The $65 H-MOBILE DJ1000 is a Feature Phone with Built In LED Strips...and also a few surprises!

[@SMOOREZ]

*Yes I realized I missed that there is actually Nitro in Nitro Racing :| and I'm sorry about the POP Sound on each keypress!* THE BIG SPERKER WAS HERE FIRST! I saved the best for last and unfortunately destroyed it :( I really did enjoy looking at this and I hope you folks enjoy this video. Thank you to those who picked this and donated to see this on the channel. If we want to go for a round three to look at stuff in the new year then I'm up for it. Let me know what you thought of this down below and if I should order another one? Take care and I'll see you in the next one! TIMESTAMPS: Introduction, Thank You! & Timestamp Reminder: 0:00 The Listing: 0:46 Unboxing: 3:13 Around the Phone: 5:52 Power On, Buttons & Display: 8:19 Menu & Testing the Torches: 9:36 THE DISCO LIGHTS & Music Player: 11:24 Speaker Test: 13:55 A Hidden Gem, Sound Recorder & Hidden Shortcuts: 15:45 Messages, Keypad, 4K Video Test & Files: 17:35 The Camera: 19:08 Camera Test: 20:07 Camera Quality & Settings: 22:37 Browser, FM Radio & Headphones: 23:55 Bluetooth & MAGIC VOICE FUN: 25:25 Ringtones & Powerbank Test: 28:11 Alarm, Calculator, Calendar & Tools: 29:39 Text To Speech with the Phone Dialer: 30:49 First Lot of Games: 32:14 The "JAVA" Games: 36:14 The Very Rambly Conclusion: 41:07 The Teardown that doesn't end well: 43:56 It's dead and why it's dead: 47:52 Full Specs, Final Thoughts & Thank You To Folks: 49:06 Rambling with exposed thumbs OH NO: 50:24 Outro & Bonus: 51:10 Be good people! ====================

[@s6edge7]

my iphone 2g can record video better than that potat

[@Joe-ko2kc]

The pop sounds are still featured on some modern nokias!

[@rustymixer2886]

Buy a new one, and sure us more...hey just think as first one as extra parts and 2nd battery

[@dylanlindsay1993]

that actually made me sad too when you killed it by accident.... that phone was super cool... u should definatly buy another one if u can! just dont do a teardown

[@chookwangzhee1889]

Nitro racing, ninja up and airstrike are also present in recent Nokia feature phones like the 225 4g and 8210 4g.

[@dahlt27]

R.I.P. H-MOBILE DJ1000 I am glad we got to have some quality time together.

[@RSP04]

Meanwhile: kzbin.info/www/bejne/onSucqF9nLKGkMksi=03axUCnl31ejGStH&t=3183

[@MrGamerholic]

That phone made some very nice digital oil paintings!

[@awdrifter3394]

If they actually put KaiOS on this phone and give it 4G support, it would be a pretty cool feature phone.

[@leothefox9524]

If that would happen, I’d probably buy this myself.

[@mal0gen]

KaiOS was never that good. I can buy a used Xiaomi Mi A1 for 50 euro in Portugal right now and be much better served.

[@healspringy6300]

@@mal0gen well KaiOS was for feature phone and you compare it to a smartphone, pretty outtracked I might say

[@sargera1]

if they even put some decent like Iris phone on this one this is a steal esp the music /led strip

[@sargera1]

​@@mal0gencheapest aptx enabled old xoaomi lol

[@JoCaTen]

that welcome screen, truly dankpods energy. i love it

[@yeppiiprods]

aka the underrated dankpods lol

[@AmirRazan]

​@@yeppiiprods Aussie knockoff tech reviewers.

[@yeppiiprods]

@@AmirRazan haha accurate description

[@LoveHeartGonzy]

I actually bought one of these after watching this video and oh goodness...I'm so glad I did xD I love how I could basically use it as a bluetooth speaker for my main phone if I wanted to...and GOOD LORD IT'S LOUDER THAN I THOUGHT. It didn't sound too loud in your video, so I thought nothing of it, but then when I got mine...oh god, even at 1 volume it's still pretty loud. The flash light is very useful, same with the power brick feature. Well worth the money, in my opinion.~ (35ish dollars USD for me.~) I'm probably also gonna end up buying that cheap smartphone you reviewed in a later video too because that one looks like a nice novelty to me.~

[@johnperalta9415]

I remember those chinese phones. I had one way back 2013. It would play gangnam style whenever i turn it on. And it comes with a light show😆

[@namesurname4666]

did you put gangnam style or it was already there? is there a photo of it online?

[@johnperalta9415]

@@namesurname4666 hell no! It was like that when i bought it. I can't change it, i can't turn it off.

[@namesurname4666]

@@johnperalta9415 you can turn it off only by using silent mode or check if it's in the settings (or long press *)

[@marlon.8051]

@@namesurname4666 why would you want to turn off gangnam style its awesome

[@namesurname4666]

@@marlon.8051 i know, one day i used "psy - gentleman" as a notification and it would play the whole song every time 😂

[@gilgammesh1]

I miss old phones, they always tried to do something new.

[@ShaelRiley]

Best boot-up screen ever.

[@RSP04]

The Smoorez's welcome screen one? 🤣

[@snakeplissken1754]

It´s a bit of a shame that phones like this aren´t ever upgraded to 4g/5g. Always been a fan of the old flipphone razer v3 but aside of the lack of smartphone abilities it´s just a matter of time till it becomes even unusable for phonecalls.

[@ericpode6095]

They made a 3g version of the Razor flip phone (V3xx I think). I agree they should make "candy bar" phones in 4/5g, some people only want a mobile phone!

[@snakeplissken1754]

@@ericpode6095 They disabled 3g in my country last year so that would be off no use. The thing is i do have 2 phones, one i have with me at work, and one private one. The private one is used for surfing, browsing, watching videos on my way and stuff but the work phone is only required to be available for calls/call someone. A new razr v3 remake with an improved battery and 4g would be perfect. The only options you have in that regard are senior phones.

[@ericpode6095]

At the moment (as far as I know) in UK they still supports 2g through to 5g. I know that may be changing soon but they are not advertising the changes & it might depend on the provider.

[@jrchannel7405]

they just need to put wifi on the thing, it would sell like hotcakes

[@gerboog]

Have you checked out the new Motorola RAZR foldable phone? Might be worth looking at. I like it better than Samsung s fold approach.

[@ronsonwagner9401]

The water sounds when pressing the buttons remind me of Samsung's TouchWiz Nature UX. I had a 4g Galaxy S3 that made those sounds.

[@namesurname4666]

my mediatek phone from 2014 has them too (same ones in this video), they are different from the samsung ones though

[@itsAlzatron]

Looks like it takes 'inspiration' from multiple Sony Ericsson phones including the W995 and the W810 or even some of the standalone Vodafone models. Very nostalgic looking back at the SE line-up.

[@tocaamerillo431]

yeah SE feature phones were awesome, especially when you could patch the firmware and make it run apps written in C/C++ instead of just java, it allowed stuff like emulators, doom ports etc.

[@mistersimple1986]

@@tocaamerillo431 my c902 cybershot is still working

[@tocaamerillo431]

@@mistersimple1986 yeah I've got a k300i, w200i, k550i and a w890i all still working, well aside from the batteries in them which either don't work or hold very little charge.

[@mistersimple1986]

@@tocaamerillo431 the battery in mine is holding up around 5 days without usage 🤔 thats very impressive if you think about how old it is. I'll stick with Sony phones as long as possible.

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

This videos has many things i like: silly boot animations, a phone which makes a nice rave techno party, a bright flashlight, a heavily blurred pixel-art ripley picture (you could sell them as painting in art gallery), a teradown which ended in catastrophic failure

[@fjvnsphones2024]

17:10 H Mobile DJ1000 2ND EDITION😂😂😂 17:14 Laughs

[@paolo11x11]

If this worked on our network I would totally buy one to replace my ailing galaxy s10e. Those LED lights on the sides are the best feature on a phone I have ever seen, and the colour is pretty sweet, too.

[@arubberroomwithrats]

You would replace ur s10e with that 😭😭😭

[@paolo11x11]

@@arubberroomwithrats Sure would, Lee. Did you see those awesome LEDs? I don't see disco lights on any Samsung offering in recent years - they're clearly out of touch with market trends. People want small screens, plastic construction, giant speakers, slow processors, lots of flashing RGB, and a thicc build. Damn, I'm getting excited just thinking about it.

[@namesurname4666]

@@paolo11x11 add mechanical keyboard and becomes a "gaming" phone

[@CarlosHenrique-fb3hj]

If you want a cell phone with lots of party leds you could try the Nothing Phone

[@jasonchristopher2977]

@@paolo11x11 We talking fines or ladies? lmfao

[@elvinhaak]

And: next step in soldering: solder bodge-wires on that motherboard. It takes some time and you can use one of your other phones+camera's as a kind of display. And then carefully solder the small wires on it.

[@TechBaffle]

2:34 The iPhone style camera on the back 😂😂

[@VielTheBoyGH6397]

R.I.P H-mobile DJ1000 3:38-48:01

[@PaulFisher]

The loop of music on the driving game sounds like the first two bars of a banger that never comes

[@Thetechnolady007]

circus is such a hard game bro

[@radicalraccoon]

My favorite "dumb phone" was the Sony Ericsson Walkman slider phone (W580i). It was also my first cell phone. I remember flashing mine with a lot of really neat themes, games, apps, etc. Honestly, if there were a modern equivalent to those devices I would buy one and use it. Lol.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Gotta say the camera really delivers an absolutely abysmal underwhelming picture and the software filter really makes everything look like AI-Generated or like a painting rather than a photo. And yet.... it kinda has a cool style to it.

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

this was really interesting, i loved the led and the torch and as a bonus you can use it as a powerbank! it's sad too see it dead tho. i just have to say, those nes games hit me hard in my heart, i used to play almost all of them (mostly pooyan) back when i was a happy child.... man i miss those days.

[@danielivanov930]

Yea,same .Played all of them exept for like 2 .Remember laughing when you fell off from the motorcycle game for the first time 🤣

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

@@danielivanov930 i love that game! the silly sounds and the way you fell lol. i emulate it on my psp, i still love to play with it

[@ossumopossum]

05:23 'aaaaw yeah!!! Lok at this nugget!!'

[@MrMagnat007]

If this was a 4G capable phone, it would be my Daily !

[@UserUser-ww2nj]

"Big sperker " 😂😂😂

[@jjryan1352]

The circle buttons remind me of my old Sony Ericsson

[@TerminalPneuma]

That welcome intro 😂

[@theeveshamgamer]

Best review of anything in 2022. Santa is coming down my chimney with one of these bad boys. Talk about a show stopper! 👍🏻🤣 Great review smoorez 👍🏻

[@tanishqhooda]

The game at 36:17, as soon the music started my ears rang and i had such a nostalgic moment

[@AdLast]

USB-A connection…..I’m sold Edit: the dude talking in the background whilst recording 1 makes this even better.

[@Unjustified_Bot]

Reminds me of an E398 and S.E. Phone combined.

[@JayTheComputerGuy]

9:45 the browser icon is Internet Explorer!! XD

[@HarryToeface]

That's so hilarious. The part where the woman was saying the numbers and the person talking in the background. I got paid to do this exact thing about a year ago and I'm surprised they allowed those sounds. Because when I did it, there had to be absolutely no background noises and it was super sensitive. The recording software wouldn't accept the recordings unless it was crystal clear.

[@gregorystephens9947]

I loved this video so much that I ordered a black dj1000, and I can't wait until it arrives. I was on AliExpress, and saw a very interesting rugged phone, called: AGM H5 Pro global 8+12G rugged smartphone MTK G85,6.5"48 MP Camera night vision Waterproof phone, and I would like to ask you to please review this phone. Thank you

[@cptcrogge]

This would have been an amazing piece of tech, 20 years ago.

[@greyshadow9498]

The RGB is great, reminds me of the early 2000's and our flashing antennas! The "Welcome" startup screen is awesome! 🤣 Side note: the Bethesda/Mick Gordon situation is getting ugly 😕

[@elvinhaak]

I like it. Would be great to take with you to some festivals in countries that still have 2G just to call in emergencies and to have a nice big powerbank that you can charge on those charge-poles that lets you charge phones but not powerbanks for some reasons... and loud enough to play some music near the tent without the need for extra boxes. So yeah, nice features on that thing!

[@jrchannel7405]

I thought that the lights on the side were just white LEDs with a rainbow plastic over them to give them color, but when they illuminate as a VU meter there's a falling "pixel" that is always white, that mean each square contains an RGB LED. they really went far with that. It also reminded me of my old Sony Ericsson W580 which had lights on it's sides and my sister's Motorola Rokr E1 also with lights on the sides

[@canis_machina7280]

That little wolf fella should be named "Gertrude" That just seems to fit in with the rest of the little lads and lasses. That's also the name of my Aunt, and she is obsessed with little ceramic wolves.

[@lyzine]

Ninja up is also a game in KaiOS Nokia phones.🤣

[@PashPaw]

The TTS sounds like a numbers station, NGL. Also, this phone is amazing and I kinda wish it supported 4G.

[@brolydictcumberbatchmontou401]

nocap it truly did sound like that to me as well lol. like you needed a single use note pad hahaha

[@tshephangsithole750]

OMG, I want this phone. This is the coolest dump phone I have ever seen in this century.

[@fraderrty]

you finally bought this! I was on stream and everyone was asking you to buy this phone🤣

[@fucksampleclearance2106]

Seeing all these wacky phones from the DONATION RAID Livestream just gives my heart such joy 😊😂🤣😆

[@leaguzzardi7565]

Love the boop boop boop sounds

[@Waldherz]

Rip... Go order another one!

[@CorvusVonRex]

Oh wow. Didnt expect its quite a chonker. Defo gonna purchase that just to make it an overglorified mp3 player~

[@UsualSuspect01]

Anyone else here misses SymbianOS? Or really just misses having another OS other than IOS or Android?

[@Wineman3383]

I don't follow the whole bandage thing, it never crossed my mind it was just how it was. But yeah i didn't notice one bit. Ha! Funny what some people focus on, to each his own i guess. Thanks for the videos brother.

[@nobrains6107]

I was drinking when you read 'Sperker' on the box. I nearly sperked my chocolate milk over my keyboard.

[@Elliesblossoms]

If you promise not to take it apart again I’ll get you a new one for Christmas

[@AndrisSkullcandy]

im sure in around 2007 when i had a simple W205 Walkman Phone, this could be my dream phone, but nowadays....

[@Poodleinacan]

20:43 That cat decoration could be named "Colander the cat".

[@derekis1joedirt]

The fail sound on Galaga is literally Tetris music, while Tetris had no music lol

[@FijiLaw]

Love the side light bar

[@JamalDantata]

JINX! I actually shouted "GODDAMN" at the same time you did seeing the size of that battery 😂😂😂

[@dash8brj]

What a shame at the end. This looks like a fun phone to just have sitting around, and doubles as a powerbank and kickass torch.

[@SPARTAN_Cayde-26]

2G is still in use in Northern Europe, mainly because not everyone can affort a good phone and also some companies still use 2G to some things. Even the NMT, which was the phone network before 2G in Northern Europe was use from the 80s to 2016...

[@pauloa.7609]

Not everyone in Scandinavia can buy a good phone? What? Scandinavian countries are richer than 99% of the entire planet.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

"2G"/GSM is still alive and well in Germany too, with no current plans to discontinue it (same for FM... DAB is a complete stillborn). It's kept alive as a fallback option with 99.9% coverage (which can't be said about LTE/4G and even less so about 5G). 3G/3.5G (aka UMTS and HSPA) have been shut down a couple years ago though, so mobile data wise if you lose LTE/4G signal, you get dropped right down to EDGE (0.2mbps) which is the best the original GSM has to offer. Still.. even something that slow allows you to use things like Whatscrap and Telegram, and that's certainly better than... well nothing at all. Plus all the dumbphones right back to the early 90s still work. I know because I've tried with a Nokia 1610 and 2110 lol

[@beridus]

I was not expecting the CHONK. What a beast

[@argonautsuk]

Hello from Manchester. Very impressive device for the price

[@dogeycraft4136]

yes, this is the best ufo capture phone that i ever seen, this camera in night with that voice 26:12 is good for loking for great shots for post in the web!

[@TelAnnas_]

The cat name should be: Ripley.

[@8alakros]

I just ordered the black version

[@diegoslopez1]

I love feature phones like this, it has really fun and useful features, the powerbank thing with this massive battery and the dual powerful LEDs make this phone a cool secondary device to cary on the bag, just like a tool or gadget to help in certain moments... It lacks the 4G and a better OS like KaiOS or Android, wich is a important downside, but that's ok to a "tool" tech device

[@crusty21]

Good phone for somebody who's unemployed or an old parent who's hostaged in a nursing home.

[@josangoj78]

2G (aka GPRS/EDGE) networks are still active in Spain, but it's expected to shut down 3G networking first, as there are lots of M2M and smart home devices still using 2G, and not all carriers are offering VoLTE or VoWiFi calls yet (to add insult to injury, only a few phone models are certified by carriers themselves for placing VoLTE calls 🤬). And about Java games, I got a Samsung L760 that used both JAR + JAD files. It would run any Nokia N70 compatible JAR files, and I had to convert them with an app on my computer which also created their companion JAD files. Later, I had to place both files in a folder, transfer such folder via cable to the phone and type (on the phone itself) a couple of secret codes to update the Java database and have games eventually installed...

[@pauloa.7609]

Same in Portugal, 2G is still a thing but they are talking about getting rid of both 2G and 3G very soon.

[@angelashcroft1832]

You got spiritual energy in your home dude

[@grumpyoldwizard]

Man, that blue phone is a pimp-daddy supreme! I enjoy your videos. Thank you.

[@darksill]

for the java games couple of reasons for not being able to install your own comes to mind. theres a few wersions of j2me (version of java designed for mobile devices) and a ton of extensions to those versions so if the game requires some that the phone dont support it will either not install or run this is the reason not all java phones were able to run 3d java games back in the day.another option is some java phones actualy required the java descriptor file to install .jad file containing information about the .jar archive and would simply say unknown file if u tried opening the archive directly and some phones only allowed installations from the browser and wont open jad/jar files from memory at all

[@techcube7291]

Even if the phone supports java files, I assume the file browser was only designed to open media files.

[@whatwhatyep]

It looks like the old Sony Ericsson Walkman phone which was a really good phone in its day.

[@johnkeats666]

Those NES games are pure nostalgia! Wish they added contra - Jackel!

[@forza4l833]

I love listening to your videos when i go to bed, your voice is calming, love the videos btw keep them up💯

[@Light-DelaBlue]

damn imagine got that in the 2000s

[@slapnut892]

If it had better specs and a touchscreen I'd totally buy it.

[@MultiMidden]

Got to say I think a lot of European countries still have 2G as it provides coverage for more isolated rural areas although it is being slowly phased out

[@pauloa.7609]

True, my country in spite of having over 95% 4G coverage is still having 2G working. Though it's being said that both 2G and 3G are going to be axed down soon.

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@pauloa.7609 Romanian

[@pauloa.7609]

@@ADeeSHUPA no, I'm from Portugal.

[@robertgarscadden]

This reminds me of the Sony/Ericsson K800i.i loved that phone.📲

[@Muffincakeswithsugar]

I'm impressed by the camera on this thing. In the fact that a Samsung phone from 2002 with a 0.3 camera takes better photos than it.

[@brandontechnerd]

Camera phones were first introduced in the late 1990s and became more popular in the early 2000s, but only if you are talking about Japan and Korea, where Sharp, Samsung, LG, Kyocera and other phone manufacturers were based. The first camera phones in the US became a thing in 2003-2005.

[@wyterabitt2149]

@@brandontechnerd I mean you say late 1990s, but it's an exercise in technically correct. The first one was 1999, and they were nothing other than a pointless novelty. And camera phones were a thing in the UK from 2002 - and it wasn't a Japanese or Korean phone. The reason why camera phones became a thing a few years later in countries like the UK or the US, is because nobody would have bought the camera phones before this time as they were fairly worthless.

[@videomentaryproductionschannel]

This was a great video, nice to see someone who dose appropriate technology even though this was a cheap knock off, but to be fair, there was a lot on that phone and the sound was good a pity about the 2g, but a nice looking phone, if it had 4g and more memory this would have been useful, oh bloody good battery 🔋 and to top it off, a proper USB, that cracked me up.

[@ayo0o0o0o0]

The phone we all wanted in 2002

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

this would make a nice Burner Phone.

[@ANDREW0325A]

My favorite part is the froggos 🐸

[@techcube7291]

32:51 My friends: how much did you pay for the game? Me: It's complicated...

[@DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

i'm only ten minutes in, and i thought man this will be funny, what a joke probably, and leaving thinking dude I NEED ONE this is so cool

[@wobbles19ful]

You give me dankpods energy my dude!!dude!!! Good stuff@!!

[@derekis1joedirt]

This seems worth the price for the Bluetooth speaker ability and emergency powerbank with a decent flashlight.

[@delasse3178]

Man what an accent lol. As a Bostonian who's atrociously recognized for forgetting R's, you are my polar opposite. Though(r), Pho(r)ne, belo(r)w, go(r), ligh(r)ts, mobile(r), fo(r)lks, hu(r)ge, suppo(r)sed, so(r), oh my!!! XD

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

That’s amazing, it made me smile. Pity it’s not 3G tho.

[@chrissre7935]

Im Amazed they sell those. Like you can get decent used smartphone and replace the battery for that price.

[@ThatDroid]

You set the lights to react to sound so sound on the device wasn't picked up (unless it's bfg devision on full blast)

[@JessicaFEREM]

You know what, if this was around in the mid-to-late 2k's, I'd probably have one. not a bad little phone for a feature phone I recon.

[@jacobperez8921]

Tnh I’d buy this cool phone for the rockin LED lights and that speaker which surprisingly sounds good . I thought it was going to sound like screening banshees but it sounds good. That Shakira song It’s time for Africa sounded really good there.

[@Dark_eVader]

For the unnamed cat object, how about "Ridley"? That way you would have Ripley and Ridley to talk about.

[@brookerobertson2951]

the uk is going to keep 2G till 2033 so i may get this phone for when i go camping

[@paranoiia8]

Oh yeah I was waiting for that review... and damn that flashlight! portable sun... Its look nice, those lights are nice, Speaker is nice, Camera is there, somewhere... I always had soft spot for android devices on devices with keypad, like some of those chinese phones with touchscreen AND keyboard that look like old-school phones and if that thing had proper OS and hardware I would buy it no matter of price... Im not kidding.

[@nemaparanemanovaca]

its ripping off a W705/W715 for the front, I think buttons are normal tho

[@altaccount5931]

id say more w902

[@d.j.manjares9830]

I see a Smoorez new video notification, I watch

[@mikemcbain4250]

Damn good flashlight

[@Athrunwong]

JESUS LORD, now i want one!!

[@8alakros]

Me too!

[@whollymindless]

Dankpods would appreciate a nugget like that.