So I've got with me here the Doogee BL 12000 now you're probably thinking hang
on you reviewed the mix 2 didn't like it so why are you looking at
another Doogee phone now the simple answer is that this is a review unit that I
arranged with light in the box dot com who sent this for free thank you very much
before I looked at the mix 2 so I wasn't aware then are so much of the fake
camera setup on the rear and the fake bezels that Doogee have been doing lately
so their press images they show models like this one in particular and in the
mix 2 with what looks like edge to edge bezel this design of the screen but of
course when you get it open it up you find out the bezels are in fact so much
larger than what you were thinking so they're misleading customers which isn't
good what is also very misleading is the rear camera setup so they say it has two
times optical zoom which it doesn't they say that there's two cameras on there
which I highly doubt I believe that one of the cameras is simply just a
proximity sensor because if you place your finger over it it will say that
stop blocking the the camera that make sure you don't block it but I believe
that this one will be exactly like them next to anyway there's some positives
hopefully with this particular model I'm going to look at that the battery
capacity is simply massive it's twelve thousand milliamp hours now that is a
lot bigger than some of the laptops I review which cap out normally the budget
ones at about ten thousand milliamp hours so just think about that if
somehow managed to cram that into a mobile phone hopefully they haven't
faked the battery capacity either with this so the specs aren't anything
amazing we are using a dated they are using I should say chipset in here which
is the media tech empty case 6750 t now that's octa-core 1.5 gigahertz a maximum
turbo that has on there it's paired up with the Meli t8 60 GPU that's the MP 2
version so it's just dual core and then we have four gigabytes of double data
rate three RAM which I think runs at about 933 megahertz in fact no it could
actually be a lot slower than that so it's not going to be amazing
performance wise but hopefully paired up with that battery we're gonna get some
amazing battery life on this model here so dude aligned to their customers is
never a great way to get returned customers in fact most people would
probably never come back so hopefully I'm wrong here about their
fake bezels and fake camera setup on this model but we'll find out in just a
second so there we go it's factory sealed here plain black box they would
just be our twelve thousand on the front
so there we have the phone oh wow that is so chunky as expected
look at this it comes in a case but that is a brick of a phone look how thick
that is of course it's got a battery capacity that is literally twice or
three times as much as most mobile phones so it's kind of to be expected
isn't it but we'll take a look at the bezels and the phone in just a second
have a look and see what else would get in the box
now the charger that should be supporting media ticks pump Express -
for faster charging which it does you can see here it's 12 volts three ads the
maximum output now dude you claim that you can fully charge this huge battery
in four hours which I find to be pretty damn good if that is the case now to
quickly take a look at what we get in the box so we've got an instruction
manual there that's in English we get two screen protectors we have a micro
USB to cable and then they've also included a dongle here so this is micro
USB - I almost forgot there is a sim tool here of course because we need to
be out open that sim tray up let's just check out the weight and thickness of it
so Wow a whopping 340 grams that's one heavy mobile phone now looking at the
case here it's a little bit weird it has these dust ports over the micro USB 2
port and 3.5 millimeter jack at the top you can see but it doesn't really clip
in that well the quality of that case is a little bit cheap but it's better than
nothing it is great we do have at least a case in the box
and can see there's the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and yeah the funny little
cover over that's not really going to keep dust out of it so I'm not really
too sure why they decided to do that 15 point 1 millimeters so not going to win
any records there when it comes to slimness that doesn't mentioned I mean
it's got a huge battery capacity so this is the trade off of course
sup the problem a good earpiece front camera now that front camera probably
just shoot VGA or maybe 720p if they've patched that the wide angled camera is a
great addition I do like versus the fact that they've put that in here I want to
see more wide angled cameras I think that's a lot more practical than a
gimmicky dual lens setup now you can see here we've got those be longtime belong
to you so there's some Chinese English on the front not sure what that is meant
to be and we have a look at the camera here I've noticed that when you have a
look at the lens of the bottom camera it seems different like it's not
actually a proper sensor in there so my guess is that's the fake camera just
like the mixed two at the bottom we've got a fingerprint reader a dual tone LED
flash on the right side the buttons here they are made out of metal they feel
okay they're not too bad at all it's a nice little touch against the metal
strips whether you like it or not this design choice you've gone with the
screws they're probably to hold in the rear cover 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
there at the top of course we're going to have this because this doesn't have
type C so they couldn't opt for just type C only audio on the bottom of this
portable power pack sorry I mean mobile fine you'll find the loudspeaker micro
USB 2 port there and microphone I'll test it out and speak it out in this
video as well so at least you know whether it's decent or bad so the SIM
tray on the left will take either 2 nano Sims or your micro sd card and nano SIM
the back here has a pre-applied screen protector it is glass now this side part
of the frame if you're wondering it's made out of plastic the SIM tray also
has a little bit of metal around it the frame which is great because if you ever
had a mobile phone with just the plastic frame that was a little bit flimsy
and prone to breaking so in hand the phone feels okay you definitely notice
the chunkiness of it the size of it too when you place it in your pocket it
looks like you're carrying around a small battery pack in there or in fact
you've got two mobile phones stacked into your pocket so a little bit
uncomfortable to be carrying around this kind of thickness here now this bright
background here clearly shows those bezels far from the press images so
anyway we'll move on from that so quickly go through the fingerprint
reader setup so I'm just gonna scan it first and I didn't particularly like the
fingerprint reader on the digi mix - my one wasn't very good quickly I have the
phone locked I will place my finger on here now it's vibrated there we go it
unlocks oh it takes about two or three seconds so just take four Wireless
updates there aren't any at the time of this review so we've got on-screen
buttons even though we do have space down the bottom here for capacitive and
the chin the lower bizzle it is not there so it's running Android seven as
you can see and the security patch level is from the fifth of November which
isn't bad that's quite recent the OS is also decent the fact that it doesn't
have any crammed on bloatware I do like this trend here so it does have a custom
UI feel to it a little bit because of the skin here so they've just changed a
couple of icons really it is basically like stock Android 7 and you probably
would have noticed there too that we do have FM radio as well on this hard way
so those of you that still like to listen to FM then that's possible which
is another little bonus there already I'm starting to notice a little bit of
serious UI lag here now when you're installing something that's very obvious
but when you swipe down here see that lag that's actually not too bad now
they've done it a couple of times but when I was installing antutu in swiping
now it's smooth there was quite a few stutters there and just getting around
have noticed that it's not super smooth there that's to be expected from this
chipset of course it's not the most powerful and here's the antutu result so
40 mm that's quite a bit less than the Hallie o P 25 for example the gets
normally around 60 to 65 thousand and also a lot less than the Snapdragon 2 6
to 5 so it's definitely not a powerful chipset
there's one definitely low-end now the display actually looks quite alright for
the price of this phone it's perhaps the best feature of this if you must have an
18 by 9 aspect ratio screen with a massive huge battery then this really is
the only phone that I know of at the moment they'd probably be some future
models coming out I think there's going to be a BL 12,000 Pro model 2 with a
better chipset in there so the color reproduction looks ok the calibration
out of the box perhaps a slightly link towards blue turn the whites on here but
overall not really too bad at all the screen it's also bright so we just got
the one now speaker on the bottom and as expected it doesn't sound wonderful I
mean it's quite flat but I'll give you a sample of it now alright so it sounds ok
it's got a reasonable amount of loudness ideally if it was louder that would be
much better moving on to the cameras now so there's a lot of controversy over
these cameras because really they are fake and you can see the difference in
the sensor and the lens so look at the bottom one here this is the fake one so
covering this up it doesn't actually do anything any new photos there's no
optical zoom in there and see how it's lighter in color it almost just looks
like it's a fake plastic lens perhaps there's a proximity sensor sitting just
behind there so when you do cover it when you're in the bokeh effect the blue
backgrounds it'll tell you to stop covering lens and that's maybe just a
cheap way to cover up the fact that hey we've actually just put a fake camera in
there and just to prove the point even further look I'm covering it now nothing
is happening going through all the different modes I won't go through all
of them here but that's in bokeh mode where it should be using it now think
cover the top lens and you can clearly see I am covering it at the bottom again
no so it is 100% fake and a real shame that Duty are doing this they are
misleading customers they are lying about having dual camera setups but
anyway let's have a look at some photos samples now and some video shot on the
BL 12000
this is a sample shot on the rear camera so 16 megapixels we've got 1080p maximum
I'm recording on the fine preset the focus they claim to be face detection
autofocus but I've found that while at least in video it does not seem to be
the case that really you have to tap to focus on things and then it will focus
so autofocus seems to be disabled or very slow when in use the quality as you
can expect kind of than this category of phone that it's not wonderful really and
well we've got video that you can record in 1080p but don't expect amazing
quality it's all over the front-facing camera now so with the front-facing
camera you can use the wide-angle selfie lens I really do like the fact that they
have included this at least it's practical it's not a dummy fake camera
and we do get a lot more in the shot as you can see I'm holding this is my full
arm's length here and if we swap over now to the other camera you can see that
this one is cropped in so much closer now when you swap over it stops the
recording so you have to start and stop each time you change the cameras but the
quality as you can see quite average a little bit pixelated a little washed out
nothing amazing so let's take a look at the battery life it is in fact not as
amazing as you would think it would be with such a large batteries so according
to do G it has a twelve thousand when you have our battery capacity which
seems kind of crazy they'll be able to fit that into a mobile phone but
continual use on screen time of only 13 hours and 40 minutes now you probably
thinking hang on Chris 13 hours almost 14 hours is amazing on screen time but
think about the likes of the Snapdragon 65 and the redmi note 4 X I got 14 hours
of screen on time and that has a four thousand milliamp hour battery so I
expected at least 20 hours of screen on time even more from this phone and it
really does fail to deliver with that inefficient chipset and again I think
that the battery capacity is probably only about 8,000 milliamp hours now if I
have a look at our battery information here - I'll just confirm that you can
see that I was using it continuously now that was heavy you so I was a lot of
gaming streaming YouTube streaming sorry the
whole time during that time there and again screen on time
13,000 30 minutes great but I expected just so much better from a mobile phone
like this and if you're wondering can it act like a portable battery pack yes it
will charge other devices I'm currently charging the maze alpha X here with the
BL 12000 now when it comes to gaming performance I've noticed that it is
definitely a little bit slower than the Mallee
T 880 as expected you see a few more little stutters but I raw mean you can't
play all of the games I have tested with playable framerates just don't expect it
to be super smooth 100% of the time that's the only real downside there ok
so there we go to bluntly put it this is not a recommended phone at all as you
seen from the battery life that you'd expect with a twelve thousand milliamp
hour battery capacity which I personally believe has been faked it's not really
that capacity I feel it's probably like eight thousand milliamp hours or ten at
most and even that's probably really pushing it to get it into this thick
bulky frame so only around fourteen hours of screen on time and you're
probably thinking what do you mean only fourteen hours 14 hours is really great
yes it is of course but you have to take into consideration that other mobile
phones with a Snapdragon 625 chipset around this price point with a four
thousand milliamp hour battery which is three times less get 14 hours of screen
on time with my same testing process so that was the xiaomi redmi note 4 X that
I managed to get that kind of on screen time and really I see no reason to go
for this mobile phone unless of course you must have that external charging so
you can use that adapter cable that's included in the box to charge other
devices so you could plug in for example an action camera charge that which other
mobile phones hardly any in the market do that there's only a select few that
can and you'll find there Chinese models were very similar spec so the CPU that
mediatek 67 50 T is rather disappointing I do not like the performance of it you
see a lot of lag and start I mean just swiping down the
vacations and the toggles at the top often results in really bad lag there
and that's not good to see the ROM is light which is a positive and then the
cameras okay they fake the cameras on the rear and they've also faked the
bezels from their press images do G should almost be called really dodgy
shouldn't they because they are really misleading their customers and how they
expected to gain return customers if they just lie about everything to start
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