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hey guys the Austin this is a flip phone that runs Android and my only question as always is why does it exist so this is a target clearance special I was walking around the corner I saw this for a whopping 50 dollars it's hard to say no the first thing I noticed is that this looks enormous so actually do we have a flip phone around here so for some context this is the size of a normal flip phone you open it up you hold it up to your face very normal looking however when you look at it compared to this it's twice as big Hey we are activated all right let's enjoy the wonders of our ZTE semble tea okay okay so actually you do have a keyboard on the display yeah this is gonna be this is very bizarre I don't think I've ever typed like this before I feel like the way to actually do this is to hold it in one hand and just do a single hand for typing this actually doesn't feel like the worst thing I've ever done okay it's actually it's it's up there so we are set up with our Android flip phone and at first glance you're actually getting the full Android experience we have the Play Store we have google chrome Gmail even YouTube one thing this does have is actual hard buttons for your Android keys for example have my back button I have home I even have multitasking um once you get going it's not like the slowest thing I've ever tried there is a decent quad-core processor inside it's just a slightly under Gunawan experience so the first thing to do when you're putting a flip phone to the test is trying to make a phone call Jimmy yeah how do I sound what are you bad it does like greenie okay so um maybe calls not the strong suit of the phone however let's try texting hi Jimmy so the best parts is when you have the keyboard up it literally takes up the entire screen I cannot even see the message he just sent me it also does have a secondary display which only actually turns on sometimes so you can see your battery life and time so with a blisteringly sharp three and a half inch 320 by 480 display I really expect this is going to reset my expectations for what to expect with a high end device let's just start by playing this 4k HDR video that seems reasonable men if some you know this is one way of watching videos it's a really crispy I think 360p is really the sweet spot that everyone should watch all of our videos on as long as you crank the brightness all the way up you can see most of the colors at least six or seven of them I think it might be time to take this thing outside and really put it through its paces really kind of full explore the outer capabilities of this performance monster so there's no way around it a flip phone is never going to be as comfortable to use as a standard smartphone when it comes actually scrolling on the screen you can have to hold it in this sort of a weird way but if you can look past that it actually does work pretty well as an Android phone take Chrome for example once you get into a webpage you'll find that it's pretty much the same as any other budget Android phone so loading the page is fine scrolling is no problem really the only way that you actually notice that this is a flip phone is when you have to hold it by the screen especially because it has not only LTE as well as Wi-Fi the experience really isn't that bad as long as you're fine I'm looking like this all the time now you're definitely not going to want to play a ton of games on this thing but you can't play some simple titles such as 2048 know what the main issues here is that a lot of games are going to run into issues because the screen resolution is very low and the fact that obviously the internals aren't going to be incredibly powerful but for simple that actually does kind of work I will say that there are some things about flip phones I did kind of miss number one of course is that flip it just sounds so nice to be able to close it up you can toss it in your pocket set it down it's not really something you have to worry about getting like something like a screen scratched or whatever now there are other advantages you do have that removable battery you're gonna get the headphone jack the micro SD card slot there are things that are actually kind of nice however the size of this once you close it up it's not that bad but I mean even when you compare it to something like an iPhone 10 it is really chunky you can carry it around but definitely not as small as the old-school flip phones even though it might look like a flip phone we are dealing with a legitimate Android smartphone here and so of course one of the most important tests is the camera so the first thing I noticed is that what the camera around back here is super easy to cover but I line it up here ah I mean that's actually not terrible it's not exactly a super-crispy picture but it works supposedly this is 720p video um it actually looks okay I guess if I walk around here a little bit get a nice close-up can looking really professional here I mean you know it exists hopefully that's not too bad whoa okay well this is an unexpected benefit because the phone is so big and I should looks like I've got a selfie stick oh all right so if I press the center button not my finest selfie but it's actually reasonably wide especially considering just how far away you can get the phone I'm actually mildly impressed for 50 dollars this is not the worst camera I've ever tried I remind you it's not the best by any stretch but it works I know it made a lot of fun of this phone throughout this video but I've got to say that it is a kind of cool throwback and especially if you're someone who's coming from a current flip phone it might not be the worst upgrade in the world most of us though probably time to you know stick with the normal smartphone and not this monstrosity but I'm curious what do you guys think about this smartphone flip phone whatever it's called hope you go in the comments below and I will catch you guys in the next one