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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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'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.
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.
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)
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 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.
You have to turn off updates and any installs you set it to ask if you want something installed. Those would either be in the phone settings or in the play store. My phone kept trying to force me to install games to get thru the system update...I kept having to tell it skip this but it would not complete the updates without it so I finally just let it install one game then I uninstalled it, so you would need to uninstall them and also set it to update onlly when you confirm it to be updated.
I got a bunch of 5 and 7 dollar phones at Walmart. That’s when I found they had to ring up that many on several transactions. 2 I just use as remotes for for my Sony action cameras.
I bought my niece a Blu View 4 a few months ago. It was only $30 also. I was surprised that the phone wasn't horrible. Even dirt cheap phones are usable now. She just watches TH-cam on it. I don't think I could use one. I do a lot with my phone.
It's as if it comes with a virus preinstalled. I don't think I've ever dealt with Android installing stuff I didn't tell it to install. I've only known that to be a problem on Windows. As for the SD card bay & headphone jack, I've always known those to be a given. I would be very pissed if I bought a phone to find out there's no SD card compatibility. How else are you gonna transfer files? I'm all for innovation, but there's no excuse for getting rid of features that still have a use. If you get rid of those features it's just a slab of aluminium infused with glass. Also this phone looks like a Galaxy A10e & it runs about the same yet it's so much cheaper. There's proof that big brands are crap. I have a Maxwest Astro 55R. It cost me about the same as that Walmart phone & it's not a super fast gaming phone, nor does it have the storage for it, but it's so much faster & more responsive than any Galaxy phone I have ever used. It has a headphone jack & I don't need a repair kit to take the back off.
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
For $30 what do you expect?!?!? I think this phone is well worth what you paid for it. It's probably worth alot more than that price. You are trying to get top tier performance out of the phone while it's still setting up and you arent gonna get that while its doing that.
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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.
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
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
This is turning into bringus studios
The difference is he loves optical drive
@@andropahsa3904 true
😂
"Gaming on the blu view 5"
@@andropahsa3904O P T I C A L M E D I A B A D
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
Ah the old trick of using the sticker to remove it's own sticker residue, works better than you'd think.
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)
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.
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.
this channel is like walmart michael mjd but in a good way
Sorta
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
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
walmart
Yes
kogan
Spend money. Live worse.
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
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
Always uninstall excess apps and stop as many background apps running and then test, will run way faster.
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
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
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.
I think because they are downloading preloaded programs. Thats why this phone can be $30. Once the download is done, just delete everything you don’t want. I think it may go faster
I completely forgot source on Android existed, And a video about a phone that probably has the same cpu as the original NES is what reminded me of it
its the almost all of human knowledge in the palm of your hand for the price of a few shirts or a couple days of groceries
the fact you can even run portal on it is amazing
I swear I've watched this before 🤔
Deja vu (jk)
Bro copied john zoid
Who tf is john zoid@@fons5021
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As you said, the phone isn't THAT bad, for 30$
You had me at buying blank CDs
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.
The bloat is how they make money
I'm impressed that the Play Store keeps track of all those other poor kids that failed to run Minecraft on this phone 😂💀
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.
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.
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.)
WAIT YOU HAVE BEATSABER ON THAT CHEAP PHONE?! 0:25
I’m In the car to school while u made this masterpiece WHY NOT LATER
5:20 even my s5 running 1080p at higher framerate ☠️
Still daily driving an S7 with LineageOS
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.
''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.
That moment when the cheap Walmart phone has better specs then your current phone XD
Walmart sells the moto g play which is 10 times the device for $39
There is ADB Debloating tools fix that stuff that keeps loading itself on the phone.
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
The hobo special.
Oh that Nintendo 3DS Friendlist music in the background...
Now try to root it lmao
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'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
That phone looks pretty GAMING
gets Lenovo idea pad 3 that’s the cheapest laptop probably
9:20 bro really wanna kill the phone with WHAT by Spu7nix LOL!
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.
Johnzoid also reviewed the phone and played games on it
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.
another jiga tech video?? this makes my day!
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)
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.
with this blu view 5, you can view in blu
for the fifth time!1!!1!1
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.
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
You should try installing a GSI on it!
For 30 dollars, its realy good
I wish I had a Walmart near me, to use this as a spotify/mp3 player
Watching thos on a BLU View3, love it.
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.
You have to turn off updates and any installs you set it to ask if you want something installed. Those would either be in the phone settings or in the play store. My phone kept trying to force me to install games to get thru the system update...I kept having to tell it skip this but it would not complete the updates without it so I finally just let it install one game then I uninstalled it, so you would need to uninstall them and also set it to update onlly when you confirm it to be updated.
Can it run GameCube Legend of Zelda Windwaker or Mario Kart Double Dash? What about PSP games?
$30.00 use for calls, e-mails, browsing, music pics..not really for games dude! Get yourself a PS5!
I got a bunch of 5 and 7 dollar phones at Walmart. That’s when I found they had to ring up that many on several transactions. 2 I just use as remotes for for my Sony action cameras.
I got the second cheapest Samsung phone 2-3years ago still use it and never had to do a factory reset and the screen doesn't fade or burn in.
when you held both Manuels together your should of said *Which one of them should i not read first* 😂
This phone would be so frustrating to use. I would throw that phone around. My iPhone 15 Pro Max is a septillion times better.
This is the same speed as my 2007 macbook pro, I can say this with confidence
Me watching this with a ipad air 4th gen at 1080 p
can you make a video of making than phone run windows, i love your videos
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
I bought my niece a Blu View 4 a few months ago. It was only $30 also. I was surprised that the phone wasn't horrible. Even dirt cheap phones are usable now. She just watches TH-cam on it. I don't think I could use one. I do a lot with my phone.
I'm eating lunch and I see this posted one minute ago
Not good, not terrible, but an amazing deal for a $30 backup phone😂
Tracfone bloatware... I've done the cheap ass phone thing and will never go back from a flagship. S24 Ultra master race
It's as if it comes with a virus preinstalled. I don't think I've ever dealt with Android installing stuff I didn't tell it to install. I've only known that to be a problem on Windows. As for the SD card bay & headphone jack, I've always known those to be a given. I would be very pissed if I bought a phone to find out there's no SD card compatibility. How else are you gonna transfer files? I'm all for innovation, but there's no excuse for getting rid of features that still have a use. If you get rid of those features it's just a slab of aluminium infused with glass. Also this phone looks like a Galaxy A10e & it runs about the same yet it's so much cheaper. There's proof that big brands are crap. I have a Maxwest Astro 55R. It cost me about the same as that Walmart phone & it's not a super fast gaming phone, nor does it have the storage for it, but it's so much faster & more responsive than any Galaxy phone I have ever used. It has a headphone jack & I don't need a repair kit to take the back off.
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!
ggs in getting sponsored
For $30 what do you expect?!?!? I think this phone is well worth what you paid for it. It's probably worth alot more than that price. You are trying to get top tier performance out of the phone while it's still setting up and you arent gonna get that while its doing that.
Me watching this video:
"haha, what a cheap and bad pho-... Why does it have better specs than my phone?..."
Ah yes "blu view", you can see through it!
If it wasn't installing and updating the video would run fine
Not sure what your problem is but movies & TV shows are shot at & broadcast at between 24fps & 30fps.
HE WAS SPONSORED BY THE FUNNY BRINGUS STUDIOS SPONSOR
Bro really said "I'm dankpods"
That’s just blu phone behavior
I’m more impressed that the source engine runs on android now
Pretty sure they spoofed the release date. This ‘smart’phone reeks of 2004 performance
i never thought id see good kids's no time to explain or a tranch map on a jiga tech video
Holy shit I used to own blu phones back when I lived in Trinidad