This case looks awesome, but great work on the marketing team selling what is basically all software upgrades. Would be a cool statement piece even without the military uses though.
After 11 years of daily use without any hardware issues I accidentally dropped my Nokia N900 into the big river this week. It was a few seconds completely under rushing water.
I fished it out, removed the battery, dried it over the night and stated it again the next day. It worked flawlessly!
Well that is what I call military quality.
The only people who will buy this will be the Liberate Michigan types, and then they'll wear it in a belt clip.
Pretty impressive marketing for what's essentially a case with a remapable Bixby button.
Not going to lie, I wish hands-free chest mounted cell phone systems was more popular in the civilian world.
There's no way I'd trust an android with anything critical.
If you look at current pictures of operators in the field many are already using Android phones (usually Samsung). They primarily mount on the upper chest in the admin area of a plate carrier which helps keep the phone out of the way and makes the device immediately accessible. This Tactical Edition uses a Juggernaut case which is already the defacto standard case and mounting solution. ATAK is an interesting platform even in the limited version civilians have access to.
There are no buttons, so there’s a pretty big limit to the accessibility (although I’ve seen the catastrophic UIs on the previous generation of military gear that was mostly resistive touch so maybe this is considered an improvement.)
Plus that still doesn’t answer the complete lack of stability in android; stuff crashing all the time is just how the OS is designed to function.
Stealth Mode. That's a great way of referring to airplane mode!