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So you guys might remember a while back, I did a video about a five dollar smartphone, a four dollar
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It was a four dollar smartphone. This really bizarre situation where, and we're about to find out what the hell a four dollar phone does
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People were pre-ordering this eventual smartphone that would be sold for four dollars
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It was like, everyone thought it sounded too good to be true, and it turned out that it was
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And then those phones never ended up shipping, and it was a huge fiasco
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How are you this afternoon? Alrighty then. Well, maybe a $4 or a $5 smartphone is not a reality right now for various reasons
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But I have what is the cheapest phone period that I've ever looked at by far, by a long shot
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No, it's not a smartphone. As you can tell looking at the picture here, the Viva V1 made in India, a monochrome display
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a SIM card slot, kind of important on a phone, torchlight, phone book, FM radio, SMS, and 650 mAh batteries
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How much would you pay for something like that? This is $5. It's a real thing. You can go out and buy this right now
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Why is it interesting? Well, you kind of have to adjust your mindset. A global perspective on this
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It's made in India, first of all, so it's made in the domestic market and sold to domestic customers
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This may be their very first point of connectivity. We all know where that goes from there
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So this is gonna put a phone in the hands of a lot of individuals who maybe never had a phone before So the question is what were they able to pack in here for five bucks Where my knife
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Ok cool. Unboxing experience is fairly bare bones. That's about it. Let's see, the cheapest phone made in India
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Thank you. There's a power brick to charge it up. A removable battery
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And there is the device. What a throwback that is. Kinda reminds me of my first Nokia or something like that
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A number pad, as well as the old school T9 style texting
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Navigation happens here, call and hang up Earpiece up top, monochrome display
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On the top there's a flashlight Wouldn't expect to see that in a $5 phone
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A headphone jack, oh my goodness Even a $5 phone has a headphone jack
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So no micro USB, it's got a tube style connector And it looks like the speaker is on the back over here
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Here we have our sim card tray First of all, it looks like there's a sim already in there
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Maybe they give you a sim or maybe they gave me a sim. I don't know. Let's see what happens
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Let's see if this has juice. There it is. Hey, I'm monochrome, but a little bit of contrast there. No big deal
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Ambulance. Police. Here's the flashlight. There you go Possibly an emergency phone that somebody could keep in the glove box of their car or something All of a sudden you start to understand why you would want to have a flashlight there
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Oh, you need to have headphones plugged in for the radio because the headphones are going to act as the antenna
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There's a calculator built in. 6 plus 6 equals 12. There you go. Gains is actually..
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Oh, it has snake. An only snake. Okay. I'm having some nostalgic feelings right here
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We have messages, there's a phone book. Let's try the different ringtones
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Piercing. My favorite is number two. Lot of drama there
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It has a surprisingly strong vibration motor, so if you can't hear it, you can feel it
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I don't think I'm going to be able to put my SIM card in here to make a phone call. That's the problem. I think it's a micro
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These ear pods. What do these cost, Will? U.S. price. $35. $35
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$35. Let's see if we get this FM radio to work on here
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Until February 28th, your Ford dealers are making... Oh, so this just..
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This just acting as the antenna right now. That a pretty loud speaker So you can lock and unlock it from virtually anywhere I can dig that A little FM radio might cost you five bucks
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I don't know. Pixel 2 XL Viva V1. $850, $5. How many of these could you get for one of those
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A hundred and seventy with the quick maths. Who's that guy, quick maths
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He goes, two plus two is four, quick maths. Minus one, that's three, quick maths. Now, obviously, I'm not comparing the two
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That wouldn't be fair. That's not fair at all. But 170 people with a connection, with some form of connection to the rest of the planet
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or just one fancy boy like Will Doof with his fancy smartphone
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Ooh, I want to browse. I want to be on social media. I got to be on my Twitters tweeting
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Smartphone people, unbelievable. It's such an unusual thing to feature. I went on the Amazon page. Some people are upset
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They're like, call quality, not that great. The thing I like about dumb phones in general, their functionality is basic
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So generally what you end up with, something that can turn into a good emergency phone
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is if this thing is five bucks, then what does that mean for smartphones and connectivity on that front
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That price keeps coming down as well. And so accessibility goes up
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The more we can create and distribute ideas. Five dollar phone is not something I thought I would see
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Technology, it keeps pushing. And I like that. And I think you should too
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Viva V1. It's a thing. It's real. you can buy this
