Hey so I'm back checking out the budget smartphones the ones you get from China
with the dual camera setups the octa-core MediaTek ones that I haven't
looked at for quite some time and the reason why is I kind of got sick of them
because they were all just exactly the same and even just rebranding the same
one so this here is the Doogee or Doogie you how we want to pronounce that Mix 2
and it has a 2:1 aspect ratio screen one of the first ones to have this kind of
screen on here so very similar looking to what you'd get from a premium flagship
something like the Samsung Galaxy S8 or the 18 by 9 aspect ratio if you
will if you want to call it that - so is this phone any good now there's been a
lot of reviews out there with those you know thumbnails going wow it's amazing
holy shit you know they're holding the phone up to the camera don't be fooled
by all of that now I'm gonna have an honest look at this phone and just get
behind the truth of this because I feel there's a lot of hype and crap that's
going on behind the scenes here a lot of the youtubers that have been posting the
reviews of these kind of mobile phones you'll find that they are full time
youtubers and they need to make money of course to survive and I do understand that
they want you to buy the phone with their affiliate link now me personally
yeah that would be nice if you did buy the phone but if it's a piece of crap
then I would not recommend it and this phone
I'm not going to outright say it's a piece of crap but it does have a lot of
cons and a few pros on there which I will cover in this particular review
here so this is what we get in the box here you get a sim tool a EU charger now
this one's five volts two amps and that actually translates into slow charging
that's just a standard spec it's not pump Express which would be 12 volts as
a result the phone takes over three and a half hours to fully charge which is
quite disappointing we get an adapter here for type C 2 3.5 millimeter for
your headphones because of course the phone does not have one and following
that horrible trend we've got type C 2 micro USB 2 adapter a Type C cable we
get this hard case as well that's in the box it has a smooth matte black finish
toward it's not bad the case an instruction manual and various
different European languages now when we take a look at the rear of it we've got
a fingerprint reader that's not particularly good only works about seven
out of ten times and to the guy in the comments that saying hey you have to
scan your finger more than just once I scanned the same finger three times and
it still doesn't perform well now we have a dummy camera at the top here this
camera does not actually work if you cover it and you go through the
different settings it doesn't show up as being blocked or blurred because only
this camera works right here so that is a very disappointing and do G are faking
the dual camera setup here so the rear has glass on it 2.5 D curved edges I
don't believe it is scratch resistant glass however so the two front-facing
cameras along the front here and unlike the rear these actually are real cameras
both of them now one's a wide angled lens which is this one here and then a
standard connor lens they're both for the sensors are 8 megapixels we have our
earpiece and the ambient and proximity sensors are located right there in
between both of those front-facing cameras that weighs 222 grams which is
quite hefty for a mobile phone and as 9.46 millimeters thick at the thickest
point here where the camera protrudes by about a millimeter so so without the
camera bump then it's eight two point nine millimeters the screen does come
with a pre applied screen protector as well like the rear of it now I don't
believe it is scratch resistant and I think it's guerrilla glass and you can't
really believe or trust what do you say if it is but at least it is a very good
screen I've got nothing but praise for the colors the brightness and the
contrast you get on the screen viewing angles a very distant sunlight
legibility as well is not too bad considering it how it does have that 520
Lux output meaning it's a bright screen but overall a great screen considering
the price of this mobile the SIM tray will take either two nano Sims or your
microSD card and a nano SIM at the bottom we have a time seaport loud
speaker and microphone and you can see the antenna lines either side
buttons on the right side these are made out of metal they have a good feel to
them and because they have those riches on them they're quite easy to press and
they don't rattle at all which is another positive so overall the design
and the build of the mix to here is good it's decent feels nice in hand we've got
the middle frame around the outside glass on the rear so I don't believe
it's going to survive drops very well and because of that 2x1 aspect ratio
screen using it one-handed is just a little bit harder because of course
trying to reach to the top for your toggles and things like that it's just
more difficult with the longer narrower screen so the phone counts with no
Chinese bloatware and nothing it looks dodgy at all but we do have a lot of
pre-installed Google Apps as maybe the only minor complaint there but the
performance of the ROM in general is really quite good it's very snappy for a
mediatek phone their performance I want to get on to some benchmarks in just a
second multitasking swapping between your apps is really quite smooth and
good and of course it is running Android 7 so we can do split screen as well on
apps that support it there's a few apps that don't
this one doesn't for example and it's quite a handy even performance when you
ask but screening I found to be reasonably good too you get roughly 54
gigabytes free which isn't bad at all of course you can't expand on that with a
micro SD and the RAB use normally hovers around about one and gigabyte and you
get approximately about 4.6 gigabytes free on first boot here's the antutu
score which is not bad for this type of phone the Jaleo p25 a similar kind of
scores to what other ones that I have tested out there and very good speeds
here for the internal storage very high here so it's e MMC 5.1 spec another
positive of this phone so the combination of the octa-core the six
gigabytes of RAM and this fast storage is why it is so fast now on to battery
life so very decent results here as I'm able to get you can see their screen
on time over nine hours which is really good this was continuous gaming you can
see the history there so I didn't actually make any cell phone calls and
during this time here but the screen was on the whole time
9 hours 51 minutes now what this translates into in real-world use is at
least two days moderate use heavy use is going to make it for at least one day
now GPS found that it works reasonably well quite good now often the media
techs are quite poor unless the previous generation ones were very bad but very
good around town good accuracy as well here are my wireless speeds not the
greatest here so connect it up to my 5g wireless AC band normally a lot of other
phones can push around 150 megabits per second or up to 200 you can see here
it's a little slower and then the 4G speeds decent again no issues without no
issues with the signal strength either on - audio quality so we do not have a
3.5 millimeter headphone jack which is disappointing but the output from the
type C port they're using the supplied adapter is perfectly fine good quality
from it there's no heads or anything like that will also have FM radio on
here now the loudspeaker on the bottom is located right here give you a sample
of it
so as it can hear from that that it's not a good speaker really it does
distort our home percent volume I mean it's okay the loudness was all right but
it does sound quite flat I would have prefered they had maybe used another
loudspeaker here in the front and the earpiece like we're seeing from other
manufacturers now to comment on the call quality voice calls don't sound
particularly good on this model so what about gaming performance now
surprisingly good here we have a Mele T 880 and newer titles like this is shadow
fighter 3 here do run well with good frame rates and because it's in your
title it also supports the 18 by 9 aspect ratio and looks okay on the
screen other games put borders in but I really think that I have it tested out
including hit World of Tanks have playable frame rates so this is a sample
from the wide angle lens front-facing camera can you see it's got a bit of a
fisheye effect to it which is normal for a wide-angle lens now the video quality
well it's not really great at all as you can see it's quite pixelated just
doesn't have a very good resolution under front cameras but it is good to
see them putting that wide angled lens in there this is one positive and now
this is the main front-facing camera so this one here you can see quality gain
not good quite grainy so front facing cameras will probably disappoint just
like the rear camera now it should give you a sample of so the rear cameras to
be honest quite horrible I even it comes to photos and video you can see the
focus is constantly having trouble here so the whole time it's doing that
focusing breathing thing really makes video unusable now I've only got 1080p
is the maximum resolution we can select so really bad video I mean look at that
focus it just constantly keeps doing that I mean even when it's still it
still keeps focus hunting all over the place so quite a bad camera really
and it quickly runs through the modes we have here on the digi mix - we've got
video it's only 1080p max and as you seen from that sample I showed you that
the focus hunting just kills the video completely so very poor quality photo
can take okay shots still images in good light low light is really quite poor
very bad face beauty typical beautifying mode blur is completely useless so it
doesn't use that dual camera whereas we know as I told you at the start of this
video that dual camera doesn't actually work will do anything I think it's just
fake it's just a decoy that's just in there to make it look like it has dual
cameras and you can see it's got the blur effect that is just completely
stupid and useless it's trying to create like a high aperture effect here but no
it's just not happening mono that's self-explanatory really
isn't it black and white panorama mode and pro so Pro here can't really call
pro mode because you've only got white balance ISO and then exposure settings
so overall do not buy this mobile phone or its camera performance all right so
to quickly recap here in my week using this phone and a recap what I've covered
in the video here quickly I'll go over the pros first a lot of people thinking
I'm really passionate about phones but for the price for the price you get a
very decent screen now of course it has that 18 by 9 aspect ratio or 2 by 1
whatever you want to call that which is the latest trend now I'm not too fond of
that personally but you may like that it gives it a more kind of modern look now
the bezels aren't what they claim yes we'll get we'll get past that it's never
exactly the same as those press images they tend to lie about things now when
we talk about lying about things the dual cameras on the rear that is the
biggest con the focus on the main camera is horrible it is terrible it doesn't
work a lot of the time at end video you saw it was just doing that focus
breathing so I was going in and out the whole time destroys video even though
it's only 1080p quality now it can take a decent photo and good light but in
low-light its terrible now that is to be expected for
this price range now the other camera it's just a dummy
camera I believe because if you cover it using all the different modes it never
uses it so if you go into the two times zoom mode you think it's swapping over
to the other sensor right and the other lens no cover it and it's not being
blocked so that proves that it's just a fake camera so why a duty doing this I
do not know about that's a very bad move by them to do that so the front-facing
camera I love the fact they put a wide-angle lens on there so you can fit
more people into the the shot that is great but video quality on those front
cameras if you want to record like video selfies or even call them ant great I
mean their quality is very poor very grainy that's not good at all so we've
got six gigabytes of RAM a fast emmc five speck on there which is good and
the heli oh p25 performs well all the games that I tested even very demanding
graphics the visual games that are really high-end ran fine good frame
rates on them and the ROM performance is the light run without hardly any
bloatware so that's another positive there and the build quality is good now
one big con too is the call quality isn't wonderful at all but the charge
time - so slow it takes about four hours to fully charge this phone just under
because it doesn't support me it takes pump Express or any quick charging which
is a real shame there too so overall do I recommend this mobile phone no not at
all but okay if you don't mind the cameras and you don't mind having also a
very slow fingerprint reader that only works about seven eight times out of ten
then yeah okay for the screen for the performance for the price for the
battery life yes go for a better than all-around package no I do believe there
are a lot of bit of other phones for similar prices like Shelby's me one or
the me a one sorry or the redmi series or even the 5x I feel a lot better then
you've got other offerings from mizu you've got ones from Huawei HTC check
around in the market there's a lot of other phones that are much
than this one here so don't believe all that hype you see on YouTube the most
people know that it's common sense and thank you so much for watching this
review here of the mix - from do G