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- Welcome back to today's video.
Lincoln, do you know what we're going
to see what's inside of?
- I have absolutely no clue.
- We are gonna see what's inside of
the world's first cell phone.
World's first mobile phone.
- Is it like as big as a computer?
- It's pretty dang big.
We're gonna have to go grab it and show you.
A portion of today's video is sponsored by Constant Contact,
and we will talk about them in a little bit.
But first, the world's first mobile phone.
- Who makes it?
Is it like IBM?
- Motorola is the company that made it.
What year do you think the world's first mobile phone
was sold to the masses?
- 1989.
- Ohh, that's pretty good.
- Really?
- That's not it.
1983 in the United States, 1985 in the UK.
So I was three years old, and five years old.
So we bought the UK version of this phone,
and it was not easy to track down.
You can't just find these things super easy.
A lot of them are in museums.
Thanks to some online websites, I was able to find one in,
where was it?
It was in like, oh, what was the name of that country?
Can't even remember.
Somewhere near Russia.
It was somewhere near Russia.
Anyway, let's get this phone.
Don't look, Lincoln.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
- Don't look.
Hiding it.
- Yep.
(charger knocking on counter)
This is the charger for it.
- Wireless charging.
(buzzer sound)
Nope, kind of wireless charging.
(buzzer sound)
- Yeah, so this is the charger for the phone.
This is how you do it.
You put it on there.
It's the base plate for it.
Let's take a look at the phone.
And my wife actually had one.
Lincoln, close your eyes.
Lincoln, can you hear me?
- Yes.
It is massive!
- (laughs) Look at this thing.
- Look at the antenna on top.
- A lot of people call the Nokia phone the brick,
and it's like a brick,
but this is the original brick.
This is the Motorola Dynatac 8000X.
- The antenna's just as big as the phone.
- The antenna is big, and what's cool is
you can just like take it off.
- And now you're really talking to a brick.
Hello.
- (laughs) 1983, when this thing came out,
it was a game changer.
The evolution of tech over time is a huge thing in our world
and in my lifetime.
And this was the world's first cell phone.
It sold for 4,000 US dollars.
When it launched in the UK, it was 3000 pounds.
So, it really was somebody like you're a Wall Street trader,
you're somebody that's in construction,
you're somebody that really, really has to be connected.
Today, to a lot of you that are watching,
probably most of you that are watching,
you don't even know a time in life
when people didn't have cell phones,
but that was my life until I was 21 years old.
Nobody used cell phones.
I know they had these out,
but it was really only for fancy, super rich people,
or people that had like some high profile jobs
that their companies would pay for it.
My wife is from Fairbanks, Alaska,
and her dad worked on construction
and built a lot of buildings, and he had this thing.
And sometimes my wife remembers when she was a little girl,
driving down the street and using this phone,
and being at the intersection and looking over at people,
and they thought that she was the fanciest person ever.
So, here it is in comparison.
- Yeah, wow.
- Side view.
This one's a little thinner on the side view.
And then the front view.
This one's actually thinner on the front view.
- Technology in what, 30 years, 35 years?
It's a big difference.
This is a very commonly used smartphone from today, it is--
- [Lincoln] 6.6 ounces?
- Zero pounds, 6.6 ounces.
Is that right?
- [Lincoln] That sounds right, yeah.
- This is the world's first mobile phone.
It is one pound, 12.5 ounces.
- [Both] Wow.
- Wait.
Let's do another measurement.
Let's give it, for our European friends, this is 188 grams.
Compared to 806 grams.
That's quite a difference.
- So, this is about eight times,
seven or eight times heavier.
- Yeah.
It's interesting though, that the tech inside of this,
is thousands of times better
than the tech inside of here, obviously.
So we can plug this in,
but I think it was back in like 1996,
these stopped working on the network.
They switched over to like a GSM network,
I think it's called, for current cell phones that they use,
and this was outdated, that you can't even use it.
So, I thought about charging it,
but you can tell it's like a European,
some sort of European adapter that's on here.
These are now literally a brick.
This is as good as, this is all it's good for.
I want to see some of the chips inside of it
and see what it looks like.
We'll try to do it in a nice way, without breaking things.
But guess what, no promises.
We are not a perfect channel of taking things apart
and putting them back together.
If you didn't know that,
then you haven't been watching for the last six years.
Things might break today, tah-dah.
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Now on to the rest of the video.
The phone battery life must be massive on this
because this whole part right here is actually the battery.
There's a little clip in the back.
You pull that, undo it, and then--
- Oh, yeah.
- Dun, dun, dun, dun dun.
What's that?
No refund, okay.
Here we are.
Alexander batteries, rechargeable nickel cadmium.
May explode if disposed of a fire.
Oh no.
There's the backside of it.
You can see where the battery clips in.
And then there's the little antenna port
that's right there on the back.
I found the perfect little star guy.
- [Lincoln] Tools!
- [Dan] Boom.
- [Lincoln] Yes.
- Four screws on the back.
Oh.
- Oh, Whoa.
What?
- Oh my gosh.
Okay.
- This is like the bulk of the phone.
- This looks really cool, actually.
(upbeat music)
We're getting in, and you can see the inside of it.
It's a crazy little board.
But I would imagine that this antenna is attached,
maybe I should actually undo the antenna.
Okay, I can look down in there,
and it does look like it's connected.
I wonder if I can stick this in.
(phone cracks)
- [Both] Oh!
Okay.
- [Dan] We pulled it out.
- Wow.
- What's inside of the world's first cell phone?
I'll tell you what, it looks a lot different
than today's current cell phones.
I mean the antenna part right there.
- Look at all the metal that's surrounding it too.
Like around the entire phone.
- [Dad] There's so much metal.
- [Lincoln] That is a little bit weird.
That makes it so heavy.
- That is why it's so heavy.
And it is a brick.
There's more screws, I'm going in.
- [Lincoln] What is that?
Like, why is there just like one large wire?
Do you think that's connected to the battery?
- That is what goes all the way up into the antenna.
That was connected up into there.
That's why I was having a hard time.
We might've just broken the antenna a little bit.
Cause that's supposed to go inside there.
Here we go, another screw coming off.
Okay, so I took off those three,
but I think we need to get off those mini bolts.
Look at that, it came off.
- No way.
- We got that one.
- Yes.
- I don't know about those weird ones.
(upbeat music)
We are nearing the danger zone.
We are nearing the zone of things are about to get broken.
Cause I am a cave man,
And if I can't get into it, I break stuff.
Pop out so I don't have to destroy you.
If I just give it a little nudge,
maybe it won't destroy it totally.
Just a little nudge.
Just a little nudge with this little guy.
(hammer hits cell phone)
I don't want to scratch my nice table.
I think I have an idea.
And I think a lot of you are not gonna like this idea.
Here we are with the world's first cell phone.
I'm on top of my slide.
We're gonna do a pretty intense drop test here.
Should I drop it first or throw it,
give it some force, Lincoln?
- [Lincoln] Just drop first, drop test first.
- All right, we're dropping it.
In three, two, one.
(cell phone hitting the ground)
- [Lincoln] Um.
- [Dad] Any luck?
- [Lincoln] I don't see anything.
- Drop number two.
You ready, Hunter?
Here we go.
(cell phone hitting the ground)
- [Lincoln] Okay, so it looks like it kind of popped out.
(cell phone hitting the ground)
Oh, that scared me.
(cell phone hitting the ground)
(Hunter laughing)
- [Lincoln] Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Look, you can totally see it, the metal.
- [Hunter] We're kind of inside of it.
- [Lincoln] Yeah.
- [Hunter] We need some more.
- Three, two, one.
(cell phone hitting the ground)
- [Lincoln] Ohh, okay.
(cell phone hitting the ground)
Okay, okay.
- Okay, I'm coming down.
I'm coming down.
It's falling into pieces right now.
This is the way we do things here at "What's Inside?".
- That totally worked.
- We're totally in it.
I think we take this inside.
(upbeat music)
This little metal part fell out of it,
says it was made in Malaysia.
We're gonna pull out the back compartment.
- [Lincoln] Glad we got through the metal.
Yes.
- [Dan] Oh my.
Oh my gosh.
- What is this?
- Look inside of that.
Look at all the chips that are stacked right here.
Just entirely stacked.
- And they don't even look like they're that organized too.
That's what I love, they're like--
- No, they're pretty organized.
- [Lincoln] They're kind of tilted.
- [Dan] Well that's cause we smashed it
off of a slide at our pool.
- [Lincoln] Yeah, that is true, I forgot.
- These are all just the chips that help it operate.
These are some giant chip boards.
Like, I'm gonna pull this off a little bit
so you can see it.
Here's one.
Wow.
- Yeah, but these are all like hooked together.
This is so fancy.
- This is top of the line technology in 1980s.
And this was a game changer,
and led the way and paved the way
for all the smartphones that we have today.
(cell phone cracking)
We are in.
- We have done it.
- Okay, there's a metal case that protects that.
Here's the red chip board.
Look at that.
There's the red lights.
So right here, all the different numbers that come through
when you're calling somebody, and it has the numbers,
there's the lights for it.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
That's what it sounds like.
Here's the ear piece, for you to hear it right there.
See, ear piece.
And even now, with this size,
it is still bigger than most current smartphones right now.
This is the Motorola 8000X, the world's first smartphone.
I think I'm gonna put this in a baggy,
and send it to one of my friends
that knows how to fix things.
- He can't face this (laughs).
Look at this.
- Nevermind.
We are going to put this in our shelf,
to show our fancy things.
These are some of the things that we've cut open.
I'm just gonna set it right there.
And then, we're just not going to tell our friend
that properly takes apart technology.
Let's just not tell him.
I don't think he's gonna see this video.
If you know I'm talking about, don't DM him.
This was really fun.
I hope you liked it.
This is an old school "What's Inside?"
breaking things open to see how it works.
This is the type of curiosity
that started our entire YouTube channel, and is fun.
Whenever we can get back
to just good old fashion taking something apart,
learning something, and seeing how far we've come.
- Very old phone.
- By deconstructing it.
- Right there.
Very old.
- Thanks for watching.
- Thank you.
- This far in the video.
- Bye.
- You're the real OGs.
Pew, pew, pew, pew.
These are cool.
I love these things.
(metal hits the table)
Bye.
Some people question our methods,
but our methods are undefeated in breaking things open.
Undefeated.
Have we ever not been able to open something up?
Maximum is 50 pounds, so don't push on it too hard.
Let's not do that.
Let's not smash it.
- That's the best part about scales.
- It is a fun thing to smash them.
This phone has been featured in a lot of movies.
And one of them that you might remember is,
for copyright reasons we can't even say the name of it.
But--
- Dinosaurs on an island.
- And it may have been the third one,
the third movie with the dinosaurs.
- Yes.
- And it wasn't this version.
This version was not waterproof,
but a later version, soon after was waterproof.
And at some point, a dinosaur eats a person.
- And was the only phone on the Island.
- And they were on the phone when they got eaten.
So, not to spoil the movie,
which you don't even know what movie it is right now.
But later on, they hear a phone ringing.
They reach into a giant pile of dinosaur poop.
- Because they need to get off the Island.
- Do we have to say dung, poop?
What's another term we could use?
- Dinosaur--
- [Hunter] Feces.
- Feces, fancey.
- Dinosaur feces?
- Sound fancy.
- Dinosaur excretions out of the rear section?
Lots of different words we could use.
- Very broken.
- Don't message him on social.
Don't do it.
- [Lincoln] Oh, oops, that was recording.
Sorry, Jason.
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