Gadgetory

this might look like your normal old-school brick style cellphone but you're wrong it's a full-fledged texting machine with a massive expandable full-size keyboard released in 2004 the Nokia 6800 was the first cell phone I ever owned and I loved it I think we should open it up and see what it looks like from the inside let's get started back when I was in high school cell phones were just starting to get popular even at 16 most of my friends didn't have one yet since they were pretty expensive one of my first purchases after getting a job delivering pizzas was buying this cell phone and a monthly cell phone plan text messages weren't unlimited back then like they are now I had 300 text messages to send throughout the month and I would keep track of them to make sure I wasn't sending more than 30 a day those things were special with the keyboard like this though how could you not constantly be texting it's even backlit this phone was ahead of its time for sure the Nokia 6800 had all the latest and greatest features the messaging a 10 number call history a note-taking app it even had games two of them bounced was a good one the 1.7 inch si s TN display was a passive LCD matrix instead of a more modern active LCD matrix so there was considerable ghosting and a slow response time not quite as good as the ROG or razor phone - it does have a calculator though the full-size keyboard is the main selling point flipping the phone in half allowed me to bypass the normal t9 texting of my inferior peers and get both thumbs rocking at full speed while I enjoyed each of my 300 text messages every month definitely got all the ladies with this one most scale of hardness wasn't one of my main concerns at the time although a little scratch on my 2004 flagship probably would have bothered me quite a bit I did get over that fear eventually the screen is made from plastic meaning that it can get scratched by basically anything in your pocket in fact the whole thing is made from plastic just like every other phone back then it never crossed my mind to take my phone apart back in 2004 YouTube wasn't a thing back then but it is now so here we are the information under the battery acts like a warranty void sticker yeah it doesn't hide the Nokia 6800 has just to t6 cruise down at the bottom and then the two halves can unclasp using my plastic pry tool along the sides then the whole phone can come apart revealing some pretty sweet stuff the keypad is pretty typical of Ultra phones just a plastic sheet resting on top of each individual button this phone just has a full keypad worth of those buttons the frame itself is pretty interesting the flip portion is connected with a springy hinge which I'll show more of in just a second the flat portion has little gold contact pads that transfer information from whatever position the keyboard flap is in the gold just rests right up against the motherboard inside the phone just like we see loudspeakers doing in modern phone nowadays thumbs up for that there are five additional screws holding the motherboard into the frame of the phone then the whole thing including the screen can pull out exposing the old-school heat shield Faraday cage looking things on the back of the motherboard the same kind of thing we found inside the indestructible Nokia 3310 the phone does still work when the battery's held in place look at these LED lights on the keypad it's not actually a backlit keypad justwell play singular LED lights that are supposed to light up the whole thing might be why I was a bit dimmer than we're used to nowadays down here at the bottom below the clear plastic LED keypad light redirector we get the proprietary headphone jack yep this long golden contact pad lookin thing was that phone jack the circular 3.5 hole was actually for the phone charger times were different the micro USB standard wasn't introduced until 2007 and the USB see standard we use nowadays was more 2014 a universal charging method is a very good thing the vibrator motor is also down here supported in the white rubber sheath it spins the eccentric rotating mass around really fast to produce the vibrating effect I use this phone for about two years before switching over to my first camera phone the sony ericsson case 608 i and then finally getting my first smart phone a blackberry pearl in 2009 I'll slap the two halves of the phone back together making sure I didn't install the keyboard flap completely backwards because that would be super embarrassing while I'm back in here again though check out the spring hinge as the keyboard flips up to rest against the top of the phone the springs allow the hinge to flex up and then pulls the whole flap tight again back against the foam body with the four springs and you should these little squares pretty smart anyway the phone is back together again pretty easy teardown it was nice back when things weren't always glued shut and everything had removable batteries with easy access screws and could be taken apart in minutes instead of hours what was your first phone and how old were you when you got it I'm curious hit that subscribe button if you haven't already and come hang out with me on Instagram thanks stuff for watching and I'll see you around