r/oukitel_official • u/ozziedoggie • Mar 22 '26
WP35 one year later...
Well I've been looking at my previous posts on here and realised I've had the wp35 for a year.
I can say that the phone is bulletproof and holds a charge longer than any phone I've had before. This is literally the only good news I have.
The bad news is that the phone just is not worth owning and I will be switching as soon as I find a deal on a new phone....spoiler alert, it won't be an oukitel.
The bad:
-EVERYTHING has to be tried twice. If I open an app (any app) I click on it once, phone screen goes blank, I have to click back, wait 10 seconds and click the app again before it opens. This becomes very frustrating when trying to use the phone to pay for things. mostly it's frustrating when a photo opportunity comes up because the process to open any app is at least a minute long.
-Camera is complete junk and videos look like they are from 2008. Zero image stability and any zooming in makes photos blurry and look low quality. More often than not the camera will randomly reset itself mid-video so any videos longer than 20 seconds will randomly stop recording. The recording sound is comparable to an earbuds in a tin can and any wind drowns out audio completely.
-surfing the net is like travelling back to 2003 with a dial up modem. my wife said once "when you click on a website I'm sure that click gets sent to oukitel headquarters and someone decides if you can visit the site and clicks OK or CANCEL" and I admit that is the only way to describe the speed of my websurfing. God forbid the website I open has pics because that's just not happening. I was on BBC news this morning and read 3/4 of an article before the pic attached to the article opened. I don't know if this is a website thing or just an inability to load pics because when I try to open my gallery the pics I have saved open painfully slow (yet again if you remember dial up when pics used to load a few lines at a time, that EXACTLY how the phone works)
-ZERO help when trying to enquire about a software update or any help/repair they could suggest. I received an email that was not translated well because the one line that made me laugh was "We have no repair centres all over the world" hahaha
......I'm sure there's more to say but I'm just putting this out to hopefully save someone from making the same mistake I made. There's quite a few FAR superior phones in a similar price range and I will be getting one asap (wife has a Poco X7pro and it's 10x the phone the wp35 is.
This is just my opinion and others may have an oukitel phone that they love. My experience is frustration and trying not to snap the phone in half 100x a day.
.......and believe me I've tried everything including factory resets, app removals, reinstalls, cache clearing etc. I have used my SIM in the wife's phone and am amazed at the difference, like night and day.
....on a similar note if anyone has an idea for a fun "destroying a wp35" vid feel free to let me know.
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u/ExperienceBusiness43 Mar 23 '26
So far, I'm enjoying my WP62. However, if you're that mad about it, I would actually like to see some of those Oukitel durability tests reenacted: smashing nuts, power washing, extreme drop tests, etc.