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Anyone have a Doogee X5 Pro ?

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Anyone have a Doogee X5 Pro ?

Curious if anyone has this phone and their opinion of it, particularly using it on Rogers.
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pessimism wrote: Curious if anyone has this phone and their opinion of it, particularly using it on Rogers.
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.

Granted the WCDMA frequencies listed are odd given that the non-pro X5 has 850/1900/2100. Maybe it's a mistake, but it's listed as 900/2100 on Doogee's site as well as trustworthy sellers such as DX.

Too bad, the X5 Pro looks like it could be a hit for Doogee for once...
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confused, doogee site says

Network Type





2G: 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: 900/2100MHz
4G: FDD-LTE Band 1/3/7/8/20 (B1:2100MHz;B3:1800MHz;B7:2600MHz;B8:900MHz;B20:800MHz)
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SIM Card Type:Standard , Micro SIM


which would imply rogers 850 for voice and edge data, and b7 lte 2600 for fast data. where did you hear rogers talk about shutting down 2g gsm? that would kill a HUGE number of low end and non smartphones

and yes its a great feature set for the price ($117) and a removable battery!
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pessimism wrote: and yes its a great feature set for the price ($117) and a removable battery!
$79.99 US at ********.
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Kanus wrote: $79.99 US at ********.
Which is $117 CAD when you change the currency.
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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?
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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?
Features for the price.

I found the answer I required on the Rogers forum, someone else already tried it and had issues:
http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/fo ... 51/page/16
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I would personally never buy a phone that didn't have at least one of the 3G bands, if it only had a single LTE band. Rogers has decent 2600MHz coverage, but I still occasionally lose LTE connectivity on my 2600-only phones. Having to fall back to 2G only is a 100% dealbreaker for me.

Edited to add: on top of that, Doogee doesn't exactly have the best reputation for build quality, or firmware quality/support either.
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Are there any other decent phones in this price range that have 3G 850/1900 connectivity?
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Kanus wrote: Are there any other decent phones in this price range that have 3G 850/1900 connectivity?
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.
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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.
Thanks for the info. Can you get by with 850 and not 1900? Guess it might depend on where you are.
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Kanus wrote: Thanks for the info. Can you get by with 850 and not 1900? Guess it might depend on where you are.
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.
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wearysky wrote: 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.
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
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from Doogees website... they show 3g bands as 850/1900/2100

Can we use this phone in Canada with Telus on the 3G ? Could I get a serial number to validate ?
Doogee Mobile
Thank you for your mail.
DOOGEE X5 Pro 3G can work with Telus network in the Canada.
Any other question, contact us any time.
Best regards
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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
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?)
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I ordered one on September 30th from ********. The order was still "processing" this weekend so I opened a ticket to cancel the order.

Surprise!, they coudn't cancel because it was shipped and I received a tracking number Monday so I guess I'll receive it in the next 4-6 weeks. Something new (for me), ******** posted a picture of the shipping envelope on their website that shows my shipping address and that (supposedly) contains the phone.

As for the frequencies, Doogee website (http://www.doogeemobile.com/doogee-x5-pro.html) mentions the following:

Band 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 850/1900/2100MHz
4G FDD-LTE B1/3/7/8/20

I hope they're right because every seller site seems to have different information. So, could the first one that receives it posts the results? Thanks.
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malquin wrote: As for the frequencies, Doogee website (http://www.doogeemobile.com/doogee-x5-pro.html) mentions the following:
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.
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Stay away from Doogee. Trust me.
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Any update op? Did 3G work on rogers? I made the mistake of buying this phone a couple days ago n it's too late to cancel
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Didn't buy one on the advice of others here. Someone suggested the Morefine M5 US Edition on another thread and I am currently waiting on shipping... I will be interested to see if the band support is as advertised.

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