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How terrible is a $58 smartphone?

2017-11-05
you got a stand for something in this life god damn it this is gonna be fun I ordered this thing here in front well that's I mean what I do sometimes people send me things other times I'm like I have to order that because I need to find something out this is one of those moments this phone the x5 from doogee it's an Amazon phone a phone that I bought on Amazon and he costs $58 a $58 Android smartphone what are you talking about you $58 I can't I saw the iPhone 10 released a thousand bucks what do you mean I'm not 58 I can barely go out for lunch 58 the whole smartphone marketplace it's gotten more competitive there are companies like the recent device that I featured here the razor phone I've been using in my SIM cards in it I promised you was gonna be and it's in there 600 bucks 700 bucks it's in that range okay I see what they can do at that price point the essential phone just went it's $500 now the essential phone there's always gonna be people that just want the best and that's fine there's a convergence in expensive phones have gotten a lot better and a lot closer to the expensive ones period no ads so there are devices in Amazon that are subsidized by ads you boot them up you watch an ad this one no ad 5.0 inch 720p display in mt6582 are first of all the fonts here we need to do some work on that not a kind of contrast from the black and the gray Android 6.0 gigabyte of ram 8 gigs of storage 5 megapixel camera 2 megapixel front alright listen we're not competing on specs here that's not the goal 58 bucks power brick USB cable as well a standard microUSB no fancy USB type-c alright and then the device that's pretty much that's all there is ok so that's the back of the phone matte black finish camera up in the corner everything looks to kind of make sense there there's the display the x5 ok some capacitive buttons on the bottom obviously something of yesteryear as far as devices are concerned you don't see this so much anymore let us remove this screen cover here ooh all right when it comes to budget devices for whatever reason they will install a screen protector to preserve the lifespan volume rocker over here speaker is on the bottom there is a headphone jack surprisingly an off-center microUSB port on the top of the phone that is not common at all I remind you 58 dollars so I noticed we're dealing with a removable back situation here and again this was common on phones once upon a time you hardly ever see this anymore a 2400 milliamp hour battery 2 SIM card slots and a micro SD card slot unbelievable 3d stereo sound where are the stereo speakers I guess ok here we go a little bit of a laggy opening sequence there why was there no setup they set it up in advance that always freaks me out a little bit the app button is a little different than usual but it works there's a couple of things you wouldn't normally see like app lock up there and parallel space but otherwise it's not overloaded what are you supposed to do with this button oh I see quick toggle lockscreen game mode etc a screen recorder right in your quick settings there by default it's taken me to do GCC it is not the brightest display boys and girls the sound is not that bad the display is darkest so if you have a few more dollars to spend you definitely need to go check out this video I'm using it right I'm using that phone right now alright it's made an impact on me because it does basically what an expensive one does at one tenth of the price once upon a time a phone in this price range will be like unusable but you could tell already like I'm doing something though I haven't launched the camera yet the camera ain't gonna be good I know it and the lag from when you hit the button the leg you're out you're with your friends and why not oh good we're young we do stuff we go out we're out cool yeah yeah wait wait your friends who feel let me see what you got how do I look you see that looks like you're half in the bag yo look what we did last night blur factory I'm gonna really try here not the worst thing I've ever seen it's I mean it's a five megapixel image it kind of reminds me of images from phones about four years ago maybe now the front-facing camera Oh actually better than I expected although I think they buted me I think I got beauty but in all honesty at 58 all right it's not gonna be for everyone okay I'm not trying to convince you to throw out your Galaxy s8 I'm trying to show you the landscape of what's happening to inform you about the fact that $58.00 phones are a thing and they're kind of decent for the price you can watch a video on YouTube alright and that's the main thing so you can keep watching unbox therapy so I could keep doing this good night this episode of unbox the P has been brought to you by go extreme action cams these are little guys that sort of operate like GoPros but at a fraction of the cost in fact this one in front of me here which is called the blackhawk shoots 4k on the same sensor as the GoPro 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