I bought junk phones & found SUSPICIOUS messages...

I bought a lot of ~75 untested phones from Goodwill... and surprisingly, a lot of the phones turn on! In this video, I go through a bunch of these phones and see what interesting stuff I can find...

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[SmokinSilicon]

Who else here used to have a phone with a slide out keyboard?

[Soultaker_For_Hire]

It's crazy and hilarious that so many people don't even reset their phone when they get rid of it.

[justinreagan]

The accessibility that you were hearing that was talking to you and that Samsung phone, is called talkback. It is called a screen reader. To turn off talkback on newer, android phones, you hold down the volume up and down buttons at the same time for about three up to five seconds. On older phones, you would act like you’re going to power off the phone once the menu comes up, put two fingers on the screen and hold it there for at least five seconds. Talk back should turn off. For iPhones, triple tap the home button. For iPhones, it is called VoiceOver. VoiceOver is the built-in screen reader on Apple devices. The screen reading software help the blind do the exact same tasks as sided people.

[jjcoolaus]

ZTE is sold in Australia under various prepaid carriers. I believe it’s a Chinese OEM

[seff]

It actually makes sense a lot of these phones are recent. People have been switching back to basic, or "dumb" phones.

[PROJJ]

6:21 FBI Surveillance Van? What the Hell is in your search history? LOL

[masonmyhand]

When accesssibility is on, you have to double tap on thescreen to select items. and that applies to turning off accessibility

[scottdunn]

You can put a AT&T SIM card in that Cingular phone Cingular is at&t

[ENNEN]

Petition to pass a law making it so all your messages must be publicly read if you don't reset your phone/PC before getting rid of it. If you don't value your privacy, we'll value your embarrassing messages.

[mikeh]

So where in the video are these suspicious messages...?

[bannankev]

Bruh, after all these consoles and phones I gotta know has ANYONE reached out and been like “yo that was my shit you had in video titled whatever it was in?”

[eamuy]

The phone at 6:48 is the LG Ally. I own this phone and is one of my personal favorites in my collection.

[thesummergamer]

for the samsung phone you can turn off the accessibility by holding down the volume buttons i think

[JordansDroid]

After all these years of using that one flip phone, I had no idea if you held down the D pad arrow it would bring up the tip calculator

[Aphaplayer]

15:17 That's the same phone I'm using right now. It's a 2017 Alcatel 5044S 🤦

[Dr-Random]

12:35 it doesn’t work if you have the microphone access for the app turned off

[guaiqueritech]

1:35 ZTE was a quite common Chinese phone brand a few years ago. They made decent equipment. I remember using a flip dumbphone made by them as a secondary device about a decade ago

[MrWifeyyy]

You seem to be on the right track, here in Germany you can buy like a Pack that includes a rental car, hotels etc. and then you can do like a road trip throughout different parts of the USA and since it also has a translator built in on the bottom of the screen it probably is some sort of GPS for tourists.

[callmetony]

16:23 I remember there being a minigame like that in one of the Brain Training games for the DSi, but instead you had to handwrite words letter-by-letter with the touchscreen, if I recall correctly. I completely forgot about this, but that sparked the memory of that minigame

[Ihavelostallporpuse]

Accessibility: From my experience the Accessibility settings allow you to do actions in the setup to bypass theft protection. (Yes i was so dumb to factory reset a phone before connecting it to wifi and having issues with that)