- Hey guys, it's Justin.
And I just wanted to say I love you guys happy new year,
if I haven't wished you one already.
Welcome to the new year to start this new year off right,
I thought that I would do a completely totally unique video
no one else is doing this.
You'll never see another video like this one
on the internet especially today.
It is my first cell phone.
Actually had been planning on doing this video
for a pretty long time.
So I had to order all of the accessories on eBay
because the battery was completely shot.
You guys are gonna find this kind of crazy but I
basically refused to have a phone.
Because I hated talking on the phone so much
when I was younger and the only thing that really got me
into the phone was when I was text messaging.
So the phones that I had previous to this one
were my parent's phones.
So my mom gave me her hand me down
razor flip phone that she had
and then there was the Samsung phone that I had.
That was also my parent's and I was looking it up
trying to find it.
It was similar to this but it was a gold color
like this one.
I'm pretty sure this was like the phone
but this is what it looked like also it was folded ever
had like this little cord on it,
so that I would never dropped it.
Never drop it.
Yeah. Okay.
But this is the first one that I bought
with my very own money.
I went on my own plan.
I hopped off the family plan.
This is the palm tree.
I think it was like the palm Treo 750 if I recall.
So this was released in January of 2007.
It says the internal memory is 128 megabytes.
300 megahertz Samson processor, 240 by 240 touch display.
That was probably one of the coolest things,
is being able to have a touch display
coming from these older phones that...
I just didn't care like I didn't like talking on the phone.
I absolutely hated it.
But this had a stylist and this stylists here.(laughs)
I'll never forget when I was watching the keynote,
when Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone
and he was talking about who needs a stylus?
Yes Steve who does need a stylist?
Absolutely nobody.
Then let's take a look at this phone.
So you've got your headphone jack,
you've got your charging ports here.
The stylists docking station
and we've got Camera.
which I thought was also interesting here,
is it had like this little mirror here.
So you'd be able to see yourself,
when you were taking a picture.
This thing has absolutely...
Mean this has been through a lot of things.
This was my baby.
Was also crazy, because I've been on Twitter
for an extremely long time.
And it's interesting because back in the day,
Twitter was basically made to just be
usable from text messages.
Like you would text Twitter, like probably on here,
I have a thread of me texting, Twitter,
like, that's how you would tweet.
You didn't go to the web.
There wasn't a Twitter app, you texted Twitter.
And the reason that Twitter was originally 140 characters
is because the SMS limit back in the day was 160 characters.
So they wanted to give you enough space
to be able to send your tweet
but also enough space for your username.
So that's kind of the reason,
behind the whole hundred 140 characters.
Which is kind of interesting because a lot of people
don't even know that.
So if you didn't know that, leave a comment below
and if you didn't know that,
I guess also leave a comment below.
But I'm about to boot this up,
I did manage to get it working before
but that was probably like eight months ago,
when I thought about doing this video.
And I wanna show you guys where the battery goes,
pop this open I don't even know,
where the battery is to be honest with you.
But the one that was in here didn't work,
so I just disposed of it prop earlier.
Volume buttons here, power button and of course
a very nice crack here.
Saw my first videos too
I was kind of making fun of the stylists.
You might remember this video and if you don't remember it,
just disregard the next few seconds.
Do you have my stylist?
- Did I just find your stylist?
- Why do you have my stylist?
It's so crazy how fast time it can just pass you by
and just looking at this phone
and then holding it up next to this iPhone.
It's kind of overwhelming.
It's crazy to think that this phone
I probably got around 2007 like my entire existence.
My whole life is so completely just different.
I was still living in Pittsburgh
where I had just moved to San Francisco at that point.
Holy Moly!
It's turning on already!
Okay what is this saying to me?
What are you saying?
"My battery is almost empty."
Well cause I don't freaking have a battery!
What the heck is that background?
Oh am swipe, okay.
That was clearly doesn't work.
Preferences brightness, okay.
Is that better?
just go scroll through these contexts here real quick.
This is a private scrolling time not for your eyes.
These are all of my friends from college.
Like this is so cool I should go through here
and text every single person from my phone
and say hey do you remember me?
Okay I'm gonna show you an email.
This is from Urban Outfitters.
Hope you're enjoying it.
So it used to have a blog, it was called
tastyblogsnack.com.
So here's an email from someone that says,
"I'm on Twitter, but no one will read it.
"I use Google Talk."
What!
Let's see what's in my downloads.
The phone is off.
Do I turned it on?
Oh No.
What about the camera?
Wow!
Look at this camera.
Obviously there's no front facing.
Should I take a picture?
Are you ready?
Did I take it?
(gasps) This is crazy.
149 K, how am I even get this myself is a question?
Okay, here I'm zooming into 2x.
This little mirror thing is cool.
Look at this!
Oh my gosh! Oh my goodness!
I'll save it.
Oh my gosh I'm making a video.
Hey, hi.
So this is a video from my palm Treo.
Let's have a flashback to 2007.
It's coming to the messaging.
Wow, hello!
Happy New Year from 1231 2007.
And the rest are messages from people saying to call me.
Check all them.
Someone asked me to her breakfast.
It's now time to look at some pictures and some videos.
So here's the video that I just made.
Do I add volume?
(soft music)
Does it have a speaker?
Do you work?
So this is the last picture, that I took on this phone.
This looks like, I think...
I'm not sure where this is actually.
So it looks like this is from North Carolina
my family, we used to go to North Carolina all the time.
This looks like a concert.
No idea what this was but it's someone, it's a boy.
Oh my god!
So I was on the kill point.
I was an extra, so that's from.
San Francisco my gosh Crazy Mocha.
Snakes on a Plane.
Oh my god!
This was in...
I think that this was in Justin TVs place.
Like their first office.
What a great shot of me!
Look at me looking so dreamy.
This was San Francisco.
Wow, good look, good look.
What are we doing?
I don't know what we're doing.
Oh, french fries, okay.
Alright.
The hottest dog.
This was...
It looks like one of my first times in LA.
There's this website called groovr,
that I used to use,
was kind of like a location based social network.
Oh, there we are.
That's my friend Karen.
Oh, my gosh!
This is so wild reliving 2007.
Let me see if there's anything that might be,
super scandalous that you guys might be into.
Where do you see this scandalous shot.
Super scandalous.
There's all a lot.
Oh, my gosh!
It's Leo Laporte.
This was from San Francisco.
I believe this was for Macworld,
I believe this actually was the time when they
announced the iPhone.
What is that?
That's Starbucks?
Yep, tell that cranberry bliss bar any day.
Anything else scandalous?
I'm so not scandalous that it's obnoxious.
It's me and Dez, oh wow.
This is so great.
I'm really enjoying making this video right now,
because it's kinda cool just to sort of look back
just see things and remember.
Because I have a really bad memory,
which is one of the reasons I actually started vlogging
in the first place was to just kind of document
the things that I've done and my friends.
And mostly just to have a good time
and be able to look back on it.
Anyway, all jokes aside, this was such a fun video
and actually there are a bunch of other YouTubers
that have been making videos about their first phone,
so I'm going to try to collect all of those
and put them all in the description below.
So go say hi to all of the other people who made this video.
And let me know in the comments below.
What was your first phone.
This was a really fun trip down memory lane.
I wanna go through
and just look at some more of the photos
and read some of my old text messages.
I just kind of relive that era in time
because it's really crazy that it was sort of before
the first iPhone.
But it was kind of like my first phone,
like this was my first big girl purchase.
And then I moved to San Francisco.
And then I lived in LA and I don't know what I was doing,
to be honest with you.
Like, my parents told me that I shouldn't leave,
that I should say home and I should move away.
But I didn't listen.
And I was trying to talk to my mom about it before.
It was like, "what did I say?"
"What did I say, when I was moving?"
She's like, "You just said that you were leaving.
"And you left."
And I remember I packed this hideous pink suitcase.
I had a light that, you may remember that
caught on fire several times.
In the light is video that I did.
I basically moved across the country with one suitcase,
my mac book that light and I don't even know
if I had a dream.
I absolutely had no idea what I was doing.
I moved here just because I had made one trip here
and I was like this where I'm gonna move.
And I did.
And I think looking back at that
it was probably one of the biggest decisions in my life,
because I didn't really have a job,
I was still making YouTube videos.
But I had basically no income.
Like the money that I was making was from design jobs,
a little bit of kind of doing,
not really sponsored stuff
because it wasn't really a thing back then I guess.
We're talking like 2007ish.
And it's really crazy just to see how all of
everything has changed,
myself, you guys a lot of you have kind of grown up with me
so it's really cool that a lot of you are still here.
So if you are new Hello Welcome to the family
and if you've been here for a really long time,
that's incredible and I love you and thanks for just,
I don't know being here and watching and supporting.
Cause I do see you guys I read the comments,
I read Twitter I'm always on Instagram.
And I appreciate you.
So thank you for appreciating and supporting me
and I will see you guys next video.
See you as it's coming up.
So look for some serious videos coming soon.
If you're not already subscribed to my channel,
please do so.
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and in the meantime I'm gonna go end this video now.
So see you whenever I see you.
Bye.
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