Walkman Phone Rocks Even Harder

Rockin' a Sony Ericsson W810 Walkman phone in fusion white running DOOM. With J2ME games & apps, VKP firmware patches and ELFs. Firmware version: R4EA031

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Sony Ericsson Modding:

Music:
Bossa de Cores - 5711 & Farbrausch & Accession
Cocoon - Insight In An Unseizable World

[gtrxAC]

9:23 I investigated the CPU speed further - there is a Java benchmarking tool called JBenchmark ACE that can (surprisingly accurately) estimate the CPU speed of a Java-enabled feature phone, and as it turns out, the K750's CPU is actually 110 MHz. This surprised me, because Sony Ericsson phones are known for being good at running Java apps.

[neoqueto]

"Russian version of Tetris" as opposed to the default "Soviet version of Tetris"?

[pj]

good times... when the phones were fun to play with and explore new techs every day...

[afstar]

Not what is better - The video or the comments. Both full of substance, entertainment, memories and nostalgic stories!

[principalitymedia]

I was lucky enough to have the k850i and these were amazing back in the day. i used to bluetooth/infrared songs to friends back n forth at school, the music composer was great fun, managed to download 1000s of games on it too, it was truly the smartphone of that era.

[Stonos]

Oh hey, I'm the one that made MinesweeperClone that can be seen at 13:38 😁
Thanks for sending me a trip down the memory lane with these videos. I have very fond memories of modding my K800.

[Nubrigtube]

The w810i is my favorite phone adjusting to the era and what it offered. I even ordered the white housing to make it just like it is on the video. 6 years of pure joy.

[simasisuppose]

Sony Ericsson W200i is probably the most amazing java phone I have ever owned, back in the day all Sony Ericsson phones felt like treasure boxes with all the themes, games and features they had. I got to try a 3D rally game on my friends W995 but on my own java phones I used to love playing: Townsmen 6, Heroes Lore Zero, Heroes Lore Windos of soltia, Robinson Crusoe: Shipwrecked, Bounce tales and Black Shark 2: Siberia. There are probably tons of games that I do not even remember but the ones I have listed above are highly recommended. It makes me really happy that there are people like you keeping the old phones alive and showing them off to generations that will likely never get to experience these majestic devices themselves.

[dimancor]

This hits hard with nostalgia...
Thank you for a trip back to 2000s ☺

[lenOwOo]

ahh. . . the pain of those old socket. . .

[FrankBlack]

Also, this brings me back. I had a K310i that I modded flashing the W200 firmware, it enabled hidden flash memory within the phone, extending the base storage available to 15mb, and all the Walkman stuff! obviously, without the external storage, but who cared at that time. It was a nice free upgrade

[eskilajnenn]

Love these videos of early-mid 2000s devices. I was obsessed with them back in the day as a teenager but was never able to afford any of the more premium models.

[redgek]

Dude, not only are your videos of outstanding quality and keep getting better! This and previous vids are about phones I wanted to so much back in the day! My brother had k750i and I remember seeing the "walkman version" as I called it and drooled over it. Loved that you got DooM runnuing on it, it looks at home on it :D
Thank you for sharing these awesome videos with us!

[markinius]

I really miss Sony Ericsson. These vids are unearthing buried memories of the k320i and the p900. MusicDJ was amazing on the k320i, and I'm pretty sure that the p900 was the reason why I got hooked with technology

[BigDom]

My Mom and later on I used to have a few Sony Ericsson Phone, K700, K800, W888, W910 and the Satio.
These phones were kind of special to the ones you saw most other people had, which were either something from Nokia or from Siemens, usually a little older and basic.
I personally still love the haptics of the W888 and W910.
The W888 was so thin, you wouldn't even notice it in your pocket while still feeling oddly sturdy, however the dial buttons were something you only used if necessary and not really for any games.
The W910 was just the perfect thickness when slid closed and a nice size when open for calls, though the sliding mechanism killed a connection ribbon for me, which was quite unfortunate.

[Tazon]

Jesus that's a throwback for me! This whole video dug through my memories. I had the W810 and all of the tools in this video were a common sight for me of an evening after school, seeing what more I could do to my phone, be it new camera drivers, audio drivers, or the one thing I always struggled to get set up as a kid, the elfs. I've still got the phone in a drawer to this day, I think the last I left it it was in need of another re-flash, as it's stuck at the initial boot screen I think! Amusingly, the phone I had afterwards was the W995, though I don't -think- I did anything to mod that one. Both were utterly fantastic phones, and there's a reason I've kept them in the drawer so many years later. Both battered and well used, but absolute tanks with worlds of potential for their time. Thanks dude, really hit the nostalgia button in my brain this eve with this.

[chrono]

Those custom menus in old Sony Ericsson themes are Flash Lite apps actually, it was a downgraded version of the Flash player designed for mobile deviced, some other phones like the SE W200a supported them, not by default strangely

[arizonapalms]

So cool to see these tools that I had no clue about back then. I had the K750i back in the day and spent hours "editing" in the VideoDJ applet. I still have a bunch of .3gp's from those days that are so low res/bitrate that you can barely make out what is going on! Jumping to the K750i from my Nokia 6230 was such a step up in terms of features. My last sony was the C905 which i had as a hand-me-down shortly before I switched to Android in 2010.
Thanks for making this video it's so cool seeing this classic phones getting some love with such high quality production videos!

[ciprianoravet]

I must say, your video production quality is outstanding! I had the W800i from 2005 to 2011 until I got my first Android smartphone. It was the best quality and feature packed phone ever! I used it for everything, I even played multiplayer games via Bluetooth with my class mates, browsed the internet via Opera, send themes and games and even watched full length movies while travelling on it! The Walkman was amazing, the best player with playlists and everything, the audio quality outstanding! It genuinely was an amazing phone for the era. Wish manufacturers like Sony and others put this kind of attention to detail in their products now days...

[ilya]

I had W810i back in high school, it is such a wonderful phone!
Interesting enough, I didn't buy it, but found it on my way from school laying on an asphalt road. There were no SIM, memory card or any contacts, the phone was completely blank, a bit used judging from scratches and dents, but working properly nonetheless, as if someone actually threw it away for some reason...