The first ever Samsung 'Galaxy S'

[DanielTimberwolf]

In the off chance that Wade ever reads this remark that has likely been made thousands of times: The reason many apps and websites say "no network" or throw some error when loading is because of the date settings. Secure connections (which were most things even back then) need an accurate time reference for the SSL handshake to work, (even then it might not work anyway due to lack of support of new encryption methods by old nuggets).

[lqqrwre]

Fun fact : The S in the original Galaxy S also stands for the Korean carrier SKT. There were ones for other carriers, Galaxy K for KT, Galaxy U for Uplus(LGT). Ever since the Galaxy S2, S has been for the flagship Galaxy.

[eficdmw]

Imagine being in a public place and all of a sudden your phone goes “I cAnT BeLiVe iT”

[TheNiteNinja]

The early Galaxy phones actually advertise their screens by including a full-length movie. The Galaxy S, came with Avatar.

[iLLadelph]

8:14 missed opportunity to see an old android easter egg on this thing

[daftrok]

Fun fact is you can update it to Android 7 unofficially via LineageOS. Would be cool to see you root and update this phone to get YouTube working.

[darjanator]

Sorry burst your bubble, Dankus, but Apple did not invent swipe to unlock. Neonode N1m, a proper nugget, had it in 2005 already. Apple sued Samsung for copying swipe to unlock, but lost because they were not the first to come up with it.

[BenjaminEarlMusic]

A little context, after the s10 (starting with the s20) the switched the numbering convention to the release year instead of the product generation. I believe the s24 is actually the 15th galaxy s phone

[MRWALLFan]

I remember having the "Sunshine" ringtone as my alarm. Once it started playing my brain instantly went into full wake-up mode, even 13 years later.

[bigtb]

Covers over the charging jack are great! They meant that farmers in my family didn't have to dig dust/dirt/straw/hay/whatever out of the charging jack every night just to get the thing to charge.

[typicaltarq]

My parents owned that nugget. It literally died 12 years after we got it. The storage basically killed itself. I still remember playing so many games on it

[redpheonix]

Since you mentioned it, I just looked the specs of the original Galaxy.

AMOLED screen? 8 GB of internal storage!? In 2009?!??! That's insane!

[dragons_advocate]

Fun fact: the I-9000 Galaxy S had a then-legendary DAC chip, I believe the same that was in the later iPods.
There was custom firmwares (aka, "ROMs") floating around that unlocked that chip, which gave this phone not only incredible sound quality for headphones, but also doubled the power it can output.
I used it for years before upgrading. Gosh, I miss so many some things to this day that were obvious back then. Live wallpapers, anyone?

[thsurvivor]

The closing the charging port was for something that actually happens now wich is lint and stuff getting in the port and causing charging issues and possible phone fires.

[jacksonlarson]

2:02 functional green iPad jumpscare!!!!

[braden]

Working in manufacturing and construction, having a built-in port close would be huge for dust and grime protection. Especially on older phone which were more sensitive to such things.

[DrathVader]

back when samsung phones went PLOOP every time you interacted with them

[The_Retrokid]

HONEY WAKE UP AUSTRAILIAN MAN IS YELLING AT SMASNUG PHONES🎉🎉🎉!!!

[ewill]

This might be better suited to say on a Garbage Time video, but I wanted to thank you and James for being the final push to get me tinkering in junk.

I'm writing this just as I sit down after three or so weeks of wrenching on a fifty year old tractor that sat in a bush for twenty of them. The starter circuit was all sorts of crunchy, the engine didn't want to turn over and then when it did it blew out a cloud, the transmission was filled with chunky chocolate pudding, the pto was stuck solid, and the mowing deck was (and still is) made of 99% rust. But I cleaned up the bearings and joints, figured out how the ignition ticked, replaced the fluids, and even used pie plates and hose clamps to seal the holes in the muffler (didn't work, didn't use enough pie plates lol), and at long last, ol' Rusty starts, runs, drives, and even mows!

It's a wild feeling to be operating a machine that you've watched almost your whole life slowly getting reclaimed by the earth; that bucket of tetanus that you were sure was just one more winter away from literally falling to pieces zipping around the property. And it's all because I, someone who is mechanically illiterate, performed a little tech-romancy and resurrected this nugget!

So again, thanks to you both!
Cheers from Michigan, USA!

[tilenkardos]

FUN FACT: The Galaxy S actually does support video out by the headphone jack.
I used mine back in the day via a Nokia 3.5mm to AV (white, red, yellow) connectors on my TV to watch YT and stuff.
Was a pretty handy feature i really used quite a bit :)