Ordering a Sub $20 Samsung Phone from China?

Hello and Welcome or another Budget Builds Video where today we'll be taking a look at the Samsung Galaxy Ace....Also known as the £14 Phone from China....Which is definitely not something that I was expecting to be legitimate, but here it is in 2018.....A Smartphone from a real brand, for such a low price....But just cause it says "Samsung" doesent neccesarily mean it's any good? .... Or does it?
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[@Bakon]

"The default language is German, the box has Arabic writing on it and the phone itself comes from China" *MR WORLDWIDE*

[@justinnrzellet6287]

lemonade made with tomatoes that tastes like jamaica just for 25c

[@olivia6632]

agua de limon que sabe a jamaica pero es de tamarindo

[@justinnrzellet6287]

@@olivia6632 esa wea XD

[@Natan-yw3xc]

@@justinnrzellet6287 wea wena xdxd

[@Moon420]

and after all of that the phone is using a Sony Boot Screen XDDD

[@daniellee6912]

my self from 2012 would've killed for this phone.

[@jort93z]

Even then it was a budget phone.

[@Brand2Tiny]

Budget or not, even I would've killed for this phone as well.

[@justinbuckley]

I had this phone in 2012 and loved it at the time.

[@_lun4r_]

But it's 2018 now, it's not worth buying it.

[@KolkhozeNetwork]

This phone was crappy as hell

[@skate6788]

For 20$ you can buy samsung galaxy s3 mini ~ Super AMOLED, 1GB Ram.

[@lillexus5589]

I payed 15 Euros for a Wiko Wax 4G: Nvidia Tegra processor, 4G, and a clean android version.

[@lillexus5589]

@Young Thug super amoled on what resolution though

[@ImTouchkv2]

@@lillexus5589 1080p

[@michellesaulsbury7821]

Skate6788 1 GB of ram is kind of slow

[@KhoaTran0720]

Michelle Saulsbury It's not "kind of" slow, it's unusable especially on Android

[@guser436]

A KZbinr that actually knows about flashing/Link2sd! Incredible! A breath of fresh air from other "tech" KZbinrs Your channel is the best

[@hoddelkind]

also thought this!

[@JustA.Person]

Same, the other youtubers piss me off so much

[@NoName-oo5ge]

Oh shit you sent me into an entire flash back about the first time rooting an link2sd,and no space in the internal storage😂

[@fxjh21]

Hmm peeps like Austin knows about flashing rom as well

[@thedamntrain8700]

Flashing is a usual thing for Russian KZbinrs.

[@robertbowler9094]

I'm pretty sure everyone knew someone with this phone

[@fdsfjhjtjtea6497]

i have it rn

[@robertbowler9094]

@TSMKFail same

[@danielsgrunge]

I knew like 3 ppl

[@seymourskinner6050]

I had this phone around early 2010s. :')

[@BBoySnakeDogG]

The kind of people who said Android is shit compared to iPhone but compare this to a iPhone 4.

[@potmej1]

This was my first smart phone back in the day. Lovely phone, but sadly due to lack of ANY internal storage it is completely unusable... Literally, you can't even update Google play services to update the store to install any apps...

[@fallingwater]

I used to fix people's computers and electronics for a living and dealt with my fair share of these - *everybody* had trouble with it, for exactly the reason you mention; I can't fathom how anyone at Samsung thought it a good idea, or how the miserable thing sold so much. It was fixable, but it took some effort: you had to acquire a microSD (preferably a fast one, if you didn't want to wait three eternities for things to load), root the phone and then reformat the microSD with some kind of utility - I forget which one exactly, or if a phone flash was involved - which would do some filesystem magic and fool the OS into thinking the microSD was actually the internal storage. At that point you could no longer remove the microSD - now formatted in ext3 and therefore unreadable in Windows even if you were to plug it in - or the whole system would crash; it was effectively bound to your phone. However, you could at least *do* stuff with the damn thing now.

[@retardretard407]

@Lassi Kinnunen the problem is that play services take up even more space than the internal storage limit

[@robbyjohnstone3256]

You poor souls my first was galaxy s3! 😋

[@TriWidyan]

this was my first too. back then when the latest version android was gingerbread. you can almost install anything from the store. apps size was just less than 10mb lol xD

[@BigHenFor]

@@fallingwater Link2Sd was the app to expand the storage so you could root it and flash another android version.

[@skrill3770]

It has more RAM than Internal storage

[@Dev-tw1og]

@ shahzad Mubeen maybe it would be good for someone likes flash games .

[@android-user]

256 MB RAM and 512 MB storage

[@Dev-tw1og]

@@android-user hmm sir those specs might be issue but I would still rather use that the iPhone xs .

[@Connie_TinuityError]

Android User But only 100MB is usable, the rest is for the system

[@android-user]

@@Connie_TinuityError Yes that is true.

[@DavidGonzalez-vs3sn]

256mb RAM 100mb Storage Lol.

[@kwanlinus6999]

Actually, it had 512mb of Storage, but only 100mb is usable, others are taken up by the Android system or other preinstalled apps.

[@Connie_TinuityError]

Kwan Linus Typical 2011 Samsung. Still annoys the heck out of me to this day (even though they're nothing like this nowadays).

[@Arutemu64]

Yep, somehow I survived this back in 2011.

[@kwanlinus6999]

Actually, it had around 156mb of storage left on first boot.

[@SHUTENSEPC]

@@Connie_TinuityError Samsungs still the worst option for the money

[@nykal1510]

I had an Ace. Pain is the word that describes it the best.

[@KolkhozeNetwork]

Relatable

[@TR2000LT]

My friend had galaxy ace and he couldn't play minecraft while I'm on my cheap Huawei accend y200 could. LOL

[@TheOfficialStal]

I share your pain, got it in early 2012 and dumped it for a nexus 5 in late 2013, the jump in performance was incredible to say the least.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

@BoardOfCircuit similar to me, except I got the ace when it was new and then went onto an S3 and then a nexus 5. that nexus must've been one hell of an upgrade unless you had the ace 2?

[@andreasrs69]

Same, I wanted an iPhone 4 for Christmas got an ace That hurt already and it hurt even more when I first used it. Then I had a cheap ass Huawei which was decent at least for 1 year than it got slow af and the battery died after 1h using it. Now I have an iPhone 6 since 3 years and I‘m very happy with it

[@Derively]

I had a Galaxy Ace for 4 years. It was legendary. BTW mine had a different box, and it included another backplate with grippy texture.

[@X3nnoha]

Mine too

[@raunaksinghsehgal6208]

Me too

[@Jankeza]

Yeah same

[@luke8240]

Yeah my mum had that

[@lukmly013]

I just ordered it from AliExpress: #Aliexpress € 18,90 18%OFF | S5830i Original Unlocked Samsung Ace S5830 GPS 5MP Camera Bluetooth WIFI 3G Refurbished Mobile phone Free Shipping a.aliexpress.com/_dZqlmJZ

[@Alex_Fella]

My mum had this phone for ages, until recently, and its a glorified potato 😂👌

[@koniel1197]

No Replys Ok I am First

[@Electrex8]

My dad had one, unfortunately it died after it fell in the pool lol.

[@RWL2012]

If the Ace is a potato then what was the Europa I had in mid 2012-early 2013...? lol

[@wigunad1637]

@@Electrex8 im sorry to hear that, your dad should learn how to swim

[@koniel1197]

The FUCK someone is using my acount

[@breakcoregirlxd]

That plug isnt a UK plug that's why it didnt fit properly, in Arabic countries they use 2 kinds of plugs, one that looks like a UK style and a 2 pin variant

[@DerpyUniverse]

Holy shit it’s rainy

[@tanmaynegi3169]

@@DerpyUniverse I was confused by your reply for a quick second(if I recall) just now, until I readed the YT channel name of the OP of this thread lmao.

[@Omabatfartsbruh]

@@DerpyUniverse no it's sunshine

[@shadowkat1010]

>Galaxy Ace Oh nonononononononononono Only way to remotely use this is to flash Cyanogenmod and skip the Google stuff. Used one of these up until 2015/2016, it's okay without the Google stuff. Was fine for IRC, SMS and music. Does GBA emulation fine too.

[@armorgeddon]

Gapps do slow it down, they slow down every device. I don't use them anymore.

[@armorgeddon]

About what? Greets from another racing fan!

[@armorgeddon]

I'm no video creator, but there are already tons of stuff about it on KZbin and in text form on the WWW. If you have a specific question right now feel free to ask. Just today I dealt with a new smartphone from BQ. I immediately had enough of all the Google stuff asking for my credentials and all the privacy traps you can get caught in when you forget to check a certain option in the settings. I installed LineageOS then since the owner will mostly use open source apps from F-Droid anyway.

[@buzdi_dop]

Still using it on cm11 nitrox edition. Excellent drug dealer phone

[@nihatshalkar4410]

@@buzdi_dop same

[@Brand2Tiny]

This Galaxy Aced the unusable section!

[@TR2000LT]

Yup.

[@harrym1862]

Yep

[@illzzu]

I am your 75th liker lol

[@illzzu]

@@TR2000LT just saying

[@victor00123q]

(Ba dum tis)

[@broder3294]

I laughed my ass off when i saw that Sony logo on that Chinese Samsung

[@areyouwelldoyouhavebrainda640]

Now including: Arabic language on the box; German as the standard language; ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᶜʰᶦⁿᵃ

[@baoquoc3710]

@@areyouwelldoyouhavebrainda640 ah, back when phones are really worldwide😂😂😂

[@jurisjancevskis9076]

@@areyouwelldoyouhavebrainda640 from china, is arabic and has german as standard language

[@hrsurya31_]

@@jurisjancevskis9076 and it is running an operating system from Japanese phone.

[@varunbaliga7334]

This phone got me into "putting different os on a phone"

[@gellertvarga1105]

Me too, I just put Android 10 skinned version to my old phone 😂😂

[@lukmly013]

And he killed it. I am using stock ROM on it and it works well. I plan to make a review of it soon

[@sgcs]

@@gellertvarga1105 what phone

[@gellertvarga1105]

@@sgcs Navon D455 😂

[@danielebella3560]

I had the successor to that phone for a few years. Though the Ace 2 had greatly improved specs, it ended up being more of the same experience over time, forcing me to root and flash a rom to be able to use it. I managed to install an Android 7.0 rom before it kicked the bucket a year ago, forcing me to buy a new phone

[@TheSpotify95]

The Ace 2 shipped with either Android 2.3 or 4.0, and there was an update to Android 4.1 on the cards (which probably didn't see much given the low specs of phones from this era). I'm more surprised that you actually got Android 7.0 installed on such an old device!

[@gabrieledomfazio]

@@TheSpotify95 The ace 2 had decent specs, it did lock up on Jelly bean (which actually released somehow) but it worked decently enough for me to use it for some time. Never got 7.0 on it tho because it bricked itself every two weeks before it died eventually.

[@Zach-xi7tt]

Free ear infections yay

[@eduardoavila646]

Sheepy6754 HD 99% isopropil alcohool should solve these issues. (Cleaning the earphone)

[@eduardoavila646]

@@TRACKSTARRR ?

[@sutibu719]

r/cursedcomments

[@hexagonist23]

@@eduardoavila646 %99 is way too much. %80 should be better.

[@FullyBuffered]

This was borderline masochistic, I wouldn't have had the patience for sure :p

[@BReal-10EC]

My Samsung Galaxy S2 was a great phone. Got it in 2011. Surely there are $25 used examples around? The S2 is a beast compared to this thing. The only issue - which ultimately killed mine (but is easily repairable, I just decided to finally replace the phone)- is the power button gets wonky. FWIW- I stopped buying premium phones. Seems silly to be walking around with a $800-$1200 device that can easily be damaged. I went with a old new stock unlocked S7 Edge for $220. A good phone and I don't feel like I need insurance because it cost so much.

[@honkhonkler7732]

Agreed. I've been hooked on Moto G phones lately.

[@cez_kor]

yeah, and the screen replacement costs at least $200. good deal. but iphones are soooo expensive and overrated, i wouldnt pay $300 for used 6s that would never lag and still gets updates (and will be for a long time) and screen replacement is like $50

[@cez_kor]

i could have my fridge running android but not a phone

[@MrOoh50]

I just wonder how many points score fridge under atutu benchmarks lol

[@cez_kor]

Bumbo half of its initial score after one year.

[@bibr2393]

You reminded me my Galaxy Ace 2 and my adventures with it. It has this good that it's actually a dual core that can do a bit more than original ace. I remember all the crazy overvolting, overclocking, setting SD card as a Vram to increase it till 64Mb. I was able to run there like music player, copying files between phone memory and SD card, download more stuff on phone and some Facebook for people Into anime. This how it performed was really up to the install and once it was just perfect, second time impossible to use without rage quits. If there will be positive feedback on this episode you can give ace 2 a go.

[@DC3Refom]

It was still overpriced at the 2 cores only ran at 800mhz and screen resolution was still diabolicle

[@bibr2393]

@@DC3Refom I got it used, unfortunately I don't really remember for how much, but after changing os on CyanogenMod 11 and getting CPU OC on 1.1 GHz without any voltage tweaks was quite ok, of course it will struggle if you will want to make some heavy multitasking or play something more demanding, but for that was 1.25 GHz mode with +0.1V for the CPU

[@TR2000LT]

I have ace 2 in my collection.

[@TR2000LT]

I like ace 2 it's like a little bit weaker in every way galaxy s3 mini, even the processor is almost the same in model number and has almost the same screen size.

[@4liceD_]

It had about 768mb of ram

[@computercatgaming02]

Yes it's back again! (the video) It's really cool to see how phones have evolved from that point! I mean looking at the insanely low end specs such as the 100mb storage, which is insanely small, though it might be able to store some music but that ageing battery kinda ruins that and gaming and emulation is out of question since NES is pretty much pushing it's limits.

[@domoncar6782]

See, the point of those phones was that you would install an SD card to suit your requirements. An 8 GB SD card was affordable back then; and putting one into your phone immediately solved a lot of those issues. Including music. 8 GB back then could store a lot. These phones were meant to operate with an SD Card installed.

[@yarp1246]

The phone being knocked over because the box slipped was hilarious and I don't know why lol

[@ninjabreadroll8563]

I had a Samsung Galaxy Y back in the day, quite similar to this phone. It's safe to say budget oriented phones have come a long way over the last 6 years lol. Nice vid as always :D

[@GDanimatesxd]

I fixed my own galaxy y and it worked!

[@cherryfox-_-]

3:18 a prototype comunicator for german soldiers 1944 colorized

[@Cookie__XD]

haha so nice! I would have liked to have had this as a comunicator in 1944.

[@PaneledPear]

@@Cookie__XD wooosh

[@oliviodubois2371]

@@PaneledPear uhh no more like a whooosh For you

[@PaneledPear]

@@oliviodubois2371 they took it seriously above not knowing it's a bit of a fad what's above I know my whoosh

[@oliviodubois2371]

@@PaneledPear listen, i majored in R/whoosh back in college. I believe i have my expertise on this subject

[@SummonerArthur]

I like your phone videos, and it would be cool to see more of it. It is cool to see you evolving and learning with them! It also would be cool to see you testing different emulators on them, to make sure it is a problem with the phone and not the emulator.

[@fromfin90]

Galaxy Ace, that was from my first ever smartphone, got it in 2012, still got it in a drawer somewhere... and it works! I mainly keep it around for when i want to use it as a mp3 player :-) and FM radio

[@filenotfound__3871]

Budget builds: but the lack of storage is an ishue SD card: am i a joke to you

[@daemonspudguy]

@Max 6, not 5.

[@uvenarbulis1724]

@@daemonspudguy I had sony xperia m4 aqua it runned 5.0 and there was an option to move to sdcard

[@Connie_TinuityError]

@@daemonspudguy no the feature was there in 5

[@daemonspudguy]

@@Connie_TinuityError maybe on other OEM ROMs, but standard AOSP ROMs (like on Motorola phones) didn't get it until 6.0.

[@abcdefg9613]

If you think this is bad, look at the galaxy pocket. It had a screen the size of a foodstamp, and most apps didn't work because of the screen res.

[@TR2000LT]

I had it that was by far worst Samsung phone i ever used. And I'm a Samsung phone collector.

[@ayuchanayuko]

I had a Galaxy Y

[@TR2000LT]

@@ayuchanayuko i had it as well it was in performance as bad as ace or pocket.

[@JH-ed4mm]

@@ayuchanayuko Same

[@pietrog]

OMG that was my first phone when I was like 10

[@dimitartodorov7479]

Has the same videochip as a Raspberry Pi

[@picchioknossus8096]

But raspberry pi can play 1080p videos in 3D... This not.

Raspberry Pi is expensive and overrated.

[@picchioknossus8096]

@ well expensive is subjective to the person that is buying the object. Whyle is not a secret that to have the best performance per € you have to often spend thousands of euros, there are very few fully functional computers that have an absolute cost that is lower than a Raspberry Py. Overrated is subjective too, it is a tiny humble versatile computer supported by a great community. There are of course some fanboys around, but that's true for everything and I'm sorry if you had bad experiences with some of them.

That's overgeneralization. You can get much faster and more recent microcomputers for the same price (or lower) with more peripherals. Sure, the community support (which is the selling point of RPi these days) may not be all hunky-dory, but I'd take ROCK64 (with 4 GB RAM, twice the computing power, true gigabit ethernet) or some Odroid machine over RPi any day.

[@smirnoffvodka2618]

Erik Bročko reasoning raapberry pi's are still so popular is the software support, you wanna make a build with a pi zero, IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE, and the software will be clicks away, other devices just dont have this support. and this plays a role in those who want to emulate aswell. if only other boards had same support, id finally be able to switch my raspi zeros in builds to banana pis

[@user-tm3fz7qx3s]

Wow it has more RAM than storage!

[@discord2721]

That means someone screwed up on the specw

[@randomchannel9331]

@@discord2721 nah it's obviously the real specs

[@bokexd3173]

-_-

[@32megabytes]

I've been waiting for this one 🙏

[@harmonjp55]

32MB?

[@LBZDreamer]

lies.

[@kaspartiits908]

32 megabytes xd

[@CataclysmicCharizma]

I remember the Xperia Play phone from roughly about the same time was great at emulating pretty much anything manageable for the time. Granted that had much more dedicated power and was actually designed for playing games. Possibly an idea for a future video per chance? All that aside, good video as always though .

[@nizamahmed5073]

That was my first phone. Now it's rooted and rom'ed with a s8 ROM. GR8

[@ImTouchkv2]

It doesnt even have space for that

[@nizamahmed5073]

@@ImTouchkv2 it does. SD card

[@shelbylynnesoutherland5259]

Love to see these videos show up in my Sub feed! Bring on more!! I wonder if there are any decent cheapo phones, I don't mean ones that are ancient or considered ancient by today's standards.

[@domoncar6782]

Challenge accepted. How about 10.or E (at ~90$). 32 GB storage, 3GB RAM, Snapdragon Octacore, Full HD screen, finger print sensor, headphone jack, USB OTG, expandable memory (sdcard), 4G VoLTE. The phone is pretty smooth and does the job really well.

[@eliaschnl]

Ahh, i remember using an ACE 3... The many times i threw it on to a wall... good times... It also served as our router for a year. Still works despite me destroying the sound chip with a bad amplifier.

[@cauearaujo5256]

1:53 I laughed so loud, omg

[@abzhuofficial]

@1:53 - if Carlsberg did item pose fails, it probably wouldn't top this one by a long shot.

[@Yerinjibbang]

LMFAO

[@cyclopsmastermind4183]

I like the fact that if those are legit specs, it has more RAM than actual storage lmao

[@jftechdrones]

Reminds me of the ltt video where the test bench falls off the desk in front of Maxine

[@LudoKatz]

☆You get comment of the day!☆

[@gotetheraccoon]

I would like to see a video comparing old flagship phones (for example a galaxy s5) and a modern low end phone (a Xiaomi redmi 5a)

[@zzoinks]

And older phones don't get security updates anymore

[@officialkidwizard]

Galaxy S5 in 2018 feels like using a toy, especially after using an S8+ for like 6 months. It's a bit scary how fast you adapt to new software and hardware and just disregard fairly recent technology.

[@ImTouchkv2]

@@emil.soderholm well most of the videos I have watched about this (about 10) say that old flagships are better. And so it is. My S6 is better than my J5 2017. It s even clearer if you compare old samsung flagships which are as good as budget phones. Flagships are made to resist

[@grumpycomputers7488]

@@officialkidwizard i have an s4 As my main phone still working nice

[@emptylog933]

S5 is still a great phone, comparing with my S3 that is my primary device.

[@TheBamaChad-W4CHD]

Right at about the 2 minute mark. The phone falling over after a few seconds is so perfectly timed and appropriately placed lol

[@IncenderyLemon]

1:02 "And the inside is completely dry!"

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

It's always nice not to have a soggy phone.

[@dhgmrz17]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zqndf2l8gpqrlac

[@lukmly013]

@@dhgmrz17 How did it start saying "And the inside is completely dry" ??? How you done it?

[@dhgmrz17]

@@lukmly013 On PC you should be able right click on the video and *Copy video URL at current time.*

[@samjackson7701]

10:13 it says you have 89M subscribers lol

[@Petar321_GT]

yeah lmaoo

[@dublex7977]

The video bellow that has 12K views. Doesn't make any sense if thousands begin with M?

[@DodoGTA]

#NewPipeLife

[@andrewszombie]

7:26 that tapping made me laugh 😂😂

[@Jarmundx]

This was my first android phone and i loved it! My 14 year old mind was blown away at gow much this phone can do compared to phones from 2005-2010.

[@nox-qu1bm]

What a coincidence - this exact model was given to me about a year ago. I'm using it for FM radio (newer phones don't tend to have that), music playback from 64 GB SD card (my actual phone - the Note 5 - does not support SD card expanison so I'm stuck with it's 32 GB) through foobar (for FLAC file support) and offline navigation on my bike. My battery last a day with FM radio or music, but GPS draws a lot more. But, still very usable for me. I gave up on installing anything through the app store as it would not complete any download / installation for me. So I got everything on there through apk files. I'm running the stock ROM as it does everything I need. There is no SIM card inside and I disabled WiFi. But nice to see what "non-offline" stuff it can do if one was determined to put the necessary work into it. Flashing CFW is always a hassle so I'm only doing it if I really need it.

[@petermc7098]

Interesting review. Kind regards Peter

[@Gamerthinkersman]

Peter Mc Gordon freeman in the flesh

[@pc-broke8348]

I had that phone... Good thing I have an S6 now bcs the ace was terrible

[@TR2000LT]

I have galaxy s6 in my collection too, two of s6 actually. But my main phone is galaxy s8.

[@hachikiina]

I HAVE AN s2 is it ok

[@TR2000LT]

@@hachikiina i have it in my collection as well, pretty interesting phone.

[@TR2000LT]

@@hachikiina but i like s3 way more than s2 or even s4

[@hachikiina]

@@TR2000LT s2 looks better than s3, i think that s3 is a bit too rounded and also had a lot of bezel even in its own time. s4 ftw tho

[@abdouabderrahman9]

This was my first Android phone and the one that made me absolutely love the system. It surely didn't age well but it holds a special place in my heart

[@Turborb26]

I love the old cheap smartphone videos. They're my favorite.

[@Face2FaceHardware]

Rock with a battery on it 😂 -- enjoyed this one.

[@majorskies7091]

The Galaxy Ace on Gingerbread is perfect. Back in the day anyway. Install cyangeomond. Job done. This phone lasted me entire highschool days from its official froyo and gingerbread OS to using Maclaw's Cyangeomond on Jellybean. It's perfectly easy to install clockwork recovery and a Rom on this phone.

[@MentleGan]

Thing it this one is the 'i' version which does not even have the maclaws jelly bean port which is bad I do still have the phone and was very enthusiastic about getting maclaws rom on it but nope..... i have the i variant😢😢

[@majorskies7091]

@@MentleGan aww im so sorry. Yeah. The 'i' and 'm' etc models don't have a lot of cyan support :(

[@Cat-ir8cy]

Are you sure its not called cyanogenmod?

[@majorskies7091]

@@Cat-ir8cy Yeah. It didn't spell it right in my original post. Typo

[@Cainny]

I'm more amazed at the fact your dog didn't turn around at 1:48 when the box fell.

[@writenamehere1536]

Oh my lord i remember owning this thing, it did what i needed it to and i absolutely loved it. Storage capacity was awful to say the least but actually using the phone was not that bad. Got mine rooted and removed all the things and bits i didnt need and i used it happily for 2 years. Still cant find a better phone to type on somehow

[@ImperiaGin]

So much better than a iPhone XS

[@BilisNegra]

Is that suppossed to be funny?

[@arafatshabir3017]

I agree

[@TIMETECH07]

I liked the fact that it has a home button like my J1 2016 that I am typing on it now

[@silvanpaul2531]

in 2012 this phone was one of the best in its price range and if you want to do some gaming you should try some gba emulators those are working just fine on this phone.

[@DisRupted]

The phone falling at 1:53 is killing me. Thanks for not cutting that LOL

[@TheFox517]

I had an Ace 2. Such a good phone. Seeing Android 2 again is kind of a blast from the past. Remember the black KZbin app?

[@alvzcizzler]

What did you expected from a low end phone from 2010/2011 ??

[@oli5432]

Notification squad knows this video has been uploaded twice

[@kingkarl1st871]

Slow rock

[@pepicd1]

My dad buyed gt-s5830i for me in 2013 and used it ti 2016. He buyed it from Saturn in Hamburg, Germany. It was brand new in box (the box was the same but not damaged and it was not white, but green gradient.) In 2013 this was a 90 euro smartphone and it was really good. It had plenty of storage back in the day (facebook app was something like 3mb and this phone had something like 120mb) It had a broadcomm cpu, videocore 4 gpu and 289mb of ram. In 2014 I installed cyanogenemod 11 and it was really fast, I used also Link2Sd. The best thing about this phone was that it had a superior camera for budget phone and I have some amazing shots with this phone! For Hill Climb Racing you must try with the versions before the middle of 2015, that were the wast ones that worked without lag. I was 11 years old in 2013 and I miss the good old times with this phone.

[@go1485]

My first phone was a Galaxy Y. So nostalgic. It had the same processor as the Ace and I felt it was slightly snappier than the Ace. I also have the Ace, got it from my aunt. I can still watch youtube on the default browser, with FB lite do some chatting. A trick I do is to quickly fill the phone up with apps you will use. Once you do that Google play services will not install itself and hog up the precious space in thr phone, giving you useable some apps on the phone. I use the Galaxy Y and Ace as a 2nd and 3rd phone now and people say they look cute with the small screen and tiny proportions.

[@benjaminconaghan6978]

Your greyhound looks so cute i love greyhounds and have a rescued greyhound myself is yours a rescue btw love your vids

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

She is a Lurcher, and yes she is from a Rescue Center.

[@benjaminconaghan6978]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial aw lovely

[@eduardoavila646]

I dont know how, but the phone i had in 2011/2012, with worse specs than these, runned way more apps and games than this. It was a galaxy mini (s5570b), and was really spartanic phone, it runned many unsupported apps. Never used a custom rom, in 2013 christmas i got a s3 and gave to a friend. Also i could run snes, psx but not minecraft. Hill climb racing i payed the hell out, even spotted some bugs in it.

[@jabinstateresa]

Same dude. My galaxy mini way back ran megaman x5 on psx stock with 50-60 fps. Dunno what's up with the ace considering it had a higher clocked cpu lol. Even remember need for speed shift run on the mini. Oh how I missed black menus on android

[@chris3295]

Love to see you review old phones it brings back so many good old memories 😀👍🏼

[@nyxify]

I'm watching this on my white Note 4.. really tripped me out when you put Mario on the screen!

[@rasmusvainio3774]

Did you test Angry Birds? It was the mobile game in 2011 and fairly easy to run.

[@TaxiYoshi64]

umm its from 2009

[@adriaans9243]

4:30 wait I thought Google Play was discontinued on Android 2.3 or Gingerbread since early 2017

[@WindowsSaturn]

play services stopped supporting gingerbread. however the actual play store did not

[@ajalobaid]

My very first Samsung (2011), Galaxy Ace. Aah, simpler times.

[@Reda01Reda]

This phone was my really first smartphone :’) good times. It flew from the 3rd story of my building and it was still working

[@seicento2tone]

1:55 I’m dead lmao 😂😂

[@You-tv5io]

Why did you reupload?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Error in the video.

[@vincentas1]

No info in speck sheet

[@SupahLinkio]

2:36 what a beautiful long dog you have

[@eduardoavila646]

I got a gs2 for about R$90 (about $21 usd) and with the right rom (in my case nameless rom 5.1), and a custom modem firmware its a perfect budget and basic phone. O can consume content like youtube, netflix (with root disabled), browse the web with something like 15 active tabs (max). It has a not so bad battery life using it normally as a maindriver, around 6-8 hours and at full load 4hours. (my gs6 lasted 4h30min in light-to-none use). The phone's performance is buttery smooth! Its camera doesnt handle too well dark, but its usable, even more with the app "opencamera" that allows a better control of it. It can shoot 1080p30fps. It has around 10gb free of internal "sdcard" and can take external 32gb sdcards easily. So i can swap them all the time and have, for example, many gigs there. Its limited in the normal youtube app to 480p quality (that looks very nice in it), but i dont see as a bad thing, as, in the end its mobile data friendly, and also slow wireless friendly.

[@Kyan-eg1po]

There’s probably a bunch of better options, mine was the Samsung Galaxy Stardust, I got one for $10, perfectly functional, and it runs android 4.3

[@usernamenotfound1196]

"Made from China" Mmmmmmm.... *That makes sense*

[@alexm566]

what phone is not made in China?

[@luijo633]

3:57 I see, so you are a man of culture...

[@dromendus]

WOWIE seeing the process of flashing CyanogenMod on an old Android phone gave me such a rush of nostalgia. I haven't used Android Gingerbread OR KitKat in so many years

[@AliYassinToma]

Why didnt u buy tbe galaxy y ...

[@TaxiYoshi64]

wat

[@TheBcoolGuy]

The S2 is much better.

[@Connie_TinuityError]

TheBcoolGuy Well no shit dude! The S2 was a flagship and considered one of (if not) the best phone at the time and the Ace, well, that was a REALLY low end phone even for the time!

[@theybanmybusiness485]

4:05 P A I N IN THE A S S

[@dekngpasig]

back then with this phone i learn so much about android modding custom rom. :)

[@ZestroYT]

it has more RAM than storage 😂😂

[@ummhwegottaproblem9125]

This was my first smart phone 😂

[@kbhasi]

I remember one of my classmates back in 2011 actually having a black Galaxy Ace for their phone, and at the time, I mistook it for a Galaxy S until he corrected me. 3:20 It's interesting how TouchWiz 4.0 (Galaxy S2/Note era) just used the AOSP setup and status bar, while TouchWiz Nature UX 1 and 2 (S3/NoteII and S4/Note3 respectively) used its own setup screens and was just an overall thing that felt like its own OS that happened to be compatible with Android apps (but Nature UX was the one thing I hated most about my Note3), then I think it's with at least TouchWiz 7.0 (S7/Note5) where the setup was still Samsung's own setup, but the styling is closer to that of AOSP, but is still not AOSP. 6:10 The fact that their CyanogenMod 11 uses a "Sony" start-up screen, kinda reminds me of something I can't really remember but I think has to do with some cheap media player thing where the manufacturer blatantly ripped off the Sony logo even though it did not look like a Sony product in any way, shape, or form, but they were probably trying to get spme people in China to buy it for their children thinking it was a PSP. 6:19 Gosh I sometimes miss the original OnePlus One lock screen and backgrounds… 8:33 I somehow feel I had a similar experience on my Chinavasion Avior back in 2010, and that ran Android 2.2 from AOSP. It lagged while gaming, would never load KZbin at all, but worked for basic Internet.

[@JessicaFEREM]

protip: use frogfind, it makes any web page into basic HTML, made for 68k macintoshes, but will work on literally anything including the first web browser all the way up to the newest one.

[@wolker213]

Game Dev Tycoon ost 2:39

[@unspreadablesoap]

When your phone has more ram than internal storage 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@blueember4666]

My first smaet phone. You can find almost unused ones here in S.Korea, lol. Learnt how to flash rom and root with this phone, and got interest in electronics. Now I'm using an LG G7+. Damn. Technology evolves fast.

[@aetvrna]

"Free space" isn't only something old phones have.

[@user-bx5ix4ch1l]

10:17 89m subs... HMMMM

[@vincentas1]

Mistake in description to another spelt wrong Edit: mistake again after hello and welcome

[@vincentas1]

zTr3x now he spelt to wrong

[@vincentas1]

zTr3x oh dint see that :D

[@TheSpotify95]

As I stated before, it's a good job I got the Galaxy Ace Plus as my first smartphone, and not the Galaxy Ace as planned :p The Ace Plus is still usable, heck it has 1.2GB storage available even after a few MP3s and a few older versions of apps (as nothing works now on Android 2.3). The storage thing on this kinda reminds me of my old crappy VS TouchTab 7V, which was specc'ed as 8GB storage, but was partitioned into a 5.3GB and a 1GB partition (excluding the memory used for system apps), and of course everything made a beeline for the 1GB partition - so after the Google Apps had updated, there was nothing left.

[@martijnp]

This was actually my first smart phone back in like 2012, oh the times.

[@jseden]

Damn your were spoiled.. my first smartphone was technically the palm Centro. First Android was a Huawei ascend in 2010, was $100 from metro pcs. It "worked" for everything but still required some patience.. I liked the trackball tho.

[@RUFU58]

I had to use one of these temporarily while. Y main phone was being repaired. I couldn’t update the o/s because it constantly told me there wasn’t enough space to install it. I couldn’t delete any of the pre installed apps to make the room for it! Fcuking terrible phone.

[@hoppstech]

Lol my PC is better than this

[@Horiole]

I hope so

[@AlexRoyin4K]

Almost any PC is better than that.

[@resneptacle]

Even a Pentium 4 is better than that

[@fearsin5513]

AlexFromRobloxYT r/woooosh

[@ziuzz4168]

Even a sempron is better

[@majorskies7091]

I used to own the Galaxy Ace for many years well after Gingerbread was out of support. Up untill 2014 I installed a version Cyangenmond with Jellybean. I'm sure if you did that today this phone is still very useable.

[@BensoftMedia]

When I briefly worked at CEX, this is the kind of phone someone would buy for £20, then come back in 2 days later outraged that the phone was shite.

[@peraguy3863]

The People who disliked own this piece of crap

[@MadHeaven_YT]

This phone is memorable for me because this is the first smartphone that I have ever to myself, though a hand-me-down from my mother, it is very memorable. I remember having to see that annoying storage low screen.

[@DanielReyes-nj5kk]

Dude, i was able to play through the entire Zelda:Minish Cap (GBA Emulation), flawlessly no lags at all ON THAT PHONE. It was a custom 2.3.6 rom but it ran perfectly. I swear. SNES being laggy is surprising to me...And i didn't overclock it then

[@lolimoka3654]

Budget builds is amazing, I thought america was wasteful but England is just as!, people like budget builds though, FIX the broken machine, and pay 5£ for it instead of 60£, Best modern tech channel ever