You Were The CHOSEN One - Teracube

[@annfranksus1531]

These seems like the type of phone that would be bought in bulk, like a company buying affordable smartphones for all the staff.

[@thanhavictus]

Good burner phone

[@nslouka90]

Just like a local construction company or pluming that has a crew of employees, they buy those trucks in bulk and need phones too. This is perfect for them!

[@BunnyUsagiUwU]

then the staff throws it away because they can't get any work done on them

[@nslouka90]

@@BunnyUsagiUwU playing too much Words With Friends

[@reveninja1642]

and it is good for children, not old enough to whine about few dropped frames once in a while.

[@kajyakuzonik9130]

"... so we can get these out of the ocean" xD

[@xds21x9]

I hope fairphone and teracube make a higher-end phone (doesn't have to compete with today's flagship) with this concept. I'll totally hop in on it just for the replaceable battery and continued Android support. Sent from my LG V20

[@sebastianfruhwirth7231]

Man missing the days when everybody was swapping his s2 back covers in the school

[@tams805]

Look at this young 'un here. Nokia 3310 plates or nothing.

[@Kromiball]

@@tams805Motorola StarTAC batteries

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@tams805 Laughs in phone booth. We had phone cards back in the day.

[@SIPEROTH]

@@CakePrincessCelestia Phone cards with pretty designs.

[@NightMotorcyclist]

Boyan Slat needs more recognition as he has been creating ways to massively clean the oceans ever since he was 16.

[@lPlanetarizado]

so anthony is a man of culture, i see

[@bl4azeZ]

Just wanna mention for the Genshin test. No matter where you play the game it’s choppy on the loading screen. That shouldn’t be a indicator it’s slow.

[@tetristriumph9036]

But frankly speaking it's not going to run well on this phone. I tried it on my iPhone 6s and it can barely run on the lowest settings. The highest settings maxed out my new iPad mini.

[@SunnySzetoSz2000]

only iphone 13 can run genshin on 60fps, every thing in genshin is real time 3D but not pre-record video.

[@Aegor1998]

If I wasn't set on the pinephone pro this would be a lot more interesting.

[@karlkarlng]

If the pine phone had a better chip I would've bought it. Even at a 5-800 price point.

[@kyleburant2083]

@@karlkarlng have you seen the pinephone pro it has a pretty good chip in it compared to the original pinephone

[@oplkfdhgk]

Haha same :D

[@oplkfdhgk]

@@kyleburant2083 yeah the new chip is awesome!

[@tomoghnosen]

Pinephone Pro ... lets gooo

[@miharuUwU]

love that the dono counter went up by more than 20,000 during my watch time

[@kingcharming1]

The microphone sounded really good in my ears. Looks like a phone my dad would be ok with. He doesn't take pictures or video, plays games or watches videos, but would appreciate the possibility to do those things.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

6:30 the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage patch affects humans directly and indirectly; the microplastics that shard off the degrading pieces work their way into sea animals but also land animals via the water cycle and animal feed including humans. These microplastics can be large enough that they physically fill stomachs that prevent eating or small enough that they work their way through bodies and have a *hormonal* effect on humans.

[@asterixom7160]

Even the packaging is eco-friendly - takes peel of

[@floppa9415]

Why can't I have a sustainable phone with flagship specs. I am talking Snapdragon 888, 5G, GOOD camera. The specs on this one... bruh!

[@TheDesius]

I think most people that care so much about the planet are not very materialistic so they don't care about getting the best. And I think the average person doesn't buy a flagship phone, mostly just tech enthousiasts. So it's a more safe option to make a midrange phone

[@newolku]

Bruh when is snapdragon 999 coming out i want my power

[@jubuttib]

At a guess: If you want to make a phone with those specs, it'll cost a hefty bit. If you want to sell a phone at that kind of price, you need to be somewhat of an established brand. If you're an established brand, you don't give a shit about sustainability. Could be wrong tho.

[@eck0hcobra15]

After thinking about comment I am genuinely confused, what makes any phone sustainable?

[@josh77577]

@@TheDesius with this price point just having a phone that works okay for 200 dollars and lasts 4 years is a good selling point. Would be good for my grandpa or someone who doesnt care much about specs.

[@matthewhafner962]

11:00 I'm watching at 2x playback myself, so Crab rave came across at 4x to me, lol

[@damaliamarsi2006]

Gets phone, tests every feature except for making a phone call.

[@antonnym214]

Anthony, you are my hero, man. You are as smart as they come and NOBODY has more fun making a video than yourself, and you're good enough to bring us along. I LOVE the fact this thing has a replaceable battery. Freaking YEAH! Fantastic review. It is good to hear about products that DO instead of just promise. I think we both agree the phone is underpowered. But gosh it's a good step or two in the right direction.

[@SKIMER]

2:39 I can live with 4G, but a 720p screen in 2021? That's an instant pass

[@killertigergaming6762]

I don't get why it matters that 720p screen has better pixel density then most tvs.

[@yowhat3745]

@@killertigergaming6762 You don't use your phone holding it 6 feet away right? 720p is easily noticable on a 6 inch phone screen.

[@killertigergaming6762]

@@yowhat3745 not really i switched my phone screen to 720 and it looked fine

[@chlorobyte_projects]

720p will look more budget than 1080p, even if it doesn't become a pixelated mess. Going higher than 1080p, on the other hand...

[@yessikg]

I have a 720p tv and I have a Switch, I can do 720p on a tiny phone screen

[@kristian9268]

Really awesome that you contribute to #TeamSeas! Will you promote it on main channel too?

[@basictutorialsforeveryone4247]

Yeah they should do that to reach everyone

[@mehulkalra2002]

They uploaded a short

[@kylehagertybanana]

imagine wanting linus to make a mr beast ad

[@_nishantk_]

I have been so conditioned by LTT that when Anthony said, "But first"; I reflexively skipped 10 sec. I had to rewind back to listen

[@EdgyShooter]

Ah I remember that clicking sound of opening my phone, damn I miss it. I'd prefer easy battery replacement over cutting down 2mm thickness every day of the week

[@DDosAndDonts]

"Where is the charger?" proceeds to write several lines of things that are unrelated to the question

[@bencze465]

I like it that there are initiatives like this. We do need quite a bit more common sense in tech! But maybe something mid way between Apple and this. Something reasonable both performance and sustainability-wise. I don't mind some compromises, and we all have to work on our expectations, but this is a bit too extreme for me right now.

[@SIPEROTH]

Solution is make a good average spec phone with a removable back cover to change battery but without bothering with all this recycle plastic and paper bullshit that increase costs.

[@graealex]

No, because we can all feel wholesome for this phone existing, while everyone is still buying the phones they actually want, i.e. the ones where neither sustainability nor repairability plays any role. Because these companies have to make a product that's worse, in this case, no IP rating and bad HW specs, at a comparatively high price point, and that puts them at a disadvantage. Instead we need legislation that requires commitment to sustainability and repairability for all manufacturers.

[@NoID42069]

I love Anthony and everything he touches is gold.

[@Passionate_Potato]

I hope they do a new version within a few years. I'm hoping they learn from this phone and improve. I really want a phone with a removable battery even at the cost of little less performance.

[@sirius_b_13]

This video gave me old channel super fun vibes. Love it

[@massam9343]

When you realised anthony live nearby the ocean, "Anthony the Man of the Sea"

[@radio.skeleton]

I was hoping for an alternative to the Fairphone 4 for the US but it looks like I'll have to keep looking

[@RinVindor101]

As much as I love the idea of the teracube, I bought a OnePlus6 a month after release back in May of 2018 and I'm still using it. I'll have to replace it by February of 2022 only because my carrier pushed out a notification that I have to have a LTE voice compatible phone. If that wasn't the case, I'd honestly be using this phone for another 2 years which would put it at the 5 year marker.

[@DrewTNaylor]

I don't know the specs of the OnePlus 6, but it's possible that if you're using it unlocked on AT&T (sounds like your carrier is either them or an MVNO of theirs, because they said the same thing about my mom's Nokia 6 from 2017), it'll still work even after the 3G shutdown date. Obviously this should be taken with a grain of salt because I don't know everything, but you should be fine if VoLTE shows up in the status bar. I'd do research on this and have a contingency plan, though.

[@RinVindor101]

@@DrewTNaylor Yeah I've got a carrier called Cricket down here in the southern US that I use. I'm probably just going to upgrade anyway, its November and OnePlus is doing some sales and I'll just repurpose this phone as another camera for my D&D streams lol

[@3a.m.284]

It’s going to burn more fuel buying the charger separately and having it shipped, then it would to include both

[@KP3droflxp]

Most people won’t get one though. I have probably 4-5 working chargers laying around and I only use one.

[@Sir-Raids]

Battling e-waste by becoming e-waste

[@yescapenoes]

1 year warranty is a standard

[@some-one-else-r]

"Sorry, you can't donate in this country or region yet."

[@ilovefunnyamv2nd]

and that is what free proxies are for!

[@ravagingwolverine]

If you're coming down from higher-spec phones, then the hardware in this one may be disappointing and the idea of it being functional in a few years may seem delusional. I've been using my phone for three years, and it was a year old when I got it. It was also a super budget phone because I wanted a replaceable battery and that was the market segment to find it, which is funny because the phone is less disposable in its design than high-end phones. Going back to when my mom used the 2015 Moto G with the Snapdragon 410, I was surprised how good an experience that provided in general usage(browsing and video streaming). It was comparable to my SD800 at the time. I still find those old SD400-class chips usable, and the whole experience hasn't really slowed down in my observation all that much. I don't use my phone for heavy stuff like gaming. The newer chips in that class are much better too than the 28nm quad-core A53 chips that I'm still using. I could see myself being happy with the specs of this thing for years. The only issue I have with Teracube is that I heard there were software issues, though I should look again as I love seeing companies provide phones with replaceable batteries.

[@AlTheEngineer]

Yeah, this was a terrible review IMHO - all he did was game on a budget phone and tell us "oh well, it doesn't game", as if we didn't already know that! Talk about "the wrong audience" for a product. Jeez.

[@davidGA殿]

I'd love to have a phone that's like that but with premium specs. All of them are always average at best.

[@oplkfdhgk]

What do you consider as premium specs?

[@thefpsxpert]

It took me two years with a flagship to realize this, but is it really needed or worth the $1000 price tag every year? I mostly needed it for every day use but a lot of the flagship features I already use other tech for. - Gaming? Got a PC for that. - Drawing? Got a tablet for that. - VR? Got a headset for that. - Reddit/KZbin when bored on the go? Even mid tier phones can run that ok. Maybe I've just gotten old, but it no longer seems worth the high cost when almost all phones can run playing 1080 video as it is.

[@lalimalik6614]

@@thefpsxpert yeah every year a phone comes out with that price tag. But i buy it for 2-3 years. This one would be nice, but even the screen is just 720p and thats enough for most people to not buy it

[@killertigergaming6762]

The closest thing you can get to that is the fairphone 4

[@SnifferSock]

I just went from an A50 to an S20. The step up from a ~3 year old mid tier phone to a 1 year mid flagship is huge.

[@tangentarc7477]

Still running a Lumia 920, from 2012. No apps support it, it cannot be updated, but it still works. Runs 3D era GTA games sweet. Sustainable.

[@luisnavarro7061]

7:56 totally relatable and understandable explantion of vibration motors

[@level-8]

The world we live in where KZbinrs save the world instead of politicians

[@afallingtree9114]

10:22 no dont time-laps this part, I want "Politics with Anthony"

[@BrianJRichards]

I preordered one of these for their $99 intro price as a business phone. Business closed and I have it to my oldest, he loves it. Great phone for kid and if it does break I’m a lot less likely to freak out if he dropped an iPhone or high end galaxy.

[@nslouka90]

Kudos to Teracube for using a more recyclable box instead of a colored high gloss box covered in lots of graphics.

[@YTubechangeAccount]

Basically a 8 core version of my 4 core that I will still be using next year... this would be a significant upgrade for many people in 2022

[@DarkusObscurius]

I really LOVED this removable backplate and interchangable battery, i really miss that in the "modern" smartphones.

[@AirRifleReport]

"The less fuel is burnt when transporting the phone", nope! If you run a phone from 3-5 years ago and are upgrading, you WILL likely need a changer so these companies are shifting carbon expenditure to us, the consumers. People will likely order online and have yet another Amazon van deliver a charger, doubling the carbon footprint for this product

[@brianzmek7272]

I can go to duzions of places 8n my home town and just buy a charger and cable that was efficiently mass shipped with a dozen near identical ones and if you order the charger at the same time they are likely to ship together. Also I already own a dozen chargers

[@Ascendance2001]

"Rule 34!" -Anthony

[@xorkatoss]

4:50 "It's Big and Green" yep that's what Black Widow said...

[@Horizontalvertigo]

Seems solid enough for a burner phone you take on holiday and won't feel bad about it getting stolen/lost

[@平和-v1z]

Love teracube, I heard they plan to release a higher end 5.8 inch OLED device with no Notch/Punch hole etc. and an under display fingerprint scanner. If that's true, I'll be so tempted.

[@TheGinGear]

Why do people like under display fingerprint scanners? That's literally a reason for me not to buy it; they're objectively worse as a fingerprint scanner; they just look cool

[@平和-v1z]

@@TheGinGearI have to disagree, UD fingerprint scanners with ultrasonic technology, like on Samsung Galaxy devices are very reliable and allow unlocking your device if it's on a flat surface like a table. They also allow for a case with fewer cutouts, which prevents the build up of debris etc.

[@平和-v1z]

@@creepysmilingcarl9742 How do you use your phone? Most likely with your thumb. It does not require any kind of gymnastics.

[@chlorobyte_projects]

@@平和-v1z You can also have a standard fingerprint scanner without an additional hole. My phone (realme X3 superzoom) has it on the power button.

[@平和-v1z]

@@chlorobyte_projects Unfortunately, this would require a cutout on the side of the case. The fingerprint scanner cannot scan trough the case.

[@nikkigrace5288]

Just a heads up that genshin intro is often times harder to render than the game itself, I get a solid 15-20 fps better performance when in game compared to the intro

[@snsayy]

4:02 People will still have to buy new chargers or cables if they come from a different device or sell there old device, it would actually increase fuel consumption and waste, if they buy a charger from amazon for example, more packaging probably twice as much will be used, most people would sell there old phone with the charger or if they don't the person buying the second hand phone would need to buy a new charger (most apple cables disintegrate after a few years/months so you would still need to buy a new cable if you are changing from iphone to a newer iphone, if you haven't already bought a cable)

[@kingdarius2554]

Anthony fearing the thought of replicating Linus's mistakes, mockingly throws the phone with both hands on the box.

[@bossssssist]

why is the filling with Andy always so good