 Hello everyone and welcome back to another Ethan journal video today I have a really cool video that has been in the works for probably eight months now because This is a bootleg iPod shuffle as you can see here, and I bought this off of eBay for two dollars and 50 cents and free shipping even and it came straight from China now You know how things are taking a long time to get from China as of right now Well, this took eight months to get here They said it was gonna take like three months But no it took them about eight months to get here and I mean it's here It just arrived today So I'm gonna film this video because this is my entire plan for the video was to make a video about this now I guess let's go over my first impressions of this product I'm not gonna leave a link to it in description because Honestly, I don't think it's a good thing to be making these bootlegs But I'm and it doesn't even have a brand as you can see it's like unbranded So probably just like someone in China just making these But like looking at it first impressions. It's more dense than I thought This does not feel like plastic at all And mostly just feels like maybe like an aluminum Material, but it is not plastic and I can show you that I mean these tiles here that part is plastic But these here like this does Doesn't feel like plastic and it doesn't like sound like plastic either like this Doesn't really sound like plastic Over here you can see I haven't actually turned this on yet But if you look here you can see it has a micro SD and then like mini USB right there to For power I'm assuming to charge the battery and it has this really clicky click wheel here It's very clicky a more clicky than the shuffle now. I actually do not have a shuffle with me as of right now They would be cool if I could compare it to it, but oh my gosh It's got power. I have not charged this yet, but that's cool It's actually got power in it Well, I guess that's probably our next step would be to grab a cable and plug this guy in but it is tiny But I guess another thing I want to share is this hinge is not the best like it can get out of line pretty easily And it's not as like strong because I can clamp it on my finger. It doesn't really hurt But yeah, I think this frame is some sort of metal even like a lightweight metal or something But yeah, this is plastic. So let's get a cable and plug this guy in All right, so we're back. We have the 2 gigabyte drive now And this actually came with my 3d printer. So it's actually the smallest Size micro SD card I have so I guess let's see. Does that actually fit in there nicely? Wasn't this way. Oh, so it's one that goes like completely flush in there Okay, let's in So Let's go grab a speaker to use with this I have this really cool song called scarlet fire and I think it'd be cool to put that on there So I have this 2 gigabyte drive right here And I thought we could put it on here. So this is 2 gigabyte So I think it should hopefully go on there and here's scarlet fire So let's drag and drop down there and it's done so let's head over back to the iPod and See if the see if it actually plays and see if how the audio quality actually is All right, everyone. So I have the thingy here The little mini mp3 player and while I'm waiting for my speaker to charge up Let's just do a non-educated Non-technical guess and just use my cheap old headphones that I have here that I've had for a long time So let's plug them in here Like that and do that and then oh it actually comes up Okay, so I'm just maxing out of these speakers. This is not a great test But there is sound So loud they can get That's as loud as they go The fact that there's any sound coming out of this darn thing is just awesome That's awesome So I guess we have to wait till the speaker actually Comes back Well charges up I guess you should say and we can actually get a real test to see how good this thing actually sounds And if you should buy a cheap old iPod shuffle knock on so I have the speaker hooked up And it works So sound quality is actually okay from this little guy I'm happy it works Um And it actually turned out nice so I guess what are my thoughts? Well, still don't buy a cheap knockoff if you really do need to buy a more expensive one It's gonna last you longer than one of these Um, and my testing the battery does not last that long But sound quality is fine. I mean we tested it on the headphones earlier so Honestly, I think that it's an okay device. I mean for what I paid for it I paid this I paid like I said two dollars and fifty cents and free shipping. This came directly from China It works. Okay, and honestly for the price I was I was expecting it to like never arrive, but it actually arrived It works. Okay. Um, I mean No, I would not recommend buying it I mean still like if you're looking for a cheap one Sure, you can buy these cheap ones on ebay like all I do is search mp3 player and then sort from uh cheapest to More most expensive and I just this was actually like the cheapest one that I could find that had free shipping on it So I just bought it. Um pulled the trigger and bought it. No not not knowing what to expect but I guess in the long run I wouldn't really recommend buying these because they're not gonna last long Um, but it's really cool for like a cool little toy Like if you want to give this to like a little sibling who you know might break it Or to like a little kid just to play with like like you put this in the little kid's toy room and let them Use it for like playing music because you know that if they find it and they break it It's not going to cost much repair. I mean even then I still wouldn't recommend letting them break it Because you don't know what kind of components are inside if they get shocked, but still it's a cheap thing. Um But yeah, I'd say it's okay for someone who's just getting into listening to music You don't want to spend like the hundred dollars on like an apple iPod or even in these days It's not even worth buying an apple iPod. I mean just use your phone, but more or less I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Um, and thank you for watching. Have a good rest of your day and goodbye