This Is the Doogee Mix 2. It's a $200 smartphone. And the company hit me a couple months ago, and they were like.
Hey, do you want to check out our new phone. I went on the website the pictures looked good. The specification list looked awesome, we're looking at 6GB Of RAM, a big AMOLED screen, USB-C charging, Expandable storage, so on paper there's a lot of good things going for it.
And it's built well, it's not going to win any awards or anything for design. But it is built well, and it feels solid. Alot heavier and thicker than the phones in the $200 price point, But it is built well, and it feels solid. Alot heavier and thicker than the phones in the $200 price point,
Which I guess is the norm for inexpensive phones like this, you get a case, 2 screen protectors and a USB-C to headphone adaptor.
Ok, let's talk about the actual usage of the phone. The fingerprint sensor they have is not bad, It's pretty quick, obviously not the quickest one out there. But they also include a feature that gives you face unlock. And this face unlock is terrible, I don't know why it's so bad But even in ideal lighting conditions it would often fail.
And we're talking 30% failure rate and I tried setting it up multiple times. So I wasn't expecting Face ID from the iPhone,
I wasn't expecting that but I thought it should at least work, most of the time. But it doesn't, I wouldn't rely on that. I wouldn't buy this phone for face unlock features.
Let's talk about the CPU, it's a reasonably fast processor, bumps out decent benchmarks. Now obviously it's slower than the big flagships out there. But the overall performance is good playing games Multitasking, it feels fast I mean the 6GB of RAM it's gonna be nice, but i'm not super keen impressed Not that it's not good, it's just that there's so many cheap
Phones right now that are just as fast as this so It doesn't really stick out as being an amazing phone or anything.
But it's good. The screen is awesome. I'm really impressed by it, it's an AMOLED panel 5.99 inches so basically 6 inches, it's big , It's bright it's colourful, one of the best if not the best Screen i've seen at the $200 price point, that being said
I feel like I need to give some disclaimer of warning If you go on the website, the renders make it looks like this is a completely bezelless phone I mean look at this thing, what are they doing?
They're using these white highlights or these reflections To disguise what the actual screen edge looks like, those images Are so heavily enhanced that when I got this Thing and I pulled it out of the box, I they sent me the wrong one, I was like This looks like nothing like what the images on the website looked like So be aware that it still is a decent looking phone but the renders Are lies.
Okay, the battery life is good its a 4060 milliamp hour battery It's bigger than a lot of other phones, but the battery life is just good, it's not amazing or anything and this thing does not support quick charging of any sorts So it's a full 3 hours, actually a little bit more to charge this thing up from zero to full which is a long time.
The speaker's on the bottom, its a mono speaker and it doesn't sound particularly good. And there's also no headphone jack.
But there's three really big things about this phone that bug me a lot. The first one is the camera, I was expecting a pretty crappy camera, because its a 200 dollar phone, and the Doogee mix 1 had a pretty bad camera. This one, well it didn't disappoint. It's a bad camera. Daylight photos are okay, you need to have a really steady hand though because there's no image stabilization but the lowlight photos are basically unusable. We saw stuff like this in the Doogee mix 1
And they haven't really changed all that much.
The thing I find really weird is that there are two cameras on the back but the second one isn't used for telephoto, or monochrome or anything that I could find. I'm not even sure what the second camera is here for I hope to hell that it's not some sort of dummy camera. But regardless image quality is not good on either of the cameras in the front or the back.
Well the front camera has a wide angle, which is kind of neat If you're into wide angle selfies, but again image quality is not great.
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