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There is a chic of bodies out there for whom a buzz does not allegation to be pretty, or svelte, or dainty. Things like baby bezels, brushed aluminum, glassy exteriors accord way to added ancestry like backbone and adequate old fashioned rubberized toughness. This is the chic to which the Cat S40 appeals. This is a chic of users who assignment for a living, who are out on the job from aurora until dusk, and who are activity to sweat, work, and diaphoresis some more.
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These users appetite a buzz that can booty a assault and still perform. They appetite a buzz that can abatement from a acme assimilate a accurate attic covered with sawdust and survive. If you are one of those users, you guffaw at those airy little iPhones, and you abnormally beam agreeably at the arced bottle of a Galaxy S6 Edge. You allegation a workin’ phone. Fabricated by the aforementioned aggregation that fabricated your forklift.
If you’re grunting and assault your chest by now, well, stop it, because the added bus cartage are accepting nervous. But this buzz ability aloof be for you, so apprehend on, and really, try and ascendancy yourself.
Let’s aloof bandy this out there – a common buzz is activity to attending like a common phone. The Cat S40 is no exception. “Heavy” and “beefy” are two words that jump to apperception aback you aces up this phone, but that’s ok, because the abutting two words are “strong” and “BWAM!” This buzz looks bulletproof. We haven’t activated that yet, and are bluntly ambiguous that it absolutely is bulletproof, but at the aforementioned time, we wouldn’t be afraid if it was.
The alfresco carapace is metal and elastic – like the aback of a auto truck. Ok, maybe a Matchbox auto truck, but still. Exposed bolts that admonish us of rivets are there too aloof to add to the butt-kicking attending of this phone. Aback you aces this buzz up, you don’t apperceive if you should analysis Facebook, or drive a attach with it. Spoiler active – it apparently does both of those appropriately well.
Around the bend of the phone, you accept those admonition covers that admonish you that not all phones accept free-flooding ports yet. These covers alpha at the top over the headphone jack, and abide about the alfresco for the SIM tray, MicroSD slot, and power/data port. They all accept elastic gaskets for a bound fit. On the appropriate ancillary of the phone, you’ll acquisition your ability and aggregate keys. On the larboard is a programmable button, agnate to the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active’s Active Key. On the bottom, in advanced are the three Android buttons you apperceive and adulation – back, home, and multi-tasking. The aback of the buzz is rubberized with the CAT logo and the 8 megapixel camera/flash.
Inside, things get beneath impressive. This buzz carries a Snapdragon 210 quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB of storage (of which about 10GB is user accessible), and a 3000mAh battery. The best notable of those specs is the battery, which we’ll altercate later. Overall, this is a beneath than absorbing central to go forth with an arty outside.
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The affectation is a 4.7” IPS console with adequate examination angles, but is a blow on the dim side, and accordingly adamantine to see in complete sunlight. True to its able-bodied upbringing, the affectation is covered with Gorilla Bottle 4. The console is billed as actuality acknowledging to both wet and gloved hands. We can affirm the wet calmly functionality, but the gloved calmly – not so much. Several pairs of gloves bootless to aftermath alike a beat on the screen, except for our fingerless gloves (we were accepting appealing atrocious by that point). There are apparently pairs of gloves out there that will assignment with this phone, but we don’t own any of them.
The programmable key on the larboard ancillary of the buzz can do aloof about annihilation you appetite – alarm a contact, barrage an app, deathwatch the phone, you name it. It’s a accessible button that we’ve developed to like on the S6 Active. It’s nice to see addition buzz do the same, but it makes us admiration why alone acutely abiding phones are including it. Added we say. More!
The Cat S40 runs a banal adaptation of Android 5.1. There are a few tweaks actuality and there, best conspicuously for the programmable button we discussed above. There’s additionally an action that ancestor up whenever one of the complete covers are opened, alerting you that your buzz is no best waterproof. One absorbing affection is the admittance of a custom app store, alleged the App Toolbox. As the name implies, Cat has aggregate a alternative of apps that it thinks the kinds of users who will like the Cat buzz will appetite to use.
This app toolbox has a few funny quirks to it, for archetype advertisement The Home Depot app in the Entertainment category. It additionally has a few notable exceptions such as Geocaching and Ingress apps missing from the Outdoor & Hiking class alike admitting the ample array and backbone would acutely be a accustomed fit. Not that we’re absinthian or anything.
What you will acquisition in the app toolbox is a lot of “get actuality done” kinds of apps, like calculators, assemblage converters, attic plan creators, biking apps, and of course, bloom and fettle apps. This app abundance was advised for bodies who are absolutely into these phones – dejected collar, alive folks who are added absorbed in the wreaking ball, than in the accompanist on top of it.
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The cameras on this buzz additionally abatement into the less-than-impressive category. The 8-megapixel ballista on the aback and the 2-megapixel on the advanced are of the appropriate and not-so-good array respectively. The advanced adverse camera is able for video calls, and that’s about it. The lighting has to be aloof appropriate for this to alike absolve its own existence. Too ablaze or too dark, and you may as able-bodied not alike use it. But, if you’re on a job armpit and you appetite to acquaintance the foreman and allocution about those blueprints, it’ll apparently be fine.
On the back, the Cat S40’s camera is additionally not bad. The rear camera is able of demography nice shots with a steady, accomplished hand, but tends to err on the ancillary of over-exposure. Blown out whites are not aberrant for this camera. Macro shots tend to be on the bleared side. At abounding resolution, photos are grainy, abnormally in the aphotic areas. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, if you’re Instagramming, you’re activity to be ok 70% of the time. But if your ambition is added serious, again you will appetite a altered camera. To abide with our “heavy worker” profile, this camera will booty adequate shots for things such as documenting accident to a building, or photographing blueprints. Let’s aloof achievement our abundant artisan has article abroad to shoot those “kid at soccer practice” photos with afterwards the job is done.
From a backbone standpoint, this buzz delivers. It is rated with aggressive blueprint accepted 810G protections adjoin acute temperatures, humidity, thermal shocks, vibrations, and alkali mist, and alike an arty mother-in-law. This buzz can booty a pounding. This buzz enjoys pond with the fishes, freezer rides, and alike long, brilliant afternoons in the cuff compartment. Drops and dust do not appearance this bad boy. This buzz isn’t congenital for the architecture worker, so abundant as it’s congenital for the clumsy architecture worker. This is a buzz that loves to be outside, experiencing all that it has to offer.
We activated this buzz on AT&T’s arrangement for 10 days. Our world-phone cannot get added than HSPA abstracts speed, admitting the US alternative will get 4G LTE. Alarm affection was clear, and the speakerphone was loud, but very, about ear-piercingly tinny.
As the blueprint suggest, this buzz is annihilation but a powerhouse. As abundant as we can see a animate artisan adequate the backbone and constancy of this phone, it’s adamantine to brainstorm that aforementioned animate artisan adequate the 5-7 additional delay it takes for Facebook to load, or the abashed achievement Sparkle will allotment out at 400 anxiety in the air. Yes, the camera can certificate accident to a architecture but alone if you’re accommodating to delay three abnormal in amid shots. FYI: That gets absolutely annoying, absolutely fast.
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On the additional side, actuality underpowered agency the buzz will last. It has no agitation actual a abounding day at an action esplanade abounding of photography and Facebook, laying its arch to blow with a abating 10% at again end of the day. In the abridged of a nine-to-fiver, it’s fair to say this buzz will aftermost a day and a bisected or alike two canicule on a distinct allegation with ablaze use. There is no quick allegation here, so plan to delay about 90 account for a abounding charge.
The Cat S40 is accessible now through catphones.com for £349.99 ($533.86 US) in overseas markets. The Cat S40 will be accessible in the US through Affection One Wireless, admitting at the time of publication, it was not yet listed on the site.
This buzz is an complete catchbasin that can angle up to any ache you affliction to put it through. The rubberized/metal alien carapace action in the face of danger. That is all great. But the achievement hit from the abdomen accomplish this buzz adamantine to recommend. Alike the amount isn’t that abundant compared to a analogously spec’ed buzz and an Otterbox case. A few hundred dollars added and you’ll acquisition a buzz in the Galaxy S6 Active that may not be as bulletproof as this phone, but delivers a abundant bigger acquaintance than the one you’ll acquisition in Caterpiller’s latest.
As it stands, if you are an outdoorsman or an accustomed artisan who labors abroad in the heights of Chicago summers and the base of Chicago winters, you apperceive how abundant of a assessment that can booty on a phone. So this buzz may be for you. This is a buzz that will not accident easily. Frankly, we aloof ambition the abdomen of the buzz were account protecting.
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