$20 Yahoo Mobile Phone Review - ZTE Blade A3Y - Better Than You Think! By StevealiciousTech

Hey, what's up fellas, I'm malicious female fan, Steve Alicia's, here back with the review of the 20 yahoo mobile smartphone, the ZTE blade a3y and there's a lot going on with this phone. It has nothing to do with the specs. I don't make a habit of watching other people's videos about a phone until I do my own review, because I don't have a script for these, I don't want subconsciously other people's thoughts, getting it to my own and then all of a sudden magically the words are appearing on my video as well. I just open up the mic and have at it, but for this one I made an exception and I have to say I was a little disappointed about the videos on this phone people, basically just poking fun at it, getting some easy, cheap laughs because they're looking at it just from a specification standpoint, if you do that sure I guess it falls a little short, but this phone means so much more than that, especially this price point. You have to look at this phone, not from a technical standpoint and by the way we're going to get to the review of what this can and can't do technically, and it's a lot more than you'd think for twenty dollars and the price of the service. But you have to look at this phone from a social and economic standpoint as well, because that's where the impact of these devices and these companies coming in at these lower price points really starts to have an impact.

This phone means freedom. This phone means communication, this mode being security. This phone means opportunity for a lot of people that otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it or for whatever reason they just can't get it right now think about this. Okay, a kid just fresh out of high school, not going to college 200 to his or her name. You get something like these 20 bucks.

You could do job interviews, you can look stuff up. Furthermore, you get access to information that you wouldn't normally have the world's crazy right now say you lost your job, you don't know where you're going to be in one or two months. Furthermore, you don't want to pay 150 a month for other cell phone service, plus your phone bill pay for all the rest of it. On top of it, you get communication, you get safety, you get reliable network on Verizon with yahoo mobile that you otherwise wouldn't have had, let's say: you're a parent, okay, you're you're, tired of seeing all these other parents getting these iPhone 12 max XL pluses for their six and seven-year-olds, because it's ridiculous, but at the same time you don't want your child left behind for life skills that they're going to need later on. Something like this comes into play.

All of these things are important, and it's reasons why that we need competition like boost mobile, that do things at this kind of price range like yahoo, mobile who's now doing stuff at this price range, without a credit check to make sure the access to the information is there, and just because it doesn't have dynamic range on the camera, and it doesn't get the best pub g frames when you're playing your mobile games. There's no reason to sit here and make fun of it because you're missing the point we'll go over all that today, on this edition of Steve Alicia's tech, can you notice the lighting by the way we tried a little see the kind of up lighting with the back the RGB? We got some purple to match the purple yahoo phone. I don't go all in for the contrast lighting. You know, however, you have the strong lighting on one side of your face and then the soft lighting on the other I'm pretty enough. I don't need to rub it in, and we're back as always.

Thank you so much to all the new subscribers up over 2370. As of the taping of this video, if you're loving the phone to the technology from any at all price ranges go ahead and give that subscribe button a tussle. It certainly means a lot to me. So let's go over what the ZTE can do. The first thing that strikes you right away and be prepared for everyone that you ever meet in your entire life to comment on the color and rightfully so because it is a fantastic royal purple.

It is second to none. I think the only color that even comes close is last year's, Xperia x1 phone, the purple that they have. This is a magnificent purple and deserves all the compliments that you will be getting. It is a great looking back of the phone. It also has kind of a Kevlar feel to it on the plastic.

So it's not overly slippery, and it's not a fingerprint magnet. So technically, I'm going to go over a couple, things that are quick tips. That'll help you get more enjoyment out of using this phone. You can see that it has a fingerprint sensor on the back. This might be specific to my particular unit, but when I got it, it wasn't working- or at least it wasn't.

Reading properly it took a bit to like even get it to register my finger and then sometimes it wouldn't sometimes it would, I'll tell you what does work, though even better than making a pin. It's a lot faster if you just use the facial recognition, which does work most of the time I mean, I would say, 100 of the time I haven't had it not work just fine. Its picture note its picture identification, so it's not the most secure in the universe. You probably could open it with a still photo of yourself, and they even give you that warning, but that's okay. It opens it quickly and effectively, and it's a lot faster than trying to fumble around with a fingerprint on this particular phone or putting in your pin, password and stuff anything like that.

It's a lot faster. The other thing that I did when I went on here is that it is android 10. So it does have the ability to do gesture navigation, but I turned it off if you just go back to the regular button navigation, it's a lot faster because this phone can be a little slower, sometimes you have a case where it doesn't uh. It doesn't you're swiping, and it doesn't quite recognize it the first time or it. It feels like it's a long swipe, and you go into the multitasking mode and it just kind of gums up the works a little.

But if you leave the navigation row down here the buttons, if you navigate that way, you'll get through just fine on the device, it actually did a lot more than I thought it could for 20 a lot of times when you think 20 bucks, you're thinking you're just lucky. If it's going to turn on, but this delivers and then some I was able to use for the days that I've had it WhatsApp, no problem whatsoever. Twitter. You could scroll with no issues, Instagram, not a problem. You had YouTube, you could watch YouTube.

Videos in 720p didn't have an issue there. The screen the panel is actually quite nice, it's a little low on the brightness side, but the contrast is good. The detail is good. You're not missing out a lot on this particular screen, especially especially especially at that price point, and they do a good job. I'll tell you what, even though you see some yahoo stuff on here, the yahoo mobile stuff that they put on apps wise, it's not full of bloatware.

If you, if you pull up the app tray, there's not a lot going on here. It's the stock, android stuff cup, plus a couple of things that I put on there and the yahoo stuff. That's it and that keeps the phone bloatware free, keeps it running well and keeps it optimized, so you're not getting a lot of bogged down for unnecessary apps that they just throw on here, sometimes on these cheaper devices. Some of the other things that I was surprised about. Number one.

Facebook worked fine as well by the way. If we're going over apps, I put Facebook light on here, just to kind of ease up the load on the processor and the ram, and it works fine you're able to post and see everything, so you're able to keep connected text worked well, it only swallowed one text that I knew somebody sent that I didn't get. It was a group message into a string of text, and you know I can't entirely promise that that's not android wide. That's not system-wide. A lot of people are having that issue and I get notifications YouTube comments on a lot of different phones from people saying you know, I'm missing text, or I'm missing text, or I'm missing text, and I'll.

Tell you what I use a range of devices, obviously for this channel. I miss text on all of them using the official google app there for messaging. I lose text on all of them and a lot of it has to do with group messages when you're dealing with iPhone and android users. But please know, as far as I'm concerned, that's a network-wide issue as far as losing text messages is concerned. So I really can't blame this particular phone for the one and that's out of 100 or so that that's really not that bad quality is good connection.

We're good speeds were good. I was able to get 25 down or something like it was. It was connected to 4g Lt, just fine connected to their network with no problem, as you can see good signal strength even indoors, which is a big deal, some of these cheaper carriers or jeez on sprint. I was on sprint back in the day and back in the day I mean like a year or two ago I had a sprint for a work phone, and it literally would get one x indoors. One x, I hadn't seen one x on a network since my Motorola razor 15 20 years ago, so it gets good reception indoors.

So you like to see. Sometimes they didn't skimp on the antenna whatsoever, because reliability is really important. The design of it is good. Listen, it's a plastic, build! That's fine! You get a headphone jack, which you get back, which is excellent. I like what they did: USB-C charging, which is a big deal because a lot of times with these cheaper devices, you get that micro USB, and you sit there, and you can plug in your phone on a Tuesday, and hopefully it's fully charged by Thursday or Friday for the weekend.

It would just take a year and a half to charge on you as a micro USB so USB it charges up well for 2600 William hours on the battery, you get all-day battery life and then some I wasn't able to kill it and that's a lot of things right. It's a slightly dimmer display 720p you're, not pushing a higher resolution. The processor's, not power, hungry you're, not going to do overly intensive stuff, so that equals excellent battery life, which is what you'd want on something like this you wanted to, especially if let's say it's not any of those scenarios that I put out in the intro, and it's something you're just getting it for an elderly person that just needs a second device, a communication device, if you're getting yourself as a secondary device kind of disconnect device. You want to be able to throw it in a drawer and not worry about whether it's going to be able to hold that charge or not, and this certainly fits that bill. Uh, you get what I like about it.

Are you also when you're removing the back, because it is expandable storage instead of putting like a weird tab here, somewhere you're kind of prying open the entire side of it? I do like that they put it on the corner, and it's a decent indentation. I don't know if we could even get that a little focused, but you could really get your finger in there and pull off the back where it feels like you're, not prying, the entire phone apart notification led, which is quite nice and that works. Well, I don't really. I couldn't see any areas where you could fully customize the colors on it, but it did work quite well. I'm going to open it up because the biggest surprise of this device- and it's going to take a second okay- is that you could play Pok?mon Go on it.

You could do some light gaming on it, and it's no problem. It's no problem where it counts, because the Pok?mon Go gamers, you can throw curveballs, just fine, you can navigate on here. Just fine. You know it takes a beat or two sometimes for stuff to load up like it is right here, but you could still catch Pok?mon and that, I think, is quite fun, especially if you're getting this for a kid or a younger person, if you're, just young at heart, and you'd like to catch your Pikachu, you could do that on this phone without any problem, and that's something that I definitely was surprised about. When you see the price point, when you see the specs on it, how well is it optimized where it can run a game like this speaking of optimization, while this loads up it does an excellent job with those two gigs of ram.

It does a good job like a game like this, you know I could technically be leaving it open. Oh man, there's just a bunch of stuff going on here. Let's go ahead and let's go ahead and get this levee, there will be a lot of stuff going on, and you can have stuff open, but it does a good job, shutting down what it doesn't need. So if, if like, when you go, and you close Pok?mon just close it out, not necessarily close the app it'll go ahead and shut it down like it. Won't it won't, keep it open, so you won't have an issue with it.

Gobbling up your ramp. Now you don't want 20 million apps open on this at once anyway, but it does do a good job of keeping it relatively effective and efficient, so you're not experiencing a ton of slow down on your different apps. So as I lose the note as I lose the uh, the navigation there for a second but otherwise works, well, really, no problems with it. Like I said I love the optimization on the phone. I love the fact that it shuts down different apps, and you can switch stuff.

You want to keep it clean. You know go to the multitasking every once in a while shut down stuff that you're really not using, but otherwise for 20. Like I said at the beginning, this is something that is an important price bracket. You know it's not all about in technology. What can we do with the two thousand dollar phones or the fifteen hundred dollar phones, because a majority and by a fairly large majority of the marketplace, isn't going to be up there all right, but there are plenty of people down in this range and the fact that, like the boost mobiles and the cheaper carriers, and now yahoo mobile are offering carrier stuff without the credit check for cheap, I think it's important to have competition down in that range.

I think it opens up a lot of opportunity and the service is good as well. We could do all this fancy stuff for phones. Why can't we break the barriers as far as making the technology cheaper, and you have absolutely zero problem on this end, with this phone doing that for twenty dollars, it'll get you through whatever it is, you need to be getting through where it'll, you know, you're learning your device, you're learning an android device, so many possibilities when you get stuck down to this price point, but if you've made it this far, it helped uh thanks to our special helper, the penguin today, Santa hat, if you've made it this far like comment subscribe all that fun stuff. Let me know in the comment section: if you have one, let me know if you have the yahoo mobile service, and you're liking. It is so far until next time have that Steve malicious day.

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