Category: Doogee

Recently Doogee has been coming with some great phones. The Doogee DG900 V9 has just been released and is aimed towards the European market with 900/2100 3G support, and the Doogee Dagger DG310 aimed at the world with 850/1900/2100.

The new guy on the block is the Doogee DG580 “Kissme”. Does it have what it takes to topple the current budget king – Doogee DG310?

Doogee DG580 Kissme review SoC

The DG580 implements the MT6582 SoC. Assuming an appropriate resolution of 720p or less, it’s more than enough to push Android as smooth as any other phone on the market. The GPU in the MT6582 is Mali-400 and this GPU will easily run 3D games such as Asphalt 8 at a smooth framerate.

Doogee DG580 Kissme review WiFi

The WiFi of the Doogee Kissme DG580 can be classified as good. When initially comparing it to the iNew V8, as you see above, the signal on the iNew V8 was a bit stronger. However, subseqently changing angles of the phones produced changes in both phone’s signals that showed the signal strengths to be nearly identical. The connection never faltered and WiFi stayed strong and true.

Doogee Kissme DG580 RAM/ROM storage

The RAM in the Kissme DG580 is 1GB. As with the SoC, this spec is easily enough to run Android smoothly and should even allow switching between several internet tabs without committing them to cache.

ROM storage is 8GB. Some may lament this, but given that the DG580 accepts external SD storage cards up to 32GB, 8GB should not present a problem.

The phone comes out of the box with 2GB set for internal and 5GB set for phone storage. If you’re handy with modifying EBR, you can adjust this, however 2GB should be adequate for the average consumer’s needs.

Doogee DG580 review Kissme physical build and style

This phone is one solid chunk of mobile. It’s easily as heavy as the iNew V8 and perhaps even a bit more so. There are no creeks or loose points where the back piece snaps in.

No one will believe you when you say you paid a hundred bucks for this mobile.

In the looks department Doogee has chosen style over compactness. When I first lifted the Doogee DG580 out of the box, I was very impressed with the phone’s heft and it looks great with it’s unique silver trim and matte back. No one will believe you when you say you paid a hundred bucks for this mobile.

It’s not all good though, the trim is entirely unnecessary for other than looks. It adds about 2mm on either side and 3mm at both the tops and bottom. I would have easily accepted the loss of the interesting silver trim for the sake of having the phone a bit smaller, but this is a relatively minor gripe.

There’s no notification LED as well. I count this fact as a positive, not a negative

The Doogee Kissme DG580 has no lights for its capacitive buttons. For me this is not an issue, there are only 3 buttons and they are always in the same place, but some may miss it. There’s no notification LED as well. I count this fact as a positive, not a negative, but as with the capacitive button lights, some may miss a notification LED. In both cases, I think the user will quickly become adapted to not having them and will likely not miss them at all once they’ve had the phone for a couple days.

Doogee DG580 review camera

As with most $100 ballpark mobiles, the camera is one of the first to suffer the hit to keep costs down. The camera is advertised as 8MP rear and 8MP front. This is likely interpolated resolution and not the true resolution of the sensor. Most likely the true resolution is 5MP rear/2MP front or less.

Kissme Doogee DG580 review battery

The Doogee DG580 battery is 2400mA. This is fairly standard for a 5.5″ phone and gives good battery life 4-5 hours onscreen internet surfing using WiFi, on auto brightness indoors, with both SIMS in.

One disappointing factor with the DG580 is that it gives up charging at around 92% and jumps to 100%. There was a similar problem with the iNew V3 as well.

If taking the phone off the charger when it hits “100%” you will find it immediately falls to around 4100mV and rapidly down to 4000mV from there.

It’s worth noting that many recent phones have been calibrated to charge fully up to 4300+mA, so it could be a firmware calibration issue, or it could be a QC issue with the particular unit I received. It also could be a calculated move to prolong battery life. Whatever the case, I do not count this as a big strike, simply because the DG580 provides very good battery life regardless.

many mid-range China phones have stepped to the plate and offered quick charging in 2 hours flat

The phone charges from dead to 100% in about 3.5 hours. It needs to be mentioned though that recently many mid-range China phones have stepped to the plate and offered quick charging in 2 hours flat. This is one great selling point for the Doogee DG550, iNew V8 and THL T11. If you don’t require 900MHz 3G, the excellent DG550 is a great bargain for about $40 more than the DG580. Still, the charging time for DG580 is nothing abnormal for a $115 mobile.

In regards to deep sleep, the DG580 is falling into true sleep with no problem at all.