- Hello, welcome to This Is.
Marques Brownlee, do you know tech?
- (chuckles) I think I do.
I know new tech, anyway.
- Okay, well, I'm about to hit you
with some slightly older tech.
This is a little game we've
been playing here on This Is
and the rules are really quite simple.
We're going to show you a
list of 12 different items,
some phones, some other types of tech,
and you have to answer two questions.
First of all, if you can
name the actual piece of tech
or get very close, I'll give
you a little bit of leniency,
and the second is can you name
the year that the tech came out.
Now this, I'm gonna give you
a little bit of a spread.
So say, a new phone came
out in 2010 that I show you.
If you guess 2009 or
2011, you will be correct,
so you have a one-year handicap.
- Okay.
- Are you ready to play Who
Wants to Be a Tech Millionaire?
(chuckles)
Matt's just staring at me
very menacingly off-camera
'cause I keep coming up really bad
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? puns.
Are you ready to play, my friend?
- I'm ready to play.
- Oh, the wager!
Of course, okay.
So, this is completely up to you.
So, no pressure, feel free
to say no, totally fine.
But if you can get 50% or more correct,
I will tweet whatever
you want from my Twitter.
If, however, you cannot get 50%,
then I am going to kindly request for you
to tweet out that everyone
should come watch this video.
- You know what, I'll take your bet.
- All right, all right, let's do it.
Let's play, I'm not gonna do it.
(beep)
Let's begin with
the first question.
- Hm, there's conveniently no logos.
All right, so this is an Android phone.
It's got the capacitive home
multitasking and back buttons.
To me, it looks like an old
Samsung because of that speaker,
where they put the little nub.
But which Samsung?
It's not a Galaxy.
They never had a camera like that.
- So, this is the point where
if you're feeling
stumped, so keep in mind,
there are 12 questions here.
But we do have a lifeline available
called Phone a Ken.
Where you can phone a Ken and
he may or may not be helpful.
Just then you can use that any point.
But there are 12 questions,
so if you're feeling reasonably confident,
you probably shouldn't burn it yet.
- I'm gonna burn it on one
that I think I should get
but I'm not getting.
I know that there's a Samsung logo
probably right on the bezel.
I just don't know which Samsung.
And the year, the year has gotta be,
they had that nub on like Galaxy S7?
Let's see, eight, seven, six,
oh, no, more like, four, five, six.
I'm gonna go 2014.
- Marques Brownlee, you
are zero percent correct.
(buzzer)
This is the Ringing Bells
Freedom 251 from 2016, AKA
the four dollar smartphone.
Do you remember seeing the videos
on the four dollar smartphone?
- I kinda vaguely do, wow, 2016, though?
- Yes, so this was legitimately
a four dollar smartphone.
It had like terrible specs, right?
It had like a 1.6 GHz quad core processor,
four-inch display, three-megapixel
camera, a lollipop.
The thing was this was
actually mostly a scam
because it was rebranded phone
from another manufacturer.
And in fact, the CEO of this company
was arrested multiple times
for fraud and extortion.
And only some of that was related
to selling fake four dollar phones.
- Wow.
Well, I'm almost glad I didn't know
what that phone was then.
- (laughs) I feel like Lou
did a video on this one.
But yes, so, all right,
well, it's okay, it's okay.
It's a long game, plenty
of time to catch up
with item number two, please.
- All right, this I've seen.
This is my speed.
So this is HTC One M8.
That's my answer for the name.
Now, the year.
So again, this was at least 2011,
and no later than 2015.
Let's see if I go 2014.
HTC One M8, 2014.
- For question number two, you
get half points, my friend.
(ding)
This is in fact
the HTC One M9 from 2015.
You were close, the difference was
I don't think the M8
came in the darker color.
I think the M7 and M8 both
had the lighter texture.
And if I remember right,
the M8 had that weird
secondary like depth-sensing camera
that they immediately dropped for the M9.
- Oh yeah, had like two, okay.
Eh, okay.
I guess, a half credit, I
gotta, I do, I gotta catch up.
I'm behind right now,
but I'll take that point.
- It's okay, well, 2014 was
within one year of 2015,
so you at least get the point
for the year on that one.
- I was right about the
year that M8 came out.
- Very, very accurate yeah.
'Cause I remember the One M8
had the Google Play edition,
which, that was like my
favorite phone for a while.
That and the M7 before it.
Hopefully you're ready to go
a little bit farther back into the past
with item number three.
- Dude, all I know is that's a ThinkPad.
Like, it's got the nub.
I promise you, I have
never seen this device.
Oh my God, it's not even,
the screen isn't even in the middle.
To me, I'm thinkin' 2001, but lemme think.
So, when did they do, what's,
what's wrong with the keyboard?
What is goin' on with this thing?
- So, the keyboard, I would
say, is the unique feature
because there was one and only one laptop
that had a keyboard like this.
It was a pretty unique feature.
It was sadly never replicated,
or maybe not sadly,
never replicated again.
- I don't know what happened.
This is a ThinkPad and I'm gonna go,
the year feels to me like 1995.
- Marques Brownlee, you
are 50% correct! (ding)
This is in fact an IBM ThinkPad from 1995,
however, the name is the 701.
So you get half points,
you nailed the year.
- Okay, wow.
- So, what's weird about this laptop
was this is actually the beginning
of the original butterfly keyboard.
So this is actually a 10-inch laptop.
And essentially what happened was
the keyboard was split in half
and when you opened it up,
it expanded out to be
a full-sized keyboard.
Unfortunately, it was the only keyboard
and the only laptop that really ever used
this very bizarre design.
But this was actually the beginning
of the butterfly keyboard.
Albeit in a slightly unusual form factor.
- It's a little unconventional for sure.
- Yeah, all right.
You're not doing bad,
you're not doing bad.
You are two of six.
You can easily pull it
out with our next device.
- [Marques] Oh no, I should know this.
You know why I should know this?
'Cause we had this on Retro Tech.
- We did.
So, I don't actually
know if it made it in,
but when we did the episode
of Retro Tech together,
this was one of the phones
you made me react to.
And yeah, look, I will be honest with you,
I would not remember the name
of this phone either. (laughs)
- I, gah, I, so, like, Sony,
I think Sony is comin' to mind.
Oh no, I don't wanna fall behind too much.
This is bad.
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna Phone a Ken on this one.
- [Austin] Ooh, you're gonna
Phone a Ken, all right!
- [Ken] Hello!
- Ken.
- [Ken] What is up, what is up?
- What's good?
I got a phone a friend, I need your help.
- [Ken] It is the Nokia 7280.
- The Nokia 7280?
Okay.
- [Ken] Yes.
- Do you know what year
it's from, by any chance?
- [Ken] Two thousand and four?
- 2004, Nokia 7280, 2004.
Is that your final answer?
- [Ken] Yes.
- Amazing.
- So, in future episodes,
the Phone a Ken is going
to be severely nerfed.
We're going to not let him
know any of the information.
But yes, you are 100% correct. (ding)
Your Phone a Ken was successful.
You are five of eight, if I
am doing my math correctly.
You are above water, my friend.
- All right, that's what I like to hear.
(laughs) I'm glad I used it.
I can use it again, right?
- Nope, nope, one Phone a Ken per game.
Moving on to item number five.
- Hmm, ooh, okay, I've seen that laptop.
I've seen that keyboard many times.
I'm gonna go with this is an Apple laptop
and this is part of the iBook series.
And I don't, I've had this keyboard
in multiple laptops in my life.
Including an HP.
I think it's a Power Book.
I think it's a Power Book,
because the Power Books, that's like,
the iBook would be like the MacBook Air
and the Power Book would be like this guy.
This is the Power Book.
And then for year, just based
on when I got this keyboard
and a laptop, this would be around 2010.
- Okay, so I'm hearing
word from my producer,
you are close to the name,
but we need a little bit more specificity.
Can you get any closer
than Apple Power Book?
'Cause there are quite
a few different options.
- Hmm.
Okay, lemme, I guess
it's a shot in the dark,
'cause I was thinkin' G4,
but let's go Apple Power Book 2.
- I'm sorry to give you
zero points on that one.
(buzzer)
This is a 12-inch
Apple Power Book G4 Titanium.
And on the year, you were actually
pretty far off, my friend.
It was 2001, not 2010. (laughs)
- It's weird that I thought G4,
'cause I thought that was an iBook thing.
Wow, okay.
Yeah, zero points.
- So, the G4 line was one
of the very first laptops
that actually used a more
widescreen aspect ratio.
So even though it doesn't
look all that impressive
by today's standards,
not only did it do that,
it used the full 12-inch
width of the keyboard,
it went all the way to the edges.
Interestingly, the laptop
was made out of 99% titanium.
- Sounds heavy.
- Dude, you were so close on the name,
I wanted to give it to you.
But when you said number two,
I'm like, nah, I can't do that. (laughs)
Moving on to the next item, number six.
- Ooh, that's actually, I've seen that.
That's fairly recent.
But what is it, though?
What is that, though?
- If I didn't have a card
telling me exactly what this was,
I would have zero clue what this thing is.
- That's a whole Android tablet
right there on your wrist.
I might have to get lucky on the year,
'cause this, I am not even
thinking of a brand for this one.
I'm gonna take a shot
in the dark for this.
This is the Apple Watch Series 3.
And if I had to guess,
'cause I think this,
I really think this is
like the last four years,
so lemme go 2017.
- Sorry to say, that is an
an incorrect answer. (buzzer)
This is the Neptune Pine from 2014.
So there were some major problems,
but this actually became
popular years after it came out
because it was used by Jason Statham
in "Fast and the Furious" number eight,
which was years and years
after this thing came out,
but I guess they thought
it just looked cool.
Okay, all right, five for 12,
so you're still very, very much in it.
However, now it's time to
go on to item number seven.
- Okay, so, this is a
Samsung Galaxy something.
And I need to get the word right
because when this came out,
it was, there weren't flexible screens,
it was a curved screen.
Man, and this is so dumb,
'cause why would you
curve it around that way?
It just doesn't make any sense.
So, lemme see, what sounds
right, Samsung Galaxy Curve?
Samsung Galaxy Flex?
Samsung Galaxy Round, Round.
That's the Galaxy Round,
I know this, actually.
You know, the weird way I'm
trying to figure this out
is like what camera was I using
and when did I get that camera?
- Was this like C-100 days or something?
- Yes, this is C-100 days,
so it's so pre-Red, so it's
definitely like 11 to 14 now.
I think this is like 2014.
So I'm gonna go Samsung
Galaxy Round, 2014.
- For item number seven,
you are 100% correct. (ding)
It is the Samsung Galaxy Round from 2013,
but you still get points.
Well done, my friend.
So, when I did this game,
this is one of the phones
that I completely ruined.
I thought it was the Samsung
Galaxy Flex or something.
I didn't remember it was called the Round.
But yes, and in fact, you
definitely did a video on it,
which we watched literally
while we were prepping for this.
So, congratulations.
- This is so Samsung, this is like,
you know what we can do with the screen?
This other thing, and we're
gonna do it in a phone.
- Well, I am happy to report
that you are successfully
above the 50% threshold so far.
But don't get too cocky,
we still have quite a few devices left.
Are you ready to move on to the next item?
- I'm ready.
- All right, item number eight, please.
- Uh-huh.
(laughing)
That sinister laugh is like,
I'm not gettin' this one.
Wow, okay, Android, yes, Samsung UI.
God, that's about all
I'm gonna get from this.
It's a candy bar phone, but it's like
got this huge screen on the front.
I just don't know the name.
Like, at all.
This is the Samsung Galaxy
S20 Ultra from 2014.
No way it's that late.
2012, 2012.
- My friend, you just
threw away your points.
You are zero percent correct. (buzzer)
It was 2015.
This is the Samsung Galaxy Folder!
Not to be confused with
the Galaxy Z-Flip or Fold,
the Folder.
So, this thing sucks.
It literally was just not very good.
So, it had mid-range specs,
it was really expensive.
No one really bought these,
but apparently enough people bought them
that they made two Galaxy Folders.
- I can't believe I did
this to myself, oh man.
This is more classic Samsung,
though, this is good.
- All right, are you ready to
move on to item number nine?
We only have four more to go.
- What is that?
Yeah, hard pass, man, there's
no way I get this one.
How does it even fold like that?
- (laughs) Okay, you know what?
I feel bad, just a little bit.
I'm gonna give you a wider range.
Obviously the name and
everything is gonna be a pull,
so I'm gonna give you a little bit
of extra leeway on both fronts.
If you can get within two years
of the product coming out,
if you can give me the name
of the company who made this,
I will give you points.
- Okay, so this is all-time weird.
Okay, so it's, it, I am
tempted by like Dell and Sony,
but I'm gonna throw those out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gettin'
HP, okay, HP vibes here.
The year?
When was HP gettin' this weird?
When was anyone gettin' this weird?
This is like '90s or
early 2000s, I'm feelin',
so you know, wow, that's
like a fan vent up top
and a full-blown, what
version of Windows is that?
XP?
Looks like XP, I can't
tell, but I think that's XP.
HP something from the year 1999.
- Sorry to say, that is an
incorrect answer. (buzzer)
This is the Samsung SPH P9000 from 2007!
- What is Samsung's deal?
They are so weird, man, oh my God.
- The thing that this photo
doesn't really display
is the size of it.
This is actually a pocketable PDA,
so this runs Windows XP
with a foldout keyboard.
And it actually legitimately
was pocket-sized.
Not only was that weird,
it didn't have WiFi.
It had 3G, and I literally
had to double check this,
and also Y Max.
This is a 2007 Windows
XP folding Y Max device.
- I should've known it was Samsung
just by how weird it was.
- Okay, all right, so now
we are at seven of 18.
All right, you're gettin' a little bit
deep in the hole, my friend.
You've got three items left.
Are you ready for item number 10?
- I am ready.
Dude, I have for sure never seen
or heard of this in my
life, this is weird.
Okay, I'm gonna take a stab at the date
because it says March
fourth, 2015 on the screen.
2015 is the date that I'll
go with, just from that.
Like, it's not a
businessy IBM, Dell, Sony,
it's not any of those enterprise things.
This is just like a genuine weird play
at like getting people
to buy a weird phone.
I think I have to go
Apple, I'm just kidding.
I think it's Samsung again.
Samsung, 2015.
- Okay, I will give you 50% points. (ding)
As you so astutely noticed,
we did put the answer to
this one on that photo,
it is from 2015.
But this is the Runcible Firefox phone.
Which was, quote, the
world's first anti-smartphone
with a round screen and the backs
were actually interchangeable,
so you could add like stone,
they also had like weird
materials like wood.
And of course it used the wonderfully
always up to date and
really popular Firefox OS,
which I'm sure, you know,
it's taken over the world
and this clearly helped
it on its path to glory.
So, you're still in it, my friend,
but I think at this point,
if I'm doing the math right,
if you get both of the
next questions 100% right,
you are at a tie, which
means that you win.
So you have to get both of
these questions 100% accurate.
- I'll do my best.
- You're still in it, all
right, item number 11.
- Okay, I owned the LG Voyager, right?
This looks exactly like the LG Voyager.
It said LG and Verizon on the front,
where those two bezels are.
I had this phone.
So, this was my first
smartphone technically ever.
Which means I got it
before the Motorola Droid,
which came out in like 2007-ish.
And I got it after my
like flip Samsung phone,
which I got right before high school,
which I got in 2000, also 2007.
So I will go with 2008.
- You are 100% correct! (ding)
It is the LG Verizon Voyager from 2007.
So as you said, this was not
necessarily a smartphone,
but it was very much a
precursor to smartphones.
It did have the internet
and it was released actually
a full year before Android had
even shipped to the masses.
Marques, my friend, you are
absolutely in this right now.
For the final question,
it has come down tot his!
Can you get our very
final tech item correct?
How you feeling right now?
- It's been really hit or miss,
like, I either get it
100% or zero usually,
so I'm feelin' okay.
- As with the previous rules,
you're gonna have be within
one year on the year,
and you're gonna have to
name the name of the device.
You feel confident, you feel ready?
- I feel ready.
- All right, item number
12, our final item, please!
- I think I had this, actually.
Yeah, but what did they name it?
'Cause it was like the No
Phone or the, yeah, geez.
Okay, I really wanna get this right.
I guess, yeah, but I can't
think of anything else,
so I guess No Phone is the name.
I don't really have any like context
of like similar phones or anything.
I just have to like kind of
vaguely remember when I had one of these.
Let's go, did I have
it in college or after?
No Phone from 2015.
- Marques Brownlee, congratulations,
you have just won the game!
(ding)
It is the 2016 No Phone--
- Wow.
- I now have to tweet out
whatever it is that you want.
That was a serious comeback, my friend!
Dude, you literally had to get
so many of those last ones right.
You were so far behind.
- I believed.
I believed in myself, Austin.
I believed in myself.
That was a great shot in the dark.
- That was an amazing comeback.
Literally, when you started with No Phone
and then you sounded like
you were gonna talk
yourself out of it again,
I was like, no, don't do it,
don't do it, you got this.
(laughing)
- There's definitely some
people who are watching this
thinking they would get them right,
but that was a tough one.
Austin, I already know
what I want you to tweet.
- Okay, I'm ready.
- Three, zero--
- Three, zero.
- Space.
- Space.
- Greater than sign.
- Greater than sign, I don't like this,
where it's going, okay.
- Space.
- I have lost the greater
than sign on my keyboard.
I'm trying--
- Down, down there at the bottom.
- Greater than, space, yes, got it, okay.
- 24.
- 24, oh! (laughing)
- And then hit enter for the next line.
And just--
- Okay.
- 30 FPS gang for life, that's it.
(laughing)
(claps)
- All right, all right.
- There it is.
- All right, you know what?
30 greater than 24, 30 FPS gang for life.
Okay, and tweeted, done.
Well played, my friend, well played.
- Beautiful, oh man, I love it.
(laughing)
Hey, I just want it out there,
I just want it out there.
I'll send you this clip in 30 FPS also.
(chuckles)
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