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VeryKool Jet SL5009 Android Smartphone Review
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May 30, 2025
Looking for a slick, low-cost Android smartphone that's unlocked and ready to go with AT&T, T-Mobile, Cricket or almost any other carrier? Then you'll want to learn about the VeryKool Jet SL5009 phone, as reviewed by Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm looking at the very cool SL 5009 jet
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what's that it's this it's a cell phone
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it's an Android cell phone it's actually
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quite a nice one and very cool it's it's
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really interesting company out of San
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Diego and they take basically
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off-the-shelf components and assemble
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really really affordable Android cell
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phones so let's have a look at this one
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so first off let me unlock it and you
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can see hopefully there it's a pretty
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nice bright screen it's actually running
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a quad processor here that and that's
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see it's an unlocked phone so works
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right off the box so you put in the
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right SIM card and you can go on to AT&T
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or t-mobile or Cricut or a lot of the we
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politely phrase this second tier
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cellular carriers and it's great so let
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me just start out with the price it's a
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hundred and thirty nine bucks now hold
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on for that hundred and thirty nine
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bucks let's pop open the box and see cuz
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there's a lot of stuff you get with this
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thing and let's see it has an eight
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megapixel camera and a 1.3 megapixel
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selfie camera cuz you know in modern
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times you gotta have that comes with a
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case it's not a glamorous case but it's
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a case comes with a screen protector
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comes with USB cable comes with earbuds
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so basically what they've done is for
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139 bucks this covers everything that
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you need so this is for example a great
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starter phone for a kid because honestly
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if they break it it's not like it's a
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$700 iPhone or something and it really
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is quite capable now let me tell you
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there are some limitations so for
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example it's non HD so the screen is
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certainly attractive and it's nice and
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bright and if we bring things up
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they are snappy
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and it works pretty well but you're
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running at what is it it's about 480 by
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854 pixels so when you look at some of
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these more modern phones like the
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top-end HTC One or the Apple iPhone or
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things like that or the Samsung Galaxy
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they're running a much higher resolution
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but quite honestly as someone who's used
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Retton the screens and non retina
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screens and everything I'm not sure the
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resolution really matters that much
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quite honestly it's just it's a screen
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it's small and if you're watching a
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movie for example I mean it's still
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plenty enough resolution it's like an
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old TV but you're watching it really
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close so and it's really small so that's
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worth knowing it's 3.7 ounces which
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actually makes it about 30% lighter than
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an iPhone which weighs in at 4.5 pounds
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no be a really heavy iPhone let's try
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4.5 ounces and see android 5.1 lollipop
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yes marshmallow is released but no no
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one's actually running it yet so who
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knows AT&T tells me probably 2016 until
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most of the Android models are running
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em so these guys might very well keep
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write up and in a couple of months just
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one day you wake up and your phone is a
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completely different operating system
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which is fairly terrifying but now an
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increment an increment in the operating
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system so what else can I tell you about
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this 1900 milliamp hour battery gives
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you eight hours of talktime and just
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under 2 weeks of standby time
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so yeah honestly it's like most
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cellphones you probably want to charge
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it overnight every single night and then
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the next day it'll run fine for the
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whole day and then one more thing and
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this I really like and I really wish
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Apple did this and I know they don't and
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they never will this has a microSD slot
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so I can put it up to a 64 gig card and
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that gives me for example poof here's
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all my favorite audiobooks so no hassles
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with worrying about how much space is on
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the phone by the way it has 8 gig
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internal storage it just gives you this
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nice overflow so very cool jet SL 5009 I
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really like it I'm a big fan of very
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cool
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I think that they'd make really really
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decent affordable phones and honestly
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139 bucks unlocked take it to whatever
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carrier you want you could probably use
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it with the pay-as-you-go service really
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really great great for retired people
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great for people that aren't online a
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lot certainly great for kids so I would
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say check it out
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130 $9.99 at amazon.com or go and check
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out very cool zone website at ready for
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this
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very cool net see Xena all right this is
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Dave Taylor and my phone and I will say
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to buy off a two-minute video
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