The Greatest Phones of All Time: A Personal Take

I personally had mine at 1.25 GHz which is more than double the stock clock speed so this phone was super durable and it lasted a very long time for a lot of people, so essentially this phone represented the birth of a new very competitive operating system uh and it became the face of it also rip physical keyboards coming in at number two is the original Apple iPhone. If you take a look at smartphones before the iPhone things looked very different before smartphones looked like this with small screens terrible operating systems hardly any apps kind of a mess after the iPhone well I think it's pretty obvious that it was a major game changer while the first iPhone definitely wasn't perfect it did bring a lot of very important new features it sported a full 3.5 in multi-touch display that didn't require a stylus and just as importantly a new operating system, iPhone OS or as we know it today iOS.

After the iPhone launch within a few years giants like Nokia Blackberry and Palm were all either a fraction of their previous size if not outright dead, not bad for Apple's first crack at a phone. Alright so number one the greatest phone of all time uh you may have seen this coming already it's the Nokia 3310. Now there were actually also a lot of similar nuia phones that came out around the same time in 2000 when the 3310 came out but what can you say, I mean there were just so many legendary things about this phone this is the phone that people think of when they think of old phones or classic phones. It was the epitome of a device that could appeal to the masses easily it became one of the first phones to ditch those retractable plastic antennas that so many flip phones had, so that became a cool thing to do.

It was one of the first phones to have a screen saver kind of like a wallpaper and that became a cool thing to do it had a battery life for days on days on days even if you used it fulltime for all of those days I wish that was still a popular thing to do. Moto Maker this is way before Moto Maker and it still had the custom designs way before it actually took off. You could actually snap on and off the front of the phone to have different designs or different colors and this phone was and still is basically indestructible, a lot of it is because of how compact it was I mean you could scratch the phone not a problem still works you could drop the phone not a problem still works you could step on it not a problem roll it over with a car not a problem people have shot this phone there are videos of it on YouTube and let's just say that the 3310 takes a bullet way better than any any of the other phones on this list my dad used to have a 3310 and I remember spending hours playing snake on it after school but the crazy thing is it's actually held up pretty well. It had threaded SMS, voice dialing, and even a few small apps all this combined with over 125 million unit shipped and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the Nokia 3310 helped connect the world.

So what do you guys think is the best phone ever? Let us know in the comments below. Also huge thanks to Marquez for being in this video if you guys enjoyed what you saw absolutely be sure to go subscribe over on his Channel at youtube.com/MKBHD anyway before we get out of here I got to give a big shout out to Audible for making this video possible, audible.com is a leading provider of audiobooks with more than 100,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature including fiction nonfiction and periodicals. I love to read but I don't always have the time so that's where audible is absolutely perfect so I can listen to an audiobook when I'm in the car or when I'm going to bed lately I've been listening to Wool by Hugh Hoy it's a great story, it actually reminds me a lot of Fallout and it's definitely worth a listen if you guys haven't tried audible yet all you need to do is go to audible.com.au and give it a shot. Guys thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed be sure to subscribe to the channel to see lots more top five videos like this anyway guys I will catch you next time.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthere have been a lot of good phones but how about the best ever for this top five I've teamed up with my friend MKBHD so Marquez take it away all right so it's a tough task rounding up any all time list but we're starting off at number five here with a classic and when I say classic I mean we're going way back to the Motorola din attack so the commercials for this phone are hilarious to watch now in 2013 because the din attack came out in the beginning of the era of completely portable phones so at phones first were so big you really only had house phones then they got them down small enough that people could have car phones and then finally the wealthy early adopters of completely portable phones so this was a Pioneer that came out in 1984 it sported a call time of roughly 30 minutes on battery and an 8 Hour standby time and it had a memory of well it could fit 30 contacts in the phone also fun fact dinac the name is actually an abbreviation for dynamic active total area control now I'm not going to say this is the smallest phone in the world and it's certainly not the cheapest coming in at $39.99 .99 but I can definitely guarantee you that the smartphones we have today are a direct result of this huge leap of faith and the dinac was easily one of the most influential and one of the most important phones of all time at number four is the HTC HD2 now this Probably sounds like a weird choice but this was an important phone for a few reasons first of all is the huge for thetime 4.3 in screen back in 2009 the iPhone had what was considered a big display but the HD2 blew it away in both size and resolution it also featured a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor making it at least at the time the most powerful phone you could buy now Windows mobile was definitely starting to get outdated by 2009 however what has made the HD2 special is that it's able to run basically every operating system ever it even runs Android and no not some three-year-old version you can load Android 4.4 KitKat on the HD2 right now you know what phone doesn't come with KitKat you know the Galaxy S4 but no big deal this four-year-old phone can handle it even Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT have been shown running on the HD2 it even works with Ubuntu and Firefox OS so between the crazy software support and the awesome screen in specs the HD2 was one of a phone so coming in at number three is the original the OG Motorola Droid so this slider came out in late 2009 which was perfect timing along with its massive I don't Droid does AD campaign to become the face of the Android versus iPhone war that still wages today as a matter of fact this phone was so popular because of that campaign that people for years after it came out called all Android phones droids and not only that but this Droid was a sort of a flagship for all Android phones for the masses and you can kind of think of it acting as a Nexus phone before the Nexus line even existed so this phone launched with brand new Android 2.0 it was an exclusive it was on Verizon and it was the only phone to launch with vanilla Android 2.0 and it got official updates for two full years after it came out till the end of 2011 and even after that it continued to get more unofficial updates similar to the HTC ht2 in that a lot of the hackers and people who put ROMs on it ended up actually overclocking their phones to keep it up with the newest operating system I personally had mine at 1.25 gahz which is more than double the stock clock speed so this phone was super durable and it lasted a very long time for a lot of people so essentially this phone represented the birth of a new very competitive operating system uh and it became the face of it also rip physical keyboards coming in at number two is the original Apple iPhone if you take a look at smartphones before the iPhone things looked very different before smartphones looked like this with small screens terrible operating systems hardly any apps kind of a mess after the iPhone well I think it's pretty obvious it was a major game Cher while the first iPhone definitely wasn't perfect it did bring a lot of very important new features it sported a full 3.5 in multi-touch display that didn't require a stylus and just as importantly a new operating system iPhone Os or as we know it today iOS after the iPhone launch within a few years giants like no Nokia blackberry and palm were all either a fraction of their previous size if not outright dead not bad for Apple's first crack at a phone all right so number one the greatest phone of all time uh you may have seen this one coming already it's the Nokia 3310 now there were actually also a lot of similar nuia phones that came out around the same time in 2000 when the 3310 came out but what can you say I mean there were just so many legendary things about this phone this is the phone that people think of when they think of old phones or classic phones it was the epitome of a device that could appeal to the masses easily it became one of the first phones to ditch those retractable plastic antennas that so many flip phones had so that became a cool thing to do it was one of the first phones to have a screen saver kind of like a wallpaper and that became a cool thing to do it had a battery life for days on days on days even if you used it fulltime for all of those days I wish that was still a popular thing to do Moto Maker this is way before Moto Maker and it still had the custom designs way before it actually took off you could actually snap on and off the front of the phone to have different designs or different colors and this phone was and still is basically indestructible a lot of it is because of how compact it was I mean you could scratch the phone not a problem still works you could drop the phone not a problem still works you could step on it not a problem roll it over with a car not a problem people have shot this phone there are videos of it on YouTube and let's just say that the 3310 takes a bullet way better than any any of the other phones on this list my dad used to have a 3310 and I remember spending hours playing snake on it after school but the crazy thing is it's actually held up pretty well it had threaded SMS voice dialing and even a few small apps all this combined with over 125 million unit shipped and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the Nokia 3310 helped connect the world so what do you guys think is the best phone ever let us know in the comments below also huge thanks to Marquez for being in this video If you guys enjoyed what you saw absolutely be sure to go subscribe over on his Channel at youtube.com/ MKBHD anyway before we get out of here I got to give a big shout out to Audible for making this video possible audible.com is a leading provider of audiobooks with more than 100,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature including fiction nonfiction and periodicals I love to read but I don't always have the time so that's where audible is absolutely perfect so I can listen to an audiobook when I'm in the car or when I'm going to bed lately I've been listening to Wool by Hugh hoy it's a great story it actually reminds me a lot of Fallout and it's definitely worth a listen if you guys haven't tried audible yet all you need to do is go to audible.com.au and give it a shot anyway guys thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed be sure to subscribe to the channel to see lots more top five videos like this anyway guys I will catch you next timethere have been a lot of good phones but how about the best ever for this top five I've teamed up with my friend MKBHD so Marquez take it away all right so it's a tough task rounding up any all time list but we're starting off at number five here with a classic and when I say classic I mean we're going way back to the Motorola din attack so the commercials for this phone are hilarious to watch now in 2013 because the din attack came out in the beginning of the era of completely portable phones so at phones first were so big you really only had house phones then they got them down small enough that people could have car phones and then finally the wealthy early adopters of completely portable phones so this was a Pioneer that came out in 1984 it sported a call time of roughly 30 minutes on battery and an 8 Hour standby time and it had a memory of well it could fit 30 contacts in the phone also fun fact dinac the name is actually an abbreviation for dynamic active total area control now I'm not going to say this is the smallest phone in the world and it's certainly not the cheapest coming in at $39.99 .99 but I can definitely guarantee you that the smartphones we have today are a direct result of this huge leap of faith and the dinac was easily one of the most influential and one of the most important phones of all time at number four is the HTC HD2 now this Probably sounds like a weird choice but this was an important phone for a few reasons first of all is the huge for thetime 4.3 in screen back in 2009 the iPhone had what was considered a big display but the HD2 blew it away in both size and resolution it also featured a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor making it at least at the time the most powerful phone you could buy now Windows mobile was definitely starting to get outdated by 2009 however what has made the HD2 special is that it's able to run basically every operating system ever it even runs Android and no not some three-year-old version you can load Android 4.4 KitKat on the HD2 right now you know what phone doesn't come with KitKat you know the Galaxy S4 but no big deal this four-year-old phone can handle it even Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT have been shown running on the HD2 it even works with Ubuntu and Firefox OS so between the crazy software support and the awesome screen in specs the HD2 was one of a phone so coming in at number three is the original the OG Motorola Droid so this slider came out in late 2009 which was perfect timing along with its massive I don't Droid does AD campaign to become the face of the Android versus iPhone war that still wages today as a matter of fact this phone was so popular because of that campaign that people for years after it came out called all Android phones droids and not only that but this Droid was a sort of a flagship for all Android phones for the masses and you can kind of think of it acting as a Nexus phone before the Nexus line even existed so this phone launched with brand new Android 2.0 it was an exclusive it was on Verizon and it was the only phone to launch with vanilla Android 2.0 and it got official updates for two full years after it came out till the end of 2011 and even after that it continued to get more unofficial updates similar to the HTC ht2 in that a lot of the hackers and people who put ROMs on it ended up actually overclocking their phones to keep it up with the newest operating system I personally had mine at 1.25 gahz which is more than double the stock clock speed so this phone was super durable and it lasted a very long time for a lot of people so essentially this phone represented the birth of a new very competitive operating system uh and it became the face of it also rip physical keyboards coming in at number two is the original Apple iPhone if you take a look at smartphones before the iPhone things looked very different before smartphones looked like this with small screens terrible operating systems hardly any apps kind of a mess after the iPhone well I think it's pretty obvious it was a major game Cher while the first iPhone definitely wasn't perfect it did bring a lot of very important new features it sported a full 3.5 in multi-touch display that didn't require a stylus and just as importantly a new operating system iPhone Os or as we know it today iOS after the iPhone launch within a few years giants like no Nokia blackberry and palm were all either a fraction of their previous size if not outright dead not bad for Apple's first crack at a phone all right so number one the greatest phone of all time uh you may have seen this one coming already it's the Nokia 3310 now there were actually also a lot of similar nuia phones that came out around the same time in 2000 when the 3310 came out but what can you say I mean there were just so many legendary things about this phone this is the phone that people think of when they think of old phones or classic phones it was the epitome of a device that could appeal to the masses easily it became one of the first phones to ditch those retractable plastic antennas that so many flip phones had so that became a cool thing to do it was one of the first phones to have a screen saver kind of like a wallpaper and that became a cool thing to do it had a battery life for days on days on days even if you used it fulltime for all of those days I wish that was still a popular thing to do Moto Maker this is way before Moto Maker and it still had the custom designs way before it actually took off you could actually snap on and off the front of the phone to have different designs or different colors and this phone was and still is basically indestructible a lot of it is because of how compact it was I mean you could scratch the phone not a problem still works you could drop the phone not a problem still works you could step on it not a problem roll it over with a car not a problem people have shot this phone there are videos of it on YouTube and let's just say that the 3310 takes a bullet way better than any any of the other phones on this list my dad used to have a 3310 and I remember spending hours playing snake on it after school but the crazy thing is it's actually held up pretty well it had threaded SMS voice dialing and even a few small apps all this combined with over 125 million unit shipped and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the Nokia 3310 helped connect the world so what do you guys think is the best phone ever let us know in the comments below also huge thanks to Marquez for being in this video If you guys enjoyed what you saw absolutely be sure to go subscribe over on his Channel at youtube.com/ MKBHD anyway before we get out of here I got to give a big shout out to Audible for making this video possible audible.com is a leading provider of audiobooks with more than 100,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature including fiction nonfiction and periodicals I love to read but I don't always have the time so that's where audible is absolutely perfect so I can listen to an audiobook when I'm in the car or when I'm going to bed lately I've been listening to Wool by Hugh hoy it's a great story it actually reminds me a lot of Fallout and it's definitely worth a listen if you guys haven't tried audible yet all you need to do is go to audible.com.au and give it a shot anyway guys thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed be sure to subscribe to the channel to see lots more top five videos like this anyway guys I will catch you next time