- So much smaller than I expected.
Rap man and rap woman.
What is rap woman?
And what does voices mean?
This is the smallest phone in the world.
It's right on the box.
Or maybe it isn't, I don't care.
What I do care about
is that it's the most popular phone in prison.
It's called a boss beater
because it's designed from the ground up
to beat a body orifice scanning chair
called, well, the boss.
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(upbeat music)
- We'll begin by getting our equipment together.
We got our banana for scale, our phone protectors,
melon, a drill.
And of course the Zanco Tiny T1.
The first thing I get to do is unbox it.
This box is a trip.
Three day standby time,
that's good if you have to keep it in hiding.
You can't just like charge it, right?
Nano SIM, Bluetooth 3.0, got a lot of languages,
That's really important.
And the voices.
Man, woman, child, old, cartoon, young, Optimus-
- [David] Ooh
- Duck, robot, Eva, Wall-E, rap man, and rap woman.
(David laughing)
- What is rap woman?
And what does voices mean?
Does it do real time voice disguising?
Shut up, it does.
(laughter)
Oh my God, it's so much smaller than I expected.
Looking at this box, is the picture actual size?
No, not quite.
Even in my tiny hands.
Got a mic here.
This has gotta be for noise canceling.
What looks like potentially another mic hole here
and this would've taken some real engineering,
because in order for you to hear anyone
that you're actually talking to,
the mic has to have a really
actually fairly sophisticated pickup pattern.
There's one screw, what appears to be a speaker grille.
Oh my God, it comes with a silicone case.
How adorable is that?
Now, by this point in the video,
you're probably wondering who the heck Zanco is,
and how this came to be.
And the product is actually the result
of a successful Kickstarter campaign from back in 2018
that raised 246,000 US dollars.
Why?
Because they set out with a very specific goal,
and according to our sources
they've done a pretty bang up job of it.
Let's go ahead and open it up, so we can take a closer look.
I feel like I'm working on a toy, but it's not.
It's a fully functional phone.
Ooh, hey, I think it comes apart from the front.
There's your display on a ribbon cable.
Is it all LED?
- [David] It is.
- [Linus] Wow! - [David] Half-inch all LED.
- Your membrane button pad.
Oh my God.
Okay, there's your speaker driver right there.
There is your tiny lithium battery, SIM slot.
Shielded processor, RAM, and basically everything else.
I can imagine you guys thinking
build quality seems pretty rubbish.
Why would anybody pay for this thing at all?
And the answer is that Zanco knows their target market
and the Tiny T1 is designed to meet it.
Even the chassis material, sure,
they could have gone premium metal in space gray.
But there's no point beating the boss
if it's just gonna get caught in the metal detector, right?
Another example, micro USB.
Yeah, that's what you want.
Because it needs to be as small as humanly possible
so that it can be smuggled into the prison.
Because of these qualities, people not only pay for them,
but according to our contact on the inside,
they're worth anywhere from 500 to 1,000 US dollars.
(laughing)
This or iPhone right?
- 100%.
I mean, if you're putting it in your butt.
- Yeah, enough chit chat though.
We gotta turn it on, right?
That is a very small screen.
Still having trouble there.
Just gotta get that on there.
I'm just imagining like the giantest dude
with this thing now too.
Check this out.
We got two bars, four bars.
This is Jake's phone actually.
So I'm not gonna check his text, but maybe Jake.
Hey Jake, are you in earshot?
Or like, I can text him.
(phone clatters)
Let's figure out how the-
Is that the default ring tone?
A gunshot.
(laughing)
You get one line of text per scroll.
18 unread message.
Seven characters max.
(gunshot ringtone)
Are you texting him right now?
(gunshot sound effect)
(laughter)
Inbox lttstore.com.
Oh, okay, so that's from Colin then.
It looks even funnier in your hands.
- I can't tell if I'm being memed right now.
- No, no, you're not.
Oh my God, you're like changing options.
Cancel, done, okay.
- Dude they're all voicemail ones.
Why don't I get these on my phone?
That's weird.
- It's using 40% of its screen to tell me
I'm looking at the message.
I just wanna read the message.
I think I've kind of figured out
the interface at this point though, we've got a D-pad here.
This goes back and this goes forward.
So I'm in the inbox now.
Sent messages, I can go back here.
Message, and now I can scroll through
all my different things, check that out.
We got the bit dialer.
You know what, I'm not actually sure if this is a D-pad.
This might just be an up and down rocker.
A silent mode is super important.
Our source told us that there have been instances
of these being found and confiscated
because they rang at an inopportune time
or even because they vibrated
the individual's self in transport.
Magic voice.
Oh, here we go, here we go!
Oh, this is this voice changer thing.
So it's on none right now.
That's fine, we'll start normal.
It's gotta be time to make a call.
- [Automated Voice] Seven, seven, eight.
- What?
There's no way you want your phone going
six, zero, four.
Ah, here we go.
Let's play with some ring tones.
(ring tone playing)
I'm liking that, it's got kind of like
an '80s action movie kind of vibe.
- [David] Is there any vibration?
- Oh yeah.
(ringtone music playing)
These are amazing.
(phone ringing)
Oh, that's so boring!
I definitely like the last one.
(ringtone song playing)
Feel like I'm in an action movie.
(object clatters)
(gunshot sound)
Yeah, it's gonna have to be that.
I feel so dainty.
I feel like a dainty lady.
Wow, am I on speaker?
Hello?
No, it's not.
Wow, I really nailed the alignment on the speaker there.
Actually, I guess it's kind of easy
when the thing basically like fits inside your ear.
(voice modulated)
Colin, you can put it in your ear.
I am now next level.
Next level Bluetooth earpiece douche bag.
I got the whole phone in my ear.
- [David] I think you have the voice changer on already.
- Oh, I have the voice changer on
Oh crap.
Oh, I'm on duck mode.
- [David] There you go.
- How's my voice quality now?
- [David] It's significantly more Linus.
It's a little quieter, definitely a little quieter.
- Little quieter, okay, cool, okay.
Got your phone book, your call history.
You can message, mute, volume and, oh yeah, magic voice.
Well, you guys already heard duck by accident,
but let's go ahead and try some more.
- [David] Optimus, yeah!
- Okay.
I would like to order a strike on the Decepticons
and a large pepperoni pizza.
- I think there are Decepticons that do sound like this
but it is not Optimus.
- No, Okay.
Oh, we haven't even shown your voice quality yet.
Okay, I'm gonna put it right next to my mic.
Okay, Colin, tell me a little story.
- I'll tell you a little story
about this man who once dropped everything
he got his hands on-
- All right, all right, that's enough of that story.
Not bad though, right?
Like it's totally usable.
Hey Colin, you whippersnapper
or am I sounding a little older than I used to?
You are now receiving your instructions
from the robot known as Wall-E.
There's not much variation.
It's either you get like a high-pitched distortion
or a low-pitched distortion.
And then they called it like three different things.
Okay, last one, last one.
Collin, Do I sound like a rap woman?
Whatever a rap woman would be.
- [Colin] Ironically, you sound pretty much the same.
- Thank you for that.
This is my new cellular telephone.
It's Linus sized.
- What?
- Hi, Colin.
- Oh, hello.
(laughs)
- No, it's for putting in your butt.
- No, it's not.
- [David] Yeah, it is.
- It really is.
- For like prison people?
- Yeah.
- Why do we have that?
- So that we can see how well it fits in your butt
and how good the reception is from your butt.
- You have fun.
- All right, hanging up.
See you later.
Call ended.
I can't believe we haven't already done this
but here's a short circuit banana for scale, LTT store.com.
Wait, we haven't sent a text message yet.
Now in prisons where have a roommate,
it is against prison code, according to our contact
to snitch on someone else for having a phone.
But there still might be reasons that you may wish
to communicate a little bit more discreetly.
So let's go ahead.
Oh, it's T-9.
Oh, blast from the past.
Okay, it's not predictive T-9 mode.
Okay, I'm trying to text you Colin.
- [Colin] Okay.
- Hi Colin.
One another interesting fact,
people will sneak items like this
but not this into prisons all the time.
During the first 30 days at least we know this
about the Canadian penal system
you can get what's called a pen pack
containing comfort items
in the first 30 days of your incarceration.
They've seen everything from phones
inside bigger items like stereos.
There was even to modified PS three
inside a PlayStation one case because you're not allowed
to have an internet connected console
but a not internet connected console is okay.
Smart TVs will have their USB ports disabled
for example, because inmates will often have USBs
with a bunch of porn on them to watch.
And apparently that's not okay in prison.
I mean, why would you?
- You gotta use your imagination.
- We already know the tiny T1 contains so little metal
that a metal detector wouldn't be able to pick it up.
But there are other ways that officials can catch devices
like this during screening, including with an EMF meter.
So what we're going to do is we're gonna check
the electromagnetic radiation of a regular phone
the Zanco T1, and then the Zanco T1 embedded in the bowels
of a cantaloupe.
We could have done this another way, but I chickened out.
And frankly, I don't think anyone needs to experience that.
Measuring RF in a space like this is not the easiest thing.
We have so much freaking interference running around here.
So we built ourselves a junky Faraday cage.
We are grounded.
We're able to roll this thing over
and we're gonna do all of our tests inside this.
So it's gonna sit here.
And then what was the idea to just put it in there?
- [David] To turn on and turn it to like Watts per meter
or the amp setting there?
(phone ringing)
- Oh, someone's calling Jake.
Hi, this is Jake's receptionist.
All right, so we're enclosed in grounded metal.
Jake's on the butt phone, you should get this.
- Oh my God.
I didn't just inhale helium,
I think it's just a piece of shit.
- Oh, it might have a voice effect on.
- Oh wait, apparently this phone
has like voice effect things.
Anyways, what's up?
- 1.8 Watts per meter when it's broadcasting
and then it kind of takes a break and switches radios.
About 500 milli watts per meter.
So between 500 milli watts and 1200 milli watts.
- Let's try the Zanco
- 1.9 mil micro watts per meters square.
- Okay, so basically nothing.
- Yeah, I don't think this is the best LED cage.
I made it about 20 minutes.
- But still we can see there's a market difference
between a normal phone-
- Yeah, its still ringing.
- It has only two bars compared to four though.
So it's definitely doing something.
And we can see that there's a huge difference
between it sitting in here with this
and with a normal phone.
So it's already pretty negligible.
- So then we need to know if it drops to like zero,
if we put it in a melon.
(drilling)
- It smells good.
It's a good one.
But before we insert our tiny T1
into our artificial body cavity here,
I wanna talk safety and best practices.
Obviously the last thing you want is for your tiny T1,
which you spent way too much money on,
it's only $47 at retail, to get confiscated.
You're gonna have to hide your charger
and your charging cable, but that's probably manageable
but you especially wanna hide your tiny T1.
And when it's time to do that, one of the best ways
to do it is to cover it, if you know what I mean.
So this is a condominium, condom for short.
The phone lives in there, sorry.
This is to keep your SIM card clean.
Just need to-
- [David] body cavity looks a little small.
- Yeah, it's a tight body cavity.
- [Colin] You can just ream it out
with the drill a little bit more.
Give it a little the spiral.
(drilling)
- Colin, go ahead and gimme a call.
He's calling, get it.
(laughs)
(phone ringing)
- Well you better hope that you don't receive a phone call
while you're going through the check-in.
That's a thing we did.
We've officially reached a new low.
Shark jumping is way in the rear view mirror.
My assistant or my ass, as I call it.
- Oh, don't.
2.3 milli watts per meter squared.
And it's like bouncing up to yeah,
it's well around 3, 2, 3.
And now it's in micro Watts.
So it's 0.0011 micro watts.
And then it goes and it tries to connect
to the network again, I'm assuming it's lost reception.
So it's saving battery.
- We would strongly recommend that if you're trying
to sneak it anywhere while it is is more difficult to detect
than a fully featured modern smartphone,
it would be best to put it in airplane mode.
- Yeah, I mean you wouldn't want to try and answer the call
- Because that would be a pretty (beeps) experience.
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- [David] You can have your butler answer.
- You can have your butler answer.
(laughs)
If you guys enjoyed this but you don't need a phone
that fits in your body cavities,
maybe check out our video on the fair phone.
It's a little more practical
and kind of a more sustainable approach to phone design.