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 large show, numerous special-purpose sensors, as well as a high-performance SoC. Clearly keying in on a specific marketplace segment for the new telephone, the Armor 6 will also ship with multiple pre-loaded applications which are intended to be helpful throughout traveling or simply in various harsh locales.

Broadly speaking, most rugged smartphones need to make trade-offs to attain their design and style objectives, such as making use of an inelegant chassis, mediocre hardware inside, or rather ordinary displays. Although the common reasons behind such design decisions are a lot more or much less apparent (e.g., keep their BOM costs and heat soak in check), there are lots of individuals who choose to possess a rugged smartphone with out making fairly a lot of compromises. The Ulefone Armor a5 pro Armor 6 in turn is looking to carve out a niche for itself in that industry by supplying a rugged design and style with above-average hardware.

On 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 manage drops from 1.two meters, submersion into water (up to 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 utilizing Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5, the Armor 6 is generally pretty big and heavy: it 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 consumer smartphones, but is relatively standard for this market segment.

Moving on to the insides of 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. Numerous recent ruggedized smartphones have been depending on cheaper SoCs with low-power Cortex-A53 CPU cores, so the Armor six is notable for its efficiency potential. Because it appears, Ulefone decided to not cut corners and utilized a fairly high-performance SoC with Cortex-A73 cores to be able to make sure that owners in the handset can use all applications they need to using a comfy degree of overall performance.

As far as connectivity is concerned, the handset supports 30 frequency bands also as GPS/AGPS+GLONASS+Beidou positioning. Consequently it can be employed in 90% locations more than the world, which can be specifically beneficial for individuals who travel to numerous remote corners from the globe. As for local connectivity, the Armor 6 supports 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.two, NFC, too as a USB 2.0 Type-C port for information transfers and charging of its 5000 mAh battery. Speaking of charging, the telephone also supports 10 W Qi wireless charging.

A single specifically intriguing function from the Armor 6 are its advanced imaging capabilities, which are comprised of a 16 MP + eight MP primary camera with an ƒ/2.0 big aperture and dual LED flash, as well as an 8 MP selfie camera with an ƒ/2.0 large aperture. To be able to enhance the resulting image top quality and enhance the successful resolution of photographs taken with the telephone, it is configured to utilize both cameras at when, combining their inputs using a particular algorithm developed by Arcsoft and operating on the SoC ISP. Whilst a neat feature in and of itself, the unfortunate side-effect is that Ulefone is advertising this higher interpolated resolution because the native resolution of the camera method, which in practice is not the case.

Meanwhile with regards to sensors, the Ulefone Armor six has plenty that its target audience ought to appreciate. Among other things, the smartphone is equipped with a p-sensor, an ultraviolet sensor, a coulometer, in addition to the other much more typical sensors found 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 easier to access the phone's full capabilities.