6286 agreed that's the thing that makes it funny
"Imagine buying one phone when you can split the cost and buy 6"
- probably Dank's logic
Hay, you gotta spend money to make money.
Heho my number
Yeah this way he gets a return on investment from the video.
He could've bought another iPhone 12
@@ayaanjamil2248 it's US$700
The thing with the brightness changing is a setting of android called like "adaptivity brightness' where it changes based on available light. It actually works ok on the flagships.
Yeah I finally got a nice phone after years of nursing my old LG and the adaptive brightness is sick. I can always see the screen. It reeked on my old phone though I always fiddled with the brightness manually.
the issue is that it uses a single sensor that often is covered depending on how you hold it. I tend to disable it
Auto brightness I had a Samsung (not a flagship) that would randomly brighten up really bright and then heat up and then dim really low where I couldn’t see the screen anymore. It was god awful.
@@irvin295 My phone (Redmi 8) does something similar where if I'm on max brightness and it heats up too much it just lowers my brightness at the hardware level, while the control center still says maximum brightness
It's been great for me on the lower-mid range phones I've had too (2017 Nokia 6 and Nokia 5.4)
"i had to take it to apple, it's cooked." Louis rossman voice: now we'll just bend the pin on that flex cable back...
"I have to take it to apple"
*Louis rossmann hated that*
It was in warranty so doesn’t matter
*All doctors hated that*
Phone Repair Guru didn't like that.
@@shadowthefurryscientist respect for the windows xp pfp
To Rossman taking it to Apple is like taking your phone to Hitler. And Rossman is correct. Poor Hitler, being stuck with that shit.
I love that one of your patrons is named “Hurr Durr Six Hungo’s Made By Ol’ Mate Sennie”
And "DankpodsIsHung"
"a dingus nugget" and "beanie boi"
DankPods: Look, a terrible channel!
Me: *I snap my fingers* That's where you're wrong, kiddo!
It’s a great channel. Yeah, buddy!
10:55 Frank: please help me he took my teeth off and kindnaped me.
"You can just slam dunk it in there"
**Thats the move that made Lebron Cry**
Oh look a LeBron fan because fans always bring them up
@@blakew595 it’s a meme dingus
@@blakew595 i only know the meme,i have zero clue who LeBron is-
Yee, Dank finally touched the button phone category. My day is made.
nice for ya mate have a good time!
Well if especially when there's an company thats called opel which is an car company
"I believe this is just a skin of android"
*Developers of KaiOS crying in the background*
lmao best comment
they're not crying, it is just android, the nokia nugget he actually chose DOES run KaiOS though, so they're probably cheering
Nope, actually Android on the Opel nugget.
🤣🤣😏
The one he said that about probably really was Android, or at least appeared to be styled after it. The others were definitely KaiOS though
6:23 Your wish came true! After... uh... 9 years... But still!
When you a European guy
"Wait Opel makes phones but it's aussie so why they didn't call it Holden"
I was thinking the same thing 😂
Does that mean a Vauxhall version exists too?
Holdenphone:
Costs $49, weighs as much as a solid lump of steel, is suprisingly comfortable to use, and has a button on the side that makes smoke come out the back.
Because it would embarrass the other opels
@@efftee ohhhhh i wasn't thinking about that
There was something about you calling that flip phone an idiot that had me screeching like an idiot myself.
6:41 just give wade his crazy eggs 😭
3:08 The 1 Grit faces its rival, their battle will be legendary.
That's his younger brother, 0.1 Grit
Dank wished apple replaced the lightning conector, and after a while they heard the complaints and completely removed the lightning conector and left absolutely nothing
Wireless only!
"Why you need connectors bro? It's 2021 bro. Are you like poor bro?"
@@arnox4554 apple dummies
@@joshroehl6098 stop spamming this link on this videos comments you bot
@@matiasaguilar2500 I like how people online always single out Apple as if all companies aren't pulling the exact same bullshit after mocking Apple for doing it.
This man breaks phones faster than me. I’ve had an 11 pro since Christmas 2019 and while the battery is beyond fucked and the screen has a ton of minor scratches, it’s not broken.
A phone like that should last wayyy longer than 2 yrs
I've had an XR since late 2018/early 2019, and it is working just as good as day 1, i only replaced it recently because the back glass shattered and replacement was cheaper than repair, still a perfectly good phone as a backup. No idea what you did to make your 11 pro so cooked in only 3 years
How tf u managed to fuk up a phone that quick
"it's not broken", just like your spirit sir... ))
Oh don't worry. I bought my current phone February of this year... Battery is screwed and tons of scratches
11:57 bootleg Halloween theme
I love how the opel crossbred phone is actually crossbred between three phones, HTC, Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Huawei P30 (the wallpaper)
Ew a furry
@@ashtonculp2952 ew, a person that feels as if their irrational hate towards people who just want to do what they enjoy is justified. I’m disappointed a fellow doge has this mindset.
@@insert_username_here
>disappointed a fellow doge hates furries
Welcome to the internet, now get out
@@ashtonculp2952 When you're so upset over someones hobby that you need to go out of your way to tell someone who probably doesn't care that you dislike their hobby.
Y'all need to get a hobby and maybe you would have better things to do :^J
1:57
Nokia really said: 🐉🐲🍣🍥⛩🈲🈹
The screen dimming or getting brighter is a setting on android that people generally turn off. It's usually depends on the brightness or darkness of a room.
@@QuarTheDev man fuck ios
@@QuarTheDev I swear you used to be able to on the older iPhones, I wonder why they removed that option.
@@QuarTheDev what:DDD
@@QuarTheDev yeah you can turn it off it in iOS it’s in the accessibility settings
Thanks, I didn’t know you can do that.
The documentation of Frank in his natural habitat is very important for the future generations development
Damn, if only I had found this video for my grandma before she committed to the flip phone she has now. It’s a solid flip phone, but some of the flip phones in this vid are so much better. Should’ve done online shopping for her tbh, because Walmart, target, Best Buy, every brick-and-mortar retailer DO NOT have flip phones or physical buttons anymore.
The problem with a lot of flip phones is the 3g shutdown and limited band support on 4g for a lot of them. There's lots of good ones but if it doesn't have the particular bands you need for your carrier you're screwed.
a year ago i was in america when your comment was made. i can tell you flip phones were still a thing in wallmart, straight talk wireless burners, work well enough for calls and text. all you need out of a burner.
my brain thought you were gonna say she committed...something else and i gasped
2:27 these new mars landing recordings are amazing! We get to see so much!
Hahahahaha I was going to say at the end “or you could just get an iPhone 6 for the same money” and he did lol
Which somehow still lost to the competition 😂😂
@@didip1000 Yep
That is, if you want the same old shitty system and is afraid of Android
@@ceejayszee I don’t even have the energy to argue with you right now that’s not what I was trying to say with this comment
Galaxy s9 is in the same $150 price bracket
Brightness, turning up and down is the Smart brightness control he does it, so it doesn’t harm your eyes
You getting on UA-cam on that thing reminds me of the time I was bored in a T-Mobile store with my dad. While he was doing whatever, I spotted a flip-phone on display in the corner. I saw it had internet and decided to see if I load UA-cam in it. About one minute later I had a PBG video running at like 5-10 frames per second at a resolution of 360p or something. It was glorious
Your pfp is also glorious lmao
I remember listening to the music with one of them
Vinesauce shenanigans detected
6:59 *K R R A Z Y H A M B U G E R*
the whole backlight shenanigans is probably because phones like that tend to have adaptive brightness
“Or maybe pay too much for an out of date phone.”-dankpods first cashies video
7:14 hey that’s the type of vid quality you see in spooky vids!
5:48 is probably the cutest DankPods laugh I've ever heard
Great video as always! My favorite part is when he got to crazy eggs. Especially when he went all like "Woah. WOOOAH! AH! AH! Augh! CRAZY!"
That Opel don't look like an Astra or even a Corsa to me
More like a Insignia, if GM produced them in 2005 😝
14:38 long name reads: "Whether We Wanded It Or Not, We've Stepped Into A War With The Cabal"
another at the last: "[weird symbol] She was reserved and pretty mean to be honest, I was obnoxious [possibly emoji with incompatible font]"
First one is a quote of Commander Zavala from Destiny, in case you didn't know. It's hilarious to me bcs it's a community-wide known meme at this point 😂
Fun fact: "Opel" is the original German name for the car manufacturer known as "Vauxhall" in some countries
Or for Ozzies: also known as Holden. Couple of models were just rebadged Vauxhalls
One of My favourite cars is a opel/vauxhall/holden vectra
@@nathan4114 who asked lol
This is a comment section where you can put comments not just replying to someone’s question :/
Isn't "Buick" also an Opel variant?
funny enough, if anyone uses Yahoo as a news aggregator, the word dumbphone gets rejected as offensive LOL
When he says that these buttons are for the elderly - then adds that he likes it ...
you know how to charm us Americans for sure. you talk at like tv show levels of quality if that makes sense.
He's an energetic people person, they always are good at pleasing everyone.
@@FATMAN162x it's always delightful to hear such people come up with creative jokes
@@felixbrb you’re not wrong lol tho he uses his creativity to make music
if you're australian he is fucking unbearable to listen to
Man they really rip you off in Australia. Those flip phones are like $20-30 over here at Walmart.
Yeah seem the Aussies get screwed on pricing on a lot of stuff do to the currency values, logogetics, and political reasons that make things cost more there. Speaking of cheap flip phones, I got a KaiOS Cricket Debut Flip for $15 new in the box off eBay as my backup phone, and to play around with, and if you sign up for a new line, or transfer your phone # Cricket Wireless will give you one for free.
Was thinking that, these things are like 80€ max here in Germany
Minimum wage is like $22/hr, cost of living is pretty much the same as other western countries taking income into consideration
Hes also buying off of a rip off website which adds another $50 for nothing
@@randomdude4669 I thought he said he went to the store, and picked them up?