Doogee S55 Rugged Smartphone First Impressions & Quick Review

Unveiled in June this year, Doogee S55 comes with waterproof and dustproof features that provide a much-needed safety to your smartphone. Aside from that, the S55 boasts a broad range of awe-inspiring features and powerful specs that make it an ideal smartphone for adventure junkies who like to carry their phone with them everywhere they go.

DOOGEE S55 has the best performance price ratio among both the DOOGEE IP68 products and even the rugged smartphone industry. It is said that as soon as the S55 was released on the market, DOOGEE has received lots of orders from online and offline agents. And this $139.99 lowest price online will be valid for only one week from July, 16th to July, 23rd, which is a good and rare chance for the rugged phone fans to harvest one since the normal price will be $169.99.

At this reduced price, the S55 is quite a bargain given that it sports a big 5.5 inches IPS HD+ display with a screen resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels. The phone is housed in a sturdy aluminum alloy and polycarbonate body, and it uses Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for added protection.

Furthermore, the phone packs a powerful MTK6750T; 4xCortex-A53, 1.5GHz processor, and a MaliT860-MP2 graphics processing unit, under the hood. It offers 4GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage (expandable up to 128GB).

On the photography front, the S55 houses a 13.0MP + 8.0MP dual camera setup with F/2.0; AF; 80° Angle; LED Flash on the back. Up front, there’s a 5.0MP camera with F/2.2; 80°Angle for selfies and face-to-face video chatting.

The S55 runs Android 8.0 Oreo operating system and is backed by a built-in 5500mAh Polymer battery. On top of that, the phone is crammed with all sorts of useful sensors including a G-sensor, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, and compass. There’s also a fingerprint sensor placed on the back.

In Antutu Benchmark 6.2.7 Doogee S55 achieves a pretty good score, between 27.000 – 43.000 points.

In Antutu Video Tester 3.0 Doogee S55 scores 651 points, this firmware version fully supported 11 video files, partially supported 13 video files and didn’t managedf to play 6 video file types.

Wifi Internet speed tested gets also pretty good values: over 45 Mbps in download and the upload speed was over 26 Mbps. The router used in this test is Xiaomi Mi WiFi Router, mounted in another room.