I miss the ir blaster to control my tv and and other media devices with my s5 I never bothered looking for my tv remote I sat down and used my phone life was simple then.
And if I recall correctly, we were using that phone, when we switched to iPhones. I was the C crew supervisor and our company phones were Blackberry at first. And that model was the last one our company issued, before switching to the iPhone. The iPhone was definitely quicker and smoother, but I missed that Blackberry... 😂 But switching to the iPhone got me started on swipe to text, which I use to this day. And switching from that Blackberry is what got me started in my UA-cam channel so long ago. Sorry for the long comment.
Soon enough. The EU thingy has mandated smartphones manufacturers to make removable battery a thing again by.. i dont remember the the date. It'll be removable & water resistant. Coldfusion (channel UA-cam) has made a video about it. Its also why iphone finally uses a usb-c for standardization. Sorry for my bad english
The lsingle largest factor why they do not… NSA would not be happy. The only single way to entirely disconnect any smartphone is to remove the battery. No joke - the NSA plays a type of game with phone manufacturers. They will offer any phone manufacturer that sells devices in america; either a type of money payment or also a type of greatly reduced tax rate. If those two items don’t work, they’ll find a way to get the device effectively excluded from american sales. Btw, the NSA actually has Apple iPhone 16 devices for a majority of their employees. They have reduced functionality for apps and functions (and even electronically block scan and photo functions on property). But they also have hardware features, such as a dedicated off feature that is a type of battery disconnect.
Sorry this might be a rant, and not to be too contrarian, but LG Wing's demise is not a flaw of the T-shape design, rather the flaw with the smartphone industry mindset. The ability to hold a phone so that Content is available in LANDSCAPE while simultaneously having an infinitely customizable INPUT SECTION (bottom squarish screen) meant you could do on this phone you couldn't do on any other phone. Were there an enthusiastic push on software side to maximize the utility of its unique form factor, that phone could've single-handedly saved LG's phone division, at the very least, for a few more years. But when you had giant social media apps which were reluctant on using Camera API on Android side for years until the controversy got traction, you already know the app developers won't give 2 flying fracks about a single phone, regardless of how revolutionary it could've been. Look at S-Pen versus Apple Pencil. Despite being years ahead, the S-Pen community is still crawling, while Apple Pencil already have become gold standard for digital artists in the industry.
Some features just never got hyped up like the HTC superior navigating and location services with a modem that could combine 2 3G streams in parallel if the cells would allow. Going back further, the Nokia 6110 Navigator was also ahead of time with a MP3 player so easy to use.
Nice compilation! Anomaly: 3.5mm never failed, but removed nonetheless. It's however good to see some newer devices revive it for a very specific purpose: Music.
It's sad that nowadays everything is the same every year, sure some phones had gimmicky features but it was always fun to see them and maybe some people did actually use those features.
Iris scanning on Samsung phones was released way before it was ready for the market, it was more or less a half-baked implementation when it was released. It would've worked better now since front facing and IR cameras have high enough resolution to work at appropriate viewing distance from users.
Had an LG Wing. Loved it till I got fed up repairing it. Before that, a ZTE Axon M. A two screen phone before two screen phones were cool. And before before that, a Microsoft Lumia 950 XL. A phone that had iris scanning before Samsung did.
I remembered one other interesting tech phone, the projectors, while the Moto Z series had a external projector, for example: -Galaxy Beam -Blackview Max 1 Those had internal projectors, and they were amazing phones, sad that it was hard to do them. And overshadowed by screen mirroning, samsung DeX etc...
06:11 - There's been a couple of DECENT slide out keyboard phones I've owned, 1 - (Landscape) Nokia E7 and, 2 - (Portrate) Blackberry Torch 9810, I loved using both, typing was quick, accurate and efficient and apart from the newish Planet Computers 'Astro Slide/Astro Slide 5G' (a Nokia E7 looking thing) I WISH more manufacturers WOULD make more physical QWERTY keyboard phones, after all, ONE of the TOP THREE uses of phones nowadays IS STILL texting/instant messaging/Email ! 😏 😎🇬🇧
The LG "Wing" allowed you to run any app on either screen. It was very practical. Back when I used the Wing I would often run netflix on the larger screen and a social media app (facebook/discord) on the smaller display. It was convenient being able to watch a literal movie/tv show and be able to message people at the same time. Also the camera on the Wing was amazing, I enjoyed it quite a lot!
Blackberry Privs are hands down the most Handsome phone ever created. Curved screen, sliding keyboard, carbon fiber back, and the proportion is just perfect.
This kind of made the galaxy s22 ultra the most definitive modern samsung for me It's a pain to repair and makes things more expensive, but it's also a feature that I really knew them for specifically
The Blackberry Priv's keyboard is still my favorite hardware feature to have ever used. Having the whole screen available when typing was great, and the keyboard was excellently designed and great to type on. Working as a trackpad for scrolling and a quick launcher were nice features too, but as you mentioned in the video the chip was suboptimal and prone to overheating, and I still don't understand why the camera was looking through plastic. I waited for so long hoping they would make a Priv 2 with TCL, but it never happened.
Pop up cameras were such an amazing thing, I am currently writing from my Xiaomi Mi9t Pro. It's still a good phone and had only a battery replacement due to its age. The full display with no camera hole was one of the main reasons I bought it back in 2019, also it was considerably cheaper compared to other phones with the same Snapdragon 855, mine was only 380 euros at the time of purchase for the 6/128 version
I'll never forget that blackberry with the sliding keyboard. My boss had one and I was close to getting one too until they announced they were stopping support for it a couple of months after the launch. I've never been so "sad" for a piece of tech, I really think they're was something they're. It was not even that thick, it just lacked the software support. Someone really needs to come and disrupt the smartphone market and make them like PC, or at least Google should make the manufacturers open source their drivers after support has ended so they can be incorporated into AOSP.
I used to use a Windows phone, the 1020, with a 41 MP camera sensor. It came with a camera grip/extended battery. The camera grip made one end of the phone extra chunky so it could be held comfortably and confidently in the right hand. It had a dedicated shutter button and also had a small capacity extended battery built in.
The Samsung with the strange charger... I believe the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-N1 phones (with barcode reader) had that charger cable/port, too (on the side).
Motorola with moto mods was a really cool take on adding modularity and capabilities to phones, the LG wing was sci-fi awesome, but then not all fantastic ideas catch on.
Sometimes i feel like you don't even do research at all. The USB 3.0 was also in the Note 3. And the iphone 5s also had a heart rate sensor in some models
Another now-dead weird form factor: the Asus PadFone, which docked your phone into a tablet. And as you mentioned with the Moto X modules, phones with projectors built in were attempted in the early days too.
If Lg v wiing is gimmick than I should say you dont know much about Smartphone productivity man. I loved Lg g wiing I can watch videos comfortably while helding the phone vertical and chat with my friends as I dont like Slip screen much.
Manufacturers would like you to believe that the headphone jack, expandable storage and a charging brick uncluded in the box are another one of those "features tha flopped" Stuff like this makes me wanna go back to the 1900s.
For the heartrate monitoring, its present on every xiaomi device with an underscreen optical fingerprint sensor. However while devices with chinese firmware can access it from the xiaomi health app, for global rom its hidden in a random settings menu so most users won't even notice that its a feature.
2:43 That is actually incorrect, as the LG Velvet also had a dual screen option, but are very rare as the LG Velvet was a midrange phone that didn't sell well.
The most treacherous move from the phone manufacturers was removing the notification light in order to make people to be more dependent on their phones ! ! !
The only reason I liked motorized front cameras is because i simply do not take selfies or use them for any other purpose, so the mechanical wear wasnt an issue and I didnt have to live with a damn hole in my screen. Ultimately though, after trying the 7T Pro, I stuck to the OnePlus 5 until today, where im still using that model, at this point owning 3 of them.
As I understand the the heart rate monitor was removed from the S5 because of patent issues. So yeah, I bought a phone with a heart rate monitor and after an update it disappeared. Didn't get a refund though ;)
I'm still using my xiaomi mi9t pro, and one of the reasons is in fact the pop up camera. First of all, it keeps the screen clean, and secondly, I don't have any privacy concerns that someone might be recording my face while I scroll reddit on the toilet))
i used a moto z2 force for 6 years and i loved the mods without the extended battery my phone would have gone much sooner i also enjoyed the controller and speaker mods.
I still use my vivo nex s since it has the pop up camera and headphone jack and it says hifi near the notification on supported apps when using wired headphones. I even have the moto z4 with the jbl sound booster 2 speaker since it works without needing to use bluetooth for zero latency when using the moto mods when they are connected to the motorola z line of phones with the pogo pins.
9:35. NOTHING is impossible to hack and claiming that something is “unhackable” or “zero vulnerabilities” likely just drives a hacker to get in quicker.
@@sarcasticmcspastic The Xbox one/ series consoles were just hacked recently. Look online you can probably find more information abt it. It was patched pretty quick tho.
Hugh. I wonder if your itest can support android head unit for the car. I have tried on the android head unit. However, for a weird reason, information immediately shows for a split second, and it disappear.
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I still love my LG Wing
Also a little note at 8:40
The Note 3 which came out a few months before the S5, had that micro USB 3.0 feature.
i remember these phone they were so shocked when they realise normal micro usb works as well
aye, i have one too. Kinda wish LG's phone division stayed on top of that, maybe it would still be getting updates.
Yeah ... I have on that phone 😂😂
I miss the ir blaster to control my tv and and other media devices with my s5 I never bothered looking for my tv remote I sat down and used my phone life was simple then.
OnePlus still gottem
You can still get the IR blaster on many BBK. & Xiaomi phones
My Xiaomi 14 has it despite not being visible
I absolutely loved the Blackberry Slider. I really wish they would have had better software and cameras for it. I would still use that phone today.
And if I recall correctly, we were using that phone, when we switched to iPhones. I was the C crew supervisor and our company phones were Blackberry at first. And that model was the last one our company issued, before switching to the iPhone. The iPhone was definitely quicker and smoother, but I missed that Blackberry... 😂 But switching to the iPhone got me started on swipe to text, which I use to this day. And switching from that Blackberry is what got me started in my UA-cam channel so long ago. Sorry for the long comment.
I wish they would bring back the removable battery
Keep buying new phones when they break
@Splarkszter
What
Soon enough. The EU thingy has mandated smartphones manufacturers to make removable battery a thing again by.. i dont remember the the date. It'll be removable & water resistant. Coldfusion (channel UA-cam) has made a video about it. Its also why iphone finally uses a usb-c for standardization. Sorry for my bad english
The lsingle largest factor why they do not…
NSA would not be happy. The only single way to entirely disconnect any smartphone is to remove the battery. No joke - the NSA plays a type of game with phone manufacturers. They will offer any phone manufacturer that sells devices in america; either a type of money payment or also a type of greatly reduced tax rate. If those two items don’t work, they’ll find a way to get the device effectively excluded from american sales.
Btw, the NSA actually has Apple iPhone 16 devices for a majority of their employees. They have reduced functionality for apps and functions (and even electronically block scan and photo functions on property). But they also have hardware features, such as a dedicated off feature that is a type of battery disconnect.
@@unmeaninglessly143the eu made them use a unreliable port that is subject to physical damage requiring replacement faster than lightning ports
9:07 the Galaxy Note 3 also has that
Wait till apple buys the leftovers of the iris scan from Samsung and all the fans cheer it into mainstream
I promise you lil bro, we do not care
Bro I love the iris scanner
I promise your wrong @@lorddeecee
Yes
I promise you lil sis we don't care about your comment@@lorddeecee
You forgot the Note's 7 explosive battery feature! Such an innovative idea lol
I did not know why the pop-up camera did not take off but the pop- up camera was so different
my best guess would be dust ingression
@@playerzkingmuch more simple - the cost. Only then everything else. Plus, it is much harder to make it waterproof.
For lockscreen, LG's knock code was the best specialty when fingerprint sensor was not a thing in smartphones yet.
The Note3 series of phones from Samsung used USB 3 connectors as well. Just FYI.
Sorry this might be a rant, and not to be too contrarian, but LG Wing's demise is not a flaw of the T-shape design, rather the flaw with the smartphone industry mindset. The ability to hold a phone so that Content is available in LANDSCAPE while simultaneously having an infinitely customizable INPUT SECTION (bottom squarish screen) meant you could do on this phone you couldn't do on any other phone. Were there an enthusiastic push on software side to maximize the utility of its unique form factor, that phone could've single-handedly saved LG's phone division, at the very least, for a few more years. But when you had giant social media apps which were reluctant on using Camera API on Android side for years until the controversy got traction, you already know the app developers won't give 2 flying fracks about a single phone, regardless of how revolutionary it could've been. Look at S-Pen versus Apple Pencil. Despite being years ahead, the S-Pen community is still crawling, while Apple Pencil already have become gold standard for digital artists in the industry.
Some features just never got hyped up like the HTC superior navigating and location services with a modem that could combine 2 3G streams in parallel if the cells would allow. Going back further, the Nokia 6110 Navigator was also ahead of time with a MP3 player so easy to use.
Nice compilation!
Anomaly: 3.5mm never failed, but removed nonetheless. It's however good to see some newer devices revive it for a very specific purpose: Music.
I was so excited when I saw the LG wing. Exactly what I needed, fullscreen films and messenger at the same time.
8:46 note 3 also had microusb 3
It's sad that nowadays everything is the same every year, sure some phones had gimmicky features but it was always fun to see them and maybe some people did actually use those features.
3D Touch is missing from this list. Apple removed it in favor of Haptic Touch
I thought you were a phone guy , how'd you forget the note 3 and some of those note tabs?
Iris scanning on Samsung phones was released way before it was ready for the market, it was more or less a half-baked implementation when it was released.
It would've worked better now since front facing and IR cameras have high enough resolution to work at appropriate viewing distance from users.
Had an LG Wing. Loved it till I got fed up repairing it.
Before that, a ZTE Axon M. A two screen phone before two screen phones were cool.
And before before that, a Microsoft Lumia 950 XL. A phone that had iris scanning before Samsung did.
I remembered one other interesting tech phone, the projectors, while the Moto Z series had a external projector, for example:
-Galaxy Beam
-Blackview Max 1
Those had internal projectors, and they were amazing phones, sad that it was hard to do them. And overshadowed by screen mirroning, samsung DeX etc...
I just want you to know google recently shut down support for Chromecast
Dude it's actually kindof a pain to get your phone onto the TV again
06:11 - There's been a couple of DECENT slide out keyboard phones I've owned, 1 - (Landscape) Nokia E7 and, 2 - (Portrate) Blackberry Torch 9810, I loved using both, typing was quick, accurate and efficient and apart from the newish Planet Computers 'Astro Slide/Astro Slide 5G' (a Nokia E7 looking thing) I WISH more manufacturers WOULD make more physical QWERTY keyboard phones, after all, ONE of the TOP THREE uses of phones nowadays IS STILL texting/instant messaging/Email ! 😏 😎🇬🇧
The Note 7 really brought a lot of new things to the table
The LG "Wing" allowed you to run any app on either screen. It was very practical. Back when I used the Wing I would often run netflix on the larger screen and a social media app (facebook/discord) on the smaller display. It was convenient being able to watch a literal movie/tv show and be able to message people at the same time. Also the camera on the Wing was amazing, I enjoyed it quite a lot!
Missed opportunity to talk about the Palm Pre. RIP. Great video though!
Wish pop up cameras would still be a thing, I barely take any selfies
6:58 for me the OnePlus 7 Pro was the best phone I owned and I still love the design. The camera never failed me and worked all its lifespan 👍
The Phone with my favorite form factor to date was the Motorola Backflip. I still think it is one of the smartest designs ever.
Yay you posted. I love your videos!
Blackberry Privs are hands down the most Handsome phone ever created. Curved screen, sliding keyboard, carbon fiber back, and the proportion is just perfect.
Imagine the those who developed those and called it a flop and sue them for insulting which is way bizarre and absurd.
Don't forget the Samsung Edge
This kind of made the galaxy s22 ultra the most definitive modern samsung for me
It's a pain to repair and makes things more expensive, but it's also a feature that I really knew them for specifically
A physical keyboard helps along with a micro SD slot for extra data storage.
I just want the pop-up camera back, the og Find X is really one of the most beautiful phones I've ever seen, I still wish I could buy one!!😍
I absolutely love your videos. I’ve seen a lot of phones with some unique features. Keep up the great work.😊
Love the video man!
The Blackberry Priv's keyboard is still my favorite hardware feature to have ever used. Having the whole screen available when typing was great, and the keyboard was excellently designed and great to type on. Working as a trackpad for scrolling and a quick launcher were nice features too, but as you mentioned in the video the chip was suboptimal and prone to overheating, and I still don't understand why the camera was looking through plastic. I waited for so long hoping they would make a Priv 2 with TCL, but it never happened.
Pop up cameras were such an amazing thing, I am currently writing from my Xiaomi Mi9t Pro. It's still a good phone and had only a battery replacement due to its age. The full display with no camera hole was one of the main reasons I bought it back in 2019, also it was considerably cheaper compared to other phones with the same Snapdragon 855, mine was only 380 euros at the time of purchase for the 6/128 version
I think I'd much prefer a motorized selfie camera since with a hidden under screen camera there's no guarantee that you'd have complete privacy.
I just broke my LG G5 battery connector 10 minutes before watching this video. Great video tho
Why you still using it brother
Just get an iphone
I'll never forget that blackberry with the sliding keyboard. My boss had one and I was close to getting one too until they announced they were stopping support for it a couple of months after the launch.
I've never been so "sad" for a piece of tech, I really think they're was something they're. It was not even that thick, it just lacked the software support.
Someone really needs to come and disrupt the smartphone market and make them like PC, or at least Google should make the manufacturers open source their drivers after support has ended so they can be incorporated into AOSP.
I used to use a Windows phone, the 1020, with a 41 MP camera sensor. It came with a camera grip/extended battery. The camera grip made one end of the phone extra chunky so it could be held comfortably and confidently in the right hand. It had a dedicated shutter button and also had a small capacity extended battery built in.
The Samsung with the strange charger... I believe the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-N1 phones (with barcode reader) had that charger cable/port, too (on the side).
i miss my s5 and note 5
Motorola with moto mods was a really cool take on adding modularity and capabilities to phones, the LG wing was sci-fi awesome, but then not all fantastic ideas catch on.
Sometimes i feel like you don't even do research at all.
The USB 3.0 was also in the Note 3.
And the iphone 5s also had a heart rate sensor in some models
Another now-dead weird form factor: the Asus PadFone, which docked your phone into a tablet. And as you mentioned with the Moto X modules, phones with projectors built in were attempted in the early days too.
If Lg v wiing is gimmick than I should say you dont know much about Smartphone productivity man. I loved Lg g wiing I can watch videos comfortably while helding the phone vertical and chat with my friends as I dont like Slip screen much.
I bought LG G5 just as a piece of industrial design art. It's such a gem.
8:08 The flashlight pulse reader was actually in some Motorola phones if I remember correctly. I had a Moto G6 that could do that back in the day
Remember the Xiaomi Mix 3, that had a hidden front camera with flash that showed up when you slide the screen down.
The galaxy A80's flip camera was a pretty clever idea, don't know why it didn't work tbh...
Manufacturers would like you to believe that the headphone jack, expandable storage and a charging brick uncluded in the box are another one of those "features tha flopped"
Stuff like this makes me wanna go back to the 1900s.
For the heartrate monitoring, its present on every xiaomi device with an underscreen optical fingerprint sensor. However while devices with chinese firmware can access it from the xiaomi health app, for global rom its hidden in a random settings menu so most users won't even notice that its a feature.
2:43 That is actually incorrect, as the LG Velvet also had a dual screen option, but are very rare as the LG Velvet was a midrange phone that didn't sell well.
9:07 galaxy Note 3 and galaxy round also have USB 3
There's multiple brand that utilize under screen hrm sensor (or maybe udp also used for hrm), realme and xiaomi is the example
2:48 and the Velvet.
I'm still using an Oppo Reno 10x Zoom. Something oddly satisfying every time the front camera pops up.
Iris scanning was useful when we had to wear a face mask. Up there with the headphone jack on features I miss.
Actually, the LG Velvet (G9) Does have the dual screen too, so there's 4 phones with dual screen from LG
Edge to edge on an iPhone 5 shell, running Android with a removal battery + headphone jack is my dream phone.
IP68
Just get the Samsung A55 or nothing phone 2A
@Retronyx Those aren't small phones though.
That Iris scan on the S9 legitimately made my eyes hurt.
The most treacherous move from the phone manufacturers was removing the notification light in order to make people to be more dependent on their phones ! ! !
Can i download itest on unlimited devices after i pay for it
My Lenovo Vibe Shot from 2016 also had a randomised keypad setting.
I really wanted the LG Wing to work, would've been a fantastic phone for me had it been continued.
No OS has anything comparable to the BlackBerry hub. Biggest missing feature from phones today.
LG Wing will be the most interesting phone of the 2020s.
The CalyxOS Rom and lineage OS have also a optional pin scramble option.
I loved the heart rate sensor on my Galaxy S6 Edge.
Wish they made the Pixel 3a again! Mine's still going thanks to iFixit, but I'd like a new one as it's the most powerful one-handed ever made!
The only reason I liked motorized front cameras is because i simply do not take selfies or use them for any other purpose, so the mechanical wear wasnt an issue and I didnt have to live with a damn hole in my screen. Ultimately though, after trying the 7T Pro, I stuck to the OnePlus 5 until today, where im still using that model, at this point owning 3 of them.
As I understand the the heart rate monitor was removed from the S5 because of patent issues.
So yeah, I bought a phone with a heart rate monitor and after an update it disappeared. Didn't get a refund though ;)
Dual screen case from LG was my favourite 😘
I miss iris scanner and IR blaster.
Gotten the Test app, nice
I'm still using my xiaomi mi9t pro, and one of the reasons is in fact the pop up camera. First of all, it keeps the screen clean, and secondly, I don't have any privacy concerns that someone might be recording my face while I scroll reddit on the toilet))
I wish removable batteries were still a thing
The Note 3 also had microUSB 3.0
Phones have come a long way
i used a moto z2 force for 6 years and i loved the mods without the extended battery my phone would have gone much sooner i also enjoyed the controller and speaker mods.
Greetings from Reynosa,Mexico.
Also "Android camera" like Galaxy Camera.
I still use my vivo nex s since it has the pop up camera and headphone jack and it says hifi near the notification on supported apps when using wired headphones. I even have the moto z4 with the jbl sound booster 2 speaker since it works without needing to use bluetooth for zero latency when using the moto mods when they are connected to the motorola z line of phones with the pogo pins.
9:35. NOTHING is impossible to hack and claiming that something is “unhackable” or “zero vulnerabilities” likely just drives a hacker to get in quicker.
Alright but the xbox one exists
Xbox one
@@sarcasticmcspastic The Xbox one/ series consoles were just hacked recently. Look online you can probably find more information abt it. It was patched pretty quick tho.
@@sarcasticmcspastic yt keeps deleting my comment, but it’s been done look online. Was patched quickly tho. Xb1/series consoles both.
Galaxy Note 3, used the same micro USB 3 cable as the Galaxy S5.
dude i miss physical keyboards on phones
9:12 Galaxcy note 3 had it
You missed one that would've been good: 3D touch.
@9:07 The Note 3 has this plug, I have one.
Merry Christmas Hugh, and all Best Wishes for 2025!
I got a g stylus 2021 and its amazing lol
In the app, does screen burnin test has been fixed? In Google play store reviews, there was multiple complaints about it.
I think the law should be changed to make battery change as user function.
Hugh. I wonder if your itest can support android head unit for the car. I have tried on the android head unit. However, for a weird reason, information immediately shows for a split second, and it disappear.
Two more. ZTE Axon M and the HTC that had a 3d screen. Can remember the model
LG wing is a 'T' mobile literally 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Samsung galaxy note 3 also has the same micro usb the S5 uses
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