How's it going everyone? Today we have a longer video, but I want to give you a review of
the Nokia 27 80. The Nokia 27 80, as you see here in red, just came out about two weeks
ago, and now we have it here and I've been testing it, but I also want to give you a
walkthrough of iOS. I get a lot of questions with CAOs, and I'm going to give a longer
walkthrough today of what is available and what is.
First, let's get the review out of the way and then as we go through the software, I
will talk about CO OS and what it offers. So a couple of good things. It does have usbc,
so that is very welcome, very encouraged. Does have volume records on the sides and
a customizable key right here, which you can open, uh, application or you can also set
it up to.
Call a contact if you triple click it, I believe, like an SOS button. It also remains, uh, the
3.5 millimeter headphone jack, so we have something to, you know, be happy about specifically
since it has been lost in the past. It does have a camera five megapixels, and, uh, it
does have a screen in the keypad.
It's not the most amazing. Again, it's a cheaper device. It's $80, but it does get the job
done. It is, uh, very serviceable. Too plasticy, uh, not too rubbery either. So it's kind of
like somewhere in between. This part is, uh, a little bit more plasticy, and the keys themselves
are a little bit more rubbery. Uh, and I'll showcase this, uh, in just a second with all
of the other capabilities that you can use with this device.
Now, that is the hardware portion for $80. You're getting some stylist device, depending
on the color that you get, and you get to enjoy, of course, uh, uh, unlocked device.
This is completely unlocked for the United States. I have tested. The three major carriers,
so at and t, Verizon and T-Mobile, and they all connect without any issues in my area.
Now, maybe other areas you will get less coverage, but uh, here in the Denver area it is excellent
coverage and it has worked, make calls without any issues with the three major carriers.
So that is very good. Now, besides the, uh, reality of carrier compatibility and things
of that nature, we do have the operating system right here.
You have, uh, calls. Contacts. You have a store, you have YouTube. You cannot remove
any of the applications that became, uh, pre-installed. So anything that came pre-installed, you cannot
remove it, but you can remove the stuff that you installed from the store. Uh, maps right
there. You have pod lp, I install that application so I can remove it when I get to the options,
but otherwise you cannot remove anything else.
That's just the reality of K Os 3.1 as of right now. Uh, and Banana hackers may not
be able to help you either, which used to be a method to kind of remove all the stuff.
Um, I believe they are also limited in what they have been doing with K Os 3.1, but check
out their website and they may have a solution.
I'm not going to go over. In this video, uh, but again, you have the basics. Uh, you have
a camera. You have internet, uh, you have video, gallery, email, uh, clock, music, file
manager settings, fm, radio calendar calculator, chi, weather recorder, snake news notes to-do
list games. Uh, this is a couple games. Again, you cannot remove them.
And then you have a couple of applications that I install, like a weather app. Music
app and, uh, another, uh, weather app. I'm going to uninstall that one to show you the
regular one that comes with. Uh, so I'll go through a little bit more of the walkthrough
right here, uh, for settings. So you have a lot of helpful settings out here.
You start with network and connectivity, airplane mode. Um, you have, this is mobile network.
Uh, wifi Bluetooth geolocation for gps. If you want accurate directions, uh, you have
the ability right there. SIM manager calling VO L T E n VO wifi. And with my testing I
can certain that it works for both. Right now I don't have my SIM card on this one,
but, um, I.
You know, tell you that it works for both and you have internet sharing, so you have
hotspot on this device, no issues whatsoever. Uh, you also have sound profiles that you
can change for volume. The display wallpaper, you can search search engine right there.
You can change it if you want to, to duct dot go or bing something, whatever you prefer.
Suggestions, notices, uh, on the screen if you want app notices, if you want to get notifications
from the different apps, you can take them off. Date and time language, which only has
two as far as I could tell is English or Spanish. That's it. English or Espanol, and then input
methods. Also English or Espanol, nothing else.
Because this is a North American variant, hopefully they bring it to Europe and put
a couple of extra languages in there. You also have the lead behavior. This is a question
that I get all the time, but on Kios 3.1 devices, you have the ability to change the lid behavior.
So if you flip to open to answer, you can put it on or off, depending on your preferences.
Off lit to home screen, meaning that when I close it, it will go directly to the home
screen and not to the app that I was just in. This is just something that you can change
privacy and security. You have a screen lock, you also have app permissions. You can remove
them if you want. So, uh, geolocation for example, right there.
Um, you also have do not track, which you can tell the websites that I want to be tracked,
but we do not. So you can select that you don't want to be tracked. Uh, it's a little
bit better, uh, iOS, uh, analytics, things of that nature. You can clean up your storage,
USB storage and micro SD card a. I can confirm that this device does have a micro SD card,
the 27 80 for $80 instead of the 27 60, which is essentially the same but without the SD
cards for $20.
So if you need an SD card for music or for things of that nature, this is better. It
does have a file manager. For your internal memory, which is not a lot. Uh, I believe
is about four gigs for the internal memory is very little. Um, so you probably will need
an SD card. You also have an FM radio, uh, you have email, you have a clock where you
can set up your alarms, things of that nature, timers, stopwatch.
You also have music right there. Um, I don't recommend their, uh, original music one. I
would say download K music from the store. It's a better. You can take notes. Uh, you
can also do a to-do list, uh, right there. Uh, and I, again, I'm going through a little
bit of a longer video today, so make sure to, to do that.
Now, as you see right here, this is the, one of the annoying things about K os is that
you get advertisements. So right here you have an advertisement, you have to dismiss
it, and then you can create the to-do list. Native applications do not have as many advertise.
But some of them do and it's very annoying.
For example, messages and calls, you probably won't see it calendars some of the basic functions.
You probably won't see it before the third party applications. You will. You also have
chi weather right there. Probably will. Gonna see another ad, maybe. No, nothing so far.
Perfect. Denver is 58 degrees. You have calendar right here where you can set up, uh, whatever
you need so you can add a event or something like that.
All day event. When it starts, when it ends, things of that nature. Whether it repeats
the phone calendar. Uh, et cetera, et cetera. Um, and whatever you wanna save it probably
into an SD card. That's the other capability. Um, let's keep going through, uh, video capabilities.
You can playback video, you can have a gallery for your pictures.
I'm gonna take a quick snap right here, see how legible it is. Uh, so let's just take
a quick snap of this cap right here, right there. Uh, I don't know why it needs my location.
Right there, we took a picture and we can go preview it. And as you see right there,
it's pretty legible. You can zoom in and you can see some detail.
Of course, it's gonna be a little bit blown right here, just due to the nature of, uh,
my lightning situation. Uh, but it, it does get the job done. I think it's serviceable.
I'm looking at it right here and I can look at the details. It's not gonna be amazing,
but it does have a flash and it does have a five megapixel camera, which is, uh, very
welcome right there.
Uh, then of course you have maps and you have podcasts. So, um, per personally, a podcast
listener, so you know, you go there. Pod LP is the best podcast app in my opinion. The
one I use every time I'm using iOS, but you can, you know, search select, you can go to
options, you can go to volume categories, you know, if you're looking for popular ones
or trending podcasts, things of that nature.
Uh, this is probably one of the best applications that you can get for that. Uh, you have Google,
so if you wanna search something, again, this is just essentially a link to the Google page
is not necessarily a Google track. App, and that's something that I wanna say that the
only thing that is Google oriented on this device and that they can harvest your data
mostly is your location.
Besides that, you're not giving them a lot of data with Co OS devices. Yes, they're sponsored
by Google. But they don't have a lot of Google trackers like on the Android devices, where
they control essentially the whole ecosystem. They do have some trackers and you have to
be mindful of that. If you are looking for a super private device, then probably CAOs
is not for you.
But if you're looking for something in the middle, something that you can manage and
that you don't need to have all of these um, things, then I think it's fine. I think it's
a very good device, honestly. Very good transition, uh, to the downfall world. You don't want
something super limited, but you have kind of like somewhere in the.
You also have maps. There is no turn by turn navigation, so it will not speak to you, but
you are able to find directions. So for example, right here, if I say Starbucks, Starbucks.
Then it's going to search for Starbucks locations in my area, and it's gonna say, Hey, you have
a couple ones right there. You can then click it and then you can get directions and it
will tell you, um, I'm just gonna choose one on the map right here.
Just a random place. So right there is gonna calculate it, drive, train, or bus, um, bicycle,
whichever way is best for you. So we're gonna drive, let's say, uh, and right there it will
tell you essentially as you move, it will move with you and it will switch essentially
where it is. Now, you can also do train or bus, which is my preferred method of transportation.
And right there you just take the zero and then you walk for a couple minutes, I guess.
Uh, right there. Um, and yeah, you can walk and you can go on the bicycle as well. So
if you wanna do a bike ride, boom right there, tells you how to do it and how you can get
the most out of your trip. So it does have maps, it does have that ability.
Uh, you can places of worship, I guess. So you have nearby stations, gas stations, popular
things you can show on the map, and that is the map application for that. You also have
YouTube. It's very limited. I don't think you're going to be watching. Uh, content on
this a lot of the time, but you can watch it if you so want to.
I don't think it's the best experience, but if you're trying to watch a video or get some
information that somebody sent to you, you can get it now. I will showcase to you how
the T nine works on this device. Uh, you have the ability to type in different modes. So
this key right here, the pound key will switch the input.
There is abc. There is ABC without the capital that is abc, all capitals 1, 2, 3, and then
predictive text. So you have Hello right there. My name is Jose. Oh, mistake right there.
Lose . But right there we'd switch it to. , uh, and I, uh, you have to switch it. I
can type on T nine, T nine. Uh, let's put, um, t and then we're gonna select it.
T and then we're gonna put a nine right. By long pressing. But as you see right there,
the typing experience is really decent. Uh, the keys are pretty responsive and they have
predictive texts. Now, if you want to do triple click, you just switch it to abc and then
you do the triple click method, which is something that, uh, some people prefer.
You know, it's just like it's faster for them. Uh, whichever one you prefer, you have the
ability to do. Uh, but that is the messaging and good news. Kios 3.0 has group text messages,
uh, automatic group text messages. You can put it on or off and you don't have to do
the trick and add some stupid, um, whatever it was, the, the subject line or something
like that.
You can just go and say, Hey, you know, I want to text 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 4. Six. Six,
and then you wanna text 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 4, 8, 9, 9, 7, and it will automatically convert
it to a group text message. As you can read there it says group text message created group
message will be sent via mms. Automatically and you don't have to touch it ever again,
um, to go to SMS or mms, it will automatically detect what it is that you have to do.
Um, there are other things, uh, like uh, the K Os app store. Uh, that you have right there,
you have the ability to load, um, a lot of the different things, uh, and you will be
able to use and install different applications that you may be, you know, kind of like interested
in. There's some games here, some not. A lot of social media honestly has, uh, only.
Um, Twitter, like a Twitter client. Uh, but besides that, I don't think it has a lot of
like other things that you can use. Um, as you see right there, it was kind of glitching
or still glitching. And that's one of the things with k os sometimes it glitches, but
it's not, you know. It's not a bad, a bad thing, uh, especially with a three point,
uh, zero or 3.1 devices.
Uh, it's very, very improved. Um, you also have the news. You have vo uh, kind of like
a audio recorder. That's another thing that I always get asked, like, does it have an
audio recorder? Yes, it doesn't have an audio recorder that you can record right there.
Um, and it has a calculator. A lot of the basics, a lot of the stuff that you want and
need, but not a lot of the stuff that you don't want.
So again, a very good device. I will give it definitely a seven out of 10. It's very
kind of middle ground, not flashy, not amazing, but not terrible either. It's just, just does
get the job done. It does what it needs to. It doesn't have all of the extras. No Spotify,
no anything. If I didn't show it here, it's not here on K Os and that's why it took a
little bit longer today to kind of go over the features that are most requested on this
device.
It does have directions, it does have text, it does have calls, it does have vo wifi and
sharing and, and Bluetooth and also hotspot, but it doesn't have a lot of the other smart
apps. If you want that, go get an Android device either. Uh, Android, dumb phone, like
the Cat S 22 flip. Uh, just, that's just the reality.
I'll be making another video where I'll be explaining kind of like how all of this works,
uh, with the tiers of different operating systems, just because I get a lot of questions
and I cannot answer them all. And I try, I try to communicate with all of you guys, but
sometimes it's just the same question 50 times, and I'm just trying to be as efficient.
So trying to get, get you the answer as, as best as I. . Um, so I'll try to be making
a video too so I can explain all of that. But I really appreciate you guys watching.
I appreciate your viewership. Thank you for sticking around and for always sending your
recommendations. I have another phone coming up that I'm actually super interested in.
Uh, it's kind of like a very niche device, uh, again from Japan, I believe. Uh, and I'll
be reviewing that. Uh, stay tuned to the channel. My three year review of the light phone is
coming out soon and a lot of other. Thanks for watching. Thank you for your readership
and your support. Check out all of my other content and I'll see you in the next video.