Chris here with another of doogie's rugged phones this is their S10 Pro now it is very similar it
looks and pretty much everything compared to the V-Max that I just recently reviewed the
only difference is with this model it has this very powerful LED light on the back of it which
they call the camping light which makes sense that's probably where you would use it if you
went camping super bright and it means that you probably don't have to take along a separate
torch because it's built into your foam just like a battery bank because it's got that 22
000 milliamp hour battery can go for up to 10 days on a single charge the other difference is
it's powered by The Helio g99 so more powerful than the dimensity 1080 that is in their Vmax
model the rest of it the same so we've got the drop resistant build ip68 rating to this
rugged phone it's powered by Android 12 it has a hundred and eight megapixel main camera and
it also does have the same IPS screen which is a 6.58 inch size screen 12 gigabytes of RAM and
256 gigabytes of expandable storage now this is an incredibly heavy phone because it's basically
like walking around with a portable battery Bank just like the Vmax I've also reviewed from Doogie
very similar way here so 546 grams yes that is one of the heaviest phones I have ever covered and the
thickness of it too it is 27.3 millimeters so yes a chunky phone that I think is going to be ideal
and more aimed towards really Builders Tradesmen and people that don't want to charge their phone
uh every second day or every day because this will go my experience with a battery life it's around
about 10 11 I lose per day so we'll go for most people from about 6 to 10 days with that huge 22
000 milliamp hour battery so that's why it's so chunky of course so the loudspeaker is here at the
bottom one at the top 32 megapixel selfie camera the bezels yes they are large so we've got right
here Gorilla Glass 5 covering this IPS panel it's the same same screen as the Vmax so it's a 1080p
plus resolution and at 6.58 inches IPS and I'll get on to it in a little more detail shortly so
as long as you keep this little gasket cover here over the type C Port I'll just pull that out to
show you there's the type C Port no video out support USB 2 spec here it will retain as long
as you've got it over there the ip68 waterproof rating now because it's got all the rubber around
it the metal that screwed into the sides of it it does have a military standard drop resistance
so it is the 810 H compliant so it's 1.5 meters onto concrete this phone should be fine although
you probably have a bit of a ding in the rubber wherever it lands there and you hope it doesn't
land on the screen either so capacitive always on fingerprint reader here on the right hand side or
just demonstrate it it's a little slow at times but it works okay I find it works about eight
nine times out of ten our volume up and down butternut feels like to me that could actually
be plastic this button but the side here is metal and then on this side we have a button that you
can designate to whatever you want application or launch something I have it set to turn on the
rear Flash the camera flash that is for it and here we have our SIM tray so you don't even need
a SIM tray tool for it it takes two Nano Sims or one nano SIM and a Micro SD card so great we have
expandability but you see up the top here there's no IR transmitter no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
and then on the back here this is why I think it's a phone ideal for people that go on camping trips
maybe you're a hiker or something so you've got the amazing battery life and the reverse charge so
it's basically a battery bank with a phone built around it but this super powerful Cobb style LED
light here now you can see me testing it out at night this was about 11 p.m so it was very dark
yet it lights up quite a bit ahead of it so it will certainly be handy this could light up your
whole for example tint if you're going camping or something with a tent and then we got our cameras
so we have a 20 megapixel night vision camera so it's just black and white and uses the infrared
lights here to the side of it we have a Ultra wide and then two-tone LED flash and then the
main camera in the middle is 108 megapixels so it is again the same setup as the Vmax
from Doogie but the difference being we have this powerful light and it is powered by The Helio g99
instead of the dimensity 1080. now the IPS panel that they've selected is a bit disappointing so
the same issue I had with the Vmax from them is that it's simply not bright enough this screen
I'm measuring just over 330 nits with this IPS panel and in direct sunlight you will struggle
a little to make out the screen which doesn't kind of make sense too much considering it's an
outdoor focused orientated phone but when you use it in direct sunlight say for GPS or Maps
you struggle a little you can still make it out but I really do wish it was a lot brighter now
being an IPS the blacks don't look super deep and the whites here you'll see that at certain angles
around where say The Notches at the top and the edges you do get a little bit of shadowing on
the corners where it's slightly darker than the rest of it but the rest of the panel is quite
uniformed the color of it now I'll just go into these settings here so gestures are working well
the performance is very good of this phone it's one of the big positives of it and you'll see
here under display that we do get a few options uh adaptive brightness I've got it off at the moment
there's a few things in here you'll see that you can adjust the font size and whatnot but
there are no settings again here for the color now I would have seen it under here something
like mirror Vision should pop up being the fact that it's mediatek powered then you can adjust the
white balance your saturation and all those things but no we are missing that so I do hope they can
give us this option with a firmware update now speaking about the software here now that I'm
on that topic pretty much of the performance of it it is very good so stock Android we've got 12
gigabytes of RAM which they they claim it's 20 it does state it here on the box look 20 Gigabytes 12
plus 8 gigabytes of RAM but it's because we have allocated you'll see in the settings right here
it's virtual memory so memory expansion okay this is just caching it's not actual Ram so
it's 12 gigabytes of RAM which is still fine and 256 gigabytes of storage again excellent so the
this just work well animations look pretty good it's only a 60 hertz panel to this one but it
really is lag free bloat free stock Android 12 ROM that we do get with the S 100 pro
now there are a few extras they have included with the software so one of them is we have this which
is our camping light on the back there that is super bright that I talked about before showed
you that example of it tends to work well there's software no issues with it we have what is called
their tool bag so there are some tools in there picture hanging using the accelerometers for your
level a few other bits and pieces uh that would come in handy for Tradesmen probably if you didn't
happen to have your tools on you maybe you're on a job site doing a quote and you accidentally left
something behind well there's a few things in there that could be useful to you there is also
this FM radio Hardware FM radio but you do need to of course get yourself an adapter 3.5 millimeter
two type c then that will work because it does double as the antenna for it so that's why it
has to be plugged in because just using it now it will not work because it won't be able to pick up
any stations so the performance as I said just before it's all pretty much uh good here when
you're going through your recent apps that all works fine I don't have any complaints with it
in fact the performance wise is better than the VMAX uh model and you'll see here too that this
is what you get once you get it out of the box no bloatware whatsoever really good to see and there
was no system updates yet so there is definitely going to be some updates coming because I found
the camera application to be buggy I'll just show you that very quickly what happens so
when you go to use the camera you want to shoot video uh it'll lock up now okay so it won't let
me change over nothing's gonna happen so that's the bug that I've had currently present with my
model that it just doesn't want to work now video I've been able to record some sample footage with
the front-facing camera and the rear using open camera but if you try and use the stock app for
video with the main camera simply does not work so they're going to need a patch for that one of
course so just getting back here into the update so that's going to have to come through and update
the side key that I showed you before so you can change this I've got it set to the flashlight
you can put it for example the GPS Google Maps whatever you want you've got three options so
just a single tap double and a long press there handy to have so will it work with banking apps
and things yes we do have a safety status here safety net pass and if you look there is NFC on
board with this particular model here too which is another positive good to see that camera two
API support so if you want to use opencam which I have for the video sample you see later on it
is working gcam ports you might be able to squeeze a bit more out of that 108 megapixel sensor than
their software which is very poor at the moment for the camera app it does not have a wide Vine
level one search so sadly when I test it out of course Netflix this is from within Netflix
checking out the playback spec it's stuck in standard definition oh dear so yes you're only
watching in 480p not full HD Netflix Amazon Prime video all of those internal storage speeds are
very good so this is not going to be a bottleneck for the system at all you can see the those are
good almost reaching a thousand megabytes per second reads and the chipset itself uh decent
performance now this is now the new version of uh n22 so it's slightly different the scores they're
slightly higher so it's version 10. so if this was version three it would be about 390 380 000
points but this isn't not bad so 400 just over 400 000 points it shows that it's got a decent amount
of performance the weakness is the GPU which I'll get on to later for the gaming side of things and
that is it when it comes to just pointing out a few things there so good performance overall
for this type of phone here but let's take a look and a listen should I say at those loudspeakers
of a travel you can lock it out at the top and then we do have adjustable preload two with it
so it's a hard tail there's no shock on and this is one area where it is better than the Vmax
that I also reviewed from Doogie now that's got the dimensity 1080 in it and it was very choppy
playing even just this part of the map again Shin impact now I've got it on the default settings
here so this is not the max settings but I do have it set to at least 60 frames per second I'll race
you there and you can see that performance is a lot better here so it's definitely playable
this is the key area I would say on and the key reason why we go for this model over the
Vmax would be for the improved performance from an event City sorry The Helio g99 it's
just so much better than that dimensity chipset well gaming performance it's just a lot better
I never told the cameras now so this is the front facing camera we've only got 1080p it doesn't seem
to have any electronic image stabilization and I do find often the camera application is crashing
on me at least when I go over to video with the main camera it often will just completely
freeze up the app so there are clearly some bugs there the Doogie needs to fix so this
quality pretty average I'll just face the sun now it really does need electronic image stabilization
because it does Shake all around all over the place here with our Vlog footage Ultra wide
footage now now this just looks terrible I don't know what's going on here it looks like standard
definition that's been upscaled to full HD again no electronic image stabilization it's
over sharpened it's overexposing and it just looks awful my camera is 1080p it doesn't seem to be a
4K option and just like the front facing camera and like the V-Max that I also reviewed from
Doogie there is no electronic image stabilization which kind of ruins the footage here so you need a
very steady hand or probably a gimbal or even a tripod in the cameras we've got a 108 megapixel
camera you can see from this and daylight that yes you can take some very good looking shots
the colors aren't too bad of this yellow flower but I don't see it as the same level as some
of the other 108 megapixel cameras this one just seems a little bit over sharpened when you do crop
in but it can take I think usable shots for most people and above average compared to some of the
other rugged phones out there that have worse off sensors so that's the main camera cropped in now
and then the ultra wide here which is the 16 megapixel Ultra wide the quality again is all
right in day time this is a selfie 32 megapixel front-facing camera and when you crop in there's
a fair amount of detail again not too bad but night shots there is no night mode to start
with there's also no portrait mode and the night shots a lot of noise and it's like cameras from
phones from about like five years ago really the quality and that's the selfie there in low light
which yeah huge amounts of noise not good at all and then they do have this which is the
20 megapixel camera you can shoot video with it this is 1080p footage using the infrared
lights and that camera it's a complete darkness here so it looks just black and white like that
and what it comes down to is a phone that is almost identical to the Doogie Vmax that I
reviewed as mentioned a few times in this video the only difference is this has the
better performance so if you game a lot then it's probably the phone to go for if you need of course
the camping light if you go on camping trips you don't want to charge for a week and it's
a phone that's got you covered because you've got your flashlight you've got your battery bank and
your phone GPS and all that all in one and by the way the GPS is working just fine on this model it
didn't have any problems getting a lock so the big Pro of this is I think the drop resistance
the build quality being rugged and of course that battery life the 22 000 milliamp hour battery is
humongous it is huge and it just goes and goes and goes I lose around about 11 per day only with this
so for even lighter use you will probably be able to get and squeeze 10 days out of this particular
phone here it really is a battery bank with a phone built around it but because of the issues
I'm having with the camera on this model here the fact the fact that there's no night mode there's
no portrait mode and the video mode seems to freeze up on me with the main camera all the time
I lean towards the Vmax and I really do think that if you're looking at these rugged phones and you
want that amazing battery life go for the Doogie Vmax instead of this one they're so similar if you
really do need the flashlight okay that's the only real reason but I would go for the V Max model
instead of this s 100 pro so thank you so much for watching my review here of this dookie phone