Chinese phone maker Doogee have made a huge claim this afternoon by telling us that they will be the first Chinese manufacturer to release a liquidmetal phone.
There have been many rumours in the past that Apple could release a liquid metal phone, but believe it or not Chinese phone maker Doogee could beat them to it!
Before you all get too excited and believe we are going to see a phone from Doogee that will look like the T1000 Liquid Terminator, let us explain a few details about the material.
Liquidmetal is actually the commercial name for amorphous metal alloys which were developed by Caltech. Liquidmetal alloys act more like a glass than metal when heated with a gradually increasing viscosity at higher temperatures. This allows the alloy to be controlled during casting. Once folded the metal offers some very amazing traits and is harder than aluminium or titanium, is corrosion resistant and high tensile strength.
The Doogee F5 could not only be the first liquidmetal phone from China but one of the first phones to use the material in the world. So far we have only seen the Turing phone use the material.
Official specifications of the Doogee F5 include a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080 with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, 3000mAh battery with 5V2A fast charing, Mediatek MT6753 octacore chipset and 3GB RAM, 5 mega-pixel front camera and 13 megapixel Samsung 3m2 rear.
Doogee want the F5 to sit high up in their range and have included a fingerprint scanner with 360 degree fingerprint identification, plus GSM, WCDMA and 4G LTE mobile support.
What’s most incredible about the Doogee F3 is the price tag. Doogee say their liquidmetal phone will cost just $149.99 when it goes on sale later this month! We will ask Doogee to ship us a review sample ASAP.
Haha I’ll believe it when I see it. More likely it’s plastic made to look like liquid metal.
Lol beware bots on this post (as usual)
I agree. It’s so easy to throw some big announcements in the headlines these days. Facts please, no more words!
or some material that gives you skin cancer for holding the phone.
Or tries to terminate you
And if it fails, “it will be back” for you with another model for sure 🙂
5mm liquid metal frame with the rest plastic? Got to love the headline grabbing marketing though!
Nice looking phone for specs and price.
150$-200$ phones are starting to feel underpowered.
1080p, 2-3GB RAM ,decent enough cameras for what most need but a rather weak CPU. Don’t get me wrong A53 is a big perf gain over A7 but things could be better. I really hope next year someone goes 2xA72+2xA53 instead of 8xA53, the chip would only cost a little bit more but it would be worth it.
Snapdragon 620 seems pretty good to me and most likely will end in 1000 Yuan phones next year
It won’t be cheap enough, it’s more of a stop gap high end SoC ahead of 820 so it will likely cost twice as much as what i was suggesting and drop a little bit next year but not even close to what is needed. In this new wave the SD425 replaces SD615 in the price band. SD620 is like SD600 was, not all that cheap.
Plus it’s not an ideal configuration for great perf and price. It would be pretty fast for today with A72 at 1.8GHz but a lot slower than A72 at 2.5GHz on a more advanced process. Plus 4+4 cores pushes costs up unnecessarily, some might go that way for marketing reasons but that’s not ideal.
Go away you ugly bot your name is too generic and your enthusiasm too lol
Doogee is hated all around gizchina
Hehehe. This is an all out attack i see.
Lets defend the gizchina order!
Dante … whats with all the Doogee hate? I believe everyone is entitled to their opinions… bots or not.
I am not exactly a doogee lover myself but you gotta chill man.
that’s not an opinion Michael.
give a look at their profiles and you can see them commenting only about Doogee phones (any model) here in Gizchina and other blogs.
their clearly trying to promote their phones with these tactics.
In that case, I think Andi should ban them.
those are accounts made on the fly, just to comment a new post about Doogee phones.
it’s been a while now that they are doing it.
on it 😀
I deleted a few on the forum as well for both Doogee and Elephone.
Man imagine you read fake review and buy the phone to find that its utter cr@p
Doogee –
Fake battery numbers
Really Really bad screens
Software with delayed updates
A lot of factory defects
Do i really need to continue ?
A lot of users will understand me
i can not understand you as i’m using Doogee phone for about year and half, none problems till now beside weak battery over time (understandable though). Screen is excellent for money, why really bad screens? Screen is actually much better than screen of smaller HTC phone my wife has, much more visible in sun, better contrast, viewing angles also excellent. Also Doogee software is much better than on many HTC and brand name phones, which is also understandable as they have almost vanilla Android OS installed on them contrary to these brand name phones. Factory defects? None. They can have only software bugs (on early firmwares), like low volume etc, but they are easily solvable with third party software. And usually Dooge quickly comes up with new firmware which solves these problems. Build quality is excellent for money, too. Fake battery numbers, like what? What do you mean by that? Battery is battery, do we really care about number on it?
I have DG700. It has some problems, there are some fake specs but for the price the phone is still OK. But I’m not gonna buy another phone from company, which lies to its customers.
I totally agreee, Dante… see my comments above
Oh f**k now i got you all your profile comments on disqus are only on this site and ONLY ABOUT doogee phones and how “awesome” they are you most likely are not even a woman
Removed this fake account too
You are a god andi – thank you
Lol you are another employee b***h Now i am really angry about the bots on this post Real Gizchina users Lets Anihilate the fake Comments FOREVER
Removed the fake account
If this is real it will be my next Doogee phone beside DG550. I am still using the DG550 as my daily phone. Other than the average camera and the 1 gb RAM everything is great.
Doogee’s phones are as crappy as their methods to promote them. So desperate and sad.
Look at those fakes comments to promote their phones,what a joke!
Are they garbage phones? I’ve been tempted to get one.
it’s a hit or miss.
when a deal it’s too good to be true then expect surprises.
that worth with any of those small Chinese companies.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t get one, some people had good experiences as well.
always remember that you get what you pay for.
and another suggestion is that read reviews before buying anything
(no matter what brand you go for)
I have DG700 phone. The phone claims it is dust and water resistant according to IP67. It is not, there absolutely no water protection, although you might think so based on the covered connectors and rubber on battery. Bud pu the phone in a water and after 1 minute it is dead.
The construction looks solid. There are even screws in it. But one of them dropped from my phone and nothing has changed. I believe they are there just to make it look solid. On my previous Motorola Defy the screws did really hold the construction and the phone was really waterproof.
The phone also lacks compass which is something I wouldn’t expect at all these days especially on an outdoor phone.
The backcover starts to peel off as anyone would expect after looking at it. The touch response could be much better. The display has a picture burn-in effect much stronger then any plasma TV ever had.
But on the other hand it is a very good phone with great battery capacity, runs smoothly and works reliably. For the price it is not a bad deal. But the company clearly lies in the specifications. I’ve seen another model, where the lied about battery capacity. And if you can not trust them, I would not get any phone from them before a detailed review, which would check if all the marketed specifications are true or not.
What’s more sad is that these methods work, and people continue to buy their phones.
Idiots don’t die, they are just being replaced.
The Doogee F5 could not only be the first liquidmetal phone from China
but one of the first phones to use the material in the world?? Really?? Good job! @DOOGEE
Go away you ugly bot your name is too generic and your enthusiasm too lol
Doogee is hated all around gizchina
Oh f**k now i got you all your profile comments on disqus are only on this site and ONLY ABOUT doogee phones and how “awesome” they are you most likely are not even a woman
Hehehe. This is an all out attack i see.
Dante … whats with all the Doogee hate? I believe everyone is entitled to their opinions… bots or not.
I am not exactly a doogee lover myself but you gotta chill man.
that’s not an opinion Michael.
give a look at their profiles and you can see them commenting only about Doogee phones (any model) here in Gizchina and other blogs.
their clearly trying to promote their phones with these tactics.
In that case, I think Andi should ban them.
those are accounts made on the fly, just to comment a new post about Doogee phones.
it’s been a while now that they are doing it.
on it 😀
Removed this fake account too
I deleted a few on the forum as well for both Doogee and Elephone.
You are a god andi – thank you
Lets defend the gizchina order!
Man imagine you read fake review and buy the phone to find that its utter cr@p
Doogee –
Fake battery numbers
Really Really bad screens
Software with delayed updates
A lot of factory defects
Do i really need to continue ?
A lot of users will understand me
i can not understand you as i’m using Doogee phone for about year and half, none problems till now beside weak battery over time (understandable though). Screen is excellent for money, why really bad screens? Screen is actually much better than screen of smaller HTC phone my wife has, much more visible in sun, better contrast, viewing angles also excellent. Also Doogee software is much better than on many HTC and brand name phones, which is also understandable as they have almost vanilla Android OS installed on them contrary to these brand name phones. Factory defects? None. They can have only software bugs (on early firmwares), like low volume etc, but they are easily solvable with third party software. And usually Dooge quickly comes up with new firmware which solves these problems. Build quality is excellent for money, too. Fake battery numbers, like what? What do you mean by that? Battery is battery, do we really care about number on it?
I have DG700. It has some problems, there are some fake specs but for the price the phone is still OK. But I’m not gonna buy another phone from company, which lies to its customers.
I totally agreee, Dante… see my comments above
Haha I’ll believe it when I see it. More likely it’s plastic made to look like liquid metal.
Lol beware bots on this post (as usual)
I agree. It’s so easy to throw some big announcements in the headlines these days. Facts please, no more words!
or some material that gives you skin cancer for holding the phone.
Or tries to terminate you
And if it fails, “it will be back” for you with another model for sure 🙂
5mm liquid metal frame with the rest plastic? Got to love the headline grabbing marketing though!
Nice looking phone for specs and price.
the appearance seems like the Turbo, it’s another flag phone?
Lol you are another employee b***h Now i am really angry about the bots on this post Real Gizchina users Lets Anihilate the fake Comments FOREVER
Removed the fake account
150$-200$ phones are starting to feel underpowered.
1080p, 2-3GB RAM ,decent enough cameras for what most need but a rather weak CPU. Don’t get me wrong A53 is a big perf gain over A7 but things could be better. I really hope next year someone goes 2xA72+2xA53 instead of 8xA53, the chip would only cost a little bit more but it would be worth it.
Snapdragon 620 seems pretty good to me and most likely will end in 1000 Yuan phones next year
It won’t be cheap enough, it’s more of a stop gap high end SoC ahead of 820 so it will likely cost twice as much as what i was suggesting and drop a little bit next year but not even close to what is needed. In this new wave the SD425 replaces SD615 in the price band. SD620 is like SD600 was, not all that cheap.
Plus it’s not an ideal configuration for great perf and price. It would be pretty fast for today with A72 at 1.8GHz but a lot slower than A72 at 2.5GHz on a more advanced process. Plus 4+4 cores pushes costs up unnecessarily, some might go that way for marketing reasons but that’s not ideal.
Open question to all: Is there anyway to know if there’s any way to check if its really corning gorilla glass …. I can bet my life on this .. .this is no fu*king way possible it’s corning gorilla glass … tell Doogee provide some proof!
You can’t really check if it is specifically Gorilla Glass the brand name without seeing a BOM or purchase order. But you can check if it matches the quality/durability of GG by doing some simple tests such as a scratch test.
Or break walnuts, or hammer nails into wood…
If this is real it will be my next Doogee phone beside DG550. I am still using the DG550 as my daily phone. Other than the average camera and the 1 gb RAM everything is great.
Doogee’s phones are as crappy as their methods to promote them. So desperate and sad.
Look at those fakes comments to promote their phones,what a joke!
Are they garbage phones? I’ve been tempted to get one.
What’s more sad is that these methods work, and people continue to buy their phones.
Idiots don’t die, they are just being replaced.
it’s a hit or miss.
when a deal it’s too good to be true then expect surprises.
that worth with any of those small Chinese companies.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t get one, some people had good experiences as well.
always remember that you get what you pay for.
and another suggestion is that read reviews before buying anything
(no matter what brand you go for)
I have DG700 phone. The phone claims it is dust and water resistant according to IP67. It is not, there absolutely no water protection, although you might think so based on the covered connectors and rubber on battery. Bud pu the phone in a water and after 1 minute it is dead.
The construction looks solid. There are even screws in it. But one of them dropped from my phone and nothing has changed. I believe they are there just to make it look solid. On my previous Motorola Defy the screws did really hold the construction and the phone was really waterproof.
The phone also lacks compass which is something I wouldn’t expect at all these days especially on an outdoor phone.
The backcover starts to peel off as anyone would expect after looking at it. The touch response could be much better. The display has a picture burn-in effect much stronger then any plasma TV ever had.
But on the other hand it is a very good phone with great battery capacity, runs smoothly and works reliably. For the price it is not a bad deal. But the company clearly lies in the specifications. I’ve seen another model, where the lied about battery capacity. And if you can not trust them, I would not get any phone from them before a detailed review, which would check if all the marketed specifications are true or not.
come on DOogee … don’t be scums now …
if you gonna do something big , do it right OR DONT DO IT AT ALL !
Open question to all: Is there anyway to know if there’s any way to check if its really corning gorilla glass …. I can bet my life on this .. .this is no fu*king way possible it’s corning gorilla glass … tell Doogee provide some proof!
You can’t really check if it is specifically Gorilla Glass the brand name without seeing a BOM or purchase order. But you can check if it matches the quality/durability of GG by doing some simple tests such as a scratch test.
Or break walnuts, or hammer nails into wood…
come on DOogee … don’t be scums now …
if you gonna do something big , do it right OR DONT DO IT AT ALL !
If and IF this is actually the real crap Doogee is spewing right now, it might be interesting for that price. However, it’s very unlikely.
If and IF this is actually the real crap Doogee is spewing right now, it might be interesting for that price. However, it’s very unlikely.
13 megapixel Samsung 3m2 rear, it is the real megapixel or made it by software?
This is the chip which is used in Samsung S5. It is real 13Mpx and better then Sony IMX214. The phone might be able to take very good pictures as far as the optics is also good and if they don’t lie in specifications again.
Yea Vladimir (Mr.Chen) ….this phone takes better photos than iPhone6+ also…. Doogee has lots of employees confused with their nationality…..
Or maybe I am just too sensitive with doggy style….
You think I might be a Doogee employee if I say that they lie in specifications?
I only said that the Samsung S5K3M2 is a very good chip with ISOCELL technology. It is used in Samsung S5 which makes very good photos. It is still 7th best phone camera according to DxOMark: http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles
But the CCD chip only doesn’t mean that the pictures will be great. You also need good optics (Samsung S5 has a great optics with OIS) and software (for setting exposure values and postprocessing).
Again I repeat that I was talking about the chip not the phone. The optics on DooGee will definitely be worse then Samsung’s so you can not expect such good results. But if the optics and SW is at least average, you can expect better pictures then most other Chinese 13MPx phones which use Sony CCD chip (IMX213 or IMX135). But only a review will tell us if it is true or not…
Those sensors are CMOS not CCD… CCD sensors require much more power which is not likely can be provided by a phone battery
I doubt it’s gonna be this chip. Doogee has a history of lying about their specs.
Valencia 2 phone was promised to have 2200mAh battery and 1.3MHz 6735 CPU. It actually has 1800mAh batteyr and 1.0MHz 6735p CPU.
Distributors proimised Doogee will send the actual 2200 batteries later, to fix the fck up and you know what they did? They started delivering same 1800 batteries, but just with capacity marking removed with cotton bud soaked with isopropyl, again …
http://i.imgur.com/Igpx6OI.jpg – hard to be a fan whe you see things like that.
13 megapixel Samsung 3m2 rear, it is the real megapixel or made it by software?
This is the chip which is used in Samsung S5. It is real 13Mpx and better then Sony IMX214. The phone might be able to take very good pictures as far as the optics is also good and if they don’t lie in specifications again.
Yea Vladimir (Mr.Chen) ….this phone takes better photos than iPhone6+ also…. Doogee has lots of employees confused with their nationality…..
Or maybe I am just too sensitive with doggy style….
You think I might be a Doogee employee if I say that they lie in specifications?
I only said that the Samsung S5K3M2 is a very good chip with ISOCELL technology. It is used in Samsung S5 which makes very good photos. It is still 7th best phone camera according to DxOMark:
But the CCD chip only doesn’t mean that the pictures will be great. You also need good optics (Samsung S5 has a great optics with OIS) and software (for setting exposure values and postprocessing).
Again I repeat that I was talking about the chip not the phone. The optics on DooGee will definitely be worse then Samsung’s so you can not expect such good results. But if the optics and SW is at least average, you can expect better pictures then most other Chinese 13MPx phones which use Sony CCD chip (IMX213 or IMX135). But only a review will tell us if it is true or not…
I doubt it’s gonna be this chip. Doogee has a history of lying about their specs.
Valencia 2 phone was promised to have 2200mAh battery and 1.3MHz 6735 CPU. It actually has 1800mAh batteyr and 1.0MHz 6735p CPU.
Distributors proimised Doogee will send the actual 2200 batteries later, to fix the fck up and you know what they did? They started delivering same 1800 batteries, but just with capacity marking removed with cotton bud soaked with isopropyl, again …
– hard to be a fan whe you see things like that.
Those sensors are CMOS not CCD… CCD sensors require much more power which is not likely can be provided by a phone battery
>Liquidmetal flagship
>No MT6795
Doogee, WTF?
>Liquidmetal flagship
>No MT6795
Doogee, WTF?
i have used my xiaomi3 for almost 2 years,and it’s time to change it.Ordered doogee f5 from tinydeal last week and excited waiting for its arrival.
i have used my xiaomi3 for almost 2 years,and it’s time to change it.Ordered doogee f5 from tinydeal last week and excited waiting for its arrival.
What’s the price now? If you like the mid-range phone, oukitel k6000 pro Usd 149.99: http://goo.gl/BAozHg
I recently brought a Doogee T6 with the 6250 mAH battery and I had nothing but problems from the start, calls would drop out all the time for no reason, callers could not hear me most of the time and i could hardly hear them, the phone’s touch sensitive response was terrible and sometimes I had to press the phone so hard to get a response. After 3 days I opted to return the phone as faulty and defective. I will not even consider this brand in the future as it has been a nightmare from the start.
This was a huge dissapointment for me as I had high expectations for this phone after spending a great deal of time reading reviews and watching videos.
I recently brought a Doogee T6 with the 6250 mAH battery and I had nothing but problems from the start, calls would drop out all the time for no reason, callers could not hear me most of the time and i could hardly hear them, the phone’s touch sensitive response was terrible and sometimes I had to press the phone so hard to get a response. After 3 days I opted to return the phone as faulty and defective. I will not even consider this brand in the future as it has been a nightmare from the start.
This was a huge dissapointment for me as I had high expectations for this phone after spending a great deal of time reading reviews and watching videos.
The Doogee F5 is a good smartphone with budget price, but I love my Bluboo xtouch better. Here I found a comparison video for Bluboo xtouch and Doogee F5, hope it is useful for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDtA1MoIYGw
The Doogee F5 is a good smartphone with budget price, but I love my Bluboo xtouch better. Here I found a comparison video for Bluboo xtouch and Doogee F5, hope it is useful for you.