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I received the Doogee one now. It has Android 5.1. It is a very very good phone for the price too.
In fact there is only one thing that really bothers me with these phones, the system encryption doesn't work. On the Elephone P7000 it just stalls at the Android logo when you start the system encryption, and on the Doogee flat out isn't there.
Honestly I'm starting to think it is due to the Communist Party. I know that China regulates encryption in commercial products very strictly. From what I have seen they aren't banned in mass-market products (Apple sells the iPhone there after all)… but since these are Chinese companies they could have agreements or could be pressured by the Party to keep the encryption feature away, for phones geared to the Chinese domestic market at least.
It's a shame because it otherwise ruins two truly great phones. However I refuse to use a device that I cannot fully encrypt. I don't want anyone to be able to extract my confidential data and files from my devices. I also cross the border sometimes, where you have almost no rights. I usually encrypt my phones, and format them before crossing the border. If this isn't done they could confiscate the phones for no reason and extract the data at their office in Ottawa. I've met some of the people who do it through my job and I know how it works.
Maybe someone will release a Cyanogen build where it works for these phones. If not I'm going to throw them both in the St Lawrence river.
In fact there is only one thing that really bothers me with these phones, the system encryption doesn't work. On the Elephone P7000 it just stalls at the Android logo when you start the system encryption, and on the Doogee flat out isn't there.
Honestly I'm starting to think it is due to the Communist Party. I know that China regulates encryption in commercial products very strictly. From what I have seen they aren't banned in mass-market products (Apple sells the iPhone there after all)… but since these are Chinese companies they could have agreements or could be pressured by the Party to keep the encryption feature away, for phones geared to the Chinese domestic market at least.
It's a shame because it otherwise ruins two truly great phones. However I refuse to use a device that I cannot fully encrypt. I don't want anyone to be able to extract my confidential data and files from my devices. I also cross the border sometimes, where you have almost no rights. I usually encrypt my phones, and format them before crossing the border. If this isn't done they could confiscate the phones for no reason and extract the data at their office in Ottawa. I've met some of the people who do it through my job and I know how it works.
Maybe someone will release a Cyanogen build where it works for these phones. If not I'm going to throw them both in the St Lawrence river.
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