The Thinnest Smartphone in the World.

just look at it that's ridiculous so while i've been making other videos for the past few months i've also been rounding up seven of the weirdest and strangest

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s you'll ever see so number seven is the galaxy s4 zoom i have A bit of luck with this one, I logged into eBay and it was in front of me, but this is a special phone because while it may look like just a standard 2013 device from the front, turn it around and you realize we have a bit. of an imposter in our hands, but do you want to know the crazy part?

All this is there so that this phone can have a 10 times optical zoom. The modern Galaxy S21 Ultra also has a 10x optical zoom. It's just that this one doesn't. It looks like it was let loose on an all-you-can-eat buffet. Samsung wasn't wrong to say that Zoom would be a key selling point in the future, it's just that shortly after this phone came out, companies discovered a more efficient way to do it. see the traditional method and how it was done on the s4 zoom as well as point and shoot cameras in general, is to have a lot of pieces of glass stacked up that by changing the distance between them can magnify things without losing quality, but then came the Eureka Moment of multiple cameras.

What if instead of a single camera in front of which you have to put all this moving glass so that it can achieve all these different magnifications, we only had two fixed cameras, one that can capturing a wide view and another that can capture that wide view, this worked so well that in 2021 all

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s use this technology and if we test these two phones side by side, I mean obviously we are comparing 2013 with 2021 here , but it's great that we are now at a stage. where in most respects this clever engineering combined with a bit of software magic can surpass the pure optics of the last generation.

Number six is ​​no phone. Number six is ​​phoneless and seems like the pinnacle of stupidity, but it worked and thanks to Huel for sponsoring this video, so this is the packaging and it's probably its best feature. No, you can literally do more with the bag it comes in than you can with the thing itself. Is it just me or does this phoneless phone look suspiciously like another not-so-innovative device? but what this company did was based on the growing feeling that technology is ruining our lives. They told people: Do you feel the constant need to have your phone with you?

To which most people probably said yes. Do you wish you could be less attached to him? to which most people probably also said yes, the solution is simple, keep our thing, instead people bought into his vision of this idea that the no-phone was effectively the anti-smartphone, how your brand takes zero megapixel photos and has zero gigabytes of storage and what the toilet bowl is like. sturdy because it's a plastic sheet, it was completely funded on kickstarter, the creators were invited to all kinds of interviews and even a ted talk and they still sell them today, six years later, although when I tried to get one there was a huge stock. shortage and it took them like an extra month to deliver it to me, but that's even crazier, they are selling packages, the family plan for the couple's cure, even the employee gift package and they launched a tracking device.

I really wish I was joking but this is a real product and I'm here trying to think what the return process would be like in this case, hey my phoneless air doesn't seem to work let me take a look it looks good to me okay no I really don't like this phone. Can I get my money back? Of course, return the device first. You're just here with all due respect, sir, that's your hand number four. Imagine this headline, former Apple CEO starts his own. phone company and not just any CEO of Apple, this was John Scully, the guy who replaced Steve Jobs back in the day and his idea was interesting that most of the 200 budget devices at the time were purely functional and had little use for them. or no attention to hardware.

The design or even software design so cleverly created the company ob with the aim of producing phones that had that Apple brag factor that was designed in the cool of Silicon Valley, but for emerging markets like India and Africa, and Just given the fact that Apple has such a reputation for only doing things when they know they're going to be huge, the sky was the limit here and I would even go so far as to say that the presentation was promising, it was a great demonstration of how the company could do something premium and has a practical price it's just for a trendy focus device sure looks an awful lot like a toilet seat the bottom is rounded the top is flat generally looks like the company built a rounded phone first and then realized Mind you, wait a second, this looks like every other phone does it differently and I think this type of mentality is also what led them to a screen that rises above the rest of the phone.

I think the idea was to prevent your fingers from resting on the screen, but yes, this is as impractical as it seems more fundamental: if you enter a new market with a new product and a new brand, the only thing you need to make sure The absolute thing to do is to solve a problem that people have because yes, they could do it. They argue that they've built a cooler phone for people who like bathrooms, but for most of the markets they were targeting, being visually unique was far from the main concern, so it failed, they went back to the drawing board, they relaunched it and it failed again and that was it.

Shortly before John Scully started denying his involvement in the company, a pretty funny story, but now is where things start to get really curious. This is the K1 Impulse marketed as the most secure device on the planet and I have to start by saying this. This is easily one of the top 5 smartphone unboxing experiences you've probably ever had, so if we remove the packaging and the case, we're left with two magnetic doors and inside them is everything you could expect, but also everything which you probably didn't expect. We have the phone that says privacy is the new order.

It feels like I'm joining a cult. We have a sturdy insert with a full menu of paperwork, as well as a very unusual shaped case and of course you can take this cape. off and besides just a charger and a USB cable, you get a full three-course meal of travel adapters, but then we go back to the top layer and you find a carbon fiber wireless charging pad, a couple of really high-end devices. spectrum. wireless headphones with a screen on top that shows the battery percentage and then you remove this part in the middle and you have three private keys that will make sense in a minute and then what is this?

If anyone has any ideas let me know and If you thought it couldn't be weird, I mean look at it in a nutshell, this may come as a surprise after that ridiculously ornate unboxing experience, but this phone was a scam, the company had created its own supposedly ultra-secure cryptographic data operating system. these keys you actually have to connect to the phone so you can get into your own secure vault and it's the strangest thing that they tried to legitimize their own security by inviting people to hack them. The first thing you see on this website is hackers for a Million dollars, could you imagine any legitimate company doing this and their number one selling point was that this was the first and only phone that ran voice over blockchain or vob protocol ?

I mean, if we're all making up words here, then a subtitle channel would be commoner, you've probably heard quite a bit about the blockchain, it's the basis of Bitcoin, but at its core it's just a decentralized way of storing data so it doesn't belong to a single person or company, but the problem with blockchain is that most don't understand it very well, so this company basically tried to use that ambiguity to make it seem like it had almost magical properties. They told people things like you get unlimited storage for free because blockchain anyway right before this phone arrived.

We found out that the guys behind this were suspected of a scam involving cryptocurrency and it was bad timing because all of a sudden people were like, "Wait a second, everything they said is actually true and sure enough, under scrutiny, it turns out that the private keys were just flash drives.” almost all of the articles covering the launch were paid articles from the company and, in the name of supposed security, the most basic functions of smartphones, such as Gmail social networks and even importing contacts, did not work and all who sent messages to their helpline tried to get help about it.

They either drew a complete blank or were given a 200 word essay about how these were the necessary precautions for vobop to work. Also, I have a feeling that what they've really done here is just bought a cheap phone from China and then slapped this fancy case around it and made it their own because otherwise why does it look suspiciously like a 3D printed cutout? And why else would it have not one but two sets of bezels? It is very suspicious and customers soon began to worry when purchasing this. phone and having used it to manage their own cryptocurrency wallets, they had inadvertently given the company behind this phone full access to their cryptocurrency accounts and so they were worried that this company could effectively steal their money which they were suspected of in this other scam. and then remotely brick your device with a software update, pretty scary stuff, well number two is weird, so weird that I couldn't find a single one of these unopened on the entire internet and the only one I could find literally told me They delivered it in a lunch box, the ultimate reusable packaging, I guess it's a shame no sandwiches are included, welcome to the Turing phone and I must say, apart from the fact that this feels like holding a pair of scissors on the wrong end I think it looks beautiful, it's an almost modular aesthetic with each panel having a slightly different soft touch matte finish and one of them just having a dragon scale texture.

It's strange that it works, but I think it works and apparently everything is built from liquid morphium, which is stronger than steel, but what is it? Imagine this, it's 2015, we've had the galaxy s6, the iphone 6s, but a tour of robotics industries comes out of nowhere and says wait, we have a phone that not only inspects them but is encrypted to keep your privacy. I wonder where we heard that one before these phones were made or at least how some of them were made, but most sources say that not a single one was delivered to customers at any point.

I think this company really realized how difficult it is to make a fully functional smartphone and how they really needed more than the 50 employees they had to do it. Know all the markets. I would bet that the smartphone market is probably one of the most difficult for new companies to enter, it seems like everyone wants to try, but at the same time, eighty percent of the market is controlled by literally six companies. Anyway, what's interesting is that after Turing's phone didn't work. During the robotics industries started to go into a downward spiral, they had lost some of their reputation, so what do they do?

They try to tease an even more extreme phone to stay in people's minds, the cadence of the Turing phone with this a imax 6k quad camera, a supercapacitor battery combined with a hydrogen fuel cell and dual snapdragon 830 chips, which are products that never really existed and, when that too inevitably ended up with nothing, they went even crazier, changed their name to tour space industries and mocked something called a Hubble phone, you know it's not even worth checking the spec sheet, It didn't happen, so the supposed cipher and liquid morpheme we're getting here, well, I have my doubts, but no one has tested it.

Because no one received the phone, if you look at this company's bio, they describe themselves as a mobile technology company that develops technologies based on a decentralized authentication methodology that uses the exchange of static keys with a point of infrastructure. Anonymous key distribution is the only thing you can learn from this video. It's that if a company can't tell you what they're doing for you in simple terms, then there's a good chance they're trying to hide something. It's also a fun fact that I found a Reddit thread from someone who applied to work for these. guys and as part of your interviewHe was tasked with doing what sounds an awful lot like his job for them, basically they gave him a two week long task that involved creating an app from scratch with a really specific set of features, smart but very clever.

Well, finally the

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smartphone in the

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. She knew he wanted to see one of these in person. He just had no idea how to get one. I literally set up eBay alerts in case someone listed one. I've scoured sites like aliexpress and gearbest probably once every two weeks in case some seller discovered they didn't have anything in stock yet, so just before I was about to ditch the whole video idea, I thought I'd let myself send a message to live in case I had no expectations, and so I did, and he even warned me that this probably won't happen, the phone was discontinued a long time ago, but a month later I was doing something completely different and I received an email unexpected saying we found it and here we are so this is the vivo clearly the outer plastic wasn't built to wait seven years ok let me give you some perspective the rog phone five is 10.3 millimeters thick the oneplus 9 is 8.7 millimeters thick the iphone 12 mini this little thing has 7.4 millimeters thick this is 4.75 the phone feels almost two dimensional compared to what I'm used to I'm pretty sure I've had rulers that are thicker than this but you?

I want to know the fun part: they still managed fit a headphone jack. You can actually see that the metal edge of the phone is so narrow that they had to cut the backplate to fit, which is shown. that if a company wants to put a headphone jack on a phone, they can put a headphone jack on the phone and the crazy thing about this is that it's 2015. Can you imagine if we wanted to build the

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's

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phone now in 2021 with All of our performance and efficiency improvements could probably make a better 3.75 millimeter phone, but it's just that priorities have changed in 2021, people want advanced camera systems and 5G and big batteries, and all of these things lead to phones bulkier, plus, I just feel that being so thin is a bit counterintuitive because it's so thin that it's more likely to break, but if you then put a case on it, it's not thin, it's still beautiful technology to look at and it's still being an engineering marvel, but I think if a company released a really thin phone today, then tons of people would flock to see it, but very few of them would actually follow through and buy it, okay, this is huell.

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