Greetings everyone and welcome back to another cheapo phone review...or attack of the clones? Not sure what to call this as it kind of looks like the Oppo N1 (or another variant) I'm not sure, let me know and hopefully the LCD didn't bug you too much. If you want me to re-review TIMMY let me know :) Also System Files for this is in the description if you want to go through them and see what you find! Thanks again for watching, be good people! TIMESTAMPS: Intro & Disclaimers: 0:00 Who is Torque & Advertising: 1:40 Original Pricing, Quick Specs & Torque Website: 3:20 TIMMY Remake, The Torque Phone & The Gimmick: 5:35 The Back Cover & The Battery: 7:39 Power On, The LCD Damage & Stock Android: 9:07 Shortcuts, How Flippy Works & Testing Calls: 10:31 Networks, Audio, Display, Storage, Battery & System Apps: 12:01 Voice Unlock: 13:58 About Phone & What the phone looked like new: 15:19 Browser Test & RU-vid Test: 16:38 The Camera, LED Flash & Rambling: 18:42 Camera Test - Photos: 20:59 Camera Test - Videos: 22:32 Camera Quality & FM Radio: 25:41 Movie Studio & Speaker Test: 27:30 What is left & System Update: 29:10 Quick Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 30:06 Double Checking Specs & QuickShortcutMaker: 31:18 Rambly Conclusion: 33:22 Teardown Fun & Inside Flippy: 34:58 It still works, Proper Spec List & Final Thoughts: 39:11 Finally the video is over, thank you for watching: 40:49 Outro: 41:40 Keep being awesome!
As a Filipino, I am familiar with Torque brand, but not so much popular back then, this is the first time I saw this phone, thank you for sharing Smoorez.
Torque was one in a sea of Filipino cellphone startups in the 2010s where it isn't uncommon to see stalls in malls hawking rebadged welcome phones, an egregious example of which is O+ who claims to be a "USA" brand but appears to have next to no presence outside of the Philippines. IIRC they hired a couple or so celebrities to shill for the brand but the oversaturation of these bargain bin brands seem to have costed the likes of Torque as more established firms were patronised by the public instead of some random fly-by-night brand. I wouldn't be surprised if this particular example once belonged to an OFW or expat who bought the device in the PH and brought it along there in Oz.
I never used torque but i did use O+ back then. It’s a bit popular? But torque isn’t but i saw a lot of ads back at showtime and O+ ads at eat bulaga lmao
i've been bingewatching your channel for a week now, someone looking at cheapo budget phones and bootleg products is exactly what i have been looking for lol
Smoorez, as a Filipino, you made us proud trying out our product ❤❤❤ 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 Edit: I used to own Torque DROIDZ Mini D back in 2015 and at that year I consider it as my high-end phablet which it has 512mb RAM, veri fast...
I'm a Filipino and I ngl see this brand on malls everywhere before. But it slowly faded away in malls and the pandemic seems like it's last straw cuz after the lockdown, there's no more stalls of torque in any mall I go through.
I unironically like it for what it is. Seeing stock Android Kit Kat again brought back some warm and fuzzy memories of my old Moto E1. Holo 4 Ever! And I've always liked the flippy camera thing. I'd be interested in seeing a review of both Timmy and that Galaxy A80 you briefly showed on screen.
I have had several Torque phones before. along with Torque also was MyPhone and Cherry Mobile which all was released in the Philippines. Torque devices usually are fairly god devices but somehow gotten left out by other famous brands better specs...
For a moment i tought it was the same phone as the Allview P7 Xtreme, but the buttons are on the other side. That's really interesting. I had no idea there were so many phones with a flip camera. You should most definitely get one of these. This was something like a flagship here, in Romania. I knew so many people who had one. The camera was actually decent and the whole OS had a nice skin.
This is quite a popular brand in the Philippines. Its main competitor is a brand called cherry mobile. But after a little bit digging, both are just rebranded devices from other manufacturers like aniol etc...
I would be interested in seeing a review of the TIMMY!! Also just want to say Thanks for all the videos you do. IDK why but I find your videos very relaxing after a long day
Sir Smoorez, Torque is the Philippines gadget company since 2008 and now they are inactive... This is my first time that you review the Philippines phone (Torque) in your video ;)
7:20 honestly love the design of the phone, the square edges, pearly white color, and even the swiveling camera aesthetic reminds me a lot of 2000s japanese flip phone / keitai design language but if it was applied to a smartphone✨
Not possible. In most cases, those phones are not powerful enough to run Android. Also, Nokia phones have protection measures in place to prevent flashing custom operating systems.
Cracking video. I kind of like the phone. Rather impressed by the camera in both photos and video. Especially for its age. The sound is good too. I've had a few mp3 players advertised on Facebook. They are on Amazon and have a touch screen but you can't download and install new apps. So possibly way old stock sold as music players. I've seen a few with android 6 but nothing this old. As for the Timmy I can only think of South Park. Not PC but I'm a wheelchair user and it makes me smile.😊
Oh god I really want to see another review on the "TIMMY" phone, like, it appears to be related with the manufacturers of the "SUSAN M5" phone because of the whole "hidden boot animations" and "using real names as brandnames" stuff
This is a good design, and i considered something like this at the time, but the problem is they never had waterproofing. I touch grass and sometimes the grass is wet. But it would be nice to answer a call and not risk getting face grease (or makeup?) all over the screen. It also solves the problem of the selfie cameras often being terrible due to limited space. The brick design is somewhat common at the time, and i think it looks clean and neat.
I had the same phone back in college 😮 i had the green one. It's a good phone tbh.. i still love this phone and bought another one. But now it's not in the market anymore. Memories
like the oppo n1 and n3 , the n3 with a auto rotating camera module though .. the auto rotating camera module in the n3 made making panorama shots so much easier
I used to have a clone of that Timmy phone. It came with a rootkit/rat type thing embedded into the system files with access to everything and at the time there was no way to root the thing to get rid of it so i could never use it for much. It was horrendously slow and glitchy, probably due to the malware and the swively camera was garbage as well. Quite a large screen for the time though.
18:47 is the phone haunted? A ghostly hand appears multiple times in the video, it just hit me that's what it is, i thought it was just the screen glitching at first..
Bro i remember this phone we had lots of these in middle school and loads of fun with the spinning camera it was the hottest thing back in 2015 and i hope you know im a liar...ive never heard of this garbage
well for the price it wasn't bad, but in 2014/15 there were way better devices to go with. the camera was good enough and the speaker had way too much top ends. and i have to say this, sorry: don't let timmy show the pipi or ainol XD. ok this joke was pretty bad but i had to say it... just scroll down please.
