Back in the days before Apple, if you had a Blackberry phone, you were considered rich.

Society's consensus is indeed powerful

I wouldn't know😂 only an 07

To.

but soon blackberry started launching affordable phones which made blackberry an extremely common phone.

the main difference is that a blackberry was a good phone ^^

I LOVED the G5. It felt so cool swapping batteries, like reloading your phone. But, in hindsight it was awful. I had to keep an extra battery with me and charging for my job because my phone would be dead by noon with light usage. Also I couldn't keep a case on it lol.

It also eventually would swell batteries as the capacitors rubbed from the play. I saw a few of these phones on displays with bubbled appearances.

Same, absolutely loved the LG G5, quick swapping a battery always felt like doing a good tactical reload on a handgun. That part made up for the not so great battery life

I’ve rewatched these tech fail videos more times than I’d want to admit. I love failure.

Then you would love me lol

Lmaoooo Im sad cause I really liked htc and lg. Im with iPhone now cause I hate Samsung.. That’s why I watch these videos 😞 to find out where they went wrong

The Blackberry Z10 was actually an amazing phone. Besides the lack of apps (which was largely remedied by sideloading Android apps), the multitasking, gesture controls, and keyboard were way ahead of their time. I was devastated when mine died suddenly and wouldn't reboot. RIP BB Z10 (2013-2015).

16:10 LG had b4 such way of usage.

Yesss the Z10, Q10 and BB OS 10 WERE WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME. By far the most under appreciated piece of tech.

Good stuff man, I can only imagine all the work it takes for you to make a video like this or any of your videos for that matter, I'd say your actually earning your money on this platform and I definitely respect that, keep it up!!!

i remember when having a blackberry was considered cool

Samsung is cool

True. I remember my idk like 3rd phone that was a screentouch Blackberry and had a sliding keyboard. I miss it.

I'm glad blackberry elitists are gone

@Kokohore Boketsu-chan nokia smartphones sucked

@TheScaryNuggetMan judging by your name im guessing your maximum 9 years old

I had the HTC One, was my very 1st smartphone in 2013. Absolutely loved it, but it crashed after 4 years. Best looking phone I have had. Seen those pics gave me goosebumps

honestly, that pk18 phone could've been a great emergency phone situation. imagine being stuck in the middle of nowhere or something but knowing your phone could at least last long enough for you to find a signal. and if they made it super durable etc.

It weighs a pound and is 18mm thick. Way too heavy, a power pack and a durable case would be better.

Like if they teamed up with Nokia.

11:01 I also know that the Essential Phone had attachments available like the LG G5 and Moto Z's Moto Mods. AFAIK, they only had a 360° camera. Though one good thing they had going for it is the accessories attached magnetically, and are theoretically compatible with phones of multiple sizes. Unfortunately, these accessories are a mini tech fail of their own.

I was very excited about the Essential phone and very close to getting one. It's honestly too bad that the execution didn't match the motivation because with the proper momentum, their ideas could have really gone somewhere

too bad someones business can be taken down by baseless allegations ...

Imagine the Energizer phone drops on someone's head 💀💀

@MemeLord 876 LOL, I used to have a Nokia "brick" phone and it had decent battery life but man, that thing could charge to full almost in the blink of an eye. And I swear it could withstand a nuclear blast. It STILL works and is over 15 years old. If Nokia still distributed and sold cell phones with Android OS today, I'd be using one.

@Achtsekundenfurz Too much battery😂😂

@Achtsekundenfurz That setup was phenomonal. Miraculous execution.

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Watching this towards rhe end of the year made me realize that it's really Samsung who's leading in innovation. They're hurrying on the being the first foldable phones but Samsung really forwarded with the Flip and the Fold this year. Kudos Samsung.

As a former LG G5 owner (had it for over 2 years, bought a OnePlus next), I have to say that though the modularity aspect was completely stupid and a failure, the phone itself performed wonderfully as my first ever flagship device and is the reason I've now moved from mid-range to high-end smartphones (had a Sony M2 before the LG, and a pretty weak Hauwei before that).

Yeah, the LG G5 was ill conceived from the start. I was such a LG fan years ago, having owned the G2, G3, V10, and G6, (we won't talk about my ill advised Stylo experience) and being super disappointed with the last couple. My favorite of that group was the G3 by far. I hate that they decided to jump out of the smartphone game.

Ya I’m sad about LG they were pretty neat , u could customize your apps like u do wallpaper and their camera was pretty good

Only LG phone I ever had was the LG Cookie and my god it was awful 😂 only 14 year old me could have possibly thought it was worth the money

HTC is the most upsetting for me. The M9 was a great phone and had my lock button not failed & had it continued to get software updates I'd probably still be using it. When I looked for a replacement HTC didn't have anything that was worth it.

BlackBerry was considered “professional” back in the day while Razors were for cool kids. Tell me I’m lying.

This all changed with the Blackberry Bold 9000. That phone was a work of art, it had a leather backing. Plus Kim Kardashian did some marketing for them and she actually used one. Of course you can roll your eyes by Kim Kardashian but she was very influential back then.

@Eg sad this made me die laughing thank you

your lying

@Eg sad lmao savage

@Eg sad touché 🤣🤣🤣

Z10 still has the best touch screen keyboard I've ever used. Also the black Berry hub was great. Not sure why the keyboard never got repliicated

I got the g5 for really cheap a year after it came out and I honestly really liked it, having the option yo carry a separate battery was pretty convenient tbh

I can see the P18k being useful for people who go on arctic expeditions or something like that. It could’ve been sold very well if they made it for that purpose or something similar with other optimisations for that sort of thing but as a normal smartphone it’s only going to fail realistically.

Watching this feb 2022 it feels tame. I loved this video when it came out. Now it feels like someone took a mrwhosetheboss video and turned the energy down a little. What this says to me is you took something I loved.. and kept improving until its a level of awesome I couldn't have come up with myself. This channel is so. freaking. good. Really makes me wonder what else Iove now but is going to reach new places... Thanks for the vids!

I want to meet those 16 people who bought Energizer phone 🤣

Those people were Company Boards and Executive Employees 😂

I'm One Believe It Or Not

Lol 100% psych confirmed

@Beast if you're out hiking and shit for weeks it would be great, depending on how much extra weight it is

Bluefire 14 They are the employees of Energizer, Including the CEO. Giant RIP.

No, apple's reasoning was "if we slow their devices down to a crawl they'll have to upgrade to a new device". The blatant *excuse* they gave was battery life longevity. This is much more in line with the type of thing apple would do.

Would apple want a reputation of devices crashing after about 6 years?

In actuality, this is against Apple’s ideas only because they’re focusing a lot on subscriptions now. There’s always the risk a consumer will switch away from iPhone when they become dissatisfied with its performance, so Apple has actually made an effort to keep iPhones in the running as long as possible, because every iPhone is a portal to Apple Music, iCloud+, Apple TV and all the other subscriptions they’re hoping on being the future for them (phone sales across the board are slowly declining, this is their plan to respond). Still very scummy they never gave you the option to turn off throttling in the first place, but it at least makes some sense?

I feel like apple has to much money to care if you have a iPhone 6 instead of the 13

I followed cellphone tech from 1998-2014 pretty heavily and then off to the side since and these series have been really nostalgic looking back. So much stuff I hoped would be game changing that just turned out to be wet farts lol.

I kind of like the Essential PH-1. I got it at a reduced price on an Amazon prime day 4 (?) years ago. It is still running.

the G5 was actually great! None of it's "features" were required in anyway. You could still replace the battery easily when others like the Galaxy S6 (or S7 or further) could not. I do not see how it's ability to expand with expansions and choices makes it a failure compared to the S6 that had zero customization.

why do tech youtubers have the most soothing voices??? i could listen to this man talk about a painful disease and be lulled to sleep

LGR

@ArtisticAlexis ikr

YT: tech youtubers have the most soothing voices Linus Sebastian: Well, hello there!

I think it’s actually because of the soothing voice that he’s a successful tech YouTuber.

Yep

The G4 had flawed internals, but in terms of the physical design it had the single best user experience of any smartphone, ever.

Instead of a flip action, it could've had 2 separate screens that seamlessly blended, but to make it smaller, one of the screens pops up, like an elevator, and slides down onto the lower screen, and once on top of the lower screen, it locks, and the lower screen shuts off. It'd leave out the issues of flexible screens wirh the plastic or screen coming off, the battery sucking, etc. You could keep the main battery in the lower section, and the upper screen has a secondary battery to power it while it moves. I'm putting this out there, so now anyone can use it, but if you do use it, please mention me, or atleast build a major factory in West Virginia, we need more jobs.

I was one of those Energizer backers. Hahaha. I would still want it. I personally hate how small and thin phones have gotten and how they are made of flimsy materials like back glass. Plus I believe it was advertised as having a slide out keyboard, which is the feature I miss most on phones as I have poor motor control, so typing a single message like this takes around 5-10 minutes on a touch screen, but under one minute on the galaxy slide style keyboards. (Which was the phone I bought for 3 2 year contracts straight, giving up the first 3-4 years of 4G.)

That energizer phone would have been pretty helpful if it was advertised as an “emergency phone” instead of an actual smart phone. People prone to hurricanes and earthquakes or just any natural disasters, retrofit it with a gps and satellite capable calls. An “every boat and plane must have” that would have probably been received more positively.

or even if it just wasn't as thick. Like 50 days seems overkill. If they had 7 days and could make it substantially thinner, just thicker than average, that would be cool.

All Apple had to do was give us an option for the performance throttling.

@Aakash Sharma ! get off YouTube if you cant

@Aakash Sharma ! but they have an option to disable the performance throttling now It's called performance management and it's in battery health

That's what they ended up doing. You can turn it off now if you'd like

@amicloud maybe they told the truth and people refuse to accept it? Why has Samsung Galaxy been removed from Geekbench?

4:20 "you might remember the HTC one" and those memories are some of the best I've had with an android phone... HTC really had great build quality and attention to detail with their software, its a shame to see them fall

HTC is one of my favorite. I remember the HTC M9. It was one of the best I've ever used. I still love HTC but because of the failure I'm a big Sony fan for bunch of reasons.

I had actually purchased an Amazon Fire Phone when it came out. I got a deal for $200 because I got it right away verse the $450 price it was going to jump up to. The dynamic view where you could tilt the background was actually pretty wicked. The other notable thing was you had free 24/7 Customer Service where you could call to ask any question.

“Amazon could just pretend this didn’t happen” and boy did they. Im a repair tech and this video was the first Time I saw this phone 😂

Number one most painful smartphone fail: *Dropping a smartphone on your lip when you’re laying on the bed*

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Very painful man...

My first phone was my dads old LG g3 and I loved it the whole time I had it. It is super sad how they just went down over time with their mess ups

New to the channel, and after watchin this upload in its entirety, I can see how and why you've got over 8 million subs...I'm now one of those 8 million...great content bro, I'm gonna binge watch your content now.....🤘🏻🇺🇸

i think royole flexpai was the father of all the foldables, it gave hope that it could work and boosted some brands to make their own foldables.

Actually glad you mentioned Bixby cause I have thought of it as frustrating

For the urgents 0:09. Moto razer 1:03. Royal flexpi 2:22. Air power 4:14. HTC u ultra 5:13. LG G5 6:38. Blackberry Z10 8:27 Samsung Bixby. 9:28 Amazon fire phone. 11:00. Essential 12:39. Apple battery gate. 13:52 Red hydrogen. 15:16. Google pixel 4 17:18 energizer P18K

uh there was already some chapters so you could jump there but thanks i guess?

Is bixby a phone? I only know it as an annoying app that you can't rid off

Ok

@Biplab Kumar Ghosh it's not on the Thumbnail?

"Damage in the trust of the apple brand" Hahahaha that's a good one, have you seen the bizarre defences that Apple fanboys come up with to blame users instead of apple?

I have actually considered going with LG lately. I'd stick with Samsung if they weren't so preoccupied trying to be just like Apple. They have been removing device features left and right.

I loved my BB Storm 2 and knew a lot of people that did as well. Not sure why you would say it was one of the worst phones in existence. It did everything I needed it to do at the time for my business needs and it did it quite well. It never gave me any issues and It was a lot of fun to use as well. I'm sorry, but that phone was far from the worst in existence! Not even close.

I need this guy on a podcast. He has such a nice soothing voice

The energizer phone actually got me laughing on the ground. It's more of a smart power bank lol

Energizer smart powerbank (samsung smart fridge) Does anyone understand the slow yoke Hahahahahaja i said yoke and it's not plane hahahahahajajahajajajajajajajajhahahahahahahaahahahahahahhahha it's a joke hahahahaahahahah Idk i just want to comment something

@HWLXRailgun use it like you threw a brick to people

@Ruhan Ahmed NSA, this is the one

@Ruhan Ahmed Amazon's "Alexa"? Apple's "Siri"?

I think that a 10/10 fail would be if the phone turned into a robot dictator and summoned it's fellow robot minions and together the massacred the hoomans and ruled the world. But that's only a theory

I had 2 LG G5s, got the second because the first went into a bootloop but it was still under warranty. The only good part about it was the replaceable battery

"Seen companies that we previously loved just kind of fade away" As an "old school" HTC user who had the HTC Desire HD back in early 2012 and then later got the HTC one M7 Yes, this is true...I loved the design and feel of the HTC phones, i still have my one M7 which still works although its not really worth using as a daily driver.. But atleast i have the OG flappy bird on it!

I think it would be interesting for Nokia to come back up with a smartphone and just see how that goes.

The energizer phone would of been much more successful if they aimed for 48-72 hours of battery life and made it just a bit thicker instead of being an actual brick.

Arun: "You might've heard of th-" Me: "Nope, haven't heard that before."

@Chicken wooosh

There’s a reason he says “might”

69 likes les go

The part where he says "it gave visions of stuff we thought we had past" then error screens everywhere had me laughing.

Here I am a year later watching this video on a Z-Fold 3. I'd say the folding phone is definitely becoming better and more sturdy.

I still use my G5 for the B&O DAC. It's the best sound I've ever heard. It's way better than anything that came after, even in other LG models.

I have to say, Bixby made one hell of a comeback. Using it with my galaxy watch 4 and S22 ultra. The experience is seamless.

I like how he doesn't just talk about the sponsor on the start, he just says thank you to the sponsor. And I like that! Thank you! Edit: Thanks for 3k likes lol :D

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@Kio aa

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The Amazon Fire phone was great, I used mine for like 5 years when it first came out. It was a brilliant little phone, especially when you sideloaded Google apps on it.

This was the best joke I've heard all week...."trust in the Apple brand"! 🤣🤣🤣

I uses the G5 for years and it was a pretty great phone except for the power button sticking every once in awhile

The apple throttling excuse completely falls apart when you remember how far they go to try to prevent their customers from accessing simple maintenance options like just replacing an old battery with a new one.

I remember when i was 12 in school we used to joke that the iPhone 10 would be a thin glass sheet and it was holographic

Ah well. Maybe iPhone 20 pro max then.

Oop

THIS WILL BE IPHONE IN 2017

@TacticalMoonstone My phone has 21:9 screen and tbh it's fucking lit, I love it

Yep, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBP18nrRdw

I remember one of my friends dropped her htc one when on a ladder using it as a flashlight. The bookshelf next to the ladder broke and the phone was fine. That phone was wonderful and it’s disappointing that they didn’t continue to improve.

Videos like this really makes me appreciate my S21+ that much more!

I remember my HTC One. First true smartphone, upgraded from my LG GW620. Loved it a lot, the beats audio was fantastic.

I had a g5, decent phone for it’s time, the g6 was a big improvement, loved that phone

Energiser sold 16 during their first quarter. Fun fact: those 16 were the employees of energizer including the CEO. 😂😂😂😂

It's actually untrue

F

What it went on sale i wanted one

LMAO wait what

@Angelo Boshra ;hh

I loved the BB Z10, the size and how it felt in your hand was great. The BB Hub was also great. Wish new smartphones had the same size as BB Z10 for Android.

I had the two touchscreen blackberrys back then and i remember loving them. It was so strange and satisfying to click the whole screen!

AirPower in my opinion shouldn’t have had multiple coils and instead should have had a specific spot for each device so the coils won’t interfere with each other

is it weird that I actually want that energizer p18 phone? it's a phone, a powerbank, and can be used as a weapon. thing looks heavy enough to knock someone out cold

His voice is so relaxing that, 1. I once fell asleep... 2. The auto-generated captions recognize each and every word without a mistake...

@Ayman Hazim When u wake up in the morning with ur phone still in ur face and u check ur vid history=-= That simple=_=

He edited the caption lol

cause he's british, and the auto generated capitons is british, it recognizes every world without a single mistake.

So relaxing voice really. I am sleeping😩-_-

Weird af...

Z10 was an okay use... less ad interruptions and good picture and video quality for that time.

#4 yeah, it's called planned obsolescence. It's the same reason they make it almost impossible for 3rd party repair companies to work on their products.

Palm’s wireless charging in 2009 was far superior than anything Apple ever did.

AirPower’s fail was I think smart in Apples decision to just kill it. Most companies can’t afford to do that after developing for two years and are forced release it anyways. Apple knew the development is getting thrown out but was overall better to maintain their brand than to throw a inconsistent lackluster product out.

10:05 imagine going to the store ONLY TO BUY THINGS ONLINE

That's kind of like the experience of going into your local council these days. They either point you to a computer kiosk screen or send you away and tell you to pay your bill or submit your proposals online at home.

Maybe just to see if you can find a cheaper option on Amazon, could be an ok idea

Lol thats telsa showtooms in a nutshell

@kaosine 😂

Exactly

5:03 still a pretty sensitive topic to me. Never should’ve happened

I wish P18K was a satellite phone, and developed for smaller demographics. Would be pretty awsome to use when you are lost in a remote area with that big of a battery.

The integrated malware Bixby button which you cannot change the use of with turning on the malware should be more than a 5/10

Proud to say that I owned one of the worst touchscreen phones ever. "Upgraded" from my lovely 8660 to a Storm. Ultra-regret. The screen just fell to pieces; after the actuators did, that is.

Blackberry was booming until apple and Samsung came in with touchscreens lmao

@Zoltán Angyal in 2009, android was nothing to write home about and the Omnia line was superior even to iPhone. The Motorola Droid and HTC droid Eris, were not good phones. HTC didn’t get good at android until the incredible came out.

@Zoltán Angyal yeah I meant 2010 iphone released late 2007 and s1 early 2010

@Anurag Rai you're in a complete misapprehension here. Samsung were nowhere close to being the most popular Android phone. In 2009 they were still pushing the Omnia phones with Windows Mobile. Meanwhile there were phones like the Motorola Droid, HTC Dream and Hero. The first Samsung Galaxy was a bad phone, and they started to get a grip when they released the Galaxy S series in 2010, and then they still were an underdog for quite a time.

@Anurag Rai right but they still weren't the first which is what actually matters for who started to bury BlackBerry

@Miguel Laurito still, Samsung wasnt that thar late like 2 years and they were the most popular androids

I have a pixel 4 and I actually quite enjoy it but the battery life is a major setback, still planning on getting a pixel 5a soon

Sorry man but when you said Apple sets the industry standard that made me laugh my ass off 😂

the Amazon fire phone might've been a failure but there's no lie it was one of the best selling phones during that time.

To be honest, I feel the Energizer Phone would be a good idea for people that travel/hitchhike through many places that wouldn"t have places to charge your phone

I think that his voice was the only reason I was able to endure a 20 minute long video.

Damn same 😂

Dam this vidoe 20 mins? Didnt even notice

Trueeee

Yes his voice is eat candy.

i like his voice to

(7:15) I watched this video just to see if my old Blackberry Storm II made the list. It didnt make the list but it did get referenced. I was so excited to get my first smart phone in 2009 and what a disappointment it was!

I remember getting the bootloop on the LG. Such a pain in the ass.

Nah for apple slowing down older iPhones is true. The iPhone 13 just came out and coincidentally my iPhone 12 pro max starts to heat up after a use. Idk if it’s just me but🤷‍♂️

I've recently come across your YouTube channel and I love ALL the videos!! Thank you for sharing.

"The company went from crushing it to crushing in it." You were so proud of yourself for that one. lol great video.

Lol

@AwesomeRace Crashing*

@djabourbi alli Crushing*

Crashing*

You're exactly the kind of guy who would walk into Hugo Boss and buy a t-shirt when I used to work there lol

I still remember my grandparents G4's They switched to the Galaxy Ultra 20, 2 months ago. The screen was bugging out horrifically.

I really liked my LG phones, I had a G2 and G6. Now I have a Samsung S21 and even though it's ok, it's worse than my old G6 in a few ways. The fingerprint scanner is a disaster, the plastic housing feels cheap and the camera is really bad at macro shots. Even my G2 from 2013 made better ones. Much better. So hopefully LG gets back on its feet by the next time I need a new phone :)

The Palm Pre should have been on the list I think, a last attempt before a great company went under 🙁

I **STILL** want that energizer phone. Its exactly the kind of thing someone who does a lot of backpacking or spends days at a time in the wilderness

It cracked me up when he said they only sold 16😅😂💀 I love a long battery life but I couldn’t imagine texting with one hand with that brick or stuffing it in my bra

At this phone you have magnetic powerbanks you can attach to your phone, you could easily attach one to yours and it wouldn't be as big and still last you days/weeks.

@Vandal G ive got my music my gameboy games and movies

You'd have no internet or signal to speak with...so now you're carrying a gameboy brick size paperweight. Genius.

@FennecTECH Then how will you carry the energizer phone? A power bank would take up the same amount of space as the phone.

Damn, my first phone was the LG G5, I didn't even know about that. It was kinda a crap phone regardless lol

I'm kind of curious about the Apple charger. Why do you need multiple small rings? Can't you just have one massive ring around the whole pad?

The fail videos are bangers. Keep them coming!

The so called fails you say actually are the great attempts that brands did over the years and those attempts brought us to greats techs we have today