The $5 Smartphone - Is It Any Good?

It's okay, but for $5 I expect more Solitaire.

Imagine your a 6th grader and your parents just got you this phone. You thank them and tell all of your friends you got a phone. Then you see this is in your recommended.....

Solitaire in 1995: Double click it and start playing Solitaire in 2021: GIVE US YOUR DATA. LOCATION. AND PHONE NUMBER

I love how this $5 phone comes with more extras than $1000+ phones do

"Mom can I get an android phone?" "You have a phone at home." The phone:

I always love it when the weaker a phone is, the more bloatware they preinstall

That was kinda fascinating to watch. Today, we have smartphones that are more capable than the very 1st PC. Their most expensive plan in today's standard is actually criminal, tbh.

You just unlocked a memory that was deep in my childhood this phone was my second phone I ever had thanks for the memories

solitaire wants to know your location, play itself in the background and send messages every 10 seconds reminding you to play solitaire

Sooner or later, smartphones are gonna hit dollar stores. Edit: A lot of people are telling me they already do. While I appreciate the replies, at the time, I was thinking of stores like Dollar Tree and 99 Cents Store, and the phones costing only $1.

The solitaire auto-install thing might be Tracfone. A while back I was at a local grocery store and used their free wifi on a Tracfone-branded A51; suddenly there were two or three or four games on my desktop I'm 1000% sure I didn't install. I thought I might have been hacked via the store's wifi. I'm also pretty sure that they didn't show up when I had updated the OS.

i had this phone as my daily driver for 8months due to financial issues. it served as a good device in my time of need. some oddities i noticed. while the phone is good if you just want to send text messages and reply to emails. it could not seem to handle having both applications open simultaneously, i needed to close applications manually after using them to avoid freezing. also, while charging, the phone gets worryingly hot. i was scared to leave it on my bed in case of a house fire erupting . on a positive, the phone does take pleasant photos, that just don't show well on the poor quality screen, definitely not on the level of a 2022 flagship or dslr for that matter, but its perfectly fine for a photo that's just going to be posted to social media, as long as the lighting is adequate, as the low light captures are quite poor unfortunately.

The Weather app: "Tap to configure" Wow, I've never expected that a cellphone can change the whole weather of the world just by a one click, with only 5 dollars! Damn the technology has improved too much...

“solitaire would like to access your social security number and credit card information”

I remember my tracfone, it was dark days. It came with 4gb of storage, deleted bloatware and then downloaded what I needed and then had to delete that to update stuff

My uncle has a couple of the phones from TCL. They're pretty decent and they run faster than my a11, but my a11 is older, while his phones are a bit newer. From what I've seen, they work great for streaming, and some gaming.

Even at $20 this is still a lot cheaper than a Raspberry Pi. Kinda insane.

That is the cheapest cell phone deal I've ever seen!

8:15 It wouldn't be a Michael MJD video if something didn't go wrong. LOL

1)Crazy how a 5$ phone has Facebook pre-installed. I hate it. 2)The fact it got an update is awesome 3) YouTube working is impressive. Making this a raspberry pi os phone would DEFINETELY help. 4) Speaker is alright 5) It literally works for 5$. If you're in a bind I guess it's a good thing to buy