The GIONEE F100L is a Budget Smartphone from 2016 and it's hilariously bad at times...

Timestamps are integrated into the video for each segment.
I rambled about this phone for way too long so if you need to skip through the video then that's completely understandable...and cause it was painful at times and I wanted to give up on this thing but that's fine!
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Greetings and welcome to another Cheapo Phone Review!
Another brand that I am covering on the channel and that is GIONEE (Gee-Oh-Knee? SHEE-OH-NEE? I don't know)
I've never heard of them before but I picked this up from cashies because it was faulty and I saved someone else from buying this thing cause I honestly thought it was another SUSAN M5 when I seen it...after making this video I am torn between this or the Susan being one of the worst phones. I do like this one a bit better though.
I didn't have a complete play around with it so most of what you see in this video is my genuine reaction to whatever happened on this phone cause some things happen that made me laugh too much as something so silly.
Regardless, I hope you'll enjoy this one and I hope the moments will be entertaining!
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Applications:
CPU System Info: bit.ly/3BYfdaZ
Device Info HW: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Geekbench 5: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
QuickShortcutMaker: bit.ly/3wAC6jm
System files from the GIONEE F100L are here:
archive.org/details/gionee-f100l
INTERNET ARCHIVE: archive.org/details/@smoorez
TIMESTAMPS:
Intro & Disclaimers: 0:00
Around the Phone, What I paid for it & Some Specs: 1:29
My solution to a faulty battery etc: 3:20
Power On & The Funniest Setup Ever: 5:21
Display Quality, Launcher, Apps & Confusion: 7:42
Shortcuts, Bright Torch, Extreme Mode & Home Options: 9:17
Networks & Call Quality: 10:57
One of the Best Features on this: 12:51
Display Settings, Wallpapers & Themes: 14:16
Some Ringtones, Sounds, Security & Notifications: 15:28
System Apps List, Storage, Memory, Battery & Gmail: 16:33
The Lag & About Phone: 18:09
The Camera & Features that half work: 19:46
Camera Test - Photos: 23:33
Camera Test - Videos: 24:48
Camera Quality, System Manager & Theme Park: 27:41
File Manager, Clock, Compass, Calculator & FM Radio: 29:00
Browser Test & Back Cover Misprint: 30:08
This is when the phone becomes unusable: 31:06
Speaker Test & Installing Apps: 32:56
Checking the Specs: 33:58
Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 35:20
QuickShortcutMaker Findings: 36:58
Attempting KZbin Again: 39:34
Conclusion: 40:36
Teardown & Investigation: 42:00
Proper Specs & Final Thoughts: 44:14
Outro: 45:25
Be good people!
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SOCIAL:
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Email: [e-mail]
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Music/Video:
Outro:
Mick Gordon - Cultist Base (Doom Eternal Soundtrack)
Speaker Tests:
Mick Gordon - BFG Division (DOOM 2016 Soundtrack)
Camera Test Background:
Andrew & Simon Hale - L.A Noire Main Menu Theme
Video Test:
4K Video In Costa Rica by Jacob + Katie Schwarz
• COSTA RICA IN 4K 60fps...
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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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#GIONEE #Smartphone #Review

[@SMOOREZ]

*I was still a bit sick while filming this so I sound a bit iffy so I hope that's not a problem. Also ignore the SoC mistake at the start specs* Greetings everyone and welcome back to another Cheapo Phone Review and it's another first for the channel. GIONEE...never heard of them before (maybe somewhere online) but first time looking at one and well...I'll let the video tell the story here. Let me know what you thought of this one down below and if you've ever used a GIONEE device (bet that was fun!) Also System Files for this is in the description if you want to go through them and see what you find! Thanks again for watching, be good people! TIMESTAMPS: Intro & Disclaimers: 0:00 Around the Phone, What I paid for it & Some Specs: 1:29 My solution to a faulty battery etc: 3:20 Power On & The Funniest Setup Ever: 5:21 Display Quality, Launcher, Apps & Confusion: 7:42 Shortcuts, Bright Torch, Extreme Mode & Home Options: 9:17 Networks & Call Quality: 10:57 One of the Best Features on this: 12:51 Display Settings, Wallpapers & Themes: 14:16 Some Ringtones, Sounds, Security & Notifications: 15:28 System Apps List, Storage, Memory, Battery & Gmail: 16:33 The Lag & About Phone: 18:09 The Camera & Features that half work: 19:46 Camera Test - Photos: 23:33 Camera Test - Videos: 24:48 Camera Quality, System Manager & Theme Park: 27:41 File Manager, Clock, Compass, Calculator & FM Radio: 29:00 Browser Test & Back Cover Misprint: 30:08 This is when the phone becomes unusable: 31:06 Speaker Test & Installing Apps: 32:56 Checking the Specs: 33:58 Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 35:20 QuickShortcutMaker Findings: 36:58 Attempting KZbin Again: 39:34 Conclusion: 40:36 Teardown & Investigation: 42:00 Proper Specs & Final Thoughts: 44:14 Outro: 45:25 Keep being awesome!

[@Yippeee5959]

The cam, sensor and front speaker looks just like my redmi 6 im watching 😂😂

[@michaelcaywood6070]

Is this cell phone any good? Yes or no.

[@colin910]

You should have tried another launcher. To see if it would have run a little faster..👍

[@everydayblind]

Oh God these phones, every Romanian had one, they were Allview branded and they sucked. Also the owner of the mother company lost the whole establishment at a casino. Thank God I got an iPhone when people were getting Allviews. As much as now I am a bit iffy with Apple, it gave me a good experience in comparison with most around me.

[@Chop43]

Nu mă așteptam să văd un român aici. 🤣🤣🤣 Am deținut Allview că nu îmi permiteam mai mult prin 2014-2016. A fost oribil 😂

[@انا_ابراهيم_البناوي]

We actually did get Allview here in Saudi Arabia and mostly by Turkish workers who started selling them here my dad was planning to get one as a temporary phone but decided against it

[@uhm175]

These were very popular here in UAE actually, but these phones were mostly distributed by 3rd party indian company that give it for free to most workers, it was still branded as allview, it's still sold here, but not like much like before

[@xXVibrantSnowXx]

Back when i travelled to Oman, they were almost sold there everywhere as an Allview branded, they were for like 30-40 bucks but actually no one bought them (so i suppose those phones were mostly given to workers & there were some leftovers they wanted to get rid of) lol , I'm glad i didn't buy one

[@MihisAnton]

another Romanian here! 😂 I had an A5 Smiley which was terrible (though it was dirt cheap), and an E3 Living which DIGI sort of shoved up my thing when I renewed my contract. That E3 wasn't too bad, and DIGI repaired it for me under warranty when I bricked it trying to flash another ROM on it 😂😂 It also had fake camera specs.. the advertising said 8 MP... you could select 13 MP... the photos were not more than 5, realistically. And it said 720p video but they came out 854x480. The UI was the biggest disaster, in my opinion... not only I think was the reason for a lot of the crashes and lagging, but like we can see in this video, the app icons are tortured inside a shape (the circle inside a square, in this case) so I could never see where an app was at a glance, they all looked the same and terrible. I thought that was the work of the geniuses in Brasov but it seems no, Gionee did that. 😅

[@bobos8087]

My dad had a rebranded Gionee F103 a few years ago, circa 2016, for like 2 years or so. It was always slow, the Carefree Launcher™ decided to die at one point completely so the phone had to be reset, it needed to be RMA'd like twice, the camera broke at one point. Great experience, 10/10. Amigo was pretty awful too

[@lofiworld___]

I think this is a Chinese variant phone, so it may have some global rom or something to bring Google services, thus it shows the welcome boot logo. But Gionee phones have their own boot logo, not welcome.

[@agustinusreynaldi7101]

Like most Xiaomi phones There's Chinese, Global, or Distributor ROM (that actually super shitty)

[@forgottnmustard3502]

These GIONEE smartphones had a gr8 market share in India too during late 3g and early 4g smartphone Era

[@s6edge7]

Is it cursed to have the same family mac for the past 17 years ,and thrash it daily . Also smorrez , you save my saturday night yt feed

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Yes. That's why you buy a PC so you can upgrade it. Macs don't teach you how to use computers, they teach you how to use Macs. Not a useful skill.

[@tyttuut]

​@@Boogie_the_cat I don't like Macs either, but nobody asked for your opinion

[@bastoscc]

Hey Smoorez, I have an old phone Allview X3 Soul Lite, and the UI, the capacitive buttons and the camera placement are the same as on the Gionee. Allview is a Romanian phone manufacturer, they were touting that their products are all made and produced in Romania but I guess not lol. I never faced that many software bugs or translation issues as you did, despite the software being identical.

[@OhhhhhhKKAAAYYYYYY]

Why am i soo amused watching your contents.. its fun and addicting to watch, keep em up!

[@-validites-]

wake up babe, new SMOOREZ video just dropped!

[@WP7Nettwerk]

Your voice always sounds good. Take a care and take rest and be well.

[@myrmeko]

My first Android phone was a rebranded Gionee (Ctrl V1 rebranded as Allview P5 Mini). My mom also had an Allview V1 Viper i (i forgot which Gionee was that), but it had an older version of AmigoOS and it was a lot more polished than this. It ran extremely well and i really miss that weather app, because it had very realistic full screen animations, it was very nice to look at.

[@cliffordreynolds1835]

I was looking at their website. Their new "flagship" has 3GB, and 32GB. Wow, they make low end junk!

[@stevenspencer5367]

Well my first live Premier lol 😆 Throughly enjoyed the video. If I had bought this back in 2016 I would be OK with it being a spare phone. I do enjoy the direct translation into English . The grammar is just too delicious. The phone did sound too bad during your "conversation " and the microphone test was pretty good. The torch was also pretty good, but did I miss the outside test? The camera and video test were OK but pretty amazing compared to the iPhone 15 pro max clone. Lol There were some pretty decent photos. The Devine Miss Ripley taking centre stage as usual. Even the videos take were acceptable. Even the spund test was OK. Hopefully OK through headphones. Disappointing about the KZbin test. That was pretty sad. Without going I to detail 2016 was the start of some really long hospital visits ( not for me) and we would use what devices we had to watch Le Tour de France and other programs to pass the time. I don't think this device would have been Amy good for that purpose. Probably OK for listening to music. Overall I wouldn't have been too disappointed i had bought this and it got lost or stolen. Lol 😂❤ However, lots of laughs watching.

[@attilamagyar91]

The youtube installation made your accent come out :D

[@rajshashank202]

Hey Smoorez, I am very excited for this one as my father used to daily drive similar F series phone(not this specifically but it was a gionee F, atleast thats just what I remember) in 2016 - 2017, unfortunately he lost it in 2017, but I still have my old gionee p7 max (tho its battery is lost, and power button doesn't work).

[@rajshashank202]

Also, Gionee was like a major player back in the days (in my country they went complete head on against apple and Samsung and were surprisingly doing pretty good), they not only sold phone is China but they also sold in whole southeast Asia. you can actually find a few documentaries by Indian Tech KZbinrs on gionee. What I recall was that their founder lost a lot of money in gambling and Gionee went bankrupt.

[@JessicaFEREM]

31:35 this reminds me when I used to follow the loading spinner with the mouse when I was a kid because I thought it made if faster

[@erroristmusic]

he is always sick at the moment. Love you tho!

[@oilo742]

By far my favorite video

[@cliffordreynolds1835]

"A F100L and his money are soon parted!"

[@Sunscreen723]

Since you have a huge collection of phones ,what you can do is take one from a known brand like xiaomi ,and install a custom rom .For example a redmi note 3 or redmi note 4 comes with 3/4 gb of ram ,which is more than enough if you have custom rom installed ( and no Google play services). Kool video as always

[@ringtailmaster3120]

His remind me my old Solone A-100, from the old days when 2 gbs of RAM and 32 gbs of free space was enough to survive, cheap but effectivve, terrible cameras but thats what i got after paid 150 dollars, excellent video n_n

[@lovtus3172]

In my country algeria those phones where everywhere under different Brand it was named (condor)

[@Mizai]

3:35 i used to do that aswell when testing phones without a battery if it lines up it fits

[@Boogie_the_cat]

The Gionee F00L

[@steelplasma256]

My 2012 Nexus 7 still holds at least 70% charge. I just charged my 2012 LG Spectrum 2 and it also holds a charge. Also have many Palm OS devices with original batteries and they still hold a week or two on a single charge. Often times the original Li-ion battery still works but needs to be externally charged out of circuit. Even if it may be puffy it can still be saved. Many fear the spicy pillow but the gas inside are evaporated electrolytes that CAN convert back into the liquid/gel phase. Once you charge and discharge the battery becomes more wrinkled and saggy as there isn't pressure building up. I usually use a camera battery charger that does both single and 2-cell batteries. The only ones that cannot be saved are ones that have popped or vented, trying to charge one of those will always cause a fire. Also I'm only taking about portable li-ion pouches and not multi-cell laptop batteries or anything more complex like ev batteries.

[@WilliamCheng]

Sorry if someone has already said this, but every time I look at this video title, I think the phone is called the GIONEE FOOL.

[@regav62]

Ripely is a really cute and beautiful cat!

[@pwdh]

Ripley is such a chonky creature! Love her so much ❤

[@straight1080]

the translation was a trip of hysteria back to back, carefree launcher lol

[@attilamagyar91]

We have "doduo" but thats a Bird pokemon with 2 heads.

[@AdamIsUrqed]

Vice Grip Garage would appreciate the cameo. "Factree"

[@SMOOREZ]

Oh is that...nope that's not. That's a feature. Does this work...probably not. Great :| Derek is a mad lad, love watching him tinker with the ol' powerbarn for an hour lol

[@AdamIsUrqed]

@@SMOOREZ LOL. I love that dude. I bet you a full set of sparkolators that, were it not for his social media presence, he'd be sporting a flip phone and "one-a them fancy Compa-cues (compaq) interwebz machines" from 2001.

[@enestekin2]

Those diglets in the setup, i seen them before. They were on General Mobile devices from the early 2010s. Maybe they were made by the same company or oem that they based off of? Who knows.

[@AfterBurnerTeirusu]

Fake calling was a feature in some old Nokia phones.

[@matrixdalneres8214]

Old Samsung phones had that too, you could hold the up button and it would pretend to get a call .

[@juliojuli]

If i remember correctly they used to sell gionee and coolpad in Indonesia and then they were gone just like that.

[@DrFreeeman]

Be aware when swapping those batteries that the old battery probably had a lower charge limit (meaning it only safely goes up to 4.2V) meanwhile any phone battery from the last 10 years or so will have a higher limit (at least 4.35V, up to 4.47V on more modern phones). Basically the phone is tuned to allow the battery to charge to a higher voltage, which is compatible with more recent batteries. That difference may not seem like much but is enough to start rapidly decomposing the electrolyte in a cell that doesn't support the higher voltage. Usually nothing will happen immediately, but in some cases it can build pressure in the cell since the decomposing electrolyte is outgassing and could cause the cell to vent or burst. Obviously these voltages are only reached toward the end of charge, so not letting it get all the way up to 100 should be enough to stop this.

[@wlchek]

LOL! At least they spelled out "Congratulations" correctly.

[@prz98]

29:33 calibration should be done in vertical with the screen facing up for one half of „infinity loop” and down for another half of „infinity loop”.

[@nothinghere64]

Why don't you use activity launcher?

[@mrfeast-g2g]

when will it start

[@vsprdln]

I had a Blu Vivo 5 that had the exact fake call. I loved that phone

[@lontollison6771]

I'm so curious about this I just want to buy a simple unlocked phone (inexpensive) to throw cheap sim cards in how hard is it if I know what I need and seek it out without spending 300$ on a decent phone??

[@NandarAung-wl8ln]

I wanna get this phone where did i can get in Thailand?

[@PrinsessePeach]

Senior makes some sense if you think of seniority as someone with knowledge in a field like photography. 🤷‍♀️ A senior researcher isn’t necessarily old, but has been a researcher a while.

[@kevinwangsaxmusic]

I brought a Gionee phone before in China, I don’t remember what model it was but it was amazing. But durability wise it was not so good, I dropped in on the floor once then the wifi and bluetooth stopped working.

[@VertekPlus]

nice vid

[@jpprice14duh]

Yikes. I would have thrown that thing into the wall. I don't mean against the wall. I mean into the wall, through the drywall. 😂

[@Nikkerston]

looks like one of those old android 2-6 era huawei phones weirdly enough. also i wonder would nova launcher make this phone any amount more bearable

[@mrinaldutta1812]

I saw a ch concept x7 iphone clone which claims it has a mtk 5g chip amoled display 8gb ram is it true

[@happyclash8360]

How do you get the price down that much, from 59 to 15$ is a massive discount. Do they just know it's priced way too high and try to pretty much scam people?

[@Allank7]

@06:12 From Estonia I see Eesti (Estonia), I leave a like. :)

[@Pupp3tCl0wn]

I had that fake call option on one of my previous phones, been usefull a few times :v

[@lontollison6771]

How is it legal to sell these things like u have to buy it just to see what the actual product has in it n then what ?

[@loserguy4358]

There is a phone company in my country called Condor and their phones are just a rebrand of Gionee lol

[@iSamYTBackup]

14:25 wait a s3c Amiga? the old commodore computers from 1985-1994?

[@christianangelogayo5600]

I bought one back when I was working in China (sure enough it had the China ROM version) no playstore and other google apps. Well, it wasn't bad for all the basic stuff. Soon the batt bloated. Gave it away when I left China. Was fun when I had it though.

[@evickaklierova3107]

You should sell the MADHAX concept... you could make millions! :D

[@user-dw6fj1py1o]

Great.

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

7:23 got me laughing as well lol

[@FR4M3Sharma]

This company went bankrupt because the ceo gambled company's money in Las Vegas when the company was barely holding it together. They had good phones, I used a F103 for a year before I lost it.

[@subsntl]

18:03 Yeah, memories.

[@mintybudgie]

i'm pretty sure these are just unbranded devices on alibaba that gionee just asked the seller to slap their logo on it and then they sell it

[@terrawolf]

omg i always do that madhax on most of my samsungs since they have missing batteries😭

[@OlexanderZnaharenkoUA]

Be healthy! 😊

[@UsrRshTov]

looks similar to Leeco smartphones. at least from the front

[@tarantuluke]

"Here's Gionee" 😂😂😂

[@Avgaming_747]

Did you get demonetized?

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

TFW a 2016 Welcome phone is better than a current Welcome phone.

[@AguevadoConCaraDeSonso29]

2:09 "MT735"

[@SMOOREZ]

Yeah I know, I addressed it in the pinned comment. I'd fix it and re-upload but it's fine

[@Isabellazzz]

13:21 to 13:33 bro went from Australian to British

[@Sunscreen723]

I have a moto g 2nd Gen with 1gb ram ,it runs a custom rom (android 10) and because i didn't install any Google services ,it's actually usable ,it can even play 720p video at 1.5x speed .also browsing is acceptable . Maybe if you had disabled all of the unnecessary apps ( that were running in the back grind) the phone would have been been much more snappy ,it's not worth it of course ,it's just an idea .

[@jjcoolaus]

Definitely not the worst camera we have seen on this channel but the worst operating system, spelling dodgy, quality control and Grammer non existent

[@sorarmojoanakket.5615]

U can't premiere every single video, I won't be looking forward to this at 11 am lol son😅

[@SMOOREZ]

I've only premiered 3 videos over the last 2 months. You can come back to this later...it will still be here lol

[@The_fan_of_sigma]

smoorez is the dankpods’s friend

[@FloridaMann123]

Cashies trip with Smoorez and Dankpods would make an awesome video.

[@The_fan_of_sigma]

@@FloridaMann123 true

[@burnutec3]

I actually owned one, it self sabotaged it self, killing the emmc chip. Quality!

[@Dragonfire511]

Dr. Amigo es..... 🎶🎵.

[@agustinusreynaldi7101]

There's some good and bad phones Including most Welcome devices

[@PolarBlassGT]

Este teléfono pareciera de un Huawei similar algún modelo.

[@ryanmerrill2273]

Yeah, put a "1" in there so it doesn't spell "Fool" so obviously

[@marem3038]

Removable batteries is the best. Just swap one out when empty. No power banks and shit

[@AliHabeb]

you should install a different OS on it ngl

[@markenetube]

Similar spec to a Samsung J3 from 2016.

[@SieaGroup]

Its just huawei p8 lite

[@z_o_di_a_c_]

That doesn't look like from gionee... Beacuse gionee usually Say's gionee in boot screen not welcome... That must be a ripoff

[@manrs6037]

Look like OPPO neo

[@curiousbad]

Pretty sure this was also the pepsi phone.

[@user-wv1np1eb1l]

*Version 3.2 was a lot bigger* that's what she said 😂😂

[@matthewlillibridge9185]

I believe GIONEE is pronounced "gee-oh-nee" (Gee pronounced like ghee)

[@Joreg_Catapang]

I thought tenor share make phone😂 because of the logo Note I just randomly getting ads from tenor share website I don't know what are they

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

i heard about this gionee phones here in italy but i never had one, and i'm so glad i never considered them lol. it was pretty horrible and it have some weird chinese stuff (the story locker for example, is the lock screen app that shows those weird images). so my conclusion is: stay away from those sh!t, they are welcome phones at the end of the day.

[@reichan_zima8227]

is me or looks similar to huawei gplay? XD

[@rchltmedia]

gionee is chinese phone but well known for indian market...

[@David-gr8rh]

Seems that thing was made by comedians ha

[@Hotrod-05]

I got a better name for this, the Guinea F100L

[@RuubRoyce]

Not "that" bad actually.

[@immameme]

TechImma1st Don't take my comments seriously. It's only a meme