While many smartphones
today are water resistant, few are properly rugged – certainly not in the way
that the Doogee S68 Pro is. The phone is launching today and since it’s a
holiday (11.11 aka Singles’ Day), the phone costs US$ 200 right now (and will be US$ 220 tomorrow). mThe
sides of the phone are made of titanium-aluminum alloy and its corners have
rubber shock absorbers. The alloy chassis extends behind the screen, giving it
support in the event of a drop.
And get this – Doogee
used two layers of Gorilla Glass 4 to make the display even more resilient. The
display itself features a 5.9” IPS LCD panel with 1,080 x 2,280px resolution.
All told, the phone is IP68 dust and water resistant (1.5m for 30 min), it can
survive drops from 1.5m as well as extreme temperatures (-40°C to 60°C).
The S68 Pro features a
surprisingly well-armed triple camera on its back. The 21MP main camera is
joined by an 8MP telephoto shooter, plus a 130° ultra wide-angle cam (which can
do macros from 3cm away). These are all Sony sensors, by the way. The 16MP selfie camera (80° FoV) lives
in a notch in the display and like the trio on the back it leverages the AI
hardware of the chipset for processing.
That would be a
MediaTek Helio P70, a 12nm chipset with four Cortex-A73 cores (plus four A53)
and a Mali-G72 MP3 GPU. The phone comes with 6GB of RAM plus 128GB worth of
Samsung UFS 2.0 flash storage chips. Android 9 Pie will greet you at first
boot.
The 6,300mAh battery
is also part of what makes the Doogee S68 Pro a surviver. It’s good for 80
hours of talk time, 22 hours of gaming or 49 hours of video. The USB-C port
supports 24W fast charging. Alternatively, you can use the 10W wireless
charging to top up the battery and then share its charge with other gadgets
thanks to the 5W reverse wireless charging.
Other tidbits include
NFC support (including payments), a fingerprint reader on the back (with face
unlock as an alternative) and support for the four major global positioning
systems.
