s a $60 Smartphone Worth It? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin is a $60

smartphone worth it but are actually

quite a few choices at this price point

and to kick things off we've got the

Alcatel Pixy 3 get into the unboxing you

know find the phone itself the power

adapter a pair of headphones which while

cheaper a nice inclusion the micro USB

cable and the 1780 milliamp hour battery

pop the back off the Pixy 3 and you can

easily install the battery this is also

where you'll find the slots for the some

along with the micro SD card up to 32

gigs next up we've got the blue advance

5.0 get into the box and you'll see the

phone up front along with the power

adapter USB cable and the 18 hundred

million power battery the advance

immediately looks and feels nicer than

the price tag would suggest especially

in this white finish pop the back off

and you'll see the dual SIM slots which

is a nice plus on top of the micro SD

which can handle up to a 64 gig card

last but not least we've got the ZTE

Maven which first glance looks almost

identical to the pixi like the others it

comes with a micro USB cable power

adapter and the removable rear cover the

battery isn't replaceable but you can

install a 32 gig microSD and the SEM

here the real question is what's it like

to use a $60 phone actually not bad all

three have fairly similar specs with a

quad core fairly low powered CPU in

android 5.1 you'll notice the occasional

bit of slowness compared to a flagship

but they're totally usable run a couple

benchmarks such as Geekbench and you'll

see the pixie and maven pull out a small

lead on the CPU side or when you move

over to graphics with 3d mark the Maven

pulled out a fairly substantial lead one

of the most important things to make a

phone feel quick as the stores

performance and inside the PC Mark

storage bench things are close enough to

put all three phones right up there with

$600 flagships just a few years ago even

though the Blu advance is the weakest on

paper you'd be hard-pressed to notice

the difference in real use most games

like bad land run no problem a big part

of that has to do with the screens both

the pixie and maven are sporting 4.5

inch displays with a resolution of 854

by 480 they're about exactly what you

would expect at this price point

neither get very bright and the contrast

is poor as IPS displays color and

viewing angles are passable but neither

are any better than tolerable the blue

advance is a surprising step up here it

has the same fairly low resolution but

on a larger 5-inch display that might

not look impressive on paper but it's

really not bad the color and especially

contrast is a massive improvement over

the others

stand-up - a new high-end display but at

this price point there's absolutely

nothing to complain about that same

praise also carries over to the design

of the phone while the advance is a fair

bit larger than the others you're

getting a phone that could easily pass

as something that's far more expensive

unlike the hard cheap plastic on the

pixi and mavin you get a soft touch fake

leather finish on the blue it's also

quite a bit thinner than the others

which pair with the nicely tapered edges

gives that a much nicer feel in the hand

all three do have fairly unimpressive

rear firing speakers and pretty large

bezels which you'll find on screen

Android keys on the advanced compared to

capacitive keys on the others with all

three running android 5.1 the software

side is pretty even the blue and Pixies

both have very lightly skin build with

minimal additions where the Maven has

seen larger changes including quite a

lot of bloatware the bigger issue is

storage where you'll find eight gigs on

the Maven the pixie in advance only come

with four gigabytes out of the box a

microSD card is a good idea for all of

these but it's basically a necessity

when you've only got four gigabytes to

work with it's a similar story when it

comes to RAM where the Maven and picks

you have a full gigabyte the blue skips

a bit here with 768 Meg's of memory this

complicates things a bit while the Maven

is a better SPECT phone the advanced

Bolton feels like a much more expensive

device get to the cameras and it gets

even more difficult to choose you're

looking at five megapixel cameras with

an LED flash across the board but here

the Maven easily pulls out the wind it's

far sharper than the others it does a

better job with colour and to top it off

it comes with a better camera app that

reminds me a bit of the iOS app it even

gives you a promo to tweak the settings

it's the same story on the video side

the advanced has an advantage on paper

with 1080p video but again I prefer the

look of the 720p video on the Maven

one area where the blue scores an easy

win is with the front-facing camera as a

two megapixel shooter compared to VGA on

the others it looks a lot better and

that advantage is even more noticeable

in video for some reason the pixi Maven

record at a basically unusable 7 frames

per second on the front-facing camera

where the advanced at least keeps up a

decent frame rate in a vacuum the pixie

is a totally usable phone for 60 dollars

but in this company it's simply

outclassed the Maven consistently

delivers a small performance advantage

with more storage and a better rear

camera but the advance looks and feels

massively better has a screen that's

totally respectable and a better selfie

camera that makes it absolutely worth it

cheap phones have come a long way so

which one would you go for let me know

in the comments below and I will catch

you in the next one