(iWish) The $20 MKTEL L2 Feature Phone has a Circle Display...it's an odd looking thing

[@SMOOREZ]

*A video under half an hour? That means less rambling than usual. Yay!* Thank you also to all the folks who donated to see this, I hope it was worth it! I really do appreciate you lot for being so kind on the live streams with donations, I can't thank you all enough. Let me know what you thought of this down below and if this is ugly or acceptable :) TIMESTAMPS: Introduction, Thanking folks & Timestamps: 0:00 Trying to work out the design process: 1:02 Listing, Pricing & Description: 2:08 Unboxing: 3:54 Around the Phone: 5:24 Power On, First Look, Keypad Lights & Features: 7:19 Display Quality & LED Torch: 8:16 Phone Dialer, Phonebook, The UI, Messages & Typing: 9:22 The Ringtones: 10:24 Settings: 11:54 Tools & File Manager: 12:57 The Camera: 13:54 Camera Test: 14:44 Camera Quality, Videos & Music: 16:52 Speaker Test, Sound Recorder & FM Radio: 17:46 Quick Conclusion: 19:47 Teardown & Investigation: 21:07 Full Specifications, Final Thoughts & Timestamps: 25:48 Thanking folks for donating & Outro: 26:37 Be good people!

[@TheRealPakLong]

I want long videos.

[@michaelcaywood6070]

I think the Video Quality of this photo is terrible. Do you agree with me, sir?

[@s6edge7]

Ngl , long videos are nice . Sure he goes mental , but scores has personality . And he welcomes us *kt tschhhh*

[@keff5984]

I will watch any video start to finish. Including the ringtones

[@cathevans9859]

The question I ask myself every time I watch a Smoorez video is - "Which is the worst camera?" This wins hands down.

[@zaptainkuboom5520]

Looks like something out of futuristic 1950s magazine

[@JuliaMono]

On the list of 'Best sentences, I never thought I'd hear someone say but did' this is the new top entry: "Did my freezer just sneeze?!"

[@thedarkdragon89]

If you didn't know, the number Smoorez enters is a joke from the British comedy series "IT Crowd". If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it, honestly one of the funniest shows ever made!

[@mistermatix8241]

The IT Crowd is EPIC! I got that reference immediately

[@TakeMeOffYourMailingList]

Shame about the writer

[@andrewsawesome]

For anyone wondering, the "Mediatek Funeral Services" is Salut d'Amour by Edward Elgar.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

16:50 the latest UFO sighting over Australia: forget flying saucers, they have come in flying cubes

[@SectorfiveYT]

The Chinese factory was like, oh sh** we have excess smart watch displays that we made for cheap and no one bought, how can we sell this? and then some random guy was like, I know let's turn this into a phone.

[@G_Fresh_UK_Extra]

That was Ripley, believe it or not....

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Kinda looked like Slenderman

[@samholdsworth420]

Ripley's believe it or not*

[@elvinhaak]

I love the design! Nice gift for someone that always is loosing her/his phone and only needs it for the time...

[@mrfluffytailthethird]

man, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, looks good to me shame it didn't come out in say 2003-2006 ish era

[@s6edge7]

They seriously used a bootleg replacement galaxy watch 4 display with generic phone guts . They need to port Android to that . At all costs

[@ayushkaushik8794]

Is the display really for galaxy watch 4?

[@s6edge7]

@ayushkaushik8794 looks super close , my watch has been through he'll and is on its second cheapo screen

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

The empty pads on the top right of the board is for a headphone jack! So they have a more advanced version of this device! Maby the MKTEL L3 or something

[@hirokurobane9145]

looks like one of those from the weird nokia era

[@RSP04]

Or more likely that one Motorola phone, I think it's called Aura or something.

[@NoobNoob1986]

Yeah it was a Motorola

[@richchester187]

I do quite like the clock function on it but I can't see it fitting in a watch with the connector sticking out so far. I've had loads of phones over the years from cheap to expensive but never came across a Welcome one. Until I turned on my cheap U8 smart watch and was greeted by, Welcome :-)

[@maltronics]

Tbh its worth the money just for the clock display,I like this phone so much

[@SpotTiger]

LG Spirit did that with a special cover they had! I had the phone! It was pretty cool!

[@Seethingcondolences2]

Yet another upload from the BEAST!

[@keff5984]

I had a flip phone in like 2006 that had a 0.3mp camera, 0.02 or 0.1 is wildly bad. Clearly wasn't meant to be on any sort of phone. I wonder what the origin use case was for

[@jacktheripper6716]

It's a great burner phone with all these phone robbers about

[@NikiDaDude]

The engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

[@walter_marcus]

>the camera when you see a UFO or an Alien be like...

[@mjetektman9313]

Inb4 currency conversion screen being a literal wall of text in some months

[@Seethingcondolences2]

multiple columns, as a slideshow

[@wolf33b]

i like how they took the world "Round" into another level. i mean remember went a smartphone use word "Round"-ed corner?. yeah the probably thinking "And i took that personally" while designing this thing

[@SpotTiger]

You left the camera in the Impressionist Painting mode!! 😶

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

the best theory for this "thing" is: dude we have a lot of welcome smartwatch and those weird nokia clones as well, what should we do?? a random person: sorry i was on my phone at the moment... the first dude: frikin genius!! ok, i'll stop. so i don't like it, i mean even the ui is cropped and is not meant to be on a thing like that. at the end of the day they just joined random crap together and created this. the camera is just perfect, there's so much quality it burned my eyes

[@hatzzusampletext761]

Fun livestreams and fun videos, i really love your content man! keep it going!

[@mistermatix8241]

Love the IT Crowd reference!

[@yesdear9453]

im glad you bought this phone and reviewed it

[@NMT_StudioPlus]

I like how the screen is only slightly bigger than my galaxy watch 6. Honestly, I'm better off using my watch than I would be using that.

[@hakureicirno6059]

7:25 that is the earrape version of the theme jingle of China Central Television channel 10 (Science & education programs). That TV channel no longer use that jingle though.

[@DylantheVillain1612]

Eyyyyy good to see you got something, happy to contribute

[@h3n7r1kotakuboy4]

That speaker got 20 God of Wars🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

7:42 wow he did the thing! 👍

[@paranoidgenius9164]

This phone should win an award for imitating the first ever digital camera, I remember a Lobster flip phone I had with a 0.3 megapixel camera!

[@BeIlG]

I love the it crowd ref!

[@mattBLACKpunk]

Hi phi speaker was fantastic as jokes go xD

[@_gelon]

It has call recording, which is more than almost all Android phones can say (unless you live Asia or something).

[@Aliholic]

Reminids me of my dad's Motorola V70 from 2005, looks like the functionality hasn't improved much since then

[@paranoiia8]

Remember, people that made lots of weird Nokia and Siemens phones lost their jobs and had to find new ways to make weird devices so they found job in unknown Chinese factories...

[@HotRod-05]

Probably one of the most ridiculous phone i've ever seen 😂😂

[@saytwo131]

you know the it crowd number nice

[@alt666]

Those message tones sound like what the eternal ring soundtrack sounds like in game lol so thats the camera they used to capture footage of the aliens and bigfoot

[@mattelder1971]

As large as that screen is, I really doubt it's from a watch! LOL

[@skatepunker]

just when i wished there was something interesting on youtube...thank you

[@wellingtoneteka5183]

😂😂o my, the camera and the video had me cracking

[@yotoprules9361]

I had low expectations and was still disappointed

[@thewhizard]

I like it ..... its useless but I still like it

[@user-xu2pi6vx7o]

Guess what Smorez!? KZbin has flagged this video as adult or controversial content and is blocking it for everyone without an account, or with accounts that aren't set to allow that kind of content. Source, I can't see this on my android TV that has kids content limitations.

[@AverageFerrariEnjoyer]

request: nokia n97 clone (E3000)

[@ProjectHorizonYT]

This mobile phone reminds me of the Nokia 3650 at first, but despite its strange appearance, it was at least usable.

[@cache3380]

This is not the phone... this is the spoon

[@PrinsessePeach]

This phone speaks to me! I thinks it’s a good looking phone! 💖

[@bryanmartins2559]

Dammit, looks like i missed another live stream. But im glad dan was there in my place.

[@jhudso214]

Reminiscent of those phones during the early 2000s, when there was a large variety of styles to choose from. If they put better tech in this it'd might sell because of nostalgia, a physical keyboard is sorely missing in this day & age, and I think people would like to see something else other than another rectangular device.

[@daviddunmore7076]

Best Potato camera ever!

[@y-toolsgames8771]

5:33 Looks like a dude from that stonks meme😂

[@amazeyourself_]

I know of a phone with a same kind of display called the Itel Circle 1.

[@mythbustersfan3456]

@SMOOREZ: Actually in Australia, according to Telstra, they’re not shutting 3G down till the 31 of August. I’m a Aussie and my parents told me this since their provider is Telstra. That’s how I knew. (Just saw this video as well)

[@SMOOREZ]

I don't know why they can't just keep it going. They have extended the dates a few times. Maybe they might push the date again soon.

[@Guyver02USA]

- In all honesty , it looks like an ancient keyhole .

[@TheLiterateApe]

"MOM! I need a Motorola aura!!" "We got Motorola aura at home!" Motorola aura at home:

[@AngelaVonTokyo]

all i hear in my brain is ''pedro pedro pedro ,pedro pe!'' XD

[@Thepowerof2190]

SmartWatch and feature phone combined:

[@mattdavis9601]

I'm looking forward to your review of that handheld. Is it the E6? I remember seeing the E6 on AliX a few months back and really liking them. They're Android, but with a really restrictive launcher. However, it's trivially easy to bypass said launcher and use it as a stock Android 8 (I think it runs Oreo anyways) device. Which makes it better, in my opinion, than equivalently priced Linux handhelds. I actually really dig the looks of this phone/watch thing. I'd buy one if they'd make it run Android Wear OS and gave it a 2000mAh battery. My Galaxy Watch5 Pro can make calls, send texts, browse the Internet better than you'd expect, run game emulators, and so on. And, most importantly, the OS is made to accommodate round screens.

[@DaveonGrave]

I would definitely use a phone with that same form factor but with a higher quality build, at least just for phone calls and texting.

[@ChaseMC215]

It looks like that one Motorola phone that Michael Fisher took a look at.

[@P4rAn01d]

The design kinda reminds me of that Philips CDi spoon-looking controller

[@jasonkaiser1179]

It looks quirky and different. I like the way it looks. If it had more modern guts I would deffo use it as my beater.

[@stevenspencer5367]

Spoling us with a second video this weekend. This maybe unpopular, but, I kind of like it. Well the shape and screen. It would still work here in the UK. Don't think we can get rid of 2g so easily as some areas barely get g let alone 2g. Lol 😆 On the other issues I totally agree. The camera was awful , and that's being kind. Video obviously no better. The images looked more like cartoons. I even struggled to identify the Devine Miss Ripley. I had hope for a headphone to help with volume. Maybe better using a Bluetooth speaker. The actual "Sperker" had a little more umph out of the case. A better camera and a headphone socket would greatly improve this. However I still wouldn't swap it for my old Nokia 3210. ( keep it fully charged with credit incase of issues with smartphone. Especially when in Scotland). 😂

[@ScottMcDuff-h1j]

I think it looks cool, id get the gold one 100%

[@alkevier7127]

Tbh if it had all the cameras and was made of high quality parts and was done right I wouldn't hate it

[@GAMERIN-rn6dj]

I haven't watched the camera test yet and i am scared 😟😅 Edit: 😭😭😭 why bother to add an camera to it

[@rossini138]

“That was not an interesting review” I respectfully disagree. That thing is hilarious

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

The os for these Java phones is so long not maintained and Java compiler can't compile ME after 1.6, how do they manage to produce these phones still??

[@AIEnhanced-ts5ko]

I think they had some old cheap "smartwatch" screens leftovers and decided to turn them into phones.

[@werehyenataur]

Wait till the upgrade MK-Ultra

[@emem666]

Round display is pointless on a phone. Makes more sense on a watch. Still I wouldn't call it ugly. It looks nice to me. Auto call recorder is a great feature that many phones don't have. Is it common on China feature phones?

[@GroupNebula563]

spherical

[@calex007]

When I go to your mom’s house in the evenings I set “Picture Quality” to Off 😂

[@exquisitedark]

i think maybe a rouble conversion could be added as ali express is pretty huge in russia as far as i know

[@Win_7]

i want indepth review on the Nextbit Robin

[@MThomasB]

Bro, you need to fabricate a strap for this beast! 🤣

[@Chaotecsix]

I have a Blu Bold N3 phone, it says the same thing on the back. "designed in miami" is Miami a good place to design phones? You probably never heard of BLU because they are cheap BUT good

[@SMOOREZ]

I have a BLU phone in my collection. It runs Windows Phone. BLU win jr W410a

[@Chaotecsix]

@@SMOOREZ I did not know they was around then. Was it also "designed in miami? 😂

[@nathanhughes7941]

Entertaining review 😂Ghastly looking phone

[@tabbybeeandnub_G]

hey you should take a look at the blackview a54 i used thats phone for youtube vidoes and everything

[@MatroxMillennium]

I think the speaker is just too big for the amplifier chip, lol

[@michaelbuntine362]

If this came out in the UK back in 2001 this would be a £199 phone on pay has you go ..for real!!!

[@davearthur514]

Doesn't the speaker listing mean 20 mm speaker ?

[@zoran123456]

Its for old people that want the clock and basic phone, simple as that…

[@rymnzz]

if they made it as a portable fan I might buy...

[@gaborszucs8935]

Keypad looks like the one on that nokia 3310 remake even the screen size and shape.

[@jayeverette]

If the PT Cruiser were a phone

[@DJWK7]

The clock phone

[@CAR_HEAVEN-m1d]

looks like they added a smartwatch display

[@tunasubbackwards420]

Vibrator: Yes

[@heltonbraga7985]

Thanks to put BRL currency ❤ 🇧🇷

[@jeadlanquino3994]

oi thanks for including the currency conversion for php

[@drmanojpb]

Looks like the Motorola C 116 from 2006 !

[@majorskies7091]

Sorta reminds me of the Motorola Aura

[@jpvblerk]

It has smartwatch phone combo look

[@damian9303]

I’ve heard of the Apple Watch, but not necessarily the Nokia Watch