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the most expensive iphone you can get is the 512 Gigabyte version of the 10s max

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coming in at 1 49 us dollars which when you throw in

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apple care and a headphone adapter is about 40

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more than the global median monthly income per person

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so what if you don't want to spend a tenth of your annual salary on a

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smartphone without giving up modern smartphone features and security well

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now you can have your oreo and eat it too with the alcatel 1x Android go

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edition a 99 smartphone with a

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fingerprint reader the elgato stream deck mini features six

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fully customizable lcd keys to use as shortcuts plus easy to use software to

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set them up check it out on amazon or newegg at the link in the video

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description

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okay so follow along with me here alcatel is a french smartphone brand

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owned by nokia from finland and licensed

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by chinese manufacturer tcl who you

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might remember from the why the slippery friendly content is everyone buying this

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tv video no doubt this is a very cosmopolitan

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phone with no less than seven localized variants now the version available in

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the us the one that we've got here is the 5059 a with one Gigabyte of RAM 16

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gigs of microsd expandable storage a mediatek 6739 quad core processor and

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eight and five megapixel flash equipped cameras on the rear and front of the

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phone respectively it also has a fingerprint reader as i alluded to

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before a feature that is notably absent though from the i and t variants of the

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phone that are being marketed in india on the plus side the indian devices do

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have dual sim and you can still unlock the phone with your face

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regardless of which model you get though the one x has a 2460 milliamp hour

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battery a 5.3 inch 18 by 9 aspect ratio

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480 by 960 display which in landscape

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mode amounts to something kind of like widescreen 480p like to the point where

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you can actually see a staircase effect on round buttons or profile pictures

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meaning that the display of this thing is not cutting edge but

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it's 99 bucks which apparently is enough to get you a headphone jack at the very

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least go figure courage interestingly

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the one x is very similar in size and weight to google's pixel 3 except that

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it has a knurled lock button micro usb

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instead of type c and a textured backing that alcatel calls suede but to me kind

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of feels more like sandstone or textured plastic it actually kind of reminds me

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of the white oneplus 5t but it doesn't feel as durable

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but just because the one x has budget hardware doesn't mean that the

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experience of using it is 100 junk because this was the first phone to

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launch in the us equipped with Android go the os experience designed for

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devices with a gig of RAM or less and what's cool is that it is nearly a full

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featured version of Android sort of

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notable exclusions are high performance features like split screen and daydream

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vr and i get why those weren't feasible and some others that

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caught us a little off guard Android auto and Android wear remember

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these are google's own products are not only not supported to the point where

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they are hidden from the play store but when you even go as far as to side load

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them you're going to be greeted with a google play services error then when you

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go ahead and side load that you'll be greeted with a successful install

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message followed by them not working anyway

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so james's theory here is that there is a technical reason for these to be

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excluded to maintain usable performance and to extend battery life while keeping

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the device affordable something has got to give

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as for me

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i think there's an element of that but in the case of something like where

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why go out of your way to lock it out i think it might be a product segmentation

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thing where google is assuming that if you can afford a smart watch or a car

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for that matter you can probably afford a better phone

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one thing that we agree about is that these features are more like creature

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comforts rather than core products so let's move on and talk about the

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differences there Android goes main differentiator is the

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lighter loadout of default apps google has made these lightweight versions of

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their apps including search gmail gboard

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youtube and even the google assistant that last one is a big plus because some

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other budget devices that are more than twice as expensive as this one run older

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versions of Android that don't support google assistant at all

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and what's really cool is that while some go apps like gmail go feel nearly

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identical to their full-featured cousins that's already a good thing

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some of them actually add new features youtube go for example doesn't allow

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uploading or even commenting on videos which sort of bites but

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it shows you how much data is required to watch a video it offers previews so

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you don't waste your data on a video that wasn't what you were looking for

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and it even lets you download videos to your device a feature that's usually

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only available to youtube premium members unfortunately just because you

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have an Android go device doesn't mean every go app will be

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available our one x actually came with the regular

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youtube app installed because while it's available in 130 low connectivity

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countries youtube go is not widely

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available in the global north and when we tried to sideload it we were greeted

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with a message stating that our device was incompatible

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bummer another interesting one is google maps go which at just 32 kilobytes is

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almost an order of magnitude smaller

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than the regular app and that is partly because

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it's not actually an app it's one of google's progressive web apps so the

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icon on your home screen is really just a link to a website

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it looks feels and quacks like an app

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but unfortunately while it can give you directions it cannot do turn by turn

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navigation so should you buy this phone

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well that depends on the one hand it's a 99 dollar budget

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phone that feels pretty good in the hand comes with a charger screen protector

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and headphones in the box records 30fps full hd video and runs alcatel's joy

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launcher skin which is pretty close to stock Android on the other hand it's a 99 budget phone

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it is so slow in spite of its optimized

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software it has only one speaker right here making it not great for

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watching movies and it has a tn panel screen with a massive air gap and

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off-brand glass that make it a fingerprint and glare magnet oh yeah and

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that micro b connector kind of sucks too

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but budget devices are all about compromise and the good thing we can say

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about this one is that it is a heck of a lot better than users not having access

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to these services at all or being forced to settle for old software that doesn't

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have the latest security updates so it's a big step forward

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ting is the mobile carrier that's focused on customer service and customer

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