$4 cellphone "suprisingly decent"

I recently bought my son a ‘Doogee X3’ phone - it was deliberately a cheap purchase (£43) as I wanted something he could get use to get used to carrying a phone around with that I wouldn’t be too upset about if he accidentally trashed or lost.

From the looks of it the Freedom 251 is very similar - the CPU looks identical, and it’s got a similar resolution screen. Although the information on both phones claim they have IPS screens, the screen on the Doogee X3 is terrible. It’s very difficult to read outside and the viewing angles on it are tiny; so much so that if you use the phone in landscape mode, each eye will see a different colour.

I also found out today that the GPS is very poor - we both downloaded Pokémon Go, and went out searching for Pokémon but we were hindered by his intermittent GPS, which kept dropping the signal.

Anyway, I suspect the experience with the Freedom 251 will be similar. They look like very, very similar phones.