The Ulefone Armor Pad 3 Pro is a new tablet designed for demanding environments, featuring a huge battery, two powerful LEDs and a good grip. A cellular connection is also possible.
That’s definitely a big issue with these. This one ships with Android 13, its very likely that it will never get an update or security patch after release.
From a security/privacy standpoint these are bad. I have not seen any custom ROMs for any of them, for the usual reasons, limited uptake, Mediatek processors, unreleased source code.
If none of that is important to you, then they seem to work pretty well. An old coworker had one, I used it briefly a few times. Battery life was great, seemed to get reception where other devices didn’t, hers was waterproof, and survived many drops. It was great for site surveys in the back of Bourke.
I wouldn’t use one, but if none of what I consider the downsides was an issue then its a phone with good specs (Android version notwithstanding) for very reasonable money.
These boutique phone companies have a huge issue of software updates. Unless it’s open bootloader, and can run lineage OS I don’t trust them at all.
That’s definitely a big issue with these. This one ships with Android 13, its very likely that it will never get an update or security patch after release.
From a security/privacy standpoint these are bad. I have not seen any custom ROMs for any of them, for the usual reasons, limited uptake, Mediatek processors, unreleased source code.
If none of that is important to you, then they seem to work pretty well. An old coworker had one, I used it briefly a few times. Battery life was great, seemed to get reception where other devices didn’t, hers was waterproof, and survived many drops. It was great for site surveys in the back of Bourke.
I wouldn’t use one, but if none of what I consider the downsides was an issue then its a phone with good specs (Android version notwithstanding) for very reasonable money.
THIS 👆.
Xiaomi has big issue with phone ownership, I think their new OS called HyperOS is step solely to make it as hard as possible to Unlock the bootloader…