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NUU Mobile G1 Budget Android Phone Review
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Jun 22, 2024
There are a zillion Android phones on the market, but they sure get expensive. You can spend more than $1000 on a phone nowadays, which is a bit whack. Fortunately companies like NUU Mobile offer alternative options, like the surprisingly powerful and capable Nuu Mobile G1 Android phone, which prices out at under $100. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ put the NUU Mobile G1 through its paces, and offers up a detailed review that includes the pros and cons of the phone, as well as both photo and video demos. Is it right for you? Quite possibly yes... Check it out at https://www.NUUMobile.com/
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An Android phone for under a hundred dollars? Let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here and I usually look at high-end gear but sometimes I like to
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look at entry-level and budget products. That's exactly what this is. This interesting phone
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is the New Mobile G1 Android smartphone and yeah it has a really amazing price tag but it has a
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lot of really cool technology in it too. So let's start there and let's start with an unboxing
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Right, so obviously phone's already out of the box and I kind of prepped this so we know what's
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going on. So this is the SIM removal tool. Then it actually comes with, this is actually very cool
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comes with a clear TPU case all ready to use and it comes with a screen protector. So all of this
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is in the box which makes this a really nice gift for someone because they have everything that
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otherwise you'd normally go and buy as an accessory. Charger and it comes with a micro USB
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cable for charging your phone. Now the one thing it doesn't have that a lot of phones have in the
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box doesn't have any earbuds. So if that's an issue that's something you'll want to know about
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but let's be honest earbuds are super inexpensive. You can pick them up at the gas station for 10
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bucks. So I don't see that's a particularly big deal. Now the phone itself is powered by a Media
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Tech 1.3 gigahertz quad-core CPU and it's a bit slim on the memory. It has 16 gig of storage and
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a 1 gig RAM but it does support a micro SD card which you can add to it which will then give you
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up to an additional 64 gig of storage. Now that's not the 256 gig of the top-end Galaxy or top-end
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iPhone but this is also not a thousand dollar smartphone. So there's trade-offs and I think
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that having a little less storage and having a whole lot more money in your wallet is not a bad
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trade-off. Now let me tell you a little bit more about it because it actually has a 5.7 inch HD
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plus screen running at 1440 by 720 which means it's a 720p not 1080p HD screen but honestly when
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I've used it and watched YouTube videos and stuff it's perfectly fine. Now the rear camera is an 8
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megapixel camera so that's decent and the front is 5 megapixels. Plenty enough for your selfies
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It's okay. I don't judge you. Let me give you a couple of demos. So these first two are photos
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that I took at the Denver Art Museum and the lighting was pretty tough so this was not a nice
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bright outdoor shot and I think the camera did pretty well with it. Now I also took a video and
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as you can see it's pretty crisp. It's a pretty nice looking video and you know it works perfectly
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well. You can import it with your phone to different devices. You can share it on social
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and here's what's cool is the video is actually at 1080p so it's 1920 by 1080 and what that means
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is that the camera is recording at a higher resolution than the screen can show. So that's
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actually pretty smart on their part. Let's see. Additionally there is a fingerprint ID on the back
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and I'll show you it's a super fast sensor so you see it's locked. I touch it, it's unlocked. That's
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pretty easy to work with. I like fingerprint ID and here you know the real thing, the real champ
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on this phone is you look at it and you're like that's a little thick for a smartphone and it also
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I can tell you it's a little bit heavy because it has this phenomenal 5000 milliamp hour battery
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That is a monster battery. This gives this about a two day instead of one day on a charge right
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depending on use etc but the company says that it gives it 50 hours of talk time. 50 hours that's a
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long time to be on the phone which you're probably not going to be on all at once but suffice to say
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there's a chunky phone here but it's because it has a whole lot of battery. Most modern phones
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are about half this much battery capacity so this is really nice if you're sick of constantly having
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to charge your phone this solves that problem. Now it's also running Android 8.1 Oreo which is good
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It's not quite Android 9 but one presumes that will show up at some point but it does have
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Bluetooth 4.0 and the latest generation of Bluetooth is 5.0 and that's important because if you want to
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get some fancy wireless earbuds or something like that most of those require well they don't require
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but they'll work best with Bluetooth 5.0 and so this is a pretty old version of Bluetooth
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I guess they just found a really inexpensive chip that could give them the Bluetooth 4.0
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I would expect at some point that'll be upgraded but for now the G1 is on a Bluetooth 4.0
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That to me is possibly one of its biggest limitations depending on how you use it. Now they
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have a surface on the back it's not super smooth. The intention is that it actually is supposed to
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be slightly less slippery. I don't really find that to be the case but maybe you will. I don't know
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It still has a nice feel to it and then in terms of the ports on the very top you have the micro
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USB for charging and you have a 3.5 millimeter let the angels sing actual AUX port that you can
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plug in headphones or a speaker. On the right hand side you have power and then volume up and down
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and that's it. The other sides have no buttons and the back has the camera and the fingerprint sensor
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and you can pop the back off because it's a dual sim phone and it supports that micro SD card too
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right so this is something where if you're used to really expensive phones this will cause great
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anxiety. I am tearing the phone apart right see that I am pulling the back off. It is actually
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designed to do this so there is no reason to panic and what you see is that you have two
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uh let's see where are they so I'm thinking that these are both the sim slots and then this is
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where you'd put the micro SD card. I might be not exactly right there but you can also see
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there's a pretty chunky battery here and of course now it's a little thinner but who the heck is
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going to use their phone without the back on it right so pretty easy to work with and the dual
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sim is a great feature I really if you're carrying around two phones and I see a lot of people do
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this it's just like get a phone that supports two numbers that's super easy so backs back on and
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it's a dual 4G sim slot so that works super easy really nothing else I want to share with you I'm
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really impressed with this phone I think that for the price this is a really amazing piece of
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technology this would be terrific for your teen or tween kid or for grandma who constantly loses
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things you know what $99 phone if you're using a pay as you go program or plan instead of using
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one of their junky little feature phones buy this and you've got this it's yours you have this
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forever if you want to upgrade to a full plan someday just drop in a different sim if you know
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otherwise you can just pay as you go with a much nicer phone that does much more so all that's left
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to talk about is the actual price I guess I sort of foreshadowed that at the very beginning but
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before I get to the price can I ask can you subscribe to my channel really appreciate when
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you do that and if you do use really entry-level budget phones leave me a message and let me know
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why and what phone you're using and how it's working so just leave a comment and I'll even
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respond very nice okay so this is the new mobile g1 android phone and it is $99.99 at newmobile.com
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yes it is under a hundred dollars and it is a very nice phone this is a really smart piece
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of technology and if you're looking for a second phone but seriously get a phone with two sims like
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this or you're looking for something just as a like a test phone to work with or you just don't
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have a whole lot of money to burn on your devices this is a really interesting alternative I say
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check it out and with that I will catch you in my next video
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you
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