I once got a tablet so cheap that I turned the brightness all the way down, it completely blackened the screen, and unless you were lucky enough to memorize where the brightness slider was in the pull down menu, the tablet was completely bricked.
I love that every single Dankpods starts with about three seconds of silence where I get to question whether or not my AirPods stopped working for some reason
I once thought my volume was turned down, so I cranked it up, resulting in Dank's voice blasting out of my shitty phone speakers, obliterating my eardrums and waking up the whole neighbourhood.
The cheap tablet/laptop market is fascinating. There is some good stuff, but it's mostly slapping modern way too bloated OS's on essentially 15 year old hardware. You're going to have a bad time almost no matter what.
i would have a story about slapping arch on a 2015 chromebook to see how it runs without insane bloat but the fucker has a read only boot drive that gets really mad and doesn't let you boot if it's not the og chrome os and it didn't accept my restoration chromeos stick so it's a brick now lol
@Agustinus Reynaldi that sucks. Even samsung knows better than not to do that. My Note 8 is beaten beyond possibility to the point that the screen has, well... some special issues. The bottom part of the screen has no colour or brightness adjustment, it stays to 100% no matter what. If the brightness isn't almost maxxed, the colours get even fucky-er than they already are, because for whatever reason there is a GTA SA sandy orange filter over everything. A very specific and annoyng spot has no touch anymore, and this is only some of the details about the current state, because about a week earlyer it was different, with the screen going nuts in specific situations ir just refusing to work. Either way i got completeley off the rails. The OS on my phone is not OEM essentially, getting rid of plenty of garbage. For some reason it even got rid of the calculator, but that's an easy fix.
At my horribly set up and ran STEM Academy school they were given a $1,000,000 grant for the school to get supplies. They decided to get a class set of ipod touches that were out of date (had the silver reflective backing) class set of laptops that were questionable at best. Only half of them worked. And a class set of cheap android tablets that I kid you not were uses less then 5 times because of how awful they were. Some wouldn't charge others wouldn't load without freezing or crashing and trying to open a tab took a literal class period. What happened to the rest of the money? The higher ups pocketed it for themselves which they wouldn't get caught till years later. They shut down that STEM in my area
I never really understood tablets that much when everyone has a (usually at least decent) smartphone these days. For example, my Sony Xperia 1 II is less than half the size of this tablet and would absolutely run this tablet over, and then switch into reverse and run it over again both features and performance wise. But you know what, maybe that's not fair and the equivalent of the school giga-chad beating up the school idiot, so let's compare it to the phone I had... over 6 years ago... The Samsung Galaxy S5. And this tablet STILL gets murdered. lol
Personally, I have one very specific usecase for cheap Android tablets: I use two of them as stationary control panels for my smarthome. One on the ground floor for controlling stuff in the livingroom and kitchen, and one upstairs to control stuff in the bedroom and office.
i lived off of a 80 dollar acer tablet for a lotta my childhood, i just found it in the closet covered in dust while packing up for college, and the last photo taken on its shitty 1mp camera was my first iphone :) ... after about 4 minutes of loading while these tablets are hillariously dogshit, even the nuggiest of nuggets can hold a special place in our hearts❤️
The idea of that is pretty heartwarming. I had a similar run with an eMachines desktop that was just totally junk. I used it for about 7 years and for 4 of those years it was my only computer. I'd play PC games on it and I'd have to edit the .ini files to get the games to run below the lowest settings. I played some 50 hours of Morrowind at ~20 fps on the thing. Minecraft at 10fps was the daily too. It's siting beside me now and I just can't get rid of it. Even though it was junk I'm so attached to that machine and the memories I made on it. I have a Series X for games now aha.
True I had that Google nexus tablet that was incredibly slow but it was still my first tablet and will hold a special place in my heart, idk where Tf the tablet is but I have it’s case
I think the sad thing is. This type of thing is a lot of peoples (Particularly older peoples) first experience with a tablet, leading to frustration and general lack of interest or desire to learn. Thinking that “modern” technology is frustrating and useless my grandad had a “Hudl” a table made for Tescos (supermarket chain) in the Uk and it was his only computing device for years until I got him an IPad and his world has changed with a competent tablet
Yeah but, this kind of technology doesn't particularly benefit older people's lives much at all. It's not like a life or death situation to them like it would be to younger generations. The main thing my grandparents use their smart phones for is WhatsApp for god sake 🤣
i used to have tablets identical to this from ages 9-13ish. it was so embarrassing being in middle school and having to whip out one of these bad boys when all of my peers had nice iphones. i would need to get them replaced every few months because theyd randomly take a shit and stop working. one time, when i went to get a new one with my mom at walmart, i found out how dirt cheap they were. i was insulted that she wouldnt just buy me a good tablet that would maybe even work to this day. also, the laptop i currently have is basically one of these tablets but glorified. my mom would always rather cheap out on a piece of garbage that quite literally cannot function than get something that works a little bit.
You should get used electronics. For laptops I recommend getting a used ThinkPad or a Dell Latitude from couple of years ago. Those things were build like tanks, and are dirt cheap on the used market.
@@Dac_DT_MKD my primary school had a shitton of ThinkPads. I mean if they can survive anyone less than 10 years of age, they've gotta be built like crazy.
Oh I got one of the "good" cheap ones not really good but worth the price when I was younger it lasted for quite a few years but broke eventually it could even somewhat run Minecraft not necessarily well but it could and it didn't really lag that much usually but it drained the battery a ton and it was like 70 ish dollars honestly very worth the price for something adequate that lasts very long now it wasn't good by any means but not bad
My parents' first tablet was something even cheaper and worse than this one. Takes like 20 minutes to start up and barely worked even when it was brand new. Ended up giving the stupid thing to my cat to play a game where a mouse runs around on the screen for the cat to paw at, because that's all it was good for. He loved that tablet.
Was it the RCA Viking Pro exclusive to Walmart by any chance? The RCA logo itself shows for 40 seconds, the Viking Pro loading screen takes several (9?) minutes, and the keyboard it attaches to doesn't always register. Mono sound from a 2W speaker. ...but hey, it has a USB A port for flash drives and a mini HDMI output, something I haven't seen on many tablets at all. Manufacturers have been racing to get consumer electronics to be wafer thin.
Usually when "read books" is the very first "feature" thats as far as it was designed to go. anything beyond is just hopes the software works and dreams that the hardware can support it.
man I got one of these for my high school class and we absolutely had to use them during exams, you were lucky every time when theyd boot up and do what you wanted. you were usually better off taking one of the spares they got in case yours didnt work.. because.. the spares were so much better than our own.
I used to work at a Goodwill, sorting out and wiping smart devices. I saw so many tablets clearly just designed to put bullet points on a box, most of which ended up getting recycled. Nobody wanted them when they were new, let alone secondhand. The fact that powering this piece of junk on ONLY took twenty-some seconds puts it leagues above most of the tablets I saw, which generally would take upwards of 1-2 minutes to get into Android. Quite a few of those were from LASER. You've got a high-tier low-tier tablet here!
@Schnort I got my secondary "campfire" guitar from Goodwill for $38. Included case, tuner, strung winder, and guitar. Obviously, it's not a $1000 guitar but plays better than some $200 or $300 ones I've played
I still remember the intense wave of anxiety that I felt when I found out you weren't just filming on top of an old iPad case and that there was actually a working iPad in there this whole time
When I was younger I had got an really cheap tablet with a spongy resistive touch screen, and took it to Spain on holiday but while we were there our bags and wallet got stolen and my dad had to try do online banking in a foreign country, on dreadful wifi, with the worst tablet I've ever used.
@@sloppynyuszi Man if we had money for an ipad I wouldn't have had that crappy tablet lol. I had other stuff that I cared about more though, my DS was the only thing I needed
I love these cheap Mankie tablets. They’re perfect for opening up a manual and working on your lawnmower. And you don’t even feel guilty for accidentally running it over with the mower and mulching it because it’s so cheap. It’s also perfect for po... po-roductivity, yes, totally what I was going to say. Mine was an RCA, and some friends of mine stole it.
Lol I remember my dad bought a cheap android tablet just like this one Shit took longer to boot up then an old windows xp laptop My man just gave it to my dad He hated it so much He go a new Lenovo tablet "The tablet is like a nerf gun to an airsoft gun " LOL
@@Kareem_King I don't know ware my dad even got it probably from like ali express or some shit I bet it said oh yeah 8 cores 1tb ram 16 petabytes of storage or something
You have to keep in mind that although it's very bad for everyday use, it might be great for various IoT projects where you just need a cheap and big touchscreen device.
Got a cheap tablet that was on sale, primarily use it as a PC monitoring device, there are awesome programs that you can run on android tablets, so I can see my temps, network traffic and a bunch of other stuff.
Amazon Fire tablets (used and older ones too) with a custom ROM are good for stuff like that too! Just don't use the stock ROM and you're good to go! 👍
@@pyrofur_nx Internet of of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects-“things”-that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.
I had a cheap tablet back in 2016 At first it was great. From battery backup to performance it was amazing. Then it slowly become unusable. Where sometime you could charge it fully within 2-3 minutes and it would last for 2-3 miniute. It also had other problem but oneday while trying to insert a sim card it broke or scratch something important. Then we couldn't repair it. It was very precious to me, I played a lot of games at that, I had a lot of memories. But sadly it passed away (broke). This video reminds me of that tablet.Thanks Sorry for my English. I'm also very down tonight. I am sure no one will ever read this comment. But I wish you a bright tomorrow.
Well, guess what, once my mum purchased a cheap little powerbank in a retail store, offered it to me for my birthday... ... it *exploded / caught fire* when my friend tried to charge his phone with it 😳😳😳 You're NOT always safer with things bought in stores 🙃
I once bought a tablet like this for ~$40 on amazon and it came with a keyboard and stylus. It was just as slow. One thing that made it unique was its ability to (involuntarily) play music through headphones and the external speaker at the same time. At one point, it started boot looping and never recovered. It got thrown into storage and suffered from a flood. Back to the e-waste pile.
I used to have one that I think was about $70 that ran a really old version of android. It was so bad at playing games that Minecraft would crash after 5 minutes.
For those that actually wants a decent tablet, try get a Fire HD 8"/10" 2020 instead, if they have an older version of FireOS you can pretty much remove almost every Amazon bloatware included using Fire Toolbox. Newer versions of FireOS still allows you to install Google Play services and etc (I would recommend microG instead due to Gapps bogging down the system a lot), I have one and it's a really nice content consumption device on the bed, especially with how great those speakers are, definitely worth the 50 EUR i paid for them in mid 2021.
Ingot the hd8+. It's fine, just fine, not good, but fine. For what I use it for which is pretty much a TH-cam consumption device to save wearing out my phone's battery or web bwosing if my phone's on charge it's good enough. Would I recommend one? Only if the use case is exactly the same as mine
@@HA05GER honestly, the Samsung tab s6 lite is just about the baseline of what i consider "good". You can find one for as cheap as €160, it's great for a 2 year old tablet and it comes with a pen
I'm not sure what exactly that means. But I never planned to visit Adelaide anyway's. (I'm from south QLD, I never hear a peak out of north QLD, sometimes there'll be something about NSW and VIC but almost never SA or WA and never TAS).
I can attest to the Air 2. Bought it off the shelf around 2015-2016 and it's been going strong ever since. Been through many jailbreaks (don't tell Apple) and is currently up-to-date and hasn't slowed down very much. It does have to stop and think every now and then, usually when opening apps, but it's still tolerable.
@@itshugh6750 Calling it a "bargain" is a bit of a stretch really. I think DankPods was just commenting on the fact that an "old" iPad would be money better spent than e-waste tablets like that one. I reckon that extra $300 is worth it, even if only for the longevity iPads have. That Laser tablet is already out-of-date off the shelf.
@@johnnybuoy You are missing the point that the iPad was 400 dollars at purchase new, and this tables was not even a hundred dollars new in box. You can hate on Android all you want, but to my knowledge there is no 'budget' apple equivalent available as a tablet. As for the usability if this android tablet, it's crap, but that's mostly because of the cheap components used. For around 150-200 dollars there are very usable android tablets, simple because of the components used are way better then this. I get Dankpods' point tho. This shouldn't be sold as is, but comparing it to an (albeit older) device that's just higher quality and much more expensive isn't really a good comparison.
8:39 It was released on August 22, 2013, for iOS and Android, November 13 2013 for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8,and January 15, 2014 for BlackBerry 10, and April 5, 2015 for Tizen.
As a tech nerd, I'm obligated to point out that the apple device most likely has an IPS panel for it's display, meaning it has higher color accuracy and can be viewed from almost any angle without distortion at the cost of money and response time. The cheaper tablet probably has a TN Panel, which is much cheaper than IPS and has lower response time, but distorts unless viewed head on.
I remember around 2014 we got this really cheap tablet called the "Pendo Pad". It was basically the same as this Laser tablet. The Pendo Pad would crash, get terrifyingly hot, would eventually fall apart and the speaker was on the back. The speaker grill itself wasn't even in the right place, it was off to the side which made it cover half the speaker. Meanwhile my 2013 Ipad Mini 2 runs as well as you'd need it to, battery still holding up insanely well to this day.
I had a Pendo pad as well BC my parents couldn't afford anything else lol, mine was as bad as yours tbh. my dad used his for maybe five years (I have no idea how) before it kept crashing on everything and he gave up and bought a laptop
oh wow, I had a Pendo too back in.. 2015-2016 I think! it lasted nearly 2 years I think, and was somehow pretty decent until the battery suddenly started losing power faster than it could charge. definitely much happier to stick with my ipad though
I had no idea there were other people with Pendos. I received one as a free gift for an NBN plan with TPG, and it was abhorrently slow. The speaker was very thoughtfully placed right where your palm rests, and a 0.3 degree angle from looking straight on would make the screen near unrecognisable. There wasn't even a camera, although that's probably for the better. It had some sad single core Intel thing, and it currently sits in the graveyard of electronics.
@@maggleworth Same thing happened with my Pendo as well. My Ipad also takes a ridiculous time to charge, however the battery does last a great deal of time.
Nah, too much RAM for a 2009 tablet. My old phone from 2013 was slimemr than that. And 2009 was still the time of the netbooks, before they got replaced by tablets.
I remember getting something quite like this one from my mom as a child, and i used the hell out of that thing, and can relate to all of this, the youtube quality, the booting time, updating taking forever, only occasionally getting connection, but as a kid, i still loved it
Yeah the target demographics for such devices are mostly kids. Kids will get their first experience with tablets and even if they break it it wont be a big deal
I remember buying a $40 tablet from Walmart for my younger brother, it was plasticy as hell but it ran a pretty new version of Android, and it was relatively alright for its price (ran TH-cam and some games fine), its about $50 now (they replaced the microUSB with a USB-C plug)
i remember having these!!! just using them made me a nerd... cuz like i couldnt figure out stuff cuz it kept either lagging or crashing, so finding cheap solutions was the only option... the *PAIN* was *REAL*
My training organisation for my apprenticeship gave me one of these tablets. It was cheaper to buy a tablet and put all the assignments on it as PDFs than to print them out lol
Interesting thing to note: this seems to have developer options enabled or utilized in some way as the animation times are way down, just to make it seem faster
I used my iPad 4 until recently and usually my internet would be 20 kB/s, and I’m being real, I actually learned to be patient. The TH-cam videos that were less concerned with visuals, I would put them at 144p, and the ones that needed visuals, I would put 360p. I would wait until it loaded. Each search would take a minute or half. I didn’t get frustrated because I was used to it.
Best thing about these type of cheap tabs is to use them as secondary, touch screen monitor. Depending on the model, you can even rip it apart then manually connect it using a diy kit
I actually bought a few of these tablets exclusively to use for D&D in person. Phones are great to use sure, but these tablets view the D&D Beyond as full page, so no sliding through the menus to find everything & for that alone, this tablet is perfect, just fire them up before players arrive and have a charger for them ready to go/leave them always on power.
i once had a laptop in which i loved to play minecraft, but it took 40 minutes just to open the launcher and then another 40 minutes for the game to launch and once the game was started, it would crash and the launcher would open instantly after and i had to wait more 40 minutes. I got 30 fps while setting the render distance to 6 and the each chunk would take 5 minutes to load.
6:30 "for most people 480 is the minimum" Man that made me super nostalgic for watching Minecraft videos late at night when I was 10, using my mobile data because my parents shut off the internet, and I'd watch stuff in 144p to conserve data, 240p if I was feeling spicy. I only had 2gb for the whole month, simpler days. Also TH-cam was way better, longer videos and we had dislikes and minimal ads.
@@rechtrecht Ich hab 12 GB und bin auch bei der Telekom. Guck mal bitte nach ob dein Tarif aktuell ist. Und selbst wenn nicht, Telekom hat vor nem Monat oder so alte Tarife angepasst. Meine Mutter hat den selben Tarif wie ich aber hatte bis vor nem Monat nur 5GB statt 12GB.
I would just download videos on Wi-Fi to later be watched offline. Much simpler than having to deal with stuff like this, and you don't have to use any mobile data.
7:20 Dankpods was never heard of again, the suspect, Frunk the snek, is still on the loose. If you know any whereabouts of frunk, dont feel free to call local emergency services
I’ve always wondered why, in the super cheap tablet market, do they bother including a camera? They’re always such crap that they aren’t even usable. If they didn’t bother, they could use the cost savings from not including the camera and microphone to add just a bit more ram or a 10 year old processor instead of a 15 year old one.
cheap cameras are pennies, and the people who buy these tablets would rather have more feature than spend $5 more on something that actually works so... Economics???!?
Certainly they are crap, however you have to consider that many times that toy camera is a lifesaver. especially for those elementary and middle school homework -At least speaking from my case [in 2012-2013]. In Mexico, the transition to digital things was relatively slow (I'm not lying when I tell you that 90% of our stores and banks were running Windows XP and IBM tinkcenters from the 80s-90s), and even continued to sell CRT televisions [despite the fact that the analog TV blackout was scheduled for 2013]. Digital cameras in Mexico were a rare product. not only because hardly anyone had one. [they were expensive, delicate and difficult to repair, etc. unless you were a photographer or a teenager with a lot of money and wanted to take emo photos for Hi-5 or +18 amateur content with a compact Cybershot it was rare to see one] all families had film cameras, or camcorders (which those were a success, motivated more than anything by the idea of recording children dancing or acting at school festivals since our educational program celebrates holidays like this) [even webcams were a premium item, partly because at that time internet access in mexico at a domestic level on average did not exceed 2-5 mbps via ADSL], so making video calls was like "huh if that exists" *and you were even screwed because you could have a webcam but Obtaining microphones was almost impossible, nobody sold them, they were expensive and nobody knew how to put them in a dinosaur PC*[there were those who would have 10-20 megs but they were very wealthy. or really hardcore gamers who cushioned the investment, and some Internet cafes with 50-100 megabytes]. -Together with this, phone calls in Mexico are stupidly cheap, even free, so PCs only existed for Facebook, flash games, P*rn, TH-cam. [and email] -MSN Messenger at his time. Cell phones were more or less like that, whoever owned a blackberry was a top businessman, or already a lot of luxury, a Samsung galaxy. from there everyone used the classic buttons. So there were some cameras but (for some reason) those phones were never sold with PC cable or you could only get through via bluethooth [and PC's dont have it]. Set to the Candy Crush moms effect, So slowly cheap tablets became a common Christmas gift So in many school activities or some government procedures (very rare at the time), they asked you to take photographs of evidence. 35mm film is becoming more and more rare to find and many children don't know how to use it anymore so for many years those cheap tablets and phones with shitty cameras were the standard and the family digital camera. [so under the logic of tablet-phone having a digital camera... who needs a digital one now?] [Today we all see our "memories of the 2010's" and they are disgusting and even with today's monitors impossible to see with such low resolution, but at the time it was something normal and even "enough" because those photos in a CRT monitor from the 90s that everyone had or as a luxury some LCD resolution WGA or 720 max] or printed on bond paper with an hp inkjet cartridges from the 2000s or already in 4x6" photographic paper they looked like a damn luxury. the problem was that many people got stuck in that idea that those farting cameras were the future to the point that you can literally go to any store or supermarket in mexico in 2022 and you will not find digital cameras. [some premium reflexes] or cheap Camcorders- GoPro like. or for children. but they don't really sell cameras.
@@CharlieRAnimaMX im from Poland and i would like to say that i have fully read your comment. We had similair situation with internet, back in 2010 i had a "premium" 10mb/s adsl internet connection up to 20mb/s in 2014 that costed unreasonalble 35$. Now i have 40$ fully unlimited LTE connection and its great as for what available right now it is mostly 100-150mb/s. Its funny that we have cheaper cellurals plan right now than half of the fiber networks. As for 2022 we have fiber in pretty mutch everywhere, even on the very remote villages so as 5G and LTE cellurar beacuse of goverment and european union plan of investment for digitalizing and connetcing all people. It's kind of shock for me when i travel abroad and i see packs of 20gb data for 20$. In 2010 i had this VGA camera which sucked as well as cheap tablet and unusable smartphone with really poor resistive touchscreen, but i'm glad we had nice medium sized electronic markets in my city which imported every high tech that you would ever like to buy - but we had also be waiting for things to slowly change. Im 👋 to you for vacations now on turkey 🇹🇷 with 500mb/s wifi AC connection. Have a nice day!
Not to sound sappy. One of the reasons I LOVE your channel... Was a drummer in a punk band in HS. Had so much fun with my buds. That was 1983ish. Now I'm in my mid 50s, married, family, IT nerd. Life of a domesticated husband tends to mean that "mates" fade into the cosmic ether. It sucks, but that's the reality of reality. Watching your videos, laughing with you about stupid stuff or gadget stuff, whatever. Talkin' to your "puck cells". Watching you go balls out on the drums for the sole reason that it's an absolute blast. It takes me back to those days, back with my crew. So, big time thanks for that.
I got a $70 CAD Proscan tablet 7ish years ago and surprisingly it's still kicking. It's obviously not good for intensive games but it can play simple games like fruit ninja, browse the internet, and watch 1080p TH-cam videos perfectly fine. I'm genuinely impressed with how well it works for so long for how cheap it was. The cameras on it are dogshit tho.
@@xxyvng6831 man iPads are always the exception. I'm fairly certain that Apple just puts the same camera as the iPhone into the iPad. The only time I had a bad time with an iPad camera was on an iPad 2. That was just barely over ten years ago.
2:57 It could very likely be exactly that...a TV without the TV tuner. Many new portable TVs use that screen resolution and possibly about the same hardware.
1:11 I loved every part of this video, but there was such a great opportunity to say "lies" after tablet as joke. I genuinely thought that was going to happen from the setup.
Get a used one, you can pick up very nice previously high-end devices for around $99, especially less popular brands like LG, you can fairly easily find a G8 or G7 in good condition for under $99.
@@vgamesx1 the problem of those mf are the batteries tho, with a couple of years they might be destroyed. Maybe just save a little more, 200 can get you a really decent Xiaomi/realme phone
@@LeoMkII All the ones I've gotten so far had only lost roughly 10-20% capacity, could be better but it's still more than plenty to get through an entire day on 80% charge, generally batteries only go bad that quickly when people take very little care of their battery and leave it on the charger all the time and of course I wouldn't recommend everyone go do it, but swapping batteries isn't that difficult, it mostly just requires patience both to remove the back and to clean the glue off to then re-glue it. Also, keep in mind companies like Xiaomi make very little margin on their products, meaning they have to make up for that elsewhere, so you may not mind that, but I would rather not take part in any of that. My problem with budget phones is that they cost quite similar to old flagships but always come with comprises, often the camera first then the screen, after that specs/storage, because you'll have considerably more storage, that nice crisp screen and top-tier specs, the whole package is just all around better and you'll want to keep it for much longer, if I have to take a mild hit to battery life to get those things well then personally I think it's worth it, I've owned budget phones too and it's not as if they don't have a place, but please trust me on this, they just aren't worth it, they're fine for light users like grandma who barely touch their phone but for everyone else do yourself a favor and at least splurge for the $300-$400 range if you must have a new phone.
The only use for this is actually pretty interesting: Sim racing!, We have a bunch of tools to let us display telemetry on a device to act like a Dashboard. I'm actually kinda seriously thinking that this might be a good option if i every Shell out for my IRacing sub again. But yea, Sits still, shows some numbers and maybe a little bit of animation. Perfect for a 50
10:50 it's not just your iPad but the old Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 that i have also beats it and it's an Android tablet but honestly an old high end device is still better than an recent low end device and oh god downloading a file around 30MB is that slow?
Always so funny to see headphone jack on cheap tablets and phones cus it makes it so obvious that phone manifacturers just want you to buy wireless headphones so they removed headphone jack. 🤣
@@Wertyhappy27 yeah exactly. I mean i think you still kinda need to add some more components for the headphone detection circuit but it's probably still under 1$ but i am no expert so i could be wrong.
@Agustinus Reynaldi Wireless dirtybuds win for me. I walk around a lot and need to be untethered. I always yank the wired ones out when I’m doing normal stuff.
@@soniccookie655 I tried some of the KZs dank mentioned, ended up with a pair of ZS10s which fit slightly better for me, along with an AZ09 bluetooth adapter which cost less than the buds. They fit amazing for work and have pretty great battery, plus I can switch to wired or replace the adapter if the battery goes bad but keeping the speakers later on. They also refuse to fall off being over the ear
Just avoid that brand - if you were to pull one apart , the parts inside would rust. Better to grab something of known quality a few years old. Seems they used old hardware and flash the most basic android os they found and called it New.
4:25 i actually had guinea pigs once when i was much younger, who I had to give away because I was going to boarding school. One of them had recently died, so him going like "oh, oh no.." was.............a thing
TN panels used to vary in quality quite greatly, the better ones were really not that bad. I'm guessing the reason we only see the junkers these days is because the decent ones probably aren't much cheaper than an IPS now that they move in the volumes they do.
You see, pre-chromebook era I had an RCA tablet "PC" that had a special docking magnetic keyboard/hinged stand and 2 USB 2.0 ports, and I think it used a special version of Android more akin to Android x86 with exFAT as the filesystem, it had a gig of RAM, 32gb internal storage, expandable flash storage up to I believe 128gb as well as 5V1A power to the USB ports when connected to the AC adapter instead of the Micro USB power. Excellent android-based machine, especially if you're a developer. This was 2013, it cost $90 freedom eagles.
The description on the speakers completed my suspicions about this device. It's the staple device of the family with a failing marriage and a small child that needs TH-cam to parent it for them. I'm guessing it had an 800mhz cpu on an older architecture that has absolutely no heat spreader at all and throttles to hell the second it gets any load at all.
I've purchased budget tablets for fun and I've been impressed multiple times. The most notable one is the generic Walmart brand tablet that only cost me like $50 USD. It runs the latest Android Go, the camera is ass and the speaker is mediocre. Battery life is meh (but it uses USB-C *and* can fast charge!) and the screen resolution is a bit grainy. However, I was pleasantly surprised upon using it, because despite that it runs quite fast and it can run every app that my flagship Android can. It even has expandable storage! Genuinely very nice for media and whatnot; if you want something quick to pull out to read something you can. Need white noise? It has your back. And you don't need to worry about losing it because it's so dirt cheap.
If you can get game streaming service like geforce now or shadow running, using it as a gaming setup works even with good internet and usb c hub for mouse/ nd keyboard or controller. Although its a lot nicer on samsung devices cause you get to use Dex
The screen on that thing brings back memories of my first flat screen TV: a 13 inch Craig. It was legitimately the worst thing I'd ever seen and I think I still have it despite the fact that it completely died after I gave it to my sister. The fun part was when I first got it, I couldn't play anything without standing on my bed because the only place I could put a TV was on my dresser. Which was right next to my bed
Our first flat screen was a Sanyo and one thing I remember about it is when the cable would go out, instead putting a “no signal” pop up, it would blast static at full volume. Always nearly gave us a heart attack every time.
Bro your channel is an anomaly compared to all the other people I sub to on this platform. I'm not a drummer (like you are) I'm barely an audiophile (like you) and am 100% anti Apple these days, but I love watching you do what you do no matter what it is. Your channel is so entertaining and I love your videos, keep up the amazing work and thank you!
@@velnoa you can actually buy your own smaller, secondary router and plug the Ethernet cable into that. this will create a signal in your room just as strong as the base WiFi. if this second router has more Ethernet ports, you can still keep your PC plugged in, too.
I, too, have an iPad 4. 16 GB, non cellular, black bezel. That was my iPad for almost a whole decade before getting a 2021 iPad Pro. Had that 4 throughout my childhood, still have it, still functions. Prolly so much better than the $50 tablet lol
I once got a tablet so cheap that I turned the brightness all the way down, it completely blackened the screen, and unless you were lucky enough to memorize where the brightness slider was in the pull down menu, the tablet was completely bricked.
Same
Lol
this made me laugh so hard
Or just shut it down and turn it back on, fixing the set brightness 😂
@@harlivy6960 sometimes or always, android would remember last saved brightness state
I love that every single Dankpods starts with about three seconds of silence where I get to question whether or not my AirPods stopped working for some reason
The biggest disappointment with the parody videos is that they don't do this.
I once thought my volume was turned down, so I cranked it up, resulting in Dank's voice blasting out of my shitty phone speakers, obliterating my eardrums and waking up the whole neighbourhood.
I will check to see if I accidentally paused the video, causing me to spiral into a pause-play-pause frenzy
@@LukewarmFoxxo bruh what your Device a ipad with 5 speaker? Or something else
Read my name actually
The cheap tablet/laptop market is fascinating. There is some good stuff, but it's mostly slapping modern way too bloated OS's on essentially 15 year old hardware. You're going to have a bad time almost no matter what.
i would have a story about slapping arch on a 2015 chromebook to see how it runs without insane bloat but the fucker has a read only boot drive that gets really mad and doesn't let you boot if it's not the og chrome os and it didn't accept my restoration chromeos stick so it's a brick now lol
@@Anonymous-xo6qd chromeos is already super light. Did it not have a replaceable drive?
@@gamagama69 most chromebooks run off basically a soldered sd card
@Agustinus Reynaldi that sucks. Even samsung knows better than not to do that. My Note 8 is beaten beyond possibility to the point that the screen has, well... some special issues. The bottom part of the screen has no colour or brightness adjustment, it stays to 100% no matter what. If the brightness isn't almost maxxed, the colours get even fucky-er than they already are, because for whatever reason there is a GTA SA sandy orange filter over everything. A very specific and annoyng spot has no touch anymore, and this is only some of the details about the current state, because about a week earlyer it was different, with the screen going nuts in specific situations ir just refusing to work. Either way i got completeley off the rails. The OS on my phone is not OEM essentially, getting rid of plenty of garbage. For some reason it even got rid of the calculator, but that's an easy fix.
why bother with 15yo hardware when the raspberry PI exists
At my horribly set up and ran STEM Academy school they were given a $1,000,000 grant for the school to get supplies. They decided to get a class set of ipod touches that were out of date (had the silver reflective backing) class set of laptops that were questionable at best. Only half of them worked. And a class set of cheap android tablets that I kid you not were uses less then 5 times because of how awful they were. Some wouldn't charge others wouldn't load without freezing or crashing and trying to open a tab took a literal class period. What happened to the rest of the money? The higher ups pocketed it for themselves which they wouldn't get caught till years later. They shut down that STEM in my area
damn scummy af but glad justice was served
The low tier of modern tablets can be a fun hole to dive in. Keep it up, crazy nugget mate!!!
I never really understood tablets that much when everyone has a (usually at least decent) smartphone these days. For example, my Sony Xperia 1 II is less than half the size of this tablet and would absolutely run this tablet over, and then switch into reverse and run it over again both features and performance wise. But you know what, maybe that's not fair and the equivalent of the school giga-chad beating up the school idiot, so let's compare it to the phone I had... over 6 years ago... The Samsung Galaxy S5. And this tablet STILL gets murdered. lol
These tablets are good for giving to kids to use, so if they break them it's not a big deal
I want him to make more!
@@arnox4554 big touch screen,that's all, I love big touch screen, it's great to play rhythm games on
@@arnox4554 that was also a 1000 plus dollar phone at release
Dankpods at 6:00: "Look at the pixelation!"
Me watching on my laptop with a crappy TN 1366x768 panel: "Huh, looks normal to me"
Bruh same, my laptop is decent (almost) specs wise but the screen sucks so bad
@@LeoMkII monitor
🤣
Me on my 1080p TN panel
@@tommygunjuice3722 laptops don't have monitors
Personally, I have one very specific usecase for cheap Android tablets:
I use two of them as stationary control panels for my smarthome. One on the ground floor for controlling stuff in the livingroom and kitchen, and one upstairs to control stuff in the bedroom and office.
I threw Android on an old Kindle Fire specifically to do something similar, it's now essentially a streamdeck.
Home Assistant...?
I would use this cheap thing as a secondary monitor for monitoring temps and stuff on my computer Lol.
@@SonicAlpha how do you throw an OS on something
Businesses too. If your business concept requires having customers use a tablet for ordering or anything else you probably don't want anything fancy.
Dank filming frank on the laserpad was like lost footage from a jungle where he was attacked by a snake
the quality legit looked like those fount footage backrooms videos, maybe not that dark
dankpods unfiction arg where his mic stories are all real but a version of him in another reality
“ghosts caught on camera” video quality lmao
i lived off of a 80 dollar acer tablet for a lotta my childhood, i just found it in the closet covered in dust while packing up for college, and the last photo taken on its shitty 1mp camera was my first iphone :) ... after about 4 minutes of loading
while these tablets are hillariously dogshit, even the nuggiest of nuggets can hold a special place in our hearts❤️
True!! I had a massive Acer. It was $130 at the time and it was sick.
Yeah I had one of those $80-$120 Acer Windows 8 tablets and played emulators on the bus to school, shit was sick!
The idea of that is pretty heartwarming. I had a similar run with an eMachines desktop that was just totally junk. I used it for about 7 years and for 4 of those years it was my only computer. I'd play PC games on it and I'd have to edit the .ini files to get the games to run below the lowest settings. I played some 50 hours of Morrowind at ~20 fps on the thing. Minecraft at 10fps was the daily too. It's siting beside me now and I just can't get rid of it. Even though it was junk I'm so attached to that machine and the memories I made on it. I have a Series X for games now aha.
you guys are lucky having windows on your old acers! mine could barely run android 5 lmaoo
True I had that Google nexus tablet that was incredibly slow but it was still my first tablet and will hold a special place in my heart, idk where Tf the tablet is but I have it’s case
I died of laughter when he started filming with the tablet’s camera. Definite thumbs up
*sausage dog*
Also talking about the air 2….. which I am typing on😂
@@psypherlyne4353 bruh lol air 2 ipad here coat about rm800 for a used one
Read my name actually
@@WiseMysticalTree4 I fully reject your existence
I think the sad thing is. This type of thing is a lot of peoples (Particularly older peoples) first experience with a tablet, leading to frustration and general lack of interest or desire to learn. Thinking that “modern” technology is frustrating and useless my grandad had a “Hudl” a table made for Tescos (supermarket chain) in the Uk and it was his only computing device for years until I got him an IPad and his world has changed with a competent tablet
Oh god I remember those tesco tablets. They were marketed towards the old generation and you're 100% right just led to lots of frustration..
I’m in a very poor family and this was my first device. It fucking sucked now that I remember.
Older people really need to stick to Apple products, they don’t do too well with Android from my experience
Yeah but, this kind of technology doesn't particularly benefit older people's lives much at all. It's not like a life or death situation to them like it would be to younger generations. The main thing my grandparents use their smart phones for is WhatsApp for god sake 🤣
I had the same thing. Bought a cheap car that had 6 previous owners and IT didn't perform. Bought a Ferrari later and its much faster!
i used to have tablets identical to this from ages 9-13ish. it was so embarrassing being in middle school and having to whip out one of these bad boys when all of my peers had nice iphones. i would need to get them replaced every few months because theyd randomly take a shit and stop working. one time, when i went to get a new one with my mom at walmart, i found out how dirt cheap they were. i was insulted that she wouldnt just buy me a good tablet that would maybe even work to this day.
also, the laptop i currently have is basically one of these tablets but glorified. my mom would always rather cheap out on a piece of garbage that quite literally cannot function than get something that works a little bit.
Lol your mom is awful. How much were the cheapest tablets she got. Lol MONTHS?? AND THEY TOOK A SHIT LOLOLOL
funny thing is a more expensive one would have been cheaper in the long run
You should get used electronics. For laptops I recommend getting a used ThinkPad or a Dell Latitude from couple of years ago. Those things were build like tanks, and are dirt cheap on the used market.
@@Dac_DT_MKD my primary school had a shitton of ThinkPads. I mean if they can survive anyone less than 10 years of age, they've gotta be built like crazy.
Oh I got one of the "good" cheap ones not really good but worth the price when I was younger it lasted for quite a few years but broke eventually it could even somewhat run Minecraft not necessarily well but it could and it didn't really lag that much usually but it drained the battery a ton and it was like 70 ish dollars honestly very worth the price for something adequate that lasts very long now it wasn't good by any means but not bad
The sheer SCREECH when reading “TOUCH” properly cracked me up. Keep up the great content mate 😁👍🏻
th-cam.com/video/XkKeZ7EAr_o/w-d-xo.html Finally it's here,
@@Ronaldo-eu1nz no one cares
@@Ronaldo-eu1nz L+no madiens+ fatherless
Lol I know
My parents' first tablet was something even cheaper and worse than this one. Takes like 20 minutes to start up and barely worked even when it was brand new. Ended up giving the stupid thing to my cat to play a game where a mouse runs around on the screen for the cat to paw at, because that's all it was good for. He loved that tablet.
Same dude
But i still have it
In my eyes, that's the best tablet ever. Because a tablet that is good for entertaining a cat is the best ever..
Was it the RCA Viking Pro exclusive to Walmart by any chance? The RCA logo itself shows for 40 seconds, the Viking Pro loading screen takes several (9?) minutes, and the keyboard it attaches to doesn't always register. Mono sound from a 2W speaker.
...but hey, it has a USB A port for flash drives and a mini HDMI output, something I haven't seen on many tablets at all. Manufacturers have been racing to get consumer electronics to be wafer thin.
LMAO
“Read books play games”
Sounds like an interesting title, kind of neat that they bundled that in.
Read games, play books
@@movieclipsvideos1781 burn books, play games with urself
th-cam.com/video/XkKeZ7EAr_o/w-d-xo.html Finally it's here,
Usually when "read books" is the very first "feature" thats as far as it was designed to go. anything beyond is just hopes the software works and dreams that the hardware can support it.
“Wifi interactivity”
man I got one of these for my high school class and we absolutely had to use them during exams, you were lucky every time when theyd boot up and do what you wanted. you were usually better off taking one of the spares they got in case yours didnt work.. because.. the spares were so much better than our own.
I used to work at a Goodwill, sorting out and wiping smart devices. I saw so many tablets clearly just designed to put bullet points on a box, most of which ended up getting recycled. Nobody wanted them when they were new, let alone secondhand.
The fact that powering this piece of junk on ONLY took twenty-some seconds puts it leagues above most of the tablets I saw, which generally would take upwards of 1-2 minutes to get into Android. Quite a few of those were from LASER.
You've got a high-tier low-tier tablet here!
Bro me too but I still work there lol
Just remember when dankpods did the “free AirPods video”? LASER legit took the same thing and just put a laser logo on it
Thats like about the boot time of a normal guy so at least it passed the boot test
Man, what kind of Gucci Goodwill store sells electronics? Man, I really need to visit thrift stores in a city instead of my town.
@Schnort I got my secondary "campfire" guitar from Goodwill for $38. Included case, tuner, strung winder, and guitar. Obviously, it's not a $1000 guitar but plays better than some $200 or $300 ones I've played
I still remember the intense wave of anxiety that I felt when I found out you weren't just filming on top of an old iPad case and that there was actually a working iPad in there this whole time
I'm amazed it hasn't been 1-gritted to oblivion by now.
Are you new? Because I recall him bringing it up a few times before
@@GinsuSher oh shut up
Why does he film on an old iPad anyways? Do you remember what he said?
Hardcore 1-gritting on the IPad
When I was younger I had got an really cheap tablet with a spongy resistive touch screen, and took it to Spain on holiday but while we were there our bags and wallet got stolen and my dad had to try do online banking in a foreign country, on dreadful wifi, with the worst tablet I've ever used.
Did the thief see the tablet and purposely leave it behind?
I would have.
Nah didn't take that one to the beach for some reason. Could barely see the screen in the dark let alone midday
Serves them right for buying you a trash tablet 😅 should have gotten you an iPad
@@sloppynyuszi Man if we had money for an ipad I wouldn't have had that crappy tablet lol. I had other stuff that I cared about more though, my DS was the only thing I needed
@@sloppynyuszi L
As someone with 3 guinea pigs who all died that conversation unexpectedly fit perfectly.
I love these cheap Mankie tablets. They’re perfect for opening up a manual and working on your lawnmower. And you don’t even feel guilty for accidentally running it over with the mower and mulching it because it’s so cheap. It’s also perfect for po... po-roductivity, yes, totally what I was going to say. Mine was an RCA, and some friends of mine stole it.
How tf did you watch porn on one of those things. porn sites are less optimized than youtube, and this kinda tablet could barely run youtube.
@@gamagama69 caught in 4k, and how the hell do you even know that 🤨
@@carlstal7162 its common knowledge really
@@Eliassww dont doubt the LG 75" TV
@@gamagama69 my cheap 100 dollar tablet handles cornhub very well 🌽 🌽 🌽
His ability to SCREAM whatever word happens to be in all caps never fails to tickle me
e *TOUCH*
AAA
😭 I literally rewind those parts back at least four times each
7:13 “I’m not hearing any woofing” - top ten last words before tragedy
The guinea pig completely applied to me lol.
Rest in peace you lovely lil guys
I remember selling these when I worked at Officeworks. I actively told customers not to buy them unless they hated their child.
How many people bought em after you told them that?
'Lucky for you, I indeed hates my child!'
/happily buys it
Lol I remember my dad bought a cheap android tablet just like this one
Shit took longer to boot up then an old windows xp laptop
My man just gave it to my dad
He hated it so much
He go a new Lenovo tablet
"The tablet is like a nerf gun to an airsoft gun " LOL
@@irish_countryball same with me but the tablet name was enet or something like that it was made in hong kong
@@Kareem_King I don't know ware my dad even got it probably from like ali express or some shit I bet it said oh yeah 8 cores 1tb ram 16 petabytes of storage or something
“I’m actually worried for my safety now!”
Last words of JPEG Dank.
You have to keep in mind that although it's very bad for everyday use, it might be great for various IoT projects where you just need a cheap and big touchscreen device.
i was just thinking how relatively expensive are little I2C/SPI LCD's compared to this tablet xD
Got a cheap tablet that was on sale, primarily use it as a PC monitoring device, there are awesome programs that you can run on android tablets, so I can see my temps, network traffic and a bunch of other stuff.
Amazon Fire tablets (used and older ones too) with a custom ROM are good for stuff like that too! Just don't use the stock ROM and you're good to go! 👍
im an idiot what does IoT stand for
@@pyrofur_nx Internet of
of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects-“things”-that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet.
I had a cheap tablet back in 2016
At first it was great. From battery backup to performance it was amazing. Then it slowly become unusable. Where sometime you could charge it fully within 2-3 minutes and it would last for 2-3 miniute. It also had other problem but oneday while trying to insert a sim card it broke or scratch something important. Then we couldn't repair it. It was very precious to me, I played a lot of games at that, I had a lot of memories. But sadly it passed away (broke). This video reminds me of that tablet.Thanks
Sorry for my English. I'm also very down tonight. I am sure no one will ever read this comment. But I wish you a bright tomorrow.
I never thought I would get 24 like on such a old video
Thank you
:(
No way guys. It’s Sad Man
Thanks man, hope you have a great day!
This reminds me of my old ipad, it cant charge or turn on anymore. I had so much memories on that :(
The tablet-recorded video legitimately sounds (and nearly looks) like videos I'd record on my 3DS back in 2013.
And the 3ds video at least had depth!
And a 3ds is at least still useable in this day, even if the eShop closes in about a month
Youre not a 2010s kid unless you made cringy vids on ur 3DS
@@GaryIsFound*DSI
Pictures taken on my DSi are better quality than the shit on the LASER
The fact that this was purchased at retail instead of from Wish or one of the other Chinese knockoff sites is horrifying.
While looking for that thing I found two other manufaturers that sell the exact same thing.
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Well, guess what, once my mum purchased a cheap little powerbank in a retail store,
offered it to me for my birthday...
... it *exploded / caught fire* when my friend tried to charge his phone with it 😳😳😳
You're NOT always safer with things bought in stores 🙃
@@KokoroKatsura
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I once bought a tablet like this for ~$40 on amazon and it came with a keyboard and stylus. It was just as slow. One thing that made it unique was its ability to (involuntarily) play music through headphones and the external speaker at the same time. At one point, it started boot looping and never recovered. It got thrown into storage and suffered from a flood. Back to the e-waste pile.
Why do people cry even after mentioning that it's the cheapest gadget. Just pretending to be funny?
@@namaloompakistani1768I wouldn't know. I'm not that kind of person
@@sagered8007
I didn't say that to you
@@namaloompakistani1768 Gotcha
I used to have one that I think was about $70 that ran a really old version of android. It was so bad at playing games that Minecraft would crash after 5 minutes.
It has the video recording capacity of an old "based on true story" horror movie credit scene where it shows the real recording
6:45 this basically confirms that a "found footage" satirical horror film starring Frank would be amazing
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@@KenmoreTheWashingMachine Bruh
"Good luck with the second one"
Me: Yea don't worry I got a third
"Oh, then good luck with the third"
I fucking burst out laughing
For those that actually wants a decent tablet, try get a Fire HD 8"/10" 2020 instead, if they have an older version of FireOS you can pretty much remove almost every Amazon bloatware included using Fire Toolbox. Newer versions of FireOS still allows you to install Google Play services and etc (I would recommend microG instead due to Gapps bogging down the system a lot), I have one and it's a really nice content consumption device on the bed, especially with how great those speakers are, definitely worth the 50 EUR i paid for them in mid 2021.
I've got a fire HD 10 and find it slow already even factory reset the thing. I'm pretty sure it's 2020 I believe is version 9. Any ideas ?
the Samsung tab a8 looks pretty good
Ingot the hd8+. It's fine, just fine, not good, but fine. For what I use it for which is pretty much a TH-cam consumption device to save wearing out my phone's battery or web bwosing if my phone's on charge it's good enough. Would I recommend one? Only if the use case is exactly the same as mine
@@davideverett7553 absolutely, I consider it good for the 50 EUR i paid for it new (it was on sale), so take my opinion with a grain of salt
@@HA05GER honestly, the Samsung tab s6 lite is just about the baseline of what i consider "good". You can find one for as cheap as €160, it's great for a 2 year old tablet and it comes with a pen
8:16 "Gimme the Dodge Fart"
4:46 "How do they make this so cheap?"
They have a little man doing all the calculations by hand
An Asian Child That Got An A++ In Meth
Honestly with this performance I wouldn't be surprised if there were just thousands of slaves running this thing
Considering the part of Adelaide you hang around, "The cheapest tablet I could get" can very easily have another meaning.
I'm not sure what exactly that means.
But I never planned to visit Adelaide anyway's.
(I'm from south QLD, I never hear a peak out of north QLD, sometimes there'll be something about NSW and VIC but almost never SA or WA and never TAS).
@@apoletestry3766 they mean drugs
I can attest to the Air 2. Bought it off the shelf around 2015-2016 and it's been going strong ever since. Been through many jailbreaks (don't tell Apple) and is currently up-to-date and hasn't slowed down very much. It does have to stop and think every now and then, usually when opening apps, but it's still tolerable.
I have a air 1 currently typing on it. It’s only now becoming slow
It's not really fair comparing a 400 dollar tablet to a 100 dollar bargain bin one now is it?
@@itshugh6750 Calling it a "bargain" is a bit of a stretch really. I think DankPods was just commenting on the fact that an "old" iPad would be money better spent than e-waste tablets like that one. I reckon that extra $300 is worth it, even if only for the longevity iPads have. That Laser tablet is already out-of-date off the shelf.
@@johnnybuoy You are missing the point that the iPad was 400 dollars at purchase new, and this tables was not even a hundred dollars new in box. You can hate on Android all you want, but to my knowledge there is no 'budget' apple equivalent available as a tablet. As for the usability if this android tablet, it's crap, but that's mostly because of the cheap components used. For around 150-200 dollars there are very usable android tablets, simple because of the components used are way better then this. I get Dankpods' point tho. This shouldn't be sold as is, but comparing it to an (albeit older) device that's just higher quality and much more expensive isn't really a good comparison.
i also have a air 2 and lad, yer right, its still amazing in 2022
8:39 It was released on August 22, 2013, for iOS and Android, November 13 2013 for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8,and January 15, 2014 for BlackBerry 10, and April 5, 2015 for Tizen.
Ok that’s too much info🎉
@@minhajulislam2295lol
As a tech nerd, I'm obligated to point out that the apple device most likely has an IPS panel for it's display, meaning it has higher color accuracy and can be viewed from almost any angle without distortion at the cost of money and response time. The cheaper tablet probably has a TN Panel, which is much cheaper than IPS and has lower response time, but distorts unless viewed head on.
you mean lower response time?
@@color1920 nah generally tn panels have a lower response time but only by a few ms. for the average consumer ips is better
Not a single one has OLED.
@@color1920 yeah whoops
@@Ironbanner12 completely forgot about OLED. I don't think the older ipads had OLED, and with the distortion the laser most definitely isn't.
5:03 MY CAPYBARAS ARE GREAT, THANK YOU FOE ASKING IPOD MAN!
Dp: "How's your guinea pigs"
Me: "oh they're dead"
Dp: "oh well that's sad to hear "
**Me looking at my phone, thinking what's this witchcraft**
6:48 this is the quality of ‘big foot caught in 4k’ videos
And ufo sightings
Maybe it was; with digital zoom without optical from a great distance.
I remember around 2014 we got this really cheap tablet called the "Pendo Pad". It was basically the same as this Laser tablet. The Pendo Pad would crash, get terrifyingly hot, would eventually fall apart and the speaker was on the back. The speaker grill itself wasn't even in the right place, it was off to the side which made it cover half the speaker.
Meanwhile my 2013 Ipad Mini 2 runs as well as you'd need it to, battery still holding up insanely well to this day.
I had a Pendo pad as well BC my parents couldn't afford anything else lol, mine was as bad as yours tbh. my dad used his for maybe five years (I have no idea how) before it kept crashing on everything and he gave up and bought a laptop
oh wow, I had a Pendo too back in.. 2015-2016 I think! it lasted nearly 2 years I think, and was somehow pretty decent until the battery suddenly started losing power faster than it could charge. definitely much happier to stick with my ipad though
@@maggleworth say what you want about apple, but the iPads are terrifying at opposing tablets from opponents
I had no idea there were other people with Pendos. I received one as a free gift for an NBN plan with TPG, and it was abhorrently slow. The speaker was very thoughtfully placed right where your palm rests, and a 0.3 degree angle from looking straight on would make the screen near unrecognisable. There wasn't even a camera, although that's probably for the better. It had some sad single core Intel thing, and it currently sits in the graveyard of electronics.
@@maggleworth Same thing happened with my Pendo as well. My Ipad also takes a ridiculous time to charge, however the battery does last a great deal of time.
The box bullet points makes me feel like they’ve been selling this since like 2009
Maybe it is a 2009 tablet with just a modern OS, which sucks out all the RAM and ressources
Nah, too much RAM for a 2009 tablet. My old phone from 2013 was slimemr than that. And 2009 was still the time of the netbooks, before they got replaced by tablets.
Probably was made around 2010-2012 to compete with the then new iPad
I remember getting something quite like this one from my mom as a child, and i used the hell out of that thing, and can relate to all of this, the youtube quality, the booting time, updating taking forever, only occasionally getting connection, but as a kid, i still loved it
now if we had these we would wanna die
Yeah the target demographics for such devices are mostly kids. Kids will get their first experience with tablets and even if they break it it wont be a big deal
I remember buying a $40 tablet from Walmart for my younger brother, it was plasticy as hell but it ran a pretty new version of Android, and it was relatively alright for its price (ran TH-cam and some games fine), its about $50 now (they replaced the microUSB with a USB-C plug)
Thanks for the camera testing. I always wanted to know how a DankPods would look and sound if it was from 2007
i remember having these!!! just using them made me a nerd... cuz like i couldnt figure out stuff cuz it kept either lagging or crashing, so finding cheap solutions was the only option... the *PAIN* was *REAL*
My training organisation for my apprenticeship gave me one of these tablets. It was cheaper to buy a tablet and put all the assignments on it as PDFs than to print them out lol
Interesting thing to note: this seems to have developer options enabled or utilized in some way as the animation times are way down, just to make it seem faster
Seems like the perfect tablet if you need to teach someone patience.
I used my iPad 4 until recently and usually my internet would be 20 kB/s, and I’m being real, I actually learned to be patient. The TH-cam videos that were less concerned with visuals, I would put them at 144p, and the ones that needed visuals, I would put 360p. I would wait until it loaded. Each search would take a minute or half. I didn’t get frustrated because I was used to it.
What are you clown just stop bruh
Best thing about these type of cheap tabs is to use them as secondary, touch screen monitor. Depending on the model, you can even rip it apart then manually connect it using a diy kit
Didn’t notice your channel name☠️
@@jaronstudiosalpha1.169 💀
... that name though
I actually bought a few of these tablets exclusively to use for D&D in person. Phones are great to use sure, but these tablets view the D&D Beyond as full page, so no sliding through the menus to find everything & for that alone, this tablet is perfect, just fire them up before players arrive and have a charger for them ready to go/leave them always on power.
I can see tables like that as a great option for char sheets and stuff. Maybe one as soundboard to create ambience for the scenes.
@@HappyBeezerStudios probably want a different tablet as a sound board. The processing power for streaming music might be to much for this.
I brought one of those extremely cheap TracFones for D&D Character sheets, and it worked for reading and witing PDF's which was perfect
Just buy a book
i once had a laptop in which i loved to play minecraft, but it took 40 minutes just to open the launcher and then another 40 minutes for the game to launch and once the game was started, it would crash and the launcher would open instantly after and i had to wait more 40 minutes. I got 30 fps while setting the render distance to 6 and the each chunk would take 5 minutes to load.
6:30 "for most people 480 is the minimum"
Man that made me super nostalgic for watching Minecraft videos late at night when I was 10, using my mobile data because my parents shut off the internet, and I'd watch stuff in 144p to conserve data, 240p if I was feeling spicy. I only had 2gb for the whole month, simpler days.
Also TH-cam was way better, longer videos and we had dislikes and minimal ads.
When I was 12 I had like 500mb for a month simply because Germany💀
@@derdion Germany and only 2GB a month in 2022 - love the Telekom
@@rechtrecht Have you looked at other networks and plans?
@@rechtrecht Ich hab 12 GB und bin auch bei der Telekom. Guck mal bitte nach ob dein Tarif aktuell ist. Und selbst wenn nicht, Telekom hat vor nem Monat oder so alte Tarife angepasst. Meine Mutter hat den selben Tarif wie ich aber hatte bis vor nem Monat nur 5GB statt 12GB.
I would just download videos on Wi-Fi to later be watched offline. Much simpler than having to deal with stuff like this, and you don't have to use any mobile data.
7:20 Dankpods was never heard of again, the suspect, Frunk the snek, is still on the loose. If you know any whereabouts of frunk, dont feel free to call local emergency services
I saw her last at snootyboops park and then she disappeared
I’ve always wondered why, in the super cheap tablet market, do they bother including a camera? They’re always such crap that they aren’t even usable. If they didn’t bother, they could use the cost savings from not including the camera and microphone to add just a bit more ram or a 10 year old processor instead of a 15 year old one.
cheap cameras are pennies, and the people who buy these tablets would rather have more feature than spend $5 more on something that actually works so... Economics???!?
Certainly they are crap, however you have to consider that many times that toy camera is a lifesaver. especially for those elementary and middle school homework
-At least speaking from my case [in 2012-2013]. In Mexico, the transition to digital things was relatively slow (I'm not lying when I tell you that 90% of our stores and banks were running Windows XP and
IBM tinkcenters from the 80s-90s), and even continued to sell CRT televisions [despite the fact that the analog TV blackout was scheduled for 2013].
Digital cameras in Mexico were a rare product. not only because hardly anyone had one. [they were expensive, delicate and difficult to repair, etc. unless you were a photographer or a teenager with a lot of money and wanted to take emo photos for Hi-5 or +18 amateur content with a compact Cybershot it was rare to see one] all families had film cameras, or camcorders (which those were a success, motivated more than anything by the idea of recording children dancing or acting at school festivals since our educational program celebrates holidays like this)
[even webcams were a premium item,
partly because at that time internet access in mexico at a domestic level on average did not exceed 2-5 mbps via ADSL], so making video calls was like "huh if that exists" *and you were even screwed because you could have a webcam but Obtaining microphones was almost impossible, nobody sold them, they were expensive and nobody knew how to put them in a dinosaur PC*[there were those who would have 10-20 megs but they were very wealthy.
or really hardcore gamers who cushioned the investment, and some Internet cafes with 50-100 megabytes].
-Together with this, phone calls in Mexico are stupidly cheap, even free, so PCs only existed for Facebook, flash games, P*rn, TH-cam. [and email] -MSN Messenger at his time.
Cell phones were more or less like that, whoever owned a blackberry was a top businessman, or already a lot of luxury, a Samsung galaxy. from there everyone used the classic buttons. So there were some cameras but (for some reason) those phones were never sold with PC cable or you could only get through via bluethooth [and PC's dont have it].
Set to the Candy Crush moms effect, So slowly cheap tablets became a common Christmas gift
So in many school activities or some government procedures (very rare at the time), they asked you to take photographs of evidence.
35mm film is becoming more and more rare to find and many children don't know how to use it anymore so for many years those cheap tablets and phones with shitty cameras were the standard and the family digital camera. [so under the logic of tablet-phone having a digital camera... who needs a digital one now?] [Today we all see our "memories of the 2010's" and they are disgusting and even with today's monitors impossible to see with such low resolution, but at the time it was something normal and even "enough" because those photos in a CRT monitor from the 90s that everyone had or as a luxury some LCD resolution WGA or 720 max] or printed on bond paper with an hp inkjet cartridges from the 2000s or already in 4x6" photographic paper they looked like a damn luxury.
the problem was that many people got stuck in that idea that those farting cameras were the future
to the point that you can literally go to any store or supermarket in mexico in 2022 and you will not find digital cameras. [some premium reflexes] or cheap Camcorders- GoPro like. or for children. but they don't really sell cameras.
@@CharlieRAnimaMX im from Poland and i would like to say that i have fully read your comment. We had similair situation with internet, back in 2010 i had a "premium" 10mb/s adsl internet connection up to 20mb/s in 2014 that costed unreasonalble 35$. Now i have 40$ fully unlimited LTE connection and its great as for what available right now it is mostly 100-150mb/s. Its funny that we have cheaper cellurals plan right now than half of the fiber networks. As for 2022 we have fiber in pretty mutch everywhere, even on the very remote villages so as 5G and LTE cellurar beacuse of goverment and european union plan of investment for digitalizing and connetcing all people. It's kind of shock for me when i travel abroad and i see packs of 20gb data for 20$. In 2010 i had this VGA camera which sucked as well as cheap tablet and unusable smartphone with really poor resistive touchscreen, but i'm glad we had nice medium sized electronic markets in my city which imported every high tech that you would ever like to buy - but we had also be waiting for things to slowly change. Im 👋 to you for vacations now on turkey 🇹🇷 with 500mb/s wifi AC connection. Have a nice day!
you never know when you see a ufo and have to take a crappy video as proof
D
I remember the Laser brand cassettes and VHS blank tapes from the 80's. We even had a Laser brand VHS rewinder. It was a cheap brand then, too.
7:00 nice dog
How you could even see the dog man ?
Not to sound sappy. One of the reasons I LOVE your channel... Was a drummer in a punk band in HS. Had so much fun with my buds. That was 1983ish. Now I'm in my mid 50s, married, family, IT nerd. Life of a domesticated husband tends to mean that "mates" fade into the cosmic ether. It sucks, but that's the reality of reality. Watching your videos, laughing with you about stupid stuff or gadget stuff, whatever. Talkin' to your "puck cells". Watching you go balls out on the drums for the sole reason that it's an absolute blast. It takes me back to those days, back with my crew. So, big time thanks for that.
Man I love the stories dankpods makes when testing audio or camera quality
I love how its camera has the Analog Horror Filter pre-applied.
I knew that he always wanted an headphone jack, but I never thought he would go to this extreme.
Hi motorola lol
httetekrkrkltktlrklrkrktlktkkt BEEP!
hello moto
I got a $70 CAD Proscan tablet 7ish years ago and surprisingly it's still kicking. It's obviously not good for intensive games but it can play simple games like fruit ninja, browse the internet, and watch 1080p TH-cam videos perfectly fine. I'm genuinely impressed with how well it works for so long for how cheap it was. The cameras on it are dogshit tho.
tablet cameras🤢
@@sdani. truly horrifying
@@sdani. ipad cameras are pretty good
@@xxyvng6831 man iPads are always the exception.
I'm fairly certain that Apple just puts the same camera as the iPhone into the iPad.
The only time I had a bad time with an iPad camera was on an iPad 2. That was just barely over ten years ago.
@@mikehall3976 iPad camera ? They suck unless maybe u have pro
I love how this man has everything good about old TH-cam and new TH-cam mixed together
DankPods at 6:00 : "Look at the pixelation!"
Me watching on a tablet of the same form factor with a 1920×1200 IPS panel: "Hmm, looks normal to me."
2:57 It could very likely be exactly that...a TV without the TV tuner.
Many new portable TVs use that screen resolution and possibly about the same hardware.
1:11 I loved every part of this video, but there was such a great opportunity to say "lies" after tablet as joke. I genuinely thought that was going to happen from the setup.
I was having quite a laugh at the slowness of the tablet at first, until I looked over to my cheap phone and realised it is quite literally the same 😐
What phone do you have?
Edit : mine is also Go Edition, but isn't as slow as this tablet it actually has a good processor.
Get a used one, you can pick up very nice previously high-end devices for around $99, especially less popular brands like LG, you can fairly easily find a G8 or G7 in good condition for under $99.
@@vgamesx1 the problem of those mf are the batteries tho, with a couple of years they might be destroyed. Maybe just save a little more, 200 can get you a really decent Xiaomi/realme phone
@@LeoMkII All the ones I've gotten so far had only lost roughly 10-20% capacity, could be better but it's still more than plenty to get through an entire day on 80% charge, generally batteries only go bad that quickly when people take very little care of their battery and leave it on the charger all the time and of course I wouldn't recommend everyone go do it, but swapping batteries isn't that difficult, it mostly just requires patience both to remove the back and to clean the glue off to then re-glue it.
Also, keep in mind companies like Xiaomi make very little margin on their products, meaning they have to make up for that elsewhere, so you may not mind that, but I would rather not take part in any of that.
My problem with budget phones is that they cost quite similar to old flagships but always come with comprises, often the camera first then the screen, after that specs/storage, because you'll have considerably more storage, that nice crisp screen and top-tier specs, the whole package is just all around better and you'll want to keep it for much longer, if I have to take a mild hit to battery life to get those things well then personally I think it's worth it, I've owned budget phones too and it's not as if they don't have a place, but please trust me on this, they just aren't worth it, they're fine for light users like grandma who barely touch their phone but for everyone else do yourself a favor and at least splurge for the $300-$400 range if you must have a new phone.
Same man. My 6 year old On7 Pro is always struggling but farrr better than this tablet
When a 50$ Tablet has an SD slot and a 1000$ IPad dont 😂
I love how dankpods is branching out on different tech besides only MP3 and headphones.
The only use for this is actually pretty interesting: Sim racing!, We have a bunch of tools to let us display telemetry on a device to act like a Dashboard.
I'm actually kinda seriously thinking that this might be a good option if i every Shell out for my IRacing sub again.
But yea, Sits still, shows some numbers and maybe a little bit of animation. Perfect for a 50
View angles though
At least save another 50 usd and get a tablet with proper lcd screen
@@r033cx you need to adjust it for your driving position and thats it really
th-cam.com/video/XkKeZ7EAr_o/w-d-xo.html Finally it's here,
I personally use my phone. I zip tied a phone case to the hub of my wheel and put my phone in it while racing.
You might as well just get an older one used and then root it if you need up to date software.
Damn, Laser has gone a long way from making Apple 2/IBM clones to making cheap tablets. Interesting to see them still around.
Wait, thats THAT Laser? 1980s Laser 128 and Laser XT?
I wondered if it was the same company also.
I'm willing to bet somebody just bought the name and this has nothing to do with the original company.
@@ondrajavorik1580 I still have some 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks made by Laser
10:50 it's not just your iPad but the old Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 that i have also beats it and it's an Android tablet but honestly an old high end device is still better than an recent low end device and oh god downloading a file around 30MB is that slow?
1:25 - just to inform you, the android go versions are "lite" in the meaning they have less features, and therefore run on lower end hardware better
Always so funny to see headphone jack on cheap tablets and phones cus it makes it so obvious that phone manifacturers just want you to buy wireless headphones so they removed headphone jack. 🤣
they cost less than a dollar if in bulk lol
Cough, Apple. No, I will never buy your overpriced de-wired dirty buds.
@@Wertyhappy27 yeah exactly. I mean i think you still kinda need to add some more components for the headphone detection circuit but it's probably still under 1$ but i am no expert so i could be wrong.
@Agustinus Reynaldi Wireless dirtybuds win for me. I walk around a lot and need to be untethered. I always yank the wired ones out when I’m doing normal stuff.
@@soniccookie655 I tried some of the KZs dank mentioned, ended up with a pair of ZS10s which fit slightly better for me, along with an AZ09 bluetooth adapter which cost less than the buds. They fit amazing for work and have pretty great battery, plus I can switch to wired or replace the adapter if the battery goes bad but keeping the speakers later on.
They also refuse to fall off being over the ear
I had one of these in 2017/18 and (no joke) it managed to get so hot after running a benchmark that it started to smoke. Please don't buy them
Macgyvering a PC CPU cooler is the only option
Just avoid that brand - if you were to pull one apart , the parts inside would rust. Better to grab something of known quality a few years old. Seems they used old hardware and flash the most basic android os they found and called it New.
@rotatingcat1957 nah mate it was completely done for
"the laser e TOUCH!" got me 💀
4:25 i actually had guinea pigs once when i was much younger, who I had to give away because I was going to boarding school. One of them had recently died, so him going like "oh, oh no.." was.............a thing
Good old TN panels, used to be everywhere and now are only used in some gaming monitors, extremely cheap Chromebooks and this... thing
They are still used for cheap gaming monitors due to their fast response time.
Some of the top gaming monitors use TN panels for ultra fast response time. But yeah those are in a different league from e-waste like this
TN panels used to vary in quality quite greatly, the better ones were really not that bad. I'm guessing the reason we only see the junkers these days is because the decent ones probably aren't much cheaper than an IPS now that they move in the volumes they do.
My data ran out at 2:20, i was like damn, it really is crazy long, nothing has happened for like 5mins
It feels like that when you get tablets like this
7:44 Asphalt 8! And here I am playing Asphalt 9 at the time I wrote this comment
(Daily events, Cario, DS E-Tense)
I wish I could play the *True* asphalt 8
Asphalt 9 is s little good though
@@B.L.U.SA8 has some great music. Bleach especially
Wade *actually picking up* the green iPad at the beginning actually caught me off-guard.
10:25 the amount of times i have died in this exact spot is the only reason i hate this level so much
You see, pre-chromebook era I had an RCA tablet "PC" that had a special docking magnetic keyboard/hinged stand and 2 USB 2.0 ports, and I think it used a special version of Android more akin to Android x86 with exFAT as the filesystem, it had a gig of RAM, 32gb internal storage, expandable flash storage up to I believe 128gb as well as 5V1A power to the USB ports when connected to the AC adapter instead of the Micro USB power. Excellent android-based machine, especially if you're a developer.
This was 2013, it cost $90 freedom eagles.
I THINK I HAD A TABLET SIMILAR TO THIS WHAT
THINK I HAVE THIS EXACT TABLET RN LMAO
WAIT WHAT I PROBABLY HAD THIS TABLET 3 YEARS AGO
That spec is actually OK during the early 2010s, surprisingly
RCA viking pro. i had the pink “lavender” one in 2015
The description on the speakers completed my suspicions about this device. It's the staple device of the family with a failing marriage and a small child that needs TH-cam to parent it for them.
I'm guessing it had an 800mhz cpu on an older architecture that has absolutely no heat spreader at all and throttles to hell the second it gets any load at all.
I've purchased budget tablets for fun and I've been impressed multiple times. The most notable one is the generic Walmart brand tablet that only cost me like $50 USD. It runs the latest Android Go, the camera is ass and the speaker is mediocre. Battery life is meh (but it uses USB-C *and* can fast charge!) and the screen resolution is a bit grainy. However, I was pleasantly surprised upon using it, because despite that it runs quite fast and it can run every app that my flagship Android can. It even has expandable storage! Genuinely very nice for media and whatnot; if you want something quick to pull out to read something you can. Need white noise? It has your back. And you don't need to worry about losing it because it's so dirt cheap.
If you can get game streaming service like geforce now or shadow running, using it as a gaming setup works even with good internet and usb c hub for mouse/ nd keyboard or controller. Although its a lot nicer on samsung devices cause you get to use Dex
sounds perfect for kids !! wish they existed here. my mom bought a $220~ tablet for my sister's 9th birthday. i don't think it was a good idea
8:31 “She’s not droppin frames at all” bruh there are no frames to drop
Lamo
"It's not in here. I've boozled you." is my favorite DankPods quote ever.
The screen on that thing brings back memories of my first flat screen TV: a 13 inch Craig. It was legitimately the worst thing I'd ever seen and I think I still have it despite the fact that it completely died after I gave it to my sister.
The fun part was when I first got it, I couldn't play anything without standing on my bed because the only place I could put a TV was on my dresser.
Which was right next to my bed
craig vision
Our first flat screen was a Sanyo and one thing I remember about it is when the cable would go out, instead putting a “no signal” pop up, it would blast static at full volume. Always nearly gave us a heart attack every time.
Ol' mate Craig!
Oh god whats next a craig toaster?
@@sabermations Craig laptops exist, that's close enough, right?
Bro your channel is an anomaly compared to all the other people I sub to on this platform. I'm not a drummer (like you are) I'm barely an audiophile (like you) and am 100% anti Apple these days, but I love watching you do what you do no matter what it is. Your channel is so entertaining and I love your videos, keep up the amazing work and thank you!
Anti apple 👍
9:25 the most badass feeling playing VC 😎👏🏻
It’s funny when he yells TOUCH because that’s how it’s written on the box.
I love his randomness. Already lost the third Guinea pig and I don’t know what a capybara is but I only have one now
“480 is the minimum!”
I wish. I’m used to seeing things in 144p when watching stuff because my room has the worst connection in my house
I used to be a 480p person due to horrible wifi. No I'm in 1080 because of better wifi. Hope this helps? 😂
see if you can run an Ethernet cable to your room. it's work but you won't regret it.
@@noapparentfunction I have that set up for my PC and console, tablet and phone are a different story
@@velnoa you can actually buy your own smaller, secondary router and plug the Ethernet cable into that. this will create a signal in your room just as strong as the base WiFi.
if this second router has more Ethernet ports, you can still keep your PC plugged in, too.
My condolences
3:22 I shouldn't be able to genuinely count the pixels in the status icons... over youtube.
I, too, have an iPad 4. 16 GB, non cellular, black bezel. That was my iPad for almost a whole decade before getting a 2021 iPad Pro. Had that 4 throughout my childhood, still have it, still functions. Prolly so much better than the $50 tablet lol
I feel like this is certified proof that Android Go Edition ultimately allows manufacturers to make landfill instead of effective budget devices.
They didn't need go edition to do this, they've been making landfill for years.
To be fair android go makes e-waste tier devices usable
Nah if android go didn't exist these companies would waste time making some skinned linux OS which would basically do nothing useful for avg consumer
It's not landfill. This tablet is 100x more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers in the 80s.