Gadgetory

today I've got a very different phone in front of me and I've been waiting for this one ever since the last one because this is the second version of the device it does not look like a smart phone I mean technically it's not a smart phone I think in the last video I called it a dumb phone but this one is an upgrade over the previous one but it's a phone called pumped and the model is the MP Oh two previous one the oh one the whole concept with this phone is to give up detox your smartphone although in the paperwork that they sent here it's not a detox phone it's a new kind of everyday phone for people who have realised that smart phones can get in the way of life you've seen it you've been in restaurants you even see it on the highway sometimes people are so addicted they're trying to drive and look at their phones at the same time the concept that they're going for is that you'll still have a laptop or a tablet and you can use this as your modem just keep that device connected to this one if you do need an internet connection for the utility purposes BlackBerry secured icon so I assume a bit of a collaboration there on the security now I really like the way the old one looks so simple so small look at that thing that's it that's the phone how crazy is imagine your friend pulls this thing out of their pocket you are gonna be blown away surprised amazed all of the above the material feels different than the previous version it's a bit grippier grittier I think this could be exciting as a backup phone as an emergency phone as a vacation phone Palme was trying to do something similar with the palm phone made a video recently what else comes in the box is a little sim tool there paper were a tiny little headset single earbud in ear headset using the type-c USB connector slim little power brick type-c USB cable to charge it up standby battery life of twelve and a half days is what they're suggesting 4.2 hours of talk times that's a lot of talk time as well it's the type of you know an executive maybe it's a luxury device you don't even need a smart phone you're so rich you don't even need to do stuff on a smart phone emails later you need me you call feels cool holding it I have to say here vibration Pumped you know you got the cool name very tactile inputs found a way to create a pretty intuitive interface All Things Considered just with the old nav silent mode airplane mode bluetooth so you can connect the Bluetooth headset to it that's kind of important I guess as a communication device if you want to try to type a text message you're stuck with the t9 now for those of you that don't remember that that means hitting the key three times each key representing three letters like I said to see it's three times and then let go like the kids don't even remember this t9 stuff but this was our life all right very short text messages if I'm using a phone like this I'm like call me I'm not texted back maybe your social skills are not up to snuff at a point where you can interface that way I don't care we're having a call we're having a chat cuz I'm not t9 in your back here now what should we do I guess we should have a phone call here I guess will give me a call hello we're going back in time dude this is it now is how we communicate I don't want your texts I don't want your memes I don't want your fancy time I don't want pictures of Otis I don't want to see what you're eating for breakfast we just talk now you have to explain you have to describe what you're eating for breakfast we're gonna get real descriptive we're gonna have to become linguists so that our words can better describe situations event images and memes and gifts and we have to become modern-day poets yeah it's a speakerphone it brings me back to an old time there's some kind of warm feeling about the fact that it's so different and weird and unusual you you just can't help the angsty feeling you have when your SIM card lives in something like this but what if I'm hungry but if I need to see something but if I want to be somewhere but I don't actually want to go I want to see somebody else go there we're a physical device a phone feels like an appendage like an arm why you little what happened to that that's that that's not around anymore you IATA guy ought a sake Owen are we cyborgs probably we are moving in that direction when this little guy here makes you feel fearful because you need that fix you know what I mean hey it's not just you it's me it's definitely hilly dude is connected in all the wrong ways he's wired up right now top to bottom it's disturbing they don't want you to call the phone digital detox but that's really kind of the only way I see a person using it no more of this action it's dis action you know maybe that person is out there maybe that person is you I know it ain't gonna be many it ain't gonna be me these guys obviously know the feeling they made this thing they manufactured this they know the feeling and they're searching for a different one and you might be too so if that's you you might want to have an experiment with this but this thing is not cheap not that it feels cheap I mean I like the design it's pretty cool one of those things where you could take a step backwards but still kind of feel cool about it I don't know like a vinyl record or something like that or a fancy mustache or a coffee that takes a lot longer to make it has that appearance to it so you can still be cool even though your phone does less than your Grandpa's there it is it's the new MP 0-2 it's all in good fun I think it serves a cool kind of purpose I think all of us should untangle ourselves every so often see what we're made of see if there's some human left in there and keep our eyes on the prize you know what I mean okay