Reintroducing the SUSAN M5 - Probably the WORST Android Phone EVER

Timestamps are integrated into the video now showing each segment dedicated to this device.
This went for a little longer than expected due to various things with this device so the timestamps are there so you can skip to wherever you need to be. No harm in doing so! If you are here to see the teardown, you can skip to that. If you are here just for the specs, you can skip to that - absolutely no problems whatsoever!
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Greetings and welcome to another cheapo phone review!
If you have been around for a while...you may have met Susan before.
If you haven't...well, this is a nice video to get you and Susan acquainted.
In 2018 I stumbled across the Susan M5 phone and decided to review it.
It was terrible.
So then I decided to buy another one to maybe see if I just got a bad unit.
It was still terrible.
Now that it is 2022, another Susan M5 has arrived and this time I wanted to give it a chance. Maybe I was too harsh on it.
So I have re-reviewed it and well...I can't say too much more about this thing.
It qualifies as the WORST Android Phone I have ever come across. It BARELY works.
So sit back, grab a drink and a snack and I'll let you and Susan get to know each other, fairly sure you won't be friends after this one...
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Apps to test on your device:
The one that usually shows everything -
CPU System Info: bit.ly/3BYfdaZ
Device Info HW: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
CPU-Z: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Geekbench: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
QuickShortcutMaker: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Activity Launcher: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Secret Codes: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Stock & Inventory App: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Download the stuff extracted from this thing here:
archive.org/details/susan-m5
INTERNET ARCHIVE: archive.org/details/@smoorez
TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction: 0:00
Around the Susan M5: 1:18
Power On, Display, Launcher & Demonstration of the RAW POWER: 3:29
Shortcuts, Applications, Wallpapers & the wonderful Torch: 4:57
Settings - Networks, Cellular & MORE RAW POWER: 6:25
Settings - Sounds, Keyboard, Security, Storage & Battery: 8:26
Settings - Apps, More Settings & About Phone: 9:47
The Amazing Camera: 11:40
Wonderful Camera Test: 12:42
Camera Results, Sound Recorder, File Explorer & FM Radio: 15:54
Browser Test & KZbin Test: 17:42
Performance is great, More Apps & Fruit Slice: 20:23
Speaker Test: 21:32
Attempting to play Grand Theft Auto III: 22:18
Checking the specs: 23:24
Secret Codes & QuickShortcutMaker Fun! - Boot Logo Swaps: 25:52
This Phone is Struggling: 29:07
All the HIDDEN STUFF via QuickShortcutMaker: 30:26
Conclusion: 37:38
Teardown: 39:22
It lives on, Full Specifications & Rambling: 43:07
Thank you for watching, updates etc: 44:49
Outro: 46:05
Be good people!
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SOCIAL:
Instagram: s.moorez
Email: [e-mail]
My second channel:
/ @smoorez2
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Music/Video:
Outro:
Mick Gordon - Cultist Base (Doom Eternal Soundtrack)
Speaker Tests:
Mick Gordon - BFG Division (DOOM 2016 Soundtrack)
Video Test:
4K Video In Costa Rica by Jacob + Katie Schwarz
• COSTA RICA IN 4K 60fps...
Camera Test Background:
Andrew & Simon Hale - L.A Noire Main Menu Theme
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*All images used in the video belong to their rightful owners but are used under fair use/demonstration.
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#SUSAN #M5 #Review

[@SMOOREZ]

Oh boy, if you remember seeing this device in 2018...here it is again. It returns. Is it any better? Nope...it's just as bad as I remember it. Now I own 3 of the things so what am I even doing at this point in time. I just wanted to revisit it since it has been 4 years and give my more "modern" take on it and well this is the result. I do hope you enjoy this video though, being productive and trying to get a LOT done before my October break :) Have you met Susan in real life? Let me know in the comments! TIMESTAMPS: Introduction: 0:00 Around the Susan M5: 1:18 Power On, Display, Launcher & Demonstration of the RAW POWER: 3:29 Shortcuts, Applications, Wallpapers & the wonderful Torch: 4:57 Settings - Networks, Cellular & MORE RAW POWER: 6:25 Settings - Sounds, Keyboard, Security, Storage & Battery: 8:26 Settings - Apps, More Settings & About Phone: 9:47 The Amazing Camera: 11:40 Wonderful Camera Test: 12:42 Camera Results, Sound Recorder, File Explorer & FM Radio: 15:54 Browser Test & KZbin Test: 17:42 Performance is great, More Apps & Fruit Slice: 20:23 Speaker Test: 21:32 Attempting to play Grand Theft Auto III: 22:18 Checking the specs: 23:24 Secret Codes & QuickShortcutMaker Fun! - Boot Logo Swaps: 25:52 This Phone is Struggling: 29:07 All the HIDDEN STUFF via QuickShortcutMaker: 30:26 Conclusion: 37:38 Teardown: 39:22 It lives on, Full Specifications & Rambling: 43:07 Thank you for watching, updates etc: 44:49 Outro: 46:05 CPU & System Apps are in the description above! As well as the extracted files from the thing! Be good people!

[@RiderBlitz1.0]

A broke like me only had those kind of phone, cheap pathetic (not now), but still i got to live with it.

[@nemaparanemanovaca]

i think the Samsung Galaxy Ace is probably worse than this, maybe the Alcatel Pop C1 too even my Redmi 9 (which is actually garbage) would smash this

[@crazycrow6596]

If you think that this camera is bad you haven't seen the camera of the Allwinner A33

[@jayjayrogers5945]

@@nemaparanemanovaca My first smartphone was a Samsung galaxy ace. 🤣

[@RiderBlitz1.0]

@@crazycrow6596 what a name haha

[@merlinathrawes6191]

A phone that frustrating should be called Karen.

[@jrr851]

I came looking for this comment. Thank you.

[@echo8828]

Yeah, like Karen M5 pro?

[@JeanLucHouedanou]

Or Sharon.

[@kiyoshi_the_devil]

@@JeanLucHouedanou Sharon, where's the cat food?

[@merlinathrawes6191]

@@echo8828 Everytime you charge it, it wants to see the manager lol

[@opposedscroll7596]

Ah yes,the camera that records UFO and Alien sightings

[@armycommander6219]

Fr

[@LatitudeSky]

That rattle bootup noise sounds just my neighbor's old car just before it threw a rod and spewed hot eng9ne parts all over the driveway. That was not his best day. I need to give him one of these phones for nostalgia.

[@blakksheep736]

Yikes.

[@radiden]

UA stands for User Agent, which is a string your browser sends when you connect to a website, to let it identify what kind of device/application is accessing it. Setting it to iPhone probably just made the default browser identify itself as an iPhone browser on an iPhone

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

I remember this from using a Windows Phone a few years ago. I had to download the UC browser and set the User Agent to iPhone, because the default Internet Explorer had a bit of a trouble with mobile websites.

[@samholdsworth420]

@@hyperturbotechnomike a fellow windows phone user? Lol

[@rpst39]

a browser i used on my old android 2 samsung had it. a website gave me a popup saying that my iphone 4 was infected.

[@JPGT]

@@hyperturbotechnomike Sometimes your browser was capable of displaying normal "modern" (for the time) web code, but the site developers used to check for iPhone or some Android version, just to specifically "make sure" that it worked. So by spoofing the UA string, you could receive that "modern" version of the site.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

thank you, i was gonna comment this

[@AlexandruLipan]

Because the chipset (Spreadtrum SC7731) appears under Baseband, means that the chipset includes a modem that apparently supports HSPA+. The main reason it doesn't connect is because the IMEI is invalid. Someone took rejected/spare devices and went for the quick buck method. Not that you can do a lot anyway, the CPU stutters even when idling.

[@elihernandez330]

I think it has more to do with the ram and storage strangling it. Even a dual core cortex a5 processor shouldn't be that bad.

[@matthewferraro8020]

@@JustMLC it's probably all three holding each other back lol

[@300maze]

@@elihernandez330 nah, the cortex a5 is really ancient and incredibly slow for android 5 , even 2010 phones running android 2 had better Cortex A8 cores

[@ShepherdSparky]

bet someone called Susan bought this phone and thought it was cool because it was "named after" them lol

[@sarahrochasouza]

F in the chat for susan

[@amazeyourself_]

@Nicolas_Gaming_TechShare a Coke with Susan

[@Raveheart]

Even my very first Android device, HTC Hero from 2009, wasn't as slow as this thing. Also... Imagine 5G is already out and you're still busy faking 3G

[@PEPSIMaxMusic]

Yeah even my dad's old HTC Desire C, a budget phone from 2012, is better than this. It could even run Android 5 via Cyanogenmod, though as it is quite old, it's very slow and the storage has started to die. For the price of this Susan, you could get an old Galaxy S4 or something that's FAR superior.

[@leeambrockley21]

hey so i found out today that the number with the circle thing around it is actually used to tell the customer how long the battery should last for before it needs replacing i thought this was a pretty interesting thing how most flagship phones have 5 years and this one had 10. 😂

[@xPandamon]

UA is the user agent. It just sends a certain info to websites, which can adjust how it is displayed. Back in the days you could change it in some browsers like Opera for Android, nowadays all you get is usually a "Desktop view" button, since you no longer need this ^^

[@justinbrennan8136]

This must be the phone that bigfoot hunters use to capture proof

[@mohdasyraafsyahmi3250]

or UFO sightings

[@blablablablabla504]

This is how Apple users see Androids 😆

[@catholiccatheter3285]

🥱 tired ass joke. Move on.

[@blablablablabla504]

@@catholiccatheter3285 It's kinda true tho. Most apple stans I've ever seen have this mindset XD

[@bluebirdsigma]

@@catholiccatheter3285 it's no joke. Most android strawmen arguments sound like this phone. It's like the only Android phone they ever used was a low end Galaxy Ace from 2011 and think they're still all like that.

[@catholiccatheter3285]

@@bluebirdsigma exactly, dude. Shits nutty. My wife has an S22 ultra. I have an iPhone 12 max. Both suck the same lol.

[@jesuschrist-vy1us]

@@catholiccatheter3285 why? i personally think both androids and iphones are great. those are technically older phones tho, that why?

[@AmmarVanKorsha]

The cameras are so good that my eyes started bleeding.

[@Flopster101]

I really do wonder what the AOSP source for these devices that are full of debug tools looks like, must be quite a trip to look through.

[@LolJolk]

Yup I used a similar slow device like a decade ago, can't imagine it getting any better

[@coffeemakerbottomcracked]

It's crazy to think that even like Galaxy S2 flashed with Android 12 can perform better than this

[@cyscossafehouse352]

wait that's possible?

[@LiamMcBride]

@@cyscossafehouse352 yeah, Android ROM devs gotta put the latest version of Android on the S2. It's the can we get it to run doom equivalent on android

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

What a nugget, as DankPods would say. I never thought I would see anything that makes Welcome devices look decent, but here it is, archived for everyone to see.

[@amateurprogrammer25]

HOLY SH*T THAT DEPTH OF FIELD I've seen some bad cameras in my day, but I've never seen one that blurred the edges of the frame before. Also LMAO at that panorama.

[@Nareimooncatt]

The only time I've seen that kind of edge only blurring was from an SLR lens where someone disassembled it and put the front element in backwards. It can make for some trippy photography in the right setting, but something tells me that wasn't the intent here. Lol

[@penatio]

That camera has some old school charm to it, despite being terrible.

[@AmmarVanKorsha]

8:46 if you used a live wallpaper, it would probably crash.

[@sarahrochasouza]

no, it would pop out of existence

[@AmmarVanKorsha]

@@sarahrochasouza how is this at all relevant to what I said.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

This would be a budget phone from let's say 2013 . 256 MB RAM, basic 2D games, rear camera working when it is not too bright, front camera just a gimmick. Videos out of the question. In 2017 it would be already obsolete, they just put 4GLTE on the back to scam unsuspecting. I'm guessing that someone acquired unused stock of parts for cheap and tried to make quick buck.

[@davehall4054]

Crazy to think good midrange phones had 512mb ram 10 years ago.

[@opposedscroll7596]

2014 budget phones had 1GB of RAM so this would have to be the LOWEST possible tier of budget phone in 2013 (like 50$ or something)

[@aleksazunjic9672]

@@opposedscroll7596 Well, iPhone 5c and 5s came out in September 2013 and they had 1GB RAM, and these were certainly not budget phones :D We tend to forget how quickly technology marched.

[@davehall4054]

@@opposedscroll7596 Yeah you're right, I was basing it on my old Wildfire I had in 2011.

[@elfedorausado]

@@aleksazunjic9672 iPhones always require less RAM than their Android counterparts due to the software and hardware integration.

[@BWAC]

I could see a use case here if the battery was halfway decent. You still have a touch screen experience but it makes you never want to use your phone minus the very core functionality, if it could make calls, send texts and do timers/calendar it would be a great way to force yourself to use a phone less

[@flizzycat]

UA probably stands for User Agent, a piece of information that your browser sends to websites

[@bibasik7]

The microphone reminds me of toys that play a terrible quality audio recording when you press the buttons.

[@tensaichigo2]

First time, I've watched one of your videos. As soon as I heard the LA Noire soundtrack I knew I was dealing with a refined individual. Also, great video. 👍🏾

[@ExplosionsCentral]

Truly an amazing achievement to make a phone with a worse camera than the Nintendo DSi

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

The reason it took so long to load is because Android couldn't keep up with the sheer power of the phone.

[@jindrasmutny4181]

I have found Susan M5 for sale in a joblot from Lithuania two years ago. I have purchased it, and was playing around with it. I have found nothing interesting. Battery is now unusable (doesn’t charge) but I must stick there a Nokia battery any try that animation changing 🤩

[@j2sk]

I know atleast 50 of these but with different brandings. The front design, that grill and tiny mic beside. small back cam, the orange battery and those old icons. Used to have one with different name. Now its junk in my storeroom

[@user-ji7gx7ux7m]

I remember this was rebranded as the condor p6pro here in algeria🇩🇿,this was a best selling phone here cause it was pretty cheap and availability

[@_venice_5993]

Your mugshots are betterthan my dating ones. You look cool dude ❤

[@peterelvery]

Thanks for introducing me to SUSAN. Re the choice of boot sequences, I have a "Rugum ip13 Mini" which by default is a WELCOME but can also boot up as SAMSUNG, HUAWEI, OPPO, VIVO, MI, HONOR or Lenovo, by means of a little hidden app called "select".

[@bibasik7]

If you make a Halloween special episode, you should call it Hello-ween. (Get it? Because welcome phones? Ok, I'll see myself out.)

[@jrac-gl3ku]

You probably bought and own like, 50% of the global susan m5 inventory

[@second_dream_dev]

You made me cry with this video... This remembered me my galaxy next

[@stormerbuzz352]

I'd be so tempted to call this phone the Karen

[@joemck85]

I've just looked up the Spreadtrum SC6825 specs and wow... It was released in 2013 and the SOC is capable of 2G only though it does have the enhanced data rate versions of 2G like EDGE (enhanced as in you're downloading in KB/s rather than bytes/s). Its Mali 400 GPU also features 256 KB (yes, kilobytes) of VRAM, which might be why GTA wouldn't run. Apart from that it looks like an average 1.2 GHz dual core 32 bit ARM chip.

[@darethjavelin3802]

Wow ! The camera quality is stellar.

[@MyComputerStudios_]

UA stands for User Agent. It's the id the browser sends to the pages for device identification

[@Dark_Flame_Master]

lol I found some of these on the internet, I found some used devices for 20€ and a new one for 50€. I feel like this was still too much. But if I had to buy a cheap smartphone for a person I don’t like, this would be my choice. 😈😂

[@sk8terboi510]

Seeing how clunky and low spec’d this device is reminds me of my first “smartphone” experience, back in mid 2011. The dreaded Samsung SPH-M910.. better known as the Intercept. About the only thing it halfway did correctly was make calls and send texts. I get that smartphones were still a bit rudimentary in those times, but the HTC Evo 3D I replaced it with a couple months later was light years ahead in speed and usability!

[@otistically]

At this point, this phone is a offense to KZbin's CEO.

[@kiendra]

She stepped down

[@repoversemedium]

This phone may be the worst Android device, but it surely isn't the worst mobile device.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Damn I kind of like it’s design though aside from that back vent. It’s giving me a bit of a soft spot for the underdog.

[@danielmcgee813]

I do say that putting the dog wallpaper was the best part of the whole device as well as a description of its performance which is........RUFFFF!!!!!!

[@thomasrasmussen2124]

watched the youtube test, and was shouting at the screen: stop tortureing the poor phone, you've killed it already.

[@andrasszabo7386]

I would like to get one for my phone collection. Just because the background puppy is so cute :) I had a much worse Android 1.6 chinese phone, though :) I can't remember the brand or name, but it had a 300 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM, and even the menu was SUPER laggy. Not to mention the VGA camera on the back.

[@RiderBlitz1.0]

I feel you bro, I've been there

[@the_mariocrafter]

Make a video on it

[@the_mariocrafter]

@@RiderBlitz1.0 make a video on it

[@RiderBlitz1.0]

@@the_mariocrafter its been destroyed, i did had the idea in mind like you said, but.... Raged and..... I'll see, i have plan in future

[@andrasszabo7386]

@@the_mariocrafter I don't think I have it anymore. I think I was stupid enough to sell it back then. I didn't know that I am going to be a huge phone collector in 2021. And anyway, I am not making any youtube videos. It would consume a lot of time that I don't have.

[@aseldesu]

This really does look more like android 2.3 rather than 4

[@paranoiia8]

heh, 3 of 5 IMEI checkers say its Acer M310 rest say its not blacklisted but they dont know device. PS, now we need KAREN phone that will automatically call manager when you enter any shop :D

[@kiane4344]

Yes that's my findings too

[@BG101UK]

I would have tried the "Auto" option for preferred network just to see if it made any difference. I'm sure one of my old phones could be locked to GSM or allowed to use 3G as well, but had no option to force 3G. Maybe this is the case here?

[@troyc4841]

I bought 2 of these from ebay in 2017. I was living in Dandenong. I got a full refund on one because they lied about the memory. I had fun rooting them and trying to use link to SD to get the system to use the memory card more than the lowly system memory of which only had a few MB to spare. I bricked one of them because I accidentally removed a system file that was linked to the SD and it would boot no longer. They were garbage. I was only out 40 clams.

[@DouglasWalrath]

UA is user agent, it's a string of text browsers send to websites to identify what browser they are, what operating system they're running on, etc

[@ZatsuneMikuWorld]

Welcome to year 2000 :)

[@cherryble]

This phone reminds me of the Sony Xperia XA in design. It's got a similar front and back and the pink colour (the XA I have) looks identical.

[@MaseraSteve]

interesting, as an former sony xp user i didn't even saw it. Might want to take a look at redmi 3, now that's a striking resemblance

[@d1fferen7]

The frog at 12:59 looks like some sort of an alien. 🥴🤣🤣

[@vasya_cat]

At least it has a headphone jack!

[@notbuffy]

I was waiting so long to the rereveiw of the Susan

[@stevenlk]

bruh that's camera's great for horror moviemakers lmao😂

[@friddevonfrankenstein]

The Susan M5 xD Do they also have a Karen 5G Pro and a Sheila S10 in the lineup? xD Winemom Wireless Inc.

[@linkfanandroid]

I had a Acer Liquid Z3 10 years ago for 99€ And it was a blast compare to this "pile of junk" At least I can play some games with it

[@sunabashi3718]

cheap acer phone is the goat

[@linkfanandroid]

@@sunabashi3718 it was :p

[@Pheonix0110]

IMEI is Acer M310winfoes fone😂😂😂

[@richardcutts196]

I haven't seen the video, but I predict it's even worse because it's probably still 3g an will only make calls if someone has not (as of yet) dropped 3g service. Let's see if I'm right.

[@opposedscroll7596]

It ends up being 2G lmao Even some Symbian phones had 3G

[@richardcutts196]

@@opposedscroll7596Eventually they will HAVE to make a 4g lte phone because there won't be anything lower.

[@owokemosan]

6:15 WOW that looks great 👍

[@clairegreen2775]

35:31 it's presumably listening on port 38 for some corresponding piece of software (on a pc?) to put it into engineering mode. Anyone know what UPA stands for?

[@ryandontlikeyou]

United Poop Association

[@Rajorsi]

This phone was a clone of the Xiaomi Mi 5 I believe.

[@opposedscroll7596]

The front and (somewhat) back design reminds me of the Huawei Y6 2015 way more I've had the Y6 before and the front looks EXACTLY the same,with the only back design difference being the back speaker

[@joemck85]

The ICS stock launcher was some lighter than that cooey one or whatever it's called, but I recall using something called Lightning Launcher on my old HTC phone from that era when it was getting old. It was super light and could be customized to do just about anything, though doing so was kind of clunky. You would probably need to find an old version apk.

[@freemasonry666]

33:15 bro UA = User Agent. Its interface for web browser. If u set to iphone, open google, the interface like iphone. Set to samsung like in samsung. All browser has its own User agents. Example opera, mozilla, safari, IE

[@nemaparanemanovaca]

yay, i have been waiting for this by the way, that recycle icon with a 10 in it is supposed to mean the phone will last for 10 years and work fine. lmfao thats such a lie, that should have said 0.04

[@stojicgaming893]

I think smoorez is the only guy on the internet that collects trash phones as Pokémon cards

[@amaralghamdi8339]

14:05 bro that led flash selfie looks like its gonna pop up out of nowhere in the forests and then try to eat my flesh );

[@emmettaaron]

can you also review KAAN N2? its a phone that literally came with bunch of malware

[@keff5984]

Ty for the cheapo entertainment ❤️

[@the2323guy]

Pretty sure it's running android 4.0.4 Try playing around with an old android smartwatch like the ZGPAX S5, which has got very similar specs.

[@Phizzl_e]

I think it's more Android 2.3 😅

[@the2323guy]

​@@Phizzl_e i doubt it, a lot of the elements are from ICS and it would most likely run somewhat better with gingerbread

[@the2323guy]

@@smasnuga15 it's definitely not android froyo, even smoorez said that the m5 runs ics in his previous m5 videos

[@r0mushii]

i guess that it can't find or support any networks is due to band compatibility. i mean it does say TD-LTE on the battery area, and afaik AU networks only uses FDD-LTE bands

[@SMOOREZ]

I don't think the SoC even supports 4G let alone 3G. Most of the datasheets for the chip say Dual Band GSM. Plus the specs are false with it so I'd say it would be false.

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

Alt title: I started using old android devices and experiencing ten years in the past

[@TheJuggtron]

Don't know if you've seen them but there are a heap of reconditioned Sony Z to Z5 phones on Aliexpress for sometimes under $100

[@coffeemakerbottomcracked]

Those phones will probably break during the shipping. Older Sony Xperias have so fragile screen, i remember pressing the screen on one (i did not even press hard) and the touch digitizer stopped working.

[@claypotts2334]

I am currently using a Xperia Z5, really nice phone and the camera is brilliant. Only problem is the touch at the very top of the shereen doesn't work, and it overheats when using LTE and 4K videos recording for too long. The battery is also bad but it is an old phone after all

[@VSteam81]

You should review a ZTE from some kind of government phone service Or, specifically, a ZTE Z3551S

[@GlovedGame]

I remember I got a 39 buck wish phone and when I tried connecting wifi through settings, it said settings needs wifi to work

[@dfghh]

havent used a mediatek phone in such long while but iirc it is possible to flash any rom on it as long as the rom has the same mt number with spflashtool. idk if that works though, as that thing is pointless, it may be worth a try. with a custom rom it may be usable.

[@elihernandez330]

It just has no ram or storage. It would have to be the most barebones ram ever.

[@ViZageFader]

Installed Fruit Slice from the SUSAN M5 files on my Samsung Galaxy S III, and it works like a charm! Probably the best-running game on my phone in 2022! BTW, imo is a WhatsApp clone. My grandfather used it for quite some time on a cheap Allwinner-based tablet.

[@i1DERProductions]

See the pixels? You kidding? I can SMELL them! HAH! - Unironically, that SUSAN power on theme sounds almost like something I made for an alert tone back in 2014-2015 :/

[@kaktusgoreng]

This phone made you so mad that they named the phone company after the CEO of KZbin

[@JessicaFEREM]

the default ringtone reminds me of Flower Dance by DJ Okawari

[@RowanBird779]

32:07 That's not an S2, I personally own one the lock screen looks ccompletely different, probably because I don't have Androiud 4 on it

[@burnutec3]

I seen one for sale on local facebook market place , immediately started laughing, because of this and the previus, video jumped into my mind instantly. And it was for sale nearly 70$ converted from HUF

[@lero.official]

That mic is like what I heard in CoD 2 lobbies 😂

[@tylern6420]

Can you make a video where you try to brick them using the test stuff

[@cliffordreynolds1835]

Hey can anyone tell me, what's with the band-aids?

[@jindrasmutny4181]

Imei info: unknown model, just shows imei number with no info

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

EXIF data says MIUI, hinting poorly at xiaomi, yet the phone itself (at least from the front) looks very much like a Huawei Y5II from about the same time period, which coincidentally also came in gold, pink and white... hmmmm 🤔

[@doitaljosh]

6:15 Hello there old chum!

[@bryancoolguy188]

17:06 What is "Kids Help Line"? Is it a contact built in to the SIM card?

[@SMOOREZ]

Yeah Vodafone sim cards have default contacts. They have had this for many years.

[@Ak47pistolgunjejr]

Front screen navigation buttons copied on Xiaomi Redmi navigation buttons.

[@Hadroncollider_]

I now wished my phone had a Hasmater log screen...

[@natelax1367]

I’m pretty sure you found the camera they use to film beheadings

[@sersoft_corp]

I had one of those given to me to try to "upgrade" after my friend ordered this phone thinking it would be a halfway decent dumb-smartphone, and had to find out the hard way that the "People" app starts to crash on launch if you just got a few numbers in your contact list. I think they upgraded the software since mine seemed to have gingerbread on it, but it did connect to cellular networks at least, maybe your IMEI got blacklisted somehow. Also it's not "susan" it's su san! 🤣

[@Ametisti]

It technically did KZbin better than my first smartphone now does, a Wildfire S. The ye olde stock KZbin app gets a 404, and the browser offered to download a couple vids before KZbin suddenly cottoned on to the fact I was using Gingerbread and shut the party down. The font they used to the Susan text is quite nice. The kid toy bright coloured UI gubbins is awful.

[@JPGT]

That's not Android 4, it is Android 2.3 (you can know it by the layout in the Settings app, also the "Preparing SD card" notification that appears on each boot, and finally the jingle that plays on the bootanimation - although this one was also supported on Android 4.x)

[@JPGT]

But I'm actually kinda impressed on how they were able to put a light theme on it just to pretend it was an updated Android version. Android 2.x and 3.x didn't have light theme support on the systemUI, it was all dark. Android 4.x could have it (LG did use light-themed UI), but the vast majority of brands still used dark (Samsung, Motorola, etc.) Light theme really only became default starting with Android 5

[@JPGT]

Update: According to the engineer mode, as you saw, it is Android 2.2 (Gingerbread really shares a lot of design with Froyo)

[@letssaylalala]

The whole UI is quite the mish mash. The moment I see it says Android 5 I thought no way. It's Jelly Bean at best. Then I saw the ICS browser. Then Gingerbread elements and the notification ticker. Until eventually it revealed itself as Froyo in the user agent 😂

[@JPGT]

@@letssaylalala Yes, I definitely find it interesting how well they worked in theming the UI to look like a modern Android version. It remembers me of the old days of Galaxy Y ROMs. There was some wonderful theming ROMs with full glass-like UI (like Windows 7) that ran on top of Android 2.3. But there was also real Android 4.4 ports that were incredible. (Running on a 160Mb storage - 512Mb system partition i think, 190Mb RAM phone)

[@letssaylalala]

@@JPGT huh. I had Galaxy Y's distant cousin, the Xperia X8. 600 Mhz single core and probably the same amount of storage. I was an absolute ROM junkie lol. CM6, 7, 9, 10, you name it. Lost the phone sometime after. I moved to the first gen Moto G but by then I sort of lost interest and enjoyed stock ROM. Good times.

[@joshuasim8019]

Hey thats exactly the Xiaomi Mi 5 form! I completely remember back in 2016

[@RowanBird779]

I love how this thing is worse than my laptop, from 2003/2004, and it struggles to run Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas unless the wind is blowing north, but Vice City/3 runs pretty well

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

To be fair that was a brand new game, if it was 2008 then yeah that’s concerning

[@RowanBird779]

@@Journey_to_who_knows I've never run a game past 2006 on it, I don't know what you're point is, but it does run Virtual PC 2004 quite well

[@simsum1argh882]

Weve had an Opal. It looks the same as that. My Mrs powered it on and the button fell out. So we had to make sure it stayed charged well. That was until the battery switched off with full power. Such a Peese a kerap