Why Does an Android Flip Phone Exist? #Helpful Post

hey guys the Austin this is a flip phone

that runs Android and my only question

as always is why does it exist so this

is a target clearance special I was

walking around the corner I saw this for

a whopping 50 dollars it's hard to say

no the first thing I noticed is that

this looks enormous so actually do we

have a flip phone around here so for

some context this is the size of a

normal flip phone you open it up you

hold it up to your face very normal

looking however when you look at it

compared to this it's twice as big Hey

we are activated all right

let's enjoy the wonders of our ZTE

semble tea okay okay so actually you do

have a keyboard on the display yeah this

is gonna be this is very bizarre I don't

think I've ever typed like this before I

feel like the way to actually do this is

to hold it in one hand and just do a

single hand for typing this actually

doesn't feel like the worst thing I've

ever done okay it's actually it's it's

up there so we are set up with our

Android flip phone and at first glance

you're actually getting the full Android

experience we have the Play Store we

have google chrome Gmail even YouTube

one thing this does have is actual hard

buttons for your Android keys for

example have my back button

I have home I even have multitasking um

once you get going it's not like the

slowest thing I've ever tried there is a

decent quad-core processor inside it's

just a slightly under Gunawan experience

so the first thing to do when you're

putting a flip phone to the test is

trying to make a phone call Jimmy yeah

how do I sound

what are you bad

it does like greenie okay so um maybe

calls not the strong suit of the phone

however let's try texting hi Jimmy so

the best parts is when you have the

keyboard up it literally takes up the

entire screen

I cannot even see the message he just

sent me it also does have a secondary

display which only actually turns on

sometimes so you can see your battery

life and time so with a blisteringly

sharp three and a half inch 320 by 480

display I really expect this is going to

reset my expectations for what to expect

with a high end device let's just start

by playing this 4k HDR video that seems

reasonable men if some you know this is

one way of watching videos it's a really

crispy

I think 360p is really the sweet spot

that everyone should watch all of our

videos on as long as you crank the

brightness all the way up you can see

most of the colors at least six or seven

of them I think it might be time to take

this thing outside and really put it

through its paces really kind of full

explore the outer capabilities of this

performance monster so there's no way

around it a flip phone is never going to

be as comfortable to use as a standard

smartphone when it comes actually

scrolling on the screen you can have to

hold it in this sort of a weird way but

if you can look past that it actually

does work pretty well as an Android

phone

take Chrome for example once you get

into a webpage you'll find that it's

pretty much the same as any other budget

Android phone so loading the page is

fine scrolling is no problem really the

only way that you actually notice that

this is a flip phone is when you have to

hold it by the screen especially because

it has not only LTE as well as Wi-Fi the

experience really isn't that bad as long

as you're fine I'm looking like this all

the time now you're definitely not going

to want to play a ton of games on this

thing but you can't play some simple

titles such as 2048 know what the main

issues here is that a lot of games are

going to run into issues because the

screen resolution is very low and the

fact that obviously the internals aren't

going to be incredibly powerful but for

simple

that actually does kind of work I will

say that there are some things about

flip phones I did kind of miss number

one of course is that flip it just

sounds so nice to be able to close it up

you can toss it in your pocket set it

down it's not really something you have

to worry about getting like something

like a screen scratched or whatever now

there are other advantages you do have

that removable battery you're gonna get

the headphone jack the micro SD card

slot there are things that are actually

kind of nice however the size of this

once you close it up it's not that bad

but I mean even when you compare it to

something like an iPhone 10 it is really

chunky you can carry it around but

definitely not as small as the

old-school flip phones even though it

might look like a flip phone we are

dealing with a legitimate Android

smartphone here and so of course one of

the most important tests is the camera

so the first thing I noticed is that

what the camera around back here is

super easy to cover but I line it up

here ah I mean that's actually not

terrible it's not exactly a super-crispy

picture but it works supposedly this is

720p video um it actually looks okay I

guess if I walk around here a little bit

get a nice close-up can looking really

professional here I mean you know it

exists hopefully that's not too bad whoa

okay well this is an unexpected benefit

because the phone is so big and I should

looks like I've got a selfie stick oh

all right so if I press the center

button not my finest selfie but it's

actually reasonably wide especially

considering just how far away you can

get the phone I'm actually mildly

impressed for 50 dollars this is not the

worst camera I've ever tried I remind

you it's not the best by any stretch but

it works I know it made a lot of fun of

this phone throughout this video but

I've got to say that it is a kind of

cool throwback and especially if you're

someone who's coming from a current flip

phone it might not be the worst upgrade

in the world most of us though probably

time to you know stick with the normal

smartphone and not this monstrosity but

I'm curious what do you guys think about

this smartphone flip phone whatever it's

called hope you go in the comments below

and I will catch you guys in the next

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