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  • 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 smartphone, and technically, it's not a smartphone, 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 punk, and the model is the M P 02 previous one, the 01 The whole concept with this phone is to give up the talks 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 realized that smartphones can get in the way of life.

  • You've seen it.

  • You've been in restaurants, 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 Secure 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're gonna be blown away.

  • Surprised, amazed.

  • All of the above.

  • The material feels different than the previous version.

  • It's a bit grip, ear grittier.

  • I think this could be exciting, as as a backup phone as an emergency phone as a vacation phone.

  • Palm was trying to do something similar with the Palm phone.

  • Made a video recently.

  • What else comes in the boxes?

  • A little simple.

  • Their paper were tiny little headset, single ear, bud in ear headset using the type See USB connector.

  • Slim Little Power Break Type C.

  • U S B.

  • Cable to charge it up.

  • Stand by.

  • Battery Life of 12.5 days is what they're suggesting.

  • 4.2 hours of talk time.

  • That's a lot of talk.

  • Time is, well, it's the type of, you know, an executive.

  • Maybe it's a luxury device.

  • You don't even need a smart.

  • You're so rich.

  • You don't even need to do stuff on a smartphone e mails later.

  • You need me.

  • You call.

  • Feels cool.

  • Holding it, I have to say in a little 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 knave.

  • 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.

  • Try to type a text message, you're stuck with the T nine.

  • Now.

  • For those of you that don't remember that, that means hitting a 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 t nine 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 it a point where you can interface that way.

  • I don't care.

  • We're having a call.

  • We're having a chat because I'm not t nine and you're 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.

  • Knows how we communicate.

  • I don't want your texts.

  • I don't want your means.

  • I don't want your fancy time and 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 could better describe situations than images and means and gifts.

  • And we're about to become modern day poets here.

  • Yeah, a little bit.

  • It's a speakerphone.

  • It brings me back to an old time.

  • And there's some kind of warm feeling about the fact that it's so different than 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?

  • What if I need Thio?

  • See something?

  • Or if I want to be somewhere, but I don't actually want to go.

  • I want to see somebody else go there.

  • We're physical device.

  • A phone feels like an appendage, like an arm.

  • Why you little lap to that?

  • That it's not around anymore.

  • You?

  • I ought I ought a sock.

  • You one are re cyborgs.

  • Probably.

  • We're 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 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 going to be many.

  • It ain't going to be meet 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 to feel cool about it.

  • I don't know, like a vinyl record or something like that, or fancy moustache 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 grandpas.

  • There it is.

  • It's the new M P zero to.

  • It's all in good fun.

  • I think it serves the 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?

today.

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