I bought an Unbranded Rugged Android Phone for $25...how well does it run in 2022?

[@SMOOREZ]

(Small error in the teardown when cropping the video & price error in specs at end - my bad) Hey there, welcome back to another video! This is just one on a $25 phone I got from Cash Converters - is it any good? Well you folks let me know how it went down below. Also if you have any ideas for another iWish episode and if you want to see that Hummer phone I have - feel free to also let me know. Next video should be taking a look at a game console, it will be a bit of a messy video but I'll do my best. Thanks for tuning in and I'll see you in the next one! TIMESTAMPS: Intro & Disclaimers: 0:00 The Advertising & Specifications: 0:58 Identity Crisis & Buyer Questions: 3:56 The Device & Cost: 5:05 Around the thing: 6:51 Power On, Buttons & Display Quality: 9:46 3G Call Quality & Shortcuts: 11:05 Installed Applications & Wallpapers: 12:20 Settings - NFC, Audio, Display, Storage & Battery: 13:26 List of Applications in Settings & more in settings: 14:50 About Phone, WiFi, System Updates & Random Widget: 16:00 Browser Test: 17:27 KZbin Test: 18:47 Calculator, Calendar, Call For Help & Camera: 20:14 Camera Test: 22:05 Camera Results, some Apps & FM Radio: 26:36 Speaker Test & more Apps: 27:56 Outdoor Tools & The Greatest Warning Message Ever: 29:05 The rest of the Apps & Mini Conclusion: 30:53 Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 31:54 Double Checking the Specifications: 33:30 Secret Codes & Performance so far: 35:31 Durability Test - Drowning it (also the reset button): 37:54 Durability Test - Piff & Yeet: 40:22 Durability Results & Teardown: 42:32 Does it still work & Accurate Specs: 48:24 Just a fairly rambly Outro: 49:36 CPU & System Apps are in the description above, as well as the extracted files from the phone! Be good people!

[@marijovojak6158]

Fine, just fine... 😉

[@zuquelyt3273]

Yes just like my old Nokia....😅🖐️

[@Kinsky_isbored]

Like my old vivo lag as hell

[@airman14_lefans]

Like the $2 smartphone that you reviewed earlier

[@bick_tore]

Im guessing it will have a mt6580

[@kajetanscholz1991]

I actually had this phone as my first real smartphone. Was distributed at a Land Rover Advertisement campaign, so I got it for free. Decent everyday phone, served me well for many years. Definitely sparked my love for rugged smartphones.

[@Nurse_Xochitl]

woah that's a killer giveaway!

[@JessicaFEREM]

I mean for a free phone, that's pretty darn good

[@ninjoun]

I used to have a similiar phone 8 years ago. Bought it for almost 170$. It survived literally every drop over the years. I was even throwing it high into the air to see if it survives. It always did. What ended up breaking it was me taking it for a trip on an iceberg, cold cracking the speaker, and me being unable to find a replacement. Also 1GB of internal storage was bad even for when it came out. Couldn't even play heartstone on it lol.

[@Ferrari255GTO]

Heartstone is't a lightweight game for android, GTA SA is unironically lighter to run.

[@daco111]

It has 8GB

[@LatvianVideo]

"You don't have fingerprint, you don't have *voice unlock*, you don't have anything like that." "It's just the usual options: slide, *voice unlock*, pattern, pin password." Schrödinger's voice unlock

[@daddynash6229]

Glad I’m not the only one that noticed that 😂😂

[@Ferrari255GTO]

If using voice unlock i can't make my phone react exclusively to "unlock you piece of shit" i am not interested on it.

[@MWTD]

@@Ferrari255GTO lol

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

For $25, if it turns on, makes calls and connects to the internet, it's probably a pretty good deal.

[@WillOnSomething]

Yeah. Especially for the target demographic they seem to be going after

[@Villager_U]

just buy a secondhand old redmi or google nexus phone,much better value than unbranded device

[@one_step_sideways]

Great burner phone, as it's also rugged and waterproof. If it can be flashed to Android 5 or 6, that would be great for usability

[@roboteen]

@@Villager_U neither of those are rugged and waterproof for $25

[@lower2688]

Yea but lemon good

[@VolivovejVolej]

I’ve checked the ringtones (as usual)… and yeah, they’re all standard Android sounds. Nothing extra, unusual or stolen there. This phone seems to be a legit thing - at least when it comes to the ringtones. 😊 Thanks for the video; lovely as usual!

[@MissFoxification]

It's the "H2O SUBMERSIBLE A1", also known as the "Titan smartphone".

[@Waffles_Fox]

The UI is similar to my Cherry mobile Titan TV

[@Poodleinacan]

At least one person here knows what it is!

[@smasnuga15]

But the model number is A8 then how is it A1?

[@tylern6420]

that aged poorly 💀

[@MissFoxification]

@@tylern6420 Omg oh wow.. yeah... aged as well as milk in summer.

[@catsnotcops_]

man seeing android 4 i remember how cool it was back then when i flashed it to my older device and finally had android 4. that was awesome! brings back good memories :)

[@gjclark2478]

As a land rover owner, these were common in land rover mags. They were available in carphone warehouse and phones 4u if I remember correctly. These were used by construction companies around 2010. You could also get a jet lighter ( I bought one) exactly the same shape but about 1/8 the size ! These were expensive for an Android when most folks were buying early iPhones. Fun fact, I got an armoured case for my iPhone 6 about 8years ago exactly the same as this and it was built proof well almost 😎👍

[@blwh]

I thank you a lot for making phones reviews. Thanks to your videos when one my aunts asked me to see why the used phone she had bought was so slow and had filled up, just by looking at it i was able to tell it was fake, i double checked it with the hardware checkup app and it had 4gb of internal storage and was running android 5.0.

[@charleshines1553]

If that is a Welcome phone, it would be the first time I ever saw one with its true specs advertised. Sometimes they even mask the real specs of the device with hacked apps and other tricks. You will see one with the camera app saying 64 or 108 MP but it is really a 5 MP fixed focus camera that couldn't take a good photo no matter now much you try! They are just RUBBISH!

[@jindrasmutny4181]

41:17 From this point you know that this is truly the only opponent to Nokia 3310

[@godeater168]

Hey its been a long time since I watch your vids.. Glad to see you again because of your content reviewing random /offbrand phone that sometimes underrated..

[@crashhdnb]

I remember I once bought a rugged smartphone for my dad from Aliexpress. the name of the device was Suppu F6. But it came branded as Jeep F6. It cost me 117€. Even the spare parts could've been searched by the Jeep name.No idea if it had anything to do with the car company. sadly I dont think I have the phone anymore.

[@friednly-XcQ]

10:00 was an unbeatable reference. Bravo.

[@argonautsuk]

Howdy from Manchester. I am a fan of your channel. You're videos are brilliant. There was a phone called caterpillar CAT another industrial device

[@mackjeez]

This is not a welcome or wish device. This phone was one of the first MIL-STD-810G compliant (combat ready) and IP68 certified phones available. It was commissioned by for the military and police in China but also sold to the consumer market online. It was first manufactured and released in 2014 with production stopping in 2016. Because it's popularity a updated version of the phone was released in 2017 under the branding AGM (A8)

[@Jdbye]

This wouldn't survive very long submerged. I'll grant that it's water resistant, but it's never had its IP rating verified, and they didn't do a good enough job if there's already water on the battery after only a few minutes. Give that water enough time and even without more water getting in, it could make its way to sensitive electronics and corrode everything.

[@acumenium8157]

No electronic is really waterproof though. The "waterproof" rating on your iPhone/Samsung is useless since it still has creases and holes (USB port/etc.) that water WILL get into and damage the entire insides with.

[@rodh1404]

It's around 5 years old, so maybe those seals aren't in mint condition anymore.

[@kajetanscholz1991]

Actually had this phone. Was submerged in salt water for two days when it slipped out of my pocket while fishing. No water damage, had it for three more years after that.

[@So1]

@@acumenium8157 why can we have well pretty much waterproof cameras, (like gopro) but not phones?

[@zigzag8111]

My brother had one of these he was a roofer and he also worked at Land Rover. He only used it for work, he had dropped a few expensive phone from roofs and so used this phone …..he absolutely loved this phone.

[@O2chevsky]

Oh. I had this phone in my repair shop once. It was branded up to our local tech store giant, DNS. Wasnt able and honestly didnt want to waste my time on it, so the fixing went unsuccessful.

[@sevenbender7927]

I think this is my first comment on any of your videos, and I just wanted to say. I love your style; the composition, the content, the delivery. I rarely ever use the timestamps and find myself petrified in front of the screen through the duration of most of them. All this while I myself will admit to having a very limited attention span for such things. Just wanted to take the opportunity to say, keep up the great work! I had a similar phone for just about exactly 2 years, from 2016 to 2018. It was a kyocera brigadier. Very similar specs, with slight differences in design and built-in themes for android. I had to give it up to a buddy of mine because the charging port eventually became loose and I could not fix it myself at that stage (my ability to repair mobile devices was still in its infancy). Some time later (let's say 3 years), I looked up the model of phone - just for shits and giggles - only to discover that model had actually been manufactured some time in 2014. At the end of its usable life, my champ of a phone was nearly 4 years old and could probably have easily been serviced had I had the requisite skill to do so. Bottom line, I wonder whether or not one phone was based on the other. It seems logical to imagine so

[@converse_inverse_reverse]

Why did I watch this in full, sitting on the couch? Nice vid man

[@AndyMarsh]

Bought a Land Rover branded one of these for my son while he was at agricultural college.... lasted the course very well.

[@iDominate]

Yoooo! The VGG Derek plug just gained you a subscriber! 🤣

[@woolfy02]

I just subbed but wanted to say thanks for posting the files from the phone. Gives me something to look at

[@jt3000o]

9:57 nice vice grip garage reference

[@Odkurzacz69]

9:36 that sticker is on every European product even my iPhone

[@johnl3230]

I see you watch Vice Grip Garage lol? Great video man

[@bryancoolguy188]

Always great to see a new upload!

[@notanaudiophile6763]

Ohhhhh you bought it at cashies, mate. Where yooooou can find your dreams. They’ve got wears and chairs, a bog downstairs and out of date movieeees.

[@zimbu_]

There have been several Land Rover branded rugged phones over the years, maybe a factory decided to keep making the phone as a bootleg when the contract ran out or something.

[@azielaugust8349]

45:25 "that's what she said" 🤣🤣

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

boi this was a thicc one, a "good" phone afterall. and they even said the real specs so 7/10 for me. and the camera is stll better than a welcome phone, way better lol. for a cheap price it will do just fine.

[@Forzamon42069]

The Welcome Phone is like Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, being better than it is not a standard

[@DeLaVeGaGR]

I have imported lots of these phones for my friends, they were sold as Hummer something, still working to this day, btw if you find a Lenovo A660 grab it, it was a VFM waterproof phone

[@technicboy5917]

SMOOREZ is the DankPods equivalent for tech😂

[@sivalley]

SMOOORES has Ripley, DankPods has Frank. Both good pets

[@MrMagnat007]

I Think I remember that you said that 8500mah was the largest battery you were likely to see in a phone... I just saw a Aliexpress rugged phone that advertised 21000mah...

[@someoneyouneverknow7529]

Indeed, it's Oukitel WP9

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

Holy shit, that's almost three times as much as my Tab S6 Lite they're advertising

[@nunoduarte6210]

the record mic its actualy very good, that can beat flagship phones with that mic

[@uweinhamburg]

NFC and a proper earphone socket! That alone is worth more than 25$

[@vadnegru]

About drop tests... My phone were dropped on concrete and asphalt and was ok. But after i changed battery and forgot to scrape old glue, screen started to pop out from frame and when it got dropped on a carpet from a pocket it's screen started to loose colours, next day it had bunch of blue pixel and then those went black. I use teamwiever now to do some server stuff and use it as lil NAS.

[@vadnegru]

@Gomam0n i tried to use it like that but no luck. Maybe if i make some ac adapter from my old battery it would work fine, but there are non zero change to burn it. I let it discharge sometimes and overall have access to battery. I ran cheap bt headphone board from usb power instead of died battery and it worked but phone is more complicated.

[@FinalBossOfCanada]

“You don’t have fingerprint, you don’t have *VOICE UNLOCK* , you don’t have anything like that, so just the usual options, slide, *VOICE UNLOCK* , pattern, pin, password, so nothing that’d we’d need to test within here.”

[@larvey]

I have this weird feeling in the UK these were used by courier companies to scan parcels.

[@hmklegend2791]

4:57 When English is the seller's second language😂

[@lnmr]

My thoughts about this device before watching: Another *WELCOME* device, Android 4.2/3 ig based on UI icons, probably 1Gigs of RAM and Mali 400 MP as every old and cheap phones have this + ~1.3 & 0.3Mpx camera sensors, it should run Crazy Taxi and GTA III just ok and barely Minecraft Demo Will survive durability test and SMOOREZ teardown 😅

[@uhm175]

Minecraft can run on older devices than this actually, because all that game has are just square pixels graphics, this phone should run it just fine

[@gadgetmadlad6691]

Finally a video that shows how to sync a phone with a cat. Lol

[@JordanManfrey]

The best thing to do with the cheesy beauty modes in cheapo phones is when the built-in camera or photos app lets you apply it to any photo - you save the beauty mode version and then run it through the filter again, and again, until it looks like a crappy clickbait youtube thumbnail

[@erick-gd7wo]

if only the peoples don't concern of how thin the smartphone should be, this device will be build more by branded OEMs. I wouldn't mind use this if it had 5G

[@erick-gd7wo]

@Mr Pais here in my country, 4G has been introduced around 2014 - 2015 and at the moment all phones are 4G and as well our network provider. The need of 5G is to ensure I can use the phone beyond 4G.... for longevity

[@erick-gd7wo]

@Mr Pais oh I see. Here, we have been using 4G since 2015 when the coverage area became 70%. Right now, I can say 90% of all area are covered with 4G network with various signal strength and Android phones even at budget price DO have 4G. Funny thing is that when the network goes down to 3G, everything related to internet suddenly stop.

[@erick-gd7wo]

@Mr Pais owh we have that too.... 4G taste like 3G. We often joke it takes 6G for better 5G.... 😊

[@mohamadamirul3060]

@Mr Pais Nice, but my country shut down 3g network so yeah

[@alexanderalexandrou]

Lenovo had a proper IP68 submersible phone running Android 4 ages ago, the A660. Slow dual core, buf it worked as advertised. Maybe you can find one.

[@SamoyedSagas]

Cashies has some awesome stuff. What a great phone.

[@encelade8616]

"i got it at cashies mate"

[@FirstWizardZorander]

26:06 Mate, you're in the Jell-O factory!

[@builder_dahomey]

That boot up music in the end of the fall test sounds like victory music.

[@MrManniG]

Well i can tell you precisely what these stab wounds at 7:19 are: these are the scratches left when opening beer bottles with a plastic phone (or almost any other object) How do I know? I've grown up im germany and for most of the time i had plastic phone most of which where sooner or later used to open beer bottles.

[@the_mariocrafter]

I support your efforts on putting the stuff of the phone online. However, can you do this to the older videos?

[@SMOOREZ]

If you check the welcome firmware folder that's linked in the description, that will take you to all the firmwares ripped from previous devices I have looked at like the first Wish phone I reviewed. It's just that they aren't linked to the original videos but yeah it's all in that folder for you to go through :)

[@the_mariocrafter]

@@SMOOREZ I’m glad you preserve the files. Most KZbinrs don’t give a grain of sand about preservation. Salute your efforts.

[@LilacDude]

I watched this video last night and today a customer came in with that same kind of phone!

[@madasxyz]

Gotta love a good cashies video

[@WolfClan91]

All those ringtones are always on American brand Blu. Those are old ringtones that pop up on newer Blu phones. Maybe you should take a look at them sometime.

[@sahriarjihan220]

The Ui and inside stuff just look alike Lenovo A916

[@mihaillevarda9395]

you can test on old phones swing frog. swing frog requires at least android 2.1

[@thecarrieshot6411]

Video gave me a song I enjoyed. It is interesting to see what the phone can do

[@Matyas_Ceo_Of_Matyas]

Even after all these years, my m8 is rocking those bandages

[@raphaelgamer9818]

These are some names of some games I recommend to play on Android 2.3.x to Android 4.4.x. asphalt 6 adrenaline, asphalt 8 (old version), hero of Sparta hd, modern combat sandstorm and assassin's Creed brotherhood.

[@JordanManfrey]

I'll add Max Payne, the Wii-era NBA Jam reboot, and the "My Boy" GBA emulator which has Gyroscope support (Wario Ware Twisted plays great on phones). All of those ran on my old Xperia Play

[@1dollarHat]

Niceee Vice Grip Garage is gold

[@jonathanfranklinmiller3334]

Wait was that Derek form vice grip garage 😂😂 my man use one of my favorite KZbinrs

[@Kitfox942]

I love the Vice Grip Garage reference

[@PaidInBoredom]

Did you rescue any golf clubs while at cashies?

[@adamhenry6793]

Of course we want to exists. How else would we be able to see more Welcome devices?

[@iiNekoMattyii]

i feel blessed to have had a galaxy s4 back then but honestly for its time that phone really isnt bad i was expecting much worse clicking on this video

[@SIPEROTH]

I have a Xiaomi Mi Max 2 from 2017. Is still amazingly decent to use without much compromises.

[@pinacmediauk7453]

I'm a construction worker it's very ideal for builders and stuff to be honest a lot of builders do have those kind of phones you can imagine why

[@maxxbbie69]

Btw in 1-2nd class I had my dad's old sigma branded phone (real lmao) and it looks almost the same but the battery got a kid

[@crytocc]

The design seems to be *almost* identical to the Alps A9, though with a different button section. Everything else seems to be the same, with similar or identical specs.

[@noklapanxd]

(2.2 to 4.2- minecraft 1.10, terraria, bad pigges and geometry dash) (geometry dash can be a lag game)

[@derekis1joedirt]

Emergency sos usually wants a triple tap on the camera button.

[@themasterofanalyticsandwie1342]

well for the i wish series i have an idea. there are many cheap 25 bucks Kai os Phones. these are like to Keyboard phones but due to Kai os it has all the internet and media features. and if that might be too good for i wish I might day that small "spy" or retro film cameras would be a great look at it

[@acumenium8157]

It's actually a good phone. I did not expect that at all.

[@Menace2DaComments]

I know that Toyota's brand Scion had a car branded device, but I got my car used and I don't have the device. I know in Aussieland the car was called a Toyota Rukus.

[@AlessandroCD7]

I love how Derek eventually appears in your videos :D #itsfine #probablynot #factory

[@jashelps]

Oh I remember selling these under the cat brand for like 300€ back in 2013-2016

[@pinacmediauk7453]

I'm pretty sure CAT and JCB do some phone and I'm not sure if I've seen a DeWalt one knocking about I'm sure I've seen a Makita one as well mate

[@akshaykumar-pl8xz]

Did I just read the thumbnail right ? "Out perform a lemon" 😂🤣

[@SMOOREZ]

Don't underestimate the power of a lemon.

[@fmnrbmbg9736]

9:59 DEREK DETECTED

[@ŽaliaUgnis]

A what?

[@u_n_c_l_e_m_i_s_o]

I was so excited to see him lol

[@1dollarHat]

@@u_n_c_l_e_m_i_s_o good Ole vgg

[@AsenIkonomov]

Great video!

[@snowyroo6907]

smoorez: it doesnt have voice unlock. brick boi: *has voice unlock*

[@darielbetancourt3493]

i haven't seen the morbius movie but 2 references to my country (costa rica) surprised me lmao

[@Poodleinacan]

Yeah, morb about it.

[@69uremum]

Those scratches on the phone look like they are from someone opening beer bottle caps :)

[@monarchofrymden]

gotta love a good cashies find

[@HardWhereHero]

can you find a cheap snapdragon phone and provide a link for it?

[@iSamYTBackup]

2g here in romania works untill 2025 and 3g untill 2028

[@jamescatlover123]

Love your cat

[@Realplayman17]

i think this is the discovery v9 and there are multiple designs with the the same specs and names

[@CrispyGamingGx43Hfd9Lt4Hi24AS]

Nokia: *Finally! A worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!*

[@ukeyaoitrash2618]

Other fun games that might be good for testing on devices with this android version might be GTA vice city and san andreas, max payne, asphalt 8, dead trigger 2, modern combat 4. :)

[@uerkccgs188]

surprisingly poco f3 cant even run a8 at 30fps if u watch beast ghost better test a9 if android 10 at max settings

[@fatblokes_ferguson]

I have a very similar phablet which has half decent build quality but it Runs android 4.2 so not much good for use now.

[@Prowindows62]

This phone looks like a old ZTE Android devices.

[@vadnegru]

Just clean Android

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Yes, but can it outperform a potato?

[@liquidalloy]

Maybe the catepillar cell phone rugged cell phone is what it may resemble

[@tdata545]

I feel like, if memory serves me correct, in 2016 those were pretty bad specs. BUT AGAIN, budget phone and if you're in construction, you don't need silly specs since all you're probably doing is some FB, spotify, and SMS. JUST THE ABSOLUTE BASICS.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

No they were not. They were usual budget phone specs, some even had 512 MB RAM and 4GB storage. For a $150 it was decent offer.

[@vadnegru]

My first phone i bought for nearly 100$ had 512MB memory and 4 or 8 internal. Same menu, i even ported Lollipop on it, but it was buggy. Sometimes instead of front camera it was showing upside down back one. And also camera was like in purple/green filter (bad lens?) Name was KENEKSI Rock.

[@uhm175]

Lite apps do exist, so those can be run too @gomam0n702

[@markellii3093]

49:16 confused me. The phone was one and the battery was out

[@Gabriel87100]

"WARNING Do you want to exists?" The question every unbranded device made in China asks itself. :D

[@qwertyuiop711]

riplys eyes there GLOWING riply is both alpha and omega points if you get that refrence

[@JonnyInfinite]

Extreme beauty mode 👀

[@jojojojo4332]

This looks like a good device for a industrial employee