Hey there, hope you enjoyed this one! Not a lot of planning went into this which honestly, I think worked well in the end. I really wanted to revisit this since the last time I looked at it was 2017 and I didn't remember how it was back then. It was terrible then and it's still terrible now. But hopefully you got a kick out of this "high quality" clone! Don't forget to check out my community post and poll so I can see what most of my audience wants to see: ruclips.net/user/SMOOREZcommunity TIMESTAMPS: Introduction: 0:00 Unboxing: 1:25 Around the knockoff: 4:01 Powering it up, the UI & Apps: 6:36 Settings - General: 9:28 Settings - Display & Animations: 10:15 Settings - Security, Connections & Ringtones: 11:49 Settings - Wallpapers, File Manager etc: 13:35 Charging Oddities, trying to install a Java game etc: 15:10 Attempting to connect to WiFi: 16:10 The Camera: 16:51 Camera Test: 18:14 Camera Quality & Video Quality 20:49 Speaker Test: 21:47 Recording Audio & FM Radio Test: 22:49 Most of the applications: 23:41 The REALLY FUN Games: 25:09 Social Apps: 30:00 Trying Sim Cards & WiFi: 31:20 Conclusion: 32:18 Powering up the other one & Teardown: 33:51 Specifications & Rambling more about the knockoff: 36:14 My recent community post with poll etc: 37:20 Outro: 38:25 Be good people!
Everything else aside, for a JAVA phone, it is actually seems really fast and responsive. I remeber these things ( even the real ones ) being awfully slow
the mediatek phones were actually really fast to boot and really responsive until the touch iphone clones came out and some exceptions, there is a reason the os is called nucleus rtos (real time os)
The video playing during shut down may just be the best feature ever on a phone. I feel sorry for the poor people who had to turn Java in TouchWiz The filters work well for Halloween.
Yeah, every phone should have the shut down video player feature lol. Also makes it better that the speaker quality is awful and the video is in 144p while being stretched horribly, and in the wrong orientation.
You just brought back so many memories. Back in the S3 days I actually got a knock off one that actually had Android (Gingerbread). I think it was around 40-50 USD around that time and it absolutely demolished other phones in the same price range (Galaxy Ace, some Minis of the S series, etc.). The build quality was kind of the same (but it had interchangeable backs, one with the screen cover and one without. And the face buttons were capacitive) and it came with angry birds preinstalled for some reason (which would explain the Angry Birds and Android sticker in the video). It didn't say Samsung anywhere, instead it proudly displayed Android everywhere you would expect a Samsung logo. It had some kind of themes app that let you choose that awful Samsung Theme even with the water droplets.
I have a Fiio M6 digital audio player. It's really quite good and isn't a generic DAP that is rebadged but on starting it states very clearly, "WELCOME". It reminds me of this every time I turn it on!
Oh my god. People actually manufactured this sort of crazy shit. Holy crap. It doesn't have Wi-Fi, only has 2G, and doesn't even have Android. Reminds me of the days of the Samsung S8000 Jet (an actual phone we had back in the day), which was a Java phone that actually worked well. Who in their right mind would actually use this...
My dad got himself s3 dual recently and I was impressed. Not only it was saved perfectly itself, but screen was so clear and it works fast in general so even now it keeps leaving impression of good old flagman.
On the subject of what i want to see ... . Interesting, exotic gadgets (does not necessarily need to be phones - but since you are into phones, that will do, too) Strange phones .. early bent Samsung phones or Nokia pureview (i think the 808) You could also do normal cameras or ebay/used market finds - to be honest, i find it interesting to see what people on the other side of the world (you) think of stuff. - Whats also fun to watch is frankensteining stuff together (your old phones, or your razer phone) - maybe you can mod some stuff together - build your own "welcome device" out of the various boards and pieces that you must have.
One thing that I feel are a little lacking are the job lots, it's nice and relaxing seeing you try and fix random phones, but I can understand those that aren't too interested in it
I think the Finnish factory that was making these batteries and thought it would be used for a legit phone said "perkele" once they found out they were part of a counterfeit operation.
It wasn't actually built from the ground up. The OS is a part of J2ME-based operating systems which was widely available in China. OEMs can buy its hardware along with OS firmware, and make a custom OS based on it.
Very nice video, something that I noticed on the (fake) battery says "Montado na Finland", but if it was real Portuguese it would be "Montado na Finlândia" The original battery says "Montado na China", and China is China in Portuguese, so it is correct hahaha I guess they either thought in Brazil we don't translate the country names or most likely just don't care, specially considering the rest of the device hahaha
I remember that i got S4 java clone back in 2013 Needless to say, this video is exactly covered what i've experienced back then (except i got an actual working angry bird) XD
My dad bought one of these knockoffs. My dad was so embarassed to tell my mom about buying it, but still managed to find it. I even tried to use it. Worst Waste of two months of my life.
I have ever owned "cloned" Galaxy SIII (S3). But here's the specs that I can still remember: -512mb RAM -4GB internal storage -dual SIM slots (only supports up to H+ up to 21mbps) -MT6570 (1.3GHz dual core ARM Cortex A7 with ARM Mali graphics up to 525MHz) -unknown inch "AMOLED" (actually TFT LCD) display, which exactly the same as original BUT with resolution 960x540.
I didn't even know which part of BFG division it was until he turned the display back to the camera. And i am hearing this song quite often (not because i play this much, but because i have the song in my Playlists very often)
Take care, I remember that in the past, Apple sued Samsung and USA phones had huge buttons while in Europe we had 1 button in the center (I think it was... 2010 or even 2009?).
This is actually funny as shit. I also keep a collection of my old phones and im just waiting for you to review them. my phones are LG KS360, Nokia E71, Black Berry 8900, Black Berry 9320, black berry 9900, Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini and Iphone 5S
Fun fact: I actually had one of those, and it was also probably an MTK phone (these phones are famously known for the 2-beep low battery shutdown notice after the startup animation when the battery's empty and when you try to start it up) and not an Android one, and from what I remember it had the Galaxy S startup animation.
22:58 You should send one of these to DankPods to get him to yell into the mic like he does with cheap bootleg iPods. Edit: Also, here in the U.S. T-Mobile still has a 2G/EDGE network.
Ooooh, as soon as I saw its screen from the thumbnail *I KNEW* what it was. These used to be everywhere here in Brazil, and I hated them. It got to a point I started to think even a flip phone were more usefull than these (and, to a certain degree, they are)
In Alaska, In the US. a company called GCI still Uses 2g in rural communities. it is sold as LTE, but only has speed of about 50Kbs, and costs 60$ a month for 10gb, they bribed local officials to make it illegal for Any competitors to build service towers in our rural communities.
Have you found any favorite or at least decent low-budget phone.. clone or otherwise? When it comes to the many lesser-known Chinese phones, there's not (m)any reviews or geekbench scores. For example, I've been looking at M12 Pro 7.1 X3 Pro 16+512GB, Phone13 Pro Max , OUKITEL C16 / C21, Huawei Y5
One of my neighbour kid used to have similar phone. The OS is the same as this one. She used to request me into installing various J2ME games and apps. It did run very well on that era, including some games, even though not many titles that can work with touch screen (it does not have virtual buttons). The phone has very junk build quality so it died very soon after she bought it (8 months IIRC) and she got Android phone after that. I can say the software is not half bad considering 2G on that time in my country was still widely available, and mobile data is darn cheap ($0.3 for 2 hours) and data size (including apps) was not very large, plus you can just download games from your PC, throw them to SD card, put it in the phone, and just run it without any install. Modern Android phones don't even allow you to do that.
Side note on Wi-Fi, it does work, but requires another menu which is somehow not in the settings menu. Guessing the firmware just sideload the Wi-Fi driver as another userland module thus it cannot be put inside the OS itself, considering its firmware isn't designed to be used with Wi-Fi already.
I bought this from a Nigerian at a mall at night. I paid $400 and thought I got a good deal. Little by little I realized I got screwed. Basically it wouldn’t go on the 3G network I think.
That winbond chip looks like a bios chip from a pc motherboard! Insane that if it is, its crazy that they used it as a storage medium for a cr4ppy phone!
The S III was my first Android phone. The S III is up there with the likes of the S7 Edge, Nokia 3310, E63, N95 and more recent phones such as the Note 8 my current phone is the S20 4g and definitely got my eye on the pixel 6 pro in the very near future... Some notable crap phones that can stay dead in the past The Nokia N97 "IPhone Killer" was biggest POS ever, Motorola's Razr was nothing more than a fashion item and lastly The IPhone 4s was a great well built quality phone but promises of Siri were fucking nothing but bs lies outside the US and Apples ecosystem is so fucking do it our way or nothing bs, so never ever getting a fucking apple overpriced POS again.
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Hey there, hope you enjoyed this one!
Not a lot of planning went into this which honestly, I think worked well in the end. I really wanted to revisit this since the last time I looked at it was 2017 and I didn't remember how it was back then. It was terrible then and it's still terrible now. But hopefully you got a kick out of this "high quality" clone!
Don't forget to check out my community post and poll so I can see what most of my audience wants to see:
ruclips.net/user/SMOOREZcommunity
TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction: 0:00
Unboxing: 1:25
Around the knockoff: 4:01
Powering it up, the UI & Apps: 6:36
Settings - General: 9:28
Settings - Display & Animations: 10:15
Settings - Security, Connections & Ringtones: 11:49
Settings - Wallpapers, File Manager etc: 13:35
Charging Oddities, trying to install a Java game etc: 15:10
Attempting to connect to WiFi: 16:10
The Camera: 16:51
Camera Test: 18:14
Camera Quality & Video Quality 20:49
Speaker Test: 21:47
Recording Audio & FM Radio Test: 22:49
Most of the applications: 23:41
The REALLY FUN Games: 25:09
Social Apps: 30:00
Trying Sim Cards & WiFi: 31:20
Conclusion: 32:18
Powering up the other one & Teardown: 33:51
Specifications & Rambling more about the knockoff: 36:14
My recent community post with poll etc: 37:20
Outro: 38:25
Be good people!
💯 :)
its always fun, we are hear because of you and the vidoes regardless if theya re planned or just rambling ❤️❤️
8:16 You should censor that
toget means (the train) in norwegian
Everything else aside, for a JAVA phone, it is actually seems really fast and responsive. I remeber these things ( even the real ones ) being awfully slow
Still, wasting the actual labor and resources on producing that piece of crap was a crime...
@@jackwilson5542 haha true
@@jackwilson5542 would it kill then to make it lil bit properly and tidier sigh
no...?
the mediatek phones were actually really fast to boot and really responsive until the touch iphone clones came out and some exceptions, there is a reason the os is called nucleus rtos (real time os)
The video playing during shut down may just be the best feature ever on a phone.
I feel sorry for the poor people who had to turn Java in TouchWiz
The filters work well for Halloween.
Yeah, every phone should have the shut down video player feature lol.
Also makes it better that the speaker quality is awful and the video is in 144p while being stretched horribly, and in the wrong orientation.
@@jonasgrill1155 maximum comedic effect
I am amazed that was even possible to do...
You just brought back so many memories.
Back in the S3 days I actually got a knock off one that actually had Android (Gingerbread). I think it was around 40-50 USD around that time and it absolutely demolished other phones in the same price range (Galaxy Ace, some Minis of the S series, etc.).
The build quality was kind of the same (but it had interchangeable backs, one with the screen cover and one without. And the face buttons were capacitive) and it came with angry birds preinstalled for some reason (which would explain the Angry Birds and Android sticker in the video). It didn't say Samsung anywhere, instead it proudly displayed Android everywhere you would expect a Samsung logo. It had some kind of themes app that let you choose that awful Samsung Theme even with the water droplets.
Makes you appreciate modern knock off smart phones, which at least run android and actually function as phones fairly well.
Some modern clones with android are far from usable, see his note 3 clone video
Note 3 is not... modern
@@fred-youtube You mean his X27 video
Soon, our modern phones, will not be modern anymore, LMAO @@user-dingus-dingus
But the ones with the specs are horrible. If they don't lie about specs, they are ok.
I have a Fiio M6 digital audio player. It's really quite good and isn't a generic DAP that is rebadged but on starting it states very clearly,
"WELCOME". It reminds me of this every time I turn it on!
It's the highest quality Welcome MP3 player you will ever see
Whatever you make, we will watch. Be good, Mr Smoorez.
The fact that you can edit the shutdown and startup animations already makes this phone worth more than the original galaxy SIII.
Agree.
The perfect boot sound for this phone would be Hong Kong 97 or "ai eh ai eh ai you're my little butterfly"
Oh my god. People actually manufactured this sort of crazy shit. Holy crap.
It doesn't have Wi-Fi, only has 2G, and doesn't even have Android.
Reminds me of the days of the Samsung S8000 Jet (an actual phone we had back in the day), which was a Java phone that actually worked well.
Who in their right mind would actually use this...
Using the selfie video as a boot animation is so hilarious HAHAHAHAHA I hope every phone has that feature 🤣🤣🤣
this legit could be used as a camera for a, "Found Footage" horror movie (with a big enough SD card)
My dad got himself s3 dual recently and I was impressed. Not only it was saved perfectly itself, but screen was so clear and it works fast in general so even now it keeps leaving impression of good old flagman.
11:10 best part 😂😂😂
On the subject of what i want to see ... .
Interesting, exotic gadgets (does not necessarily need to be phones - but since you are into phones, that will do, too) Strange phones .. early bent Samsung phones or Nokia pureview (i think the 808)
You could also do normal cameras or ebay/used market finds - to be honest, i find it interesting to see what people on the other side of the world (you) think of stuff. - Whats also fun to watch is frankensteining stuff together (your old phones, or your razer phone) - maybe you can mod some stuff together - build your own "welcome device" out of the various boards and pieces that you must have.
Would definitely love to see the iPhone 4 clone 👌🏼👍🏼🤞🏼
One thing that I feel are a little lacking are the job lots, it's nice and relaxing seeing you try and fix random phones, but I can understand those that aren't too interested in it
as a finn i can assure you we do not have any factories here producing counterfeit samsung batteries haha
I think the Finnish factory that was making these batteries and thought it would be used for a legit phone said "perkele" once they found out they were part of a counterfeit operation.
Man I get so much nostalgia looking at the SIII these days
I feel like it would've been way more trouble to rebuild this whole OS in java than just copying a old Galaxy SIII android.....weird.
It wasn't actually built from the ground up. The OS is a part of J2ME-based operating systems which was widely available in China. OEMs can buy its hardware along with OS firmware, and make a custom OS based on it.
It's cool to see what those clones back in the days were and how much they have evolved to fool the eyes of the unexpected.
Very nice video, something that I noticed on the (fake) battery says "Montado na Finland", but if it was real Portuguese it would be "Montado na Finlândia"
The original battery says "Montado na China", and China is China in Portuguese, so it is correct hahaha
I guess they either thought in Brazil we don't translate the country names or most likely just don't care, specially considering the rest of the device hahaha
26:26 sounds like The Legend Of Kage on NES and 29:34 was Hudson’s Adventure Island
Calling the Sumsung Galxay SIII horrible is an overstatement.
10:50 "Ok" lmfao why does it cut so perfectly. "PHONE Shut down!" "ok..."
I remember that i got S4 java clone back in 2013
Needless to say, this video is exactly covered what i've experienced back then (except i got an actual working angry bird) XD
My dad bought one of these knockoffs. My dad was so embarassed to tell my mom about buying it, but still managed to find it.
I even tried to use it. Worst Waste of two months of my life.
This review made me laugh harder than it should’ve, thanks for the laugh!
11:10 MEUI Car Laughter startup animation
I have ever owned "cloned" Galaxy SIII (S3). But here's the specs that I can still remember:
-512mb RAM
-4GB internal storage
-dual SIM slots (only supports up to H+ up to 21mbps)
-MT6570 (1.3GHz dual core ARM Cortex A7 with ARM Mali graphics up to 525MHz)
-unknown inch "AMOLED" (actually TFT LCD) display, which exactly the same as original BUT with resolution 960x540.
Not bad for 2012, back then my phone had 128mb and a 700mhz cpu and android 2.1
If only it had android, i wouldnt mind it
I didn't even know which part of BFG division it was until he turned the display back to the camera. And i am hearing this song quite often (not because i play this much, but because i have the song in my Playlists very often)
We love you Smoooooooooooooorez
13:18 that's from old Nokia phones. Ringtone name is "Nocturnal"
Also, the soundfont appears to be the default android one.
It even got fly mode
“never drop your phone again! You're *WELCOME* ”
Genuinely more customizable than an S3 in some areas
I love the clone phone videos. I used to have a iPhone 3G clone….the worst phone ever! 😂
Take care, I remember that in the past, Apple sued Samsung and USA phones had huge buttons while in Europe we had 1 button in the center (I think it was... 2010 or even 2009?).
I like how this was uploaded after i voted in the poll. Most likely coincidence, but thank you!
the camera makes me feel something i can't explain i like that
I lost it with that car startup 😭 the sound like PLEASEEE 😂
Even back then no one would make a 40 min video out of that crap. Thanks for making this content😂
The perfect phone to take pictures and videos of UFOs
This is actually funny as shit.
I also keep a collection of my old phones and im just waiting for you to review them. my phones are LG KS360, Nokia E71, Black Berry 8900, Black Berry 9320, black berry 9900, Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini and Iphone 5S
Stuart the gnome in his picture looks as if he's about to drop his hot 90's era mixtape
Also loved the laugh right before "Fish this thing" ...
Fun fact: I actually had one of those, and it was also probably an MTK phone (these phones are famously known for the 2-beep low battery shutdown notice after the startup animation when the battery's empty and when you try to start it up) and not an Android one, and from what I remember it had the Galaxy S startup animation.
11:04 I actually wouldn't mind if I had the ability to select a boot/shutdown animation on my iPhone.
you can with jailbreaks lol
Isn't that the animation they play when "Why should you buy the Gold Disc (Original) and not the Purple Disc (DVD-R)"
Loved the way you made a reference to Halloween 🎃
jesus Christ the speaker test sounds like scraping plates
12:10 java nathional anthem
12:10 Started laughing as soon as I heard it 😆
Imagine a specced out j2me phone. Latest snapdragon, 16 gigs ram etc. I don't think it would be terrible infact I think it might even be kind of good.
Aaa nostalgia 12:08 ring tone.
what is the name
22:58
You should send one of these to DankPods to get him to yell into the mic like he does with cheap bootleg iPods.
Edit: Also, here in the U.S. T-Mobile still has a 2G/EDGE network.
One of my favourite phones! Not these piles of crap, the original S3.
Maybe we will truly never get iPhone Clone Month back, but hey this video can be the start of Samsung Clone Month :p
No..? Well, one can wish
What a phone. I remember overclock it to 1.9 GHz two minutes and you can cook on it
I used to run my S3 at 1.7GHz, it was quite hot but ran fine
hi from scotland loved the vid good to relax to after work
I added this to my watch later a year ago and just watched this, I'm happy with the 40 minutes of time I spent
Oh man, I love it how Phones from early 2000's with 0.3 MP cameras take better photos than this thing
10:48 LOL LOOK AT THAT POWER OFF ANIMATION 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I didn't edit this comment 💀☠️
Love it always worth it to watch
Ooooh, as soon as I saw its screen from the thumbnail *I KNEW* what it was.
These used to be everywhere here in Brazil, and I hated them. It got to a point I started to think even a flip phone were more usefull than these (and, to a certain degree, they are)
'Rejected Shitty Thing' 😂😂
It's kinda awesome that samsung allowed you to get different backplate with a flip over, not a case.
More reason to bring back the removable back
In Alaska, In the US. a company called GCI still Uses 2g in rural communities. it is sold as LTE, but only has speed of about 50Kbs, and costs 60$ a month for 10gb, they bribed local officials to make it illegal for Any competitors to build service towers in our rural communities.
That actually sounds illegal lol
@@fifaworldcup1994 you're telling me.
10:32 That's one way to customized boot animations, hah hah! Old Alcatel & LG phones can do that with GIFs.
damn that ringtone bring back some old memories.. haih miss the old day when ya spend most of ya time on setting.. hahah
14:28 *Sumsung Galxay S3* is epic!! 😂😂😂
Have you found any favorite or at least decent low-budget phone.. clone or otherwise?
When it comes to the many lesser-known Chinese phones, there's not (m)any reviews or geekbench scores. For example, I've been looking at M12 Pro 7.1 X3 Pro 16+512GB, Phone13 Pro Max , OUKITEL C16 / C21, Huawei Y5
wowowowowow That galaxy (original) was my dream phone! Still is. Best looking phone EVER
Love your vids mate awesome
I wanna get a few of these, change the boot and shut down screens then sell them..
One of my neighbour kid used to have similar phone. The OS is the same as this one. She used to request me into installing various J2ME games and apps. It did run very well on that era, including some games, even though not many titles that can work with touch screen (it does not have virtual buttons). The phone has very junk build quality so it died very soon after she bought it (8 months IIRC) and she got Android phone after that. I can say the software is not half bad considering 2G on that time in my country was still widely available, and mobile data is darn cheap ($0.3 for 2 hours) and data size (including apps) was not very large, plus you can just download games from your PC, throw them to SD card, put it in the phone, and just run it without any install. Modern Android phones don't even allow you to do that.
Side note on Wi-Fi, it does work, but requires another menu which is somehow not in the settings menu. Guessing the firmware just sideload the Wi-Fi driver as another userland module thus it cannot be put inside the OS itself, considering its firmware isn't designed to be used with Wi-Fi already.
2G IS BACK TO LIFE
Try not to laugh, IMPOSSIBLE! This is amazing!
Im guessing Australians just made videos about crappy electronics and post them on RUclips, this guy and DankPods.
I bought this from a Nigerian at a mall at night. I paid $400 and thought I got a good deal. Little by little I realized I got screwed. Basically it wouldn’t go on the 3G network I think.
Fun fact: the fixed ringtones are from the spreadtrum common ringtones
That winbond chip looks like a bios chip from a pc motherboard! Insane that if it is, its crazy that they used it as a storage medium for a cr4ppy phone!
Expected it to be a WELCOME device.
10:36 better than any other Samsung phones
love having the constitution as my ringtone😀
10:48 & 11:11 lfmao look at your power off display😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
The S III was my first Android phone. The S III is up there with the likes of the S7 Edge, Nokia 3310, E63, N95 and more recent phones such as the Note 8 my current phone is the S20 4g and definitely got my eye on the pixel 6 pro in the very near future...
Some notable crap phones that can stay dead in the past
The Nokia N97 "IPhone Killer" was biggest POS ever, Motorola's Razr was nothing more than a fashion item and lastly The IPhone 4s was a great well built quality phone but promises of Siri were fucking nothing but bs lies outside the US and Apples ecosystem is so fucking do it our way or nothing bs, so never ever getting a fucking apple overpriced POS again.
@31:03-- squares squares squares or WAP
Me- oh come on I though we were done with WAP in 2020
I'm sure there's an UFO on one of the camera pictures xD
Thats feature with the shut diwn animation was kew. I wish some device could do that without rooting it. Or some sketchy app. Ill fun with that
12:48 is that ringtone on vetru clone?
Just found a real one at garbage , that timing lol.
s3 was a good phone! its still good for emails and photos and messages
12:10 anyone know this song? I feel familiar, maybe some chinese song
It sounds like the music mobile a2658 Barbie iPhone thing that he reviewed a year ago
what happened to the original smoorez channel?
That startup sound caused me joint pain I'm 24 years old I'm so old
Give this to Stuart Ashen, he needs to review more knock off phones that run JAVA
Isn't Dumpy Drops using Adventure Island music?
"Zusammenbauen" oh hey Hello from Germany 😂
It's not Java, it's just Spreadtrum.
Bros got the phone the guys who see Big Foot always seem to have
China MTK Model Is Insane
They actually made a fake talking Tom app