The iCraig Tablet.

[@WeirdTunes]

DankPods is one of the few KZbin channels that can make watching a crappy tablet load for an eternity fun.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

It's quite amazing

[@kal-elsmith]

The moment we’ve been waiting for

[@nathandouglass3216]

Yes so true though

[@michaelwesten4624]

no, you are just easily entertained by nothing

[@onekodoesstuff]

Agreed 👍

[@phoenixproto3149]

I never thought Candy Crush Saga would run at 9 fps on a brand new, clean tablet. Well done Craig.

[@NoteXLTE]

Me neither.

[@D0Samp]

This is my usual experience with phones with busted flash memory. But of course everything is subpar on the iCraig.

[@sonicwave779]

Made in 2020 no less.

[@80HD-hf1jl]

runs better on my samsung galaxy watch5, after being loaded up with sideloaded gunk+junk

[@TwoTwentyNinePM]

An ominous "Inevitably" followed by crunchy scarlet fire and a buried & dead inside voice going "go craig go" is something i needed in my life

[@yourfavouritepony]

I heard "Die Craig die!!!"

[@roelant8069]

I'm pretty sure he says "die craig die"

[@Dr._Heinz_Doofenshmirtz]

@@roelant8069 aye, that's what he actually said

[@bndsclout]

Im pretty sure my phone speakers are destroyed because of how many times it was forced to blast scarlet fire, but i heard it and made my entire day 😢

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

I like, “ Craig” products! They seem to last longer than other, cheap crap. 😐

[@Sudheepes]

Basically these are leftover products in factories, from 2010's or so, which hasn't been assembled and well forgotten. So they slap a sticker on and put in production line to just put on shelf, basically recoup any money, lot of old people buy these because they don't know tech.. and just want something "cheap" to gift to kids or something

[@ereneksi7029]

That tablet has a newer model of android But you got a point too Theres a chance that the workers forcefully installed a new android on that piece of metal

[@Kacpa2]

​@@ereneksi7029 Its very easy to give them newer soft. Chassis itself is definetly out of 2011. Internals could be newer cheapd trash from sag 2016.

[@CollinDaKing]

"charge the idiot, put memory in the idiot, reset the idiot, there's your idiot." Best Tech Support Agent Ever

[@rainbow-markeranimations1899]

no comments? i can fix that, also, that tablet really is an idiot lol, if it takes that long to load

[@rainbow-markeranimations1899]

@StopBeingUnfunny🤓 I screenshotted the nft lol

[@slothonastick32]

​@rainbow-markeranimations1899 lmao and now you have an nft?

[@Foxy_AR]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@paper177]

bto auo ohiiyyo susssssysyyy!!!bbbmbb💀💀💀 what the actual hell is happening in the comments section

[@DrAnimePhD]

When the world needed him most, Craig returned!

[@bacon.cheesecake]

I want to agree as I love Craig as much as anyone, but more ewaste is the last thing the world needs right now.

[@user-zv2gr3tu1l]

i recognize you on twitter -you may have ratioed me once or twice-

[@Vertical_casey]

I asked for an i Craig for Christmas, soooo happy when I unwrapped this 🎉😊

[@Themeraldknight]

@@bacon.cheesecake can I just say it is so unfair to compare a almost 100$ tablet to a 500$ iPad made my a giant company that had already made several other iPads and apple make almost all the parts in house.

[@bacon.cheesecake]

​@@Themeraldknight not sure why you brought this up, but it's not that unfair actually, used ipads are really cheap

[@Tepity]

I just imagine someone getting this for Christmas last 2020 after thinking "Things couldn't possibly get any worse, right?"

[@Da1BigMan]

It got worse.

[@narius_jaden215]

Last 2020? I don't need future 2020

[@lucasvidz9488]

@Michael Harris dragon deez nuts on yo chin

[@williansouza8724]

i don’t think anyone would genuinely expect a deviced called “iCraig” to work properly.

[@vapor404]

And then they get shot

[@FeatherWait]

I love when he starts just repeating "Craaaaaig" in frustration at 3:23. It bring me joy, the kind of joy I expect from Craig.

[@HB35-nb7fz]

reminds me of a certain lama named Paul yelling at another certain lama named Carl

[@GaffsNotLaffs]

It’s an old mate you can take with ya!

[@maxweII_demon]

Icraig is the male version of Icarly

[@momjyandavit]

THAT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE!

[@nkmade]

I know, you see, somehow the Craig will change for me and be so wonderful!

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

Snap! You're right!

[@ron133.]

TRUE

[@ajddavid452]

I thought it was iCarl

[@sixstringedthing]

There's something about Wade addressing these bits of electronic garbage as "you idiot" that just sends me every single time.

[@PrismZet]

Is his name Wade? Unexpected.

[@hiddenguy67]

huh

[@TheRoseAlmighty]

Wade? I would have never guessed

[@sixstringedthing]

Fun fact: His appearance is also probably not what you'd expect. Look up his other channel The Drum Thing where he uploads the twitch streams of himself being a very talented drummer. worth a watch. :)

[@RandomReine]

Craig seems like that one coworker you have absolutely no expectations will do any kind of descent job, but still seems to find new ways to surprise you with how bad a job he's doing.

[@unclejay4644]

I have a coworker named Craig just like this.

[@xDLiLi1337]

As a Craig i can confirm

[@Vliegedebroodrooster]

Jerry from parks and rec

[@IssieAndLife]

Yes

[@wetsockfullofhotmeat]

I have a coworker who's so incredibly bad at her job that I have yet to find a single person who has a positive opinion of her. She still has a job somehow

[@jovron4k119]

You know you're fucked up when even candy crush have fps drops

[@aserta]

Basically E-waste, like you said. There should be a punishment that goes directly to the CEO of a company, not the company, the person who signed off on these for stuff that's deemed as trash from the gate. They're making these because they can, it's high time we start penalizing this kind of mentality. CEOs with room temperature IQ have been at it for too long.

[@satsumagt5284]

Yeah but are you talking celsius or kelvin?

[@Creeper50DJ]

@@satsumagt5284 I’d say Fahrenheit. Kelvin is too high and no one would be a CEO with room temp Celsius IQ

[@satsumagt5284]

@@Creeper50DJ Good point

[@BinaryCounter]

Punishment should be that they have to use their own e-waste as their main device for a year.

[@satsumagt5284]

@@BinaryCounter ouch, that’ll surely do the job! No doubt the iCraig would have been smashed by the CEO during the first 30 minutes, it’s such an awful device

[@neoqueto]

If this is meant to be your kid's idea of a fun time you can be sure they'll spend all their time outside

[@gabrielmalta1962]

I was thinking of this too man Like imagine gifting this to a little cousin or your grandma Like, the kid is gonna wanna play Wild Rift or whatever, which takes far more performance than that thing gives, and the older person is gonna need a swift device for ease of use with documents and social media Whoever we give the bloody thing to, it's gonna be a massive disappointment

[@Anhonime]

I guess it could be used as an ebook reader or an audiobook/music player, though my cheap-ass ebook reader (Pocketbook bought for an equivalent of about $100 USD) can do that too (even the internal browser works perfectly fine on fanfiction websites, short story websites, blogs, legacy mobile versions of social media -- web2 in general, which is probably comparable to iCraig's capabilities -- you won't run videos on it, but you barely can do that on iCraig too) and it has an e-ink display (with optional backlight, different hues and all that jazz), so it's better for the task.

[@gabrielmalta1962]

@@Anhonime Opening PDFs should be easy, but I suspect getting to your reader of choice in the menu or grabbing PDFs through the browser is gonna become a pretty large annoyance with the iCraig's slow CPU and little RAM

[@handlemonium]

Best white elephant gift ever but it's black and feels worse than dail-up just turning it on.

[@davitdavid7165]

New strat for escaping Internet addiction

[@enderdude7]

This is the kind of tablet I would get in 2015 from a grandma that's trying her best but doesn't quite hit the mark.

[@vanzy01]

My mom actually bought this piece of crap and it barely worked 😢

[@livinglifewithshariah]

@@vanzy01 mine died. They have low ram.

[@flowerfloc]

@@vanzy01 i had this tablet in 2012, yes I mean it, it was from another knock off. brand called "cherry mobile" had the same keyboard and everything, and I just loved although I knew it was slow

[@BassicallyKiyash]

​@@livinglifewithshariahthe mum or the tablet

[@demonicbicycle666]

This reminds me of my old tablet I had a couple years back. I don't remember the brand or specs because I was a child but it was bright blue, only had a selfie camera and ran like it was begging to die. One day in my bed it got lost under the covers, I put my knee on it accidentally full force and the screen cracked and it wouldn't respond to touch anymore. Honestly that was probably for the best

[@DARK_AMBIGUOUS]

It reminds me of whenever I would go to shopko with my mom and dad and I would go look at the cameras and there was this Coby Tablet, I remember thinking that it was cool but also making fun of it because I went on the photos app and the was normal text saying “No Photos” and then I went to the Videos app and there was giant stretched out blurry words that said NO VIDEOS!!! In an extreamly ridiculous font

[@Thiswhat22]

Might've been a Amazon Kindle I used to have one like that

[@AmaraTheBarbarian]

I'm pretty sure while this model was made in 2020 it's the same under the hood as the tablet I bought my grandma in 2012. It was a different brand name but the case and exterior design were identical, the "specs" as much as you can say 4 cores without a processor model count as specs were the same, it just ran on a much older version of android. If my suspicions are correct the iCraig is also a 10 year old design manufactured in 2020 and it was significantly cheaper than the ipad at the time, and also not horrible for the era of mobile devices, not good, but not horrible.

[@Kim-lg2yv]

You are right, its a chinese tablet that many brands around the world re-brand. I have the exact same one with a random brand, even the struggle for the internet to work lmao

[@Jbrimbelibap]

re-brand the e-waste yey !

[@SockyNoob]

Literal evil

[@curvingfyre6810]

If they actually packaged them with decent version of light android they might function.

[@Jbrimbelibap]

@@curvingfyre6810 maybe a linux shell or android 4.3 ? better recycle them at that point

[@darkmesa8107]

Imagine someone's kid wanted a tablet real bad for chistmas and they got this It'd tear their heart to pieces

[@Gameplayer55055]

That's the exact business model of Craig

[@joshuahadams]

Just imagine trying to do homework or something on it, typing up an assignment when you can barely load a webpage.

[@71sd39]

idk i had a crappy vizio tablet when i was a little kid that could barely play youtube on a good day (early 2010s youtube at that) and i still loved the thing. still got it, actually

[@barley06]

I was 10-11 when my dad bought two pink tablets for me and my sister (to replace our old hand-me-down phones) and immediately returned them when we couldn't even run our games haha

[@80HD-hf1jl]

hey at least they wouldn't grow up as an ipad kid. or a tablet kid at all. maybe they'd touch grass... we should be thanking the icraig for saving gen alpha.

[@CucumbersSC]

Finally a tablet that operates on the timescale of Frank!!

[@damiansmith5294]

That 2020 on the back label was more of a flashbang than the screen brightness after you killed the lights.

[@Dewree69]

I’ve had shitty budget chinese tablets back in 2010 that were able to do basically everything this does twice as fast. Still extremely slow, but at least they were usable!

[@_._shinonome_._]

I suspect it's the same tablets but now running a newer android version which slows them down significantly

[@Dewree69]

@@_._shinonome_._ Isn’t android GO supposed to be the lightweight one? 😂 Also, hardware should be better than the dual-core 2010 tablets, which doesn’t seem to be the case when they are still built with a weight of an A4 sheet of paper

[@nfabian5100]

Christmas 2012, my present was a tablet that ran android either 3 or 4 probably 4, it ran much faster then the craig in the video and to top it all off is that the tablet was made and distributed by radioshack

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

@@_._shinonome_._ Actually, I had the exact same tablet, but running Android 4 if I remember correctly, and it was just as slow and unusable. It would choke just trying to play a KZbin video in standard definition!

[@gabrielmalta1962]

@@Dewree69 Problem is time, mate. Operational systems get fat over the years. So even the lightest android now takes a whole lot more to run than the heavy ones from like 2012

[@isaacsummers5046]

Hard to believe that I randomly found this guy in lockdown when I got an iPod and I'm still watching him, thanks Wade! :)

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Same minus the ipod part, he made me want to get an ipod, which I eventually did and he got me so interested into media players

[@s6edge7]

Another OG huh? , mind you this account is juts a channel I wanted to get to 50 subs in a year , my actual is from 2012 , "wild birdyz"

[@BroJose]

Same :)

[@mrotter4028]

@@s6edge7 Bro what are you trying to say?

[@krypticjonnie]

same for me too

[@FantomLightning]

God this makes the Amazon Fire Tablet my mother uses look like a super computer.

[@Cheeseburgerlove]

Same

[@horacegentleman3296]

Oddly enough probably the very same screen, if not just the same resolution. Iirc the 4th gen had a 1920x1200 screen but most of them have terrible panels.

[@BermieLostella3003]

ONG FRFR, I actually thought my fire tablet sucked but now when I think about it… Damn they’re pretty similar

[@ReXoRofc]

@@horacegentleman3296 bruh the oled switch has a 1280x720p display lmao 😂

[@horacegentleman3296]

@@ReXoRofc what does that have to do with anything?

[@AstroVanilla]

Wade screaming "CRAIG" at random points gives me life

[@Bfdi1245]

Wade is Dankpods' real name?

[@gatto_furry]

uh huh​@@Bfdi1245

[@marlonmalave7098]

can we all agree that Frank moves faster than the tablet booting up?

[@estherastudillo8647]

69 likes

[@handlemonium]

Yes, yes she does 🐍💨

[@susssybaka]

@@handlemonium she?

[@emkaym8]

@@susssybaka yeah

[@UltimatelyEverything]

@@susssybaka Yeah she's a female

[@CallMeVidd]

The biggest shock for me is that Craig is still around I thought they were some dead early 2000s brand

[@nahrainmichael3601]

Craig has been around since the early 1960s.

[@WesleyistheBest]

Not sure if it was this year or last year, but once, I went to Dollar General, and found a big and tall Craig Bluetooth speaker.

[@TheCoder55]

Without any joke, that tablet is as powerful as... A 2013 Samsung Galaxy Ace 3. which was even by then far from being powerful. Except that the Ace 3 ran Android 4.2 which was much less ressource hungry than Android 9. When I installed LineageOS 15 (Android 8.1) on it, it was as laggy as the iCraig... That until I got rid of the Google Play Services. The difference was Night Vs Day, from unusable to eh okay for a 10 years old device running a "Modern" release P.S : I've bought an old iPad 3. Still a billionth time more powerful than the iCraig

[@skullchimes]

Damn you Google Services!

[@sihamhamda47]

And also most old phone are straight up getting "Google Play services has stopped" when it forced to run a slightly newer Android version. And the worst thing, the OS won't ever boot up and stuck in eternal bootloop

[@Totone56]

Damn, now that explains why i was reminded of cheap 2014 phones when watching that. Because that's what it is. I remember a friend buying an Acer phone that year, 6+ inch 720p LCD screen with plasic instead of glass, looked like absolute crap, ran just like the iCraig, and had what's probably the worst software i've ever seen. Like, the lockscreen clock, the status bar, and the home screen clock widget were all showing different times. How do you screw up that badly. What's even funnier is that same year, Google sold the 8GB Nexus 4 for 199 bucks, and it was amazing.

[@TheCoder55]

@@Totone56 And let's not forget about the phones LG released around that time too, with good hardware but more than crappy software that made it worse than a iCraig

[@jerzyf4003]

Forced google services updates kill old phones all the time

[@psutherla]

Every single time the old 1920s-era piano music comes on, I giggle like a little kid. This is great.

[@boydsterling3193]

It’s a huge shame there are so many people who will be inclined to buy one of these on a regular basis and throw it in the bin every 6 months because they “don’t need anything better” - often also ruining their own experience with all the technical issues or giving up completely

[@Microwave_Dave]

I feel bad for all the pensioners, elderly, and people working minimum wage who can't afford anything better but just buy the cheapest thinking it can't really be that bad. Some poor student will no doubt buy this hoping to use it for taking notes at college or doing online exams, I just hope it doesn't impede their educational prospects. It SHOULDN'T be that bad, but sadly companies can keep selling this junk without a care in the world. This tablet was E-waste before it was sold. It should at least be usable for listening to music or watching videos, but no doubt it will pause and stutter every time Google software updates in the background.

[@Lucien86]

Was going to say - these things are being marketed to the elderly directly. Just saw a full page newspaper add the other day and it was for one that looked very similar to this & with the same weird keyboard. They were asking a lot for it too, something like £160.

[@Microwave_Dave]

@@Lucien86 Yes it's basically a scam. Fraudulently selling not-fit-for-purpose electronics.

[@perkypears]

when i was younger and the ipad was new i asked my parents to get me one and they gave me a borderline unusable android tablet like this. it absolutely went into the bin after a few months and that money wouldve been better spent on something decent

[@loganricherson]

@Microwave Dave yeah. I've learned that, with phones and tablets, it's best to buy an older flagship from 7-8 years ago than buy some random trash brand. A factory reset and/or reverting to an older version of the operating system will go a long way to making it work better but you can't make a piece of junk good

[@Panossa]

My favorite thing is that the tablet is so out of date, the KZbin app sends so outdated requests to the servers that it gets straight up rejected. Lmao. (Error 4XX codes mean something is wrong with a request the device is sending to the servers)

[@thelonewanderer5174]

I remember have a mp3 like the Craig. It only lasted me like 2 weeks and the headphones jack went out. Had to rap rubber bands around it just to make it work. Then later to keep the mp3 together 😂.

[@CommodoreFan64]

I had a generic no name like the Craig Mp3 player he showed with 1GB of space, and it lasted me well over a year 1/2 before I was able to upgrade to a Sandisk Sansa C250, so I guess it was luck of the draw with those things.

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

This is why, as a person of limited budget, I always choose older high tech stuff marked down over the cheaply priced new stuf. My new-to-me phone, tablet, and Mac Mini are all 3-5 years old and work better than cheap stuff made this year. I am always like ‘don’t buy the cheap tablet’ to parents. Give the kid your old one when you’re ready to buy the new one.

[@Tahmid_1337]

Funny and ironic how frank loads faster than the stinky af iCraig Tablet

[@Tyvian135]

At least the Craig tablet is hilariously bad.

[@Tahmid_1337]

@@Tyvian135 I mean it is hilariously bad but frank is hilarious regardless of being a dumb longboi

[@FiendishOne468]

Would it be wrong for me to say the $50 Laser tablet from earlier this year is looking appealing now?

[@JustJaidenism]

I Have A Tablet That Is Basically Just A Rebranded Laser Tablet (Was The Laser Tablet 8 Inches?) It Performs A Lot Better Than This, So No, You Wouldn't Be Wrong.

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

@@JustJaidenism Laser was 10in

[@sorakafutanari]

NOOOO DONT DO IT I have one of those and i HATE it. My first (2012) tablet is nicer than that thing! Anything with Android GO as a whole actually. The whole OS stinks, paired with that shit tier engineering it's just a nightmare to use. Unless the only thing you wanna do with it is watch KZbin, and even then it would disconnect from WiFi when I used my Bluetooth headphones.

[@Flyingsgetti]

​@@sorakafutanari I don't think it's the os's fault that it's shit, more just a sign that it will be shitty. That being said you can get a TCL A1 for $50 at walmart and it's way better than this, albeit it's a phone and not a tablet. But at least on that you can play games.

[@handlemonium]

Yeah even my family's free AT&T-branded tablet from 2017 runs infinite circles around the iCRAIG tab

[@Delophantae_]

That's certainly one of the Craigs ever made.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Craigs of all time

[@spingleboygle]

craig

[@playboy-music]

craig of ever made all time™

[@mebs791]

It's just like Craig!

[@nielsmichiels1939]

The most Craig in fact.

[@mattdavis9601]

That MP3 player was sold under a bunch of different brands and they were dirt cheap. I had that same unit during high school; but branded as an Element (the TV brand). I still have it on a shelf somewhere. They were actually really good for circa 2008. Solid state memory, user replaceable AAA battery, user toggleable multi colored backlighting, and computers looked at it as a thumb drive (which is what it was) so it was extremely easy to put music on. You could even use it as mass storage for documents and stuff if you were desperate. High school me would type up assignments at the public library, save them to my MP3 player, then plug it in to a PC at the school library the next morning to print them out. I'm going to finish the rest of the video now; I just wanted to take a moment to endorse the little MP3 player. It was a lot better than you're giving it credit for.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, that is the kind of player basically everyone had at my school in like 2003. It was pretty much the default player. But it could do all the things that make mp3 players successful: reads id3 tags, mass storage, drag'n'drop, replaceable battery.

[@kurisu96]

Thank you for triggering my PTSD with this episode! I used to be a computer salesman in the US and we sold similar Craig "tablet" things at my store. I'd sometimes have to wipe them when they were returned, and boy howdy were they CRAP. Imagine this with a single core Celeron. Yeah. They were like $50 tablets that were about as effective at running as actual stone tablets. I hated these things. The customers hated these things. Everyone hated these things.

[@annikania2682]

I can confirm the “get your grandma an older but decent tablet”. My grandma has used my dads iPad 4 for two years until two weeks ago, when I did replace it with a new iPad 9; because ordering groceries didn’t work anymore - reason being software version of her browser. I know there are probably fixes for that, but my grandma is … not really good with tech, so I did want her to have a stable system (so I don’t have to visit her every weekend doing tech fixes, that has happened before), and also, she has the money to afford a new one, AND I don’t have an old one at the moment that I could spare. The tablet now sits in our kitchen, awaiting a new fate; but most importantly, I don’t get called every other day to order her groceries! Hallelujah!

[@BluePieNinjaTV]

reuse the ipad 4 as a placemat

[@FeatherWait]

@@BluePieNinjaTV Yeah m8 put your craigs on it.

[@Namiz00]

@@BluePieNinjaTV with a green case

[@sdbegotist]

Not a tablet, but had a similar thing happen with my mums laptop. She would get the cheapest Acer laptops and be surprised when it was super slow to load up and run. What did it for her was the Wi-Fi kept breaking on her every couple weeks, so eventually gotten her a nicer, more modern laptop (2020 model) that she could use without all the previous problems cropping up

[@FelineBlue]

@@sdbegotist my mum does the same thing with super cheap tablets and is surprised they run like complete shit after a year lol

[@kit4616]

Oh man, I went through a handful of cheap tablets as a kid and this rocketed back so many memories. I have a nostalgia for these long wait times on crappy screens that hurt my eyes, good times!

[@TechTchno]

Most of my tablet have been cheap RCA devices 😭 I've had RCA tablets since, like, 2015, and my aversion to change keeps me from getting something better 😭😭😭 Plus I can't really afford something expensive right now 😔

[@bluewind7988]

I'm feeling second-hand emotional pain just watching how long this thing takes to do literally anything

[@Lotsoflettersforaname]

I had a Craig boom box for years. It was all I could afford and it served its purpose so I have a place in my heart for Craig lol.

[@rg1124nov]

Same for me. Had tons of Craig mp3 players in the early 2000s

[@LexYeen]

I still have one of their small USB stick MP3 nuggets. Wonder if it still works.

[@kosherre6243]

@@rg1124nov now why would somebody have that many?

[@RatBürgerSk8]

Pretty sure all the Craig products aren't exclusive to their brand, it's just all nameless china tech they order with their name on it. That said, some of that nameless China tech _can_ be pretty decent for the price.

[@iknowdawae893]

as soon as ive seen him trying to install 'real racing 3' and remembered how it tanked my nugget phone i was like 'nah mate dont do it dont do it for the love of god-'

[@s8wc3]

Maybe Google should impose minimum performance requirements for Playstore access to discourage the production of unusable ewaste like this, insane

[@Microwave_Dave]

Are you kidding? Google encourage it to help sell more products. Their garbage software makes perfectly good hardware slow and unusable. I've had two tablets that were unusably slow with the Play Store and all the Google apps slowing them down, but after rooting and installing LineageOS they run just great. You need Root for it to work, but bring up a process viewer and you'll see Google's garbage software running updates and telemetry software in the background, and disabling it suddenly speeds things up.

[@railgun9992]

@@Microwave_Dave Or using micro g instead google play service that help old device performance a lot

[@s8wc3]

@@Microwave_Dave Gapps or not i'd be surprised if the soc in this thing could run android 9 acceptably

[@Microwave_Dave]

@@s8wc3 The OS shouldn't be slowing down a device to the point where it's unusable. Nothing should be running in the background unless it's needed. So yes if Android 9 is too slow to run on this device, it's Google's fault for making it slow.

[@BermieLostella3003]

Ong but that would mean half of all android users would be cut from the play store & google would lose money which would skyrocket apple phone sales because android just got crappier than ever.

[@rebekahjohnson5940]

I just bought a craig portable dvd player from the mid-2000’s from community aid for 13$ and had an mp3 or two of theirs growing up. The dvd player is awesome, the mp3s were a bit jank but I was NOT expecting this. Or them to even exist nowadays

[@aserta]

You have to admit tho... that riding on a sled pulled by chihuahuas automatically makes you the coolest guy around. We're not going to discuss the fact that the Chihuahuas don't have enough height to pull a sled, that's irrelevant.

[@thatsanriosoftboy]

Personally I’d take the chihuahuas cause the little bastards are cute to me. I know how obnoxious they can be (I have one, she barks at nothing, Lily is very much a little fat idiot) but god I love those little hell creatures.

[@B4dr4bbit]

Give me the Chihuahua army, they can't be stopped.

[@GhostBoyDeluxe]

I once had a tablet like this and gave it to my mom. She said she was thankful for it but she told me everything on it ran slowly but she was still able to use it. The speeds of the tablet are exactly like the iCraig. I felt so bad for her that I threw it out and gave her a brand new iPad Air.

[@TechTchno]

Was it an RCA Voyager Pro or an RCA Voyager III by chance? /hj

[@GhostBoyDeluxe]

@@TechTchno I’m not sure about the model but it was definitely an RCA

[@TechTchno]

@@GhostBoyDeluxe Hahaha I thought so! I've been using RCA tablets since, like, 2015, so I'm used to how slow they are, hhsjHSOSJZI 😭 I love my little piece of junk though, they longest one has lasted me is around 3.5 years so I really squeeze as much life out of it as I can

[@I-have_phonophobia]

I also use a ipad air!

[@Astro_547]

7:05 Craig can't even run Candy crush 💀💀💀

[@EvexiansVideoworks]

If i said, „im watching this on an ipad4.“ You could believe me. THAT THING PERFORMS LIKE A CHAD.

[@FancyOctopus5]

I work at a catalog company in warehousing, and we sell boatloads of Craig and Naxa products. All of them are stinky tablets, music players, speakers, headphones, and more. The most offensive I've seen is a camera binoculars by Craig.

[@MushroomSnake2077]

Is this the real world manifestation of the silicone shortage? It's like the last of the last knockoffs to be made of old leftover or repurposed mobile processors that were too outdated to be used in anything "new"

[@vadnegru]

MT65xx family is responsible for all that crap since 2014. I would say in 2015 it were usable but it's should be illegal in 2020

[@PinkAgaricus]

​@vadnegru Mediatek Funeral Services (ala Smoorez who actually has a tattoo of an MT6580 on his arm) That Mediatek chip is our favorite punching bag.

[@InsertTitleHereTV]

This Craig is like that one friend where you have a chat, but then they devolve into an hour long story. Then they ask you a question, but before you can answer, they devolve into *another* hour long story. A true Craig.

[@dogdog357]

Ah, the midwest goodbye

[@t-ckimme]

Reminds me of my old rca 9 inch something. Ran like an abandoned Cadillac firing up and it had less ram than an og iPhone, but for 15$ it was damn near a steal

[@computernerdinside]

One thing that bogs down old or crappy devices, is once you connect, those droids love to start updating in the background. I've found if you let it sit on a charger asleep for an hour or so they become considerably better. Still offensively slow, but not as bad.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I threw some unofficial Lineage port on my ancient Samsung and it ran noticeably faster. Most likely because it was without TouchWiz and the other bloatware.

[@PinkAgaricus]

The solution to this is to turn off any form of auto-update on WiFi. I have Auto Update turned off for both Play Store and system updates. I manual update everything.

[@lardman9734]

Frank is running Craig software? everything makes so much sense now

[@Kummahndough]

The "iCraig" sounds like a meme name that Wade would give this thing, but no. It's just its name. It's not even a joke. What a world we live in.

[@Y-two-K]

Wade? I just realized after over a year of watching DankPods that I had no clue what his name was lol.

[@namethatisntmyrealname.9574]

​@@Y-two-K I've been watching him for over 2 and I just found out as well

[@Kalvinjj]

@@Y-two-K I had realized it (through comments too) ages ago, and forgot it, then learned that again, forgot it then.... keep repeating.

[@kidwolf0015]

It's made worse when you realize that both ICraig AND Craig labeled tablets exist.... Like, can somebody explain to me what the difference is? They all appear to be the same models.... Why do some seemingly proudly omit the the "I" from the logo?

[@Kalvinjj]

@@kidwolf0015 To be honest I would say that it's less about pride in omitting the "i" there, and more like some slight shame to not want to be yet another 2000s onwards iAnything of whatever exists.

[@negativefloof5033]

Not only is it a half version of a free operating system, it's a half version of a at the time this was made 2 year old free operating system

[@yarp1246]

The pain this man goes through just to entertain us lol

[@qu1253]

I feel the aggravation with modern games needing to update all the time. I decided I would play games on my Xbox Series S while I was home for the holidays. Had to wait over an hour for the damn thing to finish updating, and then had to wait even longer for my games to download all of their updates. Like, bruh, I just want to play a few missions in Halo MCC.

[@Chironexe]

You can just... not update the game. I see no problem with developers fixing their games and/or adding new content.

[@vadnegru]

PS could do updates while sleeping, see if that box can do this too.

[@kovmenius]

@@vadnegru it can kek

[@qu1253]

@candyman If it can't update, it literally won't do anything at all.

[@contra9]

​@@qu1253 so many times you install a game it basically installs 200 megs to allow playing 1 quick game with the idea you'll be hooked, and then starts auto downloading a multi gig update afterwards with no options, or even getting to the main screen. It fucking sucks so much. I uninstall whenever a dev does that.

[@tubaterry]

So I rebooted my phone halfway through the first CRAIG loading screen just to see... and I had it unlocked before CRAIG showed you his Checking for Updates screen

[@RetroPC]

Easily the best channel I've discovered this year by far. You are incredibly entertaining, you review the most ridiculous stuff that I didn't even realize was ridiculous, and I pretty much love you. 😂 Keep up the amazing content! Thank you!

[@thelemoneater]

I've been thinking of upgrading my 4 year old Motorola that costed 150 euros at the time, but watching this makes it look as smooth as butter lol, might be able to squeeze another year out of it.

[@emmerile]

I had a very similar tablet in 2012 I think, it's crazy that this one made in 2020 looks exactly like one made 11 years ago.

[@braydenchancellor6658]

I got my very own Craig recently and I love it. It's a radio/ cd player/ portable black and white radio TV all in one. It does everything but wash the car. And through a series of cables, adapters, and modulators. I played mortal combat on it's beautiful 5 inch b/w display.

[@c4lg54]

That is insanely impressive. Hats off to you, my friend

[@xXbrokenvoidXx]

Would be interesting to play the original isometric Fallout games on it.

[@MajinStrach]

This is now the go to present brand for any Craig I have to buy for. Craig on!

[@mistermatix8241]

I could almost hear the 1 Grit getting revved up for action! That screen was just asking for it! That is pathetically slow for a "wooo" QUAD CORE. It begs the question......Quad Core WHAT? Apples? Potatoes? Spoons? Looks like Frank has met her speed match in life!

[@kowhaifan1249]

The Intel i-0001

[@virgilepiaux150]

CraigCores™

[@mistermatix8241]

@@virgilepiaux150 whatever they're worth

[@kowhaifan1249]

@@mistermatix8241 they're worth their weight in pyrite

[@AnonymousMod.]

It's probably the complete lack of RAM, and shitty slow as hell storage

[@thomasmiller8476]

I'll admit it I don't stay long on most youtube channels but my friend showed me this channel like two years ago and I've watched almost all of the videos released since. The aftershow is always a wonderful treat. Keep up the great work!

[@lemonadesnake]

2:25 Android 9 was launched in 2018, so thats like 5 years off

[@theColeHardTruth]

When the iCraig finished booting and the timer appeared again for the updates, I lost it. That was goddamn hilarious 😂

[@cmooris]

Listening to Dank angrily screaming my name for just over 10 minutes is a mixture of pure entertainment & guilt that I'm taking too long to load ✳️

[@LifeBulb]

This iCraig was manufactured around the same time, DankPods started popping off. Truly a match made perfect!

[@UK.RoadsCyclingandTransport]

I would throw this across the room multiple times because of frustration

[@kinanemaladane258]

This guy just lights up your mood every time you watch him 🤣🤣🤣

[@NitroMemes]

Ong

[@Holdenwhite96]

yes!

[@Anna-Mates]

lol so true! I'm so glad I discovered his channel

[@lukasegeling5205]

I have an actual 1st gen Samsung tablet, the Galaxy Tab 8.9. It's about the same age as the iPad 4 and it too still hangs out. It loves freezing when its singular gigabyte of RAM gets too full and is painfully slow at times, but the battery still works well enough and it can handle games of its period. And just to show how disgusting the iCraig's screen is, the smaller Galaxy Tab 8.9 has a 1280x800 screen, which still pales compared to the 3840x1644 of my current phone. I also have a Nintendo DS Lite that I've had for 2/3 of my life and it still runs like mint, crazy battery life included.

[@schmatzler]

I have a Nexus 7 tablet from 2013 and that thing is miles better than this piece of crap.

[@itsmoses7973]

DS Lite’s battery aged surprisingly well. I don’t know how a 15+ years old battery still works today.

[@warpath7115]

I, too, have a DS lite I got years ago off ebay and it still has that absurd battery life that'll last hours of gameplay. And to think pictochat still works too, no wifi necessary lol.

[@NotOkayChamp]

0:20 That MP3 player unlocked a part of my childhood... That play button and little flick knob at the top jogged my memory clear as day. I had so many memories in my elementary school day with that thing... I didn't know it was a Craig 🤣

[@-themightymittens-]

1:48 No freakin' way I think I have this exact tablet case XD Well mine doesn't have a camera hole and it's smaller but same material, layout, everything. Probably made in the same factory.

[@CodeMarbles]

10:14 Scarlet Fire Jumpscare

[@ThatDroid]

I’m glad to tell You they have a whole range of tablets and even a laptop

[@ishkar5k]

oh no... i can only imagine how awful a craig laptop would ve

[@ThatDroid]

@@ishkar5k boost this to him so he can see it and get one 🤣 maybe the replacement eepc

[@xinyyc]

Is Frankie enjoying her hammock? Seriously looking into just MAKING a tablet out of Raspberry Pi and ubuntu or something these days. 40 bucks gets you more processing power than 1000 bucks will get you in a "proper" tablet. I only know a little bit of programming but all my friends have 3D printers and are aching for reasons to use 'em, a tablet made out of a Raspberry Pi 4 and its touch screen would be bulky but it'll probably work better than CRAIG!

[@kowhaifan1249]

Dew it

[@djneo92nl]

What 1000 Bucks tablet is slower then a Raspberry Pi ?

[@Sean-Ax]

oooh, has anyone completed a project like that?? I wanna see a homemade Raspberry Pi Pad.

[@blakksheep736]

Sounds great.

[@itizjuan]

@@djneo92nl android tablets aren't just good in general.

[@atlasenneagram8289]

THE THICK ACCENT THAT COMES OUT WHEN HE STARTED TO RECORD WITH THE ICRAIG LMFAOOO

[@NoobyNot]

I can't lie, I thought the title said Toilet in it and not Tablet. I was applauding Craig for going where no other audio company has gone, just for my hopes to be dashed by reality. Good video Dank!

[@alexgravitos]

got me nostalgic about my old chinese tablet i had back in the day, it had a keyboard case too

[@HAA400]

Nah nah nah @10:30 I swear to god thst he looked exactly like Rick astley

[@RNOP_hello]

I just saw my first Craig. It was a CD player/Radio speaker thingy, and it was backstage at my dance performance.

[@TheRealGirlWeeb]

THE RETURN OF CRAIG

[@manni6510]

Craig never fails to mesmerise and disappoint me at the same time

[@xyzr_3808]

Real

[@calmdownwoodywereyourfriends]

i cant even imagine how long the recording was. bless you man

[@badzylla2072]

DUDE I HAD THAT LIKE 8 YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS A KID, it's so weird to see something both in Australia and tunisia

[@thalla9749]

judging by the keyboard case i used to have a similar tablet, exact case too! however it wasn't craig (some other shitty company tho the loading screens were literally ads for their own built-in library app which i've never opened) and def wasn't a "2020" model but it had 1GB RAM and 4 GB storage, never seen anything from that brand again tho and i've forgotten the name already so

[@mhammadalloush5104]

Is it called prestigio or something like that, IIRC they used cheap shitty Allwinner SOCs that could barely get out of their own way, at the time it was eeeeh nowadays no not at all.

[@Failure-management]

And that's literally half the storage of the device im currently using

[@lemonlimecrime]

I had an RCA tablet similar to this Craig thing and 🤢🤢🤢🤢 nope bud thing sucked sooo bad

[@Uufda651]

The different pronunciations of Craig always brings a smile to my face. In the US it's pronounced Creg but apparently in AU it's pronounced Crayg. Silly little difference but I always get a kick out of it.

[@LordofDiamondsMetal]

I'm American and have always said it like "Crayg"

[@Uufda651]

@@LordofDiamondsMetal huh. Maybe it's a Midwest thing instead of a US thing, then.

[@bread8979]

9:52 “why is my icraig so expensive” 😭

[@achannelwithaprofilepictur6253]

“Why is my icraig so high”.

[@ThoughtsGoneIntrusive.]

Imagine how funny it is if Dankpods made a video recorded with that iCraig tablet.

[@cinnamonnoir2487]

This is just about my favorite kind of video on DankPods. I'm so glad Craig has remained in business all these years; something about the quality of these trinkets being just barely above "worthless" makes it extra hilarious to see them get critiqued. Merry Craigmas, everybody.

[@TheSektorz]

High-quality stuff, Craig! An ol' mate you can trust! I'm no joke just setting up a new iPad Air as I'm watching this and boiiiii the performance is totally on par! That's raw quad-core husky power for ya! Edit: I have a 10-year-old iPad mini 2 that I use on my treadmill and... this 2020 iCraig seems to load KZbin even slower than it! Impressive!!! Edit 2: (I can't believe I have more to say, but) I recognize this generic, cheap, gabrage chinese tablet keyboard! One of the first bootleg tablets I bought back in 2012 had the exact same one. It's very forward-thinking of Craig to still use them in 2020.

[@grumpyoldwizard]

Craig used to be a "junk" brand in the 1960-70's, in the USA.

[@azmifarhan1257]

They apparently still are now

[@Nitrooooooogen]

@@azmifarhan1257 yup

[@CantankerousDave]

They’re still around. And still craptastic.

[@brziperiod]

To quote dank: what was good new, stays good old. What was shit new, is usually shit old. Or "Quality Preserves Itself"

[@jiroup7390]

2:21 android 9 was released around 2018

[@re.liable]

3:56 you shouldn't have connected that to wifi 😂

[@kpokemon2854]

Just when we thought Craig couldn't get better... It did.

[@DrxSlump]

That was made during the pandemic, feels like something from around 2011