By Desire Athow
Sometimes, one standout feature in a smartphone can help it pull ahead of the crowd and become an almost instant classic. Caterpillar’s Cat S60 smartphone almost manages to accomplish that feat thanks to a unique feature, a heat sensor, that transformed it into the world’s first thermal imaging smartphone.
Available for pre-order from Cat’s own website (or Ebuyer) at just under £530 (around $695, AU$930), the S60 is not cheap but is certainly one of the best, if not the best, rugged smartphone on the market right now, with specs to match a mid-to-high-end smartphone.
Just as a reminder, the BlackView BV6000, which is another rugged phone with very similar specs bar the FLIR camera, costs about £150 (around $195, AU$265) but it doesn’t have the cachet of the S60, plus it lacks a few important points (the above and below images show these two models side-by-side).
So for about a tenner less than the Apple iPhone 6S, you get a phone that is both robust and significantly faster than all rugged smartphones on the market. This handset might be big (222g and a thickness of 12.66mm) …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Phones
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