Sonim XP8 / Verizon XP8800 World's Toughest smartphone By SurvivalComms

Hello this is Brett survival comps in today, I'm going to show you probably the world's most durable Android device, and it's now available for Verizon. The sonic xp2 be a short video, and let me preface this by saying: I'm, not a device guy, there's a device for me as a tool, but I do always get ruggedized devices, because I murder on these things, I drop them, and I'm, always looking for a better mousetrap and those of you in the same boat as I am will probably appreciate this device. These devices have been around for a while AT&T had them out for a while, and they're marketed, mostly as a band 14 enabled first net device, and we won't go down the first net rabbit hole now that Verizon's rolled these out. It's a lot more practical for me, because AT&T coverage in my particular area isn't all that hot, rather than just regurgitate the specifications while I'm holding the device on my hand, I printed out the data sheet for the device- and we can go ahead and read this here- and this is basically talking about the computer here with the 630 outscore 2.2 gig processor. It's got four gigs of ram 64 gigs of ROM, and it supports up to 128, gigabyte micro SD card, and the same here with the connectivity specifications here and also what's really cool about this device is, is that it has an almost a 5 amp hour battery a 4900 William hour, replaceable removable battery and the batteries are relatively inexpensive, they're somewhere in the neighborhood of $25, and that's retail for a battery pack for one of these devices and then the charging port on this right here, as provided from the manufacturers, the USB port and here are physical characteristics. So we'll go over this stuff in more detail when we talk about the ports and the keys, etc.

Comparison wise. This is my Kyocera aura force that this device, to expiate replaced, and you can see form factor wise there pretty much very close in the same size with one another weight-wise. This device weighs about 12 ounces, and this one here weighs about nine ounces. So there is a little of additional weight with this device, and it's certainly not a lightweight device. It's take a moment to talk about the rugged certifications here when you look here at non-incentive class, 1 division, 2 groups, a b, c and d.

What that means is an area where you store flammable liquids or gases. It's safe to use you're not going to walk into an acetylene cloud, though using your device. It's not certified for that, and then, when you look at Class two and three Division, two groups, F and G, that's basically combustible particulates and fibers, etc. Well standard 810g is a drop test. Type of certification in IP 68 IP 69 is ingress protection from dust and liquid being the six is dustproof and the eight essentially means the device is considered to be submersible.

There is a video on YouTube, where a guy actually takes one of these devices and places it and do a pot of boiling water for a minute while it's powered up, and it survived it. So that's how pretty impressive in my book display wise? It's a 5-inch display. That's a Gorilla Glass 3 display again in another video they've, had people taking nails and them in the sort and scratching against the display and the display handles that kind of abuse. Admirably. Now, looking at the audio side of things, the speaker, when you look at this right here, it says dual front-facing, loudspeakers output of 100 DB Plus.

This thing has Baku audio I mean it's unbelievable. How loud the device is I run it about 25%, and that is more than enough. So in a high noise environment, that audio would be invaluable to those who you were operating this device in a speakerphone capacity, we're using a push-to-talk app. The device also built features have built an FM radio tuner. However, I haven't been able to test that yet because I'm still waiting for my three-and-a-half millimeter audio adapter that will plug into the secure audio connector that inhibits the operation of that FM radio app.

Unless you have that plugged into it- and it may be that it's using the earpiece adapter the cable as an antenna- I'm- not quite sure yet, but we'll figure that out once I get that in, and you can see that it has two cameras. It has a 12 megapixel, regular camera and your front-facing camera is an eight pack of pixel camera. The device is marketed as being able to be operated with gloves and that certainly find that to be the case. It is a little clumsy to manipulate everything, but, as you can see, you can use the device with these gloves on the left side of the device. We have our power button.

We have a push-to-talk button, which is for various push-to-talk apps, there's a plethora of them out there so pick your poison, but I've got this particular I'm good Zero in it, and it works just fine using that is push-to-talk. And then you have your volume controls here on the right side of the device. What we have here is an emergency button, and we have this programmable button here, which is currently configured for the camera, which a long key press brings up the camera, and this is what they call the secure audio connector, which looks a lot like a universal connector and the size of a portable radio. And what this does are this allows you to interface, various audio accessories to the device itself. They make speaker microphones and they make adapters.

I've just ordered the one for the three and a half millimeter Jack, so I can plug in a standard hands-free set into this, and also tie this into my HF radio for using for digital modes, but that right there. This has a centrally located post that will secure the connector to this secure audio connector. So that provides a nice weather tight connection to whatever peripheral devices you intend to use on the back side of the device. Here you can see our 12 megapixel camera. You can see your light and flash, which has like a Fresnel lens type of I.

Don't know if you can see that in the camera you have a lanyard loop, which is nice. You can tie a little piece of quarters around here like dummy cord and then tie something else to it: okay to a small carabiner. So if you want to tether it to yourself to prevent yourself from dropping it moving away, we can see that the cover is retained with the screw. These two pens here are charging pens. The device has a drop-in charger available for if it's about $200, and they do make a Bank type charger for, like an organization environment to where you'd have to charge multiples.

Battery pack is a 4900 William power pack or basically almost a 5 amp hour pack in a device. That's pretty doggone impressive, I'm, pretty stoked about that. The device has a single SD card slot and has dual sims now I've just used some the single sim- and this is the Verizon device at the bottom of the device. Is our USB connector, the charger that comes with? It is one that just plugs into the USB-C connector, and you can see it's got your typical o-ring arrangement here and, of course, opening and closing. This connection is ultimately going to compromise the integrity of this seal here.

So if you were interested in preserving the watertight integrity for the lifetime of the device or the service life of the device, it would behoove you to purchase the drop-in charger at the top of the device we have what's called to expand connector. To expand connector essentially allows this device to attach to other peripherals in previous generations of their product line. There's been barcode scanners. You can go to it and in other accessories of that nature, interestingly enough, they do make an attachment that basically is known as the direct mode for to expiate, which is an it's a 900 megahertz spread spectrum is M band, radio that attaches to the top of the device, and it's retained by these two screws here and as a small antenna and what it does is. It allows this device to operate as a standalone, radio, so off network.

You would have a small radio to go to, and it's like 250 dollars per unit for one of those there's a device under development that attaches to expand connector for this, and it's called the sled which, if I remember correctly, stands for the sonic climax expansion device, but essentially what it does is it uses the device itself is the heart of an LM are radio, so it makes the device much larger, of course, and what it does is it is a VHF UHF, four seven 800 megahertz radio it can operate as a Throw down, ad-hoc gateway, there's a few other interesting things that it's capable of, but, as I said before, it's still being developed right now and here's the article on the sled right here, and you can see it in this guy's hand. Here, like I, said there is a video on it here. You can check out it's nice as the devices are covered by a three year, limited warranty and from what I understand the warranty is no joke? They actually are pretty good at taking care of you, but you can look at the website here and give you all the details. Interesting information here is it says that they are designed to minimize the intrusion of dust and can be submerged in water up to six and a half feet deep for up to 30 minutes, they're also shock resistant and can withstand addition. Occasional drops up to six and a half feet two meters, and while our phones are tough they're, not indestructible, hope this video has given you some useful insight into the sonic xp2 most excited I've been about an Android device in a long time, so I hope this helps.

This is Brett from survival. Calm till next time.

Source : SurvivalComms