Doogee S200 Max ZDNET's key takeaways The Doogee S200 Max is on sale now for around $480.
It's a super chunky handset that won't fit in your pockets, but it's incredibly durable, passing IP68/IP69K and MIL-STD-810H standards.
It's not exactly cheap, and you have to be a certain user to carry a phone this durable. $799.99 at Amazon
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I remember when companies such as Doogee started making ruggedized Android phones that were more for being used on a construction site than at home. They were big, bulky, and, well, not all that impressive in the performance department.
That's all changed, as I'm now seeing ruggedized Android handsets that pack a lot of performance into their tough outer shell. The Doogee S200 Max is one such handset.
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Aptly named, everything about the S200 Max has been turned up to the max. This Android 15, 5G-enabled smartphone features a large 6.72-inch 2,400 x 1,080 pixel (2.4K) display that can reach a 120Hz refresh rate.
However, this isn't the only screen -- on the back is a 1.3-inch IPS always-on secondary screen that allows you to glance at things like notifications, the time and date, and battery status without being distracted by the big display.
Running the show is a 6-nanometer octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 7050 processor, running at up to 2.6GHz and a whopping 16GB of RAM, which can be further augmented by 20GB of virtual RAM (my usual advice is to set the virtual RAM to the max for the best performance, but in this case it's been done for me), and 512GB of storage. And if that gets a bit tight, you can expand it with a microSD card.
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