now if you're someone that goes hiking or you want to be off grid for long periods and you
want a phone that can do that so last for up to seven to even 10 days on a single charge that
is basically a battery bank then this could be the phone for you it's from Doogie it's called
their Vmax now the V-Max has a incredibly large battery within it it's basically a power bank
with a phone around it because it's capacity is 2 200 milliamp hours obviously there is a trade-off
as you can see clearly in the size of it and its weight but it's chunky and it's a rugged
phone too so we've got drop resistance up to 1.5 meters ip68 waterproof rating to it as well and it
has a 6.53 inch IPS panel 120 hertz refresh rate powered by the demensity 1080 with 12 gigabytes of
RAM and it does have a 108 megapixel main camera alongside a 20 megapixel night camera so this has
some infrared lights with it two of them LEDs and for red ones that light up the area so you
can take nighttime photos if you need that well it's got it and an ultrawide that's 16 megapixels
the front camera that is 32 megapixels and I'll be going over this phone in a bit of detail and
let you know all of the pros and cons here of the Vmax so this is what is included with our
Vmax we have a warranty card here they do include a screen protector this here is just a little pack
for cleaning the screen before you apply that we've got a sar value specification there too
user manual and then our charger and charging cable now this charger here it is 33 Watts
first thing you'll notice that when you get this phone and you handle it it is wow this
is heavy but very solid well made really well put together chunky foam because it's 27 millimeters
the thickness of it and it weighs 543 grams so we have a capacitive always on fingerprint reader
here on the right hand side up and down volume buttons they're made out of plastic this part is
uh plastic here with some screws that are screwed into place all of it and a textured plastic back
right here so with our cameras we've got a 108 megapixel main camera 20 megapixel night vision
camera with dual IR LEDs right here and then we've got our Jewel tone LED flash on the side
16 megapixel camera microphone and rubber around it now because it's got all of this rubber here it
is military grade drop protection that it does have so this is the standard this is 810h that
has it means it can handle drops of 1.5 meters onto concrete and it will be fine Gorilla Glass
on the front of the 6.53 inch IPS screen and down the bottom here you'll see we've got a microphone
type c Port that has a gasket over it now there's no video out with this but if you keep that gasket
in place it does then have a waterproof rating of ip68 so it can handle up to 1.5 meters and
for up to 30 minutes so if you accidentally drop it into a sink or into a swimming pool and you get
it out as fast as you can it'll be perfectly fine there so loudspeakers we've got one down here one
at the top dual loudspeakers 32 megapixel front facing camera on the left hand side we have this
button that is dedicated to whatever you want to assign to it so you can use that to launch
applications our SIM tray right here does not even need a SIM tray tool you can just pull that
out if you've got long enough fingernails which I do so just slot it out you can see there's a
gasket around it and you'll see that it does take two Nano Sims or one nanosm and a micro SD card
so of course it is a phone that has plenty of compromises especially with the size of it and
the weight of it but you gain that just crazy battery life so it's got a 2 200 milliamp hour
battery and I'm only losing about nine percent every day using this this is using data with 5G
and a bit on wireless not so much gaming if you game a little bit it'll bring the battery life
down a bit but it's still absolutely crazy so people that use this phone for just light use
well it'll probably last you around 10 days before you need to charge it because of that crazy 2 200
milliamp hour capacity battery Bank size speaking of battery Banks yes you can use it to charge
your devices it does have reverse charging so I'll just plug in this phone right here
and you'll see that that is now going to turn on and it will start to charge it the display
the Vmax is using as an IPS panel now you do have your standard options in here you can see under
Advance you'll see that we've got an override for our refresh rate which is located here but
we also get the 90 Hertz option which a lot of Brands don't give us so that's great that that is
there included now with display there too I have noticed that we don't seem to have any options
at least that I can find in here to go along and tweak uh where you'd want to change the colors for
examples you've got uh your you can see here LED settings because there's a notification LED just
located up here you may have seen that flash but there doesn't seem to be that mirror Vision option
we can go through and adjust the white balance for example that's not present in here there is
of course adaptive brightness here there is an ambient light sensor located up in the top I've
got it off at the moment just because I wanted to manually manually control the brightness here
of course now touch gestures are working well and I'll just show you some real world images uh that
it's okay this display my only complain about it is it's not really bright enough indirect sunlight
you can see now you do suffer a little bit to try and make it out clearly that's because according
to my equipment here it's got a top brightness this is measuring white of around about 269 nits
only ideally I like to see at least 300 so I wish it was a little bit brighter the screen maybe with
a firmware update they can allow us to push a little bit more brightness so it's not bad as
you can see touch response is good everything does seem to be fluid it's just really that brightness
this phone is powered by the dimensity 1080 now that's an octa-core and it does have melee g680
mc4 graphics with it and everything seems to be quite smooth and fluid one of the reasons behind
that is they don't have their own bloated launcher that they are using here and it just retains that
performance I think because they haven't gone with something that's quite heavy on RAM speaking of
ram we've got plenty with this model we've got 12 gigabytes and they also do have an additional
quite a bit eight I think it is you can scale up to with the caching there the virtual memory
on top so performance wise very good we even do have FM radio on board and I've just noticed that
it seems to be faster than even MIUI from xiaomi running the same chipset I've noticed with MIUI
14 with the dimensity 1080 it can sometimes be a little bit laggy but this forced at 120 hertz with
the 12 gigabytes of RAM I'm quite pleased with the UI performance I really have not noticed any
issues now when you are multitasking going over to your recent apps they don't tend to close off
those apps too quickly if they are system apps like clock for example that it's a system app
that will not be closed off but anything else that I've been running recently again share an impact
uh that has closed I will need to reload that there so plenty of RAM and just overall decent
performance with the U why at the time of this video I have received one firmware update already
I don't believe this will probably end up getting Android 13. it's currently on Android 12 but a lot
of the more affordable Brands like Doogie don't tend to push out major updates I do hope it gets
Android 13 but I won't be crossing my fingers for that but great to see that they're less do
offer bug fixes and an over-the-air update system now one big posit of this positive of this model
here is there's no bloatware so these two apps are installed myself that is all the stock apps
you get and I don't really consider any of those to be bloat which is good because there are a lot
of brands that just put so much rubbish on there so they'll pre-install like Tick Tock booking.com
all sorts of stuff that you're probably never going to use and you have to go and remove it
well not here it's basically stock Android so sadly we only have a wide Vine a level 3 cert
here so this means that Netflix Amazon Prime video will all be in standard definition you can see
this is when I loaded up next Netflix here that it only gave me standard definition this is through
the settings and Netflix you can review and take a look at the playback specification there and it's
only standard definition and that also accounts for Amazon Prime video and everything else just
standard so camera two API if you did want to run say a third-party camera apps like gcam ports or
open camera you can and we've got full support here not quite level three but full is still
enough for us to run those ports there which is good and internal storage is very quick here you
can see take a look at the well the random reads are right aren't bad but the sequentials nearing
there 1000 megabytes per second and it's not going to slow it down so you can see here with
antutu that's it's a decent score that it gets so just over half a million here mid-range chipset
but the dimensity that demensity 1080 does fare pretty well performance hence being solid as I
mentioned and it's got the 12 gigabytes of RAM which it aids it how are the speakers now with
it so we've got dual loudspeakers at the top they are very loud they're lacking a little bit in bass
I wouldn't rate them as being super high quality but they certainly have us covered when it comes
to that loud volume as you'll hear so I'll just play this sample track now at 100 volume foreign
impact that I always test out in my more recent Mobile reviews and it handles it well there are
yes a few frame dips but overall the performance is good and everything in the Play Store you can
play here with the VMAX moving over to our cameras now with the Vmax so the front-facing
camera here can shoot the 32 megapixel CNC here 1080p video now I do have enabled in the settings
I did find Eis which is our electronic image stabilization but it doesn't seem to be working
with front-facing camera or the rear as you'll see shortly and it's overexposing a little bit my face
especially now if I turn and face the sound there a little Overexposed so this is 1080p quality with
the front-facing camera here it doesn't seem to have any electronic image stabilization so that's
why I rate the quality as pretty average here because if you do really need that electronic
image stabilization otherwise it looks a little bit shaky this footage now the audio bitrate is
good it's 256 kilobits per second it's a little bit windy at the moment so we will be picking up
probably a little bit of wind noise there Focus I haven't really seen any issues at all with that
seem to be too bad as long as you're in good light the focus is good as for Stills it can
take a decent shot 108 megapixel cameras you can see from this flower this shot here is the
ultra wide but look around the ocean there it does look a little bit blurry so not perfect
this is another Ultra wide 16 megapixel shot it's okay was a little bit overcast at the time bright
colorful flowers here again looking pretty decent from the 108 megapixel camera now this is the
selfie camera now quite a detailed looking shot from that 32 megapixel sensor portrait mode the
stitching definitely needs a bit of work look at my daughter's hair on the left there and this is
the night camera so that 20 megapixel camera taken in complete darkness it takes these okay looking
pictures but do remember that was completely dark and then low light photos if you hold it really
still it can actually give a excellent result like this photo here which was quite a surprise
so doogie's V-Max is a phone that really is like walking around with a battery bank that
has a phone built into it because it really is it's just amazing how long this will go on a
single charge is absolutely nuts so who would this phone be for then I think for people that
are off the grid for a long time that just simply cannot charge their phone maybe you're a camper
and you want a phone that of course does have dual band GPS that's built into it but you want
amazing battery life you don't want to have to charge for a week and this is it because I only
lose about eight nine percent per day with the Vmax here so I think it's for people like that
maybe Tradesmen as well that want the durability of it again don't want to have to charge every
single day or even every second day you just want to charge once a week ip68 the military
grade drop resistance to it as well very handy to have so it's really got a case on it itself
the design of it having the rubber on the top of it Gorilla Glass 5 on the front will help out and
the things that the phone isn't so great at well that is for me the cameras they're okay
you can take a decent kind of photo with the main camera the ultra wide and in the selfie cameras
and especially that video performance is lacking a little bit I do hope that Doogie can improve that
with the firmware update other areas like the screen being an outdoor phone that it doesn't
fare so well when you are in direct sunlight as I showed you from that little sample there that you
struggle a little bit to make out the screen with its brightness well where I am indoors if you use
it indoors or in the shade then it's fine you can read it it's just really in direct sunlight
there and of course the obvious one being such a large phone with a 2 200 milliamp hour battery
capacity it is a little bulky very bulky very heavy it's in fact the largest and chunkiest
phone that I have reviewed so I do hope that you like this video it covered all of the bases
I hope and what you can expect out of the Vmax here from Doogie thank you so much for watching