Oukitel K6000

The K6000 is a Chinese phone that’s available from various third-party vendors including Coolicool, where it costs £88.39. As we always state when buying a phone from abroad, you may need to pay import duty if it is picked up at UK customs.

Design

The Oukitel is a bit of a chunky monkey at 154x77x9.9mm and 205g, but when you consider that there’s a massive 6000mAh battery inside (by comparison the Samsung Galaxy S6 houses a 2550mAh cell) you might expect it to be larger.

Understandably it feels bigger and heavier in the hand than do most Android smartphones, and we did notice its addition to a bag. But if you make heavy use of your smartphone, or would benefit from its OTG functionality (and bundled adaptor) that allows you to hook it up to and charge another smartphone, whether it’s big and heavy will make little difference to you. If you’re tired of having to stay close to a mains power point or carry with you a portable power bank, the Oukitel K6000 could well be the phone for you.

Oukitel claims 10 days battery life with normal usage, although it’s difficult to determine exactly what is ‘normal’ usage. Everybody uses their phones differently. But to put it into context, the Oukitel has at least double the battery capacity of most Android phones, and with some low-power hardware and an HD screen resolution, you should squeeze more than double the battery life from it.

What’s more, the Oukitel supports fast-charging, so it isn’t going to take you twice as long to recharge the battery. Oukitel says you’ll get two hours of talk time from a five-minute charge.

Getting past the sheer bulk of this phone, the K6000 has a nice design. It’s built around a silver metal frame, with white plastic bars at the top and bottom on the rear. Built into the bottom panel is a rearfacing speaker grille, so don’t expect the best audio experience from this smartphone, and at the top an 8Mp camera with dual-LED flash.

A slot-loading SIM tray sits at the top-left edge of the phone and will accept two Micro-SIM cards or one SIM and a microSD card (up to 32GB in capacity), allowing you to boost the Oukitel’s 16GB of internal storage. Even without the microSD card that’s a generous amount of storage for an Android smartphone that costs less than £100 – in many cases you’d find yourself with only half this amount.

A volume rocker and power switch are found on the phone’s right side, where you’d expect, while there’s a Micro-USB charging port at the bottom and 3.5mm headphone jack at the top. The screen-to-body ratio is reasonably high, although there is some space below the screen for three touch-sensitive recents, home and back buttons.

The screen is usefully large at 5.5in, making this a ‘phablet’ device, and uses IPS technology that is known for its realistic colours and strong viewing angles. It’s sufficiently bright in the scenarios we tried, and Oukitel has added 2.5D curved glass to the top that helps make the phone feel more comfortable in the hand.

The K6000’s screen has 1280x720 pixels, which is an HD resolution and in line with many budget Android phones. You will find full-HD screens at this price

If you’re tired of having to stay close to a mains power point or carry with you a portable power bank, the K6000 could well be the phone for you