How Bad is a $50 Smartphone?

Alright, 3, 2, 1

I don't really know how this one ended up in front of me

I spoke about it on an episode of Lou Later Downstairs. This crazy shopping day that takes place

It's called Singles Day. It's the biggest shopping day of the year, in fact

And there's crazy deals to be had. I mean, think of like Black Friday, but bigger

This one is gonna be a crazy $50. $50 smartphone. Willy-doo, $50 smartphone

So it's regularly $70 to $100, and for a single day, it's going to be $50

Now, I presume as well, it's going to be limited in volume

It's called the A60 from BlackVue. Dual SIM, dual standby. 1280 by 600 water drop screen

4080 mAh battery. 5 megapixel plus 13 megapixel dual camera. So far, $50. Well, $50

BlackVue, there it is. I see there is a case also installed in some sort of a gradient look to it

Okay, check this out. Purple to blue. Yeah, it's gonna be micro USB at 50 bucks, alright

Get your act together, folks. What did you... You want Type C for 50

Imagine, it's 50 bucks. How many of these could you have instead of an iPhone, Will? 20

Willie Do. In high school, you could hand them out. A loot bag. Has a lot of trinkets

Looks like a dual camera setup. Right there, a flash. There's no sim card tray

There is, however, a headphone jack. There's a little, okay cool. Oh wow back comes off 4080 mAh battery Two sim card slots All right we click that back on Your USB cable as well as your charge brick Okay Now keep in mind this is coming from AliExpress so pay attention to the shipping options

There are a variety available, so know when to expect your order to arrive

Kind of into that. Okay. Small little animation there. It's actually kind of amazing what you get for 50 bucks, I guess

I mean, I'm not in the system yet, but even just so far

Will, guy like you, you could spend more than that on lunch. Want a cut or no

Sure, bud. We're in, Will. Let's check the brightness. We have some more

And it is pretty much stock Android, isn't it? Android Go 8.1

Look, I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's the quickest thing in the world. Look at this, okay

I'm not going to tell you that. Look, there's a wide variety of tech fans out there in the world

Unbox Therapy viewers. Everyone with a different budget. Pay your rent. Yeah

Make a few calls. Live your life. It has YouTube Go. I've actually never seen this before

The video app built into Android Go. Okay, we're into YouTube. It appears to be functional

YouTube Go. That's a key step, Will. In a smartphone in general

I don't care if you pay $50 or $500. You gotta have YouTube

Gotta watch YouTube. Oh, interesting. This is also a lesson for me on YouTube Go. There's probably an understanding that there's a sensitivity on your phone plan

If you buying a budget phone you probably also may have a budget phone plan so they ask you the quality that you want beforehand so you know exactly how many megabytes you going to use well for our sake we do high there willy do right there volume volume that should be a given you have interchangeable ear tips so maybe the one that

pre-installed is not perfect for you of course active noise canceling in here you get none of

that action with the regular AirPods. Like I said, this is not your typical feature here on the channel

And there's an adjustment necessary for me from an ysis perspective. In my brain, it's so hard to not compare this to a flagship device

But you kind of have to because it is a reality that this budget phone is the phone that's

available to certain people. I'm glad it has Android Go on it because it's already not the fastest thing in the world

And you can only imagine if they tried to go in there and put a skin on it, it would only slow it down

The speaker is a pretty basic mono unit as you heard there with the video

So yeah, you could cover it up accidentally. I would say I'm a bit surprised that we have this water drop style notch

Even a person with $50 to spend sort of feels like they're part of modern times Coca-Cola

Okay, so here we go. Let's run the usual. You're looking at it right now in a 1x mode. Boom

If I tap down here, we go to 2x. Then there's a few other settings on here

There's a beauty mode, a blur mode, panorama, and pro. This is actually a pro mode to configure some of the settings yourself There you have your zoom there you have your wider So the back camera is 13 megapixels the front one supposedly 5

so let's do a quick selfie, why don't we? $50 selfie! Singles day selfie

There is a zoom, but it's just a crop, right? Just a crop, see

I mean... I didn't really expect much to begin with, but I think you can count a couple of beard hairs

Just a couple. What are we talking about? We're talking about a $50 phone

What am I doing? As I've talked about many times on the show, the real story with this stuff is the price

Start with the price, and then you see what you can get. I did not expect to be looking at a $50 phone today

I did not expect to be talking about Singles Day today. But you hang around Willie Doo long enough

who knows what's going to happen. Sponsored by AliExpress. So as Lou said, today's Singles Day, a celebration that's popular in the East and focused mainly on giving yourself a little gift

If you want to celebrate that or just have an excuse to give yourself a gift, AliExpress has got you covered

So they really have a wide range of stuff here. You got gadgets, you got jewelry, and apparel

And a lot of this stuff is on sale because of Singles Day. So one of the products I got is a wireless charging power bank from a company called Bezos

It's got 10,000mA, good for travel but light enough to keep in your bag for emergencies

And you don't need a cable if your device has wireless charging

So if you want to know more deals, I'll have more links in the description including this charger

Go check them out