Note: Gearbest is currently offering a flash sale on the DG550 (code: gizbeat550). $159.99 + 8GB SD + free shipping.
Doogee is a new brand on the block. They haven’t been around for more than a year, yet have come on very strongly by sponsoring Villarreal football club and having a relatively legit looking English website. I reviewed their website a bit back, but today we’ll be doing a Doogee Dagger DG550 review of specifications and design.
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Several months back, iNew released the revolutionary, but flawed iNew V3. For the price, it was and is an excellent bargain. At the time of the V3’s release, there was nothing else like it out there in that price bracket. (more…)
And now for something completely different — no Mediatek SoC, no Android OS, but a chinese device from ZTE. Say hi to the ZTE Open, one of the first available Firefox OS devices on the market.
I was interested in what this still young new mobile operating system has to offer and so i decided to buy a ZTE Open from ZTE’s UK ebay store (there is also a US and a HK store for the respective areas) (more…)
Back in what some would consider ancient times, there were two Taiwanese companies who made the majority of motherboards for most of the desktop PCs in the Western world. (more…)
Recently I did a piece on up & coming China brands in general, as well as taken a look at THL’s official website. Now it’s Doogee’s turn. (more…)
We did several previews of recent Gionee releases and the E7 Mini was one of them. Though the phone was announced way back in December 2013, it’s just now being released. Interestingly — with the MT6588 SoC. (more…)
Umi is one of the top names in China brands and many have been waiting for the Umi X3. Perhaps it’s a bit late in the game, or possibly it’s perfect timing. (more…)
If you haven’t heard of IUNI, it’s not surprising. IUNI initially started out as an OS maker, but have recently come into the hardware market for a piece of the pie. The IUNI uses it’s own customized Android OS. (more…)
The Xiaomi Mi3 was a huge hit, landing it on the top 10 phones in the world list. An amazing feat for a company which released their first smartphone a scant 2.5 years ago. They also were one of the fastest companies to hit become a $10 billion entity. (more…)
Hot on the heals of the Doogee DG550 Dagger announcement, iNew has already released a demo models of their iNew v5. So far, this is what we know about the iNew V5: (more…)
While the Lenovo Vibe Z costs more than most of the phones we review here, it is worth mentioning that at around $400 this phone is still far cheaper than most of it’s Snapdragon counterparts. Lenovo have designed a slim yet solid device with a 5.5 inch 1080p screen and a Snapdragon 800 processor but ditched the big price tag. (more…)
The THL T11 is an MT6592, 720p, 2GB RAM/16GB ROM mobile.
Some of the things we’ll cover in the THL T11 review – LCD, GPS, WiFi, general build, external speaker, mic, earphones, earpiece, battery, Antutu, NenaMark, camera and summary conclusion. If you want something specific checked out, please inform in the comments, or at the forum.
If you’ve been following Gizbeat for awhile, you’ve no doubt heard the whinings regarding China brands lacking 1900. The day has finally arrived. (more…)