When Phones Were Fun: Motorola PEBL (2005)

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1. Know it's not all letters but the best 4 character Motorola phone is the E170 because I owned it

2. 5:13: four taps on an iphone

3. I loved my pebl so much. That opening mechanism was so satisfying and the shape was perfect for my pudgy little hobbit hands.

4. Price

5. I lost like three razrs. Way too thin. I loved the pebl though. I had one and never lost it. It took me a couple weeks to figure out how to open in though.

6. I remember having this phone on black, i loved it so much, didnt failed, just got replaced.

7. I would love a modern version of this

8. The name, it reminds me of another brand long forgotten… hahaha…. GOD I miss Pebble. Their watches were… something else.

9. It's funny that you're saying 'aargh' yet it's a good phone, am talking about Motorola pebl..

10. "From the age when messages were instant, hinges were automatic and phones were fun" 🙂

11. I had this phone and I looooved it …. Orange and green 🙂

12. That hinge mechanism is absurdly cool, kinda surprised I didn't hear a thing about it back in the day.
    The RAZR had all my attention (and most everyone else's) while the PEBL felt uninteresting to me, but that neat trick shouldn't have gone unnoticed.
    Someone bring it to a modern flip phone and I'll be in trouble…

13. I had this one too, so many memories!

14. 5:03 I always used the Media Player to change my ringtone on my Motorla devices 😀

15. The PEBL just looks so cute, it's like a smol little bean.

16. I know it’s 2022 and whatnot. But can we bring back some of the design Aesthetics of older phones.

17. We can watch YouTube on it because YouTube was released on 2005 and this phone to

18. Man! I had this phone!!! It was amazing!!! I remember that you could put a mp3 ringtone on it! Holy crap! Was amazing!

19. The design looks so modern it could pass as a new phone today.

20. Do for Sony Ericsson phones please.

21. Watching this on a Motorola

22. i stil have my good old pebl – but the microphone is on it,s last leg some times i have too take the phone and smack it in too the table to get the static out off the ear microphone / but it makes for one good conversation — hello …. bum …hello – yep it,s me and no i am not on a shooting range

    i have it fixed in a heartbeat but my moto store is not sadly – maybe if i find a doner pebl

23. Omg, I had the razor phone….after begging my dad for his 🤣🤣

24. It's shocking to see how we replaced engineering genius with technological advancement. companies were able to try so many different things hardware and design wise with these old standard call and text phones and now it feels like phones are just mehh as they're just boring slabs.

25. Pebl sort of looks like a cassette player.

26. Found this model in a flea market and got it for 2 $..to my surprise it's still works..

27. I loved mine when I had it in high school. Everyone wanted to flip my phone even just once. It definitely was talked about a lot but quickly a forgotten phone. Even just 2 years of use later it started getting gummy on the outside, the screen cover adhesive started weakening and lifting, and then the hinge started to go as well about 3 years later. By that point I had already moved onto a Sony Ericsson brick of a phone and then got my N95 shortly after.

28. I loved the RAZR. It just looked cool and also was a great phone. Had the razr v3 and v3i back then, i still have them somewhere in a drawer.

    Yeah, phones were more fun back then.
    There were far more differences between the models, the brands and one would see at first glance what brand and what model your phone is.
    Smartphones definitely lack of individualit and recall value

29. My last feature phone was the SLVR, which also had iTunes functionality like the ROKR.

30. i miss my blackberry

31. how much is it

32. There was also the Crazr too.

33. I had ever single one
    I love the pebble so much I got the u 9

34. I would love to see a reboot of this phone, but thinner in size.

35. 06:26 what watch is that?

36. Cute! 😀

37. Yes Bluetooth earpieces for an episode

38. I don’t remember that one

39. I Loved this one! One of my vaf phones!

40. I loved this phone. The open close mechanism was just so satisfying.

41. I had the H500 bluetooth too. I got it used and free when clearing out "old tech junk" at work. I used it from about 2013 to 2016. It was not bad considering it was free and didn't fly off my ear lol

42. I had the RAZR v3i [aka the I tunes edition] back in the day. It was awesome for the time even tho it didn't have a head phone jack. It had a decent USB headset included and could use a micro SD card up to 1 GB. You could load mp3s via I tunes just like on any iPod. I remember being able to load midi and mp3s as ring tones. I had and still have to this day the MMPR communicator beep as my ring tone. The camera was respectable back then. 1.3MP and could record video.

43. This video is a year old. Is your Razr having issues with the screen? That's why I still haven't bought one. It's pretty expensive and the screen looks like it'll develop a "dead pixel" line down the center where it folds. Does your phone have the dead pixel issue?

44. When I was little I had a Motorola V325 on Verizon it was like a PEBL but with an antenna and it had the same call and end icons on the keypad

45. Apple was falling countinueus one guy observed

46. Moto Ming

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