Samsung this week revealed the Galaxy XCover Pro, a new Android 10 phone “optimized for a variety of industries including retail, healthcare, logistics and manufacturing”.
It’s just a little larger than the Galaxy S10+, but with a rugged body military-rated for drops up to 1.5 meters, and rated IP68 for dust and water. Its flat screen measures 6.2-inches, sports full-HD+ resolution, and works with gloves and wet fingers.
It has a 4,050 mAh removable battery that support 15W fast charging and charging docks with pogo pins.
It also has a 25 megapixel main camera, 13 megapixel front camera, NFC, fingerprint reader on the side, and two programmable shortcut buttons.
One of the buttons has be used for the PTT (walkie-talkie) feature of Microsoft Teams. It’s powered by a Samsung Exynos chip paired with 4 GB of RAM.
It has 64 GB of storage built-in and supports memory cards up to 512 GB.
It will work on Verizon’s network in the US and be available in the first half of 2020 for $500.
