(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 RU-vid 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!
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.
"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
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.
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!
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 😎👍
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 :)
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!
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)
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..
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 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
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
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.
“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.”
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 😅
Well i can tell you precisely what these stab wounds at 7:19 are: these are the scratches left when opening beer bottles with a plastic phone (or almost any other object) How do I know? I've grown up im germany and for most of the time i had plastic phone most of which where sooner or later used to open beer bottles.
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.
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 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
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
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
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.
Other fun games that might be good for testing on devices with this android version might be GTA vice city and san andreas, max payne, asphalt 8, dead trigger 2, modern combat 4. :)
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.
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 :)
I feel like, if memory serves me correct, in 2016 those were pretty bad specs. BUT AGAIN, budget phone and if you're in construction, you don't need silly specs since all you're probably doing is some FB, spotify, and SMS. JUST THE ABSOLUTE BASICS.
My first phone i bought for nearly 100$ had 512MB memory and 4 or 8 internal. Same menu, i even ported Lollipop on it, but it was buggy. Sometimes instead of front camera it was showing upside down back one. And also camera was like in purple/green filter (bad lens?) Name was KENEKSI Rock.
