Why Are We Fascinated With Retro Tech?

The PCB says EL JEFE haha (The Boss) in Spanish.

For me "modern device" is just a tool for companies to extract money from me by all possible means and not carrying to serve my needs so i avoid it as much as i can.

It took me a few seconds to realize the apoon icon on the palm was a magnifying glass

I had the Z1, this ones successor. And can confirm, one of the best phones Ive ever owned. Things just went downhill from there.

I remember hearing that FM transmitters built into or as an accessory to phones, MiniDisc and MP3 players were unusually popular in Japan mainly for use in cars, so it makes sense that Sony tried to integrate one, but I guess it had too low quality output to make the cut :P

Gosh I really LOVED that Palm PDA design... Had the privilege of holding the monochrome screen version and the body really felt sturdy! Like, that thing could last for decades. I really miss Palm PDAs era 🥲

Modern tech is just a medium to facilitate corporate greed and you can't not notice that every step of the way when you use any modern device.

people going from the users, to the useds, is a modern tragedy

I'm on Samsung Galaxy Note 9 on Android 10. I will try to hold on it as much as possible. Android 16 is restricted almost like IOS. We really need truly open source Linux based smartphones.

what's the reason behind your channel profile picture logo?

OMG, I'm watching this on my Xperia Z right now!
I got it pristine condition 1.5 years ago while dumpster diving, with a functional SIM too. Thanks to a LineageOS port, it runs Android 13 and the major limiting factor in usability is the armv7 CPU that people don't always compile their apps for anymore. It still runs decently since the specs are similar to low-end phones today. It has 4G and NFC but lacks a fingerprint reader as expected for 2013. The camera is high-res but grainy, there are Wi-Fi glitches and the battery life is poor even after I replaced it. The reception on all wireless connectivity is also subpar. I usually prefer hardware Android buttons but it's hard to complain with the monolithic feel!

I think the radio feature was possibly intended for a Wireless car audio system similar to those bluetooth to FM radio things. Back in 2013 that would actually be a killer feature since most cars did not have BT

Old devices feel like magic to me. There’s nothing surprising to me about modern phones — they’re basically computers that can do anything. But when I see an old black-and-white device connecting to the internet or running third-party apps, I’m genuinely amazed.

The 688 in the thumbnail is bringing back so much nostalgia

Just pulled iPhone 5S out of the box, charged it and enjoyed

The only thing I like which improved is the internet speeds who wants back the 36k modem after gbit fiber at home 😂 besides that all new movies, music, videogames, hardware are 💩

I want the drugs this dude takes :))

That Palm IIIc! Wonderful device. This sums up how I feel about current tech basically spot on, taking concious control, and us owning it instead us being owned by it.

All your tech are belong to us

I think the battery was a Ni-MH not lithium As the unit came out in 1998 and Lithium batteries were not being manufactured at that time .

There were SO many cool phones back in the day, some that I personally had and used regularly, and that I'd HIGHLY suggest you procure and check out, would be the Audiovox Thera 2032 running windows mobile w/ full color screen (2002), The Samsung (Palm) i300 from 2001 (very interesting phone, and a smartphone way before the iphone stole the spotlight), the HTC 6700 (2005) and some others from around then and even beforehand. The iPhone hit in mid 07, and there were SO SO SOOO many more interesting smartphones at that point, and a whole heckin lot that came before it. Yet they get ALL the credit...

Ah yes, the Paaam IIIc. Good times

why the audio is always so much compressed.

That was my first mobile phone as well!

I'm much more fascinated with the retro tech in wooden housing with many knobs and buttons than monolithic pieces of glass but I agree that the lack of hackability is what makes modern tech kind of boring.

Nokia N900 also has radio transmiter

as a professional hyperfixator on retro technology thank you for making me feel seen

Modern mobile phones are essentially the practical realisation of "Telescreens" from Nineteen Eighty-Four

now the end sequence made me wanna do a prog-dnb rave in our town

electroboom would have touched the back... awesome video as always

Loved this video. Is there a proper palm emulator for windows? I tried some but couldn't get some of those games running.

Incredible how I'm re-reading 2001 A Space Odyssey and you bring it up in this video.

What I miss about old phones was how they often had the ability to set an alarm, you turned the phone off and the phone would power on when it was the time you set so the alarm went off.

Hi. Great video!

Freaking outstanding presentation and filming

Sad that I step to android world too late. Always waned xperia because of all that freedom, but my N82 kicked hard with all symbian apps even in touchscreen start era and after I gave it a chance for windows phone (lumia 1520) till complete OS dead at 2017?

I was so young when the palm IIIc came out, and I remember seeing photos of it in a magazine and thinking "woah, we're in the future!"

amazing video, very well done and it exposes one of the main dangers our cultures face today, most of us are sucked in to the abyss by their phones, preferring it over real live people. it is so powerful that it can collapse society as we know it. only way out is to move to open-source, and cut out the rot from the systems we use. Linux is a good start.

Dude. You won with this upload. Great stuff

this kind of videos are from the future

JANUS: ALL YOUR TECH ARE BELONG TO US

Simple answer boomers that are stuck in the past

I love the pixelated look! For me it's much more appealing than super sharp graphics and displays. The closer to real life they get, the more boring. At some point the uncanny valley appears.

I'm old enough to have had all of these devices when they were new & I definitely agree the Xperia Z was great in it's day.
I can't believe it's been 12 years... back then I could change the IMEI of phones, but security has gotten much harder these days :)

While i love retro tech i'm grateful for modern one, my cellphone could do everything, it takes scribbled notes, exceptionally good pictures, and become a desktop computer-like when connected to monitor, then i could do day work and send it back to office in the end of day all in one device, don't get me wrong i still using older ones, i always lugging my beautiful Thinkpad X61 on a meeting, its 4:3 screen is perfect and it still powerful enough to run modern productivity program, and i just recently acquire an outdoor Nokia 6250, it battery last for a week and since my country's 2G network is still on air, i could use it just like my modern cellphone for calls.