Using A Flip Phone In 2017... By Unbox Therapy

So today's a day, today's another day, another day, another video, I, gotta, say I'm excited about this one, because there's a nostalgia component here because in front of me is a device, that's gonna, bring me back. It's gonna. Take me back to another era: the tech that got me started in this game, the tech game. Let's go to doing this, my friends is the Samsung Galaxy folder to which is one of the last remaining flip phones in the world. Of course, this other cheapo flip phones, but I mean a legit from a big brand, a flip phone, and it runs Android, and they're making it now. I just ordered this from Korea, in fact, where they sell it, and it's I guess popular enough to keep making executives flipping the phone.

Maybe you never experience what it was like to flip a phone, but me I go back I had the razor you flip it up. You make a deal. People see you flip it up. They're like let's make a deal, then you flip it now. Our phones are less phone, and they're more computer in your pocket, but that doesn't mean there isn't a place.

A warm cozy little hole like a gopher or a fox. Did you ever see that Wes Anderson movie with the Fox in it Oh quite good? It's a 16 gigabyte phone. Let's flip it around here, 3G 8, megapixel camera, a bunch of Korean writing 16 gigabytes of memory. They list the size of the display in millimeters. Ninety-six point: six millimeters, quad, core processor, ok, I need a knife which I moved hey.

This is uh. This is historical. It's like this will be in a museum one day, the last of the flip phone. Okay. Actually! Well, then, oh my, it looks like a display, but it isn't.

It's plastic. We have a volume rocker over here camera on the back speaker, flash microUSB on the bottom, no fancy type-c connector! Oh now, isn't there something satisfying about that? A physical keypad I need to make a business. That's huge that feels so unusual. Nowadays, you got the real estate, put it in escrow I'll pay cash. This is a touch screen up here.

So you're still you're tapping away, but then you have this directional pad and dedicated keys, so you could type out a text old-fashioned style with the t9 click, click man, I used to know, people that were rapid-fire with the t9. But of course you can reach up like this, and you can type on screen to the headset, but this device does not include a headphone jack. You need a micro, USB headset, a micro, USB, cable, a power, brick and adapter. Remember the days when a battery shipped separately- and you installed it yourself- how exciting take this back panel off a SIM card slot and also a micro SD card slot? Big fan of that now the battery is at 1950 William hours, so not super huge. You know.

I could see this device being popular amongst senior citizens. Maybe what about people who are kind of rugged with their devices it's kind of like vinyl, you remember: Jack, went vinyls, making a huge comeback right now. It's the nostalgia factor I said angry, where they do angry will adieu coming for you mm powered by Android and Android flip phone. The Korean writing here again. This is popular in other parts of the world, not so much in North America and look at that.

Its proper Android and I noticed something really cool immediately. There's an outdoors button genius. Why isn't that on other devices, just a quick tap, and it triggers a super-bright mode which lasts for 15 minutes? You know the other thing: I noticed having stared at it and held it up to my faces. It's huge. That is a massive it's a massive undertaking holding that thing up, but it is a flip phone and that's kind of cool.

You have a choice. You can use the keypad, or you can go directly to the display. Furthermore, you see. I could just tap up on here scroll through, like that I've got my notifications as well as my quick toggles over there and go back home like this back button and multitasking button. This is essentially an entire Android phone.

Just in this top part- and this section right here- you can still use this pad and not touch your display. You don't get anything good prints up there. I guess that's kind of cool now. Otherwise, you have access to all the usual apps I can go, I can watch YouTube on here now the keyboard is obviously tiny. You can see with two thumbs.

I can kind of line it up like this, and I can type reasonably well here, a nice landscape, viewing experience, here's a side benefit. Look at that Jack! It's like its own stand, the speaker fires to the back here, but I'd say it's comparable to like the s8 or something like that. I want to launch the camera app I'm going to shoot this in landscape mode. That doesn't look too fantastic right now, yeah, it's a little blown out can I make some adjustments to it or what not, really hey the only thing I can adjust this video resolution very high, high or VGA, and then I can also flip the camera around. So you can take a look at Jack.

There is hi Jack how's it going man now the quality on this front, one not the best I've seen. Let's do a quick snap here. Hmm, yes, we've seen images with better contrast and more detail by no means a great camera. It's probably not why you're biased I mean they say it's eight megapixel. This is not a super expensive phone either, so you kind of have to adjust your expectations there.

It does take photos now, I notice that the menus are very easy to read. The text is all very large once again contributing to my speculation that this thing is mostly targeted at the older generation of people. Listening, they need phones too. Okay, maybe you download Snapchat, and you become an influencer or a social-media influencer. That's what we need.

We need more senior citizen influencers, I'm all fed up with the young influencers. You know what I used to do. I used to walk to the supermarket. For my mom uphill, both ways, that's right, Jack, uphill, both ways barefoot in the winter. Now, of course, we can just go ahead and and and make a phone call as well.

We can. We can quickly launch our contacts here. Furthermore, we can just start. Furthermore, we can just start typing a number. You could just go in here for one six, you're dialing, all right.

You can pick up the phone and call use your voice like a human being. Well, it's your grandpa Lou. How do I sound youngster hi? What do you think can we get a business deal done, or what can we hash out the details? Yeah? Can you sign on the dotted line? Yeah, I can do that. You see what happens with a flip phone. All right guys, you get business done, I'm, not an Instagram.

It's all business! It's Android on a flip phone in 2017. Furthermore, it's still a thing, and I'm grateful that it is I would recommend this to anybody who's comfortable with a flip phone and use one in the past. This is obviously for a select group of people, but if you know that group of people or if you are that group of people do everyone a favor and let them know that this thing exists- flip phones, they aren't dead question number one of the day from NAS TOM. Will you ever do a jack face reveal I'm, not sure exactly how I would do that I mean I'm, not jack, obviously, but I will say at 10 million subscribers? You may learn a little something more about Jack, so tell your friends to subscribe because we're almost there here's one from market 2 4 to 9. What was your first console? The very first game console I had was actually one that my parents had before me.

It was called in television very bizarre. The controllers were kind of like old-school, corded phones. They look like bones sort of they weren't. Of course, they had a number pad on them, though very bizarre, and then shortly after that, I got the original Nintendo and the game changed forever and here's one from Fred la fl?che. Are you going back to the pixel when the new one comes out? So if you don't know I'm sure most of you do I've always been a fan of the pixel devices.

Well, not the pixel devices, because they only recently became pixel devices with that name. But previously the Nexus devices this star Google devices iPhone every single one back to the original, and I've used them all as daily drivers. So certainly when the next pixel to pixel, 2 or pixel XL 2 comes out I'll be using that for a while, possibly exclusively time will tell so there you have it. Your questions have been answered as usual. If you want to participate in the question-and-answer session, leave your comments down below this video, and you might make it into the next episode.

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