Doogee is a well-known cheap smartphones’ manufacturer that produces devices for quite a bit of time. The Doogee Y6 is a phone that has great looks, decent specs and it costs just $100. This is Linus, learn more in the full review.
Thanks to lightinthebox.com for sending the Doogee Y6 for a review.
Doogee Y6 Review: VIDEO REVIEW
Doogee Y6 Review: UNBOXING
The phone ships with all the usual stuff and some extras include a screen protector and a soft TPU case.
Doogee Y6 Review: DESIGN and DISPLAY
When it comes to the design, the Doogee Y6 looks very similar to the Huawei P7 Lite, in my opinion.
Nevertheless, the phone is well-built and it uses a metal backplate to give a bit of a premium look and feel. The frame and the buttons, however, are made of plastic.
We have a 5.5” display, which has only 720p resolution but it is plenty sharp for everyday use.
Also, there is a 8MP camera above the display but we don’t have neither LED notification light nor backlit capacitive keys.
On the back, we have a 13MP camera with a dual-LED flash and a fingerprint scanner, which is not the fastest I’ve seen but it gets the job done.
The loudspeaker is pretty good for the class of the phone.
Doogee Y6 Review: HARDWARE and PERFORMANCE
Doogee Y6 ships with an octa-core MTK6750 chip (1.5GHz) , 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage.
The gaming performance is good but not great. The phone can handle the games like Asphalt 8 on medium graphics very well but once you set the graphics to max., you should expect some skipped frames.
Doogee Y6 Review: BENCHMARKS
Doogee Y6 Review: USER INTERFACE
The phone ships with the Android 6.0 but we have quite a few added features by Doogee.
Just to name a few, you can select from a variety of gesture and motion controls that work pretty well. Also, you can use a floating gesture control bar if you wish. In addition, you can use a one-hand mode that is really convenient in some situations.
In general, the UI performance is good. I didn’t have lags or stutter on the daily basis.
Doogee Y6 Review: IMAGE QUALITY
When it comes to the image quality, you can get some decent-looking photos out of this phone but you can’t expect a lot from a cheap phone. The biggest complaints would be the lack of sharpness and quite a bit of noise even in daylight situations.
As usual, the image quality decreases in low light.
Selfies could look a lot sharper and have more detail.
The video quality is mediocre as on most of the cheap phones.
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Doogee Y6 Review: CONNECTIVITY
I didn’t have any major connectivity issues except for the fact that once the GPS was pretty slow to get the position lock.
Doogee Y6 Review: BATTERY LIFE
The phone ships with the 3200mAh battery that performs pretty well for its capacity. You should expect about 5 hours of screen-on time but the results may vary, depending on the usage.
Doogee Y6 Review: CONCLUSIONS
Doogee Y6 is a pretty good sub-$100 phone but as usual to cheap devices, it is not perfect.
It has a nice design and it sits nicely in the hand, decent specifications assure a pretty good gaming and user interface performance and the device has a nice display.
However, you have to know that there is no LED notification light, the capacitive buttons are not backlit. Also, it would have been nice to see the metal frame and metal buttons.
At the end of the day, Doogee Y6 is a decent offering for the price but as always, it has some shortcomings that most of the cheap phones have.
