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Using this phone 10 years later is a lot like using no phone at all.
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Yeah, we're coming up on the 10th anniversary of the original Motorola Droid, which was a very iconic phone.
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It launched Android into relevancy.
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I'm gonna use the droid for one week to see if it's even usable 10 years later.
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So my dad used to work for Motorola.
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For almost 20 years, I was director of product strategy and operations for the mobile devices business.
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He has this bananas collection of, like hundreds of old phones.
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He calls it his museum.
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It's just so boxes in his basement.
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But that is where I got this droid from.
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That's fine.
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Just cobwebs on a lot of this stuff.
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I mean, this has been a long time ago and years.
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Exactly.
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Yeah, the droid was important at the time because Verizon didn't have the iPhone, and it was the first of many droid variants that were launched at Verizon in subsequent years.
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The original droid had 512 meg of storage, 256 meg of RAM, five megapixel camera.
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It was the first android device to support that you clear operating system and the first android device to support Verizon's network technology.
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It just like hot old keyboard smell.
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You know, you got my two phones.
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I'm going to swap my SIM card out into the droid.
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We will see if it functions now.
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The original original droid was Verizon Exclusive.
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So this is technically a different version, but it looks exactly the same.
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The other ones that I have do not even have the SIM card slot.
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My current phone has a Nano SD card.
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I hunted down this bad boy so that I could fit it into the droid again.
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We're going to trade the Nano for the chunky.
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We turn it on.
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I don't know what the power button is.
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It's the one with the iconic power symbol on it.
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Oh, please insert a same card.
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Okay, so we're gonna need to plan B.
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I think going on a mission to find compatible SD card.
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I failed.
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If your mobile not fries and nothing target nothing.
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Even Verizon said with phone just isn't supported on their network anymore, even without a SIM card.
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So what we're gonna dio is I am going to go data only sort of my current phone will be my WiFi hotspots.
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And this phone will talk to it because I don't really call or text anybody.
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Anyways, here's what I'm gonna look out for.
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I'm gonna track how long the battery lasts.
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I'm going to see how terrible the camera is.
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I'm gonna see how long I can operate with the current operating system before I update on that.
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After I do that, I'm going to see if I can download and use any of my APS.
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We gotta watch instagram stories.
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So how's my week bed?
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Using this phone 10 years later is a lot like using no phone at all.
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I cannot update Theo s.
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There is no app store.
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The APP store is Thea Android Marketplace, which became defunct in 2012 when they replaced it with the Google Play Store, the Google Play store.
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It can only be used on jelly bean or higher, which is 4.1, I believe so.
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Basically, I can't do anything but take pictures and listen to music.
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The camera is not bad.
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There's only one.
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It's only five megapixels.
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So all the photos look like something my mom would take, but they're they're not bad.
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I was able to take a photo on the droid and uploaded straight to Facebook onto my news feed, which I was honestly super impressed by.
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I wasn't able to tag anybody or add a caption, so there's just a random photo of my co workers on my feet with no context.
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But it did work.
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It is updating the news speed in somewhat real time, but you can only get to post at a time on Lee text posts, profile pictures and use their names.
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Do not show up.
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And if you try and click older posts to update the news feed, then the whole app shuts down.
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I looked into routing the phone, which is basically jail breaking for Android.
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Basically, routing would allow me to force an OS update on the phone, but I wasn't able to accomplish that.
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So we're still stuck in 2.1.
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The process of physically plugging your phone into the computer and dragging and dropping songs into a folder was so nostalgic I haven't downloaded a song in years.
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I Onley stream on Spotify.
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I don't have music stored locally on my actual phone.
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I thought it was really gonna like the physical keyboard, but my thumbs air to Peggy and it's hard.
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I like the click click.
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I like the physicality of it, but the actual functionality of it is mawr difficult than it needs to be.
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The droid is definitely not going to let you do everything that a modern phone will let you dio.
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Now that's like an understatement.
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I mostly miss my APS.
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I want Instagram and this dumb, solitary game that I've been playing.
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As we finish this up, I'm going to really try to actually use it instead of ignoring it.
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So the camera is crappy er than I thought it waas.
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I tried taking a video of my cat in My kitchen is nighttime, but the light was on.
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I was sitting on the floor and with the camera.
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If you if you pointed up towards stuff near the top of the room, it's bright.
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But if you point it down to the cat, there is nothing.
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It is a complete darkness.
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The camera just shuts down basically and pretends that it doesn't have to do its job.
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It's so like foggy.
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No matter how much I clean the camera, everything it just looks like I'm in a room filled with smoke.
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E only have to charge the battery twice over the entire week.
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If I was connected to a network or constantly using the phone or constantly connected to WiFi, the battery would have been eaten up.
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But just the fact that it is that old and lasted that long anyways, I still think is impressive.
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If you have an old droid laying around, it would be really useful as like an MP three player for a child who on Lee needs 60 songs and doesn't want to access any other features a phone should offer.
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Phones are updated so quickly these days that, like one year to the next, they're obsolete.
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When you buy a fridge, you want that fridge last forever.
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When you buy a TV, you want that TV to last forever.
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With a phone, you buy the phone and you want it to last until the next year, when the new version of that phone comes out.
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So it's not that surprising that after 10 years, this phone does not work.
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I haven't tried the speaker equality.
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Let's do that.
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Let's listen to this movie Movie is the best Disney movie.