OVERVIEW: Doogee Y200 - stylish large smartphone with fingerprint reader
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Once upon a time a Chinese company Doogee ultradeshovymi famous for its very high quality iPhone clones. However, on Android, but with the original (?) Display. Today, it is a serious brand name, Which account for the mass of very interesting budget smartphones. With one of them today and we'll get acquainted.
Doogee Y200 It is positioned as a budget smartphone youth of the new generation. Direct competitors of new items - Meizu M2 Note, Meizu M1 Metal and some other more expensive options. This high standard is provided by the appearance and some of the functional features of the gadget. But first things first.
Contents of delivery
The bright box is a smartphone and a full set of required to start using the accessories: bumper, original charger 1 A, USB-cable, the key to access the slot SIM / microSD, the film on the screen (another already affixed to the smartphone transport) headset. Bumper, unlike Enron previously reviewed by us Cubot X16Flexible enough, after a while there is backlash.
The headset is tolerable quality: suitable for listening to music is not for everyone. But when you use raises no objections to talk. Matte film, that in view of the lack of anti-glare screen is very handy. Charger adequately rated, but does not have one of the stated features (though it nowhere, below we explain why).
Appearance
This is perhaps the main advantage Y200. Russian buyers available the black and white smartphones, but the company even produces yellow and green. New made by all the canons of modern smartfonostroeniya: thin frame, folding design. However, the frame of modern Chinese phone a few non-standard: instead of whole milled engineers Doogee offered is divided in the middle of the plastic insert. The side face of the body original beveled, which gives the smartphone a pleasant view.
Screen - 5.5 inches, IPS with HD (1280 × 720 pixels). Of course, it is a little, but enough for a clear picture. Moreover, such a solution makes it possible to save battery power. The screen is covered with glass. Manufacturer unknown, to scratch resistance tests have been performed, and it is not recommended. Oleophobic coating is absent.
The device is equipped with a combination slot, which is a pull-out slide, which can be set or two microSIM-cards, or one in conjunction with the memory card. You can make and combined with a sim card memory stick. Mechanical volume rocker and power button are made of plastic and are located on the opposite side of the casing slot. Extend beyond the body to a sufficient height, the bumper does not stop pressing.
The location of all elements of the standard: sensors placed above the screen, the camera and tri-color LED-event indicator (color: blue, red and green). LED Color to drain the firmware can not be adjusted.
Below the screen are the control buttons: two touch-sensitive navigation and versatile physical key, which is hidden fingerprint reader. Beneath them, at the end of the smartphone, is a hole-in microphone.
In the right corner of the back panel - main camera and dual flash. At the bottom is the full width of the lattice casing which conceals the external speaker.
Characteristics
- 5.5-inch IPS-display, HD (1280 × 720), the viewing angle - 175 degrees.
- 64-bit quad processor MT6735 from MediaTek, 1,0 GHz.
- The graphics processor Mali-T720, 450 MHz.
- 2 GB of RAM.
- 32 GB internal memory + memory card volume up to 64 GB.
- The main chamber 8 Mn (Mn interpolation to 13) with the LED flash and autofocus.
- The front chamber 5 Mn (Mn interpolation to 8).
- The battery on the 3000 mAh.
- Manage gestures.
- Two microSIM-cards.
- proximity sensor, accelerometer, HotKnot.
- GSM, HSDPA, LTE, Wi-Fi (802.11b / g / n), Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, A-GPS.
- OS Android 5.1 Lollipop.
- Dimensions - 155,5 × 77,1 × 7 mm.
- Weight - 138 grams.
Performance
Doogee Y200 hardware platform based on a single platform (SoC) MediaTek MT6735, in which the configuration includes four processor cores Cortex-A53, running at a frequency of 1.3 GHz. For graphics processing here corresponds to the video accelerator Mali-T720.
Amount of RAM 2 GB. Volatile memory is available for about 26 GB. You can expand by replacing one SIM on a flash drive. Supports OTG (although the hard drive will require additional power supply).
The machine dials in AnTuTu about 23 thousand points. Despite this, the power reserve is enough to play Asphalt 8, and World of Tanks without discomfort. Geekbench shows 470 points to a single processor core and 1290 - using all.
But testing the video subsystem with three-dimensional graphics shows that the processing capacity of the rollers is not enough: there are small twitching pictures. OpenGL test result is not surprising, if we remember of the used graphics cards.
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The smartphone supports a 2G GSM networks, 3G WCDMA and necessary in Russia ranges 4G (LTE Cat. 4, FDD-LTE Band 1/3/7/20). Testing the connection was made using the card "MegaFon", "Beeline" and Tele2. All showed an excellent job. The device exhibits a stable connection and allows you to make calls at a considerable distance from the base station. GPS cold start shows from 8 to 17 satellites (Baidu and GLONASS are not supported), as a navigator device is operating correctly.
Other networking opportunities is quite familiar: Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi is only supported in the 2.4 GHz band. There is Wi-Fi Direct, you can create a wireless access point via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth channels. NFC is not present, but there HotKnot support. OTG is working.
The smartphone supports two SIM-cards, working with them on the menu is organized in the familiar principle that any card can be assigned mainly for those or other actions. Depending on the functionality in the slot on the location there, but in the third or fourth generation network can handle only one card.
Software
The device's operating system - Android 5.1 Lollipop with support for updates over the air (OTA). Unlike many Chinese, this already includes Google Play.
Y200 supports Smart Gestures and Smart Wake Up smart screen function. Unlock smartphone can be, making a swipe across the screen or double-tapping on it. You can choose four characters to activate the desired application, swipe to control the player with the screen off. Unfortunately, not everything is translated into Russian. (The unit comes with an English interface, and Russification put in the language settings of the system, so it's no surprise).
Doogee Y200 is equipped with adaptive brightness adjustment technology MiraVision, allowing the device (if To turn this feature) automatically adjust the range of the screen, and the brightness of the backlight to ambient lighting.
Home hardware and software token device - a multifunction button with built-in fingerprint scanner. Thanks to the software, sliding on it, you can control the drain launcher, music, take photos. In addition, the button has a standard function button "Home".
The scanner works quite fast. To enable it, you must enter the corresponding menu, choose a password and set up the necessary items. You can configure up to 10 different fingerprints - both its own and other people. To unlock the screen using a fingerprint only works when on the screen blocker, that is with a pattern, password or gesture. Fires in approximately 0.5 seconds, operation speed does not cause irritation.
Working hours
Per night enabled mobile phones takes about 3-5% charge. Playing in Asphalt 8 at maximum settings puts the battery for 4 hours watching videos in flight mode with 720p quality at 60 frames per second - up to 8 hours. With enabled LTE, GPS and all the necessary applications in the background gadget survive until the end of the day and gives the opportunity to come home with a couple of percent charge. (The load included - messengers, SMS to an hour, 5-7 calls three hours of music for three hours surfing through LTE.)
From complete charger device is charged from 0 to 100% for about four hours (4G mode). Declared support for fast charging, but in fact a smartphone is charging current of 1 A, without any changes. The actual battery capacity is not more than 2 550 mAh.
Camera
The main camera supports up to 13 MP interpolation. The actual sensor resolution - 8 megapixel, and the camera takes exactly this value. Better than a standard 8-megapixel camera of the Chinese system, but the stars in the sky or the quality of Sony is not worth the wait (even though its components are used for the main camera).
There is a single LED flash is bright enough (to drain flashing a flashlight, powered by curtain). Autofocus works properly and quickly, does not cause irritation (at least somewhere Chinese engineers worked). Shooting static subjects succeed even without HDR-mode or third-party applications. The camera settings are completely standard on all Android-smartphone, why dwell on them will not.
Front camera supports interpolation from 5 to 8 Mn. So stop for a videoconference, but it is hardly suitable for shooting high-quality selfie (unless, of course, do not get involved in the filters).
Sound
Microphone quality and good conversational dynamics. Timbre and intonation of a familiar voice practically not distorted, it is possible to know the interlocutor. Built-in noise reduction system copes with its task, while bypassing ambient noise, including the recording of telephone conversations.
Work external speaker is quite good, but the general grid falls short of expectations: everything inside modestly smartphone sounds softly.
The firmware has BesAudEnh tool to improve the quality of sound through the headphones. But even without her smartphone sounds much better than many Chinese counterparts. Music playback was tested using the built-in player and Poweramp. When the built-in player uluchshayzer almost catches up with the sound quality the best player for Android. Very bright (for a budget device, of course) isolated bass. Treble is not littered. Stock volume is sufficient for street and public transport.
conclusions
On Doogee Y200 you should pay attention when changing smartphone. The device offers a good for its form factor autonomy, balanced characteristics (in the absence of the owner of love for games) and convenient fingerprint reader. In addition, unlike its closest competitor Meizu M1 Metal, the new product works perfectly in all Russian LTE networks.
Design, of course, does not possess something original, but it does not cause problems or contemptuous attitudes. Build quality is encouraged. But the camera and the lack of coherent information on the glass is not too impressive in 2016. And this is the main fly in the ointment.
In general, in Doogee Y200 has everything you need from a device with a diagonal of 5.5 inches. No more and no less. And the price is good.