why i regret buying the DOOGEE VMAX PLUS Rugged phone

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So recently I bought this new phone, it's

called the Doogee V Max Plus and is a

massive rugged phone.

As you can see, the thickness of this

thing is just ridiculous.

It is a massive phone, pretty good for

battery life, and I got this mainly

because I wanted a phone where the battery

dying wouldn't really be a problem when

I'm out working.

So I do delivery work and obviously I need

to use my phone to deliver the items and

go to the locations, and my phone kept

dying.

And it's really annoying when you're

trying to work and you keep having to

worry about your phone battery, keep

having to plug it in and plug it out.

So I wanted to solve that problem by

getting a massive battery phone, and this

has 22,000 milliamps compared to my iPhone

12 mini, which only has 2,200 milliamps,

although effectively only 1,600 because

it's like 5 years old now and the

battery's degraded.

Uh, this has over 10 times more battery,

so it is pretty good in that regard.

But in every other regard, unfortunately,

I'm gonna have to say that I do not like

this phone and I'm going to be sending it

back.

Okay, so first of all, you can see the

size comparison next to the iPhone 12

Mini.

It looks massive.

It's got a 6.6-inch screen, so it's pretty

good screen, pretty big 120Hz screen, so

it's got a lot of hertz and it's pretty

good display.

Um, but the thickness is massive.

Look at the thickness side by side with a

normal phone like the iPhone 12 Mini.

It is probably 5 times thicker or 6 times

thicker than the iPhone Mini, and that's

basically because it's got a massive

battery.

It's basically like a battery bank

attached to a phone.

So look at the size difference.

Um, yeah, that's the size difference.

And you also got these cameras, but the

cameras kind of suck on it.

As you can see, the camera lens by bump is

very flat, which means there's no optical

image stabilization.

Video is going to be extremely shaky on

this, and the images are just not that

great.

So this phone is only £400, and the reason

why it's so cheap is because they've

really cheaped out on the camera system.

So the reason why most flagship phones

like the new iPhones and Samsungs are so

expensive, over £1,000, is mainly because

they have really good camera systems.

That's why the camera bumps are so thick,

and these camera bumps are very flat,

which means it's not very good cameras.

You do get a vision camera, which is

pretty cool.

You can stand in a pitch black dark room

and it can actually see you because it

has, um, infrared sensors.

So there's a few things I like about this

phone.

For example, it's got this waterproof plug

at the bottom, at the bottom for the

charging port.

So if you just unpick it, you can see

you can see—

yeah, you can see that you've got this

opening so that if it's raining, water

doesn't trickle into your charging port,

which actually happened to me when I was

using my iPhone and water got into the

charging port and I couldn't charge the

phone because it said liquid detected.

So that's a really good feature if you are

out in the rain a lot.

Another thing I like about it is the

action button.

Yeah, it's got an action button just like

the latest iPhones have, and you can

assign 3 functions to it.

Press it once, it opens an app.

Press it twice, opens another app.

And if you hold it down, I've set it to

turn on the torch.

So yeah, you can do that for the torch,

and hold it down, turns off the torch.

And you also got a double SIM card slot

with also room for an SD card slot, and

you can just pick that out without needing

the SIM removal tool thing, which is

pretty nice.

And you also have a fingerprint scanner on

the side, so you can open it like that.

And, um, yeah, so you've got all your

apps, you can swipe, it's a pretty quick

phone.

The main problem is the CPU is very

outdated.

It is a 6nm Dimensity 7050 CPU, which is

very old, and it's actually inferior to

the A14 Bionic chip that's in the iPhone

12 Mini, and this phone is 5 years old.

So the VMAX Plus came out in 2024

actually, Um, but for some reason they put

a really old CPU in it that only has 6nm

thickness technology for the

semiconductor.

And I don't know why they did that because

they've got this other phone, they've got

the V40 Pro, Doogee V40 Pro, and that also

came out a month after this one came out

in 2024, and that one has a 4nm Dimensity

7300 chip, which is much better.

I don't understand why they didn't put the

a 4nm chip inside of this phone.

They're the same price as the V Max Plus

and the V40 Pro are both £400.

But the thing with the V40 Pro is that the

battery isn't as big as this one.

It's not a 22,000mAh battery, it's a— it's

an 8,900mAh battery.

So it's got half the battery of this.

So I guess you kind of have to decide, do

you want the massive biggest battery you

can get on a phone?

Then you probably want this, and the

processing speed isn't really big that

much of a big problem to you?

Or do you want half the battery size?

You know, maybe 9,000 milliamps is enough

for you, and then you get a much faster

CPU with 4-nanometer technology.

It's got better clock speeds.

I found that actually for my work, I only

need about 5,000— 4,500 to 5,000 milliamps

to get me through the day.

Um, but yeah, 10,000— I feel like 22,000

milliamps is kind of overkill because I

took this to work and I used it for a

whole shift and it only used about 20%

battery.

So 20% of 22,000 is about 4,500.

So I could use this about 5 times.

I can do a whole week of work without

having to charge this once, charge over

the weekend maybe.

The good thing about this is compared to

the iPhone, I'm constantly having to

charge my iPhone.

It's so annoying.

It's like I go to bed and I put the phone

under my pillow and I wake up in the

morning, a lot of the times the phone is

just dead.

Somehow it just drained itself overnight

without even being used.

And sometimes I just want to doom scroll

in bed without having to plug in the

charger and bring up my charging stuff,

which is something I find I can't do on

the iPhone because the battery runs out so

quickly.

But with this, I can just— it's always got

battery.

It's currently got 52% battery.

It also charges really quickly as well.

It's got super fast charging, 33-watt

charging.

And, um, yeah, I can— you could use this

probably for like a week without charging

if you weren't using it for work.

If you were just a normal user, you could,

I don't know, maybe even 2 weeks

without charging this.

It's got this nice little rubber stand—

not a stand, but it's like a raised rubber

lip on the bottom and the top, so you can

safely just plonk it down.

You don't have to worry about it wobbling.

It's not gonna— it's not gonna wobble like

most phones do with that camera lens.

It's gonna be completely stable on its

backside like that.

Now the other problem with this is it's

really thick, so when you put it into a

car holder, you need to make sure your car

holder mount thing is thick enough to

accommodate this.

Mine is only just, but it also wobbles a

lot on the phone holder because it's so

heavy.

Every time the car shakes a lot, it's

going to be wobbling, so I don't really

like that.

It makes me feel a bit unsettled knowing

this massive brick of a phone could fall

whilst driving and land somewhere,

hopefully not under the brake pedal

because that would be bad.

So Yeah, it's very thick.

It looks like a brick.

It's for a very specific purpose.

Maybe you're like a working person outside

who needs this phone battery to last extra

long, um, or maybe you're a gamer.

Like, gaming would use a lot of battery.

You could do a lot of gaming on this

before having to charge it.

But again, the CPU is not the best.

It's only 6nm technology, so I don't know

how good it'll be for gaming.

I personally feel like I'm going to return

it because it's a bit too big for my

likes, and 22,000 milliamps is just, um, I

mean, it is nice to have so much battery,

but it is heavy.

This thing weighs almost a kilogram.

I think it's like 900 grams, and it's not

the fastest phone.

It's got a chip in it that's worse than a

2020 iPhone 12 Mini.

So yeah, I guess you gotta decide for

yourself.