Overview Doogee S70 - the first game smartphone with protection against water and shocks

Table of contents

• Specifications
• Packaging and appearance
• Display and Audio
• Performance
• autonomy
• Camera
• Software
• Protection
• results

Game smartphones - one of the trends in the mobile market. Until their release has been only a limited number of manufacturers: Razer, Xiaomi, ZTE and ASUS. Recently added to that list company Doogee with his new gadget S70. It boasts not only the presence of a special game mode, but full protection from external influences.

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Specifications

Chipset Helio P23 - this relatively new platform, which is now found in many mid-level smartphone. MT6763 processor includes eight cores Cortex-A53, running at a frequency of 2.3 GHz. It is made of 16-nanometer process technology, the speed corresponds approximately Snapdragon 625. For common tasks that is enough, but in the smartphone game I would like to see a more powerful solution. The composition also includes a chipset graphics accelerator Mali-G71 MP2, which has a graphics kernel 32 with a clock frequency of 770 MHz.

The smartphone is equipped with 6 GB of RAM, which is enough to run any programs. 64 GB of internal allow you to install the necessary applications and store data. You can also increase the space with the help of an external card that is inserted for the second SIM cards.

The navigation system in Doogee S70 works quickly and reliably even in the room sees a smartphone to ten GPS / GLONASS satellites and surely receives data from several of them. Cold start time does not exceed 15-20 seconds, and at restart to determine location requires even less. In Doogee S70 has a pressure sensor, which measures altitude and helps to improve the performance of the navigation system. This feature is found in smartphones rare.

An important feature - the presence of NFC module, which can be used for contactless payment. Yet there is wireless charging, which is especially convenient: to access the protected device connectors have every time otkovyrivat stub.

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Packaging and appearance

The smartphone is available in a nondescript box of recycled cardboard, which is used for packing their gadgets first start, if we remember correctly, the company Xiaomi.

Included is the phone itself, a charger with support fast charging, connecting cable USB Type-C, OTG-adapter, headphone adapter, spare protective film and accompanying documentation. Glued to the screen, another protective film.

Appearance smartphone protected typical apparatus. The main part of the front surface is the screen. It is surrounded by a thick frame, which protrude slightly above the surface of the display. An important design feature that helps keep the screen when dropped. The company's website says that here set the glass Corning Gorilla Glass 4.

Above the screen there was a place for the lens of the front camera, earpiece, proximity sensors and lighting. The front facing camera is also used to unlock the face. This works pretty confident, moreover, even in low light conditions.

The side faces strong reinforced metal plates. On the right side is the power and the rocker button to adjust the volume.

Tray for SIM card is on the left side. He closed with a rubber stopper, which protects against water and dust. Instead, one of simok can accommodate an extra memory card.

At the end of the smartphone is a connector USB Type-C for charging and data transfer. He's quite deeply recessed into the casing, so not every wire for him will do. Another argument in favor of wireless charging.

If you look at the back cover, in the eye catches a massive metal plate with dual camera lenses, a flash and a fingerprint sensor. At the bottom there are two slots, which are located in external speakers.

Overall design Doogee S70 does not carry any revelations. Before us is a well-cut and assembled solidly protected smartphone, whose appearance is not much different from dozens of fellow Chinese.

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Display and Audio

Doogee S70 is equipped with a screen with 5.99 inch diagonal and a resolution of 1080 × 2160 pixels. The manufacturer reports that the smartphone uses a high-quality matrix from LG. During testing, we do not have any doubts in this.

The picture quality is excellent: lively colors, sharp image, the color balance is set up correctly. The viewing angles are vertically and horizontally close to 170 degrees, while the image on the screen almost does not change color.

The smartphone is equipped with a light sensor, whereby the screen brightness changes automatically depending on the environment. However, this feature works with some delay, so when abrupt change of illumination is necessary for some time to wait. But a solid stock of brightness, which makes it comfortable to use your smartphone even in direct sunlight.

Additional adjust the contrast and color balance are not available, so you have to be content with those who have made the developers. However, again, the image on the screen Doogee S70 looks good, and it is unlikely that someone has a desire to change anything.

External speaker located on the rear cover. The sound quality is sufficient. Surprisingly, the device is able to give even low frequencies, so it may well be used to play music and movies. The stock volume allows you to do this even in the company.

As for the headphones, the future owners Doogee S70 should be immediately configured to use a wireless headset. Normal 3.5-mm jack is not here, and every time to connect the supplied adapter is not too convenient.

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Performance

Chipset Helio P23 has an average productivity, however appropriateness of its use in the gaming device raises questions. Nevertheless, we see an attempt to squeeze out the maximum.

In synthetic tests Doogee S70 shows slightly better results than other smartphones on the same hardware platform. We do not know what's the reason, but it is the smart smartphone Helio P23, which we met.

Speed ​​Doogee S70 head enough for regular user tasks, including Internet surfing, communication in social networks, watch videos, play music. But is that enough to ensure that he could wear the title geymerskogo smartphone?

We think not. Gaming performance of this gadget is very mediocre. In this sense, Doogee S70 is not too different from many other smartphones that producers do not think to call the game. Complex games at maximum speed will not go, unfortunately.

Doogee company advertises everywhere with this smartphone game joystick G1. In this case, it is not included in the delivery, it must be purchased separately. Moreover, it turned out that this joystick is not suitable in size for Doogee S70. The sliding design allows securely attach a smartphone, but not the side faces abut tightly, and the space remains under the back cover.

Nevertheless, it should be recognized that the software interfacing and G1 smartphone works flawlessly. The most popular games such as Asphalt 9, WoT Blitz, Shadowgun Legends, PUBG, you can play immediately after you connect the joystick. And for the rest, there are special programs setting comfortable use of the game controller. One of them - Octopus - pre-installed on your smartphone.

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autonomy

The smartphone battery installed on 5500 mAh, that, given the dimensions of a solid device, not seem startling. We have seen protected smartphones and a solid battery.

The synthetic tests Doogee S70 shown itself to be surprisingly good. In PCMark Work 2.0 Battery Test, simulating the performance of typical user tasks (web surfing, work with images, editing documents, the smartphone has held video playback and audio) is almost 14 hours. This means that in real life you can count on 3 days of normal use or 4-5 in save mode.

An additional plus - Support for fast charging, which makes it possible to charge your smartphone for an hour to about 75%.

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Camera

Rear dual camera smartphone. It uses a 12-megapixel sensor SONY IMX363. Manufacturer second unknown, test programs it is not defined. In general, we have the impression that in the shooting, he does not participate. Portrait mode appropriate - in the form of a clear program circle at the focus against a blurred backdrop.

However, picture quality under normal light can be called good. They demonstrate the correct color, good detail and the almost complete absence of noise. Such pictures can safely show not only on your phone, but also on a large monitor or TV.

In low light conditions the pictures are much worse. They will not save any skill of the photographer, no editing in Photoshop. The amount of digital noise rolls around light sources appears some halo and color scheme is limited to black and gray.

The front camera Doogee S70 is based on the Samsung S5K3P9SP sensor with a resolution of 16 megapixels. With its main objective - ensuring and creating video selfie - she does well.

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Software

The operating system is Android 8.1. Developers pretty dig deeper into its depths, and have both visual and functional changes.

The first striking monochrome system icons, and a modified key in the quick settings menu. Their appearance can not be combined with modern Material Design by Google, so in the general program cover looks crude crafts Chinese programmers. This impression is exacerbated numerous errors in the translation.

The preinstalled software, in addition to the standard set of Google Pack, also includes several specific tools, designed to highlight the purpose of the game Doogee S70. We are talking primarily about Game Mode, which provides start-up of games in high performance mode. In this case, all background tasks, as well as blocked incoming calls and notifications to the player is not distracted by anything close to the phone.

Overall Doogee S70 software is stable and fast. But he, unfortunately, still far from the level that smartphones offer well-known brands. This gadget supports wireless upgrade, but at the time of testing a single was not released patch. And sorry, the translation of the curve would be good to fix.

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Protection

Typically smartphones corresponds neubivaemy protection IP68 standard. However Doogee decided that this is not enough. Their new smartphone additionally supports a much more demanding IP69K standards and MIL-STD-810G. The latter, incidentally, is used by the US Department of Defense and NATO for the assessment of military equipment and components.

All our tests Doogee S70 withstood without problems. Neither burrowing in the sand or swimming in the sea water, nor the numerous landing on the asphalt does not hurt him. Only at the sides there were some marks, which in this battle smartphone look solely as decoration.

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results

Doogee S70 - is an interesting smartphone protected, which can become a victim of its own advertising campaign. For marketing purposes it what for passes for gaming, but for this there is no reason. In fact, he can not boast a powerful iron or a unique cooling system, or any other unique features that are inherent in the gaming gadgets.

Pros Doogee S70

• Good build and materials.
• Pressure sensor.
• 6 GB of RAM.
• NFC, support contactless payments.
• Autonomy, wireless charging.
• Good screen, and the sound of an external speaker.
• Reliable protection against external influences.

Cons Doogee S70

• The average productivity.
• The lack of a 3.5 mm jack.
• Raw software.

At the time of this writing, the cost Doogee S70 in the official store on AliExpress is 15 554 rubles. Included with the game joystick smartphone will cost you 18 206 rubles.

The author expresses his gratitude to the company Doogee for providing the test device.