I bought my little brother who is nine a bounce phone because he has been begging me for a phone, he installed an apk for cod mobile I runs it like 30 fps so yeah.
BLU I learned as a French brand at least when I searched up obscures smart phones brands I think around 2011 I can’t actually remember when I searched that it could’ve been a lot more recent like 2013 Also, a lot more reason as of the last two years, I learned that TCL is a Chinese company TCL stands for telephone communications Limited
Normally we don't limit your phone sales at Walmart (I'm a sales professional for the phones in Walmart), only reason could be due to the fact that only the phone reps can sell multiple phones at once, not the Walmart reps
It could also be the manufacturer's decision. I don't work in the electronics department and I'm certain the only reason I don't is because I know too much about electronics (It only took me about a minute to help a customer with a problem setting up her new phone after a person in that department failed to do so in almost an hour) I'm just a cashier up front. Mind you, I'm one of very few full time cashiers because I've been working at my store for over 10 years, but I still have a lot more experience than most of the other cashiers. Electronics is my passion.
@@TheTenchiOniCan you explain how you knowing too much about electronics deters them from letting you work in the electronics department? I am curious
@T.C.M.Y.T anyone who is passionate about electronics, doesn't buy them from Walmart lol. Most of their electronics dept is cheap crap in a tech nerds mind
Me watching this on my $1,350 flagship: I used to buy these phones when I was homeless 10 years ago and they were an absolute lifesaver. These videos make me nostalgic!
@@BaconMinion lets not act like the "us made smartphones" are any less china. they all are chinese made, only the processors are not, but they get made in taiwan, arguably china, not korea or the us. but dude, i got a cheap china phone for 200 that straight up beats the s23 ultra and sometimes the 24 non ultra in benchmarks. they really waste their money for stupid bullshit, once they turned their life around they forgot how insanely stupid that is.
It is if it's not connected to one company and you can't unlock it and use it with your other company when you don't want for example Verizon you want to replace them with AT&t but what happens if you have a contract or you can't unlock your phone in this case those phones would be better if you could unlock the carrier
I work at Walmart as a cashier. The issue of only being able to buy two budget phones is either to make sure people who actually need one can buy one or the manufacturer is the one limiting the purchase quantity. It's usually the latter. Like when I sold over 200 vinyl folders to a customer. I'm almost certain she bought them to resell them. Once I hit a certain number over 100 even though I rapidly scanned as many as my slow cash register allowed almost half of them had to be scanned again as a new sale. And the most annoying part was before I could scan the coverage again I swear I had to hit the "OK" button onscreen at least 65 times to acknowledge it was not being added to the first sale. Of course I think their IT "Professionals" could use a lot more training to do their jobs to actually be considered professionals, but who am I to judge? I'll tell you who I am. I own a gaming desktop that I designed. Lots of pretty lights that easily show through the fancy-dancy tempered glass side panel. The front panel only has three RGB fans to show off.
Yes. Idk why this seemed revolutionary to ppl here and johnzoid... That's the oldest trick in the book. Well aside from the flip phone that is unlocked.
dude anyone who just wants whatsapp to be able to contact their family abroad especially grandparents, i think this is prefect. But I'm surprised because these phones can also run games well. It's so worth it imo. I literally spend 30 dollars on food or groceries like daily
0:43 Hi there, I work at my local Walmart in the electronics department and the reason there's a limit on the phones per person is because of scalpers. At the store I work at, we've had a number of scalpers try buying upwards of 8 to 10 phones to try and resell and we have to refuse them service. Hope this helped!
It's pretty funky that these $30 "burner" phones have features we should still have on flagships (removable battery, headphone jack, micro SD card slot, coming with a charging block, etc)
I literally bought a phone from Walmart about a month ago because mine broke and it was an emergency only to find out that the phone was no longer supported on any cellular network
All of these pay as you go plans are terrible despite seeming better because of no contracts... Buuuuut if you realize you will likely always need a phone, contracts don't matter. Annnnnd the contract deals are better as well. $35 to $60 plans are usually cheaper on major carriers like Verizon. For me personally, I use Verizon, I pay $92 a month for 3 unlimited 5g lines.
But proto! Have you looked into visible, us mobile, or mint? I don't need unlimited, so I'm using the 15gb plan on mint, when you buy 6 or 12 months at a time, it's like $25 a month, I would switch to us mobile or visible because you don't need to buy months in bulk, but I'm lazy and don't want to deal with changing carriers
And i pay 50 dollars a month for the same thing your paying almost a 100 dollars for with my prepaid phone meaning you save way more money with the prepaid phone for the same one you already have also not everyone has bank accounts which is the only way to pay
I have two lines on two different prepaid carriers. I don't need "Unlimited." One line is $7.08/month including tax, and the other line I have is even cheaper.
The TCL phone has a slower storage and that's why the blu is faster than it it's not always the processor that's the deciding factor when it comes to speed
They might be selling them on at a loss or at cost and make their money entirely on getting people locked into their carrier service or with carrier bloat or third party bloat
I love these videos, but I will say, Straight Talk,Walmart family mobile , Total Wireless as well are all owned by Verizon now. All under the Tracfone brand. Verizon bought them a few years back and now all phones under any of the Tracfone brands can only be activated on the Verizon network unfortunately. The nice thing is if you get say a straight talk branded phone, you can use it on any of the Tracfone brands .
I hate Verizon because when they brought out Motorola Verizon sent out a malicious update to my 2023 Motorola g play Android and the update disabled my carrier service and disabled wifi calling toggle switch rendering my phone useless, Verizon needs to be investigated for this underhanded business practice
I bought my niece a $29.00 BLU phone from the Dollar General. It's not horrible for what she is using it for. RUclips kids, Roblox. Even the very cheap phones are better than budget phones 10 years ago. I would never buy that brand for me, though. I buy Samsung or Moto phones.
@johnzoid74 I just checked what kind it is. It's a Blu view 4. The only issue she has is sometimes Roblox glitches. My Samsung A14 runs the game very smoothly.
I am watching this on a TCL 30 XL, which is a $130 smartphone. It has been perfect for everything I needed it for. The TCL ION V in this video seems like a perfect representation of if my phone was made cheaper and needed to be $30. Also, I have always been curious about the super cheap phones like this for testing basic Android apps and web control software. I might potentially get a sample of $30 phones for that purpose in the future.
I love waking up on Saturdays or noticing that you uploaded a video during the weekend it's like a comfort it's like a break from all the stressors of school I love it John I really appreciate your videos I just wanted to let you know I'm really a big fan of your stuff I hope you see this message and it finds you well and also I would say for a kid I would say these phones would be worth it though cuz I don't seem really that bad
Boost was terrible when I had it in 2012ish. Went through a gauntlet of Sprint and T-Mobile from 2015 till about 2021, but now using Visible. Works well for me even better than T-Mobile.
Late to the party but walmart electronics associate here! Our systems flag for fraud for multiple mobile device purchases at once, we also can't sell more then 2 gift cards at a time because of this policy. Our registers literally stop us from finishing the transaction if any antifraud wall is hit and management can't overwrite it either. The only way to maybe get around this is talking to one of the phone vendors and getting a postpaid contract with a multi line (not the prepaids unfortunately) and even that can get hit with a fraud flag and stop a sale.
i work at a kroger that has an electronics section (wont say what store but im sure you couid figure it out) we have a limit of 5 of those phones per customer and its genuinely to keep the workers from being responsible if those phones are used on an explosive to set it off (wild as hell but thats a reason) another reason is ppl will buy in bulk and resell and most stores dont like scalpers like that
we at kroger also are just scummy and dont accept returns on prepaid phones cus they are put in the system as gift cards, making it ILLEGAL to return them.
10:46 - Probably a couple of things, the chipset in the Blu 5 could be better as GHZ doesn't always mean better (ask intel in the early 2000s and or the Android rom is simply better optimized.
I use the ion v for games, it’s snappy. You might need it a moment to turn on. I can play PSP games and lower on it. Only issue is that the pre installed apps I can not delete nor move them to a SD card
When I first started in Electronics at Walmart, I was told it was a state regulation, something about crooks buying a large number of “burner” phones. A later explanation was that certain independent online sellers were buying cheap Walmart phones in bulk and selling them at a higher price online. Either way, the registers wouldn’t allow more than two phones to be rung up per transaction. Though most managers preferred the sales so told us, for say a family of four, to ring them up as two separate transactions.
Budget builds official,a long time ago searched for cheap phones from ebay and found one for 5£ and 1£ as i remember.Can you try that too? I'm subscribed
That is absolutely insane I'm going to watch the video and to clarify for people who are in the United States right now play British pounds with currently run you about $6.61 and one British pound would be about $1.32
@@SouthsidermarkKinda. I don't really know if it was 80 pence but it was in that range and fun fact: I bought a cheap phone too,from eBay 2-3 years ago before even knowing about him for 5 euros. It was a Sony Xperia go st27i with a corner a little bit chipped off. Also he does some crazy PC builds under 1 pound,just check him out! He barely made videos in this period but started again some weeks ago.
I used family mobile down in the United States instead of roaming (I am from Canada). Put the family mobile SIM card in my iPhone 13 activated it and worked great. Seemed to be great coverage, also had 5G. Paid 24.88 for two 5GB SIM cards. Sure beat $12 CAD a day roaming.
I just realized on another video I saw before this, I mentioned the Blu flip phone as it is also available through TracFone and I think I called it the View and not the Flex. Oops. Now that I see what it has to offer, I really wanna see if I can get an unlocked one for a secondary line on my plan.
They’re not manufactured and sold for $30. The price to assemble those phones is probably $10 to $25 per unit landed; the prepaid carriers sell them below cost and make up the difference on airtime, which is the higher margin business. A bit like buying a Roku or Vizio TV these days. Notice how they’re cheap? Notice how they’re filled with ads? The ads are the bigger business.
1:44 me too, I don’t know how they get to sell and make a profit by selling the phones less than 30$, I know that they get money with subscription and all that but how much does one phone cost if they sell it for 24-28$ ? It’s insanely cheap, especially considering that there’s internet, a camera, you can call, text, you basically have a mini computer in your pocket for so less than what you could’ve had 10 or 15 years ago… simply amazing
I have had good luck with Walmart phones. Just don't go too cheap. The $40 ones are good enough for some people, but are usually slower and have smaller storage capabilities. I am currently using an A14 that was $69, and have never had any lag, has 64gb storage which is enough for me since the sd card can store more.
I bought an a14 straight talk phone 2 years ago for $90. It uses verizon towers. Still works perfect. Its a phone, not a pc. No need to spend $1k or get roped up in a contract.
Tracfone brand if you see Motorola endurance $20-$ 150 and brand new they've been here one to two years and you know the chipset that pretty much is a Steal, I bought the first generation Motorola G Stylus 5G emerald green 2021 last year $174 on Amazon prime, I normally buy one to two years smartphone brand new or for factory refurbished with a 10 out of 10 rating , Amazon Renewal program it's a good option, Back Market, Swappa, 7 years ago My first smartphone with a Alcatel pixi Simple Mobile 📱 it made me a fan of budget smartphone.
here is something most people dont know about Walmart family mobile since walmart family mobile is a mvno of tmobile prepaid and not a mvno of regular tmobile walmart mobile get tier one access because if it was a mvno of regular tmobile like metro or mint then it would get tier two access but since its a mvno of tmobile prepaid since the way the tmobile prepaid is set up walmart mobile gets tier 1 access
3 дня назад
I got my Moto G 5G for free with a purchase of a year and 48gb of data on tracfone. This was at Target in the US.
If you went for any of these phones don’t buy the plans that include roaming overseas because these wouldn’t get any reception in some parts of Europe. Australia/NZ, bad would be limited to 2G/3G service in countries that still have it available
I have a TCL ION V TracFone l9ckee, and I quite enjoy it! The camera definitely rocks, and mine is actually speedy when it comes to searching up stuff. The downside I have with it is it often struggles with HD videos. Other than that, I totally recommend it.
I used to buy temporarily Family Mobile prepayed phones from walmart, when my current phones cracked. Usually just switching out sim cards and your good. Latley Family mobile doesnt work with tmobile sim cards. After tmobile sold business to tracphone everything is extra cash grab. They told me I can use my sim card but half to pay small fee to use my tmobile sim for temporary. Usually i will just buy unlocked phones so i can use sim.
Straight talk is owned by Verizon, they have to unlock their prepaid phones after 60 days. You pay for the first month, skip the second month, call customer service to unlock.
The letters "TCL" give me the stomach-burnies. Although I had heard about TCL's infamous quality control, I rolled the dice and bought a $230 55" 4K TV from an Amazon "Lightning Deal" during the Prime Days. It had dead pixels and other problems. Re-boxing the dang thing and driving it all the way to the UPS Store was a royal pain. I have a pile of TCL smott foans in my spare phone stash. They're similar to yours and cost about $6 each from ebay. They were sold as used but arrived in what looked and smelled like new condition. I don't like them, but they serve spare phone purposes
crazy that carrier locked phones are still legal in the US where I live new phones can't be locked and used locked phones MUST be unlocked by the carrier for free
Well, for a poor guy like me, these are the best phone to buy (specially Family Mobile since you can still game on it, it has 64GB storage). Not the best, but not bad either
Discord: discord.com/invite/6ehDXdmtft
also who has daily driven one of these devices?
I bought my little brother who is nine a bounce phone because he has been begging me for a phone, he installed an apk for cod mobile I runs it like 30 fps so yeah.
can you ship overseas for us ? like we will pay you for the cheap walmart phones ?
I'm daily driving a Galaxy A14
I daily drive an a03s on tracfone
BLU I learned as a French brand at least when I searched up obscures smart phones brands I think around 2011 I can’t actually remember when I searched that it could’ve been a lot more recent like 2013
Also, a lot more reason as of the last two years, I learned that TCL is a Chinese company TCL stands for telephone communications Limited
Normally we don't limit your phone sales at Walmart (I'm a sales professional for the phones in Walmart), only reason could be due to the fact that only the phone reps can sell multiple phones at once, not the Walmart reps
It could also be the manufacturer's decision. I don't work in the electronics department and I'm certain the only reason I don't is because I know too much about electronics (It only took me about a minute to help a customer with a problem setting up her new phone after a person in that department failed to do so in almost an hour) I'm just a cashier up front. Mind you, I'm one of very few full time cashiers because I've been working at my store for over 10 years, but I still have a lot more experience than most of the other cashiers. Electronics is my passion.
@@TheTenchiOniCan you explain how you knowing too much about electronics deters them from letting you work in the electronics department? I am curious
Probably explaining things too much to customers , gets them out of bad deals that the store wants them to take
@T.C.M.Y.T anyone who is passionate about electronics, doesn't buy them from Walmart lol. Most of their electronics dept is cheap crap in a tech nerds mind
@@T.C.M.Y.Tcoz it looks bad on the rep dude lol
Me watching this on my $1,350 flagship: I used to buy these phones when I was homeless 10 years ago and they were an absolute lifesaver. These videos make me nostalgic!
What slab you rocking homie!!!? Word I can relate lmfao 😂 now I got the s24 ultra
@@MauroReyes-nl7wm Same, 24 ultra. Got mine a few weeks after they launched!
@@austinostergaard2187i have s23 ultra
I'm sorry that you feel the need to compensate for nature being cruel by wasting so much cash on a lump of Chinese made crap.
@@BaconMinion lets not act like the "us made smartphones" are any less china. they all are chinese made, only the processors are not, but they get made in taiwan, arguably china, not korea or the us. but dude, i got a cheap china phone for 200 that straight up beats the s23 ultra and sometimes the 24 non ultra in benchmarks. they really waste their money for stupid bullshit, once they turned their life around they forgot how insanely stupid that is.
There's no way a 30$ phone is better than my 60$ phone
what’s ur phone?
@@johnzoid74mines a iphone 14
me reading this comment on my s24 ultra:
It is if it's not connected to one company and you can't unlock it and use it with your other company when you don't want for example Verizon you want to replace them with AT&t but what happens if you have a contract or you can't unlock your phone in this case those phones would be better if you could unlock the carrier
@@ingamingpc1634 what does mean by i cant unlock it?
I work at Walmart as a cashier. The issue of only being able to buy two budget phones is either to make sure people who actually need one can buy one or the manufacturer is the one limiting the purchase quantity. It's usually the latter. Like when I sold over 200 vinyl folders to a customer. I'm almost certain she bought them to resell them. Once I hit a certain number over 100 even though I rapidly scanned as many as my slow cash register allowed almost half of them had to be scanned again as a new sale. And the most annoying part was before I could scan the coverage again I swear I had to hit the "OK" button onscreen at least 65 times to acknowledge it was not being added to the first sale. Of course I think their IT "Professionals" could use a lot more training to do their jobs to actually be considered professionals, but who am I to judge? I'll tell you who I am. I own a gaming desktop that I designed. Lots of pretty lights that easily show through the fancy-dancy tempered glass side panel. The front panel only has three RGB fans to show off.
Me always clicking on these videos on a flagship knowing I'm never buying any of these
Ass ragebait 0/10 do better
Congrats bozo
I don't think you guys understand what ragebait is
And even then, this is such an inoffensive comment :/
@@Unpredictable_Fennec Ass comment -11/10 do better
"Were they worth it? I didnt have the answer to this question so I bought them all" - jOhnZoid
Makes sense though, he did it so we don't all have to buy them and try them
Haha😂
they are subsidized by the plans. sold at a loss so youll sign up for a $25 plan whereas the network costs for that user are pennies.
Yes. Idk why this seemed revolutionary to ppl here and johnzoid... That's the oldest trick in the book. Well aside from the flip phone that is unlocked.
dude anyone who just wants whatsapp to be able to contact their family abroad especially grandparents, i think this is prefect. But I'm surprised because these phones can also run games well. It's so worth it imo. I literally spend 30 dollars on food or groceries like daily
oh dude 100% !
Me watching this on my $700 flagship:
"Very nice, I should buy one of these"
Nice bro
YUP , Just openly flex my 700 dollar phone
@@Devansh_Pandey most people in the US have a flagship phone, I'm not special. Lol
@@Devansh_Pandey yea, not a big problem for me
Your flagship felt betrayed
0:43 Hi there, I work at my local Walmart in the electronics department and the reason there's a limit on the phones per person is because of scalpers. At the store I work at, we've had a number of scalpers try buying upwards of 8 to 10 phones to try and resell and we have to refuse them service. Hope this helped!
#BanScalping
It's pretty funky that these $30 "burner" phones have features we should still have on flagships (removable battery, headphone jack, micro SD card slot, coming with a charging block, etc)
I literally bought a phone from Walmart about a month ago because mine broke and it was an emergency only to find out that the phone was no longer supported on any cellular network
What phone
My first phone was a kyocera hydro c5170 on boost. The cheap supermarket phones make me feel nostalgic
All of these pay as you go plans are terrible despite seeming better because of no contracts...
Buuuuut if you realize you will likely always need a phone, contracts don't matter. Annnnnd the contract deals are better as well. $35 to $60 plans are usually cheaper on major carriers like Verizon. For me personally, I use Verizon, I pay $92 a month for 3 unlimited 5g lines.
But proto! Have you looked into visible, us mobile, or mint? I don't need unlimited, so I'm using the 15gb plan on mint, when you buy 6 or 12 months at a time, it's like $25 a month, I would switch to us mobile or visible because you don't need to buy months in bulk, but I'm lazy and don't want to deal with changing carriers
Idk I think they're good for people who only need a single line. The big carriers want an arm and a leg for single line unlimited
And i pay 50 dollars a month for the same thing your paying almost a 100 dollars for with my prepaid phone meaning you save way more money with the prepaid phone for the same one you already have also not everyone has bank accounts which is the only way to pay
@@GabekiddClarkconnorsfan If you learn to read you can see he pays around 30 bucks for each plan he has.
I have two lines on two different prepaid carriers. I don't need "Unlimited." One line is $7.08/month including tax, and the other line I have is even cheaper.
The TCL phone has a slower storage and that's why the blu is faster than it it's not always the processor that's the deciding factor when it comes to speed
Family mobile's "truly unlimited plan" isn't entirely unlimited. Your speeds get throttled after 30gb.
I speak as a now former family mobile customer.
Bro why was there a fingerprint on the flip phone screen... 😂😂😂 🤪
They might be selling them on at a loss or at cost and make their money entirely on getting people locked into their carrier service or with carrier bloat or third party bloat
I love these videos, but I will say, Straight Talk,Walmart family mobile , Total Wireless as well are all owned by Verizon now. All under the Tracfone brand. Verizon bought them a few years back and now all phones under any of the Tracfone brands can only be activated on the Verizon network unfortunately. The nice thing is if you get say a straight talk branded phone, you can use it on any of the Tracfone brands .
I hate Verizon because when they brought out Motorola Verizon sent out a malicious update to my 2023 Motorola g play Android and the update disabled my carrier service and disabled wifi calling toggle switch rendering my phone useless, Verizon needs to be investigated for this underhanded business practice
There are still some phones with the legacy support for AT&T and T-Mobile SIMs but they are being phased out
I bought my niece a $29.00 BLU phone from the Dollar General. It's not horrible for what she is using it for. RUclips kids, Roblox. Even the very cheap phones are better than budget phones 10 years ago. I would never buy that brand for me, though. I buy Samsung or Moto phones.
Love to hear she is getting some use from it!
@johnzoid74 I just checked what kind it is. It's a Blu view 4. The only issue she has is sometimes Roblox glitches. My Samsung A14 runs the game very smoothly.
I am watching this on a TCL 30 XL, which is a $130 smartphone. It has been perfect for everything I needed it for. The TCL ION V in this video seems like a perfect representation of if my phone was made cheaper and needed to be $30. Also, I have always been curious about the super cheap phones like this for testing basic Android apps and web control software. I might potentially get a sample of $30 phones for that purpose in the future.
3:04 lol that Terminated ringtone is stolen from old Samsung phones. They had it on Android Gingerbread 😂😂
I like these cheap phone reviews. Next do a $50 budget Walmart/Dollar General/Family Dollar phone review.🙏
“Bounce? What is bounce?”
Bro, the box and the phone both say bounce. lol.
I love waking up on Saturdays or noticing that you uploaded a video during the weekend it's like a comfort it's like a break from all the stressors of school I love it John I really appreciate your videos I just wanted to let you know I'm really a big fan of your stuff I hope you see this message and it finds you well and also I would say for a kid I would say these phones would be worth it though cuz I don't seem really that bad
I used a Nokia c110 for about a year, the battery life was amazing and USB tethering worked great.
3:30 my friend uses boost mobile and sometimes he just randomly doesn't have cell service or internet when everyone else does
yikes big time L
Yep that is true I had boost mobile for 5 years and I'm thinking of switching to Metro again
Boost was terrible when I had it in 2012ish. Went through a gauntlet of Sprint and T-Mobile from 2015 till about 2021, but now using Visible. Works well for me even better than T-Mobile.
Late to the party but walmart electronics associate here! Our systems flag for fraud for multiple mobile device purchases at once, we also can't sell more then 2 gift cards at a time because of this policy. Our registers literally stop us from finishing the transaction if any antifraud wall is hit and management can't overwrite it either.
The only way to maybe get around this is talking to one of the phone vendors and getting a postpaid contract with a multi line (not the prepaids unfortunately) and even that can get hit with a fraud flag and stop a sale.
1:37 what you just described… is prepaid phone cards.
ROLL THE BALL! My fave game when I was in college. Games like that are very popular around early 2010s
I love that your wifi name is gringo lmao
i work at a kroger that has an electronics section (wont say what store but im sure you couid figure it out) we have a limit of 5 of those phones per customer and its genuinely to keep the workers from being responsible if those phones are used on an explosive to set it off (wild as hell but thats a reason) another reason is ppl will buy in bulk and resell and most stores dont like scalpers like that
i guess its okay to buy one phone and use it on an explosive but more than 5? god forbid!
we at kroger also are just scummy and dont accept returns on prepaid phones cus they are put in the system as gift cards, making it ILLEGAL to return them.
@@clebba623 Is there anybody in Canada who is like this or is Canada more lenient?
5:30 Underdogs channel for those wondering
The reason the phone cost $30 is because it’s locked to there service , they got you now
You'll find suspicious something either way for cheap price
Then gat it unlocked. Simple. Or is that another extortionate cost, along with your cell phones. 20 per month, unlimited everything Inc 5g.
IDK about "Bounce" but Straight Talk and Walmart Family Mobile phones unlock 60 days after the start of service.
10:46 - Probably a couple of things, the chipset in the Blu 5 could be better as GHZ doesn't always mean better (ask intel in the early 2000s and or the Android rom is simply better optimized.
the fact that the back camera on a $30 bounce phone is a megapixel better than the iphone 12's camera really says something.
They used to use tmobile now its dish network towers and sats
WOO! Johnzoid uploaded :D
I use the ion v for games, it’s snappy. You might need it a moment to turn on. I can play PSP games and lower on it. Only issue is that the pre installed apps I can not delete nor move them to a SD card
Jailbreak it.
8:15 the phone looks insanely good too for the resell price, the manufacturing must cost not more than 9$
Fr
When I first started in Electronics at Walmart, I was told it was a state regulation, something about crooks buying a large number of “burner” phones. A later explanation was that certain independent online sellers were buying cheap Walmart phones in bulk and selling them at a higher price online. Either way, the registers wouldn’t allow more than two phones to be rung up per transaction. Though most managers preferred the sales so told us, for say a family of four, to ring them up as two separate transactions.
Budget builds official,a long time ago searched for cheap phones from ebay and found one for 5£ and 1£ as i remember.Can you try that too? I'm subscribed
That is absolutely insane I'm going to watch the video and to clarify for people who are in the United States right now play British pounds with currently run you about $6.61 and one British pound would be about $1.32
@@SouthsidermarkKinda. I don't really know if it was 80 pence but it was in that range and fun fact: I bought a cheap phone too,from eBay 2-3 years ago before even knowing about him for 5 euros. It was a Sony Xperia go st27i with a corner a little bit chipped off. Also he does some crazy PC builds under 1 pound,just check him out! He barely made videos in this period but started again some weeks ago.
@@SouthsidermarkAlso that was some years ago
@@SouthsidermarkDid you watch his videos?? They're worth subscribing. Also he made a 1$ PC ,go check them
@@Southsidermarkdid you like the videos
You should do target prepaid phones and cvs prepaid phones
the game is called Roll the Ball
Such a cool channel did not know this channel even existed
in italy a cheap smartphone is minimum 60/80 bucks but cellular data is so cheap... 6 bucks for 60 gb each month
kaiOS interestingly is a fork of the old FirefoxOS platform.
Have a Nokia 800 Tough as an secondary phone, it runs KaiOS.
Battery lasts about three weeks on 4G.
Maps on it works surprisingly good.
that flip phone is epic, would it be good to use to listen to music on my commutes ?
a wise man said “ There’s no such thing is bad phone it’s just the price thats making it bad “
That BLU phone could be a daily driver where I'm from..... Sadly they are not sold here
I work for a company called OSL we sell phones at some Walmarts we don’t really limit how many phones you get but I know some Walmart reps will
The TCL phone in the uk is called the TCL 501
I'm sure they sell the phone at cost or maybe less and make up for it with it the monthly plans
I used family mobile down in the United States instead of roaming (I am from Canada). Put the family mobile SIM card in my iPhone 13 activated it and worked great. Seemed to be great coverage, also had 5G. Paid 24.88 for two 5GB SIM cards. Sure beat $12 CAD a day roaming.
I just realized on another video I saw before this, I mentioned the Blu flip phone as it is also available through TracFone and I think I called it the View and not the Flex. Oops.
Now that I see what it has to offer, I really wanna see if I can get an unlocked one for a secondary line on my plan.
The game is called Roll The Ball, I play it on my fake iPhone 15 pro thing when my main phone is confiscated lol😂😂😂
Lol you naughty fuck😂
The 3 TracFone’s can be activated on the same SIM card and service
The game name with the block movement is called Roblox for anyone searching.
Can i suggest adding the specs of the phones in future videos so we can get a good grasp of how the phone is
Yes
3:14 the game is called roll the ball slide puzzle
Jeez I completely forgot that Geometry Rush existed lol, everyone played it all the time back when I was in highschool. Loving your content
They’re not manufactured and sold for $30. The price to assemble those phones is probably $10 to $25 per unit landed; the prepaid carriers sell them below cost and make up the difference on airtime, which is the higher margin business.
A bit like buying a Roku or Vizio TV these days. Notice how they’re cheap? Notice how they’re filled with ads? The ads are the bigger business.
I work at Walmart pickup and delivery the reason they told me is because security reasons they only allow two at a time
Back in the day, Boost used Nextel's towers and had their own PTT service.
When is comes to these prices either the consumer is getting screwed or the workers are
3:21 roll the ball
Yea
They're only that cheap to get you to switch to whatever carrier they're attached to, they lose money on each phone sold.
You forgot to show the power brinks and charging cables.
1:44 me too, I don’t know how they get to sell and make a profit by selling the phones less than 30$, I know that they get money with subscription and all that but how much does one phone cost if they sell it for 24-28$ ? It’s insanely cheap, especially considering that there’s internet, a camera, you can call, text, you basically have a mini computer in your pocket for so less than what you could’ve had 10 or 15 years ago… simply amazing
I have had good luck with Walmart phones. Just don't go too cheap. The $40 ones are good enough for some people, but are usually slower and have smaller storage capabilities. I am currently using an A14 that was $69, and have never had any lag, has 64gb storage which is enough for me since the sd card can store more.
With the tcl you were using it while installing the system apps. That's why it was far slow hahaha
This is one of the best tech videos i have ever seen wtf
I bought an a14 straight talk phone 2 years ago for $90. It uses verizon towers. Still works perfect. Its a phone, not a pc. No need to spend $1k or get roped up in a contract.
Tracfone brand if you see Motorola endurance $20-$ 150 and brand new they've been here one to two years and you know the chipset that pretty much is a Steal, I bought the first generation Motorola G Stylus 5G emerald green 2021 last year $174 on Amazon prime, I normally buy one to two years smartphone brand new or for factory refurbished with a 10 out of 10 rating , Amazon Renewal program it's a good option, Back Market, Swappa, 7 years ago My first smartphone with a Alcatel pixi Simple Mobile 📱 it made me a fan of budget smartphone.
here is something most people dont know about Walmart family mobile since walmart family mobile is a mvno of tmobile prepaid and not a mvno of regular tmobile walmart mobile get tier one access because if it was a mvno of regular tmobile like metro or mint then it would get tier two access but since its a mvno of tmobile prepaid since the way the tmobile prepaid is set up walmart mobile gets tier 1 access
I got my Moto G 5G for free with a purchase of a year and 48gb of data on tracfone. This was at Target in the US.
If you went for any of these phones don’t buy the plans that include roaming overseas because these wouldn’t get any reception in some parts of Europe. Australia/NZ, bad would be limited to 2G/3G service in countries that still have it available
0:37 I work in Walmart and I don’t know why🧍🏽♂️
Paperclip to iPhone Pro Max phone challenge: 125 for Metro iPhone 12 right now. Cancel after a month, trade in for more valuable one, etc
$125 for a 12 is an incredible deal TBH
I have a TCL ION V TracFone l9ckee, and I quite enjoy it! The camera definitely rocks, and mine is actually speedy when it comes to searching up stuff. The downside I have with it is it often struggles with HD videos. Other than that, I totally recommend it.
I used to buy temporarily Family Mobile prepayed phones from walmart, when my current phones cracked. Usually just switching out sim cards and your good. Latley Family mobile doesnt work with tmobile sim cards. After tmobile sold business to tracphone everything is extra cash grab. They told me I can use my sim card but half to pay small fee to use my tmobile sim for temporary. Usually i will just buy unlocked phones so i can use sim.
I was a boost mobile customer for open on four years
how was it
I suppose the Blu runs better because it uses clean android, while the TCL runs "TCL UI"
I've always wanted to get me a cheap phone at Walmart, unfortunately there's no Walmart here in my country...
As for the policy limiting the number you can buy at once, its a anti fraud measure iirc
I live in Canada and I pay almost $300 a month for 2 lines unlimited. Wish we had your guys prices 😂
I live in Finland and I pay 35euros a month for unlimited 5G on my phone
I live in the U.S. and I pay $50 USD a month for unlimited on T-Mobile.
Can i buy the phone without the cell service...or you have to sign up for a plan to buy the phone?
What network are they using? Are you using them in a city or the country? T-mobile does not work where i live.
Can you buy a low quality tcl phonr and rev it please
Bravo boss
Boost mobile was the first provider I had in 08-2010
Geometry Dash mentioned!! GD player here btw hi
For the first phone you unbox you had to wait for the play to update
Straight talk is owned by Verizon, they have to unlock their prepaid phones after 60 days. You pay for the first month, skip the second month, call customer service to unlock.
The letters "TCL" give me the stomach-burnies. Although I had heard about TCL's infamous quality control, I rolled the dice and bought a $230 55" 4K TV from an Amazon "Lightning Deal" during the Prime Days. It had dead pixels and other problems. Re-boxing the dang thing and driving it all the way to the UPS Store was a royal pain.
I have a pile of TCL smott foans in my spare phone stash. They're similar to yours and cost about $6 each from ebay. They were sold as used but arrived in what looked and smelled like new condition. I don't like them, but they serve spare phone purposes
crazy that carrier locked phones are still legal in the US
where I live new phones can't be locked and used locked phones MUST be unlocked by the carrier for free
I had no idea you could get a smartphone from Walmart for less than 100 dollars
Well, for a poor guy like me, these are the best phone to buy (specially Family Mobile since you can still game on it, it has 64GB storage). Not the best, but not bad either