Enjoy going hiking in the wilderness? But worry about getting lost? Well, Land Rover has taken its knowledge of building cars built to tackle the elements in extreme temperatures and teamed up with the Bullitt Group to create one of the most rugged phones around.
Inspired by Land Rover's go-anywhere SUVs, the Explorer phone is one of those devices that can be used in practically any situation. The display has been purposefully developed to work with wet or gloved hands and claims to have two days of on-screen time in extreme conditions thanks to the massive 4,000 mAh battery. (To put that into perspective, the iPhone X has a meagre 2,716mAh battery.)
If that still isn't enough, the added adventure pack has an additional 3,600mAh battery with a ceramic GPS patch to aid GPS signal in the wilderness and a stainless steel carabiner with canvas strap. Land Rover has thrown in detailed off-road topographical mapping options from ViewRanger with Augmented reality skyline that labels features as you walk. Needless to say, the phone works with all Land Rover in-car connected apps.
The Explorer runs Android OS with a scheduled upgrade to its latest Oreo OS, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage that is expandable via microSD. Being out and about, you would hope the camera is up to taking snaps worth sharing and on paper, it does - thanks to a 16MP rear sensor with 4x digital zoom. It is due to be revealed at the Mobile World Congress in the coming days and it will cost £599 with the Adventure pack.
However, it would be remiss of us not to point out that the Bullitt group does make rugged phones for other brands like the CAT S41 which is similar to the Land Rover Explorer phone but undercuts it on price. Who'd have thunk it, eh?
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