Amazon sells stacks of CDs online that have more durable quality than low quality Walmart CDs he's in the wrong place of business and will thank me later.
I bought a $70 Motorola android some years ago. I meant it just to play music but it really is top notch as far as the usual stuff. Everything worked 100% without lag. Made a great temp phone, and now it's being used as the remote and screen for my Dji drone. Mid-tier androids can really have you questioning why you'd ever spend more than a couple hundred for a smartphone ever again.
I have a Moto G5 that's been playing audiobooks for years now. I first used it for its camera, which was s**t, but in an artsy way, and I was using this crazy app called Open Camera to weird up a bunch of otherwise ordinary photos. I love that phone, for all the stuff it did for me, and is still doing.
I got a Moto G Play in 2021 and i dailied it for a little while, and I loved it. The battery life was legitimately better than my Pixel 6 pro and even my iPhone 16 pro. It ran COD mobile surprisingly well, and it's still holding up relatively well today. The newer G Play is actually a downgrade, since they moved to a pretty crap Mediatek from the Snapdragon in the 2021.
30 dollars for a secondary phone that serves it's basic purpose of being a phone is great, actually. This would easily go for 80+ euros in my country. I usually only find these low tier phones at 60+ euros where I'm from and they perform way worse than this.
What is great about a phone like this is that in an Emergency , you can get a phone for 30 dollars and it will work... Not everyone is going to run 1080p videos or play video games. They are going to use the phone and text.
Nah it's more than that mate, you can get a flip phone or something that is basically just a normal phone for ridiculously cheap nowadays. But, we're reaching a point that literal android phones that can text, call but can also actually download some apps and games for nothing now, tech is probably the only thing getting cheaper right now.
I think the apps which were getting installed were not from Play Store these phones have their own app stores which keep on installing these apps you can disable them to prevent installing and it will reduce the lag too
I know it's a bloatware mess meant to sell a subscription and all, but still. This thing has significantly better hardware than my family PC had growing up in the early 2000s. For $30. In 2024. We've come a long damn way pretty fast.
It's pretty neat, low end budget phones are actually usable phones now. Yeah, they're still a laggy mess, but they do what they need to do, given the low price. You wouldn't be able to find stuff like this often, even like 5 years ago
I think the lag in TH-cam is when apps are actually being installed. It runs videos smoothly while the apps are being downloaded, and actually lag when the app is being installed. I have this same issue with my Samsung M34 (not as much, but definitely noticable)
12:15 Bruh, I remember wanting to play goat simulator so bad when it first came out and my laptop at the time BARELY being able to muster up double digit fps, the fact a modern 30 dollar shovelware burnerphone can play it better than that is insane to me. Also kinda funny that goat simulator also appeared to run better than your game lmao
I actually bought the blue view 4 last year for 30 dollars, and have been using it while at home to not always be on my main driver, wearing the battery. The phone works perfectly fine! I've spent more for two people at fast food then I did on the phone, and I use it at least every other day for TH-cam, Facebook, discord messaging etc
Ahh Tracphone. I used to buy their under $20 smartphones 10 years ago. Great price back then for a fully functional android device to play around with. I think I still have a sealed one in my storage unit. The refurbished ones on their website were even cheaper.
Of course they were all 3g only phones do you didn't have to buy a separate SIM card. And sometimes I did have to buy the cheapest $5 airtime card to even order a refurbished unit. Still was only like $7 for the phone itself.
When content creators compare sizes, I almost never have the thing they compare it with. But I actually have a Pixel 8a phone, so I finally have an idea of how big this el cheapo smartphone is lol
fun fact: you can stop lag from slowing down the speed of geometry dash by turning off "smooth fix" in the settings so instead of the speed changing and the sync getting messed up when you lag, it just skips frames and stays synced
Honestly for 30 bucks this is better then a phone i got for 200 in 2016 I feel like with a better version of dolphin and some tweaked settings (alongside a better optimized game) this would do pretty okay
LMAO literally watching this vid on the EXACT same phone 😭 (my iphone 11 broke a couple weeks ago so I have to settle for this till I can save for a new iphone.)
its the almost all of human knowledge in the palm of your hand for the price of a few shirts or a couple days of groceries the fact you can even run portal on it is amazing
I think because they are downloading preloaded programs. Thats why this phone can be $30. Once the download is done, just delete everything you don’t want. I think it may go faster
Looks like you're running the old port of source engine, which was based on Nvidia Shield port and not very well optimized especially on Mali android GPU drivers. Nillerusr did release a new port which uses steam resources, and should run much better and has better controller support. Anyway cool video as always.
To properly review these kinds of cheap phones is to update and download everything so that it doesn't stress the system much. Debloating also helps by uninstalling and disabling unnecessary apps. After you done all that I bet you can run 1080p 60 on this phone decent enough and run geometry dash too.
Even just being able to watch 480p TH-cam videos for $30 with a headphone jack makes it worth it. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and listen to name TH-cam videos with the screen off. The lack of a jack on most brand name phones means these cheap devices are a refuge for the 3.5mm jack.
I know this guy who found a bunch of rectangles and circles and polygons and triangles and squares while doing a dumpster dive. Now *that* was geometry trash.
Those cheap Tracfones make nice mini-tablets on Wifi. Now I gotta go look for one so I can have another device for Cross Stitch World.... yes I said Cross Stitch World LOL.
In case you're interested or just in case you didn't know, there are styluses (styli?) such as what Amazon has, that can work as such on *any* phone. The ones I use are rubber tipped. And though they're nowhere near as good as, say, an S-pen or Apple pencil, they really do make working with phone touches more precise.
Reminds me of a phone I had when often you'd swipe up and a full 5 seconds later it would finally move. The worst part is it visually has no lag spikes, but the touch was super delayed.
I wonder how much ram it has. Because the box never shows the whole picture. Amd you have an awesome beautiful speaking voice. No joke dude, i wish i had your voice 👍🏾 great video too.
9:30 The reason why its downloading these random apps is that, When it gives you the prompt "Continue setup" and you wish to continue, it gives you another prompt for reading what apps will install. and you didnt read it. Idk why it wont show in the updates thing, and it happened to me too.
I've been with straightalk the past like 10 years, and just about any time I connect to wifi, it auto installs games and stuff without asking me first. I've got a Galaxy a54, by the way. It was originally 300, but I got it on sale for 150.
probably glitchy due to background app installs. Pretty sure that is not legal to install apps without your consent after setting up the phone but anyways... Curious about CPU specs.
Apparently uses a Helio A22, that is a quad core using Cortex-A53. The GPU is a PowerVR. Except the fact the Helio is able to support Vulkan and OpenGL 3.2, the specs are on the level of a middle tier phone from 2016 (My old Android 5 Samsung Grand Prime was a A53 quad core)
All government and pretty much all cheap pre paid phones are reconditioned to exellent shape physically, but are rejects for good reason. The Blu phone you have looks pretty nice. All phones no matter the quality, take time to get things adjusted and updated. A few hours is needed most times for that alone, plus some more along the way for a few days. All cheap phones come with bloatware, the automatic apps you never wanted. Most of them can be uninstalled or disabled
You cannot review a phones performance while it's setting itself up. It needs to settle a bit man. Lol. The fact it loaded TH-cam while you had auto installers running , it's incredible for 30 bucks. Lol
With so many questionable pre installed apps, You wouldn’t want to use any apps that may steal your personal information. For this reason it’s highly recommended if you value your business personal information don’t buy any phones with bloat ware especially those you can’t uninstall or disable at worst case.
Okay, so that's a track phone. You buy Gigabyte packs for that phone. Right? So, it's downloading all those games in the background using up your gigabyte pack that you just bought for it.
As an European I find it crazy your plans are still by the Gigabyte, while here in Romania they throw at you +5 GB offers at you in disgust just because they are only 5 GB
When you buy this phone they make you sign a contract saying they can anally brutalize you at any time, but then again you did that to yourself when you bought the phone.... 🤷 😂😂😂
You should've tried the video playing again after a week when it stopped automatically installing apps 😂. Seriously though, this phone is better than phones I owned in 2014/2015 especially for only $30. I would wonder how a phone like this handles phone calls, like whether they're clear without any dropped calls.
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"i went to walmart to buy another stack of cds because i was running low"
-evil bringus
"EWWW, optical media bad!" -bringus working on 00s PCs
jiga is the anti-bringus
Amazon sells stacks of CDs online that have more durable quality than low quality Walmart CDs he's in the wrong place of business and will thank me later.
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they got the price so cheap because it has a ton of sponsored apps installed
The motorola razr does the same thing
To be fair Samsungs Phones are not so cheap but are also fully bloated.
@@radio_marconot as much bloatware.
I said it at the beginning of the video, I didn't know HOW much bloat is actually getting installed.
And permanent locked bootloader
I bought a $70 Motorola android some years ago. I meant it just to play music but it really is top notch as far as the usual stuff. Everything worked 100% without lag. Made a great temp phone, and now it's being used as the remote and screen for my Dji drone.
Mid-tier androids can really have you questioning why you'd ever spend more than a couple hundred for a smartphone ever again.
I have a Moto G5 that's been playing audiobooks for years now. I first used it for its camera, which was s**t, but in an artsy way, and I was using this crazy app called Open Camera to weird up a bunch of otherwise ordinary photos. I love that phone, for all the stuff it did for me, and is still doing.
I will take the cheapest Motorola over THIS phone anyday.
I got a Moto G Play in 2021 and i dailied it for a little while, and I loved it. The battery life was legitimately better than my Pixel 6 pro and even my iPhone 16 pro. It ran COD mobile surprisingly well, and it's still holding up relatively well today. The newer G Play is actually a downgrade, since they moved to a pretty crap Mediatek from the Snapdragon in the 2021.
For real
Haha I remember when I bought a prepaid phone from a 7-Eleven and after I set the phone up, it caught on fire.
You okay?
Bro how much did you even buy the phone for😭
Troubleshooter Step1: Did you buy a Note 7?
@@Mats_Games good joke, you think they sell note 7 at 7/11
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30 dollars for a secondary phone that serves it's basic purpose of being a phone is great, actually. This would easily go for 80+ euros in my country.
I usually only find these low tier phones at 60+ euros where I'm from and they perform way worse than this.
damn right 30 dollars like what more can u ask if u need a phone there u go i just suggested to my neighbors to get one its not bad
It's probably network locked, so you can't use it with the plan you have. For not too much more you can buy a far better used unlocked phone.
Here the lowest tiered phone is an Android Go device and still goes for like €90+, and performs way worse than this
What is great about a phone like this is that in an Emergency , you can get a phone for 30 dollars and it will work... Not everyone is going to run 1080p videos or play video games. They are going to use the phone and text.
Nah it's more than that mate, you can get a flip phone or something that is basically just a normal phone for ridiculously cheap nowadays.
But, we're reaching a point that literal android phones that can text, call but can also actually download some apps and games for nothing now, tech is probably the only thing getting cheaper right now.
Ah the old trick of using the sticker to remove it's own sticker residue, works better than you'd think.
It's wild that this 30 dollar phone has a CHARGING BRICK and a HEADPHONE JACK oh wait EXPANDABLE STORAGE wtf are these flagship companies doing bruh
fr though
Yeah
Making money
What phones don't??? Sounds like common sense to me
All the apps it downloaded/updated you can prevent in the future by going to your settings on the Play Store and setting it to never Auto Update
I think the apps which were getting installed were not from Play Store these phones have their own app stores which keep on installing these apps you can disable them to prevent installing and it will reduce the lag too
This is turning into bringus studios
The difference is he loves optical drive
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"Gaming on the blu view 5"
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I know it's a bloatware mess meant to sell a subscription and all, but still. This thing has significantly better hardware than my family PC had growing up in the early 2000s. For $30. In 2024. We've come a long damn way pretty fast.
It's pretty neat, low end budget phones are actually usable phones now. Yeah, they're still a laggy mess, but they do what they need to do, given the low price.
You wouldn't be able to find stuff like this often, even like 5 years ago
These are the modern mp3 players
I mean anything made from 2015 onwards have the same qualitys lol
I think the lag in TH-cam is when apps are actually being installed. It runs videos smoothly while the apps are being downloaded, and actually lag when the app is being installed. I have this same issue with my Samsung M34 (not as much, but definitely noticable)
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Spend money. Live worse.
12:15 Bruh, I remember wanting to play goat simulator so bad when it first came out and my laptop at the time BARELY being able to muster up double digit fps, the fact a modern 30 dollar shovelware burnerphone can play it better than that is insane to me.
Also kinda funny that goat simulator also appeared to run better than your game lmao
I actually bought the blue view 4 last year for 30 dollars, and have been using it while at home to not always be on my main driver, wearing the battery. The phone works perfectly fine! I've spent more for two people at fast food then I did on the phone, and I use it at least every other day for TH-cam, Facebook, discord messaging etc
this channel is like walmart michael mjd but in a good way
Sorta
Always uninstall excess apps and stop as many background apps running and then test, will run way faster.
Ahh Tracphone. I used to buy their under $20 smartphones 10 years ago. Great price back then for a fully functional android device to play around with. I think I still have a sealed one in my storage unit. The refurbished ones on their website were even cheaper.
Of course they were all 3g only phones do you didn't have to buy a separate SIM card. And sometimes I did have to buy the cheapest $5 airtime card to even order a refurbished unit. Still was only like $7 for the phone itself.
When content creators compare sizes, I almost never have the thing they compare it with. But I actually have a Pixel 8a phone, so I finally have an idea of how big this el cheapo smartphone is lol
fun fact: you can stop lag from slowing down the speed of geometry dash by turning off "smooth fix" in the settings
so instead of the speed changing and the sync getting messed up when you lag, it just skips frames and stays synced
Honestly for 30 bucks this is better then a phone i got for 200 in 2016
I feel like with a better version of dolphin and some tweaked settings (alongside a better optimized game) this would do pretty okay
As you said, the phone isn't THAT bad, for 30$
Can't wait for them to release the "RED VIEW 5"
and the BLACK VIEW 5. oh wait
@@moduleddsadly they already made it 6 years ago
That's the reason why the phone is cheap. These companies get paid to load up the crappy bloatware.
LMAO literally watching this vid on the EXACT same phone 😭 (my iphone 11 broke a couple weeks ago so I have to settle for this till I can save for a new iphone.)
I'm impressed that the Play Store keeps track of all those other poor kids that failed to run Minecraft on this phone 😂💀
You had me at buying blank CDs
its the almost all of human knowledge in the palm of your hand for the price of a few shirts or a couple days of groceries
the fact you can even run portal on it is amazing
I think because they are downloading preloaded programs. Thats why this phone can be $30. Once the download is done, just delete everything you don’t want. I think it may go faster
I completely forgot source on Android existed, And a video about a phone that probably has the same cpu as the original NES is what reminded me of it
The bloat is how they make money
Looks like you're running the old port of source engine, which was based on Nvidia Shield port and not very well optimized especially on Mali android GPU drivers. Nillerusr did release a new port which uses steam resources, and should run much better and has better controller support. Anyway cool video as always.
I swear I've watched this before 🤔
Deja vu (jk)
Bro copied john zoid
Who tf is john zoid@@fons5021
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''Hello, Welcome to this again.'' I can hear it from miles away
To properly review these kinds of cheap phones is to update and download everything so that it doesn't stress the system much. Debloating also helps by uninstalling and disabling unnecessary apps. After you done all that I bet you can run 1080p 60 on this phone decent enough and run geometry dash too.
Now try to root it lmao
Even just being able to watch 480p TH-cam videos for $30 with a headphone jack makes it worth it. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and listen to name TH-cam videos with the screen off. The lack of a jack on most brand name phones means these cheap devices are a refuge for the 3.5mm jack.
I know this guy who found a bunch of rectangles and circles and polygons and triangles and squares while doing a dumpster dive. Now *that* was geometry trash.
WAIT YOU HAVE BEATSABER ON THAT CHEAP PHONE?! 0:25
Those cheap Tracfones make nice mini-tablets on Wifi. Now I gotta go look for one so I can have another device for Cross Stitch World.... yes I said Cross Stitch World LOL.
In case you're interested or just in case you didn't know, there are styluses (styli?) such as what Amazon has, that can work as such on *any* phone. The ones I use are rubber tipped. And though they're nowhere near as good as, say, an S-pen or Apple pencil, they really do make working with phone touches more precise.
@@keithbrown7685 I use a stylus frequently. They are very convenient.
I’m In the car to school while u made this masterpiece WHY NOT LATER
with the blu view 5, you can view in blu
for the fifth time!1!!1!1
5:20 even my s5 running 1080p at higher framerate ☠️
Still daily driving an S7 with LineageOS
Reminds me of a phone I had when often you'd swipe up and a full 5 seconds later it would finally move.
The worst part is it visually has no lag spikes, but the touch was super delayed.
another jiga tech video?? this makes my day!
That moment when the cheap Walmart phone has better specs then your current phone XD
Can it run GameCube Legend of Zelda Windwaker or Mario Kart Double Dash? What about PSP games?
There is ADB Debloating tools fix that stuff that keeps loading itself on the phone.
Cheap Android phone pro tip: always disable app managers as soon as you open the phone.
It’s all sponsors or advertisement. That’s why it keeps downloading garbage lmao.
Oh that Nintendo 3DS Friendlist music in the background...
That phone looks pretty GAMING
9:20 bro really wanna kill the phone with WHAT by Spu7nix LOL!
Walmart sells the moto g play which is 10 times the device for $39
You should try installing a GSI on it!
why did you unlist all the streams?
Johnzoid also reviewed the phone and played games on it
I wish I had a Walmart near me, to use this as a spotify/mp3 player
gets Lenovo idea pad 3 that’s the cheapest laptop probably
I wonder how much ram it has. Because the box never shows the whole picture. Amd you have an awesome beautiful speaking voice. No joke dude, i wish i had your voice 👍🏾 great video too.
9:30 The reason why its downloading these random apps is that, When it gives you the prompt "Continue setup" and you wish to continue, it gives you another prompt for reading what apps will install. and you didnt read it. Idk why it wont show in the updates thing, and it happened to me too.
I believe BLU is a respectable brand
You censored the IMEI & SN on the box but didn't censor it on the phone :/ 2:00
how did you get sorce engine on there?
How did you install the source engine, portal on android??
I've been with straightalk the past like 10 years, and just about any time I connect to wifi, it auto installs games and stuff without asking me first. I've got a Galaxy a54, by the way. It was originally 300, but I got it on sale for 150.
Disable app managers
I honestly owned a phone like this, I didn't buy it from Walmart but the government supplied me with a blu and free data
I wonder if we can get it rooted.
Watching thos on a BLU View3, love it.
This phone would be so frustrating to use. I would throw that phone around. My iPhone 15 Pro Max is a septillion times better.
probably glitchy due to background app installs. Pretty sure that is not legal to install apps without your consent after setting up the phone but anyways... Curious about CPU specs.
Apparently uses a Helio A22, that is a quad core using Cortex-A53. The GPU is a PowerVR.
Except the fact the Helio is able to support Vulkan and OpenGL 3.2, the specs are on the level of a middle tier phone from 2016 (My old Android 5 Samsung Grand Prime was a A53 quad core)
All government and pretty much all cheap pre paid phones are reconditioned to exellent shape physically, but are rejects for good reason. The Blu phone you have looks pretty nice. All phones no matter the quality, take time to get things adjusted and updated. A few hours is needed most times for that alone, plus some more along the way for a few days. All cheap phones come with bloatware, the automatic apps you never wanted. Most of them can be uninstalled or disabled
can you make a video of making than phone run windows, i love your videos
You cannot review a phones performance while it's setting itself up. It needs to settle a bit man. Lol. The fact it loaded TH-cam while you had auto installers running , it's incredible for 30 bucks. Lol
Were you able to delete all the crappy bloatware the thing downloaded?
Not good, not terrible, but an amazing deal for a $30 backup phone😂
With so many questionable pre installed apps, You wouldn’t want to use any apps that may steal your personal information. For this reason it’s highly recommended if you value your business personal information don’t buy any phones with bloat ware especially those you can’t uninstall or disable at worst case.
when you held both Manuels together your should of said *Which one of them should i not read first* 😂
What version of Android is it using?
why was beat saber installed on the flip phone
Okay, so that's a track phone. You buy Gigabyte packs for that phone. Right? So, it's downloading all those games in the background using up your gigabyte pack that you just bought for it.
Unless you connect to wifi in setup
As an European I find it crazy your plans are still by the Gigabyte, while here in Romania they throw at you +5 GB offers at you in disgust just because they are only 5 GB
My plan x2 my current data ammount every new year, started on 2gb, now on 18gb for the same price :) (+2 becuz of inflation)
@@CheesusTheDon amaysim, australia
Yeah Also The Guy Plays Geometry Dash WTF!
So , how do you get this sim unlocked? Without activating it on TC?
But could it run pubg or ml though?
Can you also play Spark City on this? The walmart game?
what if you flash a custom rom
i never thought id see good kids's no time to explain or a tranch map on a jiga tech video
glad to wake up and see this posted 10 minutes ago
Great video
You only are missing the couch and start talking about sad onions 😂
2:55 why is no one talking about the simcard falling out?
Because they fall out sometimes when you pull the tray out. Completely normal.
5:20 laughs on adreno 504 running 1080p with no lag
When you buy this phone they make you sign a contract saying they can anally brutalize you at any time, but then again you did that to yourself when you bought the phone.... 🤷 😂😂😂
you should try paper toss on it, also my laptop with a Ryzen 7320u would run that wii game at bang on 60 without stutter even though it's a mobile cpu
هل مفتوح على كل شبكات العالم ؟ هل استطيع استخدامه في مصر ؟
You should've tried the video playing again after a week when it stopped automatically installing apps 😂. Seriously though, this phone is better than phones I owned in 2014/2015 especially for only $30. I would wonder how a phone like this handles phone calls, like whether they're clear without any dropped calls.
Jiga tech is like the contrapart of bringus studios he hate optical media
Tracfone bloatware... I've done the cheap ass phone thing and will never go back from a flagship. S24 Ultra master race
@JigaTech what could you possibly be using that many blank CDs for in 2024?🤔