*Sorry for the whining noise coming from the calculator when I first powered it on, I should've thought that didn't sound right, it does go away after the Update* And I said "HIGHLIGHTED" instead of underlined somewhere in the video. oops. Thank you also to all the folks who donated to see this, you are all mad lads and I love you all and I absolutely always love making these reviews I can't thank you all enough! I hope you all did enjoy this one but I can now say "I have played GTA San Andreas and DOOM on a Calculator". What a world we live in. Let me know what you thought about this thing below! Keep being awesome and I'll see you next time :) TIMESTAMPS: Rambly Intro, Thanking folks, Disclaimers etc: 0:00 Current Pricing, Listing & Description: 2:03 Unboxing: 3:18 First Look & Very Important Instructions: 4:22 Around the Calculator: 5:31 Power On, Buttons, UI & First Impressions: 6:49 The device slowly dying, Apps & Notifications: 8:41 No Wallpapers, Performance, WiFi, Keys & System Apps: 9:49 Settings: 11:00 The Actual Calculator app & Android Calculator: 12:18 Rambly Update time - I destroyed the first unit: 13:35 Contacting the Seller, Changes to the listing & Warnings: 15:09 Power On Again, Incorrect RAM Advertised & Last update: 18:00 Apps I've installed, the Lag & AppChina: 19:16 Browser Test: 20:36 Attempted UA-cam Test, Calendar, Clock etc: 21:38 File Manager, Hidden MicroSD Card Slot & 4K Video Playback: 22:40 Speaker Test & PDF Readers: 24:27 Some weird keyboard, Sound Recorder etc: 26:25 Attempted Geekbench Test: 27:42 Checking the Specs & QuickShortcutMaker: 28:47 Freedoom, trying to map the keys and OTG Support: 30:48 Gaming Test - DOOM: 31:40 Gaming Test - DOOM II: 32:45 Gaming Test - GTA San Andreas: 34:00 Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 36:15 Conclusion: 37:24 Teardown & Investigation: 38:57 It lives on, Full Specifications & Final Thoughts: 44:10 Thanking folks again & Timestamp stuff: 45:03 Rambly Outro: 46:21 System files and Apps to test your phone are in the description also :) Be good people!
FYI you can remove the whine in audacity, either by manually deleting that specific frequency where the whine occurs or by using noise reduction and sampling from quiet bits with just the whine.
I just wanna say, that Chinese dude is one hell of a good dude. You broke the calculator because of user error and he still tried to help you as much as possible and even offered a refund. Much better customer service than Amazon.
Once I bought a $50 graphics tablet and wanted to update the firmware on it, I contacted the brand's tech support, they helped me and gave me the firmware. I updated it, and after that some of the non-critical functions stopped working, but new ones started working. I reported this to tech support and one day later they refunded me 100% of the cost of the product and I still have it. I have been using AliExpress for more than 10 years, and any problems have always been solved without much trouble.
@@lurch789 I'm pretty sure you can buy a thousand positive reviews for less money than it cost them to pay that employee for the hour he spent on helping out.
Have you ever... um... contacted... Amazon? They'll bend over backwards to help you out, refund many things with no return at all, and will refund nearly anything within 30 days at no cost as long as it's not as described, damaged, or DOA.
How was he going to know you can't use a smart charger to charge it? That's a serious flaw in the product itself, and it doesn't even come with its own charger.
You know the first computers were basically meant as a fancy programmable calculator that people found ways to play games or have fun with. So this is technically a return to form with computer-based calculators.
As an 80's kid it still blows my mind to see games like GTA run on a cheap android calculator. Back in the day you had to have a pretty beefy computer to run it.
the PC port was broken so no matter what type of PC you had the game itself was pointless the only reason why I bothered with that junk to mod it, which was a mistake since I wish I wasted that time on something more useful in life .... if anything PC gaming was an cancerous addiction that I wish I never bothered with at all and I am glad I stopped back in 2019, sadly took me 15 or so years to learn a lesson that I am burning my life away on harmful and stupid things
Thats the nice things about android, its open and can run on everything. My local supermarket has scanners that are basically old android phones with custom launcher and scanner that connects via usb.
It's great that you covered this. Another UA-camr said the SD card slot didn't work. Seems there are different versions. I straight away though "That's what she said" too.
Just the kind of devices I love: adapted/moddable hardware, chinese software & hidden functionality! Thanks for doing so in-depth reviews, even with such limited devices. Somehow you got a 47min video without the camera test, it was impressive to see how much you could do despite the limitations! I wonder if the calculator buttons could be mapped using root access, it would be funny af
What a shame that the calculator buttons don't work in most apps....that would actually be kind of neat to play a few games with maybe if they could be remapped.
its actually stupid to try or bother because this already is an advanced calculator that you can enable with a switch ... why the f would I bother with a silly app then even beyond that fry the unit trying to map keys ...
I love the fact that you included the "yeah, alright, yeah, right" clip, that thing is so versatile lol, ashens has it on a macro button, whenever stupid shit happens in a thing he plays on streams, he presses it
27:00 brilliant 🤣 .... for some reason it reminded me of Scotty from Star Trek trying to get a computer to respond to him by chatting to it via an attached mouse. 👍
"It's your fault for buying a super janky product from us" - this is 100% the standard Chinese business mindset. Or as I saw someone post elsewhere (& it's quite apt really): In the West if you sell a product, you're happy because you beat the competition; in China, you're happy because you beat the customer".
The charger you used was within spec. Even a 150W charger will only output that power if the device it's connected to asks for it. Your charger supports higher voltages but it will only output them if the device is compatible with QC/PD/vooc/whatever and instructs the charger to change its voltage. They make a device that asks the charger to send higher voltages and then write in the instructions to not use said chargers? Wut
This is the second device I have seen that uses the USB C plug, but has issues with the power rating. The other was a mini laptop and a fast charger would damage it.
To be fair they did at least update the listing when both you and they figured out it's quirks, so now any future jank calculator buyers have less of an excuse since they basically told you it's a jank product that's very picky.
Yeah like once they did that I was amazed they did it so quickly so good on them for that but if anyone buys this then just know what jank you are purchasing :)
"I don't know if I'm in a horror movie or not" . I thought you added that music bit in post or another video was playing at the same time... What a remarkable startup bit.
The only reason I could think of for putting Android in a calculator would be if it was done in a stealthy way. Press the on button, and it looks like a normal calculator, no more, no less. Press a secret combination of buttons, and up comes Android instead. I could imagine students buying these when exam season comes around.
Scientific calculator would require more buttons with symbols, which would increase cost. They probably had layout for basic store calculators, and they went with that.
I can't imagine a single reason to use this device instead of a regular calculator or the cheapest smartphone. If the manufacturer had installed a graphing calculator program and made it possible to use a keyboard, this device would make some sense.
Cheetah mobile if I remember correctly are the same people that made clean master on the app store which was taken down due to a major data leak I believe.
HOLY COW! The image that appeared upon bootup reminds me of when I flashed a shady firmware .iso file from a Thai website onto a Q88 tablet which was bootlooping, except it said "ALLWINNER A23 DUAL CORE" which also made sense.
19:30... I was under the impression that *any* button that Android reacts to (ostensibly including the 00-9 keys, etc) could be mapped using the Button Mapper app. I have several Android-powered TVs that all allow the green/red/yellow/blue and 0-9 keys, . key, etc. etc. all to be mapped to whatever I like. Long-press on red opens UA-cam, long-press on green opens Hulu, etc.
The 5v 2A thing sounds kinda weird. If you put ANY 5V charger on it, even if it's capable of 3A or 5A, it will only pull the current it needs. You can't damage something with a charger capable of TOO MUCH current. If you put any normal charger on it that's capable of more than 5V, it should only put out higher voltages if the device requests it. They should be totally safe for 5V devices. The only way it could go sideways is if the device actually REQUESTED a voltage that it couldn't handle. Which maybe it does. But .. Wow...
*** - Also, there are UART test points by the "TP" ribbon cable connector, (I think it's the Touch ribbon for the screen connector... there are 4 test points for UART or SPI... which you could connect to & dump the system.. I am sure that is how it was loaded, using pogo pins.. maybe that's what the guy in the chat said.. "Manufacturer programming" or whatever... but having that connection you can prolly do some cool things.. just saying... me personally.. i would prolly keep the screen, the board & battery.. load linux.. and have fun with it
I used to be a regular commenter; but, I haven't been able to carve out 50 minutes to watch a Smoorez video in about a month, since the Jason phone. I finally was able to and I picked this one. It was entertaining. This thing is absolutely jank; but, I kinda like it even though I know it's not much. If it weren't so comically overpriced I'd like to have one to play around with. If they'd spent the extra 3¢ to connect the keypad properly instead of using whatever weird serial connection they went with, it might actually have been worth $60 US. The buttons not working kind of nukes the novelty factor. But one thing that is never nuked, not even from orbit, is Ripley's cuteness. She's a great girl.
What I like about this device is that it's basically going full-circle on the history of computing. Computing started off with calculating machines, evolving into big, room-filling number-crunchers, then getting shrunk-down to desktop and pocket calculator sizes with the companies making those calculators evolving towards minicomputers and microcomputers which then evolved into modern computers and notebooks which then intern evolved into the smartphone. This device stuffs a modern'ish smartphone into a desktop calculator case, completing the circle in that area. Big room-filling mainframes on the other-hand have never really died out with modern and honestly mind-boggling IBM Power CPUS running in huge clusters crunching enormous datasets.
I don’t know how well android supports external numeric keypads, but surely they could hook the keypad up via usb and have it simulate the keypad keys.
@@devicemodder Ouch.. It could have been so much more useful if they'd have spent the few pennies more needed to make it emulate a keypad using USB.. Still, that's what happens when you build to the lowest price possible
then you have to find one that works with serial keypads and works with the custom command set that this calculator uses. yes, the keypad is a variant of serial.
Android doesn't have built in PDF support. But cloud storage apps like Dropbox and file explorers usually have it built in, so there's a good chance you never have to install a dedicated app for it. Strangely, web browsers on Android don't have PDF support even after all this time, when it has been built in to PC web browsers for like a decade. I hate that I have to download a PDF just to view it on my phone.
01:15 - I love the sense of humour these donators have, like - "Coffee maker bottom cracked'! Anton Petrov has one called 'Somekindoftastybiscuit' Hahahaha 👌👍 It's a small thing, but, it tickles me 🤣🤣🤣 😎🇬🇧
And then there's me. Nobody takes a bloke named "ROFLdaniel" seriously, but here I am. Our friends and supporters are what have brought great success to this channel in recent times. I can't speak FOR SMOOREZ but I can tell you that all of you are so appreciated, and that we are very much looking forward to many more years of cheapo tech and mad hax :)
This is so not what I was thinking it was. I can't even really say what it was that I thinking. All I had heard was android calculator being mentioned for several weeks. Lol This was brilliant. A Frankenstein's monster cobbled together. But somehow it works. I rather like it. Would i buy one? No. Lol A bit more ram and functionality plus being able to map the keys would actually make it relatively desirable. On a different note. I sadly had to miss the live stream as I was due to go out for covid and flu jabs When I got back the stream had finished. So totally gutted. 😢
ISN'T IT AMAZING, that.... BIGGER/WELL KNOWN BRANDS of electronics are STILL RELEASING new products with MICRO USB charge ports (and Apple having to be FORCED INTO making an iPhone with USB C)... YET... THIS small/unknown brand releases, yeah... A PIGGIN' CALCULATOR, that has USB C! 😏 😎🇬🇧
Sure, but this having a poorly configured charging setup to go along with usb-c isn't very helpful. Unfortunately C isn't a great standard because there are too many ways and options for manufacturers to configure it which in the best cases can cause a device to not work with every charger (or even sometimes cable) and in the worst cases like this one, can outright damage/kill devices
Engineer 1: What do we have in the world that we can over-complicate with useless tech and an operating system? Engineer 2: What about a calculator? Engineer 1: I was thinking a stapler, but I suppose we can come back to that.
7:16 the buttons actually do seem to be connected to the system, its just that there seems to be no configuration to use it outside of that calculator app
the case is definitely injection moulded, you can see the ejection pin marks on the inside. I'm actually amazed because it isn't that cheap to make a mould, unless you manufacture at great capacity, but they surely aren't selling that many of those are they?
love seeing niche stuff running android XD, I personally own a qin f21 pro (an android 11 keypad phone w/ 4GBs of ram and 64GBs of storage) and i've been using it for almost a year now hahaha. definitely helped reduced some of my screen time as viewing stuff on a small screen is pretty challenging 🤣
Not necessarily. Tablets used to be as small as 7" and this looks to be about that. Maybe was a super low end tablet, or could even be a cheap phone display tacked onto a tablet board.
That's really weird with the charger thing, more current shouldn't do anything it will just use what it needs, and with usb chargers that have 5V, 9V and 12V etc needs to be told from the device to use 9V or whatever, really odd
I'm guessing the first board is designed to work with the standard 12v 2a USB PD chargers and needs to be configured per device, and is obviously not in this case and tells the charger to give more voltage than the actual main board can handle.
Thinking back to when I was in school in the 1980's, the fact you have a PDF and a picture display on the unit, that could be helpful in math class for showing formulas and other answers to a test. Of course it's your life and whatever currency your country uses, so my observations show be used with care.
CM and RM should be MC and MR meaning clear memory and recall memory. the decaled F4210A up5/4down are used on financial calculators that have a switch beneath them on a real calculator and used for Tax functions and decimal place numbers IE 0.0000 0.000 0.00 etc.. :)
I don't understand why they didn't just use the generic usb wrapper for the buttons. Would have cut out a lof of programming and be able to be used with more programs.
i frikin love how they just went like: dude we have lots of old phones/tablets... what should we do?? random dude: calculators! and that's how this "thing" was born. oh china, you do such wonders, the fact that is still working is a miracle. yep you have right, the pen was way better lol XD.
Imagine if you have finished your Mathematics exam paper, and you begin playing GTA San Andreas. The teachers observing will probably have their jaws dropping at how advanced calculators are now.
Wow, Mali-400MP GPU, really haven't seen it for a while. When I'm at high school, I was able to bought my very first tablet that uses Amlogic 8726MX which includes dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU and Mali-400MP2. Now I'm graduated from the college and working for 5 years. Allwinner SoC were never took off at the " high performance" realm (they always ended up like the Snapdragon 888 kind of situation when they're trying to). But their video decoding tech is pretty good. With some fine tweaks by the software dev teams (if the OEM have any), their chips can be very useful in the IoT market. BTW, I think that motherboard is probably a demo board made by Allwinner just to show customers what it can do, and this OEM bought it and repurposed it for this caculator. Since the model name for this board is literally starts with the "AL-A50" and all of the logo when it powers up are Allwinner's.
The most amazing thing is not the product itself, not that it made it from China to Australia in a week, but that Australia post itself didn't take 3 weeks to deliver it.
this feels like it was made simply because the manufacturer had a bunch of giant calculator casings meant for people with poor eyesight they didn't want to throw away.
If they make one that looks more like a 70s calculator I will have to buy one. I'm pretty close to wanting this one, but it looks like a run of the mill calculator for someone with poor eyesight.
Would have been good if you tested the calculator function a bit more, it looked too laggy to be used by a fast paced office user, compared to a traditional calculator.
I love how they allow you to choose between the calculator launcher and random Holo Launcher, lol. Imagine Playstation 5 letting you to start in debug mode. By the way, SMOOREZ. If you like warnings you should get the Royole FlexPai, the first foldable OLED screen phone ever. It is PACKED with warnings as soon as you start it, and some of them are kinda crazy, like: do not charge it folded if weather is cold and things like that. I don't think most are real, but the phone is just extremely fragile (well, pretty much as the Fold 1 press unit).
First thing i do when buy similar devices or stuff and i always, ALWAYS CHECK OUT WHATS THE WATTS AND AMPS FOR CHARGING. Like the earplugs, speakers, ligjts, Everything... damn. You Failed Big Time :D
It's a cool idea if it worked. Stealth gaming at school could be fun. Especially schools that don't like cell phones. It's not a phone it's a calculator.
*Sorry for the whining noise coming from the calculator when I first powered it on, I should've thought that didn't sound right, it does go away after the Update*
And I said "HIGHLIGHTED" instead of underlined somewhere in the video. oops.
Thank you also to all the folks who donated to see this, you are all mad lads and I love you all and I absolutely always love making these reviews I can't thank you all enough!
I hope you all did enjoy this one but I can now say "I have played GTA San Andreas and DOOM on a Calculator". What a world we live in.
Let me know what you thought about this thing below!
Keep being awesome and I'll see you next time :)
TIMESTAMPS:
Rambly Intro, Thanking folks, Disclaimers etc: 0:00
Current Pricing, Listing & Description: 2:03
Unboxing: 3:18
First Look & Very Important Instructions: 4:22
Around the Calculator: 5:31
Power On, Buttons, UI & First Impressions: 6:49
The device slowly dying, Apps & Notifications: 8:41
No Wallpapers, Performance, WiFi, Keys & System Apps: 9:49
Settings: 11:00
The Actual Calculator app & Android Calculator: 12:18
Rambly Update time - I destroyed the first unit: 13:35
Contacting the Seller, Changes to the listing & Warnings: 15:09
Power On Again, Incorrect RAM Advertised & Last update: 18:00
Apps I've installed, the Lag & AppChina: 19:16
Browser Test: 20:36
Attempted UA-cam Test, Calendar, Clock etc: 21:38
File Manager, Hidden MicroSD Card Slot & 4K Video Playback: 22:40
Speaker Test & PDF Readers: 24:27
Some weird keyboard, Sound Recorder etc: 26:25
Attempted Geekbench Test: 27:42
Checking the Specs & QuickShortcutMaker: 28:47
Freedoom, trying to map the keys and OTG Support: 30:48
Gaming Test - DOOM: 31:40
Gaming Test - DOOM II: 32:45
Gaming Test - GTA San Andreas: 34:00
Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 36:15
Conclusion: 37:24
Teardown & Investigation: 38:57
It lives on, Full Specifications & Final Thoughts: 44:10
Thanking folks again & Timestamp stuff: 45:03
Rambly Outro: 46:21
System files and Apps to test your phone are in the description also :)
Be good people!
ok
I failed math too
@@UserT5959 Me too, my friend. Me too.
@@rofldaniel 😊
FYI you can remove the whine in audacity, either by manually deleting that specific frequency where the whine occurs or by using noise reduction and sampling from quiet bits with just the whine.
I really respect the fact that the seller accepted their mistake and updated the listing accordingly.
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@@NolanHOfficial ?
@@rayirth.upside-down Yeah I agree. I thought they would of told him to F off.
I just wanna say, that Chinese dude is one hell of a good dude. You broke the calculator because of user error and he still tried to help you as much as possible and even offered a refund. Much better customer service than Amazon.
Once I bought a $50 graphics tablet and wanted to update the firmware on it, I contacted the brand's tech support, they helped me and gave me the firmware. I updated it, and after that some of the non-critical functions stopped working, but new ones started working. I reported this to tech support and one day later they refunded me 100% of the cost of the product and I still have it. I have been using AliExpress for more than 10 years, and any problems have always been solved without much trouble.
@@lurch789 I'm pretty sure you can buy a thousand positive reviews for less money than it cost them to pay that employee for the hour he spent on helping out.
Have you ever... um... contacted... Amazon?
They'll bend over backwards to help you out, refund many things with no return at all, and will refund nearly anything within 30 days at no cost as long as it's not as described, damaged, or DOA.
How was he going to know you can't use a smart charger to charge it? That's a serious flaw in the product itself, and it doesn't even come with its own charger.
You know the first computers were basically meant as a fancy programmable calculator that people found ways to play games or have fun with. So this is technically a return to form with computer-based calculators.
All computers are just sparkling calculators
It looks janky but this calculator is more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers of the 1980s.
But professor, this is not a computer, it a calculator, I can use it on exam, right?
Joseph Smith actually invented the first calculator computer after the angel Moroni taught him how to solder.
I want your profile pic sir
As an 80's kid it still blows my mind to see games like GTA run on a cheap android calculator. Back in the day you had to have a pretty beefy computer to run it.
the PC port was broken so no matter what type of PC you had the game itself was pointless
the only reason why I bothered with that junk to mod it, which was a mistake since I wish I wasted that time on something more useful in life ....
if anything PC gaming was an cancerous addiction that I wish I never bothered with at all and I am glad I stopped back in 2019, sadly took me 15 or so years to learn a lesson that I am burning my life away on harmful and stupid things
Nowadays GTA San Andreas doesn't even run correctly on Windows 10/11 without patches
I love seeing simple things that are not supposed to run Android actually running Android. It's incredible.
Thats the nice things about android, its open and can run on everything. My local supermarket has scanners that are basically old android phones with custom launcher and scanner that connects via usb.
@@309electronics5cool, iOS is garbage too
Android refrigerator.
Smoorez essentially paid one hundred Aussie dollary-doos for the right to QA test this thing for the seller.
It's great that you covered this. Another UA-camr said the SD card slot didn't work. Seems there are different versions. I straight away though "That's what she said" too.
It's crazy that when you think "android calculator" you would think of a fancy graphic calculator but no
its android. i bet theres plenty of apps for that
@@Chaotecsix yea but nothing can use the keys other than the official app
@@Chaotecsix I mean if the point was to download other apps, then you could just have downloaded it on an android phone 💀
@@JessicaFEREM that's because it uses some form of serial
That's cheaper than the Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus, which has a 47 year old CPU, a 64p display, and worst of all, mini USB!
Mini usb must be a recent edition, i bought one new in 2016 and it had what looked like a headphone jack... it was a 4 bit serial port 🤦
@@DGTelevsionNetwork The TI-84 Plus was released in 2004, but they still sell the older TI-83 Plus model, which is what you must've bought.
You can play super Mario and doom on it tho
That's still a way better calculator than this piece of crap though.
Just the kind of devices I love: adapted/moddable hardware, chinese software & hidden functionality!
Thanks for doing so in-depth reviews, even with such limited devices. Somehow you got a 47min video without the camera test, it was impressive to see how much you could do despite the limitations!
I wonder if the calculator buttons could be mapped using root access, it would be funny af
What a shame that the calculator buttons don't work in most apps....that would actually be kind of neat to play a few games with maybe if they could be remapped.
its actually stupid to try or bother because this already is an advanced calculator that you can enable with a switch ... why the f would I bother with a silly app then even beyond that fry the unit trying to map keys ...
I love the fact that you included the "yeah, alright, yeah, right" clip, that thing is so versatile lol, ashens has it on a macro button, whenever stupid shit happens in a thing he plays on streams, he presses it
27:00 brilliant 🤣 .... for some reason it reminded me of Scotty from Star Trek trying to get a computer to respond to him by chatting to it via an attached mouse. 👍
"It's your fault for buying a super janky product from us" - this is 100% the standard Chinese business mindset. Or as I saw someone post elsewhere (& it's quite apt really): In the West if you sell a product, you're happy because you beat the competition; in China, you're happy because you beat the customer".
In China they have a saying that comes down to "cheat others if you can" ...
Its all about you and the ccp party.. Nothing else..
The charger you used was within spec. Even a 150W charger will only output that power if the device it's connected to asks for it. Your charger supports higher voltages but it will only output them if the device is compatible with QC/PD/vooc/whatever and instructs the charger to change its voltage. They make a device that asks the charger to send higher voltages and then write in the instructions to not use said chargers? Wut
Exactly. It's a regulated power supply!
This is the second device I have seen that uses the USB C plug, but has issues with the power rating. The other was a mini laptop and a fast charger would damage it.
Same opinion: wtf
Yeah I wonder if the calculator device is accidentally requesting higher voltage? They need to fix that too!
To be fair they did at least update the listing when both you and they figured out it's quirks, so now any future jank calculator buyers have less of an excuse since they basically told you it's a jank product that's very picky.
Yeah like once they did that I was amazed they did it so quickly so good on them for that but if anyone buys this then just know what jank you are purchasing :)
"I don't know if I'm in a horror movie or not" . I thought you added that music bit in post or another video was playing at the same time... What a remarkable startup bit.
The only reason I could think of for putting Android in a calculator would be if it was done in a stealthy way. Press the on button, and it looks like a normal calculator, no more, no less. Press a secret combination of buttons, and up comes Android instead. I could imagine students buying these when exam season comes around.
Considering the cost and power, it is quite limited as a calculator. It is odd they went for a basic function calculator.
Scientific calculator would require more buttons with symbols, which would increase cost. They probably had layout for basic store calculators, and they went with that.
since the android hardware is quite dated, it possibly won't be profitable in normal applications anymore
Yes, it's really ridiculous. You can buy a decent scientific calculator for what this thing cost. A Casio for example.
I can't imagine a single reason to use this device instead of a regular calculator or the cheapest smartphone. If the manufacturer had installed a graphing calculator program and made it possible to use a keyboard, this device would make some sense.
Cheetah mobile if I remember correctly are the same people that made clean master on the app store which was taken down due to a major data leak I believe.
HOLY COW! The image that appeared upon bootup reminds me of when I flashed a shady firmware .iso file from a Thai website onto a Q88 tablet which was bootlooping, except it said "ALLWINNER A23 DUAL CORE" which also made sense.
19:30... I was under the impression that *any* button that Android reacts to (ostensibly including the 00-9 keys, etc) could be mapped using the Button Mapper app.
I have several Android-powered TVs that all allow the green/red/yellow/blue and 0-9 keys, . key, etc. etc. all to be mapped to whatever I like.
Long-press on red opens UA-cam, long-press on green opens Hulu, etc.
The 5v 2A thing sounds kinda weird. If you put ANY 5V charger on it, even if it's capable of 3A or 5A, it will only pull the current it needs. You can't damage something with a charger capable of TOO MUCH current. If you put any normal charger on it that's capable of more than 5V, it should only put out higher voltages if the device requests it. They should be totally safe for 5V devices. The only way it could go sideways is if the device actually REQUESTED a voltage that it couldn't handle. Which maybe it does. But
.. Wow...
I apologised to someone before that said what I did was wrong which yeah it's a jank thing I should have been more careful.
*** - Also, there are UART test points by the "TP" ribbon cable connector, (I think it's the Touch ribbon for the screen connector... there are 4 test points for UART or SPI... which you could connect to & dump the system.. I am sure that is how it was loaded, using pogo pins.. maybe that's what the guy in the chat said.. "Manufacturer programming" or whatever... but having that connection you can prolly do some cool things.. just saying... me personally.. i would prolly keep the screen, the board & battery.. load linux.. and have fun with it
I used to be a regular commenter; but, I haven't been able to carve out 50 minutes to watch a Smoorez video in about a month, since the Jason phone. I finally was able to and I picked this one. It was entertaining. This thing is absolutely jank; but, I kinda like it even though I know it's not much. If it weren't so comically overpriced I'd like to have one to play around with. If they'd spent the extra 3¢ to connect the keypad properly instead of using whatever weird serial connection they went with, it might actually have been worth $60 US. The buttons not working kind of nukes the novelty factor. But one thing that is never nuked, not even from orbit, is Ripley's cuteness. She's a great girl.
What I like about this device is that it's basically going full-circle on the history of computing. Computing started off with calculating machines, evolving into big, room-filling number-crunchers, then getting shrunk-down to desktop and pocket calculator sizes with the companies making those calculators evolving towards minicomputers and microcomputers which then evolved into modern computers and notebooks which then intern evolved into the smartphone. This device stuffs a modern'ish smartphone into a desktop calculator case, completing the circle in that area. Big room-filling mainframes on the other-hand have never really died out with modern and honestly mind-boggling IBM Power CPUS running in huge clusters crunching enormous datasets.
I don’t know how well android supports external numeric keypads, but surely they could hook the keypad up via usb and have it simulate the keypad keys.
this one unfortunately isn't usb. It's Serial.
@@devicemodder Ouch.. It could have been so much more useful if they'd have spent the few pennies more needed to make it emulate a keypad using USB.. Still, that's what happens when you build to the lowest price possible
normally you need an input mapper to make buttons work in games. might mess up the calculator mappings though, if it works at all
then you have to find one that works with serial keypads and works with the custom command set that this calculator uses. yes, the keypad is a variant of serial.
Android doesn't have built in PDF support. But cloud storage apps like Dropbox and file explorers usually have it built in, so there's a good chance you never have to install a dedicated app for it.
Strangely, web browsers on Android don't have PDF support even after all this time, when it has been built in to PC web browsers for like a decade. I hate that I have to download a PDF just to view it on my phone.
01:15 - I love the sense of humour these donators have, like - "Coffee maker bottom cracked'! Anton Petrov has one called 'Somekindoftastybiscuit' Hahahaha 👌👍
It's a small thing, but, it tickles me 🤣🤣🤣
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And then there's me. Nobody takes a bloke named "ROFLdaniel" seriously, but here I am.
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This is so not what I was thinking it was. I can't even really say what it was that I thinking. All I had heard was android calculator being mentioned for several weeks. Lol
This was brilliant. A Frankenstein's monster cobbled together. But somehow it works. I rather like it. Would i buy one? No. Lol
A bit more ram and functionality plus being able to map the keys would actually make it relatively desirable.
On a different note. I sadly had to miss the live stream as I was due to go out for covid and flu jabs
When I got back the stream had finished. So totally gutted. 😢
ISN'T IT AMAZING, that.... BIGGER/WELL KNOWN BRANDS of electronics are STILL RELEASING new products with MICRO USB charge ports (and Apple having to be FORCED INTO making an iPhone with USB C)... YET... THIS small/unknown brand releases, yeah... A PIGGIN' CALCULATOR, that has USB C! 😏
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Sure, but this having a poorly configured charging setup to go along with usb-c isn't very helpful. Unfortunately C isn't a great standard because there are too many ways and options for manufacturers to configure it which in the best cases can cause a device to not work with every charger (or even sometimes cable) and in the worst cases like this one, can outright damage/kill devices
Looks like some type of orange pi device. I always like seeing what people come up with for building devices like these.💯😊
With mod, using the calc keys as input, a sampler comes to mind
Engineer 1: What do we have in the world that we can over-complicate with useless tech and an operating system?
Engineer 2: What about a calculator?
Engineer 1: I was thinking a stapler, but I suppose we can come back to that.
Engineer 3: I was thinking of a door
@@notsoseagatey Engineer 4: We can't do a door, it might end up on Lock Picking Lawyer...
Engineer 3: Then how about a window?@@cujoedaman
@@notsoseagatey Engineer 4: Okay, but ONLY if it's running Windows!
7:16 the buttons actually do seem to be connected to the system, its just that there seems to be no configuration to use it outside of that calculator app
33:08 Every time I hear this song, the flash back of that damn *house* comes back and haunts me.
the case is definitely injection moulded, you can see the ejection pin marks on the inside. I'm actually amazed because it isn't that cheap to make a mould, unless you manufacture at great capacity, but they surely aren't selling that many of those are they?
its a mass produced calculator for a chinese market, not sure what you and this dude in the video is about ... it is what is suppose to be
3:16 that cat looks like a loading screen, and the way his hands just appeared feels like his hands just loaded
31:19 the keys were definitely working, you were smashing in some numbers there 😂
love seeing niche stuff running android XD, I personally own a qin f21 pro (an android 11 keypad phone w/ 4GBs of ram and 64GBs of storage) and i've been using it for almost a year now hahaha. definitely helped reduced some of my screen time as viewing stuff on a small screen is pretty challenging 🤣
The Allwinner processor was the most popular processor used in generic tablets made in China, so the motherboard is probably a repurposed tablet.
The screen is too small for a tablet. You know how China is. They have a ton of components easily purchased, which we can't get in our own countries.
Not necessarily.
Tablets used to be as small as 7" and this looks to be about that.
Maybe was a super low end tablet, or could even be a cheap phone display tacked onto a tablet board.
wait a second... IVE SEEN THIS BEFORE
That's really weird with the charger thing, more current shouldn't do anything it will just use what it needs, and with usb chargers that have 5V, 9V and 12V etc needs to be told from the device to use 9V or whatever, really odd
I'm guessing the first board is designed to work with the standard 12v 2a USB PD chargers and needs to be configured per device, and is obviously not in this case and tells the charger to give more voltage than the actual main board can handle.
I'm glad I found you.. your channel is cool!
Holy moly what a CHONK. Didn't expect the shear size of that thing.
Thinking back to when I was in school in the 1980's, the fact you have a PDF and a picture display on the unit, that could be helpful in math class for showing formulas and other answers to a test. Of course it's your life and whatever currency your country uses, so my observations show be used with care.
CM and RM should be MC and MR meaning clear memory and recall memory. the decaled F4210A up5/4down are used on financial calculators that have a switch beneath them on a real calculator and used for Tax functions and decimal place numbers IE 0.0000 0.000 0.00 etc.. :)
I really enjoyed the Big Shaq reference. :D
I love that you take everything apart at the end
At least Smoorez can play Doom on it and impress his friends with the weirdest gadget ever lol
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*THATS WHAT SHE SAID*
*HAD ME 💀😹🪦*
It's like someone had the idea of putting a crappy smartphone inside a calculator case, and made this thing in 15 minutes.
I don't understand why they didn't just use the generic usb wrapper for the buttons. Would have cut out a lof of programming and be able to be used with more programs.
Wow that Big Shaq reference just absolutely smashed me back into 2017
I love how you're putting the instructions and how to charge it like we're gonna buy it or something 😂 Great video tho
If I were told I could play GTA on a calculator
2004: "What, you are crazy"
2023: "Just watch bro"
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Uhh a calculator i can just load all my engineering calculator apps on? YES FRIGGIN PLEASE
And cheating on exams?
one of the first videos where I didn't need to skip, cause I only skip camera tests.
Great time to be alive to see such thing
The charging indicator 😂 8:10
i frikin love how they just went like: dude we have lots of old phones/tablets... what should we do?? random dude: calculators! and that's how this "thing" was born. oh china, you do such wonders, the fact that is still working is a miracle. yep you have right, the pen was way better lol XD.
Android 15 will probably get an inbuilt PDF reader, right now you need an app that's normally preinstalled by the manufacturer (like Google drive)
Ayyy, cant wait to see this cyber punky meme thing
I didn't think i would watch the whole video from beginning to end
This calculator might be designed for those who want to run mobile POS software and have a calculator at the same time.
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Imagine if you have finished your Mathematics exam paper, and you begin playing GTA San Andreas.
The teachers observing will probably have their jaws dropping at how advanced calculators are now.
Wow, Mali-400MP GPU, really haven't seen it for a while. When I'm at high school, I was able to bought my very first tablet that uses Amlogic 8726MX which includes dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU and Mali-400MP2. Now I'm graduated from the college and working for 5 years.
Allwinner SoC were never took off at the " high performance" realm (they always ended up like the Snapdragon 888 kind of situation when they're trying to). But their video decoding tech is pretty good. With some fine tweaks by the software dev teams (if the OEM have any), their chips can be very useful in the IoT market.
BTW, I think that motherboard is probably a demo board made by Allwinner just to show customers what it can do, and this OEM bought it and repurposed it for this caculator. Since the model name for this board is literally starts with the "AL-A50" and all of the logo when it powers up are Allwinner's.
“See because of me they have a warning”
The fact that GTA SA runs better on this calculator than my old pentium T4300 laptop is wild 💀💀💀💀
Wow how far the simple calculator has become to great insanity levels..
The most amazing thing is not the product itself, not that it made it from China to Australia in a week, but that Australia post itself didn't take 3 weeks to deliver it.
Don't leave your calculator on the cashier's desk
bro booted up the calculator and immediately took the calculator out of its launcher
this feels like it was made simply because the manufacturer had a bunch of giant calculator casings meant for people with poor eyesight they didn't want to throw away.
I NEEDED this calculator in school!! Wifi and searching, easey!
playing Doom on my Kodak DC260 is the ultimate party trick
6:02 _"I failed maths"_ 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
If they make one that looks more like a 70s calculator I will have to buy one. I'm pretty close to wanting this one, but it looks like a run of the mill calculator for someone with poor eyesight.
@6:34 Stamped into the back of the case it says: Heilid Technology
6:47 the text on the back says Hulid Technology
I love how this thing runs DOOM about as well as my Wii
Damn this video is blowing up congratulations 🎉👏❤ deserved
Is noone talking about that that guy said he will be fined from his boss for a 3 star rating???
Would have been good if you tested the calculator function a bit more, it looked too laggy to be used by a fast paced office user, compared to a traditional calculator.
3:15 - RANDOM SMOL RIPLEY IS RIPLEY!
The amperage of the power supply makes no difference, current is drawn not pushed
I love how they allow you to choose between the calculator launcher and random Holo Launcher, lol. Imagine Playstation 5 letting you to start in debug mode.
By the way, SMOOREZ. If you like warnings you should get the Royole FlexPai, the first foldable OLED screen phone ever. It is PACKED with warnings as soon as you start it, and some of them are kinda crazy, like: do not charge it folded if weather is cold and things like that. I don't think most are real, but the phone is just extremely fragile (well, pretty much as the Fold 1 press unit).
What I need to get out of the boredom during class:
We be bringing this to school with this one🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Pen is mightier than the sword... I mean Calculator
First thing i do when buy similar devices or stuff and i always, ALWAYS CHECK OUT WHATS THE WATTS AND AMPS FOR CHARGING.
Like the earplugs, speakers, ligjts, Everything... damn. You Failed Big Time :D
Congrats! You found a Haculator!
Teammates: why u so noob
Me: i literally play on calculator 😢
It's a cool idea if it worked. Stealth gaming at school could be fun. Especially schools that don't like cell phones. It's not a phone it's a calculator.
Love the iwish series, my favourite
4:48 I'm using calculator for calculate something fast .. when i read the instructions .. well.. i just opened my phone and i sleep 😂