Sonim has brought the rugged XP3300 Force to Mobile World Congress, boasting that the GSM phone has the “longest talk time in the world.”
One must understand that this handheld is meant for calling and being durable. Not really much more except some MRM applications, including workforce location monitoring, fleet tracking, timecard reporting, real-time work order updates, job scheduling, and event confirmation.
Users can squeeze out 20 to 24 hours of talk time and about the same amount when using the GPS tracking function. Don’t neglect the whopping 800 hours on standby.
The XP3300 Force is encased in a fiberglass shell and sports a 2-inch display that is underneath a 1.5mm-thick Gorilla Glass lens for scratch and shock resistance. Somewhere in all of that is also a 2-megapixel camera with an LED flash, a noise-cancelling microphone and a 23mm speaker.
Thanks to all those protective measures, the XP3300 Force can be dropped from approximately 6.5 feet onto concrete and survive temperatures ranging from -4 to 131 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pricing and availability haven’t been announced yet. Until then, there are some pretty ridiculous videos demonstrating just how tough the XP3300 Force really is, including this one from our sister site CNET in which the mobile device is submerged in an antifreeze mixture. Please, take a look:
