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My experience
As with every Oukitel phone I’ve reviewed, I know what to expect as soon as the lid is lifted from the box. The phone will be heavy. Now, the WP58 Pro is not nearly as heavy as other Oukitel phones, but it’s certainly heavier than whatever you currently carry around.
I powered the device on, walked through the onboarding process, and then set about using the phone.
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The first thing that struck me was the smoothness of the animations. I’m used to budget phones having considerable lag on animations and app opening, but the WP58 Pro did not suffer under the weight of low system resources. The phone runs Android 15, which helps with the zippiness (the performance improvement from Android 14 to 15 was marked).
I was surprised to find that the phone I was given only had 8GB of RAM. The last phone I used with 8GB of RAM performed exactly as expected… slow. Somehow, Oukitel has managed to eke out a bit more speed from midrange specs.
Of course, there’s always the built-in RAM Expansion, which uses storage space as extra RAM. With this feature, you can double the amount of effective RAM on the system. Is it worth losing 8 GB of storage space? I enabled the RAM Expansion feature to see if I noticed a difference. My immediate impression was that it actually seemed to slow the phone down a bit. All of a sudden, animations lagged a bit. However, the RAM Expansion did help when I had several apps open.
. The game has to download a sizable file, which took far longer than it should. That could be attributed to Blizzard’s server, my ISP, or even the phone itself.
You’ll get plenty of light from the WP58 Pro.
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If you have never experienced the Oukitel camping light, I’m warning you now: Do not turn it on with the light facing you because it is crazy bright. The ambient light produces 900 lumens, while the white light produces 1,000 lumens. To use the light, you have to open the Camping Light app and select the type of light you want to use. You can select from SOS, Super, Full, Half, Quarter, as well as from three different colors (white, together, warm).
The weight and the battery
The WP58 Pro is not nearly as chunky as some of the other phones Oukitel has produced, but it’s certainly heavier than whatever you currently carry around. The WP58 Pro weighs 370 grams, versus 199 grams for the Pixel 9 Pro.
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The reason for that weight is the protective case and the massive battery. The WP58 Pro has a 10,000mAh battery with 33W fast charging and 10W reverse charging. For reference, my Pixel 9 Pro has a 5,060mAh battery, which I can make last for a day and a half (if I’m careful).
The WP58 Pro battery barely budged from its 79% charge when it arrived. After 24 hours of testing, the phone’s battery level dropped to only 65%. That’s impressive and something my Pixel 9 Pro could only dream of pulling off.
ZDNET’s buying advice
It’s nice to see an Oukitel Phone that takes performance as seriously as it does ruggedness. Although the WP58 Pro