Doogee S200 Max rugged phone review

Some rugged phone makers want to put every feature imaginable in their devices, irrespective of how large and heavy it makes them.

A classic example of this is the Doogee V Max Play, a monstrously large, rugged phone with an onboard LED projector.

It also comes with 16GB of RAM (not 36GB as advertised), 512GB of storage and enough battery to see you through a working week. The downside of an exceptional feature set and a talk time that’s about a third of a month is that this isn’t the most practical phone to carry.

It’s large, it's heavy, and it has a carry case that would be classed as carry-on luggage on an aircraft, if the airline wasn’t funny about you bringing a 20500 mAh battery onboard.

Ideally, this is a phone that’s dropped by helicopter onto a mountain top with all your ...