*What do you all think about the Camera situation? Is it even worth asking Aspera why they have done that. I don't know, let me know* Greetings everyone and welcome back to another Cheapo Phone Review and for you fellow aussies you may know this one :) ASPERA - Australian Owned and they certainly are cause any post office you walk into have these in stock. Let me know what you thought of this one down below and if you've ever used a ASPERA device. Thanks again for watching, be good people! TIMESTAMPS: Intro & Disclaimers: 0:00 Current Pricing & Description: 1:28 Reviews & Advertised Specs: 3:15 Unboxing: 5:12 Around the Phone: 6:52 Power On, Setup & Iffy Display: 8:35 Display Quality, Apps, Shortcuts & Fingerprint: 10:27 Wallpapers & Further Display Discussion: 11:44 Networks, Call Quality & Call Issues: 12:44 System Apps List: 14:27 Battery Test, Quick Settings & WiFi Issues: 15:31 Slow Gmail, Accessibility, System & About Phone: 17:02 The Camera: 18:37 Camera Test - Photos: 20:24 Camera Test - Videos: 21:49 Camera Quality: 25:17 Browser Test: 26:04 FM Radio Test & GPS Test: 27:26 Struggling KZread Test: 28:28 Speaker Test: 30:16 Thoughts so far & Geekbench: 32:10 Checking the Specs & QuickShortcutMaker: 34:05 Gaming Test - GTA San Andreas: 36:11 Why is it called the Nitro & Other Aspera Models: 37:53 Lengthy Conclusion: 39:08 Teardown Part 1 - Motherboard: 41:25 Teardown Part 2 - Investigating the Second Camera: 42:19 Teardown Part 3 - The Processor: 44:31 Full Specifications & Final Thoughts: 46:39 Thanks for watching this one, I appreciate it: 48:14 Outro: 49:01 Keep being awesome!

@СИИ10

Ай бұрын

are you going to do a premier next time?

@Yippeee5959

Ай бұрын

It looked like redmi 5 pro

@robertusthemac

Ай бұрын

In good light it's not a bad camera at all, but you can get so much more for the same price from Oppo, Xiaomi, Oneplus, etc

@EPIC0MUSIC

Ай бұрын

If you consider to make a spc Video... Well.. You have your Camera 😂

@Aeduo

Ай бұрын

@@robertusthemac In outdoor lighting, it looked like it tended to blow out highlights.

is funny cause in spanish "aspera" or "aspero" means "rough" thanks for this reviews buddy

@truckerzachbell

Ай бұрын

Almost like the Spanish translation of Difficult...

Ouch, they used 32-bit OS on 64-bit chip, maybe to squeeze a little bit more free memory out of that 1GB of RAM.

@nooneinpart

Ай бұрын

A pretty familiar tactic for those who have used Amazon Fire tablets. As late as 2020 they were releasing devices with 64-bit SoCs but only running at 32-bit. The difference is that they sold them at 2/3 GB RAM configurations which would’ve run 64-bit just fine. That’s exactly what they did with the 2022 refresh. Kept the RAM the same, but used a newer revision of the SoC and let it run at 64-bits.

this is basically a phone from 2012/2013. Though most phones back then had at least decent screens and actual cameras that were actually usable (my experience back in that era were mostly Sony Ericsson/ Sony phones and the legendary Nexus 7 tablet).

@tyttuut

Ай бұрын

For real... I got my first smartphone in 2014 and it had comparable specs, even as a midrange phone.

@pauloa.7609

Ай бұрын

@agustinusreynaldi7101 Sadly mine are either broken or are unusable. Tried to boot my sony Ericsson sk17i, for example and it was borked. it boots but it's on a loop... I wanted to use it as a mp3 player since it's very small.

@hyperturbotechnomike

Ай бұрын

In 2013, i had a phone with 1GB RAM and nVidia Tegra Quad Core. It wasn't even a high end phone, but an LG P895 a friend from south korea brought me as a gift. Before that, i had a dual core Lumia 720 from 2012. My first smartphone was a Siemens Loox T830 with Windows Mobile (the old one from PDA era)

@pauloa.7609

Ай бұрын

@@hyperturbotechnomike Lumias were sick.

@deanhorn2369

Ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure most phones in 2014 already had more than 1gb ram my lg g3 had 3gb and my s4 from 2013 had 2gb can’t believe they still make phones with less than 2gb ram.

today years old when i learned you can buy phones from the postage center in australia

this is the first video I've seen where u stick the landing on the bike in San Andreas good on ya

@SMOOREZ

Ай бұрын

I usually do a spin which I will never land. This I just flew off and didn't spin and thus it was fine. 2005 physics at their best :)

As someone who uses a DSLR camera the sound it makes when you click record sounds like when it lifts the mirror so it can expose the sensor for it to record. When you press it again it closes the shutter and the mirror drops again, idk if it was intentional but it felt nice hearing that lol

"1gb RAM" and "smooth experience" really don't go together, especially if we're talking about Android

@Yippeee5959

Ай бұрын

True but if you know your stuff, i mean for what you want to use it for and some modification stuff, its good

@loydloydloyd

Ай бұрын

It is about cpu, not ram.

@lnmr

Ай бұрын

@@loydloydloyd with too little RAM the CPU has more work to do moving the memory back and forth between RAM and SWAP. This phone would be more tolerable with at least 2GB of RAM (which still isn't much today)

@fredrickbambino

Ай бұрын

If it isn’t 3 or more gigs it’s *never* Going to be a smooth experience…

@Radu_-ro6fp

Ай бұрын

Unless we are in like 2012 ☠️

My Dad used several of these at his print shop to archive customer design files on CD-R & DVD-R. This was great to pull up old Photoshop, Pagemaker and InDesign files that may need to be referenced or used later but infrequently enough not to take up valuable hard drive space.

@justarandomguy2126

Ай бұрын

He used a cheap android smartphone to archive files on a CD-R?

@samholdsworth420

9 күн бұрын

Yeah I'm confused

I heard about aspera from dankpods (also i remember you showing/fixing the aspera jazz on a job lot)

For some reason, the real company name for Aspera Mobile is Cell8 (they do buisness as Aspera regardless)

With him saying "you get what you pay for" i really wonder how oblivious smoorez is to what legitimate budget smartphones look like in 2024

@pauloa.7609

Ай бұрын

@@NickEter there are good phones for cheap out there from legit brands but they are becoming more and more rare each year, especially on western markets. You can still be able to find golden nuggets in Asia, Africa and South America for sure. Here in EU the absolute cheapest it's like a 80 euros xiaomi and if you find then on sale it's like 60/70 euros and for what it does, it's good enough. Great for people who don't know better or literally don't care about anything besides it makes calls and sends messages.

I forgot to mention something. The saying "just works" has two meanings. One is a good thing like like" Got a new phone and it just works straight out of the box" implying that you don't have to faff around and it works perfectly as expected. Then there is the other "just works" as in it barely does the job it's supposed to do. Like a numpty I read it as the first version. Lol 😂

They should have called it the Aspera Slowmo 🤣

I HAVE A REDMI 12C! I've been using it for a year and it's pretty good, got it from android 13-14 (MIUI 14 to HyperOs) There are some bugs and missing features but it's overall good

Glue is probably a thermal glue (like thermal grease) to improve heat spreading to the shielding metal.

A big indicator that it was rubbish, to me, was its tag of using Android Go :| I forgot all about the Go crap for super-duper low-end future-pieces-of-e-waste.

37:11 after multiple phone testing, he finally sticks the landing

heavily recommend reviewing the Aspera R40, can get that at Big W for $129 or so, that's truly a weird one

5:29 i love the half life looking logo on the top right

@Aeduo

Ай бұрын

All the graphics on that box looked very out of time. the Aspera logo itself looks like it's from 2008, the NITRO looked like from 2002, the feature icons looked like something cheap from 2011. The only kinda timeless logo on there is the half life looking logo. There's something positive to say about the cheezyness of it though. Overly refined designs like you see a lot today are just bland.

the best budget american phone i encountered is the Blu View 3 they are one of the best budget options you could go for

I realy think we need a smoorez+ dabkpods callob ngll

5,000 for a phone like this in the Philippines is pretty expensive considering for 3,000 more you can get a pretty decent oppo or Samsung

even the 12C that was shown on screen supports android 13 and the full one, not go edition! let me also say that the cheapest replacement display i could find for a phone which was 7€ had 10 point multitouch

they did it on purpose to call it a nitro so people can be fooled by the name! it should be called aspera snail for how "fast" it is, and i did a research on the cpu and according to a site it says that this cpu is for low budget phones (and it was made in 2017), it uses a 4g module and it has the same gpu as this (meanwhile the old generation used the mali one) so even tho is sus about the glue i think they are correct on the cpu name. as for the camera, it's worse than welcome, at least put it outside so you know it's a dummy one but no, pretending to be a real one and be a dummy is being a prick. i object to this!

This is nitro without a car.

3:30 being grateful for having to use that _thing_ really doesn't sound easy tbh 😅 I agree that some expectation management / negotiating. Maybe propose getting no birthday gifts this year etc and wishing for some cheap poco or realme instead. Basically minmax CPU and display as 720p wasn't great when phones were smaller.

@mattBLACKpunk

Ай бұрын

Where I live a redmi note 11s with a pretty decent dimensity 810 is 140€ and if you'd rather have oled but take a ~30% hit to performance you can save 10 bucks and get a redmi note 12 (SD 685) instead

Try and get another identical one and see if the lens and glue thing are the same!

you should prob mute that radio to not get copyrighted love these vids btw

@SMOOREZ

Ай бұрын

I actually upload that snippet of video on my second channel while editing to see if it gets claimed and it didn't so I left it in as it is which is cool

I've got a Galaxy A13 as a work phone (provided by the company I work for) and it is intolerably slow at times and it has 4GB RAM, so I can only imagine how slow this thing must be after a few months of use. For context, I have a Redmi Note 9 Pro which is coming up for 4 years old and is WAY faster than my A13, so that shows how crap the A13 is.

@fede81s

Ай бұрын

My wife has an A03s with 4GB RAM as a work phone and also it is reeeaalllly slow, it takes like 3-4 minutes to boot-up conpletely

love the review. I have a bunch of phones and one of them is very slow, xiaomi mi 3 phone is sooooo slow. I did use it one time though. Never again. I can give it to you if you want it so you can check it out yourself. I haven't seen a Aspera in ages. You're not kidding about the camera, its shite lol

Could always call it the Shite-ro.

The "Aspera Slowpoke"?

Here is a bit of money for next welcome devices.

@SMOOREZ

Ай бұрын

Thanks for that :) I appreciate it! We need to look for more Welcome phones soon!

@oilo742

Ай бұрын

Welcome phones fabrication price leaked

Because I'm old, spat my coffee on the screen lol

The Aspera Nitro 2 and AS-10 look way more interesting Aspera AS-10 seems to have 3 cameras (one real and two fakers) main way to see if cameras are real is to switch between modes and see diference in quality of picture and if Cemera seems bit off also can but finger on one of Cameras and choose other modes like ultra wide and macro.

Hah! Just finished watching Derek in a VGG video, and now just saw him pop up! Factory!

What about calling it the Aspera Sloth

my current phone is an xiaomi redmi 12c and until now its great for about 120€ (the specs are way better than that)

37:15 he finally mad that jump🎉🎉

It really does only just barely work, but slightly better than the typical Welcome device.

Credit where credit is due, they still have removable battery. That's a sight for sore eyes in current decade.

I don't remember if I wrote a comment here, but I wanna ask yall - does a £60 iPhone X that's IMEI blocked, has a faulty front camera (but Face ID works) and has an aftermarket screen deserve a battery replacement?

It looks very similar to an Oukitel C16 pro, even the display size is correct, but that has 3/32 and 720p screen , fingerprint reader is in the same place though.

There are good Samsung A series phones for like 200 $

From a relative "laymans' perspective": 2G fully covered, 3G missing 1900MHz (which is/was used here in the UK). 4G … well, that's pathetic. It's seemingly missing 2, 4, 6, 9-27 ..? Like those "World Band" radios which don't cover half the SW frequencies (often also excluding Long Wave, which IS used here for national AM broadcasting).

This in 2015 would be amazing

The name reminds me of Xperia

21:41 before fanta 21:44 during fanta 21:46 after fanta

Amazing content as always! One thing that confuse for you in Australia, you buy your tech from Post Office like a tech shop? Or you order it online and receive to the post office?

@SMOOREZ

Ай бұрын

Yeah our post offices sell phones to you in store. You can order them online as well.

@addas4

Ай бұрын

@@SMOOREZ Thank you for the explanation! Here in Dubai, we can buy phones from petrol grocery store, but it is usually overpriced.

@aleksazunjic9672

28 күн бұрын

Buying cheap phones and prepaid SIM cards in post offices is common in may countries. Reason: every village usually has a post office, while cellphone stores (especially those selling SIMs) could be miles away. Post office serves for communication, so buying communication equipment there has some sense. Also, they are usually government operated, so they do have some sort of legitimacy. This is important for elderly, or foreigners needing to buy cheap device quickly. Although, as we can see from this device, legitimacy and trust could be misplaced.

4:42 A 3.5mm jack? Watch out flagship smartphones.

87 USD for THIS??? DAMN. I bought my granny a budget Realme C51 in not the worst configuration for mere 80 bucks... F to all who purchased the Nitro phone for the asking price...

@Yippeee5959

Ай бұрын

You can get my 128gb rom phone with 60 usd more or less

@YoumyTube-em5wh

Ай бұрын

You can get a gaming phone with 12 256 for just a mere 100usd in my country

@YoumyTube-em5wh

Ай бұрын

I thought my mom realme C35 was good

@ashtonmascarenhas2583

Ай бұрын

Depends when it was released tho

Hello can you review the i16 pro pls. It’s a bootleg phone that can go to the internet.

I do like the name, I remember it it from a job lot. Lol I just want to start with this. My Dad is 86 and he definitely wouldn't buy this phone. Like me he has Samsung A range. But I'm not sure which. I'm currently A54. I did have the A9 which was great with awesome camera. Sadly no longer updated. So had to update phone. So if I was going to Australia ( would love to visit but need so eoneto push my wheelchair lol) and I accidentally left my phone at home or had it stolen. I would look for a cheap replacement. Being honest I wouldn't buy this . Maybe if it had 3gb ram. I would consider it. The phone itself looks OK, as most do I suppose. Lol. I agree it is awfully slow. But with 1gb of ram that is to be expected. Lol Amdroid Go versions I believe are for phones with less than 2 gb of ram. I bought a cheap tablet that supposedly had 3gb of ram but was showing the Go version of certain apps. The real ram was 1.5 gb. It also made the most horrendous sounds that make me believe it is a welcome tablet with a cheap brand. This is why I think this is a Welcome phone with an Aspera branding on it? It was the sounds that gave it away. I do kind of like the Nitro name. It does sound cool. The torch 🔦 was OK. Enough to light your way in the dark. Microphone is something I've never really thought about but both sims sounded decent enough. The camera and video test were on the whole OK ish. You captured some really good stills. Although froggos looked better on video. Some of the flower shots came out really good too. Then objects in the distance left a lot to be desired. Xenny came out well in a few shots and video. The Devine Miss Ripley is gorgeous. That big white bully is just crying out for a belly rub. Lol The radio was surprisingly clear, especially compared to other Welcome devices. Although the sperker test with Doom stuff wasn't good. Loud but not great. I supposed earbuds or headphones would sound better. Possibly even more clear if using g the USB port for headphone out. That cheap tablet defo sounds awful but tolerable through USB. I tried it in the car driving round about and it was OK. I could get used to doing a spot of social media or Google stuff. As you say once a page has opened it is relatively quick to peruse the Web page. I do find having an easily replaced battery a big plus. The EU has ruled that all phones have an easily replaceable battery. But I don't know when it is supposed to come into force. I would get really frustrated if I were trying to play and games. It might end up being defenestrated rather quickly. The KZread test was OK. Yes the viewing angle wasn't a good selling point. So not gonna lie but I was really trying to like this phone for its specs and price range. And I did kind of like it. A cheap phone if I needed one in a hurry. However I really would go for more ram. On a side note. My guest had gone to bed and after feeding the cats I too headed to mine. I was going to rewatch this video on my TV and write this on my phone at the same time. However, I found you were still live streaming. Therefore writing this came second to the live stream. Which was really good and I throughly enjoyed reading all the comments and interacting with everyone. Although some terms I've not heard in different context but my excuse is I'm old. Lol possibly your oldest viewer. Lol Keep up the great work you do. Throughly enjoyable. 😊

I always wondered if you knew that holding down on the torch icon opens a menu that allows you to increase or decrease its brightness?

@SMOOREZ

Ай бұрын

Holy moly, I never knew that lol. Thanks for the tip! That's going to come in handy for sure :)

@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852

Ай бұрын

You're welcome.

Today I learned that Australian post offices sell phones.

@aleksazunjic9672

28 күн бұрын

Actually common practice in many countries. Phones and SIM cards (usually prepaid ) . Cheap devices to get you by.

@mattelder1971

28 күн бұрын

@@aleksazunjic9672 Just seems odd to me as an American. We can buy them at lots of different places (electronics stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacies, etc.), but a post office is one place I don't ever think I've ever seen one for sale.

@aleksazunjic9672

27 күн бұрын

@@mattelder1971 Post office is actually more logical than a pharmacy, as it deals with communications, not with medications 😁 Other than that, every village usually has post office.

Reminds me of the maxwest nitro we have here in 🇨🇦

“Australian owned”. You buy it and think “Yes, I’ve just been owned by Australians”

where is the live stream?

You should try I test

Can you add MXN to the pricing part?

Aspera reminds me of Alcatel and their $5 phone.

"Australian Owned" is funny. They don't own anything related to the manufacturing, design and engineering of this. They just buy them wholesale from a welcome manufacturer and slap their logo on. At least that is what i assume, because the same thing happens here in Germany. Random Alibaba stuff labeled with a German brand to fool people. It's worse than dropshipping.

Ай бұрын

Reminded me of exactly that. Though at the very least, from what I know this doesn't apply to all manufacturers around here. Like Gigaset for example, from what I know they have at least put some engineering into their phones and assemble them here to some extend using robots.

@hyperturbotechnomike

Ай бұрын

I see it mostly with TV's and household appliances. A Telefunken TV is often just some rebadged OEM rubbish, especially the "smart" ones are terrible. A friend of mine had one from Grundig and it did not last longer than four years until it developed a black spot in the centre of the display panel. And the colours weren't calibrated at all. People looked like oranges. Never had a Gigaset mobile phone, but from what i heard they don't get updates nor do they have custom rom support, which is at least for me important for privacy and security reasons.

Nitrogen is a narcotic gas maybe they were referring to that?

Aspera "Diesel", Aspera "Scooter", Aspera "Welcome".

Hey can you try the turkish brand reeder pls kts a good tho

The Aspera Nitro will find itself in the Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 territory. That´s 2011.... Except the camera is FAR better on the Galaxy S2. As well as the performance and display....

I wonder why Google never set much higher minimum system requirements for Android. If I were in charge, then even the S8 had 8 GB of RAM. RAM and storage is cheap today. Why build 64GB phones, when even cheap Samsungs have 128GB storage?

it's a simple device that you can use as a 2nd or 3rd device....

thing is trash.. visiting parents I used my dads Galaxy A13.. for such a cheep phone it did all the daily stuff just fine.. it was smooth.. it had a nice looking OLED..

Why do people even buy modern budget phones? Just buy a refurbished or used flagship from a few years ago for slightly more but a way better experience

@NickEter

Ай бұрын

Sir this is not a modern budget phone... This is a budget phone from 2014

@NickEter

Ай бұрын

Or a lower mid range phone from 2012 with a 4g module stuck to it

@totallylegitjosh

Ай бұрын

@@NickEter Modern as in sold today, yes I know the specs are basically that of a 2012 midranger

@NickEter

Ай бұрын

@@totallylegitjosh Budget phones from legit makers have been good for quite a while... Even a 2019 one is fast enough to tolerate with android 13

@NickEter

Ай бұрын

But obviously cant compete with normal modern phones

why the hell do they sell phones at the post office ? different name: The Aspera Aspirate

This looks like a Motorola phone I used to have.

Doesn't "aspera" mean "wait"

Might as well be one of ours... 😅

37:23 same with redmi 9at good cpu mtk helio at 2 ghz 32 gigs of storage android 11 but only 2 gigs of ram i had a realme with 1.8 ghz unisoc but 4 gigs of ram also android 11 and it ran better also the redmi costed my dad the same in 2022

i have a Redmi 12 and its good 8/256 version

review another aspera!

"you can see the quality" ... Quality have left the chat...

"it JUST works" - Todd Howard 2015

When i hear Niro i think wcw wrestling

This phone is like a 1998 Toyota Corolla. It's not especially powerful or fast, or anything really, but it do.

@callummclachlan4771

23 күн бұрын

That's a bit offensive. The Corolla has already outlived the phone.

the Aspera Ass , sorted , done, finished...

All these phones still think they are in 2011.

Aspera designed by ainol

id call it the ASPERA Slow

I had the aspera Jazz 2, and it was complete garbage. I missed every call I tried to answer because of the being slow thing. Nobody buy aspera phones

I tend to look sad.

Aspera goodmate

Android needs to minimum of 4gbs of ram to just open a webpage since developers give zero sh@ts about optimization especially with ram

😊This Nerd Nitro need NOS🚀

Aspera model Ratfart is a better name

This looks like my phone

That looks like a redmi note 5 (2018) with worse specs and same price as back then.

"Why do I look so sad...?" Possibly the 50 dollars you could have used for something more useful...

install a android gsi on this :D

Check Itel

That phone is as worthy as a car that been pushed too hard with Nitro...

Try the Redmi a3 lol (is so fast)

This might be a rebadged Moto phone