Buy Ulefone Armor 7 this week introduced its new high-end shockproof and waterproof smartphone. Dubbed the Rugger Armor six, the ruggized telephone combines an IP68-rated chassis, a big display, multiple special-purpose sensors, as well as a high-performance SoC. Clearly keying in on a certain marketplace segment for the new phone, the Armor 6 will also ship with numerous pre-loaded applications which can be intended to become beneficial in the course of traveling or simply in various harsh locales.

(Image: https://images.pexels.com/photos/2102415/pexels-photo-2102415.jpeg)Broadly speaking, most rugged smartphones need to make trade-offs to reach their design and style objectives, such as using an inelegant chassis, mediocre hardware inside, or rather ordinary displays. Whilst the common reasons behind such style choices are more or less clear (e.g., maintain their BOM expenses and heat soak in check), there are numerous individuals who favor to possess a rugged smartphone without having producing quite a lot of compromises. The Ulefone Armor six in turn is looking to carve out a niche for itself in that marketplace by offering a rugged style with above-average hardware.

Around the outside, the Armor six features a a rather decent looking chassis featuring a die cast frame covered with protective rubber and red or grey metallic inlays. The enclosure is rated to handle drops from 1.two meters, submersion into water (as much as 1.5 meters for up to 60 minutes), thermal shocks, corrosive environments, and so on. Meanwhile, framing a six.2-inch 2246×1080 LCD show protected using Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5, the Armor six is usually quite big and heavy: it's 160 mm tall, 13.three mm thick, and weighs 228 grams. All of which tends to make the Armor six a great deal bigger than regular customer smartphones, but is pretty standard for this market segment.

Moving on to the insides in the Ulefone Armor six. The smartphone is powered by MediaTek’s Helio P60 SoC, a eight-core style with quad A73 and quad A53 Arm cores as well as Aem's Mali-G72MP3 GPU. The SoC is paired with 6 GB of DRAM and 128 GB of NAND flash storage. Numerous recent ruggedized smartphones have already been depending on more affordable SoCs with low-power Cortex-A53 CPU cores, so the Armor six is notable for its efficiency prospective. Because it appears, Ulefone decided to not cut corners and employed a comparatively high-performance SoC with Cortex-A73 cores to be able to make certain that owners in the handset can use all applications they need to having a comfy amount of efficiency.

As far as connectivity is concerned, the handset supports 30 frequency bands as well as GPS/AGPS+GLONASS+Beidou positioning. As a result it can be utilized in 90% areas more than the globe, which can be specifically helpful for people who travel to numerous remote corners in the globe. As for local connectivity, the Armor six supports 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth four.2, NFC, as well as a USB two.0 Type-C port for data transfers and charging of its 5000 mAh battery. Speaking of charging, the telephone also supports ten W Qi wireless charging.

A single specifically intriguing feature of the Armor 6 are its sophisticated imaging capabilities, which are comprised of a 16 MP + eight MP main camera with an ƒ/2.0 huge aperture and dual LED flash, as well as an eight MP selfie camera with an ƒ/2.0 huge aperture. As a way to enhance the resulting image top quality and increase the efficient resolution of pictures taken with the telephone, it's configured to make use of both cameras at once, combining their inputs making use of a special algorithm developed by Arcsoft and running on the SoC ISP. Although a neat function in and of itself, the unfortunate side-effect is the fact that Ulefone is advertising this higher interpolated resolution as the native resolution in the camera method, which in practice is not the case.

Meanwhile when it comes to sensors, the Ulefone Armor six has a lot that its target audience ought to appreciate. Among other items, the smartphone is equipped having a p-sensor, an ultraviolet sensor, a coulometer, together with the other more frequent sensors discovered in current-generation smartphones. The smartphone comes pre-loaded with several special-purpose applications (e.g., Sound Meter, Pedometer, Bubble Level, Barometer, Protractor, UV Light Tester, Plumb Bob, etc.) that take advantage of the sensors, producing it simpler to access the phone's full capabilities.