I bought an Unbranded Rugged Android Phone for $25...how well does it run in 2022?
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Timestamps or chapters are integrated into the video now showing each segment dedicated to this device.
This one went a bit overtime because of the durability test, but in any case feel free to use the timestamps so you can skip to wherever you need to be. If you are on desktop they should appear as chapters. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't.
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WELCOME back to another in-depth phone review. This time I have a phone that has no name. Nothing. It's Unknown. We know the Model Number being an "A8" - but that is pretty much it.
I bought this phone for $25 from a fairly far away Cash Converters store and I wondered if this would have been a decent device for the price or a complete lemon.
And there is only one way to find that out, so grab a snack and a drink and relax as I ramble and talk about this thicc phone that may or may not break when it hits the floor.
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Apps to test on your device:
The one that usually shows everything -
CPU System Info: bit.ly/3BYfdaZ
Device Info HW: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
CPU-Z: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Geekbench: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
QuickShortcutMaker: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Activity Launcher: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Secret Codes: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Stock & Inventory App: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Files extracted from the phone on the Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/A8-Waterp...
INTERNET ARCHIVE: archive.org/details/@smoorez
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
UA-cam 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
Be good people!
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SOCIAL:
Instagram: s.moorez
Email: ngage3650@gmail.com
My second channel:
/ @smoorez2
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Music/Video:
Outro:
Mick Gordon - Cultist Base (Doom Eternal Soundtrack)
Speaker Tests:
Mick Gordon - BFG Division (DOOM 2016 Soundtrack)
Video Test:
4K Video In Costa Rica by Jacob + Katie Schwarz
• COSTA RICA IN 4K 60fps...
Camera Test Background:
Andrew & Simon Hale - L.A Noire Main Menu Theme
Joke Video:
Literally the Dancing Scene in Morbius. No further explanation needed there.
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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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#WELCOME #Phone #Review - Розваги
(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
UA-cam 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!
Fine, just fine... 😉
Yes just like my old Nokia....😅🖐️
Like my old vivo lag as hell
Like the $2 smartphone that you reviewed earlier
Im guessing it will have a mt6580
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.
woah that's a killer giveaway!
I mean for a free phone, that's pretty darn good
For $25, if it turns on, makes calls and connects to the internet, it's probably a pretty good deal.
Yeah. Especially for the target demographic they seem to be going after
just buy a secondhand old redmi or google nexus phone,much better value than unbranded device
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
@@Villager_U neither of those are rugged and waterproof for $25
Yea but lemon good
"You don't have fingerprint, you don't have *voice unlock*, you don't have anything like that."
"It's just the usual options: slide, *voice unlock*, pattern, pin password."
Schrödinger's voice unlock
Glad I’m not the only one that noticed that 😂😂
If using voice unlock i can't make my phone react exclusively to "unlock you piece of shit" i am not interested on it.
@@Ferrari255GTO lol
I used to have a similiar phone 8 years ago. Bought it for almost 170$. 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.
Heartstone is't a lightweight game for android, GTA SA is unironically lighter to run.
It has 8GB
It's the "H2O SUBMERSIBLE A1", also known as the "Titan smartphone".
The UI is similar to my Cherry mobile Titan TV
At least one person here knows what it is!
But the model number is A8 then how is it A1?
that aged poorly 💀
@@tylern6420 Omg oh wow.. yeah... aged as well as milk in summer.
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 😎👍
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!
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!
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 :)
41:17 From this point you know that this is truly the only opponent to Nokia 3310
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.
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..
Always great to see a new upload!
10:00 was an unbeatable reference. Bravo.
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.
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)
I just subbed but wanted to say thanks for posting the files from the phone. Gives me something to look at
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
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
Why did I watch this in full, sitting on the couch? Nice vid man
I see you watch Vice Grip Garage lol? Great video man
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.
Yoooo! The VGG Derek plug just gained you a subscriber! 🤣
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.
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.
It's around 5 years old, so maybe those seals aren't in mint condition anymore.
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.
@@acumenium8157 why can we have well pretty much waterproof cameras, (like gopro) but not phones?
Bought a Land Rover branded one of these for my son while he was at agricultural college.... lasted the course very well.
9:59 DEREK DETECTED
A what?
I was so excited to see him lol
@@kylebryant2072 good Ole vgg
SMOOREZ is the DankPods equivalent for tech😂
SMOOORES has Ripley, DankPods has Frank. Both good pets
That boot up music in the end of the fall test sounds like victory music.
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.
Great video!
Gotta love a good cashies video
the record mic its actualy very good, that can beat flagship phones with that mic
Video gave me a song I enjoyed. It is interesting to see what the phone can do
9:57 nice vice grip garage reference
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.
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
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 😅
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
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
@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
@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.
@Mr Pais owh we have that too.... 4G taste like 3G. We often joke it takes 6G for better 5G.... 😊
@Mr Pais
Nice, but my country shut down 3g network so yeah
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
Niceee Vice Grip Garage is gold
I love the Vice Grip Garage reference
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.
Cashies has some awesome stuff. What a great phone.
"i got it at cashies mate"
(2.2 to 4.2- minecraft 1.10, terraria, bad pigges and geometry dash) (geometry dash can be a lag game)
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.
The Welcome Phone is like Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, being better than it is not a standard
NFC and a proper earphone socket! That alone is worth more than 25$
Wait was that Derek form vice grip garage 😂😂 my man use one of my favorite UA-camrs
Finally a video that shows how to sync a phone with a cat. Lol
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.
@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.
gotta love a good cashies find
I love how Derek eventually appears in your videos :D #itsfine #probablynot #factory
Emergency sos usually wants a triple tap on the camera button.
Even after all these years, my m8 is rocking those bandages
Did you rescue any golf clubs while at cashies?
45:25 "that's what she said" 🤣🤣
Love your cat
I have this weird feeling in the UK these were used by courier companies to scan parcels.
It's actually a good phone. I did not expect that at all.
Oh I remember selling these under the cat brand for like 300€ back in 2013-2016
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...
Indeed, it's Oukitel WP9
Holy shit, that's almost three times as much as my Tab S6 Lite they're advertising
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.
I have an idea for ALL Android phones you review from now. Check if they are Play certified, either with a newer version of Google Play or with Google Play's online certification list.
They wont lol
@@samholdsworth420 That's sort of the point.
@@robertplayz9157 ヘ（。□°）ヘ
@Gomam0n yeah you should download shady APK files and side load them DUH
@Gomam0n I don't download anything from the Google Play store 😂.
I'm one of the few people that doesn't have any apps installed on their phone. Except call of duty mobile/foobar2000/VLC player
I watched this video last night and today a customer came in with that same kind of phone!
Of course we want to exists. How else would we be able to see more Welcome devices?
“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.”
you can test on old phones swing frog. swing frog requires at least android 2.1
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.
2g here in romania works untill 2025 and 3g untill 2028
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
Hey... A lemon will always outperform such phones...
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.
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
These specs Remind me of most The phones on “Whis”
The Ui and inside stuff just look alike Lenovo A916
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
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.
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.
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.
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
I have a Xiaomi Mi Max 2 from 2017. Is still amazingly decent to use without much compromises.
9:36 that sticker is on every European product even my iPhone
i haven't seen the morbius movie but 2 references to my country (costa rica) surprised me lmao
Yeah, morb about it.
Maybe the catepillar cell phone rugged cell phone is what it may resemble
26:06 Mate, you're in the Jell-O factory!
So the ringtones... they remember me of an older xperia phone
remember me of the first motorola smartphone my mom gifted to my dad
honey wake up, new smoorez cheapo phone review
riplys eyes there GLOWING riply is both alpha and omega
points if you get that refrence
I support your efforts on putting the stuff of the phone online. However, can you do this to the older videos?
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 :)
@@SMOOREZ I’m glad you preserve the files. Most UA-camrs don’t give a grain of sand about preservation. Salute your efforts.
i think this is the discovery v9 and there are multiple designs with the the same specs and names
Scar thigh at the bottom look like some one used it to open beers
Those scratches on the phone look like they are from someone opening beer bottle caps :)
I'm into software, and in seeing the home screen, it looks like Android 4 KitKat.
As a game suggestion ballons tower defense 5 can probably lag any prone if you get far enugh
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
smoorez: it doesnt have voice unlock. brick boi: *has voice unlock*
Did I just read the thumbnail right ?
"Out perform a lemon" 😂🤣
Don't underestimate the power of a lemon.
9:59 its Derek! aha
Dank is that you?
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
can you find a cheap snapdragon phone and provide a link for it?
Extreme beauty mode
👀