Anyone have a Doogee X5 Pro ?
Curious if anyone has this phone and their opinion of it, particularly using it on Rogers.
Oct 15th, 2015 4:03 pm
Oct 15th, 2015 9:47 pm
I don't have it, but specs appear to be WCDMA 900/2100 so I'd be careful getting it. You'd get voice only (2G) on Rogers, and there's talk of phasing out the 2G network. So you'd be SOL, except for 2600 LTE, but that won't carry voice unless you're thinking of doing the VoIP thing.
Oct 15th, 2015 11:17 pm
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Oct 16th, 2015 10:26 am
Features for the price.polizeifritz wrote: ↑Or you could buy a phone that actually works on the network? There are many options, why waste your time on a device tht doesn't support the proper frequencies?
Oct 16th, 2015 10:49 am
Oct 16th, 2015 2:53 pm
Oct 16th, 2015 4:15 pm
The Doogee Y100x is $85US, though it doesn't have LTE. The Bluboo Xfire has LTE, but only 850MHz 3G (better to have only 850 than only 1900 IMO) and is $84US. Both are only 1gb/8gb phones though, vs the X5's 2/16. That's the problem with these Chinese phones - you're always sacrificing *something* to get these cheap prices.
Oct 16th, 2015 4:32 pm
Thanks for the info. Can you get by with 850 and not 1900? Guess it might depend on where you are.wearysky wrote: ↑The Doogee Y100x is $85US, though it doesn't have LTE. The Bluboo Xfire has LTE, but only 850MHz 3G (better to have only 850 than only 1900 IMO) and is $84US. Both are only 1gb/8gb phones though, vs the X5's 2/16. That's the problem with these Chinese phones - you're always sacrificing *something* to get these cheap prices.
Oct 16th, 2015 4:52 pm
I think you'll do better with 850-only vs 1900-only (travels further, better in-building penetration). You can see a cell tower map here to see all your providers' local towers, and the frequencies they use.
Oct 20th, 2015 4:21 pm
ordewred one on the presale at end of september on ********... still showing up as processing almoist a month later... If you view the Dogee website they contradict there own specs with there tech support guys! Initially when I ordeed it it said it had the 850/1900 3g bands. If it dosent than i might cancel the order... false advertising. im thinking it will have 850/1900 3g as i think its all part of thr MTK 6735 SOC which are being pumped out in numerous chinese budget phones currently
Oct 20th, 2015 4:29 pm
Oct 20th, 2015 4:56 pm
I'm not sure what Doogee's actual website is. Too many sites looking like they're official Doogee sites based on the domain name, then you go to the site and it's just a store. ******** and Geekbuying both say it's 3G 900/2100, so I'd probably go by what they have to say (I wouldn't trust Chinese tech support people). Note that just because the SOC supports it, doesn't mean that the phone necessarily will. Plenty of 6735/6752 phones released with only 900/2100 support, even though the SOC supports 850/1900 as well (possibly an antenna thing?)BlairM750 wrote: ↑ordewred one on the presale at end of september on ********... still showing up as processing almoist a month later... If you view the Dogee website they contradict there own specs with there tech support guys! Initially when I ordeed it it said it had the 850/1900 3g bands. If it dosent than i might cancel the order... false advertising. im thinking it will have 850/1900 3g as i think its all part of thr MTK 6735 SOC which are being pumped out in numerous chinese budget phones currently
Oct 20th, 2015 5:37 pm
Oct 20th, 2015 9:29 pm
I'm pretty sure that's just an online store pretending to be the Doogee homepage. Some more Googling brings me to this page: http://www.doogee.cc/products-detail.ph ... =53&Cate=5 - which I think is their actual homepage (as they're not attempting to selling anything). So I'm pretty sure that store's specs are wrong. Which makes sense - it's rare that ALL of the reputable (well, as reputable as these things get, ******** and Geekbuying and the like) online stores would have the wrong specs.malquin wrote: ↑ As for the frequencies, Doogee website (http://www.doogeemobile.com/doogee-x5-pro.html) mentions the following:
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