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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with my very first smartphone so back in 2011 when I was rocking some seriously sweet here I picked up one of these guys for 50 bucks and today it's time to give it another shot so this is the palm pixi plus now I was able to find one of these brand new in the box and since I didn't have my original one anymore I couldn't resist as you can see smartphones have changed just a little bit since then yo I believe it not held one of these in like five years it's so tiny so this came out in 2010 and it's totally been sitting in the box since then so let us enjoy dudas pinky back I can't believe how tiny it is so back in 2010 this was a little bit smaller than most smartphones but compared to today I mean look at next to a galaxy s 8 and is absolutely tiny even though it's small it actually has pretty decent hardware so something I really appreciate is the soft touch rubber back it still feels good even today but there are definitely some weird quirks here for example the power button is sort of tucked away on the corner the actual microUSB charging is underneath this flap on the side there's definitely some weirdness you have to remember this is sort of like the Wild West of smartphone days this is just a few years after the iPhone first came out Android was brand new and this was palms firs big foray into a more modern smartphone with weather less white it has battery this is legitimately been staying in a box for probably seven years now and yet it just fired right back up no I'm getting like flashbacks right now this is so cool I actually really loved this phone it wasn't just because it was my first smartphone it was legitimately something pretty cool back in the day obviously smart phones have come a long way there's no doubt that a new smartphone is much much superior to this but there's definitely some things they were not so bad back in the day getting worse in only does it work it's like already up and running what 50 percent battery it even has the date correct what it literally just activated to just on I like the first food was this thing actually brand new so the downside of buying a new webOS device today is it the actual service to activate them or off so for example if you try to turn on like the app catalog or something there's no way that's going to connect because well it's not even on anymore which is really weird this is already activated Oh No the YouTube app doesn't work come and I want to see what I can actually still do with this so the first thing is the keyboard is so much tiny man it brings back memories though I actually used to be kind of decent with this keyboard oh that is an old YouTube layout it works though actually something kind of cool is the responsiveness isn't bad I mean sure it's not the smoothest and quickest device in the world but one of the cool things about webOS was it didn't multitasking really well so I swipe up I can go through my open apps I can just swipe it away you can also use it as a home button if you want but it's not bad of course I mean inside this guy you're talking about a single course 600 megahertz processor basically no memory eight gigs of storage I mean this is not a powerful phone to begin with but it's actually reasonably smooth and that was one of the cool things about whether less so the problem is is that basically all the apps are so old and have not been updated in some years that a lot of the stuff is I should not going to work which is that sucks even though it might not have apps it still does have a perfectly functional web browser so can I get on Twitter with this do it do it do it do it Oh 404 then I was so excited to finally use the palm pixi plus again and literally nothing works it's almost like people don't want to support an ancient phone with software that no one's updates it's like 2011 I just give up right now nothing works you have to rub it in can I get it okay this is a bad idea palm pixi plus is not as functional opponent I hoped it would be oh you know it does work though oh it does work you know it does work camera works there we go there we got ah but okay that was a picture boy that's um that's a picture so um take a look an old-school selfie oh yeah Joey took it though she's not that okay well why shouldn't do man I'll just I'll just I'll just uh yeah all right now you've got that sick sick palm pixi video yeah anything say now Ken you want treat this huh what treat this worker you say that was uncalled for I would like to officially and sincerely apologize to Kimberly doe for the rude manner in which I just treated him Kent oh okay I see I see this video took a hard turn we're having a great time look how awesome the palm pixi plus is it's my first smartphone now I'm like bitter and hating life Ken's like ready to leave the videos probably never going to be finished but if you want to make your own bad decisions I have two of these because I'm an idiot and thought that the phone was going to be cool so if you want to win your own palm pixi plus leave a comment below subscribe to the channel who knows you two might be the proud owner of a very mildly functioning smartphone from 2010 if that's a sales pitch to subscribe to the channel I am afraid to say I don't really know how to do it any better than that so subscribe to the channel stay tuned videos that are not terrible coming soon hopefully it can lets me