I Bought a $40 Walmart Phone… 🤨

[@SmokinSilicon]

Any other budget phones we should try? Let me know!

[@Totallynotmwa]

there are some budget samsung phones

[@Connorplayer123]

@@TotallynotmwaI’m going to try the a03s 32gb 3gb phone on my channel for $80

[@Totallynotmwa]

@@Connorplayer123 Alr

[@my_eman]

zte..blade a34?...

[@Joe-ey7cu]

Nokia C110 from Dollar General.

[@ButteredCarpet]

2:28 Bro did not just say "theres no way this has Android" 💀 Android is the most open source OS, that being said even the shitty crappy cheap phones use it

[@michaelgoldband34]

Yeah he’s definitely new to this shit 🤣

[@ButteredCarpet]

@@michaelgoldband34 added on the fact that, that shit is a MOTOROLA PHONE

[@brolydictcumberbatchmontou401]

I'm thinking he's implying full android, and not that $h!t android go stripped down ultra basic android go you usually get on cheap phones.

[@DualWieldingDad]

I'm glad this phone exists. Smartphones have become a necessity in the US and not everyone can afford nice ones.

[@Owen01]

Agreed. It’s nice to have options this inexpensive for those that want or need a phone. For $40 this will do what you need

[@SmokinSilicon]

It's wild that smartphones like this are going for $40 and iPhones cost over $1k lol

[@Morecreativemind]

It's not Just specifically the US, But rather the Whole World 🌍

[@Tristin471]

Exactly. These days, you can find a much better phone, for $40, than 10 years ago.

[@Warp2090]

Smartphones arent a necessity

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Bro seriously acts like he's never heard of Motorola or prepaid phones before 💀💀💀💀💀

[@ButteredCarpet]

Exactly 💀

[@SC-zq6cu]

what's a prepaid phone ?

[@Bender-official]

​@@SC-zq6cupre-paid as in you pay ahead of time instead of signing a contract and paying a bill at the end of the month.

[@LoudRam]

Sounds like a typical life long Apple user, totally clueless about Android.

[@Sxdxez]

@@LoudRamso what? CRY about Ur android

[@Aragon23-p2k]

For 40 dollars, it's a very good deal, especially since it's a Motorola, which means stock Android and no bloatware.

[@dylanlindsay1993]

i found a similar phone like that on the bus! it literally flew in front of me... i couldnt power it off tho without doing a factory reset though because it had a power on pin so i reset it which google locked it but i bypassed it n now i have a moto g 5g 2023 thats in like new condition for free!

[@GINGER_KING_]

@@dylanlindsay1993why not look for the owner lol that’s not free

[@yesdear9453]

also even if you never use it as a phone and more like an android table with smaller screen its good and much better specs then any cheap android table would have that would cost double or sometimes triple the price also had ok camera

[@CommodoreFan64]

Motorola does their own minor touches like shake shake for the flashlight, and twist twist for the quick access to the camera among a few other things, so if you truly want stock Android with consistent updates you gotta go with Pixel phones.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@GINGER_KING_ if it's locked down, and you can't do anything with it, then there is no way to tell who owned it, might as well use it instead of it being ewaste.

[@Alias_Anybody]

Why does this man sound like he never held any electronic device not made by Apple?

[@LoudRam]

Probably because he hasn't.

[@rg1124nov]

Seriously. He's talking like carrier plans and phones aren't significantly more then $35. Not to mention cell provider surveys prove like 95% of people don't use very much data and unlimited plans are a waste for most of them. People just like the sound of unlimited. I've sold phones for a living. $35 is perfectly reasonable. This dude has clearly never been broke. Saying to just get the phone through the carrier when you're paying like minimum 60 with a lot of carriers plus a monthly fee for the phone itself is tone deaf af

[@stephintheatre6335]

Or Sony

[@MZRFaith]

​@@rg1124novstop being pretentious, I'm homeless and think it's amazing you can buy a phone like that for $40 and I'm using one right that's $40 the HMD vibe made by Nokia for Walmart family mobile. You're being rude for no reason

[@bigpapikane7170]

Embarrassing that a $40 phone has 90hz display while the basic $800 iPhone has 60hz.

[@colemartin1168]

for real i acc cannot believe this, thank god i diddnt get iphone 15 or 15 plus 😭😭

[@cringymakesbeats]

You can’t tell the difference, I don’t know why that matters to yall… at all… 60hz and 140hz look exactly the same on iPhones “how do you know?” Because one our eyes barely move can see faster than 60hz and two I use both an iPhone 14+ and an iPhone 15 Pro Max.. screen looks like the same shi, stop being sheep it’s not embarrassing at all…

[@BradB-o3h]

​@@cringymakesbeatsMan you really think everyone else has the same capabilities as you? Just because you can't tell the difference doesn't mean nobody can lol

[@Musyaaaa]

​@@cringymakesbeatsyou must be blind

[@popupheadlights]

​@cringymakesbeats no you absolutely can notice, your monitor or phone doesn't have the same capability as the human eye, with 90 hz animations in the OS much smoother, our eyes don't have frame rates per say, our eyes try to see things as one continuous stream not images flashing reallt quickly like screens work, the quicker they flash the closer they are to one stream, for gaming for example, 1080p 144hz looks much smoother and sharper then then same 1080 at 30-60

[@3xcalibur23_Music]

Why do some people laugh at a budget phone not everyone has money like that to buy expensive phones

[@diwaalejandrogalvez796]

Most tech influencers and celebs laugh at budget everything.

[@3xcalibur23_Music]

@@diwaalejandrogalvez796 Yes I see it

[@bubba842]

Most people will spend nearly a thousand dollars on a phone to look at Instagram and Tik Tok videos. Any phone can do that. But I guess people will get themselves into massive amounts of debt for something they don't need.

[@3xcalibur23_Music]

@@bubba842 Exactly 💯 what you said

[@diwaalejandrogalvez796]

@@bubba842 Agreed. Same that a lot are spending tens of thousands for pick-up trucks to go to an adventure at Costco.

[@bubba842]

When did we all become professional photographers that had to have the best quality photos possible?? What's worse is that people take so many photos and edit them with filters to put them on instagram to never look at them again. What a complete waste of time. The camera on this phone is just fine. And will be fine dor the vast majority of people.

[@fakedazzleful]

Tell me about it. I hate when people send me a photo and its filter.

[@nicholas4839]

The moto apps you skipped over have a ton of features for the phone to make it better you can change the color profile too

[@PixelatedH2O]

Color profiles are built into modern Android

[@LeoAshcraft]

i hate them. That crap is on all moto. Mine was $400 amd not from Walmart

[@HandleIsNewAndBad]

They are useful, at least a bunch of them. 1. Chop for flashlight. 2. Swipe for one-handed mode. 3. Night display. 4. Twist for camera. ​@@LeoAshcraft

[@vsk5573]

That's not motorola bloatware. That's the front end for customisation. Motorola provides software features through those apps.

[@dipe6376]

Reviewers need to stop comparing cheap ass phones to iphones when reviewing the phones

[@bubba842]

It's not a bad comparison. If a $40 phone can do most people just fine, then why are people spending $1000 plus on a phone?? Plus, if they can make money on this, it just shows you how much Apple and Samsung are ripping us off.

[@michaelgoldband34]

Dawg I was saying the same thing to myself lmaoo

[@cringymakesbeats]

Bro he said the speaker is better than his iphone…… I have my broken one in a shoebox, ts speaker is louder but NOT better ☠️ its not even better than the iphone 6 speakers because the bass was trash, high pitched noises were trash, mids were off sometimes for odd reasons, the speakers maxed out to a trailer of a guy whispering before… Build quality isn’t that good, the back of the phone started cracker because I dropped it like 1 inch onto a wooden desk, the screen cracks on touch with any concrete no matter how hard it hits, screen stopped working randomly and when I put another in the OS was apparently broken too so thats why it’s just sitting in a shoebox If you don’t update the phone within a month it will start giving you ICPU, Mr Clean and all types of ads, it crashes really easily, got hacked out of no where from countless websites including KZbin (thats an android issue though not the phone, this happened on my Samsung multiple times as well), can barely even run KZbin, when I got KZbin Premium it almost died… Battery is good for a certain amount of time, cooling is trash, hz are good but all hz look exactly the same off camera because our eyes don’t see fast enough to tell the difference between 60 and 90 and 140 hz, as you could tell from the video the camera wasn’t very good, fingerprint scanner bugged out if u had the tiniest bit of sweat on ur fingers This is not a very good phone, but if you’re on a tight bugdet I would recommend getting these along with some WIRED skullcandies, bluetooth skullcandies are good but they’re more expensive and have a noticeable delay

[@dancollins4755]

I disagree Apple has to raise the bar on their products. They charge Cadillac price for Kia performance.

[@dankweaboo1105]

The only phones they know exist are Iphones

[@jeshuruncarlos6649]

This Guy is acting as if he has never heard Of Motorola or their Signature Flashlight Gesture.... They introduced the FIRST MOBILE PHONE !!!!!!!

[@yannick7230]

It's 40$ because it's locked to that carrier. Unlocked it's about 100$.

[@bubba842]

Still, that is pretty impressive.

[@SpongeBob_circle_pants]

Well you do need a cell service so anyways you gotta same some carrier service provider

[@MrManniG]

​@@SpongeBob_circle_pantsim with you on that but 35 bucks a month is outrageous. You're better of getting a phone for like 100 to 120 but pay only 10$ a month.

[@jonfreeman9682]

I think you're right. That carrier must be subsidizing it. No way Moto can make money selling for 40 bucks. You get the phone cheap but phone has to be used with carrier so they make money from your data plan.

[@drsysop]

You can get a sim unlock code for about $40 but you can not uninstall the bloatware only disable it.

[@indvstrial]

I work for Cricket and honestly this is the only cheap phone I will recommend. We have the Cricket branded ones that are cheaper but outsourcing from god knows where is just a recipe for bloatware and shitty hardware. These are fairly solid for a low end phone.

[@HRANCH]

Honestly perfect as a first phone or a gift for someone. Motorola too means the software shouldn’t be too laggy on the cheaper hardware. I bought my dad a Motorola g power 2021 model as a gift and he loved it up until he got a s23!

[@OrlandoGarcia0322]

Wrong. The Moto G Play 2023 is absolutely awful. I had to return it back after a month. It's the only phone I recommend anyone to stay away from.

[@brittvaldes-pages2619]

This is the 2024 and no it's not​@@OrlandoGarcia0322

[@vagamer522]

No my Moto lagged so bad and was boot looping. Also most budget Androids are pure bloat and are awful. For the price you pay for you can get a good Iphone 11 with no lag what so ever.

[@Jonnyx180]

I have one once you download force stop ( no root/ and let it run after first setup it rarely lags for me and games are all supported perfectly for big name game apps even cod which was auprising

[@keithbrown7685]

I have a Moto G5 that was not born to die. It's in a kind of semi retirement. I have it playing audiobooks. In a previous life, it was an Energizer battery, just goes on and on and on. 🙂

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

$40 And Has A 50MP Camera...That Alone Is Unbelievable...Quite Splendid

[@Mike23405]

As someone who works for that company there’s some phones that straight talk has that have more features for a few dollars more

[@techbaffle]

4:03 I think that's really clever. Looks like a dual camera, but doesn't do the silly fake secondary camera or 0.3mp "depth" or "macro" camera.

[@helterskelzer3883]

If you think thats bloat then you dont know what bloat is

[@dannyaspiras7810]

I have a question. Can this phone be used without the data plan? Can I use this phone to play games on it and watch KZbin videos and turn it into a Wi-Fi enabled wireless security camera?

[@weslyfoster5721]

I always buy cheap phones from Walmart on straight talk. They’re not that bad.

[@venomousgators5261]

Bloatware is not a downside because even flagship phones that 600 to 1k will have bloatware

[@Cyber_Gas]

It is down side but what you can do. Also pixel doesnt have bloatware

[@WanderingCactus]

In Motorolas defense, they don't really customize their version of Android, much of these apps are for customizing it yourself, plus much of the bloatware on Moto phones, possibly all, is removable... Well, except for the required Google apps.

[@Nieczytelny_official]

nah no bloatware but google just installs apps on its own​@@WanderingCactus

[@keithbrown7685]

@@WanderingCactus And even some of those can be disabled if you want.

[@wincentwincentwincent]

40 dollars for that is a steal in any country

[@squirrelcovers6340]

I have a $20 phone from Walmart. It does what I need it to. I'm not obsessed with phones.

[@keithbrown7685]

I'm curious. How is the call quality? I suspect that's why people (especially people on the go or roughing it) might buy a phone like yours. They just want to use it to make calls. And if they lose it or break it, no biggie, just go back to wallyworld and get another. 🙂

[@Rmzkm007]

I totally would buy this to use as a secondary phone.

[@FanOfAlot]

For others to know, there is a special bar code that should be scanned by an employee (should be one that works in electronics) to be able to activate the phone

[@CommodoreFan64]

yep, I use to work for Dollar General as a 2nd job, if they don't scan that barcode it won't even let you buy the phone in store. Also years back I was on Net10, and bought an LG 900G phone from Best Buy's website before Android phones where cheap, & Net10 allowed BYOD, but a slackoff at the warehouse forgot to scan that barcode before shipping it, so I called the Best Buy store in my area, and they said they could not help me because it was done online, & I could return it, but none were left in stock, so I ended up spending almost 8 hours on the phone, and having to borrow a fax machine to send proof to their indian office that I bought the damn thing, and did not steal it, along with putting in strings of really really long codes spoken by the indian dude to get it activated. So yeah always make sure they scan the damn barcode!!!

[@BodziuM]

those apps are not bloatware

[@giovanigeorgis3848]

Yes they are, especially the Moto folder. Manufacturers modifying an OS to have their stuff preinstalled is by definition bloatware

[@jonfreeman9682]

Only if you don't use it.

[@soupboy5074]

Anything outside apple is bloatware for these idiots😂

[@TheWolfHowling]

7:50 I miss being able to activate the flashlight with a chop-chop from back a few years ago when I had a Moto.😢 I believe the feature is simply using the accelerometer and surprised than no other OEMs copied it

[@stormyday849]

Lmfao that phone is better than the Samsung galaxy A11. I bought a few years back also from Walmart, straight talk, but I paid $100.

[@jonfreeman9682]

For $40 that's friggin disposable. That's crazy.

[@SaetronYT]

Those phones are great. They’re only $130 unlocked. I’m always getting those for my parents. They can do WhatsApp and read the news with no issues, which is pretty much everything they do with a phone anyway. No need to waste a bunch of money on more expensive phones.

[@Soundwaiv]

yea i was gonna say i didnt think they were usually $40

[@gdj6298]

So you could get this, pay a $40 unlocking fee and still be $50 in.

[@Cantripping]

These companies sell them at a loss, though locking them to a particular service. The continued use of the prepaid plan is supposed to pay it off and eventually turn a profit. That being said, it's a fairly low end device. Good enough for grandparents and people with low expectations, but not sufficient for any kind of power user.

[@JRBowling1997]

People that love the headphone jack be like. Holy shit. I'll buy this just for the headphone jack.

[@alexlugh]

I GOT AN AD FOR WALMART WHEN I CLICKED THIS LOL! 😂😂

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

Sometimes Lower Priced Phones Have Surprisingly Premium Specs...

[@gamingguru2k6]

Drug dealers like $40 phones.

[@techbaffle]

I would say it's more of a $149 phone, but still a lot for your money. I'm guessing the phone network will make its money back with the sim card.

[@8-bitarcadebrawlergaming176]

2:11 i was waiting for the crack 😂😂😂 but there wasn't

[@itzmewwingtime]

Bro this is a phone that costs half the price of the first gen apple pencil

[@GINGER_KING_]

Reviewing android phone doesn’t believe it will have android lol is he new lol

[@Rileygee0224]

I have an elderly co worker who got her first "smart phone" it's a Walmart phone called Blu I think and she managed to get the text to speech guidance mode on so I, being the only tech savvy person there had to painstakingly disable it, didn't help it was cheap and ran so slow.

[@bedtundy22]

I have an iPhone 15 but I wanted a back up phone that I can watch KZbin and stuff on so I bought this exact same phone from Walmart lmao.

[@atc9000]

Go and enable developer options and then scroll down until you find the three settings for the animations and turn them all to 0. The phone should run a little bit quicker.

[@123RADIOactive]

For $40, it’s definitely a good deal. You can basically pay $200~$300 for something that i reckon would have similar features & specs as this one. The only thing is to try and unlock it so you could use it with other networks.

[@cheasok3138]

You should play around with the phone and find out what other features are unique to Motorola. Like that 2 chops gesture thing you did turns the flashlight on and off

[@masterof2d926]

“There’s no way this thing runs android” …. What other OS would a $40 smartphone run?

[@dentonatteberry6083]

Walmart pays approximately $10 per unit turns around selling for forty a unit. Do the math.

[@keithbrown7685]

Profit. Yummy. Profit is good.

[@5150crazyfun]

I got this phone a few weeks ago and it's excellent for the price on everything except call quality. Often times I can't hear the person clearly and they can't hear me. Which is a huge shame because the design, performance, display, battery life and even the cameras for the price are surprisingly good. Since I need my phone to work as a phone first and foremost, that's a deal breaker for me. Side note, out of the box the reason the camera app likely crashed on you is it needed an update. Mine had one available during the setup process as soon as I opened the camera app.

[@StarHope86]

The selfie photo made me laugh 😆 It was a “I just woke up at 4am” type of expression.

[@Lunar360]

I mean for 40 dollars you get some okay specs, but a snapdragon 680 in it?? for a 680, it is perfectly decent for a low to mid range phone in 2024 + you got that phone for 40 dollars which is insane

[@thatlolguy6799]

I got a 25 dollar nokia phone from dollar general

[@im_munted]

I have had good experiences with budget phones, I had the a12 a few years ago and got the a14 most recently but for how cheap it is it has so many features that iphones don’t have, especially over the SE which is more than double the price 😂

[@tomparatube6506]

Just bought Moto G (2024) on Amazon 2 weeks ago: $179 new, unlocked. Now it's $200. It has eSIM. Am very satisfied w it so far.

[@SR-72_DARKSTAR]

Motorola actually makes really good budget phones with no bloatware or anything sketchy, I owned a Motorola e40 for 4 years and it never disappointed me:)

[@CommodoreFan64]

I've owned several Motorola Android phones over the years, and my biggest issues with them is the lack of updates, they should support their phones for longer than a year, or 2, they should support them for at least 5 years to reduce e-waste, and keep their customers happier.

[@SR-72_DARKSTAR]

@@CommodoreFan64 yeah I do agree but I guess that's one of the downsides of buying Motorola phones, they aren't made for games or other fun stuff.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@SR-72_DARKSTAR This has nothing to do with gaming whatsoever, I'm talking basic things like Android OS, and security updates, Motorola is even bad about it on their flagship Razr series with those being expensive AF, and as I said it should be 5 years minimum from day of release across all their phones, & there should be no excuse when a company like HDM(Nokia) can do it with their phones, and tablets providing longer updates than Motorola does for around the same prices as Motorola when you buy an unlocked version, and Google does it on their Pixel phones with the newest ones getting 7 years of updates.

[@SR-72_DARKSTAR]

@@CommodoreFan64 I guess yeah but like if you get a Moto G31 or G82 your still getting a great budget friendly smartphone at an affordable price with good specs, that's how it works if you want longer support you need to get a high end device which has a big company such as google, apple or samsung behind it. You can't put everything you want in a budget friendly device it has downsides such as lower processor, less camera support, less security and software updates, which just sucks.

[@emyliafoxy]

one of the $50 phones at walmart is the galaxy a03s and i used it for about a year and went through two of them cause i broke one i used it for watching videos and doordashing mostly and it was extremely slow even out of the box. i also played emulators on it. its not awful for running one app at a time. but trying to multitask / run doordash, spotify and gps tracking made it freeze most of the time. the camera and screen were both pretty bad but *usable* the cheap motorolas seem a lot nicer than the cheaper samsungs

[@monkeyglory2905]

samsung is quite bloated, because features such as dual apps and samsung has its own app store. That's why it feel sluggish if you buy them cheap

[@CommodoreFan64]

Samsung is bloatware central on their budget phones, and they also cheap out on the specs, if you have to go ultra cheap get a Motorola G, or G Play series, as it's closer to stock Android with 1/2 decent specs, just know generally don't support their phones with software updates beyond a year, or 2.

[@donaldcatReal]

It's bc it maybe got an incompatible android update

[@Joe-ey7cu]

@@emyliafoxy multitask? I hope you didn't multitask while driving.

[@emyliafoxy]

@@Joe-ey7cu nooo i just meant doordashing while spotify and the tracking app are running in the background! i had a playlist so i wouldnt have to skip songs and stuff

[@ahmedbarakat2007]

i bought this phone but eith a different name (g04s) for 100$ in saudi arabia brand new in box and everything and i gotta say this is the best phone for the price, the best cpu, best gpu, best display, best camera and no bloatware (unlike the one in the video for some reasons). i use it as my main daily driver and i love it

[@anthonybush3134]

I have a Motorola phone running android 12 and if you charge it and let it sit it will last longer than 2 weeks. I'm not kidding

[@mi.chiamavano_anna]

try to film an entire video with that phone

[@readywerx]

Straight Talk is under the TracFone umbrella ( like Net 10 ). The service is outstanding and out-performs most all other carriers. Great video. Cheers!

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

And Several Others...

[@20NewJourney23]

It is literally the same as the other carriers. TracFone is an MVNO, as is Net10. TracFone uses those towers (Verizon, Spring, T-Mobile, AT&T). Every time I've used Tracfone-based service the service has been crap. I have to stick to two carriers I know work well in my area, apparently the Tracfones in my area are Verizon and Sprint because of the terrible service.

[@jessinq702]

It users many of the same towers other carriers do + it is TERRIBLE in rural areas.

[@Cryostal]

Just use ut as a WiFi phone 📱

[@KoopaKid660]

My phone cost $99 dollars (discounted) and serves me well even 3 years later.

[@DankBudsYT]

Where is jacob... WHERE IS JACOB, you kidnapped him?💀

[@gilbertos1984]

It breaks you buy another one the next month

[@powder-my2fi]

wow, if i hear 40.00 one more time, im going to rob my own wallet and make myself 40.00 😂

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Lie or not, this also doubles a good enough KZbin movie video maker and satellite phone upgrade option. Even using a 512GB to 1TB SD card makes good enough KZbin movie options I suggest.

[@jeshuruncarlos6649]

6:54 Motorola does have Good Stereo Audio Quality, but you can't compare the Motorola G Play to an iPhone.... Being Louder doesn't mean it has better Audio "Quality".....

[@gvi341984]

Why dont they use the camera on the phone to make videos

[@naturalformation]

Walmart phone: 40$ Iphone 15: 40$ Apple logo: 760$

[@johan-johariabdulmajid9748]

😂

[@canadaman6191]

i dont see why he was complaining for,from what i seen it was playing stuff fine

[@capstone-sr4ok]

That's a 2024 Moto g play ,,,and all moto phones have moto actions ,,,u double chop to activate the flashlight u can twist ur wrist to activate the camera ❤️😅

[@BLUM864]

The other, other guide 😅 Thanks for your review and humor 😂also just noticed the peanut butter on your shelf lol😮 yums ❤

[@christopherkelly577]

And yet people still pay over a grand for a new iPhone every year or two.

[@jeshuruncarlos6649]

The Motorola Apps are not Bloatware.... They are Essential and Helpful Apps

[@rball690]

Only $40 dollar phones have headphone jacks? Better look closer. Samsung A15 - 5G also has one. And although far from top of the line it's not close to $40.

[@tlazohtlalia]

I have a Moto G Play from 2021 as my only phone, and I can say that it's still good after about 4 years

[@rangerdanger32]

I have a 111$, phone that has four cameras, very good screen, it can not die for 2 days, fingerprint sensor, perfect speaker and it's a moto phone and a stylus

[@mcnielentertainment]

I had the Moto G Play (2021) and it was an awesome phone. One of the best smartphones I've ever had.

[@gabesmath105]

i had one (from at&t) it was unlocked when gifted to me, it absolutely hated T mobile towers, i tried 5 T-mo different sims (T-mo direct, red pocket on T, textnow on T) and it would lose service bars after several minutes or hours, no amount of rebooting or APN adjustments would bring the bars back, only putting the sim in another phone for the day and back to the moto, rinse and repeat(not to jerry-rig it as a daily driver, but experimentally). i never figured it out despite making multiple reddit posts, eventually i got someone who thought it was probably bands lacking, since it was for AT. it worked steady for a few months somehow, then i had to retire it. worst christmas gift i've ever gotten.

[@Opethfeldt]

Motorola knows how to make good cheap phones for sure.

[@mcnielentertainment]

@@Opethfeldt yep. Had problems with some troublesome Samsungs, but never with the Motos

[@CommodoreFan64]

I've owned several Motorola Android phones, and my only gripe with Motorola is software support, and updates, not updating them longer than a year, or 2, which is why I moved to a Pixel 6a, as I feel 5 years should be the minimum, even HDM aka Nokia does a better job at supporting their Android devices as I have a Nokia T20 tablet released in Oct 2021, & just a few days ago it got 2 major updates for security patches!!

[@Sykxezn]

I got the 2023 mode for free, it’s got amazing battery lasts like 9 hours and even longer with it not doing wireless being off, it’s also durable, shortcomings are definitely its camera and screen but the refresh rate is pretty nice and the camera design is I say better than apples, the flashlight placement is so nice and the gestures that use the gyroscope are unlike anything I seen, Lenovo knows what they are doing, if only they got updates

[@davinp]

I don't like Motorola doesn't put NFC on its cheaper phones like this one. Many stores now accept contactless pay (Apple Pay, Google Pay & Samsung Pay), so NFC is essential. I also don't like that Motorola only provides one major Android upgrade and 2 years of security patches. The phone isn't obsolete after it's 2 years old

[@bubba842]

It's not really essential if you have debit card. I have NFC but never use it. Is it so laborious to get your debit or credit card out of your wallet??

[@Alex_TR1713]

this phone is so cheap that i can afford it from my Moneybox money of 1 year :D

[@EmmettXIV]

7:47 one of my favorite features with my Moto phone is the shaking motions to activate the flashlight and camera, it's really convenient. It's nice to see a Moto phone get some spotlight. I have the Moto G Stylus phone from Boost Mobile and I've enjoyed it for a couple years now, February 2022. I actually got it for free because my old Moto phone was running an outdated 4G network they were no longer supporting and I needed to upgrade to 5G and the Moto phone was one of the upgradable options.

[@Phil_Jumaa]

It's cool. Had to recreate a similar feature on a different phone with Macrodroid😅

[@leebryantutah]

The first step in setting up any Android phone is to uninstall/disable any apps that are useless to you.

[@keithbrown7685]

It's what I do with all the phones I ever had.

[@TomT-bn1lm]

Moto apps are not really bloatware. They can be very handy apps.

[@X1GenKaneShiroX]

I bought a $38.51 Apple smartphone believe it or not and it works great.

[@keithbrown7685]

Uh.... I don't know... Are you sure it isn't a cheap s**t Chinese fake with Apple lipstick on it?

[@zippyftw]

First time seeing you on here and loved it! Keep it up! Jacob doesn't reply to comments but do youuu?❤

[@jacksonbrucea]

Last time I had to send a phone in for warranty repair I needed a phone to use until mine came back. I found a pre-paid Walmart phone with the same carrier (AT&T) for 40 bucks that took the same SIM and uSD card. I plugged my SIM and uSD card in and had a perfectly useable phone for the week I needed it. In my case it was a Huawei but it was still a lot of phone for $40. My tech-snob son made fun of its screen lag compared to his phone and handed it back to me dismissively. I told him it was only $40 and he replied "$40? let me see that again!" Since I never used the pre-paid SIM my plan was to sell it for whatever I could get for it on ebay after I was done with it but I ended up giving it to a teen after a bully broke his old phone.

[@JV-io3nn]

Those are $100 unlocked. The 2021/2022 ones were great. I find it difficult that you're surprised about this device. Either you dont know anything about phones, I don't know about this channel at all, or you're playing stupid. I hope its just the latter. You're also critisizing things that should be expected on an affordable device like this, seemingly just to have something to say. I don't get it.

[@ramgopalan8625]

Don't pretend too much bro 😂 Be honest. Have you ever heard of Motorola before?

[@briang9581]

Walmart also sells paper towels with perforated sheets and microwavable pizza.

[@keithbrown7685]

Yeah but how is their call quality??

[@RyanSaldana]

Bro doesn’t know about the extra Moto features.

[@allenrusselljr]

I used to swear by samsungs. Then i loved my essential ph1 phone. Now im all about Motorola. I grabbed a Motorola stylus g 5g for 50 bucks plus added a Samsung tab a9 plus 5g for 20.

[@jasperscornerrr]

I’m pretty sure getting this phone new from anywhere else is way more than $40

[@anbatzabatzakis3226]

2:48 have you ever bought a Motorola phone before or heard about it? I got one and it is excellent for me but 40 that's actually decent ! Plus moto app has all the exclusives for your phone like ex. shake for flashlight and more and it is not bloatware

[@Matty_Ice87]

When you make it in the KZbin game and get the hook up for your buddy. Excellent work, Jacob!

[@RobertH-qb5it]

I had to laugh when the dude finally comments that Straight Talk is making money off the service. Well, DUH, that has been the American mobile market for a long time. The question for this phone is when can you unlock it, or can you do this at all?

[@WanderingCactus]

When you pulled out a Motorola, I wasn't at all surprised, I'm currently using a G5 Power 2023 edition, and it's a phone. No really, Lenovo now owns the brand, and like their comptuters, the low end is nothing special, but often a really killer deal. I actually had a version of the phone you tested back in 2018 where it was offered by Cricket under a different name (all their Motos have unique names) as a free phone. Much of the savings comes from using the same parts and software everywhere, that power button fingerprint reader? Same as mine. The Android on that device? The same bone stock Android with Motorola software to customize it. Bodies are usually plastic, basic screens, memory, processor and battery size are basically all that changes from one phone to another.

[@albear972]

That phone is so cheap that even a bum off the street could afford it.

[@joelpaniagua2024]

Even a blind guy can afford it!

[@keithbrown7685]

Yeah but the bum won't buy it. It would cut too much into his liquor budget.

[@drsysop]

What sucks is it will not accept a sim card from Verizon or AT&T unless you buy a sim unlock code & costs the same as the phone. No wireless charging support & will not update to the next version of Android. No wireless Android Auto & it works only with the cord plugged in.

[@phuongeric]

I would use this as a game emulator phone. Just games via wireless controller.