The Samsung Matrix Phone.

[atlasrules]

Genuinely cannot get over a phone made and released in 2003 NOT HAVING SMS. That's like a car in 1990 not having a radio.

[thatzaliasguy]

The 8110i is the one they used in the Matrix that had the spring-loaded cover. It wasnt faked, probably just never released down in Ausie town for you upside-downers

[zero_burrito]

This isn't land waste!

Remember, one mans e-waste is another mans... e-waste.

[qmto]

Half of owining a snake is poking it once a week just to check if it’s still alive.

[achaycock]

One quick comment - talking as someone that spent many, many hours repairing hundreds of those Nokia 8110 phones back in the day - yes they did do the shuh-shunk open, it just broke a lot. You need to strip the phone down and re-grease the rails. If you do that, it will work as it did in the movie.

[freesha]

6:15 the absolute humor of the two flip sounds just being a keyboard/loading a pistol and then ✨fairy dust ✨

[just_Sylvia]

How to tell if a phone is actually a burner phone:
- No Text Support
- No Camera
- No Bluetooth
- No Games
- No Internet Access
- Colour screen without MMS

[takeohtyme]

I had one of these! I bought it at a pawn shop for like $20 in 2007.
Rolled with this and a razr for like 5 years.

[hakjobtm]

Siblings and I loved the first matrix movie to death and begged our parents to get 'the Matrix phone'. The one they found actually was spring-loaded but it was 2006 so it was still dead cheap. We broke it within a week lmao

[jerrysgardentractorsengine]

Something I'll never get over is how the history of Sprint is DIRECTLY connected with a former railroad here in the states

During the 1970s, the Southern Pacific Railroad was looking to utilize its existing communications lines for long distance calls. A contest was held within the company to decide on the name for the new system and the company ultimately settled on SPRINT- Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony

[blakeellis]

First saw this on Micheal Fisher's When Phones Were Fun series, and when you said "this was back when phones were still fun" I'm clocking a fellow When Phones Were Fun watcher

[Nekkoru]

The best bit is that in the film, Trinity uses it as a modem! And the real one can't do that!

[Alexisadingus]

Why escape the matrix when you can get a phone that escaped the production expectations and text messaging!!

[FTAthere]

I know, it might sound rediculous, but your videos always give me a comfort in rough times. I love to watch them, sometimes just to forget about any problems for a moment. Thanks for this

[panagiotispappas]

I like how it manages to look like a phone and a taser at the same time. Missed opportunity there! It would be much cooler if it was a Taser Phone!

[jjcoolaus]

PCS stands for Personal Communication Services and is a range of technologies related to 2G mobile phones using either GSM or CDMA networks. Sprint used CDMA

[burntalive]

RIP Sprint. Pray for us Americans who are heading back into a telecom monopoly/duopoly 😭

[antkozeusz]

we want the bringus collab (don’t show him the cds)

[egdo]

5:04 you can see a "Messaging" option

[midget]

I had the Nokia matrix style phone and loved it. Then, something even more special was the o2 Cocoon. Would love an episode on that phone!! What a unique nugget that was!