(Image: https://live.staticflickr.com/4664/25666582617_f53c07a671_b.jpg)Ulefone this week introduced its new high-end shockproof and waterproof smartphone. Dubbed the Rugger Armor 6, the ruggized phone combines an IP68-rated chassis, a sizable show, numerous special-purpose sensors, as well as a high-performance SoC. Clearly keying in on a certain industry segment for the new telephone, the Armor 6 may also ship with multiple pre-loaded applications which are intended to be helpful throughout traveling or simply in numerous harsh locales.

Broadly speaking, most rugged smartphones have to make trade-offs to reach their design objectives, including using an inelegant chassis, mediocre hardware inside, or rather ordinary displays. Whilst the basic reasons behind such style decisions are more or less obvious (e.g., preserve their BOM expenses and heat soak in check), there are many people who favor to have a rugged smartphone without having producing really numerous compromises. The Ulefone Armor x5 Armor six in turn is trying to carve out a niche for itself in that marketplace by providing a rugged style with above-average hardware.

Around the outdoors, the Armor six includes a a rather decent searching 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.five meters for up to 60 minutes), thermal shocks, corrosive environments, and so on. Meanwhile, framing a six.2-inch 2246×1080 LCD display protected using Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5, the Armor 6 is usually fairly large and heavy: it really is 160 mm tall, 13.3 mm thick, and weighs 228 grams. All of which makes the Armor six a great deal bigger than standard customer smartphones, but is fairly common for this industry segment.

Moving on towards the insides from the Ulefone Armor six. The smartphone is powered by MediaTek’s Helio P60 SoC, a eight-core design with quad A73 and quad A53 Arm cores also as Aem's Mali-G72MP3 GPU. The SoC is paired with six GB of DRAM and 128 GB of NAND flash storage. Many recent ruggedized smartphones have been according to cheaper SoCs with low-power Cortex-A53 CPU cores, so the Armor 6 is notable for its efficiency potential. Since it seems, Ulefone decided not to reduce corners and employed a comparatively high-performance SoC with Cortex-A73 cores as a way to make sure that owners in the handset can use all applications they need to using a comfy degree of performance.