Taking a look at the WELCOME "GAMING" Phone from 2008...but struggles to actually game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Timestamps are integrated into the video showing each segment dedicated to this device. If you need to skip through then that's absolutely fine.
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We are back with another installment in |THE_PHONE_ARCHIVE| - a series in which I take a look at weird, strange, obscure and unique phones (or devices) for your entertainment! This series is made to look back over older devices that don't run Android and serve as a lookback and retrospective of a certain device.
And well, ever wanted a "GAMING" Phone in 2008? Don't worry, our friend over at WELCOME have you covered!
Yes, the N-Gage existed and so did 2.0 as software and even the Xperia Play but this is something unique.
While yes it's unique and looks cool, the "GAMING" aspect of it is VERY limited. But, I do my best with what I have.
This was found at ewaste and someone actually was using this as their main phone.
Crazy to think.
Anywho, enjoy this really long rambly review of looking at a "GAMING" phone from 2008 by WELCOME. Good ol' WELCOME.
Grab a drink and a snack, you'll need them.
Also this is the thing for "Mythroad"
archive.org/details/mrp-games
And mine says just "NES GAMES" and not "App List" so maybe it's a different version?
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TIMESTAMPS:
Intro, Timestamp & Disclaimers: 0:00
The Front of the Phone: 1:08
Around the Phone: 3:04
Back of the Phone & Battery: 4:16
Power On, Keypad & Display Quality: 6:26
Buttons & Typing: 7:30
The Touchscreen has problems, Design & Limited Apps: 8:50
Call History, Services, Phone Book & Messages: 10:22
THE RINGTONES (and others) - BE PREPARED: 11:42
Settings - Touch Screen, Display & Failed Power On thing: 17:24
Rest of settings & TV: 19:16
The Camera: 20:42
Camera Test: 22:10
Camera Quality: 25:30
Trying Video Playback: 27:07
Sound Recorder & FM Radio: 28:20
Melody Composer: 29:28
BIG SPERKER TEST: 31:10
Organizer, Bluetooth & File Manager: 33:02
GAMING - The Onboard Games: 34:48
NES Emulation Settings: 37:37
GAMING - NES EMULATION: 38:57
Conclusion: 43:11
Teardown & Investigation: 44:37
Does it live on, Full Specs & Final Thoughts: 50:47
Rambling as usual: 52:01
Thanks for sticking through this one, timestamps & etc: 53:05
Outro: 54:29
Be good people!
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Music/Video:
Outro:
Mick Gordon - Cultist Base (Doom Eternal Soundtrack)
Speaker Test:
Mick Gordon - BFG Division (DOOM 2016 Soundtrack)
Camera Test Background:
Andrew & Simon Hale - L.A Noire Main Menu Theme
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*All images used in the video belong to their rightful owners but are used under fair use/demonstration.
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#WELCOME #Gaming #Phone - บันเทิง
*Little issues - I spelt the name wrong in the video test and the bitrate is "bps" and not kbps*
If you know how to get the mythroad games working as I've tried a lot - please let me know!
Thanks for tuning in, I hope you enjoyed this one :)
Next up will be a follow up to the SUNMI V2 thing. Oh boy...that will be a fun one.
Until next time, take care and I'll see you then!
TIMESTAMPS:
Intro, Timestamp & Disclaimers: 0:00
The Front of the Phone: 1:08
Around the Phone: 3:04
Back of the Phone & Battery: 4:16
Power On, Keypad & Display Quality: 6:26
Buttons & Typing: 7:30
The Touchscreen has problems, Design & Limited Apps: 8:50
Call History, Services, Phone Book & Messages: 10:22
THE RINGTONES (and others) - BE PREPARED: 11:42
Settings - Touch Screen, Display & Failed Power On thing: 17:24
Rest of settings & TV: 19:16
The Camera: 20:42
Camera Test: 22:10
Camera Quality: 25:30
Trying Video Playback: 27:07
Sound Recorder & FM Radio: 28:20
Melody Composer: 29:28
BIG SPERKER TEST: 31:10
Organizer, Bluetooth & File Manager: 33:02
GAMING - The Onboard Games: 34:48
NES Emulation Settings: 37:37
GAMING - NES EMULATION: 38:57
Conclusion: 43:11
Teardown & Investigation: 44:37
Does it live on, Full Specs & Final Thoughts: 50:47
Rambling as usual: 52:01
Thanks for sticking through this one, timestamps & etc: 53:05
Outro: 54:29
Be good people!
how could you spell it wrong... 😡 we will never be able to forgive you.... 😂❤
Mid 3 I think is a Pink panther song. Not checked just shoot in the dark 😃
Video so low quality it's in the BITS
Awesome video! Still watching it now! I wonder if this phone was made before or after the Nokia NGage? I have a few interesting phones that I would love you to do review videos on! Old Nokia, Xperia Play, Firefox OS, Palm Pre are some of the ones I have. One that was really strange was a no name phone that was shaped like a sports car and would make a car alarm chirp as a message notification along with working lights! But the strangest thing was it had cologne built in and it would put out puffs of smoke when it spayed! Atomizers I’m guessing) ever seen that phone before?
18:54 - Despite not compatible with video, I can still get a kick out customizing the animations like those LG/MTK Phones.
That camera would have been a hit if released in 2000
this is hard to describe but this phone looks like it would be an icon in the device manager on windows 7
YES!
It's like that vicidial thing or whatever it's called that scammers use to call people from their computers
Underrated comment
This phone was very popular in china (2007-2009) and many companies rebranded this phone. One example is the “Daxian x689” which is a rebrand of this phone.
Do you have any other examples? I may wanna buy one of these rebrands.
@@kantraa SEDY Y690, 新邮通T801,GaoXing LT3355 ,CECT (Forgot model) and there are many more but at the moment I can’t name it. The very popular one is the Daxian model.
the MIDI3 ringtone I can recognize as clearly being riffiing off of the Pink Panther theme, I assume all of them are like that, they're ALMOST, but not QUITE famous melodies/themes, changed enough to not have any legal issues
Oh, so I wasn't crazy after all with my assumption!
That's whatvi had on my mind too. Pink panther
MIDI 3: "Hey, can I copy your homework?"
Pink Panther Theme: "Sure, but don't make it too obvious"
MIDI 3: 13:22
My brain thought it was the Inspector Gadget theme
As someone who has held a lithium battery while it burst into flames, I recommend never leaving the room while charging a battery like that. Besides the fire, the (indoor) danger of a lithium battery fire is the huge amount of toxic smoke produced.
Don't die on us, Smoorez. Ripley needs you. WE need you.
also, i'm pretty sure a speedrunner using that handheld would become suicidal or rage quit and instantly put the phone in a blender or something. if there is a hell, this is how emulation would work there. even the music sounded depressed.
Sounds like a fun time tbh
“I still use swollen batteries on some devices and nothing happens to me👍”
-famous last words
@Jesús David Restrepo Valdés reminds me of how I got a swollen cell on my 2006 Macbook Pro and I just cut it off to keep the thing running without it being a total fire hazard. Then the next one started swelling and eventually it was left with just 3 cells of the original cells (2P3S config, so I assume I was actually turning it into a *bigger* fire hazard) and then I saved up enough to buy a replacement :P
I have a battery from PSP that has been rapidly expanding and making a faint clicking sound for years now. I check it once in a while and it's hast gotten really big. I'm a little scared that something might happen but I'm not gonna throw it out
@jesusdavidrestrepovaldes50Good luck with that
My man even supports adblock users. I respect the honestly a lot!
The end of MIDI 1 sounds like Through the Fire and Flames
The ENTIRETY of MIDI 3 sounds like a legally distinct version of the Pink Panther theme.
I just said that
Also, a trivia:
F-1 Race and Magic Sushi both are very famously included in Mediatek SoC based phones, because they were a part of Mediatek SDK example games.
Ah yes magic sushi, the grand dad of candy crush and other "match 3" puzzle solving mobile games
i wonder if they could be possible to emulate, even if no one cares lol
Where would you find information about these old mediatek not-smartphones?
Both Has Same Theme Song
@@gbfgtki Believe it or not, someone's (I can't recall the name right now) ringtone archive. They label the folders meticulously, and with some more digging on Google I found that out.
you could get an old analog TV signal converter and use crocodile cables to connect the RF out with the antenna.
I have one and it wasn't expensive.
That or he could just tune to channel 3 and turn an snes on near it. Mine used to work great like that LOL
The twin speakers , one is the woofer bass driver and the small one is the tweeter or high frequency driver . Thanks for your videos. Nice job 👍
do you reckon they advertised it as a two-way speaker phone? :D
Hears "This video shouldn't take to long".... glances at run time......
41:57 SMOOREZ's very own "7 GRAND DAD" moment
MIDI 1 is honestly such a banger, i love it
if anyone knows the original please let me know :(
Try to Shazam it
The phone itself is tish but holy moly that is a really cool design. Reminds me of the iPaq Business Navigator series from HP
13:22 Bruh I know damn well they didn't steal the pink panther theme.
Thanks for bringing in such entertainment and fun with your awesome videos!
That was 2007-8 and smartphones hadn't yet decided what they wanted to be. I remember having a Sierra keyboard flip-out phone. It was a bit like the auto industry of the 50s, very experimental with lots of weird and wonderful tat but incredibly cheap and janky for a reason, the manufacturers knew their products would age extremely quickly. Windows CE was the main premium mobile OS of the time, iPhone had just been released but was way too expensive for the mass market, and Android hadn't been released yet. Wild times!
im very delighted to see you still active and uploading. and i love how thurough your videos are :)
Literally had no idea Revanced was a thing... you literally just saved me possibly years of pain and suffering, thanks a million!
New Pipe works better and is less invasive.
The two beginning notes of his composition sounds like the piano intro from Alanis Morissette’s “Uninvited”.
Watching this on a Galaxy Core Prime. Respect to smoorez for making these reviews!
Does it still work? I remember having one in 7th grade. Now im in college 😂
I'm on an Nvidia Shield tablet 😂 old device gang
@@christiann7320 Yes it works!
Its format is sort of what I have in mind when it comes to the perfect smartphone: a touchscreen combined with a T9 keyboard, for when your hands are dirty/wet. I'd love to see a proper execution of that concept.
13:24 MIDI 3 is a rendition of the Pink Panther cartoon theme. That's why it sounds familiar
guess the second small speaker was supposed to be for high frequencies but they forgot to add a seperate compression device to prevent bass from overpowering the so called tweeter which is really just the typical plastic speaker you could find in earphones... good video though
By some unknown chance I came across a source code library for development on a mobile feature phone SOC comparable to this thing's chipset. It had a directory for a whole set of NES emulator source code, known as InfoNES. Apparently it was designed to be lightweight and VERY barebones. I wonder if the Mediatek chip's devkit has the same stuff as well.
The ringtones sound very familiar but I can't place my finger on it!
No3 is pink panther
Wow a 2 way audio system.
The flash IC at 49:56 seems interchangeable with V00570002CDBG and probably near identical spec, which is a multi chip module 2Mx16bit (4MB) pseudo-SRAM (which is a type of DRAM which generates refresh and page/row/column access logic internally) and 8Mx16bit (16MB) NOR Flash. This way they can sit both on a traditional processor front side bus in parallel just disambiguated via CE (Chip Enable, aka Chip Select) lines. There's 3 CE lines there, obviously one for flash, one for RAM, and less obviously one for RAM power management.
Maybe the video files should be in .3gp? I remember old Nokia phones have used this format.
"Idk what it is with bootleg devices having cars as wallpaper", the car on the wallpaper usually is what your money you gave for the bootleg goes to.
i did everything i could could to find the origins of that phone but had no sight of that, i guess thats lost media confirmed
i imagine the back cover looking something like a reddish leather with a stitch going across the edges
I love these videos! Can already tell the Smoorez will eventually burn into my OLED TV lol
great video as usual, you should make another video of you upgrading the main big speaker on the back to see what happens find one thats the same size maybe but a better one just a video idea
"Timestamps? Where we're going we don't need... Timestamps."
Also; my guess for your mystery boot video is you and Ripley holding hands (paws?) while the Nokia theme plays.
Greetings from Manchester.
Because you've mentioned the TV, I had a Game Boy second generation, the colour, and I bought a whole unit that is attached to the back of it that promises TV reception. Sadly it NEVER worked.
.... by the way I loved the dancing MIB
🤣😂🤣
MIDI 3 sounds like a Pink Panther pastiche.
The big speaker could be for the low frequency bass sound and the small speaker is called the tweeter for high frequency treble sounds.
yeah but still sounds like shit I guess it was the plan but these chinese companies don't care and put that cheap speaker there 😅
Those ringtones are hilarious!
14:44 this ringtone made my ears bleed and will possibly scare my wife into PTSD.
Perfect!!😎
Boy I have never been so excited. I would have loved a phone like this back in 2008.
39:13 very sad the welcome phone emulating nes mario game
I dare you to do full play through of Contra on this phone. 😂
The wv leisuremaster G23 has got to make an appearance on your channel. The ultimate welcome phone
You a real one for ads!
come for the camera test
stay for everything else
you're WELCOME
If you run a wire from a vcr (the center conductor on the RF jack) to the phone's antenna, it SHOULD work.
Lmao that sounds crazy but like you can literally do that with two cables too so I can see that working 😂 (I taped two coaxials together like that before)
This brings me bad memories when I only had similar Welcome phone under local brand. The wounds are still there, but at least now I have much better properly made hardware.
Ooh gosh 😂 what a nugget this going to be ENTERTAINING 🔥😊
Careful, rumour is if you say Billy Mitchell 3 times in a video he sends a cease and desist. That or he appears in your mirrors at night.
Honestly, i'd love to get the midi of Tone4 message tone as my notification sounds on my phone
Tries to be Sony Ericsson P1 of the same era. It also had small battery which was CMOS or smth like that related inside.
Fun fact: Nesticle runs full speed apparently even on a 486SX-33. And the emulation quality is better than this.
9:26 that old Nokia 6120 clone you reviewed had some similar buttons on the top left of the screen but probably not based off anything, probably just a coincidence
For the video files not playing on the phone take a video using the phones camera and then look at the specs of the file and then compare them to the videos you are trying to play. You need to match the specs of the file in order for it to play. I do this with audio on many devices that are not made for playing music and most of the time it works.
15:54 I feel sorry for anyone that was watching this video with headphones on... Message Tone 3 sounded pretty bright to me.
ringtone number 3 sounded like the inspector gadget theme.
one of the MIDI ringtones is definitely a knockoff of Pink Panther theme but with the melody changed a little bit
I have a non-ghetto universal battery charger. it has a spring loaded mech that holds the battery and the pins are on a slidy track. works for a wide variety of batts and also have charge protection.
best part is that you can hold the pins in, you can test the charge level of the battery just by putting the battery in with it unplugged.
it'll hold any battery as long as you can fit it in there and it's 3.7v
absolutely worth the $6, or $10 if you want a few bl-5c's with it.
*usd
I got the charger to use to charge my portable radios, which use bl-5cs
I mean they are still sketch most of the time 😂
Spat my drink out at 4:00
Unless info but the 3rd Ring Tone was Pink Panther Theme Song just at a very weird Pitch 😂
Boy, the sight of this phone brings back memories. Very bad and frustrating ones, but memories regardless.
Back in my early teens, my mom agreed that i should have a phone for myself. Long story short, we went to the mall and i laid my eyes upon one of those bad boys (not the same shell wise, but pretty much the same under the hood) and i was marveled. It seemed so amazing. Tv, touch screen (a novelty back on those days), two cameras, and the promise of playing NES games? Needless to say, i wanted one so bad. I was presented with a choice. Either the welcome phone, or a more humble, but, in hindsight, infinetly better Sony Ericsson W380a. Needless to say, my jelly-brained 13 year old self went for the marvel of technology that was the welcome gaming phone.
Boy, was that a mistake.
It sucked. The battery life sucked. The OS couldn't do simple multitasking. The propietary connector earphones would make DankPods cry in agony at their mere sight. The touchscreen was unresponsive and i never used it after the first couple of times. Also, i could not for the life of me get any NES games to run. I regreted it Very much after just a couple of days.
After (rightfully so) tearing me a new one for making her spend a considerable chunk of her paycheck on something so unberably bad, my mom agreed that we would go back to the store and return it later the same week.
Tough Luck: While going to school with the phone on my backpack, the screen cracked. I was so very gentle with it, but not enough it seemed.
Needless to say, they wouldn't take it back and refund us. Ended up selling it to a neighbor for like half what we paid for it, and i got handed down her old Nokia 2690, wich was a mighty little fella that served me very well for many years.
Does J2ME work on there? I'm looking for a device to play castlevania order of shadows.
Do not use apple pencil on touchscreens, it is active stylus and thus can interfere with a screen potentially.
The pencil is dead. There's no power in it at all. That's why I use it instead of those tiny stylus things they usually include
@@SMOOREZ ah, then it shoud be fine
I'm at the beginning part of the video, so I don't yet know what the specs are for this phone yet.
But HOW CAN GAMING PHONE FROM 2008 STRUGGLE WITH NES EMULATION?
I remember playing nes games on my Nokia 3650 back in 2004 with zero issues, and keep in mind that that phone was basically just way less professional looking version of the business version of Nokia 7650 from 2002.
That phone could run even mega drive games with picodrive emulator, though only with no sounds.
With sounds turned on the mega drive it would run anywhere between 2fps to 10fps.
But without them it was smooth 50fps and ness naturally worked with sound on at full speed.
Only issue other than sound, was the smol 3,5mb ram size, so bigger games such as Sonic the hedgehog 3 would only work if you first opened psiloc systemtools and turned on flight mode.
It basically restarted the phone with the cellphone app and cellular radio apps turned off and with its custom lightweight launcher app.
This freed ram enough that Sonic the hedgehog 3 could work on it.
Yeah now that I watched longer it is clear that this is nowhere near as powerful as those nokias were.
Maybe I have gotten bit too used to Chinese Android phones having if not flagship tier chipsets on some models and rest using at least usable hardware.
With healthy serving of all kind of call home and similar malware stuff build in.
So i thought that surely phone aimed for gaming in 2008 would at least be more powerful than those old Nokia Symbian phones. 😂
Oh how wrong I was. 🤣
The mjau from Ripley at 4:15 (or what it is) made me a bit startled. I first thought it was one of my two cats but I remembered that they are outside for the moment.
Thanks smoorez for your uploads.
You made me by the phone that I have.
I was looking for a new one and found one that wasn't half bad. But then you uploaded a video about Poco x3 nfc and I was sold. It was a bit more expensive but not much but with the specs that it had it wasn't a bad deal.
Still use it and I write this message from it.
When the updates stop coming I will install a new rom so I can use this for a bit longer.
God I miss chunky heavy phones.
That camera shows you a bright future
35:07 game did I play in my childhood??
The music is very nostalgic for some reason
so i was listening with my good headphones and when the ringtones started my ears killed themselfs lol. btw i never saw any phone designed like that but oh lord that nes emulation is sooo painful, like it was trying to say: kill me.
I enjoyed all these weird wonderful phones
man i couldnt stop laughing at the slow mario theme
Cool u know about ghost adventures a family friend is going to be on there on the blennerhasset episode thats coming soon lol
I love Ripley so much 😭❤️
"It's slightly bent" he says as he bends it unnecessarily :D
I noticed in the outer case there isn't a grill for the small sperker, only the big one.
I would really love to have those midi ringer files cause one of them just really hit hard and I wanted to make it my ringtone
welcome
Welcome to City 17! You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I've been proud to call City 17 my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown - welcome to City 17. It's safer here.
13:22 Similar To Pink Panther Theme By Henry Manchini
I’m usually one of those people who recognise ringtones pinched from other mobile phone brands (so I’ll take that mention in the ringtone segment as a small nod, thank you very much 😀)… Anyway, I don’t recognise any of the ringtones here. MIDI 3 resembles the Pink Panther theme, but the melody is slightly altered - that’s the only thing that sounds somewhat familiar. So, I’d assume that all those sounds are its own thing, just like the phone itself. The Chinese factory seems to have tried creating something original for a change… which is always refreshing to see.
Thanks for the video; love it as always. 🫡
It's unlikely that those ringtones are original, they could possibly be midi versions of popular Chinese songs the rest of the world hasn't heard of
Pretty cool.
That 3rd ringtone was pink panther
I had Dorado TV15 which had nes emulator and more games I had slower they were running . After like 20-30 games such low fps bug was happening .
36:00 I remember this game 13-14 years ago had 3 lanes on my sony ericsson s312
IMEI shows as a Cellon France Q610 , which Google shows absolutely nothing for what the hell that is
TH-cam is coming to the realization that what they are doing is non sustainable with their ads....
11:22 Ahh so you are experienced
at 28 mins in wont the videos be played in 3gp ? im sure it was 3gp back in the day
MIDI3 is the Pink Panther song (idk if it was used or has another origin before that use)
Saxophone sounds like Bagpipes.
damn i heard about this on the stream i am exited
bro got the blair witch project camera
Ripley looks cute even with a potato camera like that :)
Did you streamer phone arrived?
they only just shipped it after I messaged them :\
41:59 Booby Kids! Lol
Can you believe that I actually heard of this game before watching this? 😂😂😂😂
Safe to say it doesn't run like this, though.
Fucking battle toads. OG meme
You can use that device for capturing paranormal photos and videos.
The third midi straight up sounds like pink panther
MIDI 3 sounds like Pink Panther theme song.
13:22 i get inmediatly pink panther vibes