DankPods is one of the few KZfaq channels that can make watching a crappy tablet load for an eternity fun.

When the world needed him most, Craig returned!

I never thought Candy Crush Saga would run at 9 fps on a brand new, clean tablet. Well done Craig.

Imagine someone's kid wanted a tablet real bad for chistmas and they got this It'd tear their heart to pieces

I just imagine someone getting this for Christmas last 2020 after thinking "Things couldn't possibly get any worse, right?"

Icraig is the male version of Icarly

Wade screaming "CRAIG" at random points gives me life

I love when he starts just repeating "Craaaaaig" in frustration at 3:23. It bring me joy, the kind of joy I expect from Craig.

There's something about Wade addressing these bits of electronic garbage as "you idiot" that just sends me every single time.

An ominous "Inevitably" followed by crunchy scarlet fire and a buried & dead inside voice going "go craig go" is something i needed in my life

Without any joke, that tablet is as powerful as... A 2013 Samsung Galaxy Ace 3. which was even by then far from being powerful. Except that the Ace 3 ran Android 4.2 which was much less ressource hungry than Android 9. When I installed LineageOS 15 (Android 8.1) on it, it was as laggy as the iCraig... That until I got rid of the Google Play Services. The difference was Night Vs Day, from unusable to eh okay for a 10 years old device running a "Modern" release P.S : I've bought an old iPad 3. Still a billionth time more powerful than the iCraig

This reminds me of my old tablet I had a couple years back. I don't remember the brand or specs because I was a child but it was bright blue, only had a selfie camera and ran like it was begging to die. One day in my bed it got lost under the covers, I put my knee on it accidentally full force and the screen cracked and it wouldn't respond to touch anymore. Honestly that was probably for the best

"charge the idiot, put memory in the idiot, reset the idiot, there's your idiot." Best Tech Support Agent Ever

Craig seems like that one coworker you have absolutely no expectations will do any kind of descent job, but still seems to find new ways to surprise you with how bad a job he's doing.

This Craig is like that one friend where you have a chat, but then they devolve into an hour long story. Then they ask you a question, but before you can answer, they devolve into *another* hour long story. A true Craig.

Every single time the old 1920s-era piano music comes on, I giggle like a little kid. This is great.

Kinda makes me sad that, even amidst a semiconductor shortage, companies are wasting manufacturing space and resources making crappy Craigs

If this is meant to be your kid's idea of a fun time you can be sure they'll spend all their time outside

I'm feeling second-hand emotional pain just watching how long this thing takes to do literally anything

One thing that bogs down old or crappy devices, is once you connect, those droids love to start updating in the background. I've found if you let it sit on a charger asleep for an hour or so they become considerably better. Still offensively slow, but not as bad.

Basically E-waste, like you said. There should be a punishment that goes directly to the CEO of a company, not the company, the person who signed off on these for stuff that's deemed as trash from the gate. They're making these because they can, it's high time we start penalizing this kind of mentality. CEOs with room temperature IQ have been at it for too long.

I bet there's a big, huge warehouse in a middle of China, where's all these tablet motherboards are just lying around for years. Yea, this was built in 2020, but internals are from 2012 maybe.

Basically these are leftover products in factories, from 2010's or so, which hasn't been assembled and well forgotten. So they slap a sticker on and put in production line to just put on shelf, basically recoup any money, lot of old people buy these because they don't know tech.. and just want something "cheap" to gift to kids or something

I had a very similar tablet in 2012 I think, it's crazy that this one made in 2020 looks exactly like one made 11 years ago.

This is the kind of tablet I would get in 2015 from a grandma that's trying her best but doesn't quite hit the mark.

I'm pretty sure while this model was made in 2020 it's the same under the hood as the tablet I bought my grandma in 2012. It was a different brand name but the case and exterior design were identical, the "specs" as much as you can say 4 cores without a processor model count as specs were the same, it just ran on a much older version of android. If my suspicions are correct the iCraig is also a 10 year old design manufactured in 2020 and it was significantly cheaper than the ipad at the time, and also not horrible for the era of mobile devices, not good, but not horrible.

That MP3 player was sold under a bunch of different brands and they were dirt cheap. I had that same unit during high school; but branded as an Element (the TV brand). I still have it on a shelf somewhere. They were actually really good for circa 2008. Solid state memory, user replaceable AAA battery, user toggleable multi colored backlighting, and computers looked at it as a thumb drive (which is what it was) so it was extremely easy to put music on. You could even use it as mass storage for documents and stuff if you were desperate. High school me would type up assignments at the public library, save them to my MP3 player, then plug it in to a PC at the school library the next morning to print them out. I'm going to finish the rest of the video now; I just wanted to take a moment to endorse the little MP3 player. It was a lot better than you're giving it credit for.

That 2020 on the back label was more of a flashbang than the screen brightness after you killed the lights.

I’ve had shitty budget chinese tablets back in 2010 that were able to do basically everything this does twice as fast. Still extremely slow, but at least they were usable!

can we all agree that Frank moves faster than the tablet booting up?

This is why, as a person of limited budget, I always choose older high tech stuff marked down over the cheaply priced new stuf. My new-to-me phone, tablet, and Mac Mini are all 3-5 years old and work better than cheap stuff made this year. I am always like ‘don’t buy the cheap tablet’ to parents. Give the kid your old one when you’re ready to buy the new one.

Easily the best channel I've discovered this year by far. You are incredibly entertaining, you review the most ridiculous stuff that I didn't even realize was ridiculous, and I pretty much love you. 😂 Keep up the amazing content! Thank you!

God this makes the Amazon Fire Tablet my mother uses look like a super computer.

Finally a tablet that operates on the timescale of Frank!!

I just bought a craig portable dvd player from the mid-2000’s from community aid for 13$ and had an mp3 or two of theirs growing up. The dvd player is awesome, the mp3s were a bit jank but I was NOT expecting this. Or them to even exist nowadays

THE THICK ACCENT THAT COMES OUT WHEN HE STARTED TO RECORD WITH THE ICRAIG LMFAOOO

Hard to believe that I randomly found this guy in lockdown when I got an iPod and I'm still watching him, thanks Wade! :)

That's certainly one of the Craigs ever made.

Hey I know ya probably get this alot but ya make my life better man and helped me through a hard time with funny angry man yelling at nuggets. Not just that but your other channels are fun to watch too. Just something so inspiring about watching someone bring themselves up from nothing! I wish you massive success

Love all your videos 🫶 keep up the Craig techvideos they are my absolute favorite!

Funny and ironic how frank loads faster than the stinky af iCraig Tablet

7:05 Craig can't even run Candy crush 💀💀💀

I just wanted to thank you for opening up memories that were quite strange, I remember having this "iPad" (let’s be entirely honest, this tablet would be better as a paperweight) and absolutely having no understanding on why it was so slow and horrible and I was stuck with it for a while until I got an iPhone. But one kind of sad thing that I didn’t know was that it was made in about 2020. Loving the channel dude 👍

Reminds me of my old rca 9 inch something. Ran like an abandoned Cadillac firing up and it had less ram than an og iPhone, but for 15$ it was damn near a steal

It’s a huge shame there are so many people who will be inclined to buy one of these on a regular basis and throw it in the bin every 6 months because they “don’t need anything better” - often also ruining their own experience with all the technical issues or giving up completely

Would it be wrong for me to say the $50 Laser tablet from earlier this year is looking appealing now?

My favorite part about these videos is the crazy unlocked memories. My brother had that Craig mp3 and I had several of the other crappy mp3 players.

Love how the Charging Cable it came with, doesn't even get completely into it. Looks like it might just slip out

I remember have a mp3 like the Craig. It only lasted me like 2 weeks and the headphones jack went out. Had to rap rubber bands around it just to make it work. Then later to keep the mp3 together 😂.

The biggest shock for me is that Craig is still around I thought they were some dead early 2000s brand

The iCraig is like the Sonic 06 of tablets

I watched this video over 10 times. It gets funnier every time seeing the iCraig try to load. 😂😂

You have to admit tho... that riding on a sled pulled by chihuahuas automatically makes you the coolest guy around. We're not going to discuss the fact that the Chihuahuas don't have enough height to pull a sled, that's irrelevant.

My favorite thing is that the tablet is so out of date, the KZfaq app sends so outdated requests to the servers that it gets straight up rejected. Lmao. (Error 4XX codes mean something is wrong with a request the device is sending to the servers)

That ending sequence is the most active Frank has been all year.

1:48 No freakin' way I think I have this exact tablet case XD Well mine doesn't have a camera hole and it's smaller but same material, layout, everything. Probably made in the same factory.

10:14 Scarlet Fire Jumpscare

I had a Craig boom box for years. It was all I could afford and it served its purpose so I have a place in my heart for Craig lol.

The Craig brand is over 50 years old. They used to make low and mid-tier car and home audio gear in the 70's, as well as TV's. Never the best, but not bad for the price, at least back then.

Fun fact, on most devices during setup ok the checking for updates screen, you can press back and then continue again, this basically makes it faster for some reason

I can confirm the “get your grandma an older but decent tablet”. My grandma has used my dads iPad 4 for two years until two weeks ago, when I did replace it with a new iPad 9; because ordering groceries didn’t work anymore - reason being software version of her browser. I know there are probably fixes for that, but my grandma is … not really good with tech, so I did want her to have a stable system (so I don’t have to visit her every weekend doing tech fixes, that has happened before), and also, she has the money to afford a new one, AND I don’t have an old one at the moment that I could spare. The tablet now sits in our kitchen, awaiting a new fate; but most importantly, I don’t get called every other day to order her groceries! Hallelujah!

Thank you for triggering my PTSD with this episode! I used to be a computer salesman in the US and we sold similar Craig "tablet" things at my store. I'd sometimes have to wipe them when they were returned, and boy howdy were they CRAP. Imagine this with a single core Celeron. Yeah. They were like $50 tablets that were about as effective at running as actual stone tablets. I hated these things. The customers hated these things. Everyone hated these things.

That’s the kind of device you bolt on to the dashboard of your 2002 Honda Civic to get a working infotainment system in there

This is now the go to present brand for any Craig I have to buy for. Craig on!

Oh man, I went through a handful of cheap tablets as a kid and this rocketed back so many memories. I have a nostalgia for these long wait times on crappy screens that hurt my eyes, good times!

Maybe Google should impose minimum performance requirements for Playstore access to discourage the production of unusable ewaste like this, insane

Dank is great. I love watching this stuff.

You know you're fucked up when even candy crush have fps drops

as soon as ive seen him trying to install 'real racing 3' and remembered how it tanked my nugget phone i was like 'nah mate dont do it dont do it for the love of god-'

Is this the real world manifestation of the silicone shortage? It's like the last of the last knockoffs to be made of old leftover or repurposed mobile processors that were too outdated to be used in anything "new"

I just saw my first Craig. It was a CD player/Radio speaker thingy, and it was backstage at my dance performance.

The Craig tablet booting up is just like me getting up normally everyday.

I work at a catalog company in warehousing, and we sell boatloads of Craig and Naxa products. All of them are stinky tablets, music players, speakers, headphones, and more. The most offensive I've seen is a camera binoculars by Craig.

Frank is running Craig software? everything makes so much sense now

Damn! The icraig makes Sonic 06’s loading times look short!

I watched this on my $150 Kindle fire in 1080p60 on picture in picture mode while running the same tests aside yours, and mine still smashed in everyway. I just love knowing that my tablet is a beast compared to some things

Nah nah nah @10:30 I swear to god thst he looked exactly like Rick astley

i came, i saw, i craig

Congrats! You got a brick that kinda lights up sometimes

This,THIS is the cure to impatience... trauma-therapy edition.

THE RETURN OF CRAIG

9:52 “why is my icraig so expensive” 😭

I know it was for demonstration, but 1 million chiuauas pulling a dogsled is the funniest thing ive ever visualized.

i remember 6 years ago when my parents bought me a similar tablet for like 70 bucks and it was second hand at the time.. but loaded things and games just fine

I once had a tablet like this and gave it to my mom. She said she was thankful for it but she told me everything on it ran slowly but she was still able to use it. The speeds of the tablet are exactly like the iCraig. I felt so bad for her that I threw it out and gave her a brand new iPad Air.

So I rebooted my phone halfway through the first CRAIG loading screen just to see... and I had it unlocked before CRAIG showed you his Checking for Updates screen

Imagine how funny it is if Dankpods made a video recorded with that iCraig tablet.

I can't not watch your videos. I've watched ones that didn't even actually entertain me, because I do still learn something in some way watching you. Thanks for being funny and being educational at the same time

The "iCraig" sounds like a meme name that Wade would give this thing, but no. It's just its name. It's not even a joke. What a world we live in.

When the iCraig finished booting and the timer appeared again for the updates, I lost it. That was goddamn hilarious 😂

Just love your content and sense of humor. Wicked paper also 👍🏽 greetings from Pennsylvania US.

10:24 Epic face reveal.

This guy just lights up your mood every time you watch him 🤣🤣🤣

The pain this man goes through just to entertain us lol

The camera mic clipping made me eat a whole packet of sleeping pills

I had this exact tablet in like 2014, came with the same aweful case with a keyboard and everything, it was aweful as u would expect but it was my first touch screen and I lived it and all it’s nuggetty goodness😂

I feel the aggravation with modern games needing to update all the time. I decided I would play games on my Xbox Series S while I was home for the holidays. Had to wait over an hour for the damn thing to finish updating, and then had to wait even longer for my games to download all of their updates. Like, bruh, I just want to play a few missions in Halo MCC.

5:09 fastest internet in australia

You sir have just Unearthed a mountain of memories from my tablet childhood.

My brain is so cooked that I started this video, got distracted, looked back, and thought that the orange gloves were the actual shade of your hands