YouTube on a $20 Flip Phone

I picked up a pre-paid flip phone at the store the other day and to my surprise, it's actually a smartphone! So let's try to watch YouTube on it and explore all that this phone has to offer!

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[MichaelMJD]

Slight correction: this phone has 4GB of storage, not RAM.

[EpicTyphlosionTV]

This is what people in the early 2000's thought phones today would be like

[JustARegularNerd]

The music at the beginning, I couldn't stop thinking only about DankPods and his headphone tests.

[tuckfuddyduddy]

Michael: **laughs in YouTube with mouse cursor on Flip phones**
Me 10 years ago: **amazed with cursor on my Nokia N95’s opera mini**

[MapleMilk]

"Hey dude, can I show you a video real quick?"
"Yeah, go ahead."
*They flip out one of these babies*

[AnesuC]

When I was a kid/early teenage years, this would have been heaps good. Like I would have been more than happy with this honestly.

[xwlOnYT]

My dad uses a flip phone like this because he isn't literate enough to really use any new technology. He still uses a VCR, and antenna to watch TV. He's never used a computer. There is a big market for these with older people who were left behind with the rapid advancement of tech.

[HDPixelp]

I'm glad I still have a couple more days to refund my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G

[dorianshepherd]

This device is a dream-come-true for those who need by social requirements to have an app such as Whatsapp, and the overall ability to call, but who are also aware of privacy issues as it not only runs KaiOS, but also has a removable battery. And it definitely saves on time as well, given that battery most likely gets an easy five days or even far more. Love it. Absolutely love it.

[toshineon]

When I worked as a janitor we'd have to use phones like this. Some people like to laugh at phones with physical keys, they obviously never had to take a phone call while wearing thick gloves.

[dollardealtech]

I remember using YouTube on a flip phone in 2009. It's nice to see that it still works on modern flip phones.

[MrFeelGoodJsonYTP]

"Are you kidding me? There's a mouse pointer?"
Every BlackBerry phones before 2013: ok...

[itizjuan]

20 bucks for only 60 minutes of talk? damn, that's really expensive.

[jagressde]

I just love this man´s dedication to retro tech and trashy low tech stuff. A good way of relaxing and remembering the good old days. Thank you Michael. Keep up the good work!

[ustayussuf]

When this phone is more expensive than 98 PC

[TommyCrosby]

I wouldn't call a KaiOS phone a "smartphone", while it indeed have modern features, it's just a web-based browser. You can't install native apps, only web apps, so you are limited to what HTML5 and built-in APIs period.
It's funny tho that Steve Jobs originally wanted the iPhone to have the same limitations (being unable to install third party native apps) and that's why the Appstore only launched a year later.

[mihai]

What you were struggling with was T9 Predictive text. Basically, instead of repeatedly pressing a key for a certain character, you would just press that key as if you were thinking to type that letter. Repeating this for all letters, the predictive text would find an appropiate word, somehow, and it would be much easier for you to type this way.
I got used to this really quickly back in my childhood with my Nokia 2610, it was quite fun to get specific GIF images or .jar games

[Luzi-chan]

imagine our smartphones where never invented and we would still use flip phones but with all these features and high quality screens, cameras etc. i would like to live in a world like that cuz flip phones where nice and an iconic piece of the 2000s

[Trance]

15 years ago, this phone would've blown people's minds! Full web browsing on a flip phone! Not something your average person would want today, but if you're on a super small budget or need a backup phone with some smartphone capabilities, this is a good one.

[SheWhoExists]

KaiOS apps work by running PWAs in a extremely resource efficient embedded web browser, so that's why the youtube one looks like the mobile site.