Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

I finally had time to add another phone to my collection. Today, it was the Galaxy J1. It's a pretty fancy phone with Android 4.4.4.



I had to recharge the battery a few times as it was quite tricky, but it seems I've brought it back to life again!

The phone and its hardware are relatively nice, too. It is really thin and fits the hand well. It has 512 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GHz dual-core Cortex-A7 processor, which is more than enough for its age. The display isn't particularly smooth, but it's still usable.

I also tried taking a few photos with its camera, and the results were relatively good. It performs surprisingly well in sunny conditions, but surprisingly poorly in any other conditions.

Other than that, it's not really a special phone in any way. I installed a few games again and am going to put it in my collection.

I was looking for old racing games with jet boats and discovered that there are quite a lot of very similar games from between 2013 and 2017. The concept is always the same, and the graphics are very similar. The only variations are the tracks and the additional game modes, which are different to the championships.

This is the game I installed this time:



After a long time, I have played the legendary Android game again. Hill Climb Racing. I mean the original game. The second game is just a collection of adverts and microtransactions, but the first game is still one of the best Android games. It's as stupid as it is genius. The principle is really simple: just drive for as long as you can without running out of fuel. But the ability to buy upgrades, new cars and unlock different tracks keeps you interested and forces you to go further and further to earn more rewards.