Alcatel Go Flip 4044V Cell Phone Update And Final Review By Kevys Rc & Music

Hey guys how's it going welcome back, update review for the Alcatel, go flip phone aka, Star, Trek, communicator, no I'm, just kidding kind of remind you of one, though doesn't if you know they used to flip them. You know you could do that with this. Just hey whip bone, okay, so I had gotten away from smartphones for several reasons which I've mentioned even on my iPhone 8 review that I just finished doing today as well. Today is kind of like review update day review day. You know so: hey I'm having fun. What can I say, so I got this thing, and it comes in this cute little box and the model of this sucker is four zero.

Four V and only comes in black every phone courier in the City of North Bay, which is covering everybody in Canada pretty well. This is the only flip phone you will see anywhere. Okay, even Amazon I think this is probably the only one they have. They may have another one or two, but it's only about a hundred bucks which is not bad even from the courier they're very competitive, with Amazon. Right now, although I have seen a few of them for like about 80 bucks, 50 bucks, but you know on average hunter buck phone to buy it outright or three dollars and 25 cents a month on a zero down contract and I have gotten this thing on a zero down contract $35 a month.

No doubt a plan required unless I wanted to surf the net, but I could actually hook up to the Wi-Fi at home or the Wi-Fi at Tim, Horton's or McDonald's, or Burger King whatever, and used Wi-Fi for surfing the net and watching YouTube videos on this thing, which I could do which was like holy crap. This thing does a lot for, for you know now you mean a smartphone I mean it's got a calculator, it's got a camera in if it's you know, it's got a lot of stuff in it for being just a flip phone. You can do texting on this as well for the $35 a month plan I, unlimited canada-wide Colleen, which is great because all my friends are basically in Canada, and so it's nice to be able to call long distance and not have to pay for that like. We have a bail line here too for emergency backup landline, and we pay about same price a month. For that and all we get is like local calling.

You know it's like. We have a phone. Yes, it's a phone. We have a phone, we can communicate hello. We can't do anything else, I mean we can't call long distance on it, because the package for that even for Canada, if you're still paying by the minute, but you're getting a cheaper rate.

But it's like why we have unlimited on these things. So when they're working great, we use our cell phones. We do not make any long-distance calls on the landline just because man that would kill the bill so anyways for 35 bucks a month, Canada white calling and because of the type of phone it is and what it basically runs on, even though it is a 4G phone. It is also a 5g ready as well for the new 5g networks that are coming out, hopefully not, but apparently they are but anyways. It is nonetheless 5g compatible, no problems there.

The texting is part of the package and so is picture and video, which is basically running it as if it was a smartphone, but no requirement for a data plan. Now the only OS that's on here is its own. It's its a chaos or whatever OS. So it's not Android. It's not Apple, it's just its own little thing, and it has.

You know some programs on there. Like you know, it's got internet browser. It's got. This does have Bluetooth, up-to-date, Bluetooth boohoo, so you can connect to your Bluetooth in your car, so you can go hands-free and that's always great because it connects like instantaneously. It's like amazing to try and make call slow on your car phone with this.

You actually have to have this in your hand and screw around with finding your list and finding the number and that's actually illegal, you're not actually allowed to hold a cell phone in your hand anymore in the car. If you are caught even just hanging onto the thing like this using speakerphone you're busted, that's distinctive, driving trying to dial a number distinctive driving, etc. , etc. So this phone is useless for trying to make an outgoing call with unless you're willing to break the law. To do it, and hopefully, there are no cops around when you are doing it, or you don't hit somebody because you're an idiot trying to make a phone call, and you're not paying attention to the road like you should be.

Okay, so, but answering phone calls you can answer from the stereo in the car with Bluetooth. That part is fine. You can hang up from the call, but you just can't make a call, because there's also no Siri here, so you can't make voice-activated calls and even without Siri there is still no voice activation for making calls with without having to flip the fallen up first, and then you have to dial if it's stupid right, so does everything but being able to make calls while you're driving. However, if you're walking around you can answer the phone to hey, you can use the speakerphone. If you want, you can do all your texting now texting is old-school.

It's kind of like you know all this. You know you got three characters per number, and you got other buttons here, and you know four back spacing deleting and space bar and all that other jazz. It takes a while to figure out, but what to get the hang of it, you're pretty good at it. A friend of ours has a flip phone. She loves it.

She does text on it, and she's pretty quick on it. Furthermore, she's used to it right, so it's kind of you know you can get used to anything. But the reason why I stopped using this phone and going back to a smartphone was because this thing it started to be problematic for me in the car it would default the stereo 2:15, which I can't even hear anybody talk to me at fifteen. Even if I have the AC turned off and everything I can't hear the conversation I have to turn it up to 24 right, it's just the kind of speaker system. Probably my car has because I'm using factory speakers with a really super sick stereo, but at fifteen even for the phone side, it's not very loud, but for the listening.

We do music side.15 is obnoxiously loud in that car, so your phone systems work a little different for volume levels. Well, I would try and turn the stereo up to 24. This thing would knock it back down to 15. It's like wow, so many times. I wanted to actually hope in the window and just go WOW and throw this thing out.

It drove me nuts. The other problem I, had whether it was a couple of times. I, don't know if it was me or if it was the phone itself, but I would go, and I closed the lid, and it would start doing this countdown thing, and you could see it on the screen and the volume would just be going right down till it hits zero and vibrate, and then that's it. Nothing so I wouldn't even able to hear the thing ring. I'd have to open it back up and push the volume back all the way up to the top.

Again, then close, if I'd be fine. So I'm not sure if that was me hitting the button when I was closing it or if it was the phone itself, but it was a problem, then the last drove me mental I said enough. Is enough: I'm going back to a smartphone, the drawback to having a smartphone through a carrier with a zero down deal? Are you must have a data plan? Okay, unless you provide your own smartphone, but a zero down course you're, getting a brand-new phone and part of the contract piece of phone, the rest of it pays for the services, and you have to have data plans, and it's kind of like everybody is unlimited now, which is fine, I mean I, have unlimited on my tablet. I have you know unlimited on my new smartphone, my wife hasn't limited on her phone and on her tablet. It would be so nice if Rogers would just get off their butt and give us unlimited data on our rocket, and then we'd be like set.

You know it would be like we'd, be awesome so and now the winters here we get a much better signal -. So now I can actually make use of my own limited data at the house. I, don't have to go to the church and hook up my tablet, my computer together, and do my uploading there, because I rocket cost us a lot of money to run every month being out in the country, and we have no other option other than satellite now has unlimited data, but it is slower than molasses. On Sunday, okay I mean it is so slow now, where the rocket hub is actually quite fast, even for being in the country, is pretty fast in the city or closer to a cell tower. Yes, it's faster than Bell vibe, but I'm.

Sorry vibe can't even keep up I've tested that but anyways so yeah. So as far as this phone goes, though, if you are looking for a basic phone only, and you don't want to get into data plans, but you still want to be able to do texting, you want to do video, you want to do picture swapping or even, if you don't want to in us, if you just want a phone period, and it's cheap to run, this phone is definitely going to be cheap to run. But it is got the downside of Bluetooth into a car stereo where you're going to have a nightmare. Getting that thing to calibrate properly with your stereo. That part is a pain in the neck.

Okay, as far as talking on the phone goes through its own earpiece, you know you're sitting there, and you're gabbing and blah blah blah yeah yeah I get it now. The other thing too, is you really need to hold the phone like this because holding down here your volume buttons and your camera button is right here on this side, and you cannot disable the camera button. I thought maybe I could, through software nope can't do it. It's like stupid place for a camera button because they give it to you here already. You know on the pad for accessing the camera, so you can go.

Oh, look! Okay! Boom! You know all this button does is activate the program for the camera. Well, you can do that from here too. So it's kind of a bit of a stupid lean design that way and because you can't disable it. That's it that's a problem. Okay, because I would need to be able to disable this button to make it a lot more friendly, so I could actually hold the phone the way I want to, in which case the only way to use it now is to hold it this way, which I don't know.

Some people are okay with it. It's not too bad, I guess once you get used to doing it, but nonetheless it's a drag that I can't actually hold the phone. The way I want to like this, you know so because this has more meat on it than the screen area does, so it's kind of like I feel come more here, but that stupid camera button. It's like, let's take a snapshot of my ear canal, while I'm talking to somebody Now that bad cameras at the back, you just be taking pictures, or maybe somebody just stole something over there got it on camera. Hey that's cool yeah so, and it does have a front screen that you know, tells you the time and that sort of jazz battery life is actually pretty good on this recharge time, not too bad.

You know it's decent. Getting into the thing, that's a matter of popping the back cover off and put your SIM card in there now. The SIM card size is exactly the same as all the Apple iPhones —, which is nice because I were able to actually pull the SIM out of here at the store and slam it right into my iPhone no problems, and they still gave me a spare sim anyways from my iPhone just in case something happened which was kind of nice of them, but anyways you can put up to a 32, gig micros card in this for extra storage space it does have about a gig I believe it is onboard which in some ways it's a lot in other ways. It's really not a lot, but 32 gigs a lot better and as soon as you put a memory card in this, it disables completely the on-board storage area. So your OS has actually kept on a chip inside.

So it's not something where you can. You know format the phone and reload the phone. There is an area in here for a firmware update, I have not yet gotten a firmware update for the phone I've been checking and zilch, so I'm, probably gonna, just let it sit for a while. Maybe I'll try it again in the new year, unless I trade, the phone off or sell it by then I, don't know they suggested I kept it for an emergency spare. In case something happened in my new iPhone 8, because for some reason, I busted, my iPhone 8, it's $99 to replace the phone under my warranty package thing I bought for it, which isn't bad for a hundred bucks.

You know because it's covered, if it's not covered, oh man, I, don't even want to think about it, but it's really expensive to replace an iPhone 8. Without that coverage, and at least my coverage will cover stupidity which is kind of nice but anyways. All in all, it is a perfect phone, though it is very clear. The speaker part is plenty loud enough, good and clear. You can even put music on this thing.

It does have an FM radio, but to use it you have to have wired earbuds, because those earbuds also work as the antenna. Apparently. So it's kind of like that's a neat little circuit, but yeah. It does have some features to it. The camera isn't the world's best camera, but it's fairly clear and clean.

It does the job. It's a camera, okay, and it's a flip phone at least it's better camera than what they used to have on them. You know so there's that on the side of the box, we get information on here, quick access, fast browsing, 4G, LTE, access to email as well, so you can do email on this. You can't do Facebook, though Wi-Fi enabled long-lasting battery and the essential media that you require for being on a phone I. Guess you can't play video games on it, though.

So forget that idea. It's not going to do that, but it's to be a phone, and this one was created in July 1920 19 July 1920 19 is when this phone was actually shipped out or created, or something anyways. It's dated on the box here. But this is the only flip phone I found at all the carriers, and it's kind of like I like black. You know it's got a decent sized screen on it.

You know buttons aren't too bad, they work. Well, you know everything else seems to work well, texting is slow, going like I said, but it's the design factor right, but if all you need is a basic phone, you don't need data. You don't want to spend a lot of money per month on having a phone, because all you do is back on the phone. It's a perfect solution for that. So for that part, I would say four and a half out of five for the issues that I ran into it may have been the phone, or it may have been me, so I'm, not gonna, really ding that too much, maybe a tiny little.

Then, of course we have the Bluetooth issue now. That is something that no matter which way we did it. We could not here rebind, didn't work, wiping out the old binding rebinding didn't work, there's nothing that has solved this issue. With this thing defaulting my stereo 2:15 and every time I try to raise it higher, it jumps it right back to 15, that's a pain in the neck. That's not a curable thing! So for that reason, when you include the Bluetooth thing with it, as far as car phone use goes, I would put this thing probably sitting around of both three out of five okay, but not using the car phone feature and blah blah blah.

Okay, we're at what I just finished, telling you, okay and that's kind of a fair judgment in my books. That way, you know I, think that is completely fair and that's why I have to give you an update review based on two different scenarios here with this thing and that's where I'm at with it. So, if I didn't have to worry about getting, you know arrested for using a phone while driving yeah we're a golden child right did I to leave it on the dashboard and use the speakerphone works great, but using it with the car phone thing doesn't work so great. Now that doesn't mean it's not gonna work, fine for your car stereo with Bluetooth. We have a JC system, I, believe it is in our car, and we do have the latest firmware update in it, and that system does work absolutely flawless with iPhones.

Okay, we have no issues, which is why I'm blaming this. However, this may work if, if you have a Kenwood or you have a Sony or you have some other make that just doesn't care, you may have a better experience that way, but you may not. You may have the same experience as my JC in my car, or you may have a far worse experience, who knows until you hook up the Bluetooth and where you go right and that's just the way technology happens to deal with things. So there you go now. The charger comes with.

Is a wall art charger, so it's just plugging in the wall of a USB plug on the end. That's it there's no actual USB, USB cable, where you can just you know, charge it from your computer or from a USB charger has its home. You know 120-volt 5-volt conversion, Della plugging in and where you go. I have cabling to go full USB charge time going from a USB wall, art to a separate USB cable that you plug into that USB wall, art that actually charges much faster than the one that they give you with this. The one thing they give you with.

This is kind of a's a weaker charge, time; okay, so it doesn't have as much William output per hour as what you could expect out of say: an iPhone charger. Okay, an iPhone charger will put a more amperage, therefore recharge the phone, a lot faster, as opposed to the one that comes with this okay and so taking data off this you're going to need that cable anyways. If you want to take data off of this phone and then put it on to your computer, okay, so one way or another, you need the proper cable, so I, don't know why they don't just give you a separate little power, brick with a separate USB cable. So you can use one cable for doing everything and then, of course you know charging it as well and so on so there you go anyways guest, a little oversight on their thought process when they built the thing they didn't think about whom they might want to go through so fuller, you could do it where wirelessly I think you can do with this as well. You can do it all wirelessly and get your stuff off that way too.

I think if I remember correctly, you can do it that way, but anyways. If you're looking at one of these things, check them out check Amazon as well as your phone carrier. They always list the specs for the phones. You know on their sites, so you know you can go to a Rick to the Alcatel website too and check out their specs and compare it to everybody else, because sometimes dealers miss stuff. You know and Amazon certainly does miss stuff for features.

Furthermore, you know, so we even check out the actual website for the phone and go from there. Anyways thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed the video and yeah catching the next one see ya.

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