Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

I'm back to phones from the box I received. This phone is interesting for exactly zero reasons. It was released with Android 2.3, which has never been updated as it is manufactured by a Chinese company.

It comes from 2011, and has a 4.3 inches 217ppi LCD screen. And it is the only outstanding parameter. It is equipped with 512MB RAM, really poor camera, and 1400 mAh battery.



The storage available to users is really poor. Only 100 MB is available for preinstalled bloatware and small user-installed apps. This is absolutely terrible. Why were those phones ever released? Shouldn't smartphones be able to install something useful? I cannot really imagine how someone would cope with these awful phones, especially in the age of social networks with enormous caching.

The even funnier thing is that you can't really take a photo or save any files to your phone until you insert an SD card. The phone does not allow you to save any files to the internal memory. So, you get error messages when trying to use any app that would access storage.



The only way to install software is by installing it directly using ADB. I was able to get four small games, but I'm now out of space. How funny.



And why did I want this awful phone? There's just one small reason. It comes with Cyanogen MOD preinstalled, the predecessor of LineageOS. And that's something I'm still missing in my phone collection. So, just for that, I have healed the battery and added it to my collection.