GAMING on a £5/$7 Phone?
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Hello and welcome to this Budget Builds Episode...Which is more of a small side project that I wanted to try out; essentially I picked up a cheap smartphone for £5 off of ebay, and well it was uprising, i'm a big fan of mobile gaming, and android offers you some awesome emulators...But can this phone even run them?
From running the 2000's equivalent to Call of Duty to Nintendo's 90's Flagship, oh and even some Minecraft...We want to see if its possible...
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CPU: Snapdragon S1
GPU: Adreno 200
RAM: 384MB
Phone Name: LG Optimus L3 (E400)
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tfw a £5 phone has a headphone jack, MicroSD slot and good battery life while a £1,000 doesn't.
The Barbaric Broneh it has like 1 gb of storage and a 240p screen
Josh Ford You can expand the storage with an SD card...
Cool Cool but it’s still has a shit screen, shit camera, and is only 4 inches long
Josh Ford for some reason you weren't featured in the comments and I just noticed it now lmao, true point but hey for a fiver you can't complain, but if I get a £1000 phone that can be beaten by much cheaper phones then thats a whole different matter.
The Barbaric Broneh yes I agree it’s a good phone but should not be compared to a iPhone 👍
Headphone jack? Better than a new iPhone.
Geary jerk
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Forgot my name yes😂😂😂😂
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the iphone se costs a little bit more than this shit and it has an headphone jack too
*ACTIVATE WINDOWS*
Its £3 for a license...I wish I had £3.
Sign the phone and sell it on ebay for £4 haha!
TNP I would buy that
Budget-Builds Official Aren't they "it fell off the back of a truck" licences.
Uninstall windows*
> minecraft pe 0.2.1
> WE ARE USING AN OLDER VERSION
Cowards, the lot of them!
*Minecraft oof sound starts playing*
What game was that epsxe?
@@UserT5959Medal of Honor. The direct predecessor of Call of Duty
@@thefreeden thank you
Wow it ran Android 5.0. That was a suprise to say the least
nah its modded android 2.3 to looks like 5.0
Taimoor Ahmed I would not recommend Android 5 because its it recommendations are 1ghz dual core and 1gig of ram.
Hai Dang Nguyen at least it's easy to root so you can use Emacs to click the egg and not get the PayPal without actually spending a week doing it 🤣
More like Android 4.2, to be fair.
The custom rom shows more resemblance to 4.x than 5.x
Lolapop
Everyone knows the best "mobile" games are on emulators
Unless you use an Apple device because Apple is way too strict with their App Store.
Yeah sure \s
True. Any GBA or DS game you can easily emulate is miles ahead of any of the shit on the App Store or Play Store.
Cool Cool and if you have a newer phone, some ps2 games run at playable framerates
Totally not Ben walker Yeah, however PS2 games aren't the same as a DS or GBA game since those games were meant to be played on small screens whilst PS2 games were meant to be played on TVs.
That's my old first android phone!
same
My first was actually an Optimus L7. and i thought that was painful to use.
Tech Dunk same
My first phone was a galaxy s4, I am writing this comment on my new S9.
My first android phone was a samsung galaxy mini
**gasp** he... he used pickaxe for cutting down trees!!!!!
You can use this phone to cut down trees IRL and it will not take any damage.
@@darthplagueis13 yeah, budget androids are TOUGH
I feel like this guy can prabably get a music box to play minecraft somehow.
I mean he got a CD player to run games
He could even get Doom running on a oven!
Seriously, my friend is struggling on his laptop to play Minecraft despite having Core i5 10th gen and an MX250
It's surprising to me that you could theoretically use a $75 phone from 2012 for daily tasks and even gaming. Great video, though would have liked to seen some more camera tests.
+32megabytes: I'll definitely upload some samples of it.
Oh you and your camera tests
9:17 Was that a ASUS P4R533-VM in the video?
Omg 32megabytes i love your vids :3
32megabytes I still use my s3 mini as my daily driver 😂
ANDROID 5? LOLLIPOP!? ! I didn't think this could handle 4.4 KITKAT.
I think the e405f had the 4.4 rom, but the dual sim wouldnt work if I remember correctly
That Android "Lollipop" ROM is just a skin of that stock Android 2 rom with some tweaks
It probably wouldn't even run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich very well if it is from 2011/2012. Trust me, I know these things. My old Galaxy Ace Plus from 2011 is on Gingerbread 2.3
My old ZTE Blade 3 from 2012 runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich very abysmally. It locked up very often and I couldn't use it for more than 6 months.
Don't get anything older than 2013/2014.
edit: Well, I am surprised! Not bad performance, but still, I wouldn't use that.
actually kk is optimized for low ram.
So we've got Android 5.0 on this, but we're stuck at 5.1 on the LG Leon from 2015.
I remember this phone, I wasn’t allowed to bring my iPhone to school so I secrectly ordered this for a 7th grader I got roasted becuase of it
Why didn't you just sneak the iPhone
3pic 8flyer I did end up doing that the last day of school.
@@swervey7400 iPhone is thrash
@@corsaircraft agreed but u cant use this phone either
Bravo Hamish! You really outdid yourself in this splendid video. Also, that £5 phone has better overclocking abilities than the i5 8400
thomas kelly what about baseclock oc?
thomas kelly *YOU JUST WERE ON THAT STREAM*
yeet
5$:has headphone jack
1000$ nowadays: no headphone jack
RIP :(
Or a micro sd slot, and you can't replace the battery
@The cheesy Dudes Are they cheap? Or as good sounding as wired earphones? No.
$5: Has SHIT SPECS
$1000: Epic specs
@@astronomyrb9377 do you want both of them to be same
Negative infinity I don't like
It's still more powerful than my iMac. Great video once again!
It's hyperbole my dude
HoppsTech You must mean emac (the predecessor to the imac). But truth be told clock for clock the Power PC CPUs would be a fair amount more powerfull than the low power arm CPUs.
Holly Chan 2002
HoppsTech my powertoaster is more powerful than a mac
Holly Chan he is making a joke
The specs made me choke
Javier Hernandez same. The Moto e4 is great
I had a Sony Xperia Tipo which has the same processor but a 360p screen and it wasn't that bad! (and got even better after installing an android 4.1.2 custom rom!)
My first computer had the same specs
The Xperia Play had the same CPU at 1Ghz and the same GPU, however RAM was 512MB. Just shows how wasted the specs were with the Optimus L3
Xperia Play had Adreno 205, not 200. The Xperia X10 had Adreno 200.
Also, the CPU was Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon S2 (Xperia), not Qualcomm MSM7225A Snapdragon S1 (LG).
low spec gamer can get witcher 3 to run on that XD
*GTA SA with 5.1 ROM
Easy I just have to change some shit and it will work but it will be like one pixel
Gaming XP 1:50
Well you were sorta kinda right
This was brilliant mate. Really enjoyed it. Been thinking about getting a shit old phone for this reason.
The Game Show: Highly reccomend old LG and HTC Phones, they have quite the following.
I absolutely love my 2010 HTC Wildfire.
Gravemind Oh my god, I had a Wildfire for four years. What a laggy POS it was :D
true
The Game Show Good budget phones are from Xiaomi, ZTE, Motorola, LG and Oppo (Oppo especially recently).
6:06 that is disrespectful against all minecrafters 😂
"The USB Debugger isn't hidden like it is in newer versions of Android. It's just sort of there."
"Good performance from the processor" is a con? I must be high af, but that doesn't seem right...
82F GDT same here.
Lol me too
The con is that the rest of the phone's hardware bottlenecks the CPU, meaning it's total overkill and just makes the phone more expensive without any real benefit.
Ђорђе Аврамовић yeah, I'm definitely high :p
82F GDT y do you have AMD as your Picture
6:08 *sounds of eternal pain*
This phone has 1gb internal. you had 100 mb, and it wasnt because of the bloatware.
LG cut the internal. 300mb to apps and 700mb for anything else. (messages,moving apps, etc...)
you had 1gb after installing that rom cuz it had the SD Merge feature.
+Summoner Arthur: Very good to know, I had absolutely no idea about that. Although that 300MB was much smaller with the amount of OEM Software it came with.
So that’s why the emulation worked! Pretty strange stuff.
1:23 Good performance is a con?
HudsonGTV I think it is because the cpu is a lot better compared to the other hardware of the phone. CPU throttling
I'm loving the grim fandango in the background. One of the best games ever
2:55 Activate Windows....wooo....spoooky
Not gonna lie. That phone on Android 5 makes for a good backup in the backpack, when your main phone runs out of battery
you could also get a good main phone
no get a acatel one touch 8gb it can run gta sa 13 dollars after black Friday on walmart
@@Local_commentor Who tf games on phones anyways?
@@Joesgamesntech Man, get yourself a PC and try PC games. even games from 2002 are better than most mobile games of today
@@abyssstrider2547
I only mobile game when i don't bring my laptop. Normally i play Doom using Delta Touch
I had this phone when I was just 4 years old, I stand with this phone until 2016.
I used to play god of war and cod on my nokia phone that costed 50$ in 2007 it had a 120x160 screen 16 mb of ram and a i don't even know what the cpu was.
It did happen they used to make Wierd 2d version of these games for phones.
Miruku There was an Assassins Creed, Guitar Hero, Need For Speed and various others for mobile phones from 2005-2010. Programmed in Java mainly. So this is not bullshit. Just search for God of War Java 320x240 or 240x120
not bs trust me
@Miruku Nope, Back before android phones ran java and a lot of 2d games also ran on java which were based around popular games at the time. of was pretty cool. if you want to play them try java emulator on android store and duckduckgo it.
Nokia n-gage?
Honestly one of the most entertaining videos you’ve ever made. I’ve came back and watched this video several times. You should do another phone video like this
1:26 "Cons: Good performance from processor" k then... dunno when good performance became a con, but whatever... I wanna have whatever the writer was having when he wrote this...
+Diamond Cracker: Great Performance ruined by the sub par screen. That's the main issue he found with it.
yeah, I noticed you said that later on in the video... note to self: don't write comments when you haven't seen the full video...
Dude with 5$ i can get only a whopper on BK
So many better alternatives. You can get not one, but 5 taco Bell beef Fritos burritos
!!
Or 20 wings at kfc
Or 5 wings at nandos
I owned an Optimus L3 II Dual back in 2013, it was a pretty good phone for its price!
I had one of these as a work phone! I liked it so much I got the Optimus L2 II to replace it and the Optimus G Pro as a personal phone. Those RGB home buttons were tight af
You should do one video like this with the LG Optimus 2X, the world's first smartphone with a dual-core processor
I had that phone in 2012
I traded my Galaxy S1 for it and I was so happy to have such a "fast" phone
It even had HDMI so I could play GTA 3 on my TV
This takes gaming on a budget to a whole new meaning
THATS MY FIRST PHONE!! OMG I WAS ALWAYS WONDERING WHAT IT WAS CALLED!! I’m shook to the core!
From Android 2 to 5 that is a huge improvement! :D
1:17 Cons - Good performance from the processor
this vid is amazing some people are just so smart i love to see ppl that tinker with things and make them much better
At least a $7 phone’s screen ACTUALLY WORKS!!!
*cough* (rainbow six operator phones) *cough*
0:44. I see that LG’s making a iPhone 2G in 2017
HEY I HAVE THAT PHONE IN MY CLOSET.
living meme exe you tried but failed
True xD
living meme exe bruhh
_back then this phone was as powerful as today's flagship phones._
Every American ever : “wow, 5 pounds, that’s one heavy phone”
1000 subscribers with no videos yeah, us Americans doesn’t know that pounds is a type of currency.
JustLink just saying dude, it’s also a measurement of weight and Americans are stereotypically dumbasses.
1000 subscribers with no videos mhmm I see your point...
We've had this same phone lying around for years, gonna do what you did with it. Glad I found this!
I fell kind of identifyied with this video. I use a Sony Xperia E1 as my daily driver, it only has 500mb of ram and 2gb of storage which is starting to show its age. But i have to say is still very usable, i can game on it, make phone calls, text messages, watch videos on youtube at 480p and surf the web with no problem. I dont think i would have too many problems using this LG scince im used to running out of ram.
Enzo Perruccio I used that phone too for like 3 years.But then the storage couldn't take it anymore(Google apps take too much space)so I had to change phone for a bit.
But it was a good companion.
Sei italiano?
+Marty same thing for me. I´m currently looking for a new phone because of Google apps.
This video is sick,I never thought you're also into android modding.You could do more videos about this topic!
omg i have it lying in the box LOL
Edit: i found this comment 2 years later and yeah i sold it last year for 10€ loL
nista u glavi wanna sell it? I give a dollar for it XD
Summoner Arthur nope
nista u glavi wanna sell it for 50$
MRVIDEOGAMECAT shut up lol
I AM SOOOO SOOOORRRRRYYYY
I have one of these!! Used it all through high school untill it stopped charging amazing for so cheap
oh god I had this phone fuck I remember holy shit
Everyone has seen one at some point.
ReeceVFX We've all had a phone that we wanted to forget about. I had.
Definitely. Lumia 930 for me. It wasn't that bad of a phone at all, frankly, but the fact that it runs Windows Phone renders it near-useless especially in the long term.
Budget-Builds Official probably still better than the I phone 10 xD
Enzo Perruccio yup 😂
I LOVE this video
Great video. Next I want to see you game on the overpriced Iphone X
The X beats out some modern desktop computers.....
FreePenguin5000 overpriced iPhone X owner here, games amazingly!
AccessGranted - how?? It has 3gbs of ram a "6-core" actually at 4-core at 2.39GHz. with two underpowered cores, a three core gpu and nevertheless the operating system..ah so sad that you know nothing about electronics... Even chromebooks beat it!
Tectoz The IPhone X has a higher geek bench than some kabylake i5 cpus.
FreePenguin5000 that wouldn't be very budget, now would it?
I f**cking love your vids man u take old stuff and turn into better usable stuff
... nice. I'm surprised it can handle even a psx emulator.
even a windows mobile pda from 2005 can run psx but on 44 fps
@@shagstars dang 44 fps is good im fine with anything over 25-30 when im playing something
@@hello_ree not on emulator tho. It plays like slow motion then because it's meant to be played at 50-60fps.
*n o i c e*
I had one! Memories of me moving everything to the SD card for that extra app on there:)
I had this phone
What a piece of fucking shit mate
That video was actually pretty good, I enjoyed the overall content/ format of the content, keep it up! Cheers Peter :)
if all you were doing was gaming, you could have gotten much better specs for the money. For example, the zte maven 3 was 8 dollars on sale earlier this week with a quad core snapdragon 210, and a 5 inch screen. The catch is that it's locked to a carrier but you don't have to activate to get it so if you wanted to play games only, it would be a much better option. It's crazy how good cheap phones have gotten!
Rockmandash12 don't forget the 5MP camera and 8 (actually 3)GB of storage. Typing this on my maven 2
There's so many cheap quad core's out there, but I get worried as arm got bought it will effect the quality.
Rockmandash12 You could root it and then you could use it as a normal phone.
i may actually buy this thing, because it’ll fit anywhere i put it, and the performance after rooting seems great for emulation of a DS or other device
**Uses pickaxe to mine trees**
Me- ded 💀
Awesome video dude, for the time $75 I guess it wasn't too bad... or yes... compared to now.. but it's like more in CAD
Well there was LG L2 and LG L1 :D
Nice video. I love the people who look the back years like me.
Yoooooo this was my first “smartphone”
you know that budget phone reviews.. well this is a definition for that reviews!!
you mean 5-7 dollar budget pc
Euro*
bro Ur the best u can teach people so much about electronics
Oh yeah saw you talk about that phone on discord!
Reminds me alot of the old Galaxy Y phone. Same size too. I flashed everything from AOSP and even the Galaxy Y Hello Kitty phone edition ROM for the giggles as it chimes Hello Kitty as it boots.
bro its my first smartphone when i got it , it was somthing like 100€
the launch price was 60€
Wow I'm actually impressed good job on making it work
I got that phone 5 years ago😂
this is first time i that know you can Overclock smartphone Subbed Goodluck mate your Content are Awesome
I remember one of my friend having it . I thought it was pretty good but only because my Galaxy y was shit and i didnt have anything impression of other smartphones yet
My LG-L38C was a tank, it would practically never die no matter what you'd put it through.
LG Optimus L3 vs Samsung Galaxy Y when?
Mämelick Franken Haha I still have the Samsung Galaxy Y laying om my room
L3 beats Galaxy Y. Had both, can confirm.
David Nagato Galaxy Y is the worst smartphone right
I have the Y, and I rooted it. A solid phone now
Dalvest Streaming Nice, im using the OnePlus 5T
5:23 potato clock :))
*"Only rich people will say EW"*
Oh damn that's my first smartphone ever! It was amazing and at the time it still cost pretty expensive
I say Just one thing *Overclock It more*
2012-13 years were grim for who wanted a good phone for a cheap price. I'm glad I made it to 2019 so I can enjoy what we have today
thats my grandma's 4 yrs ago phone lol
The L3 E400 was my first android device. And I absolutely loved it
*I had to live like this.*
I've love this phone, it may not be very advanced but it's very reliable. Love the sega GT online music
It could run N64 much better if you use N64oid
I love your channel I don’t know what it is but it’s great. Keep it up 😁
But can it run crysis 4k 60 fps
Unknown User 16k 244Hz ultra AA16X 400fps
For granted!
No. But it can run It in 240p 30FPS
I like smaller phones, like iPhone 4 type screens because they fit in the hand like a glove. Would love to see a phone with a iPhone 4 screen.
Yeah, but does it play crysis?!
I knew all this for years I'm 26 and a android systems debug , electrical expert . I have been CPU overclocking , rooting and debugging since 2008 !
4:47 hehe..my language is at the top!
*epicly dabs
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It's really an excellent gaming device. I have one that's been dedicated to Game boy and GBA games. When played in portrait you very a lovely native resolution which longs beautiful for these games.
is that the *L I T E* Version?
I love older phones, love the S4s and S5s, good as daily phones even still and backup phones. We need more rootable phones.
Soon I'll be getting an old S4 or S5 for gaming on the go.
love that tiny phone so much,used it for 2 years struggling to get some space to install that 6 buttos facebook,still amazing to turn on my first smartphone :D
I remember running games like MC3, MC4, dead space, ppsspp, and a lot more ona crappy Alcatel one touch pop d1, it was sick.
Thanks for the video, it remind me that days.
I remember back then I bought that phone brand new, was the best 11yo me in 2013 with summer work money could get
Galaxy s2 is a good option too!
I am using one now.
Just put a custom rom or in the stock, 4.1.2 one, disable bunch of bloatware and services from android and install nova launcher or another one you like and is lighweight, and disable touchwiz.
It will be awesome for the price. I saw one for equivalent of 20 dollars (about 100 reais).
Mine i got from a friend.
The battery lasts one entire day, the screen is way better than that. It runs 480p youtube perfectly (youtube dont give options lager because of the screen resolution)
It is dualcore. Has a good camera for its time (and ok camera now). It films in 1080p with the 8mp.
The screen is bigger.
With a good custom rom in the s2 is way better than mine.
Sound is actually better and more crysp and clear than my last (and dead) phone, the galaxy s6.
I can run 1080p video fine on it. Browsing is not bazingly fast, but usable.