Tuesday 14 April 2020

Soyes Mini Smartphone Review

This arrived in a simple lift top box with the phone on the top in a rubber protective insert with foam covering the top, below the phone it has a two pin European style charge plug, a USB-C to USB-A charge lead and a small user manual, although the charge plug is a two pin European style it clearly states this will be the case and a three pin UK plug would be an additional purchase, I don’t consider this any sort of issue as the provided lead will charge it via any USB socket.


First impressions, the phone has a good weight to it, is thicker than an average phone, all the finishing on it looks very high quality and with the rubber wrap around it feels like it would withstand being dropped or banged about without causing any damage, it has everything you would expect to see on a larger phone but at a reduced size.

I put the phone on charge via the USB-C socket in the base, this has a rubber cover which can be a bit fiddly to open, and the manual is all very small text with no diagrams or pictures to assist although it does go through all the functions and features. I fitted two sim cards into the phone, the design of the sim card holder is quite neat with the sims going above and below on the slider and it takes a Nano sim and a Micro (USIM) on the bottom, it is also possible to fit a micro SD card for as an alternative to one sim but not in addition to dual sims.


Once it was charged I turned it on, the language defaulted to Dutch so I had to guess/navigate through the menu to switch the language to English, once I had set it to English I had a good look through the features, the phone has facial recognition which I set up and that worked very well, I set up the fingerprint unlocking and this also worked very well with the fingerprint pad being on the back of the phone. I tested out the cameras and they are fairly good with a two megapixel front and eight megapixel rear cameras, the quality more than acceptable.


The phone comes with Android 6 (marshmallow) which is quite an old version but works very well with the phone being nice and fast to navigate and I liked the menu system, I was quite surprised how loud the phone would go considering its size although playing music through the phone speaker is a bit tinny, The battery is 1900mAh and I found it lasts a full day with heavy use and over two days plus with minimum use before it needing charging.


Overall I have been using the phone since it arrived as my main phone and everything works perfectly, I thought phone calls might be a bit difficult to hear but its fine, the menu system is fast, well thought out and easy to navigate, it’s durable, shockproof and waterproof so will put up with a lot of rough treatment, it fits easily into a small pocket and has a good loud ring tone along with some of the most recent features such as facial recognition. The default language being Dutch, opening the charge port being fiddly and the manual only being small text with no diagrams are the only things stopping me giving this top marks. 

Product description

  • Colour Name: Black
  • Operating system: Android 6.0
  • Standard frequency band: GSM: 900/1800 WCDMA: B1/B8 FDD: B1/B3, TDD: B38/B39/B40/B41
  • GPS: YES
  • Wi-Fi: Dual band (2.4GHz/5GHz) single stream 802.11 a/b/n/g Bluetooth: V2.1+EDR/V3.0+HS/V4.0
  • NFC: Support
  • Talkback: Supports public network intercom. Supports video calls.
  • Processor: MTK6737 ,CPU:4x Cortex-A53, GPU:ARM Mali-T720 MP1 550MHz
  • Key: 6 independent keys: PTT Photo Keyboard Boot SOS Volume + Volume- Three virtual keys: Return to the next level Open Background Applications Return to the main interface
  • Keypad lamp: Virtual Key 3 White Light
  • Memory: 3GB(ROM) +32GB(RAM)
  • External storage: Maximum Supporting external TF card default 128GB
  • Photography/Camera: The first 2 megapixels and the last 8 megapixels
  • Screen: "3.0 IPS", "Color Screen", Touch Screen Support Resolution: 480*854 FWVGA RGB PPI:326
  • Battery: 1900mAh
  • Fingerprint: Fingerprint unlocking
  • Sensor: Vibration motor, gravity, geomagnetism
  • Headset: Support TYPE-C earphone(but no include headset in package)
  • Hardware interface: TF、SIM、TYPE-C
  • Included accessories : 1* type C cable , 1* EU charging adaptor ,1* English user manual

Price: £125.00
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