- Hello and welcome to This Is.
Today on the phone game we
have a very special guest,
Mr. Whose The boss is about to find out
if he really is the boss.
How are you doing my friend?
- I'm feeling good, I'm feeling confident.
- Oh, you're starting out
with confidence, I like it.
So the rules today are very simple.
We have 10 pieces of technology
that we're going to show you.
They could be phones,
they could be computers.
Whatever the case is,
we're going to ask you
two questions about each.
First, what is the name of the device?
And second of all, what
year it was released.
Now because obviously
there's a wide range here,
we're going to give you a
little bit of a handicap
so if you can guess
plus or minus one year,
we will count that as a correct answer.
Now if you can hit 50%,
so if you get 10 out of 20
questions technically correct,
you will be the phone game winner.
However, if you've seen previous episodes,
we like to spice it up
because what's a game
without consequences.
So if you would be willing to partake
in a gentleman's wager.
If you are able to get that 50% threshold,
if you're able to get half
of these questions right,
This Is Twitter will tweet
whatever it is that you want.
However, if you fail to win the game
then we ask that you tweet out,
This Is is the greatest
channel on YouTube.
That's like a fair wager,
are you feeling confident
right now my friend?
- I think 50% is doable.
I'm gonna aim just to get the year right.
- I mean if you get the year
right in every single one
and the name completely wrong,
you will technically win.
- Yeah that's the plan.
Okay, let's do it.
- All right, let's start
out with item number one.
- Oh man, okay.
This is early Android.
You've got a menu key.
This is angular.
It is a Motorola Razr
or Motorola Milestone
and I think it's 2010.
- Okay so just hang on.
So for your final answer,
it is the 2010 Motorola what?
- It was a droid, it might be a droid.
I'm gonna go with droid.
I'd say a Motorola,
I think it's called the
Milestone in the UK.
That's how I know it.
- Mr Whose The Boss.
Congratulations, you are 100% correct.
Yes so we actually
would take both answers.
So this is the Motorola Droid
or obviously the Milestone
both are correct.
This is from 2009, but you're
well within the points.
So you get full marks
on our first question.
- I remember there was a time in my life
when all I wanted to do
was to get a certain score
in like quadrant benchmark.
- Yeah, the good old days
yeah, the good old days.
All right, let's move
on to tech number two.
- Oh man.
Oh you went hard, what is that?
Okay I'm gonna guess that's pre Android.
It looks like, is this a phone?
- So it is a piece of technology
and that's as far as I
can tell you, my friend.
- It's got a front camera.
I wanna say HP,
but the design language
doesn't really look very HP.
I've lost it, okay let's
go HP slidey boy, 2007.
- I'm happy to say you are 50%, correct.
This is the Sony Vaio
UX, but it is from 2006.
This is actually not an Android phone.
This is a Windows XP PC.
So this is a full handheld PC.
As you can see you've got the webcam,
you've got the keyboard
and a 4.5 inch screen,
but it did have things
like Bluetooth, wifi
and even edge cellular
data, which was pretty cool
for a 2006 little mini Windows XP system.
- Cool.
- Unfortunately you can't see it
but we did actually do a video on this,
on the main channel last year
and it's got this nice
little sliding mechanism.
Like if you listen to this
(phone panel cluttering)
- I can virtually imagine it's great.
- All right well you're still doing fine.
You are still at three
or four potential points.
So you are well on your way
to being a This Is winner.
- I'm feeling good, I feel
like I came in expecting
just to get the dates right
and I've actually kind
of won up to myself.
So, so far so good.
- Hold onto that confidence, my friend
because we're going to
take it away from you
with item number three.
- Okay,
it has probably what I imagine
is a crappy non-color screen.
Okay so probably pre 2000.
I'm gonna say 1998
and I'm gonna go with,
who would do something like that?
Toshiba.
- Okay, do you wanna hazard
a guess at the model name?
- Alien egg.
- So, wait can you put
that all together for me?
So sorry, it's the what?
- (chuckling) That's the
Toshiba Alien Egg from 1998.
- You may be Mr. Whose The boss,
but today you are incorrect.
This is actually the Siemens
Celebrate 4A, from 2003.
- Oh man, Siemens.
I would never have got that one.
Could've given me 10 guesses.
- Well I am still happy to
report that three questions in,
you are at 50% so you're
still absolutely in the game.
Are you ready for phone number four?
- Not really
- All right, well maybe
you'll have better luck
with item number four.
- Oh okay, oh my God whats the name?
Okay so this is a limited
edition OPPO phone.
I've got one, that's
the worst part of this
and it's when their naming
scheme was harder to follow.
Yeah, I'm gonna guess 2017
and then model number,
I'm gonna guess OPPO, oh God,
R5 Pro, Barcelona edition.
- For question number four.
You are very, very close, but
that is actually incorrect.
This is the OPPO R11 FC
Barcelona limited edition
but however it is from 2017
so you do get the point.
I was tempted to give you that one,
but R11 was just a
little bit too different.
- I got the Barcelona though.
- The problem with this one
is we almost gave it away.
Although you obviously
guessed the year correctly
because the photo has
the actual year on it.
So that almost made it in,
we're like, oh wait a minute.
We had to pull that at the last second.
- This stuff used to get me excited,
like limited additions phones
that weren't just like plain black slates.
I used to really like it.
- What's your favorite limited
edition you've ever unboxed?
- It's a great question.
Can I count the Escobar phone?
- Is that limited or is that
scam edition, I'm not sure.
- A hundred percent gold maybe edition.
- All right, well again, four questions in
you're right on the cusp
of victory, my friend.
So let's move on to phone number five.
- Yeah I think this is an LG phone.
There's not many companies
that make stylus phones
and it's not a Samsung.
It's just the year
and I think the only thing,
see I was expecting to
be able to go off icons,
but you've got rid of those too.
- Well we've tried to pick photos
that don't completely give it away,
but we've only used real stock photos.
We're not like, you know,
Photoshopping screens
or anything like that.
The only thing we'll do
is like remove like a date or something.
- Okay so I've gotta go
off kind of like the bezels
and I'm thinking is it, it's
probably around LG G4, G5 time.
So that would be
2014, 2015.
I'm gonna go 2015, LG Stylo,
what did they call it, five.
- Matt is furiously
yelling at me on the side,
waving at me that I can I give you this.
That is an incorrect answer.
This is from 2017 and
it is not the LG Stylo 5
but the LG Stylus 3
- Oh I got nothing, oh my God.
- That was a tough one mate.
So the thing is, this was
back in the weird days
of like, you can see like that's like,
not even I don't believe in active stylus.
I think there was like straight up
just a capacitive tip on the end of it.
I looked at this photo
I immediately thought
oh it's like the DS version.
All right it's fine, you're still in it.
Don't forget however,
you do have your phone account available.
So if you're feeling questionable,
I'm just throwing it out there,
still very much in the hunt.
Now let's move on to item number six.
- You've done this before, I've seen this.
Oh no, no.
Okay, okay, it's a PC.
It is a foldable PC
and it's meant to be
pocketable I wanna say.
I can't remember.
I think it was Marquez who did
this one before and he said,
and it ended up being
older than he expected..
No, newer than he expected.
Okay I'm gonna say, 2007 and I'm gonna say
Sony Foldy Flat.
- I'm happy to say that six questions in,
you're starting to catch up
because you have 50% of this correct.
It is in fact, the Samsung SPH 9000.
However you got the year
dead on, it is from 2007.
- Okay I do pay attention, that's good.
- Okay so if we do a little catch up here,
six questions in and you
are sitting at five points.
So you are still very
close to the 50% threshold.
So you still absolutely
have a great chance
and you still have four
more questions to go.
How are you feeling now?
- I feel like I came into this
a new man and now I'm like,
I've got war, battle scars
- and I think this could go anyway
but I'm gonna back myself,
I'm gonna back myself.
- All right well let's move
on to item number seven.
- Uh huh okay, this is Samsung.
This is, I know they've
made some funny ones.
They made the Folder, but
I don't think this is,
I think the Folder had a
second screen on the front.
It's tricky, it's like I'm
looking at the material design,
the kind of the level they've got to
and I remember the Galaxy S1 was very,
it was very, I suppose
icons have become more flat
over time isn't it, and
they become more squarkly.
I'm gonna say this is
2011 and this is, no 2012
and this is the Samsung Flip.
- You've come a very long way my friend.
We've thrown some very
difficult questions at you
and for this one, I am sad to
say you are 100% incorrect.
This is actually the
Samsung Folder 2 from 2017.
Fun fact, this was actually
on a lost episode of mystery tech.
We unboxed one of these
and subsequently the audio
for that episode was lost
so it was never posted.
- Oh man I've been done.
- Oh oh, hold on a second,
I'm getting a breaking news
update from Matt, what's wrong?
- [Matt] It is the folder one.
- Did you just
- [Matt] It's a typo
- Wait, so hang on, so
this is not the Folder 2.
So this is the Folder 1 from when?
- [Matt] 2016
- So due to gross incompetence
by Matt, the This Is wizard.
We have only a slight
idea of which one this is.
So you know what
we're gonna give you
full points for that one.
- Full points, yes.
- Now that we've settled that
and given you full points,
let's move on to item number eight.
- Yeah okay, I like the fact
that you've shown me icons this time
so I can see it is, are
they on screen buttons?
I'm gonna go with 2014 and I feel like
this is gonna be one of
those off-brand companies
that you don't really expect
to make a lot of phones.
Like I almost want to say Kodak,
'cause it looks like a
camera centric phone.
Yeah, let's go Kodak.
I'm gonna go Kodak.
Kodak what would they call it?
Pics, Kodak Pics from 2014.
- So by the strict definition
of the rules of this game,
you are incorrect.
However, this is in fact a Kodak phone.
It's called the extra from 2016
so I'm gonna give you a
point for that mostly because
- [Matt] EC-TRA
- The Kodak EC-TRA was actually built.
You are actually correct
on, it was from originally
some of one of these more obscure brands.
It's made by the Bullitt Group,
the same people who make
things like the cat phone
or the Land Rover phone.
So it was very much sort of like
they're sort of packaging
it up for different brands.
With this you're still in the game.
So it is time to move
on to item number nine.
- Oh God
- Before you make any final
decision on this phone.
There is a slight wrinkle
to the way that this game is being played.
So right now, if you get two
points out of the next four,
so if you get 50% on
the next two questions,
you will be victorious.
However, we now have a bonus available.
If you may or may not want
to actually take advantage
of this so I'm just gonna
give you a heads up now,
especially before you
potentially burn your lifeline.
If at the end you are feeling
confident and feeling bold,
you can take on an optional 11th question.
So if you answer that
question 100% correct,
you will get instead of a
tweet, a full 30 second ad spot
in a This Is episode
where we will talk about
whatever it is that you want.
So obviously as my mortal enemy
who is trying to beat me
to 5 million subscribers,
I would certainly never
want to promote your channel
for 30 seconds and tell
people to go subscribe.
So I'm just gonna float that out there
but just so you know, there is a wrinkle.
If you get to the end of
the game and you have won,
you can take your tweet
and you're good to go,
but win or lose,
you still have the ability to
take on that bonus question
for essentially double or nothing.
So just float it out there
that those are the new rules of the game.
So if you wanna take advantage,
you know, just floating it out there.
- Okay that sounds fair.
I'm gonna phone my Ken.
- [Ken] I have never seen
this phone before in my life.
- No, you were my lifeline.
- [Ken] I wish I could help
you a little more, but...
- I wanna say pocket.
I feel like this is a device
oriented to being compact
because of the shape.
It looks like it's running Gingerbread.
I wanna say because of the
status bar or Android 2.2 or 2.3.
So I'm going to say this is a 2012, 2010,
let's say 2011 phone.
I'm gonna go HP, HP, now
you're making me question.
Okay, HP Pocket.
- So this is the Pocket.
You are absolutely correct about that.
However, however it's not from HP.
It is from Pantech,
but it is from 2011
so we're gonna give
you one point for that.
You were very close,
but this was the Pantech Pocket from 2011.
- Brutal I'll take it.
- So the thing was,
this thing was bizarre.
So first of all,
it had that weird
four-by-three aspect ratio
and to me like it's sort of meant to look
a little more rugged, I guess
sort of you can carry
around with you all the time
but obviously this was
from one of those brands
like Pantech, which I don't even know
if they're even still around
at this point, but yeah,
this is a little bit,
one of the weird ones.
So let's move on to item
number 10 for the win.
- Oh oh okay, this is a trick.
This is one of those copy
phones based on a Xiaomi MI Mix,
which was October, 2016.
Okay I wanna say this is
one of those Chinese brands.
This is, I'm gonna go
Umidigi Crystal from 2017
and I'm feeling good about
this, I'm feeling good.
- So you are very perceptive
and that this is absolutely
one of these copy phones
and it is from a Chinese brand
and it is not the Umidigi though.
This is the Bluboo S1.
However,
Arun,
this phone came out
in 2017.
You are a This Is winner,
congratulations my friend.
- Yes, Yes!
Oh oh my gosh.
- So at this point, if you want,
you can take the tweet, walk away.
You are a This Is winner
and nothing can take that away from you.
Except if you want to
opt for a bonus question.
The rules for the bonus
question are very simple.
We're going to show you
one final piece of tech.
We are going to give you the
exact same rules as before
with one difference.
You need to give us
not only the name of
the piece of technology,
but also the year with zero handicaps.
So you need to be dead on.
If you are incorrect with your answer,
then you walk away with nothing.
However, if you are correct,
then you will get a 30 second ad spot
on a future This Is
episode where we will say
literally whatever it is that you want.
Does that sound like
something you wanna try?
Like how are you feeling
confidence wise right now?
- I feel like it was one of
those things where I feel great.
You know I can't say no to that.
- I like it.
Let's move on to the double
or nothing bonus question
for the 30 second ad spot on This Is.
- Okay, I can tell you,
okay so this is Samsung.
This is back when they were
doing Samsung Experience.
It's probably, it's a mid range phone.
Well, I reckon just based on the icons,
this is Samsung Experience.
So this is around when
they had the Galaxy S8.
Probably the year after
that so let me just think.
So that would be 2017, 2018 time.
I think that this is,
okay I'm gonna go with Samsung J5, 2016.
- Arun, Mr. Whose The Boss,
you have fought valiantly
through this entire game.
You have brought some incredible knowledge
from incredible knowhow,
some incredibly good guesses,
very intuitive thoughts
about a lot of these phones
that you've covered
but when it comes to the bonus question,
this is the Samsung Galaxy J7 from 2015.
- Oh oh okay, I did better than
I thought I would, fair play
- So this is one of those
weird phones, like you said,
they have and still have a
wide range of budget devices
but yeah so this is one
of those sort of weird
entry-level devices.
Yeah, you're right,
the giveaway was definitely the fact
that it still had the capacitive button,
which I think they were phasing out around
the 2016, 2017 timeframe,
even on their budget devices.
- Yeah, I was thrown
off by the icons, damn.
- My friend that was a
incredibly impressive effort.
I feel bad because you had the tweet.
So you know what we're gonna do.
We'll go ahead and give
you the tweet anyway,
since you came so close to winning that.
Well, thank you very much
for being on This Is.
Of course, if anyone
would like to find you
what's the best place to find
you on the wide wide web?
- Mr. Whose The Boss.
- Easy enough, thank you very
much for being on my friend
and of course, thank you very
much for watching this episode
of This Is, make sure to
subscribe to the channel,
subscribe to Arun as well, and
we will catch you next time
when Matt inevitably gets
something else wrong.
- All right, cheers guys.
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