Doogee have a rep for releasing phones with bad firmware, and not bothering to fix it.

If you want a cheapish phone, stick to Xiaomi.

Recently got this phone when its was on pre sale. Good build quality and best price for 6gb ram phone on the market. Not a bezel less phone. Don't get deceived by the pictures. This phone won't work properly in the darkness...suddenly show white screen, stops videos in the middle...advice. Read the review before purchase.

Bezel-less? Does bezel have an entirely different meaning these days because the image shows a significant black frame around the screen?

Had two Doogee phones (X5 Pro & X6 Pro) previously, both very snappy and decent performers but both had camera problems when used in apps. Camera quality and response was also below average.

How DO Samsung etc, justify the price??

My wife insisted on a Samsung Galaxy Note when she finally gave up on iPhones last year. My Xiaomi not only rungs rings around it, response-wise, but is more stable and is better at getting a 4G signal in our semi-rural environment (it has locked up twice).

On top of that, my battery has always lasted longer than hers; HER battery will barely last a day now; even my 4 y/o Xiaomi Note3G lasts longer than that, and my newer Xiaomi Note 3SE will go for 3-5 days, depending on use.

The combined cost of my 3* Xiaomi phones is still LESS than the cost of her heavily discounted Samsung, so how do they justify the price??

* 3 phones, as the 2nd got accidentally crushed over Easter, not even a Xiaomi can survive a 20 ton compactor.

Recently got this phone when its was on pre sale. Good build quality and best price for 6gb ram phone on the market. Not a bezel less phone. Don't get deceived by the pictures. This phone won't work properly in the darkness...suddenly show white screen, stops videos in the middle...advice. Read the review before purchase.

Hardware problems or firmware; and if so, is there a firmware fix in the pipeline?

:man:

Got this phone.
Firmware problems.
To get the screen working in darkness, you have to turn off the adaptive brightness.

The original releases with the 20170617 system wont OTA update. But I understand all the newer ones are fine and update properly.

Doogee have a rep for releasing phones with bad firmware, and not bothering to fix it.

If you want a cheapish phone, stick to Xiaomi.

Forgot to say, I really like the phone. It's like poop off a stick, with no lag.
The camera is very average though. Battery life is good.
I'd recommend it for the money I paid for it.

DooGee is one of the only brands of phone that ended up being faulty within the space of a year for me. Not sure I'd go for one again. Elephone also I'd maybe pass up on.

6GB / 64GB sounds amazing for £148 but it's just marketing, a sucker punch for when you get the phone and it messes you about so much you wish you didn't have it. I'd much rather have a really good user experience that some dodgy firmware knock off phone. One reason I moved from Galaxy S6 to Xperia XZ as the XZ doesn't come with all the Samsung cack and if you break the screen it doesn't as much of a fortune to fix.

I'd love to see how users are using all that RAM up as well.