The Doogee S88 Pro continues Doogee’s rugged phone lineup, by offering a package built to withstand all manners of pressure, ingress, and impact. Water, mud, sand, low pressure, acidity, solar radiation, and rocks are no match for it. The S88 Pro is stated to be able to handle 1.5m drops on rough surfaces, and 2m drops on smooth surfaces for a thousand times, presumably without considerable damage. The Iron Man thing is just two eye-shaped LEDs on the back. They are RGB and are used as big bright notification lights. The phone also has two customizable buttons on the side, which can be programmed with three actions each (single and double click plus long press). On the other side there is a fingerprint reader and there is NFC support. Get setails in DOOGEE S88 Pro IP68/IP69K review.
DOOGEE S88 Pro IP68/IP69K specifications
- Display: 6.3-inch 1080 x 2340 FHD+ Waterdrop Corning Gorilla Glass display (410 pixel per inch)
- OS: Android 10
- CPU: MTK6771T/P70 octa core
- GPU: ARM Mali-G72 900MHz
- RAM: 6GB/DDR4
- ROM: 128GB/DDR4
- Expansion: MicroSD card (TFlash card) up to 256GB
- Rear camera: Sony IMX230 21+8+8-megapixel AL triple rear camera
- Front cameras: Samsung 16-megapixel
- Battery: 10000mAh
- Charging: USB-C and 10W wireless (supports 5W reverse charging)
- SIM: Dual-SIM
- Biometrics: Fingerprint reader
- Certification: IP68/IP69K water- and dustproof and MIL-STD-810G drop tested
- Colors: Fire Orange, Army Green, Mineral Black
Price
The Doogee S88 Pro is availably globally and can be found on the UK Amazon store for £259.99 and on Newegg USA for $299.99. That Newegg price is the price for the American version, but for an extra $20 you can also buy the ‘Global Edition’ that can handle all the mobile frequencies and standards that anyone travelling across the world might encounter.
What is DOOGEE S88 Pro IP68/IP69K?
In terms of protection, the device has received the IP68/IP69K standard. That is, the S88 Pro smartphone can easily survive in extreme conditions of use. Low or high temperatures are not afraid of him, as well as water, dirt, and even fall from a small height.
DOOGEE S88 Pro IP68/IP69K review
Build
The back of the smartphone uses a combination of metal and plastic inserts. In test we have an orange color that goes well with a military camouflage style. The manufacturer also offers two more colors – green and black.
Design
Doogee S88 Pro smartphone has received quite large dimensions, both in size and in weight. For example, the dimensions are 171.6 x 85.5 x 18.7 mm and weigh about 372 grams.
Display
The front panel received a 6.3-inch touchscreen IPS screen with Full HD resolution. There is a waterdrop notch at the top for the front camera, which is not bad for a rugged smartphone. But the bezels around the screen are quite large, although I cannot mark this as a minus, given that the edges of the smartphone must be massive from various falls or other troubles.
It’s bright, crisp, has subtle contrast levels and displays well-saturated colours at a natural resolution of 2340 x 1080. That’s a slightly odd 13/6 ratio, but it can display 1080p content with top and bottom borders without an issue on Android 10.
When this design went through a cost reduction exercise, which all phones do, and we noticed two significant places that got impacted.
The first, and most obvious, is that this isn’t a 5G capable design. It has all the GSM, 3G, 4G LTE side of things covered, but it can’t access the 5G services in those countries lucky enough to have them.
Camera
On the back panel, there are three main camera modules with LED flash. Just below the main camera, there is an LED illumination with an Iron Man eye shape. In the settings, you can set in which case it will work. For example – this is when you receive a new message, call, or charge.
At the bottom on the back, there is a single speaker that plays quite loudly. But it’s hard to call it high-quality since it lacks bass and clarity.
Connectors
The bottom end of the Doogee S88 Pro smartphone received only a Type-C connector for charging and for a 3.5 mm adapter. The connector itself is closed with a tight cap, which is rather problematic to open. But a scraper, which is already supplied in the kit, will help to open it.
There are only two significant points of ingress, the SIM card slot and USB-C port. There is no headphone jack. Instead, it comes with a small conversion cable get this functionality from the USB-C.
If you don’t use that accessory, maybe because your headphones are Bluetooth, then you can avoid displacing the USB-C port cover, as the S88 Pro wirelessly charged.
Button
On the right side, there are the usual control buttons – the power button and the volume rocker. But on the left side, there is a slot for a hybrid tray and two additional buttons. These buttons can be customized to suit your purpose. For example, a single press will open the camera app, while a long press will open the YouTube app.
Battery
The 10,000mAh battery is good for a month of standby or you could play 3D games for 19 hours straight. Doogee says that with typical usage you should get 7-8 days between charges. You can use the handset as a power bank with 5W reverse wireless charging. The phone itself charges at 10W wirelessly.
Wireless charging
We mentioned earlier, wirelessly charging is available in the S8 8Pro, but these capabilities aren’t restricted to power travelling in a single direction. If required, the S88 Pro can act as a wireless charging pad and charge another phone with 5W wireless charging technology.
Weather resistant – DOOGEE S88 Pro IP68/IP69K
It can also withstand extremely cold temperatures of up to -55°C for 4 hours while staying functional in the scorching sun or acidic environment. That protection against acidic environments is rated at a 4.17 PH value. The Doogee S88 Pro offers an IP69K rating, ergo, protection against close-range high temperature, high-pressure water jets. It’s also IP68 rated, because why not. It can survive for 2 hrs in a depth of 1.5m, or an entire day at 1m.
Memory and storage
DOOGEE S88 Pro IP68/IP69K uses the new Mediatek Helio P70 Octa-core processor, and in our testing of this design, we can see why they are flocking to it. Built from four big ARM Cortex-A73 cores and another four small and power-efficient ARM Cortex-A53 cores, and each cluster can control their clocks independently for optimal efficiency.
That makes the S88 Pro fast when it needs to be and a frugal user of power when it doesn’t.
Here the SoC has 6GB of RAM and a whopping 128GB of flash storage to access, and you can add another 256GB of Micro SD storage via the card slot.
DOOGEE S88 Pro IP68/IP69K performance review
- Geekbench: 290 (single core); 1376 (multi core)
- PCMark (Work 2.0): 6993
- Passmark: 4737
- Passmark CPU: 12215
- Androbench (sequential): 289.25MB/s (sequential read); 191.94MB/s (sequential write)
- Androbench (random): 64.03MB/s (random read); 16.36MB/s (random write)
- 3DMark Slingshot: 1922
- 3DMark Slingshot Extreme: 1368 (OGL), 1301 (Vulkan)
- HWBot Prime: 5771
The main camera of Doogee S88 Pro received three modules, where the main sensor has a 21-megapixel f/2.4 aperture. Daytime photo quality is pretty good with good detail and vibrant colors. At night, the quality deteriorates slightly and a slight sepia appears.
The second and third camera module has 8MP resolution, with one for ultra-wide shots and the other for bokeh mode. Both modes don’t work as badly as I expected.
Video recording of the main camera received only 1080p and 30 frames per second.
The front camera is 16-megapixel and has an f/2.0 aperture. At the same time, the quality of photos on the selfie camera is pretty good.
The new rugged smartphone Doogee S88 Pro also boasts good performance thanks to the Helio P70 processor from MediaTek. The chipset itself was introduced in 2019 and it shows good results both in real life and in benchmark tests. Also, the processor is built on eight cores with a maximum clock speed of 2.1 GHz.
Helio P70 works in conjunction with the ARM Mali-G72MP3 graphics accelerator. As practice has shown, even heavy games will not be a problem for a large smartphone.