Alcatel’s A1v can be picked up for around £80 and is a better choice than the awful (even for £40) Alcatel A1.
The 5.5in Doogee S40 is rugged to the IP68 standard and costs under £100 but it’s very heavy, with a rubbish display and gutless processor. That sets a high bar for alternatives so we’ll extend our scope to anything costing less than £100 with a display no bigger than 5.5in.īoth Motorola’s E6 Play and Xiaomi’s Redmi 7A fit the bill and offer a decent user experience but their 5.5/5.45in displays naturally make them larger and heavier than the Cubot and they are not even remotely rugged. The Kingkong Mini can be picked up for less than £80 from the Cubot store on GearBest. As far as I’m aware, the Cubot Kingkong Mini is in a league of its own.Ĭomparing by price doesn’t help much, either. The list of ultra-compact, rugged Android phones is a short one. Cubot Kingkong Mini review: Price and competition The 13-megapixel rear camera and 8-megapixel selfie snapper are hardly exceptional either. It’s powered by a relatively weak MediaTek Helio A22 processor and 3GB of RAM, with a small 2,000mAh battery. Aside from its rugged credentials, everything else about the Cubot Kingkong Mini is pretty standard as far as a budget smartphone is concerned.
