Developers: | Jaguar Land Rover |
Date of the premiere of the system: | February, 2018 |
Technology: | Tablet computers and smartphones |
2018: Announcement of the most protected smartphone
In February, 2018 the car maker Jaguar Land Rover announced the Explore smartphone which called the most protected in the world. The tube is developed together with Bullitt Group company.
According to developers, phone is protected from dust and is capable to sustain immersion both in fresh, and in a salt water (the stated maximum depth — 1.8 meters) and also continues to work in extreme temperature differences, the increased humidity and shaking. The display will not crash even if to reset the device from height of 1.8 meters on a firm surface.
In Land Rover say that during creation of the gadget were guided by the idea to receive phone which can use in places where the Land Rover Discovery SUV is capable to reach.
The new model is supplied with the 5-inch screen with the resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and a cover plate of Corning Gorilla Glass 5. Affirms that the display normally reacts to touches of the fingers and hands wetted by water in gloves.
Phone is controlled the 10-core MediaTek Helio X27 processor with clock rate to 2.6 GHz and the Android Nougat operating system. The graphic ARM Mali T880 MP4 block and the high-speed LTE modem are built in CPU.
Besides, in the smartphone microSD and the rechargeable battery on 4000 mAh found application of 4 Gbytes of operational and 64 Gbytes of a fixed memory, two cameras (on 16 and 8 megapixels), the slot for removable media. The producer says up to two days of independent operation of the device.
The beginning of sales of Land Rover Explore is planned for April, 2018. The cost of a product will be 650 euros. It will be in addition possible to purchase Bike Pack accessories (fastening on a bicycle wheel) and Adventure Pack (the additional accumulator with a capacity of 4370 mAh plus the powerful GPS antenna).
Public demonstration of the smartphone will take place within the Mobile World Congress 2018 exhibition which at the end of February will take place in Barcelona.[1]