The Disney Cell Phones - America Edition

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Thanks to Ryan Bennett for lending me these!
Today we're going to explore a couple of the cell phones that were available during Disney Mobile's short-lived time in the U.S.
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@ring_row Год назад

a video about old crappy cellphones is exactly what i needed to procastinate my exams

@harriska Год назад

Good luck! Just finished my GCSEs today

@robertsteel3563 Год назад

Please keep procrastinating! :P

@danielespandri9970 Год назад

omg, I'm in the same situation

@ring_row Год назад

@@danielespandri9970 sessione estiva

@betoniera Год назад

@@ring_row io invece ho la maturità 😔

@lenk1432 11 месяцев назад

Using emergency family alerts for free texting is so funny

@CaptainApathetic 10 месяцев назад

What's even funnier is that SMS basically uses no extra resources bc it piggybacks off other signals so limiting the number of texts was solely for profit.

@aribantala 10 месяцев назад

I remember back when in my place, despite SMS texting was so cheap (if I remember correctly, it was like USD 0.1 cent per character), Network providers still sold "data plan" for Texting, which charges you, like, 10 cents per message... Not per character And I still kinda don't get it even today lol, an SMS was like, 250-300 characters max, and when we use all of that character, that's 25 cents to 30 cents per text... That's a long wall of text even for me. I use SMS to say something like "Meet me at McD by the park in 10" or something like that, which is 3 cents at most lol

@okamithelucario Год назад

"And speaking of restrictions raid sh- just kidding" lmao best part so far, I love these videos

@dilianvt Год назад

I legit thought he was sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends until I freaking realized that he didn’t stumble his words and tried to make a surprise joke about restrictions

@tswan137 Год назад

Lmao 💀

@RobertTheGamer8 Год назад

8:31

@EnifOfficial Год назад

yeah

@Markimark151 Год назад

I remember Disney Mobile, I went to Disneyland in 2006, it was being heavily advertised and promoted to family travelers! I thought their marketing was terrible, because they missed the opportunity of special features and themes like Pirates of the Caribbean, Lilo and Stitch, and Cars to other providers like T Mobile and Cingular at that time. They could’ve sponsored their Disney branded phones to major carriers, instead of this walled garden cell phone service!

@santosic Год назад

I feel like Disney Mobile, as a concept anyway, was way ahead of its time. I think, had they launched it in this modern era, it might have fared better, due to the high degree of customizability Android provides these days. They could slap their own skin on it and even have the phone come with their own apps pre installed such as Disney+ and DisneyNow. Make it a T-Mobile MVNO (which now has Sprint spectrum as well) and they could have even offered it to unlocked third party phones, too, similar to other GSM MVNOs. Slap in a few Disney exclusive perks such as discounted Disney+ or other perks like that and it could have probably fared really well. A bestselling service? Unlikely even then, but it'd probably have done better than it did way back when by comparison lol.

@Skiedeagle Год назад

You can probably extract the ringtones from the phones somehow and submit them to the phonetones archive so we can hear them in their crisp glory.

@ethanjchoo 8 месяцев назад

That's what I'd like, too.

@TweeterMan287 Год назад

For about a millisecond, you had me with that Raid joke.

@JomasterTheSecond 11 месяцев назад

These would be perfect props for a teen high school drama film set very, very specifically in the years 2006 and/or 2007.

@Maria_745 11 месяцев назад

"Priority" text messages weren't just a Disney mobile thing, I think they were called "urgent" messages by other providers and either hidden in the settings or not a well known feature. I couldn't find much about them online from a quick search but I believe the delivery process was actually slightly different for priority sms messages. I remember receiving "urgent" texts as late as 2010 taking advantage of that loophole

@YS_Production 10 месяцев назад

Wanted to say I never heard of them up here in central europe, but then I remembered - back when online "SMS gateways" were a thing, there was an option to choose from 3 types of messages, - standard, "message on screen" and one more. I think the "message on screen" would be the priority message. I remember I tried it and it worked. Later on the options to choose the message type disappeared. These gateways were actually operated by the respective network providers (and allowed you to send messages to those providers only) - let me know if such a thing existed in other part of the world.

@krzbrew Год назад

As a side note, both phones are based on Qualcomm's SoCs and have the same underlying system from Qualcomm. Manufacturers had a say in some security restrictions and UI. And the carrier had its say in distribution system, specific features and UI. Despite being a CDMA carrier, Sprint did not choose Qualcomm's BREW distribution system with native BREW apps, but decided to go with the rest of the world and used Java2ME. So this probably migrated to Disney Mobile. I wonder if you can side-load BREW or J2me apps, or it is completely locked in this regard. The Samsung phone featured here had a Sprint counterpart with Sprint UI - Samsung SPH-M300.

@thischannelisforcommenting5680 Год назад

Brew... Zeebo?

@jaimelopez2503 Год назад

@@thischannelisforcommenting5680 yes, the zeebo was also based on BREW

@blakegriplingph Год назад

I am quite surprised that some CDMA carriers actually used Java ME instead of the usual BREW. I guess that might have been a little more cost-effective for them.

@ILoveWomen Год назад

I was going to say, as an European, I can see the Samsung OS under all the Disney stuff. It's genuinely just the Samsung Java based OS reskinned, and with a different launcher (which was a possibility of carriers doing, like how Orange would have the same home screen on every phone on their network)

@lumpython5351 Год назад

@@blakegriplingph China Telecom is the biggest CDMA carrier in the world, and China Telecom choose J2ME.

@darrylsmith7528 Год назад

ESPN also had their own flip phone back in the day.

@ardcollectsphones Год назад

my friend has that, its quite rare

@alextoolstudio Год назад

Oooooh there better be a video of it

@ardcollectsphones Год назад

@@alextoolstudio there is, his channel is called lightness collector

@ardcollectsphones Год назад

also the phone is called sanyo mvp

@donotatme Год назад

Having had a bunch of Samsung phone users in the family back then, those ringtones bring back memories. Especially ring 1 which my dad used because he never bothered to change it lol

@sharonbraselton4302 9 месяцев назад

this ohine samßung a 500 chef ohiñe mideràgé age

@allentoyokawa9068 8 месяцев назад

samjunk

@donotatme 8 месяцев назад

@@allentoyokawa9068 Took a while but now I got everyone off of Trashsung and onto stock android devices

@psychorabbitt Год назад

God... I had pretty much that exact same flip phone up until about 2010. I can't remember the brand, but it was on Virgin Mobile (which was also a Spring MVNO back then).

@googaagoogaa12345678 Год назад

Was Spring anything like Sprint?

@tejasraman6913 Год назад

@@googaagoogaa12345678don’t be so literal, it was a mistype

@spongiedev 11 месяцев назад

@@tejasraman6913why so aggro?

@kraboid 11 месяцев назад

@@spongiedev are you even old enough to be on youtube lol?

@spongiedev 11 месяцев назад

@@kraboid mf did you even look at the post date for my videos bc if you did, you will see that I have grown up.

@eggbreakerdotexe Год назад

Those last 2 themes on the Samsung phone scream "2000s Disney Channel" to me. Which makes sense considering Disney Channel in the 2000s and Disney Mobile had a similar target audience.

@thefacelessman6737 Год назад

“And speaking of restrictions… RAID SH-“

@kbhasi Год назад

(10:02) I was under the impression that they would've charged for alerts and charged a little less than they did for text messages, but to be fair, it was 2004. (17:20) That looked to me like the same font that was used as part of the channel identity package Disney Channel had at the time!

@LandonEmma Год назад

That menu reminds me so much of the DGamer art style, it's just so cartoony and wacky, I love it! The early 2000s was when Disney was amazing, now they suck.

@cydragon2.099 Год назад

even before then they were better

@LandonEmma Год назад

@@cydragon2.099 FR

@samanthataylor8606 11 месяцев назад

I agree i miss the old dinsey

@ItsYaGirlAvacado 10 месяцев назад

Oh my god, I thought I was the only person left on the planet that remembered DGamer! So glad to see someone else experienced something I used to find so cool. 💕

@LandonEmma 10 месяцев назад

@@ItsYaGirlAvacado My first experience with DGamer was many years ago after is shut down, but I always wanted to see what it could do if it was still up.

@jonathanthegreat2008 Год назад

Yes! Michael! Make a collaboration with Defunctland?

@memoryhunter2084 Год назад

Hello MJD, thanks for the vid, loved it! I would like to make a suggestion to bring attention to old Japanese phones which ran the i-mode service and their need of preservation. Some of them do come with amazing preloaded games, but dumping them is still an on going process. It'd be great to raise awareness on this and I think it's a lovely video idea! Cheers!

@drucewayne Год назад

The amount of Disney in this video almost requires a license.

@swaqhetti 11 месяцев назад

Follow the leader lmao blasting korn through the Disney phone

@JustAPersonWhoComments Год назад

Using Disney mobile phones in the US must have been like having a personal Disney nanny

@ihockey0117 Год назад

I remember my sister had one of those we lived in Michigan I remember her always playing Disney songs or little shows or something like that idk it’s been so long. But I’m excited to watch the rest of this video so I can get more of the memories to rush in😂. Thank you for the video and nostalgia

@TheSUPERWIND2023 Год назад

Ironically, these types of phones are making a huge comeback. Dumb phones ftw

@BilisNegra Год назад

HUGE??? Are you sure?

@TheSUPERWIND2023 Год назад

@@BilisNegrahe flip phone market grew 5% 2022-2023 so I suppose so.

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Год назад

Lots of people who doesn't want to be connected but still get calls, old people that can't use tactile screens, smb with employes and people who love the flip part. It's easy to program the lid for auto answer calls.

@chriscarpenter6889 11 месяцев назад

i dont know if it was disney mobile, but my family had family locator as well on our flip phones. Only time we ever ended up using it was when it was left somewhere- i think it was a furniture store. Anyways, the thing was so accurate that we had actually found it, but the thing was, someone had stolen it and had deleted half of the contacts on the phone by the time we got it back from them.

@RedFlameFox Год назад

I found a Disney Princess TV in a flea market here in Italy.

@ShippoHsu Год назад

Lmao really liked the defunctland call out

@michaeljones3687 Год назад

Ring 1 on the Samsung gave me some nostalgia. Ring 1 is also known as the Samsung Tune! It was my favorite text notification sound. :D

@megamanfan3 11 месяцев назад

These types of cell phones still bring back vivid memories.

@amora8152 11 месяцев назад

I had a Disney phone I got for Christmas one year... It wasn't a foldable, and it was a Nokia. idk if it was a local phone or smt, but I remember it was well advertised and all. would love to find it one day. loved the video.

@mattwolf7698 11 месяцев назад

A phone for helicopter parents. Well okay if a kid was below highschool age I could understand some of these (seriously what is up with the picture one though?) I feel sorry for any teens who got stuck with this though.

@Dslite45 Год назад

This one gave me flashbacks to the old Cingular phone I had as a kid in '04 or '05

@elfedorausado Год назад

That Samsung clamshell phone is gorgeous…. Boy, do I miss using flip phones

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Год назад

There are new flip phones that use 3g, with quite good functions that you would desire pre iPhone, quite cheap and useful for example for elderly.

@elfedorausado 10 месяцев назад

@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez I know, but 3G is not viable where I live. And despite loving flip phones, I know it’s nostalgia speaking, 😂 though if there were one that could go 4G, and was not built like crap, I might go for one as a “calls only” device

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 10 месяцев назад

@@elfedorausado for what I know those use any celular carrier chip since modern ones have adapted to basically you cut off the size for modern ones and without cutting works too but depend on the carrier, even if prepaid or not still works, sadly not for the web.

@iblaci307 Год назад

15:05 those are samsung ringtones! i instantly recognised ring 1 lol

@iblaci307 Год назад

oh wait you realized at 16:19

@acupuncturekid Год назад

Are you able to do the ESPN cell phone system? Thank you!

@HighIQCayden 9 месяцев назад

"Speaking of restrictions, RAID SHAD- Just kidding" That made me die 🤣

@j.w.techchannel Год назад

Yes, more Disney cellphones. This will be another fun video 👍

@ethanma3533 Год назад

I wonder if Nickelodeon has something similar with those phones imagine with Spongebob The Fairly oddparents Icarly or Zoey 101

@Mopsamaxwell 6 месяцев назад

Wow! It's a Small World after all!

@Disneyfan95 Год назад

There was also a LG model

@dayoldbread1696 11 месяцев назад

I still have mine surprisingly but it's the steamboat willie edition one

@georgeh6856 Год назад

I assume that kids could still take incoming calls from some creepy guy they met on the Internet. Hopefully, the GPS tracking would allow the police to find the kids before they were harmed or killed.

@ThatHellenicDude 11 месяцев назад

You deserve an Oscar You are the best RU-vidr of tech thats why i watch a lot this channel keep the work

@JosephNFS Год назад

I know it's good when it says "America Edition".😂

@stpworld 11 месяцев назад

I actualy used them and Japan got one disney mobile in Japan in 4k it got one last revival in 2015 then it died off

@jo100 8 месяцев назад

I Remember those Disney Phones from the Era of 2004 to 2008

@Alfenium 9 месяцев назад

8:31 That was smooth.

@ChromifyX Год назад

It's good to see MJD uploads every video, It's very cozy.

@edgarnello9165 10 месяцев назад

Its nice to hear that joe landed safely 😌😌😌

@deathextreme9 Год назад

"...the message would open up and you would have to Roman Reigns it before you could use the phone" I am a table

@elizabethsmith3374 10 месяцев назад

This should come back since parents are giving kids phones way way too soon now days and this would be a good option

@maccamachine 11 месяцев назад

This type of stuff is always interesting

@opalpersonal 11 месяцев назад

thank god this never caught on, Disney already has a big enough footprint in everything else...

@ExploringNew1 7 месяцев назад

8:32 you got me 😂😂😂

@WATPLightness1 Год назад

Hi! I know this comment may not related to this video but, have you heard about ESPN mobile? It's a sprint mvno that is for "sports fans" but that carrier turned to be failure like disney mobile. They've only made 2 phones, the Sanyo MVP and Samsung Ace, I have the Sanyo MVP and despite to be failure, I honestly love it as for my collection along with my other phones. Anyways, you might should try making a video about ESPN Mobile

@aguasemgas Год назад

8:30 I was thought i was going crazy, you got me good lmao

@jeiku5041 Год назад

So a parent can find their kid easily, but if the kid wants to know where the parents are, that's out of the question?

@ArtOwl 7 месяцев назад

Yeah very strange

@peepeeisland49 Год назад

What ringtones do they have ?

@Cookie1stOffical Год назад

I need to know!!!

@pc6alek688 6 дней назад

The ring 1 on samsung was origanaly called samsung tune 🔥🔥

@Fuuntag 9 месяцев назад

Gotta hand it to Disney this goes above the usual crappy jpeg, a few mp3s & can of paint used launch branded products.

@kenthuang436 9 месяцев назад

Cell phones: the one area of media and communication that Disney couldn’t take over....

@TenshiTheAngel 11 месяцев назад

Is no one going to mention that Mickey on the box is doing the mr beast pose?

@krzbrew Год назад

I would assume the theme is just the menu pictures.

@nukamolly 9 месяцев назад

my parents got our family these when i was in middle school and i can confirm we almost exclusively used family alert to text each other

@NickSneaky Год назад

Hey Matt i have an ideea for you, would there be a way to connect the static electricity of your fingers to headphones? Like connecting headphones into your fingers to see what they sound like.

@S989TVE Год назад

i wish disney mobile as a mobile virtual network operator will come back by t-moblie in the usa or by ee in the uk

@foxdavani4091 11 месяцев назад

I can just imagine having an emergency and having only a few moments to dial 911….and first i have to answer a message from mom before being able to use the phone. Sounds like a stupid idea.

@lorenzo.delbello Год назад

Xiaomi just launched a new Disney 100 smartphone!

@WinXP_SP1 Год назад

Can't complain about free texts.

@medusesquash795 Год назад

NOSTALGIC MOMENT! The Ring 1 is the my energy since i'm 12 (Samsung Tune)

@nurielkader3555 10 месяцев назад

Good old days 😊

@bread64 Год назад

Do you think sora from Kingdom hearts had one of these?

@B01G3n1us 7 месяцев назад

I definitely thought penny lane wouldve had something to do with The Proud Family lol. But I find nice that the text kinda had that Disney channel font

@LostVibes77 10 месяцев назад

I had one of these as my first phone they quit the service a few months later

@sobu_hasy 9 месяцев назад

Disney Mobile was also in Italy, not only in the US and Japan. Can you please make a review for the LG U370, which was the Disney phone in Italy?

@Its_Issac. Год назад

get all of them

@alesm2389 10 месяцев назад

OMG!! Never thought that 16 years ago, Disney was a partner of phone brands and made those!

@yaelbunny2.0 Год назад

The raid shadow legends bit got me

@alyssaroberts9561 10 месяцев назад

At 6:08 it says the right Samsung has Bluetooth! I wonder if AirPods would connect up?

@PhirePhlame Год назад

I wonder what would've happened if you stuck a regular old Sprint SIM into one of those?

@FantomLightning 6 месяцев назад

Nothing. Not only are these phones CDMA only (no SIM) but the Sprint network both CDMA and LTE had been shutdown by T-Mobile by the time this video was created.

@lancerstride4264 Год назад

Could old devices like these phones even work on a modern network? Or is it at least theoretically possible?

@FarmerBeavis Год назад

I'd reckon you would be able to use basic phone and text message functions. None of the Disney helo-parent tracking, alert system etc tho

@gargadon Год назад

No, because they used CDMA technology, and the last CDMA network shut down was from Verizon last year.

@samsungfun2 10 месяцев назад

I love the original Disney cell phone I like the smart phones and flip phone

@LHYChinese 10 месяцев назад

In 2016, Disney will also launched their Smartphone for the Philippines with their local provider, Globe.

@unreal-Riley12 5 месяцев назад

Good video

@ethanma3533 Год назад

I wish disney still does those phones today

@Harry11315 11 месяцев назад

You gotta do a video on the fujitsu f07c

@ilmansalt Год назад

Mickey be doing the mr beast pose 😂😂😂😂

@LambdaMiscellaneous Год назад

Nice!

@GroupCaptSlow Год назад

Disney should bring back the service but not put out new phones. You said this was for children but I’m pretty sure I know several cringey Disney adults who would gladly get a phone from 2007 just to say they have Disney mobile

@ofir29200 Год назад

Is it possible to share an internet connection to the Samsung Disney phone using Bluetooth?

@ayeeyee9634 9 месяцев назад

As a current teen I would not be caught within the same area code as a Mickey Mouse phone The jokes would not end I guess it’s a 2000’s thing

@nicholasdean3467 10 месяцев назад

Would it be able to connect to the network even if disney mobile still existed given that sprint assets were sold off years ago?

@ilvpowerrangers 9 месяцев назад

Well with everything that's been happening at Disney it's a good thing this never got off the ground. Can you imagine what kind of evil it'd be used for right now?