The "Pocket PC" I've had in my attic for 13 years 

I wish that were me some times...

Character development

Screen protectors are snake oil - change my mind

The "you know what that is? Growth." gif in reverse

Wait, you're Italian?

Not a palm pilot. Palm was crap! :) Compaq/HP iPAQ was king ;)

@@lmaoroflcopter thats what palm lasted longer lol

Sentimental value is priceless

3Com PalmPilots were pretty dang neat. The built in mic and speaker, combined with the GSM modem it made a pretty neat not-so-smart-phone. And graffiti script was amazing once you got used to it.

its not a palm pilot, its windows mobile, the o.s that android was inspired by in the very beginning

Consoles and handhelds were always at least a decade behind... Have you ever seen triple screen for console? Have you tried the PSVR? It's just toys...

@@michalvalta5231 how is that even relevant also triple screen is absolutely terrible for most games. Only thing it's useful for is racing and simulators. PSVR was decent for when it came out too, and at a fair price. Controllers aside, it's just as good/bad as the Rift CV1.

@@michalvalta5231 every PDA and smartphone when the DS was new had resistive screens too. The DS line just stuck with it way longer. But a lot of cheaper phones even 2-3 years after the iPhone launch still used resistive too.

what phone do you have?

@@tanishpatki4711 you beat me. I came to ask the same

Bet it's a budget Nokia. They so trash

The iPad is 10 years old so this is barely vintage.

not as good as my xiaomi mi a1 for $84

Or his 1st dog from 1987 😱😱

@GamingTV my thoughts exactly!!!

@DOUD featuring a rare copy of "gentlemen in sandals" highly sort after in the community

​@DOUD he has a WIFE

@DOUD Well, to be fair, he's meeting David in the park...

Don't at least some iPhones actually have some kind of pressure sensitivity sensor? Don't think it's used that much by the software though.

Colaman112 Apple bought/developed 3D Touch for the IPhone 6s-IPhone X (launch). It’s a feature I loved using, but they’ve cut it from the latest gen. It has multiple levels of pressure that it recognizes and is pretty useful as a “right click” feature. I hadn’t seen it used inside any app that isn’t made by Apple.

@@username4835 I'm not iPhone user, but AFAIK plenty of 3rd party apps have 3d touch functionality. Instagram (post preview in grid) and Telegram X (on iOS it's usual app I believe; message preview in chat list) come to my mind first (again, I didn't had or extensively used any iOS device and still could name two apps, so for sure there's way more). In most apps it's also available/doubled as long press though.

@@username4835 yeah a 6s and up

Is that code for hammer?

I'd watch it

Which in typical LTT fashion, would probably get one episode. Two at best.

*Shit I found in my attic

@@rendeaust or he would drop it and break it

A Swarm Of Angry Bees aaaaayyyyyy

well at least now we know that he used that particular device a lot, back in college... to watch "media".

He ain't the only one. :^)

@@whytho1690 exactly i do too using public transportation

Hey... not ONLY linus. 🥲

Have Jake do it. Or a young staff

"is that all people need to know?" I don't think we needed to know any of this...

Amazing idea.

Lol yes! One week, Jake only gets a PDA as a mobile. No tablet for cheating!

#linusweek

maybe he meant phone Menu button? it was on bottom right, I still have some touchscreen device from 2010

I think he meant the list of all your android apps

Came here to say that xD

@@supercattelephone the list of all apps is bottom-left for me

I too exclusively use my windows devices looking in a mirror.

Praveen Rajendran cringe

He did say megabytes earlier in the video, at least

Yeah, didn't catch on first, I thought 'Holy shit, 64gb? How?' Then I realised there was no way.

5:49 64 megs af ram

If only...

Linus briefly forgets that hotspots are a thing

Also though about that... Although that thing would have been pretty useless for modern Internet anyway.

Same, but now I want to find my 20-year-old Palm V and see whether it still boots

I had a palm pilot I bought used well post what it should of been useful to keep track of appointments and notes.

@@SegginsProductions for what they were they were a handy gadget. And it beat carrying around a paper calender, and this was still back before my phone could do much more than play snake. Although my phone after that and when I stopped issuing it was an original Nokia ngage so I don't tend to pick long term winners, but super ahead for its time tech ;D

i had dial up on my palm, 4g before 4g. still using nokia communicator as well

You not getting old, Linus is getting desperate for videos... simple.

That is what I was thinking the entire video

The snappiness probably makes sense if we believed the rumors that WM was developed using mpx200s as a testbed since wm2002.That device ran 6.5 relatively well given the phone ran at 144 mhz (originally 132 mhz), 32mb ram and 16mb rom that couldnt fully store roms newer than wm2005 and stored some of it in the sd card.

K

Modern Android and iOS have too much unnecessary crap running on the background, so, that's why.

Yeah, there were cell phones that ran Windows Mobile. That's pretty much what smartphones were like pre-Android and iOS. I remember my parents had one of the phones that ran Windows mobile and they had it for a very long time. I still distinctly remember bubble breaker and elements of that UI that Linus showed. I actually found my parent's old Windows Mobile phones in a drawer one of the times I was visiting a while back, so this video brought back some memories!

Go check out LGR for old tech reviews!

My galaxy s2 was once one of the best but now just an relic of the past

Check out LGR instead of linus twink tips copying his ideas

Yes please. There are still things I think people would love to know about.

To be fair, Palm Treo 600 didn't have file explorer either, and Palm OS didn't have browsable file system at that time. I always felt that Apple took inspiration from that.

wireless headphones will change your life. Imagine having one set of headphones that you can seamlessly switch between your iphone, ipads, imac, and watch. it's literally faster than unplugging and plugging a wired jack in and out. and you're completely wirelss so you no more getting tangled or ripping the stupid thing out. any disadvantages to wireless are OBLITERATED by the advantages. it's life changing

@@enshk79 well having headphones that I don't need to change , in my opinion, negates all the benefits of wireless. I'm always forgetting to charge my stuff as is they are just going to be another reason for me to carry giant power banks everywhere also, it takes a grand total of 2 seconds to put headphones away and have them not tangle instead of shoving them in some random pocket.

And it has a working battery. How many 5 year old phones have working batteries... and that thing probably thrashed the battery as well.

@@promc7318 thank you for reminding me to charge my headphones

There is also an flight simulator you can install on that thing I used to play, I think its called Leo's flight simulator or something like that ;-D

@@emilschurr7533 I had a samsung i780 with windows mobile 6... had a lot of emulators installed on it... I remember playing final fantasy 7 on a psx emulator....

"Can you believe this didn't have 3d hdr?"

2089: I found my old body in the attic.

That's only natural. I remember when my ol' Galaxy S2 was "the shit", best of the best, only beaten by the Note. And now it's almost a relic of the past. Funny how I was dreaming of an iPhone back then (and a long time before), while slowly realizing that the new toy is just as good, if not better. Screw the "thinner is always better" manufacturer craze though.

@@elpapa68 2119: *AI robot* i found my old human slave in the attic

@@djmhyde 3022: Remains of the Singularity. Can't belive I found my previous civilization in my [REDACTED]

I had the Ipaq, it seemed like it was from 2003 or so. If Microsoft had not bailed on the platform they could have easily beat Apple to the Iphone punch by 3 or 4 years. They just needed to hang in there until data services were more widely supported by the Telcos. The apps were easy to install and there was a fairly robust collection. Imagine how the game would have changed with Apple being the Metoo in the smartphone tech race.

Title cant escape notification squad.

Such a poor name for the time period

Yeah saw that. And he said "Not an iPad"! LOL 🤣

@@ewmegoolies Not at all. Sure most "Pocket PC"s were better than the iPhone 2G, but things took a drastic turn with the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4. And those were all things Apple had in the pipeline for a longtime. I've used both platforms, and fiddled with the software, so I'm not just talking bs. The Windows Pocket PC 2002 Windows Mobile 6.5, was quite ancient in the underlying software (CE), and just wasn't conducive to the way modern smartphones (superphones?) are built/used/connected. So for Microsoft to dominate the field, they would have needed to be experimenting with both hardware and software of today: think AWP, Windows10 Pro, Surface Book, HP Elite X3.... but that vision needed to be acquired back in 2007. It wasn't, it took until 2010 for them to see things. By that time you had iOS 4.2 and iPhone 4, or Android 4.0.3 and Samsung NOTE, with both platforms budding off to build a huge ecosystem. It was essentially too little too late. But even worse than Windows Phone, was the effect it had on 2009-2015 competitors, like that of Palm/webOS, Nokia/maemo, Samsung/Bada, Blackberry/QNX and ZTE/FirefoxOS.

This video was a little cringey at times and felt kind of rushed... mistakes with info and we couldn't even see the screen half the time.

@@FlyboyHelosim Welcome to linus tech tips :)

Maybe he is using Windows Arabic or any other language written right to left their start menu is in bottom right

@@HBPLUS no

@@FlyboyHelosim It probably was rushed. I'd imagine some planned video got an unexpected delay or dropped part or something.

And with 64 MB of ram. Now my phone has 3 gigs and it struggles sometimes. WTF do they use all that memory for?

Even that hp ipaq was considered low end hardware and feature phone quality back in the day when iPhones and Androids were asking for 1ghz CPUs in order for their phone os to run. It wasn't until the HTC HD2 showed the full potential and limitations of windows mobile was when touch based phones was the future of PCs in your Pocket.

if you check back the nokia devices, they were all fairly responsive with crappy cpu and memory thanks to Symbian os

@@SoulTouchMusic93 iOS never had that stutter issue unless you have phones with 1GB or less. Also, the reasons being Android and those fancy UI animations. Not to mention, app Devs suck at memory management and will allocate everything.

@@cunnyman Well iPhones are very well optimized, like this device appears to be. Android is basically designed to work on any random hardware config on the market. Every single android phone is different and none of them have their own optimized OS like iPhones do. The reasons you said apply too and are even worse due to lack of optimization.

No... I live in Canada and it is in the bottom left. I think he simply made a simple mistake.

XDmasterXD I think you may have missed a joke

@@korbenbutterworth3479 I though that he really was wondering. Sorry if I missed the joke.

It should be in bottom left right as per international version ??

Its like this in Arabic 😂

#LinusSexTips

The struggles of using PictoChat with only a finger were very, very real....

@@TrueRetroflection how me and my brother would speak at night when we were supposed to sleep lmao

I've still got my stylus from my nintendo ds lite and 3ds xl. Idk how I managed to do that though:p

Toothpick trick ^^

Truth. I had an HTC Pro phone back in the day that came with WM 6 that I upgraded to WM 6.5. The interface is much nicer than what he showed. Plus it put the start button on the bottom left, where it belongs.

@@pv2xeek "back in the day"

I had a Windows 5.0 one, used. It was great. I even used exactly the same media player that Linus did, and also Bubbles was amazing, oh and solitaire. No camera though, which was weird even for phones of the era.

I actually have an old Samsung Code phone, it has Windows Mobile 6.5

WM 7 was when the decline started...although 6.5 was ok for the day and age

Yup and some car touch screens are resistive too.

Also machines in all work environments were people generally wear gloves.

Or those horrible screens on which you put you sign on when accepting a package

@@frain_breeze1707 No sense. 3DS is plastic and can be scratched with a coin. Vast majority of phones use glass screens, can only be scratched with sand basically.

Andrew R glass is Made of sand

Same as game boy

I have a similar model, if not the same but a different colour. I havent had a charger for it in years

*note 10

Nichita Cojocea it's a note 9

Certainly it would not be a Note 7 if he has a attic 13 years from now :))))

He raided area 51 before everyone and got it early

Except it won't work so it'll be a quick video.

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@@BlitzPSH which minute?

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@@ricardorosas8500 10:37

He said some devices

He literally said "most flagship phones" not all

Of course Android has it since the very beginning... I am sure he was refering to the poor Apple plebs... :D

@@michalvalta5231 oh mate apple have had a file Explorer by the name of Ifile before android even took off

@@michalvalta5231 poor disgusting android pleb Apple is so much better than your garbage phone

actually funny wtf

It's not really does nothing.. Linus just didn't assign anything on that button.. You can custom it for open some app or does some function if you want on tbe setting

@@krisyannuruha5147 like a bixby button worth having.

@@Deepspace1insight 😂😂😂that burn

im wheezing 💀

I don't like modern windows mobile OS. It's basically a locked down version of the original windows mobile. I loved the fact that I could use the file explorer to browse windows folders.

@@greenblack6552 Uh...you can still use file explorer to browse windows folders in Mobile 10...

@@silvy7394 yep but mobile is now a dead failed project sadly. I had a lumia 630 and a lumia 640. :-(

Windows phone 8 was based on the same NT kernel that ran Windows 8. It was a departure from the Window Ce kernel that ran Windows Phone 7. The same kernel that Pocket Pc/Windows Mobile was based on.

@@silvy7394 can't verify since I don't have a windows phone anymore, but I am pretty sure that you couldn't enter windows directory or edit registery files

Geir er bare en av ham ham. O. M noemmmmmmange flere vill nl//komm heisann og takk til alle som herjet avdeling hei

Why

And how tf best buy sold those things

Lol

@@Amir-wv8om r/whoosh

@@Animal_On_Pawzz Also lol

I've had my PC with the start menu in the top left for ... most of the time I've owned a PC. I can't see having it on the side, and I can't stand it being on the bottom (left).

zakura ayame you’re disgusting!

@@zakuraayame5091 youre disgusting!

bios battery

@@realcartoongirl so basically a CMOS battery -facepalm-

I am astonished that the battery still works. They have a limited life, and both of mine don't hold a charge any more. Once the battery disconnects, it is basically factory reset. If you drop the device or put it in your pocket and cause a momentary disconnect if the battery terminals, same will occur. Another flaw was that it could only hold memory for a few seconds after removing your battery. The backup battery was never meant to hold memory for long because it was so ridiculously small. There was a windows mobile upgrade which used flash storage instead of ram to store stuff, but after upgrading half of your software would not work because of a complete lack of backwards compatibility.

@@realcartoongirl CMOS battery

@Jake Britton Nowadays batteries go bad, swell up, and break the device they're in.

lol1 So do I !!!!

Wtf? It recognizes 128gb?

@@eduardoavila646 I need this question answered... I myself have used devices which only say they support 32gb, 64gb etc.... But have managed to use a card with double the capacity. I suspect that the controller on the card is what gives us this ability.

@@brenj In some cases, if it's anything like laptops/desktops, manufacturers say a device can only support up to X amount of capacity if that's only what a certain storage medium is available up to at that time.

well, i have/had it too, i used it with TomTom gps software :)

worth it

@Conor HTC was actually the ODM for almost all PDA brands, like all HP, Palm, Dell Axim were manufactured by HTC for their respective brands. Even my own HP iPAQ h2200 was made by HTC with codename HTC Greatwall, so I researched quite a bit about the company back in the day even with limited internet we had 15 years ago :D

exactly. i worked for Compaq and then HP when they took over. the ipaqs were branded HTC. mine is the Roadster Hx4700 or 05 or 10 depending on where in the world you were. the Roadster would have been the first smart ph if HP had not decided against it. they have a sim card slot, or a place where it should be . mine is still going strong.

I had the HTC Titan (Sprint Mogul) (2006ish?). It's what got me into hacking my phone, back when we called rom developers 'Chefs'. Before that I had a Dell Axim x3 (2004ish?).

I had one my dad just threw to me after he got a new phone, it was pretty cool back then, supreme mp3 player.

No you used it wrong, it was pretty awesome. Showing friends videos on the go was awesome! For real!

I actually use one of these right now. Web browsing and youtube playback is still possible.

@Khaffit i play that bubble game too on my father dopod, that one is very addictive game

Well, I look at this and compare it to my first computer; an i386 with 20Mhz, 2MB of RAM and 110 MB HDD. It ran Microsoft DOS, Windows 3.0, Internet was not a known quantity at the time and it was actually designed to run software from a 1.2 MB 5.25'' floppy disk; the kind that actually was floppy unlike the much smaller and very not floppy 1.44 MB 3.5'' disks.... Boy did I waste a lot of time on that very, very first Sid Meyer's Civilization.

I played the ancient version of bubble breaker. It’s called jawbreaker on windows mobile 2003

Age of empires was available and I still have on my Toshiba e800

Crazy bubbles was even better. They had at a few really good games back then.

Yea I really want to see the internet experience.

Kappa I remember it not being too bad. The Windows phones from 07-10 were able to write on the screen and convert text - used it all the time. Also the gestures with the pen. I still have my iPaq, 2-windows phones (a Mogul), n something just like the iPaq but I can’t put my finger on what it is. Curious to find it now👍

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Yes,you will get away

Robert Jansen R/woooosh

Remember those loud tapping noises now from theses things.

Back then capacitive touch screens were useless with stylus pens and people who thought they knew technology never considered that they could merge a digitizer with capacitive screens.

I remember when almost EVERYTHING was a resistive screen besides like the original iPhone and iPod Touch. Capacitive felt so revolutionary.

Linus being linus.

^^

"Has this guy even used windows before?" would legit be an honest question... :/

well he is technically right cuz windows button depends on the system language , in English its bottom left other languages its different

@@ahmadgzail9 What language does he speak? lol...

But you know, I bet there's an option for that.

You can make the bar onto the side of the computer screen instead of the bottom.

The Hebrew version. Writing is right to left and everything else is also backwards. Including the "Start" button.

You can change the location of toolbar.

@@godschild5587 in the English (all variants) the start button is always on the left of the task bar if positioned at the top or bottom of the screen (without 3rd party software).

But Linus' first handheld died, too. lol

Yeah the good ol days when tech was clunky, proprietary hardware made replacements a nightmare and support was garbage for the same reason... the good ol days

Abe S oh boy. The proprietary battery charger connectors. Every single phone and device had a different one. The "good old days", indeed.

And they probably didn't come up with the brilliant plan to shove updates to it until it was bogged down an wouldn't boot anymore forcing you to buy a new one. (still don't know how that isn't like the ford dealership coming to your house 2 yr later an pouring sugar in your gas tank but hey what do i know)

Shane Potter having the option to keep using an outdated OS that can't run most apps properly isn't a good option also. If you don't like this whole "upgrading" idea you should stay away from technology.

I thought this to

@@pingpong1138 he even had the phone in hand

If it were me I'd yank the old router out from the attic too and just quickly set that up if need be

@@elgurideparana2796 I think some devices don't support WPA hotspot, only wpa2, but one without a passcode should work so yah I'm with you

Because it’s rushed crappy video I guess.

Like Galaxy Note10

like the iPhone 7

chinese made phones still have m and alot of them perform really well

no you can still find them in wires

Sadly

G K damn only hurts because it’s true

At least he shows you that here are some things money can't buy. Sentimental Value > Monetary Value.

That feature is only compatible with WPA2 as well, making it incompatible.

@@ArquerO53 you can change that or remove the password making it possible every device use it

@@stoptexting You can't use anything other than WPA2, I know because I have a Note 9 and tried it. Doing it with no password is probably a no-go as well as Linus' phone contains sensitive work data.

@@ArquerO53 You really think it is possible to hack into his phone with hotspot feature and it would happen in 1 hour (max) it would take to test this pocketPC?

@@TheSandowS No, I don't think so. It's not about being super paranoid about that, it's that the other businesses they work with are very stringent about data security in the contracts they have with LMG. Red tape and bureaucracy is a pain, but you risk damaging your professional relationships if you "slip".