Chinese phone shoppers have another stylish, slim phone to choose from today in the form of the newly announced DOOV L5 Plus smartphone.
For those of you outside of China, DOOV might not be the most famous name out their, but on the mainland the company are known for making good-looking devices. Think of them as Oppo for the Mediatek set.
The DOOV L5 Plus is their latest phone and features a 6mm body, curved alloy edges and tough Corning Gorilla Glass 4 glass front and rear.
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On the specifications front the DOOV L5 Plus is actually quite similar to the Nubia My Prague S also announced today as they both sport Super AMOLED FHD displays, octacore chipsets and 3GB RAM. The difference is that DOOV use a Mediatek MT6753 chipset, larger 5.5-inch display and give their 6mm device a large 2900mAh battery.
Pricing on the DOOV L5 Plus is around 1999 Yuan for the white and gold version, with other coloured models set to come over time.
“This of them as Oppo for the Mediatek set.” sorry lost me at that bit.
i took out my shotgun at that point 😀
Won me at that bit, lost me at Mt6753. Should have a P10 or X10 for that price.
“On the specifications front the DOOV L5 Plus is actually quite similar to the Nubia My Prague S” except 3 major parameters are different…
Looks like Oppo R7 plus, but cheaper!
Am I the only one who finds the use of the 6753 a bit annoying. Especially since most ‘new’ versions of phones from the different manufacturers that had the 6752 now have this. I understand that its all much of a muchness since phones are kinda over powered for the average user, but still it just seems like a cop out. I don’t really want to buy a phone that has a less powerful processor then last years model. It doesn’t really want to make me upgrade
I actually don’t find it annoying.
And before you shoot me down, hear me out:
I have myself used THREE MTK6752 phones and another TWO MTK6753 as daily drivers (more or less) in the last year and two out of the three MTK6752 phones (Jiayu S3 and UMi Emax) were shipped with Android 4.4. This meant that those phones were blazingly fast and super responsive with that OS giving a great daily experience. Now, the third MTK6752 phone (Ulefone Be Touch 1) had Lollipop. I can only assume this to be a port that Ulefone made themselves since Mediatek never released official Android Lollipop support for that chipset. This means that any MTK6752 phone with Lollipop is running a port which means that optimisation and all the other software aspects are at the discretion and skill of the companies own developers.
What this translates to in real-world experience is unresponsiveness, below average battery consumption and other software quirks. This was certainly evident on the Ulefone Be Touch (which only had a 1280×720 display BTW). When Lollipop was released by TF-Android devs (this is quite a well known Spanish Android dev group who are actually now the official devs of Jiayu) for the Jiayu S3, it was actually pretty good but both battery life and overall system responsiveness suffered somewhat compared to KitKat, basically giving a similar experience as the Ulefone Be Touch.
Now take the MTK6753 phones I own(ed) that ship with Android Lollipop (Elephone P8000 and Jiayu S3+), those phones have better battery life and feel much more responsive during daily use compared to MTK6752 phones with Lollipop ports. This is because Mediatek actually created the sources for Lollipop themselves for the MTK6753 chipset.
So even though the MTK6753 is technically slower from a raw performance point of view, it’s optimisation for Lollipop (and hopefully Marshmallow) is much better than MTK6752 running Lollipop. Since it is clocked lower, battery life also sees a nice boost as mentioned before and other benefits include more LTE bands supported and also better GPS. Gaming performance is also pretty good (I don’t game on mobile devices myself, mind you), I tried Asphalt 8 and the famous Zombie Shooter for Android (Dead Trigger?) on the Elephone P8000 and Jiayu S3+ and performance is great (no stutters or lags).
Lastly, PLEASE do not mention benchmarks, they mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I mean, if a phones scores 100,000 in Antutu but feels unresponsive in daily use and has terrible 2.5 hour on-screen time, who cares?
First off, you are COMPLETELY wrong. Just kidding :-), some people take this stuff far too personally :-).
I agree that probably the 6753 is powerful enough for most users. I have to be honest I haven’t actually used one. I own an Meizu M1 note which after several OS updates is now on Flyme 5 (Android 5.1). I have imported an IOcean Rock and Ecoo E04 as well. Someone in my office has the Jiayu S3 which I have played with. The most buggy of all of them is the E04 running Lollipop(I have heard that the KitKat version is more stable). The Rock and the S3 are still on Kitkat. I think the fundimental thing here is that a buggy rom can kill any set up. I think the problem has nothing to do with the 6752 having a lack of support for Lollipop. It has to do with crappy support from the Manufacturers. When they initially developed these phones Kitkat was the Andriod version of choice. They obviously spend the most money on the rom they intending to release the phone with upfront. Since they don’t really gain any money from releasing follow ups. So they end up releasing very buggy unfinished versions of the Rom. It is not the case with all of them, my M1 note got several updates and is incredibly stable and even the performance has improved. The Antutu score went up by like 8000 with the same version of antutu(which I think is relevant since its exactly the same phone). I also noticed it with certain games(Doom 3 was noticeabley different). A lot of stuff is made of benchmarks being useless but at least it gives us some idea of the raw horse power. I know cheating does occur, but I would be inclined to believe it when both phones come from the same company. The unresponsiveness is down to a badly optimized rom more then anything to do with the hardware. Case in point are the 4 phones above, they all have different roms and levels of response, but essentially are the same hardware. Hardware just gives you a level of performance basically thoeretical based on how good the rom is.
The point is the 6752 being replaced with the 53 seems like a step down. And someone like me that owns one would never go buy a M2 Note or a Jaiyu S3+ as an upgrade. My LTE frequency is already supported. I will just wait for the next generation of CPU’s…
I actually agree with everything you said. A bad rom can certainly kill even the most high end hardware config. And the manufacturers do have the final responsibility regarding the software but what I was trying to get at in my original post is that Mediatek do provide Android base sources such as kernels for their individual SoCs, and those differ for each version of Android obviously. These sources provided by Mediatek are actually generally quite optimised but then the phone manufacturers have to build on top of those sources to support the different hardware configs of their different phones which is mostly where the optimisation issues and most bugs are introduced.
So I certainly agree with you in that the manufacturers are usually at fault for bad roms. But the other point I tried to make is that since Mediatek never actually officially released any Lollipop sources for 6752, all Lollipop roms for phones using that chip are ports made by the manufacturers or other dev teams (TF devs, for example). As is the nature of ports, they are generally not as optimised as their actual native implementation equivalent (which in this case would be the Mediatek Android base sources).
Mediatek released the 6753 with Lollipop sources which sort of forced the manufacturers to use this chip if they wanted Lollipop unless they were willing to create a port of Lollipop themselves for that phone that’s using the old 6752, which usually meant bugs and bad optimisation, more so than usual. I could easily confirm this through the Ulefone Be Touch which had the 6752 chip and was shipped with Lollipop.
Yes, the 6753 is not quite as powerful as 6752 but it has better worldwide 4G support, it has better GPS reception and due to the lower clock speed, has better power consumption. And for me personally, I could not tell the difference in normal daily use between the two different chips, but I certainly understand other power users who want or need as much raw performance as possible, in which case, yes, the 6753 was a let down.
BTW, as I said in my original post, I really don’t have much regard for Antutu, even when it’s not being cheated. It is merely a mild indicator of raw performance and I think people are too easily led through this (more or less) useless metric.
i have to say the lenovo pushed a brilliant android 5.1.1 vibeUI rom to their k3 note. its faster and better now and i know its not really important, but my antutu got to 49k with the latest release. only downsize on the 6752 is, that it isn’t very battery friendly compared to the 6753.
btw, the k3 note ran lollipop since it’s release and it has very good test results in system and performance everywhere! 😉
You are not wrong in thinking that. The problem with the 6752 is it was too good of a chip for Mediatek. There wasn’t a huge difference between it and the X10 in actual performance. Even in benchmarks the X10 was only slightly better. They needed a larger gap between their budget/midrange chip and their flagship chip. Enter the 6753.
Yup, that’s exactly it. They down clocked it, basically because it was too fast. Which has lead to this problem.
”For those of you outside of China, DOOV might not be the most famous name out their, but on the mainland the company are known for making good-looking devices. Think of them as Oppo for the Mediatek set.” Funnier than this oppo clone
no .. JUST NO !
…….why?
CPU is a nightmare for the price
CPU isn’t bad but i agree with you overall point
^_^