Doogee S98 Pro rugged phone price & launch date officially revealed

Doogee unveiled its brand new rugged smartphone — the Doogee S98 Pro — last month with a design that’s heavily inspired by “aliens”, according to the company.

This new rugged beast packs a night vision camera, thermal imaging sensor, and an ultra-wide camera. That said, a few days ago the company finally revealed the launch date of the phone, which is June 6.

In this day and age where most smartphones are practically identical with only a few minor differences such as the colors, Doogee’s alien-inspired smartphone has bagged the European Good Design award.

But design isn’t all that the phone has going for. The company has made a bold statement by claiming that the Doogee S98 Pro has the best camera system on a rugged phone.

The phone sports a professional-grade thermal camera with an InfiRay sensor that offers over twice the thermal resolution of other standard sensors on the market.

The 25Hz frame rate allows it to detect and diagnose dampness, elevated temperatures, blockages, and more.

Flanking the big thermal imaging sensor is a 48 MP main camera with the Sony IMX582 sensor and a 20 MP Sony IMX350 night vision camera.

The phone comes baked with an algorithm called ‘Dual Spectrum Fusion’ that makes it possible to process and combine images from the thermal camera and the main camera into a single picture.

On the front of the device, Doogee has added a 16 MP Samsung S5K3P9SP sensor that’s housed in a small waterdrop notch.

The Doogee S98 Pro is powered by the MediaTek Helio G96 which has a max clock speed of 2.05GHz which means the phone should handle most tasks you would throw at it, including gaming.

This chipset is paired with 8GB RAM + 256GB storage that can be expanded up to 512GB via a micro SD card.

And to ensure you don’t have to carry around a power bank wherever you go, the phone comes with a massive 6000mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging via the included power brick. Wireless charging maxes out at 15W.

As for the display, the S98 Pro sports a 6.3-inch Full HD+ IPS LCD panel with a claimed peak brightness of 500 nits. There’s also a waterdrop notch at the top and Corning Gorilla Glass for scratch and minor drop protection.

There are several other features and functions available such as a customizable button that can be assigned different actions, NFC support, IP68 and IP69K ratings, support for BeiDou, Galileo, GPS, and GLONASS navigational satellites, and MIL-STD-810H compliancy.

The Doogee S98 Pro also comes with Android 12 pre-installed and the company guarantees 3 years of security updates which is definitely a plus.

You can view the official promotion video of the smartphone below:

Doogee has confirmed the S98 Pro will be available for order on June 6 via its official e-commerce partners AliExpress and Linio (in Latin America) as well as on its own DoogeeMall platform.

The most interesting part, however, is the pricing. The Doogee S98 Pro will be available at just $329 between June 6 and June 10 with the “World premier discount” by the company.

After that, the device will be on sale for $439. Furthermore, the company says it will be giving away the device for free to some lucky fans. More details about this are available on the official website.

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About Doogee: Doogee is a local Spanish brand that was acquired by KVD International Group. In 2016, Doogee sold more than 15 million Android phones in more than 16 countries.

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