*Greetings everyone!* I hope you enjoyed another installment in this series! I did do a script at the start for the history so I hope that wasn't too distracting. And I know the ringtones showcase goes for 10 minutes...but I really wanted to show them all. I asked a BUNCH of questions in this video, so if you may be able to answer - How many 7280 phones were sold worldwide? If you owned a 7280 back in 2004 or whenever, how did you use it? If there is any chance of finding a 7380 in Australia! (I think I asked more but they are the main ones) Anyways, thanks again for watching, I really do appreciate it as always and stay tuned for the next one :) TIMESTAMPS: Introduction: 0:00 The History of the Nokia 7280 & Lineup: 0:42 Main Specifications: 2:56 Around the Nokia 7280: 4:05 Power On, Display, UI & Menu: 5:36 How Number Entry works: 6:39 How Texting works: 8:05 THE RINGTONES (and Light Effects): 10:00 Themes & Wallpapers: 21:21 Voice Commands, Connectivity & Memory Status: 23:20 The rest of settings & where I got this from: 24:32 Gallery: 25:31 Speaker Test: 26:31 The Camera & Camera Test: 27:24 Photo Quality, Rambling, FM Radio & Voice Recorder: 29:02 Organizer & Web (Which doesn't work): 30:25 The Lookback & Conclusion of the Nokia 7280: 31:27 Preparing to tear it down: 34:43 Teardown: 35:45 Hoping it still works & more rambling: 38:40 Outro: 40:12 Be good people!
Owned one back in a day. Was a pain in a arse. Used for a 3 or 4 months then gave up. Used it as a radio player 😂😂 switched to Samsung x830 and then upgraded to Samsung F210. These two samsungs made more sense 😉👍 Best wishes from Lithuania.
Design was unique for sure, but not user friendly. Just typing a text message would take much longer time and more effort than other phones of that time.
I remember these phones back from the day , and they were very popular among girls and young women , which I think was main Nokia market for them. A friend of mine had 7370 , rose gold color , and something broke in that unique but also weird mechanism , I think it was (is) spring loaded , so , getting anything damaged were bad news as repairs for them were expensive.
Love weird phones, I remember when I saw this nokia first tima, it was really pure "WTF" Also I still think that you should get few Siemens phones to your collection if you dont have them, especially Xelibri series that was on par with Nokia weird designs.
oh my, reminded me when i got a secondhand Siemens Xelibri 7 during my schooling days, i called it a clip-phone as it's rarely in my pocket but 'clipped' onto my bag strap or anything I'm holding... weird also cause i never had the fear if someone would snatch the phone off wherever its clinging on... add on its been caught in the rain and had many occassions of dings hitting stuffs and survived despite minimal tlc but i only stopped using it when my country removed 2G services and eventually the battery died from storage...
I had been looking for an in depth review for this phone for years, as i had wanted one of these back in the day, as well as a 7600 but was a broke kid back then and in high school. They (7600 & lipstick) seemed hard to get a hold of outside of Europe for some reason and I still haven’t seen them in person. So glad you made one thanks.
I had an MP3 that looked like this and if it could also be used a phone, I honestly wouldn't mind using that thing back in the day. 50 mb of storage with no memory card slot is what truly kills it. 50-100 mb of storage was pretty typical for the time, but so is a slot for microSD card.
I worked in a phone store when this came out. I sold more than one of these to people who insinuated that it was being purchased to smuggle in to prison. Overall they sold terribly and we ended up selling loads of them off for about £50 at the end of their life.
I remember back before this was launched Nokia would out up some teaser close up pictures of various parts of this thing and I would scratch my head and think "How is this even a phone?" And now after so many years i get it. Still weird though ;)
just a little hint for video playback. the phone does only support either .3gp or 3g2 video files. most converters and some players (like VLC) and online tools can convert mp4 or mpg into .3gp
i remember having the 7270, it was a bit bulky even for the time but the large buttons made it great for texting with T9 under the desk during class. It had every feature you'd want on a "dumb" phone, quick and snappy, and i used it until i switched to one of the first smartphones available in the Motorola E680i. Eventually, i ended up switching back to the Nokia, until the iphone came out, as it was just a more usable phone for the time
I well remember when this phone debuted. I was in college and thought it was so cool. I certainly did not have the money for a $900 phone but I distinctively remember that the design and function was so foreign that I could not figure out how the thing worked, how to dial a number, how to bring up a phone number, etc. I remember the Nokia website was oddly vague about it's function as well. They had little information on the site regarding it's function. Cool piece of early 2000's tech.
Im proud to have had the 7280 and it was an experience ive been cherishing all my life. I was able to sneak in my phone inside the office where phones are unallowed
While I was aware that it existed I have never seen one in person or have seen someone who used one. I would be exactly one of the people who would use this... As a tech nerd girl who loves subtle but intricate trinkets, gadgets or accessories I would have loved to have one back in the day. I especially love how the sticker with the model number and information kind of resembles the stickers on my cosmetics 💄. Thanks for showing this off ❤
I think you used to be able to add and edit contacts with the Nokia PC Suite so you didn't have to sit forever using a scroll wheel to enter all your contacts (or keypad on other phones).
The infrared computer data communication sounds interesting although it also had Bluetooth. They were probably betting on people using a computer to synchronize their contacts through. I mean pay somebody to do that for them after all.
Wow i remember this thing! 😂🤘 Back when manufacturers were actually innovative. it was all about the next new thing, phones being so new. now yes. all slabs. lol
@@heatherkline3048 I remember having a phone that couldn't handle the long messages so someone would send me >140 characters and it would freak out. The message was something like "invalid message" or "unreadable data" or something
@@heatherkline3048 that phone sucked so hard. It wouldn't even tell me who sent me that message. It was pre-Nokia, a Panasonic phone, in 1999. End of contract in 2001 I changed to a succession of Nokias and the world was a better place. Until modern smartphones came out
I recently started watching the IT Crowd, and I have to complement your brilliant reference to the "new and improved 999" bit. The only thing that would've made it better is if you'd paused a second before the final ... 3
Back from when getting a new mobile was exciting as you never knew what your phone would transform into when you put it in your pocket and how much it would hurt.
my mom used to use the black/plain version of 7370 when i was a small kid, and she had covered the whole front with fake gems (don't worry, all the same color). it looked pretty good actually, and it was unique :D
Nice video, I was always fascianted by these when I first heard about them. In 20004 I had a Sagem My-C2 which was a flip phone that was smaller than a Nokia 8210 when folded and it's still the smallest phone I ever had. Oddly enough this Nokia is not the worst phone i've seen, that honour goes to the Motorola V100, it was designed mostly for text messaging and as such had a full keyboard but could only be used as a phone with the proprietary hands free kit (and as i'm sure yoou know wired hands free kits of the time were not exactly durable) so if you got a a phone call and the cable was dodgy you couldn't answer the phone. Motorola really missed a trick by not adding a microphone and speaker to it.
My man over heres 18k years from the future And with that pfp and username he might even be from one of the Mars colonies Jokes aside Why in the world would you make a phone, without the core features of a phone (mic and speaker) That's one of these marketing decisions where i wish i could see the meeting and how the conversation went But ig they were banking on the replacement wire kit sales
35:00 "The wrong mistake". A mistake by definition is wrong. Even back then, it's surprising how they were able to cram so many electronics inside of that little enclosure.
point of note: it was really rare back in the day to buy a phone outright. You'd really just get it with a new contract, no-one paid that price, it was a fudge to make contracts look more attractive.
7:22 it took a moment till the penny dropped...but i´m actually wearing a fan shirt of that series while watching your Video! What a nice coincidence! I still wonder how the Nokias 2650 looks today with the rubberdized folding area.,
If you made a robust rugged design like this, just as a solid communicator, it would probably be really niche but still big, going back to simpler times just making a phone call and sending a short text
I had this phone new when it came out in Aus. I loved it. You could get pretty quick with the scroll wheel once you got used to it. It came with a call plan back in the day so no upfront cost. the ringtones were awesome.
We still have 2G here especially on mountain areas. Those slab phones will stand no signal in there that is why we still have those candybar/bath soap phones.
For europe (at least germany?), that bit with that nokia in that music video was censored. Meaning up untill today ive had no idea what she was holding
AHHHH your take on Michael Fisher (Mr Mobile)'s "When Phones Were Fun" 🤔😉👍. I had the egg shaped 6600, and barring the crap 0.3 Mpixel main camera (at the time Nokia also had on sale the 6230i, which also had MP3 ringtone capability, which the 6600 could only deal with .WAV. But still.. I loved the 6600!! (I'm a bit of a Nokia connoisseur, back when Nokia was really a force in mobiles, I bought, used, and then sold what, 80 odd models right from basic 2110, 5110, 3210, 3310/3330, 3510/3510i, all the way through to the mighty N95 8G, N8, E7... You name a model, I probably had/used one hahaha) 🤔 I had other phones like the Sharp GX10i and the Sharp GX30i (still have it!) as well as a range of Sony/Ericssons (OG Sony CMH-444, R320, GA's, T10, T28 too and more)... But I was really a die hard Nokia fan at heart.... 👌 Oh THEM were the days! 👍😏 😎🇬🇧
The 6600 can do mp3 playback and ring tone if you install some the mp3 codec thing. But it will stutter the playback if you multi-task and the mp3 ring tone will play a couple of seconds later.. But it will do the job. And it will support up to 1Gb of MMC storage but the recommended is 512Mb.
@@SlinkyStoney Yeah I was aware of that 'App' at the time, but as it was so iffy I soon got rid and used my PC to create WAV ringtones and then transfer them to the MMC. It was just so frustrating that as the 6600 was made out to be a 'business use' type phone, that it was designed with a crappy 0.3 Mp camera and the 'basic' WAV capability. I would have moved up to a '6600i' if Nokia made one (like they did with the 6230 series). At the time I had a Sharp GX30i (great phone in its own right), and got rid of that to have the 6600. But hey ho, sods law, as they say lol. It still didn't out me off Nokia though 😏. 😎🇬🇧
I was like, what was Nokia smoking back then? Nokia previously experimented with the 3650's quasi-rotary keypad, but they relented shortly once complaints started ramping up and made a hasty revision of it called the 3660 with a conventional number pad. And yes, Nokia spent millions on product placement just to get their phones across especially in the States where they never got a huge chunk of the market because of how much of a control freak the telcos there are. Besides the Pussycat Dolls videos, the 7370 was shown in "Be Without You" by Mary J. Blige.
Cute little thing. A little impractical. The sound test was good as was the radio. Camera test was really good. Especially for the time. Mis Ripley looks fabulous. I've still got my 3110c ( think I got name wrong before). I use it as a back up phone. There are parts of the UK that can only get 2g . I had a micro SD card in mine (2gb) and I had some music on it and it let me install Facebook .
the 7380 goes for around 10000 to 13000 ISK here - not too uncommon - but expensive for a "phone" that doesnt do anything. Although Nokia is a lot more common here - for obvious reasons - i have never seen one of those phones for real. So, i doubt they have been more common even in the Nokia heartlands. edit: btw. that is around 100 aud edit 2 ( 2023 ) : pretty much because of your review, i actually purchased both phones for fun. Also here we still have 2G in Iceland .. because it is useful for people way, waay out hiking. .. both phones cost around 10000 ISK; or rather the 7280 was around 10000 ISK (something about 110 AUD) but i bought a replacement "shell" because there were blemishes in the original for around 3000 ISK. The 7380 was free .. because i have a friend that had this in a drawer, never used it - because she had a normal phone then - and got the first iphone in 2007 when it came out. So this one was lucky. I got the whole package, unopened box (well, now it is opened) with everything in there. Still looks good, but the dial-pad made of rubber shows and feels clear signs of decay. (on the 7380, not on the 7280, because i replaced it) It is surprisingly easy to replace parts, because they just clip together and are not glued. Even the battery can be replaced fairly easily.
This looks super cool but like an absolute nightmare to use. The design is rad, but wtf were they thinking not including a keypad? I get that we didn't text as much back then but still. Good lord.
I had this phone it was great. Almost impossible to text with, but it looked so cool. If they did a smartphone version of it with a decent camera I would buy it. Maybe a projector to make up for the lack of screen.
I got a spying idea using this: the microphone point to connect stethoscope then stick on wall, number to accept "phonecall of (a setted number) only", then to spy can be done like this. But the reach of, but then this have cameras, so can do more but "just needs" shld be like that.
The reach of inside wall is unknown if use stethoscope, but stethoscope can hear heartbeat means actually smthg. But if we run we can hear heartbeat too right?
7:43 man that's so tacky ha 8:20 here I can see "user is typing..." making sense 9:30 rads sound in Fallout lol that's some dedication to sit through those ring tones 37:42 dang everything has a can/rf shield
This is unrelated but perhaps you or someone else can help me. I've been googling and trying to find this "watch phone" from somewhere between 03-05 (I think). I can't seem to find anything with my searches but it was a device that from my memory looked like a modern smartwatch. Just a tiny little square that had what I would describe as gamer aesthetic. I don't know who made it but I want to say it was a smaller company that was born with the phone and died with it.
So are we not gonna talk about how alot of these ringtones were very similar to some video game tracks, for example how the enthral ringtone sounded similar to dhalsims theme? Lol
