Normally I make videos about super expensive, overpriced flagship cellphones.
You know, durability testing...taking them apart.
But every now and then I like to branch out and take an inside look at some weird phones.
Today we have the Micro M5 – the world's first ultra thin card phone.
This little guy can actually fit inside your wallet.
This strange phone durability test is sponsored by Dollar Shave Club.
Let's get started.
[Intro]
This little M5 is about half as thick as an iPhone.
With it's pretty lightweight body, textured back, and a startup sound that sounds suspiciously
familiar [phone jingle sounds], Nokia's probably not too stoked on that one.
With a consistent buzz of social media and the internet these days, sometimes it's just
nice to chill out with a simple phone.
It's got a phone book.
It makes phone calls with it's internal SIM card, and it also has Bluetooth, so it can
act as a camera remote or a Bluetooth speaker for your main phone.
Even though it does have that SIM card tray and can be a phone all by itself.
It does have a calendar, which is honestly pretty much worthless.
And there is a very disturbing lack of pre-installed games.
It honestly looks more like a calculator than it does a cell phone.
But would you look at that...it actually does fit inside a wallet.
With a 4 day stand by life, and costing less than $20, it's actually not too shabby for
a back up phone.
This is only, of course, if it ends up being durable.
You know the drill.
We treat all phones equally around here.
We start with the Mohs scratch test.
Each pick has a different material on the tip and let's us know the hardness level of
the display material.
And as we can see, the pressure is immediately evident on the display.
And we start seeing scratches at a level 3.
This means the screen's surface is made from plastic.
Glass would start scratching at a level 6.
Plastic seems to be the theme of this phone, running down the sides.
Down at the bottom we have an old school micro USB port, along with a mute switch, and a
little flap covering up the SIM card tray – all made from plastic.
There is no headphone jack at the top, which basically makes this guy a premium flagship
or something at this point.
Removing the headphone jack seems to be the cool thing to do these days.
The whole front side of the phone seems to be laminated with the same piece of plastic
material that's covering the screen.
No button cracks or crevices to collect dust which is nice.
Black plastic covers both sides of this credit card size cellphone.
It's a rather small canvas on the back, but I think I can make it work.
I guess you could say it's a canvas for ants.
Scientists currently estimate there are around 10 quadrillion ants on planet earth right
now.
Which means that if the ants all suddenly got together to wage war on the humans, each
of the 7 billion human beings would be left to fight 1 million ants each...all by yourself.
That'll give ya something to think about tonight.
You've probably heard the phrase “money burning a hole in your wallet.”
But what would happen if your wallet literally caught fire with your phone inside?
Thumbs up for that smooth transition.
If your wallet starts on fire with your cellphone inside, you better put it out quick because
this 1 inch, TFT LCD screen turned white after about 10 seconds.
It's an older style display like we used to see in watches or the old GameBoys, but the
screen did still end up working after the flame was removed, and mostly recovered from
the heat.
Not too shabby.
Since this little guy is designed to fit inside of a wallet, and wallets are usually sat on,
it's time to see how structurally sound the M5 Mini phone really is.
The first bend showed a substantial amount of flex, and the top of the screen started
slipping loose from the back housing.
But it's still alive.
Bending from the back it has a little bit less of a flex, but the ant, and our phone,
are still doing just fine.
During the second bend from the front, the back housing started to lift away even more.
But even with that back housing coming loose, the phone is still fully functional.
There are no external screws holding the two halves together, but the fit is still extremely
snug and requires quite a bit of force to separate...mostly catching on that micro USB
port down at the bottom.
Without the back panel in place, the phone is now even more thin.
We can see that the battery is what's adding most of the thickness – all 320 milliamp
hours of it.
It also looks like there's a hidden SD card slot inside of this phone.
I can't think of a real reason to have one of these.
There is no external access and it's not like there are any pictures or music to store on
here.
Inside there's also a circular coin style vibrator, the top loud speaker earpiece, and
the bottom microphone that's aimed out of a tiny hole in the front of the phone.
Pretty crazy stuff.
Nothing can be taken off or repaired, but you know, it's $20.
And it's still alive, so I can't complain too much.
Want to know what else I can't complain about?
Dollar Shave Club's $5 starter kit.
Huge thanks to Dollar Shave Club for sponsoring this video.
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Dollar Shave Club is a place online that cuts out the middleman and sells razors for pretty
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For $5 you get a starter kit sent straight to your door.
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And it's delivered to your door on your own schedule.
Dollar Shave Club has all kinds of stuff.
You can toss in things like a toothbrush or hair products, if you're into that kind of
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And after the $5 starter box, a restock box will come with regular sized products at the
regular price.
But if being clean isn't your thing, you can quit whenever you want.
I'll leave a link down in the description.
Or you can just go to dollarshaveclub.com/jerryrig to get started.
Thanks to Dollar Shave Club for sponsoring this video.
Would you ever want to own one of these credit card phones?
Let me know down in the comments.
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