*We are so close to 100K. Thank you so much everyone. Not long to go until it rolls around. I am so excited and just so happy that it is nearing. I appreciate you all so much for being with me on this wild ride that is RU-vid!* Here I am looking at the SERVO R25 Pro for $35 off AliExpress. Is it any good for the price? Well...it's honestly not altogether too bad. See for yourself in this 45 minute ramble of a review :) 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! 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 of the Servo & Nokia 5710: 1:46 Details in the Listing: 3:01 Advertising: 4:12 Unpackaging & Box Comparison: 5:19 Quick Unboxing & Around both Phones: 6:46 Wireless Earbuds, Back Covers & Under the battery: 8:39 Booting both up, Display Quality & Apps: 10:41 Buttons, Keypad Unlock, Keypad Lights & Shortcuts: 11:57 Trying to pair the earphones to the phone: 12:52 Trying out the Servo Earphones: 13:56 An Experiment & Microphone Quality: 15:25 Playing BFG Division with an earphone from each phone: 16:15 The Results, Multimedia & All Video Formats Unsupported: 17:26 BIG SPERKER TEST: 18:23 A silly thing I used to do & Bluetooth Phone Test: 19:39 The Camera: 20:47 Camera Test: 21:49 Nokia vs Servo Camera Quality: 25:17 Settings: 25:56 Tools, Calculator, Calendar, FM Radio & Headphone Output: 27:11 Images, LED Flash & How the Servo is doing so far: 28:26 My Files & RINGTONES: 29:33 Facebook, Whatsapp, Games & Trying to install Java Games: 31:34 Conclusion on the Servo R25 Pro: 32:59 Teardown & Investigation: 35:03 Does it live on, Full Specifications, Stupidity etc: 39:59 Thanks for watching & thanking folks: 41:39 100K is so close! Real talk about this journey: 42:59 Rambly Outro: 46:26 Be good people!
It fails playing .AVI because the phone uses video decoding software found in those vivitar camera's and so you would have to encode the AVI file to specific bitrate,video format,resolution, audio resolution in order for it to playback ...Also, you would have to modify the meta tags so that it plays properly and doesn't jump back to the start of the video every 3seconds whist the audio plays normally.
Almost 20 years ago I used to go to these really shady shops in Houston and buy imported phones. It was a hobby, of sorts. They were equally exciting and awful, but always very unique. After watching these videos I really want to start doing this again through the internet. What a terrible idea.
Nah, that Spreadtrum chip was instead usually found on many keypad-based mobile phones that was introduced sometime in 2011 (according to the Wikipedia article) and not MP3 players
@@MrHYDRO84they still make Featurephone chips, but you will hear their name mostly in the budget tiger socs for low tier android phones Funnily enough, they are a Chinese company based in Qingdao, yet aren't banned from using TSMC foundry unlike their compatriot Hisilicom (Huawei and Kirin)
5:15 If that thing has a decent FM tuner in it I could easily see it being worth grabbing just as a pocket portable FM radio. 20 bucks USD that ain't a bad deal for such a device.
Make sure to check if the torch has adjustable brightness. Modern Samsung phones and many of their clones do, and I know some old style feature phones have this too.
AVI is a container format, so as long as you match the codecs of the video with the ones it records in it should be able to play it back. Avidemux is probably your friend for that kind of thing :)
I found one of these on Aliexpress for £0.80. Didn't think i'd actually get it but was surprised when it did turn up, and for the quality i'm extremely happy with it. can't imagine paying $35 AUD for this though
I have a Servo S06 as a spare phone which is actually pretty cool. I've not taken mine apart. But from looking under the battery, the mobo looks identical besides the TF card slot is in a different orientation. I bet it even shares the same camera 😂. The GUI is identical apart from the headphones app. When i first got it, battery charge only lasted a day or so... but it uses a BL5C so i just got a Nokia genuine battery and now it lasts a week+. Basically Servo are quite acceptable dumbphones, providing it's an original and not a clone or a gimmick. 😊
Damn I was expecting to hear that earraping "R_CALL_2" ringtone from the "FERARI MOBILE" phone on that as the second ringtone... but turns out to be a extremely crap version of the "R_CALL_5" ringtone (both ringtones are usually seen on SC6531-powered phones, if you didn't know) and also, the OS of the SoC doesn't appear to support J2ME (not to mention that the "Fruit Ninja" screenshot you took was from the "Fruit Slice" game on the "SUSAN" phone)
fun fact, those ringtones sound relatively decent on older spreadtrum chipsets (sc6600 for example), it's just that they completely butchered the synth in newer phones
29:35 Yep. Looks like a decent pocket portable FM radio to me. 20 bucks US and it picks up FM without SIM cards? Yis. Would be fucking lovely if Verizon didn't neuter FM reception in every phone they sell, though. My 900 dollar Kyocera Ultra-Durable has every other toughness bell and whistle I could want but the FM receiver is disabled by Verizon...
@@jhnadrn07 if HMD would have mistreated the Nokia Mobile brand, then it wouldn't be dead (again) But the lack of common sense like listening to community feedback and the lack of innovation or doing anything but releasing mid-low range spec phones with the most generic design just does this.
@@OrangeFlame1 do you know something that nobody else does? HMD's net revenue was still 1,2 billion last year and they've just launched a new top of the line phone with latest finesses that's dust proof and water resistant, for not a whole lot of money if you compare with brands like Samsung or Apple. AND they're being manufactured in Europe. Microsoft killed off the Nokia Mobile brand and HMD Global are reviving it as far as I'm concerned. I believe you're dramatizing things a bit The XpressAudio was made for developing countries specifically, so the quality is probably as good as one would expect from an under 100€ dumb phone
Thanks for testing the ability to make calls over Bluetooth. It would've been cool had it worked that way instead of just syncing contacts. I've got an old Chinese iWatch knockoff (a clone of the good clones of the iWatch 2 or 3) that can do that. Of course; talking like Dick Tracy gets old after about the second time. But; a phone shaped glorified Buds case that would allow me to make calls while keeping my expensive-ish smartphone safely nestled in my pocket would've been lit for $25. Oh well. I seem to recall there was a Doogee or Ouikitel type Android smart phone that had the same trick of including built-in Bluetooth buds. Using Android to stream would really make this concept sing. I kind of wish Samsung would do an A-something smartphone with the Buds FE built-in, or, an S2# with an integral silo for Buds2 Pros. Now I'm going off track like Pete Brock at Bathurst. Anyways; I enjoyed this video and I can say with all sincerity that you definitely deserve 100k subscribers.
Oh "good" old RiscOS, if analog TV was still a thing, you would get TV bundled. Surprisingly good reception. There were plenty of simmilar devices on the market in ~2010, each based on same system, each using 1 core CPU, 32MB RAM, each having 1-4 SIM slots, and microSD.
Hello Shane... I love the comparison phone streams you do like this one the best! It's really interesting to see what china knockoffs look like next to the real thing!!! Hugs to Ripley! Our fudge sends a MeOWw over to you. I bet you are basking in the sun over there! The weather across here in the UK is terrible. I live up north on the map Gateshead UK. We have heavy storms with heavy winds. Leaves everywhere. I think you will reach your goal soon🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
the only thing you can play on the cheapo and old keypad phones is to *DOWNGRADE THE QUALITY TO 144p.* it works quite ok on my NOKIA C3-00 and E66. It was due to the incompatibility of the highest resolution possible, so that trick i hope will work on servo(and other cheapo and old phones). Video resolution downgrade trick compatibility list: NOKIA C3-00: 7/10 some glitchiness and slowness to the video and audio itself but it works. NOKIA E66: 5/10 a laggy one especially its a symbian device with a realplayer built-in with it. Cherry Mobile C21?: Not tested. i would find it. i had one since 2019. the os actually the same as servo but in small and compact form.
Well that was fun. It looks nice. The back light was good. I really appreciated the effort they put into the design and packaging just so original. 😂 The camera was hilarious. The amorphous blob was nearly unrecognisable as Ripley. My cats normally react to animals on my TV but nothing from them today. 😢 The 2g would be useful in someplace in the Highlands of Scotland. Lol the place I stayed in recently has issues connecting to g let alone 2g. Give Ripley a big fuss from me and my terrible 2 furry monsters. ❤
Devices like this are made for the absolute lowest-end markets like Africa and rural India, places where you buy them from an open-air stall next to freshly-slaughtered animals and homemade textiles.
@@stevendobbins2826Yeah, just wondering what markets the Nokia is for. In India/Africa (or poor folks in the West) they would get a budget smartphone for that price instead. Also old people don't need inbuilt wireless earbuds. A completely pointless device at $100.
Honestly it was not that bad, i saw way shittier devices than this. A little fun fact: servo means (roughly translated) in italian "i serve" or some kind of butler or in really some bad cases slave. It's kind of funny lol, even tho i want more ainol or pipi devices, they are funny af! Also congrats to (almost) 100k, you all deserve them. If only i was lucky as you... (just a bit :)
@@wyterabitt2149 If it's a knockoff it's worthless to me personally , but knockoffs are usually going to be much cheaper than the real thing , that's the point of a knockoff , it's cheap .
@@DecibelAlex I'm not exactly a western person myself (Lithuanian) and still don't think that's making a difference of it being not a good product to begin with. People using a keypad phone usually want something compact and not a brick in their pockets.
@14:38: maybe chinese people have a different (less sensitive) hearing? Everytime I watch a video of some chinese device that makes sounds it sounds very loud and very annoying to us other people.
