Unboxing the forgotten Samsung Phone.

Well, today I'm unpacking three of what I would actually say are some of the most fascinating

phone

s that have ever existed, but that people have simply

forgotten

about. The first is the camera-focused Nokia 808 Pureview, for perspective, this was launched in 2012, around the time of the iPhone 4s and Siri and the Galaxy S2, but this

phone

here, although most people have never heard of it, it was an absolute monster, we are quite used to seeing phones with focused cameras, now you have the

samsung

galaxy s20 ultra. the huawei p40 pro plus, but I would really say no phone camera has been so ahead of its time, it made every other phone camera look like something you got for free with a McDonald's meal to put a number on it compared to the iPhone. 4s it was up against, Nokia's camera sensor is almost six times larger, it's still larger than the main sensor on the 2020 1400 galaxy s20 ultra, that's ridiculous and it had all the camera bells and whistles, a Ultra-bright xenon flash, one button two-stage shutter. that works like a proper camera, it even had lossless zoom because the resolution is very high, 41 megapixels, when you zoom there is room to crop without losing details.

I can think of a few phones released this year that are doing the same thing. Exactly the same and I still act like it's revolutionary 2012 people 2012. But okay, you probably get the idea that this phone was described by The Verge as so far ahead of its competition that it has no competition, so how can something so innovative

forgotten

so quickly? The biggest flaw was that Nokia underestimated the importance of the software the phone runs on a completely dead software platform called Symbian and they even said so themselves when they launched it. Look, we know this isn't the best software, but the camera technology is very good. that we just needed to get it out there for people to try it but ironically it was this rush that cost them the phenomenal camera, they weren't kidding but it's so far ahead of the competition that Nokia could have spent three years working on the software and perfecting it and they would still have been ahead, what people need is a complete experience, a balanced app ecosystem and that's normal, Nokia delivered it, so okay, the phone failed, but just before moving on to the next one, there is another reason we're talking. about this, it's actually because of a video i watched a couple of weeks ago, someone did a camera comparison with this phone versus a

samsung

galaxy s20 ultra, a 2012 versus 2020 comparison and they concluded it was a tie.

I saw this and I remember thinking what. A bunch of rubbish, what a load of rubbish, you get the idea, but just to be sure I had to try it myself because if Nokia from eight years ago is better than Samsung in 2020, then that's embarrassing, but spoiler alert, it's not Nokia, it was phenomenal. By 2012 standards, I'd say it was at least three years ahead of its time, which is incredible, but it wasn't eight years ahead of its time under absolutely ideal conditions. It has the potential to look almost as good as the S20 Ultra, but focusing on that would be ignoring the huge leap that modern cameras have taken, which is using machine learning to be able to take great photos in any conditions, even with a novice. doing the shot if you're enjoying this video, by the way, a channel sub would do it.

Be amazing now, the second smartphone is interesting for a different reason, so we are in 2014, a couple of years after Nokia and the Sharp company surprised many people, they came out with a phone call, the Acos Crystal 150, for this How was Sharp of all companies? in and out of some of the highest-end smartphones you can find. I remember there were thousands of articles covering it, there were tech videos on YouTube full of comments about have you heard of this phone, and generally excitement about having another global player on the market. smartphone market, so it's pretty clear we're onto something and while that first glass phone is remembered quite well, what most people don't know is that they also made a flagship, they took those cues from design that we loved about the mid-range 150. high-end phone and they gave us the high-end specs that we wanted and that, my friends, is what you're seeing, this was for most purposes the dream phone in 2014.

Okay, let's be real for a minute, This is great, that's me. Speaking to my 2020 mindset, the hardware on this 2014 phone still looks and feels impressive, it's perfectly usable with one hand thanks to the nearly invisible bezels, it has a decent 1080p display, and it's no longer a two-handed powerhouse. gigs of RAM and a Snapdragon 801 chipset, but I can still run most apps without problems, yes the software is a bit shady, but Android is a problem that can be solved and I have yet to find a phone today that feels so impeccable. Do you remember that first xiaomi mi mix phone that made people go crazy for it?

It was October 2016. Sharp did this two years before, so why haven't you heard of it? Why is it that if you try to look up a review of this ridiculous Crystal X online it's like the phone never existed? I go to the Sharp US mobile website right now, it's quite funny, it's literally a blank page and it's not even secure, well they gave up, they were impatient because the first acquisition of the Crystal phone excited people around the world and I think Sharp just expected it to be an instant hit in the US market, but it wasn't and it looks sharp.

I just watched it and thought, "Okay guys, we tried it, it will never work globally and they backed out and stuck to releasing their future phones only in Japan, but I think they backed out too soon, think about this for a second." "If you were to go out and buy expensive clothes, for example, you probably have quite a bit of brand loyalty because if you're going to spend twenty or thirty dollars on a t-shirt. "You have to trust that it's going to last and something similar happens with smartphones. , but it's much more extreme: getting a bad t-shirt could very well ruin your day, but getting a faulty smartphone could ruin your year, so what can a company do?" What you can't do in the smartphone market smartphones is to release an exciting new Android phone and hope it just destroys the iPhone.

It could have the coolest feature in the world. It doesn't matter, because buying a smartphone is a very important decision for the people you've been around. You have to build trust before you can expect mass market adoption, so as a company what you need to do is keep making brilliant phones to keep updating them and just trust that the word will spread, and I mean, if you have a design. so people will ask you about it this phone is six years old if you try to choose the latest phone from Google or the iPhone at that time they seem artifacts in comparison through an impressed customer Sharp could have reached 20 30 50 new customers in the two alone years of life that a person uses that phone, but that's what word of mouth takes time and time is not what Sharp gave himself.

The reason I included this phone in the video is because I am personally discouraged if this is the case. what they did in 2014 imagine what they could have done today, six iterations later, that's a shame, okay, the third phone I want to talk to you about is from Samsung, let me set the stage, it's 2007. Apple just launched the iPhone to mobile phone market. It has been turned upside down, but what does Samsung launch that same year? You would think that not an Android competitor, their high-end phone was this, this is Samsung's serenade and, as you can probably tell by the packaging in your eyes, it was a great deal. 1 dollar collaboration between them and bang on lufsan and there's a very specific reason why I'm showing you this, so the first thing you'll see is the phone, I'll get to that, it's pretty weird looking, I know, and below that almost an illegal amount of cardboard and then what looks like a spaghetti of cable at the bottom, it's quite a nice thing, a soft touch bag that you have now, some headphones that I guess were cool in 2007 and a base not too different of wireless charging bases.

You see, today I feel like it goes without saying, but the Samsung Serenader is a very strange piece of hardware. It has a partially touch screen combined with one of the best spinning wheels I've ever used, but let's be honest, it looks like it. terrible, I think at best as a slightly awkward TV remote, the reason is that it is a music focused phone so the interface is controlled quite similar to an iPod with two features specials: a kickstand built into the back and a full-size speaker hidden inside the phone is as good as most 2020 smartphone speakers, but okay, why are we talking about this strange gadget?

Well, Samsung today is considered the best in the game, every new smartphone is at the forefront, but the reason why When looking at this, it is a stark reminder that until a couple of years after the iPhone, Samsung was a very different company, a company whose entire strategy seemed to be seeing what people liked and copying it, and subtlety was not its strong point. They were doing very well at the time and guess what Samsung saw and created. You can't even make this stuff up on Black Jack or Motorola. Their Razor phone was literally one of the best-selling phones of all time, so Samsung made a counterpart and thought about what was to come.

After Razer, oh yeah Blade, we'll call ours Samsung Blade, so anyway, Serenarta was just a continuation of this trend. Samsung saw the success Apple was having with its iPods and basically copied Apple's work while improving some things like audio quality, but this probably won't surprise anyone. It fell off when holding it next to the iPhone, which you can literally buy for half the price. Not surprising, but this failure is a demonstration of a larger point. I have two very different looking phones, yes, but also. two phones created with a completely different mentality Samsung on the left was basically trying to give people what they wanted, it was an evolution, but the difference with the iPhone was that it was trying to give people what they didn't know they wanted, a revolution if you like If you had asked people in 2007 what they thought a phone should have, they would have said: give me a more colorful screen or give me a more solid hinge or better quality keys for typing, no one would have said I want a phone that is just a screen. and a start button, it's like imagining the time before cars, if you had asked people what they wanted they would have said: give me a faster horse, so what I want to make clear with this phone is that you can be successful copying people, but we will only go so far to reach the top.

Not only do you have to give people what they want at that moment, but you have to give people what they want before they know they want it and you can say it. I'm sure that's something Samsung does now much better than before. That said, my name is Aaron, this is Mr. Who is the boss and I'll see you next time.