YouTube on a $20 Flip Phone

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@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

Slight correction: this phone has 4GB of storage, not RAM.

@halenmartini6705 3 года назад

I figured since something with KaiOS didn't need 4GB of RAM and the fact that for a $20 flip phone 4 gigs of RAM would be too expensive.

@PinguimFU 3 года назад

in my kai os device if i long press the numbers on a text box it just puts the number there

@PinguimFU 3 года назад

kai os is all about bringing internet to the developing contries like brazil where i live... here locked phones are ilegal and this phone is about r$ 400 ($ 80)

@PinguimFU 3 года назад

the cpu in this phone is the snapdragon 210 from early 2018 - first spec,ed on the low end lg k9

@halenmartini6705 3 года назад

@@PinguimFU That's what I love about it! The Google apps are definitely a big help. It really proves that the low-spec hardware is capable of these things, it's just that decent software wasn't built for it until now.

@jagressde 3 года назад

I just love this man´s dedication to retro tech and trashy low tech stuff. A good way of relaxing and remembering the good old days. Thank you Michael. Keep up the good work!

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

Glad you enjoy it! Thank you!

@killkill7156 4 месяца назад

@@MichaelMJD Yea same

@HDPixel1080p 3 года назад

I'm glad I still have a couple more days to refund my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G

@livingwithdezz1880 3 года назад

Your so damn

@SheWhoExists 3 года назад

KaiOS apps work by running PWAs in a extremely resource efficient embedded web browser, so that's why the youtube one looks like the mobile site.

@irides46 3 года назад

I'm pretty amazed how efficient the browser seems to be.

@brandontechnerd 3 года назад

@@irides46 at least compared to chrome eating gigabytes of your ram

@noobz7535 3 года назад

Man i remember when in 2012 i watched RU-vid on a freaking blackberry, damn nostalgia 😭

@trollsthatlol1 3 года назад

Those things were way underrated honestly. BB10 was awesome. Z30 was incredible for the time if only more devs supported it

@toshineon 3 года назад

I used to watch RU-vid on a feature phone way back in 2010, before I had gotten my first smartphone. Quality was garbage, but I still enjoyed it.

@NiGHTSnoob 3 года назад

I legit love the Alcatel Tracfones. They're so cheap, and yet so capable. Man if you told me something that cost $20 and then like $10 a month-ish could do everything it can do just like 2 years ago I would have laughed at you. KaiOS is legit revolutionary and phones like these are super important. More people with major budget struggles need to look into these as a viable option.

@kirschitz64 3 года назад

Had that exact phone before, can confirm it actually worked well Now I use a Pixel. Certainly an upgrade!

@maurisanto7973 3 года назад

Why did you buy ths for 30 bucks u can get a touchscreen cheap crap lol

@AGVYT 2 года назад

@@maurisanto7973 budget

@maurisanto7973 2 года назад

@@AGVYT there is literally a 10 dollar tracfone android at dollar general rn

@AGVYT 2 года назад

@@maurisanto7973 before he probably didn't have enough money

@TeraByte38 Год назад

Plainrock124 had a series "Bored Smashing - Grocery Store Phones" and this reminds me of him. He destroyed 2 flip phones in the series (one basic flip phone, one android flip phone; both Alcatel and both were from Tracfone)

@ycrep1993 3 года назад

Something like this would be great when visiting big events or other places where you would have a high risk of pickpockets but still want something to contact people if needed

@toshineon 3 года назад

I still use an old phone from 2008 when I go out where there's a lot of people, or I go for a long walk in the woods. Cheap insurance to not lose my smartphone.

@ycrep1993 3 года назад

@@toshineon I'd love a cheap flip phone for events, but i'll be the very niche market for a cheap flip phone with a high end camera

@toshineon 3 года назад

@@ycrep1993 Yeah, ironically, older flip phones from 10 years ago have better cameras than the modern ones. Presumably because they were more high-end back then.

@Dr-Random Год назад

9:53 lol funny joke 9:57 I just love how after she finishes the joke, she just sits there and does nothing, there’s no interaction.

@vm19s 3 года назад

Believe it or not I watched RU-vid on these phones for a long time 😂

@Azurryu 3 года назад

I've got my first phone around 2012 at age of 17 years. It had a touch display, but you couldn't go online with it. I literally was ages behind everyone, but I didn't know because I never cared about having Smartphone and always sat on my computer anyways, not having any friends I need to stay in contact with. When I've got an internet capable Smartphone it was a lifechanger. Now even 12 year olds have a high tech device.

@leonardkiss22 3 года назад

14:31 POV you are the person that saw a ghost or a UFO and started recording to proof that it exists.

@TheMonyarm 3 года назад

I remember browsing and trying to watch RU-vid on my old phone (not a smart phone). It only ever worked for songs.

@WiseAssGamer 3 года назад

It has Google Assistant. Which is good, you're never too broke to say. Hey Google, send a text while driving.

@JeffCD77 3 года назад

You can actually get much "nicer" touch screen smartphones for $20.

@chris08091 3 года назад

link?

@Shrek_Has_Covid19 3 года назад

i got a used samsung s6 edge for $30

@Bernardoskau 3 года назад

Actually you can get a computer for 15 dollars

@NiceYoutuber 3 года назад

back when the alcatel ideal was first released it was an android smartphone for $20

@virtualtools_3021 3 года назад

well i got a laptop with i5-2450m from a thrift store for 10$ but that doesnt mean that anyone can do that

@allanegleston4931 3 года назад

im glad i am not the only one who has fits over their devices and talks to them.

@JasonCarverlittlebear 2 года назад

I have owned many flip phones from Tracfone back in the day and they were really restrictive on what you could and could not download. They disabled the ability to plug in your phone to a USB port to download your photos. And Bluetooth pairing was disabled. You could add your own wallpapers only if you sent an email to your phone using a special ATT email address associated with your phone number. Now I have an iPhone 11 from Tracfone and it's nice. FYI If you find a phone cheaper on one of their MVNOs it usually can be activated online through TF without a call to their center, at the least you have to go through chat to rebrand if it don't work.

@okamiboi 3 года назад

Michael: I fear no man... But that thing... _Guía de Inicio Rápido_ It scares me...

@guilherme3537 3 года назад

That's in portuguese and im portuguese yay

@SrIgort 3 года назад

@@guilherme3537 hey I'm too, what a coincidence

@dani.munoz.a23 3 года назад

@@guilherme3537 isn’t it spanish? Or is it another one of those things where the language is so similar that its the same in both? Because I speak spanish and understand it perfectly, idk any portuguese at all

@guilherme3537 3 года назад

Lets see if you understand this: Olá, é português meu amigo! Abraços de Portugal.

@dani.munoz.a23 3 года назад

@@guilherme3537 well once again the languages are similar so i understood it a bit but not fully. Here’s my guess: “Hello, it is (?) portuguese my friend! Hugs from Portugal.

@dylan_00 3 года назад

This is using the T9 input - you hit the button of each letter just once and it will type the word based on the letters you hit. That way you don't have to hit a button 3 times to get to a letter. It will also allow you to scroll through the various words you may have typed.

@elfedorausado 3 года назад

Lots of people must have bought these, since the one in the Amazon link is not in stock (lol). Boy, do I miss the flip phones from the pre-smartphone era

@johannvaniperen7249 3 года назад

That video quality is still better than security camera quality

@NGNetwork1 3 года назад

oh man T9, I can't say I miss that tech. Now see if you can survive on that phone for a week ;)

@sonicjackalopeproductions3342 3 года назад

The fact that it runs Google Assistant is amazing! Also, this DOES have a core of Android within the Linux code, because the Alphabet Corporation invested something like $22 million into its development.

@paulabaylor6322 3 года назад

Perfect phone for someone on a budget!

@dolphinhat Год назад

I literally have this phone and I love it. I just download videos from RU-vid on my computer and transfer it to my phone and watch them in the bathroom

@dolphinhat Год назад

Oh now I see a little farther into the video my phone IS the same but the ui is slightly different

@CatololOSU 3 года назад

when i was little , i had a nokia, i had actually got youtube working on it, it was awesome

@AkiDucky 3 года назад

That T9 auto predict is supposed to allow you you to type without repeating the same key. So typing twitter would just be 8948837 and the dictionary should be able to know what you wanted to type. If not, you can select which one you need.

@HarmonicVector 3 года назад

"Walk Through the Park" Aaaaaand I bet it was Dankmus that got me this video.

@aarav266 Год назад

The fact that a flip phone is more expensive than the 5$ Windows 98 PC just makes me go nuts.

@cwgzz81 2 года назад

12:26 No idea if you will see my comment, Michael but I guess you don't know what T9 texting is. So to put the word "Hello" you would just input 43556. To put in the world "Toilet" you would just input 864538 and it automatically knows what word it is due to the combinations of numbers. You don't need to press the same number to switch letters that corresponds to that number.

@Mattfromthepast 3 года назад

Great video. I don't do smartphone stuff so Trafone is perfect for me $15 a month and I get all the minutes and data I could ever use. I don't really like doing stuff like RU-vid on a small screen so it works for me and I never miss a call. It's not for everyone but if you are on a limited budget and only want to check email and stuff like that on your phone it is a good option.

@froginabox 3 года назад

this is the literal exact phone my parents made me use and i figured out how to do this on it

@zzztidurvirus 3 года назад

Ah, the T9 struggles. I always switched to manual. Its way faster on that Nokia 8110 4G. Now imagine trying to type in multiple whatsapp groups using this phone.

@CathyDotUK 3 года назад

This is just like the Nokia 2720 flip (it is the phone I use) but it is less good looking but it is also like 30% of the cost I like it

@PlayF0R3V3R 3 года назад

When I was 10 years old I got a Sony Ericsson k660i and it had a mouse cursor in the internet app, but I never used it again because it costed like $5/minute or something

@SuperJavaMan7 3 года назад

WHAT

@CmdRolled 3 года назад

imagine playing a fast-paced platformer on that

@KC-bg1th 3 года назад

The top half looks like an old iPod touch without a home button.

@Peeps40836 3 года назад

The Google Assistant’s dad-like jokes are so bland that not even dads would laugh at it.

@yevsey169 3 года назад

Imagine if this thing had a trackpad on the ok pad, or a trackpoint

@TRIIGGAVELLI Год назад

This was actually nostalgic

@Bandrosonk 3 года назад

I had one of these. watched ltt and the car wizard on it everyday on my lunch

@windowslab4820 3 года назад

Actually if you don't want to use the keys to move around the mouse pointer, connect a bluetooth mouse

@haydenwood8211 3 года назад

its not a charging brick its a fire starter for your house

@charles-vi7qb 3 года назад

I once saw a kid watch youtube on the bus like this

@th-fb1nl 3 года назад

In some alternate universe we all are stuck with keypad phone where iphone thing never happened..

@raigner 3 года назад

Wait, there are no prepaid touchscreen smartphones in the USA?, that's weird. In Mexico you can literally buy a prepaid touchscreen smartphone with Android for $650 MXN ($31.57 USD) at a grocery store

@vystorm 3 года назад

AHHHHH THE HEADPHONE AUDIO TEST SOOOOONNNNGGGG AHHHHHHHHHH

@paulharrison8379 3 года назад

I bought a Nokia 8110 4G to try out the Kaios operating system. The one thing that I am missing is a Blu tooth keyboard. Google have invested in Kaios because it is so popular in India.

@LloydLynx 3 года назад

An open source OS, pay for what you need plan, and for $20. This actually might be pretty great for me if my current Android dies before Linux phones become viable.

@matiaspereyra9392 3 года назад

I remember that I had, not even a flip phone, that could browse, I don't think it had wifi connectivity, then again, I didn't have wifi at the time and it also had the pointer, I remember being happy seing the the G signal because that was the pinacle of velocity

@nevrunderstandlada Год назад

...there phone like that since 2007??? Look at the Nokia e65 a slide phone who have Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/3g/Edge and I watched yt on it when I was young

@MultiMattRogers Год назад

it's a weird myth that you used to have to press "2" tree times to get a "C" on an ol phone. back in 2003 phones had pretty decent autocorrect that could handle interpreting a single press on each key to look up words from its dictionary and get a match. most t9 phones were actually a aster typing experience than querty phone keyboards of the time. I'm not saying that I'd g beck but they were pretty decent.

@JakeBloodless 3 года назад

I can't really understand your complains about the keyboard input. I remember it has always been like that in every flip phone, so everything I saw in your review was totally natural to me. Same with the RU-vid app. The pointer probably comes up because that's not really a full-featured app, but just the redirected link to the mobile version of the website.

@frankwolfi 3 года назад

I would buy that as an LTE Hotspot. Way cheaper than the dedicated devices.

@hitmewithabrick3265 3 года назад

I can no longer escape dankpods

@raidev_ 3 года назад

im suprised they still make these, i thought they died a long time ago

@GuyWhoChad 3 года назад

youtube - 17 hours me - mhmmm 17 years old mhmmm

@PercyPanleo 3 года назад

Kyocera makes similar phones that run Android. Unfortunately, it's 5.1.1, so there's no assistant, but at least some of them have touch pads on the keypad. (Specifically, the Gratina and Marvera lines. The Cadence and DuraXV just have Android for no good reason other than possibly being able to run LINE)

@Bwong55 3 года назад

0:15 anyone notice the song Dankpods tests on the Huh-Duh-Six-Hungos

@tractorman7733 3 года назад

that video looks like it was taken un the late 90's or early 2000's

@mattalewis13 3 года назад

60 minutes for $20???? That’s ridiculously expensive

@rannugblah4251 3 года назад

not to be pedantic or anything but it makes perfect sense that Google Assistant is on there.. you know.. for people with disabilities? Cheap phone with tactile buttons, good for people with sight problems etc.

@AdriaticTokoru 8 месяцев назад

9:55 Bad Joke 6:55 Good Joke

@moiraclegg3380 2 года назад

Why is this guy starting with RU-vid and so on, instead of starting with how to make a phone call

@brullsker971 3 года назад

Only 20 bucks for 60 minutes? What a bargain. For real though, I get 3.5gigs of high-speed date and unlimited talk/text for 10 € prepaid. And don’t tell me that it’s more expensive in the US because it’s bigger - I can use everything I pay for across the whole EU, which isn’t that much smaller and, unlike the US, not even a single country. US mobile providers need to get their shit together.

@chxxstheory 3 года назад

For real, for work purposes it's just good

@shun0825 9 месяцев назад

it would've been better if they put a trackpad on that like blackberry

@christoffermedc 3 года назад

it's like a fancy usb broadband dongle :3 wonder if it could share broadband through usb? :)

@jieren2228 3 года назад

how to stay connected while withdrawaling from your smartphone addiction

@sof.5846 Год назад

Watching this on my flipphone

@BLOCK_MASTER Год назад

How did you comment?

@sof.5846 Год назад

@@BLOCK_MASTER i can comment on flip phones

@KrishnaDasLessons 3 года назад

The mouse pointer seems painful to use.

@massagebyconstance5665 2 года назад

Thank you for this video. I've been trying to find a phone that DOESN'T go online, sigh.... and they just come with youtube. >:( How do you find a basic kids/emergency phone these days?

@tommy97luu 3 года назад

I wanted to see how Google maps worked! Does it have GPS actually?

@HimenHeadFish Год назад

Why not just get a prepaid smart phone and a subscription with no binding period?

@EarlRaven 3 года назад

the best way to explain this phone is its a cool phone but also not so cool 😂

@stevenhoneyman 3 года назад

Don’t turn it on, take it apaaaart!

@BenMclean007 3 года назад

I love my KaiOS feature phone. I use a Nokia 800 tough

@HuntersMoon78 3 года назад

Still got my Motorola Razr, still works too

@lorincfoldesi7273 Год назад

i have a kindel that can use google, so it can play a youtube video, sadly since it is so old it doesnt load anything, still works as a kindel though

@netherworld4467 3 года назад

Jerry rig is coming

@g43s 3 года назад

6:52 RU-vid on a fliphone

@VoVilliaCorp 3 года назад

Been using tracfone for about 15 years now, nice cheap service.

@kratosslayer755 3 года назад

its camera records like a video from 2003

@EpicTyphlosionTV 3 года назад

This is what people in the early 2000's thought phones today would be like

@radgoncan 3 года назад

This is what mid-range phones were like in the mid 2000s

@natejennings5884 3 года назад

There're smartphones for only $40 with $30 per month unlimited talk & text, and you can use wifi hotspots to go online with. So this model's really behind the curve.

@foxxy2098 3 года назад

@the hevy minus the flip ey look at new phones

@RisingRevengeance 3 года назад

Nah I think we all expected better, phones were already more functional in 05

@GeoNeilUK 3 года назад

@@RisingRevengeance Nah I think we all expected better, phones were already more functional in 05" See the Nokia N-series, E-series, Blackberry, Nokia Communicator, Sony Ericsson P900... Symbian and Windows Mobile were things and they were OK for the day, but nobody did anything like as much with a Nokia N95 as they do with their smartphones.

@JustARegularNerd 3 года назад

The music at the beginning, I couldn't stop thinking only about DankPods and his headphone tests.

@luxsara00 3 года назад

Don't forget about mics.

@Skiptrac3 3 года назад

I just noticed that!

@Castawot. 3 года назад

@@Skiptrac3 YESS

@Castawot. 3 года назад

@@Skiptrac3 my beats spekers in my laptop are not gud

@DanielLopez-up6os 3 года назад

Yeah Same, but what's the song called?

@AnesuC 3 года назад

When I was a kid/early teenage years, this would have been heaps good. Like I would have been more than happy with this honestly.

@lucag.lisickza425 3 года назад

same

@UshankaMaster 3 года назад

Yeah exactly

@CamdenBloke 3 года назад

Same! I remember the first time I saw one with a color screen and I was like, "Whoa!!!"

@rogehmarbi 3 года назад

When I was younger I had a monochromatic CDMA Nokia flip phone, in which the only enterainment available on that phone was a flashlight that can do morse code, and flicking open the phone itself like they did in the movies. Boy, I was so happy with those

@lucag.lisickza425 3 года назад

@@rogehmarbi and snake bro?

@MapleMilk 3 года назад

"Hey dude, can I show you a video real quick?" "Yeah, go ahead." *They flip out one of these babies*

@gotsm9959 3 года назад

@MapleMilk: Your friend will tell you to trash it.

@x5nash870 3 года назад

@@gotsm9959 what no

@gotsm9959 3 года назад

@@x5nash870 Yes you see company like black berry or syberian had the issue of Microsoft and Intel dominating the industry so they choose Google to lead them to salvation. All these elements like snapdragon , qualcomm , Android where bits and pieces that Google scooped up to create the future of ultra portable computing. The usage data says Google products have the best performance and company that support Google have prospered.

@DilationZ Месяц назад

Me who has a z flip 5: 😏

@St0RM33 3 года назад

20usd and comes with a CHARGER!!!

@joopie46614 2 года назад

it costs $60 minimum not $20

@itizjuan 3 года назад

20 bucks for only 60 minutes of talk? damn, that's really expensive.

@gp3328 3 года назад

I got my lg rebel 4 for 60 bucks with 2 gigabytes of data, unlimited talk and text, 16gb storage, 2gb ram, and I use it everyday.

@thealterlion7163 3 года назад

Yeah. I spend less than 20 bucks a month on my inferior third world country and I get unlimited data and minutes

@sharoyveduchi 3 года назад

Yeah because it's not monthly. The 30 day plans are more reasonable.

@gp3328 3 года назад

@@HIGH_DEFINITION_VIDEO does more than anyone needs a phone to do.

@dividedbyzero96 3 года назад

Lmao the USA is wack, man's impressed by a super expensive and time limited Pay as You Go SIM

@0x0wlOnYT 3 года назад

My dad uses a flip phone like this because he isn't literate enough to really use any new technology. He still uses a VCR, and antenna to watch TV. He's never used a computer. There is a big market for these with older people who were left behind with the rapid advancement of tech.

@naturedetectiveminecraft6362 3 года назад

My grandmother got a smartphone and I was considering having her do that option until we found a smartphone some Motorola for $50

@cutecomputercontent7775 3 года назад

Well I'm a tech nerd and a place like that market will make me feel like an old person

@springbok4015 3 года назад

Definitely is a market for that, but it’s a market that is likely constantly shrinking as older generations either have family to set things up, or they’re dying off.

@VicViper2005 3 года назад

I still use a vcr every once in a while

@martin1649 3 года назад

They chose to get left behind.

@ustayussuf 3 года назад

When this phone is more expensive than 98 PC

@NuclearToastMusic 3 года назад

yes

@CAb97 3 года назад

facts

@tuckfuddyduddy 3 года назад

Michael: **laughs in RU-vid with mouse cursor on Flip phones** Me 10 years ago: **amazed with cursor on my Nokia N95’s opera mini**

@wolf3dv 3 года назад

To be fair, it seemed much more usable back then while not ideal of course

@MrFeelGoodJson24YTP 3 года назад

@@HIGH_DEFINITION_VIDEO it was a smartphone at that time

@MrFeelGoodJson24YTP 3 года назад

I remember even the Nokia N95 web browser has a cursor when browsing full desktop site.

@sutibu719 3 года назад

I remember when I still had my Nokia C2-03 i was amazed by the fact that I could watch youtube videos on it, sadly after the browser got updated to opera i couldn't watch videos anymore 😔 I also remember installing lots of themes on it and lots of games It was the best phone for me, i really miss it

@tonivoul1971 3 года назад

I have nokia 5230 and the HTML5 doesnt support apps like youtube i mean go and have a look i tested even twitch it will show pictures of the youtuber playing not doing something and google nah wont sign i have a pretty functional opera but not so good experience with it slow but i like how it looks To get apps you download them in your modern phone and the via Bluetooth you make them in your old phone

@MrFeelGoodJson24YTP 3 года назад

"Are you kidding me? There's a mouse pointer?" Every BlackBerry phones before 2013: ok...

@invictine 3 года назад

Blackberry's actually had a touchpad so it was nice

@BilisNegra 3 года назад

Blackberries were not basic phones at all for their time.

@GrayDaDolf 3 года назад

@@invictine what about BB Pearl?

@invictine 3 года назад

@@GrayDaDolf Dude I literally have a BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105 with me right now, it has a touchpad.

@gotsm9959 3 года назад

@@HIGH_DEFINITION_VIDEO unfortunately its fake.. there is no kio os... It's this thing called (brew) which is a propriety cell phone that can use java_c+ aka java proprietary. I Know this because I got error message for script while trying to use pc website like how you can do on Android thus it's impossible for that flip phone to have any sort of OS.

@dollardealtech768 3 года назад

I remember using RU-vid on a flip phone in 2009. It's nice to see that it still works on modern flip phones.

@breakcoregirlxd 3 года назад

sorry bud gonna have to press X on this one

@jdatlas4668 3 года назад

@@breakcoregirlxd Pretty sure there were at least some flip phones back then that ran Symbian, so it doesn’t seem entirely absurd. I didn’t have a data plan at the time and I’m not sure RU-vid had a Symbian app (because I doubt Flash would’ve worked on such a phone) so I can’t confidently say it was possible but it at least seems plausible.

@jmtrad1906 3 года назад

I remember too... 144p resolution

@alexanrsousa 3 года назад

@@breakcoregirlxd Plenty of phones supported JavaME, for which RU-vid had an app as far back as 2008, and the mobile site existed before that. AFAIK Symbian supported JavaME and so did MontaVista Linux (the OS motorola used on quite a few phones like the ROKR E2).

@belstar1128 3 года назад

My fliphone could not run youtube because there was no flash support but i did have one of those phones with a keyboard that could play youtube videos with a app but one day it just stopped working

@Luzi-chan 3 года назад

imagine our smartphones where never invented and we would still use flip phones but with all these features and high quality screens, cameras etc. i would like to live in a world like that cuz flip phones where nice and an iconic piece of the 2000s

@TheGershon 2 года назад

Ever since smartphones came about, I've always been jealous of the high end flip smartphones they have in japan. Not sure how popular they were/are(?) or if they still make them but they seemed to basically look like a smaller-than-normal smartphone attached to an equally sized keyboard, to this day I'd give that kind of phone a shot in a heartbeat if it was possible to import one and use it on my country's networks for a reasonable price (and performance, battery life, etc)

@jinsory5582 3 месяца назад

That's Japan now

@DerekWitt 3 года назад

Alcatel is still in business? I haven’t heard of them in a long time.

@victorhugofranciscon7899 3 года назад

I guess they are focusing in developing countries

@tristan6509 3 года назад

@@victorhugofranciscon7899 they aren't that popular in developing countries either, chinese manufacturers are more common

@denizparry 3 года назад

We still have Alcatel in South Africa. Smartphones mainly, but still you can buy button phones and landlines. Edit: Spelling error

@St0rmcrash 3 года назад

Technically no, Alcatel-Lucent was acquired by Nokia a few years ago. However Alcatel-Lucent didn't make cell phones themselves and had licensed the Alcatel brand to a Chinese company to make cell phones, and that licensing agreement has continued under Nokia, though if it will be renewed when it expires remains to be seen

@denizparry 3 года назад

@@St0rmcrash True

@TommyCrosby 3 года назад

I wouldn't call a KaiOS phone a "smartphone", while it indeed have modern features, it's just a web-based browser. You can't install native apps, only web apps, so you are limited to what HTML5 and built-in APIs period. It's funny tho that Steve Jobs originally wanted the iPhone to have the same limitations (being unable to install third party native apps) and that's why the Appstore only launched a year later.

@mzg147 3 года назад

Smortphones don't need to have native apps. I know how it hurts nerds like us, but native apps are becoming a thing of the past.

@10meisterballe 3 года назад

Web apps are actually quite advanced.

@lego_minifig 3 года назад

Yeah, more of a “feature phone” than a “smartphone”.

@22b_gc8 3 года назад

It's like a Feature phone with internet connectivity

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

This is probably true. This phone certainly isn't as advanced as an iPhone or flagship Android phone. I was calling it a smartphone on the basis that it has a web browser, app store (that allows 3rd party apps), WiFi connectivity, etc. Although looking at KaiOS's site, they use the term "smart feature phone" to describe the devices that their OS runs on. So you could say it's a hybrid of sorts.

@ryanwakebradtelle8682 3 года назад

The only one of these I purchased had the App Store disabled, but I would be interested to see the games in the emulators. Also a smart TV remote, if you're replacing them there at minimum $7.