CAT S75 by Bullitt – Unboxing

Today we have got something a little bit variegated as I am unboxing not just a phone but a satellite liaison device and a work tool for those of us who aren’t wrung to get a bit mucky in the pursuit of an income.
I am of undertow talking well-nigh the CAT S75 by Bullitt

Some of you may be wondering who Bullitt is and you are correct to wonder as they are not a worldwide name in the world of smartphone builders like Samsung, Apple OnePlus Honor and Google. Bullitt is a visitor that specialises in making a phone that is for workers and explorers, phones that like it rough and don’t shy yonder from stuff a bit unwieldy in the name of protection and ruggedness. They have been the visitor overdue CAT-branded phones for a few years now but they moreover make devices for Motorola Mobility as well (more on that later).

So without remoter ado let’s step out of my well-appointed foldy flagship zone and into the increasingly toughened world of rugged mobile tech and unbox this tough customer.

Now that your vision have been sufficiently seared by the eyeful within that glorious white box let’s talk specs….

Specs

So that is the specs taken superintendency of let’s have a quick squint virtually the device to see the hardy beats in all its glory.

Staring up front is where we can find the 6.6″ LCD IPS panel which is made of Gorilla Glass Victus at 0.8 mm thickness to ensure that is scratch and impact-resistant. it will moreover work with gloves if you enable Glove Mode in the settings and can be used with wet fingers! The screen will refresh at up to 120hz and this can be set on at all times, reduced to 60hz or set to adaptive mode which will automatically retread depending on what is stuff washed-up on the device.

Also to be found on the front of the phone is the front-facing 8MP camera which is located in an old-style teardrop and is in the bezel virtually the screen. The bezels by the way are huge and this is deliberate and is most likely been washed-up in this way to help versus the screen breaking if dropped but I moreover suspect that it may be to do with the same glove mode.

Tucked into the section just whilom the camera is the earpiece which is moreover built into that top bezel as well this sounds well-done and well-spoken and I have not had any issues hearing people during calls.

Moving virtually to the right-hand side we can find the strangely placed buttons. This is one of the first phones I have used in quite some time where the power keyis placed whilom the volume rocker. This requires some finger gymnastics to find the power key on what is once quite a tall phone. the good news is that this can mostly be negated buy the “lift-to-wake” full-length that is present in the phone’s settings and moreover by using the fingerprint reader on the back. Both the volume rocker and the power buttons do have a solid finger and are responsive when pressed. They are not metal though but they do finger sturdy which is a theme throughout the phone.

On the wiring of the phone, we can find a USB Type C port that is flanked by what looks to be a dual speaker but in reality, this is a single-speaker affair. The grill on the right of the USB port is the speaker and the other side most likely is hiding a mic variety under the grill. Although I cannot see the water ingress protection for myself I expect these apertures to all have gaskets on them internally.

Continuing virtually to the left-hand side is where the programmable key is hiding withal with the only port that will indulge wangle to the internals of the phone the Sim/SD vellum slot. The programmable sawed-off like the other on the right of the phone is then solid but this time has the widow goody of stuff ribbed for ease of location as this can be used for a Zello Push To Talk (PTT) sawed-off or just for any other functions which can be configured in software.

The Combo Sim/SD vellum tray is quite tightly recessed inside the phone and is a toolless style the flap that covers this is a reassuringly solid feeling and when sealed creates a tight seal. I am a little concerned that it could be flipped unshut with relative ease but I am sure that this has been thought well-nigh in diamond and I wouldn’t be surprised if the internal sections of this compartment are all coated in a waterproofing agent.

Finishing our tour of the sides we come to the top of the phone which house the SOS sawed-off in a deep red, which is then ribbed for ease of location but this time it is recessed into the phone’s casing so that it is level to prevent willy-nilly activation. Next to this is the only visible Mic slum on the phone.

Around the back, we have got a fairly wipe panel with the exceptions stuff the camera variety and the fingerprint reader. the fingerprint reader is nicely positioned where your alphabetize finger would naturally fall so it is easy to use and a good size for me but if you have bigger/wider fingers it may be problematic for you. It responds quickly and seems to be pretty well-judged with a very low failure rate from my testing at least.

The camera variety is housed in a single slightly raised tumor that is on the rear right corner of the phone in a very similar position that Samsung tend to place their cameras. In the array, we have got a 50MP Main Camera (f/1.8), 8MP Wide wile camera and a 2MP macro featuring underwater mode. Below this, we have got a very unexceptionable dual LED Flash which works really well as a torch as well if you need it too.

That concludes the tour of the phone.

I have been worldly-wise to get some limited use out of the phone since it arrived on my doorstep on Monday but I have got plans to take it with me mountain wanderlust this weekend to requite it a bit increasingly of a test. This is one of the areas where Bullitt and CAt intend for this style of the phone to be used so I will be putting it through its paces as weightier as I can over the next few days.

I am normally quite gentle on the phone I am lent for review as i don’t want to unravel them and be asked to pay for the damages! However in this specimen I am going to be a bit rough with the phone as it is a tough phone without all so within the realms of relative sense I will be tough on this phone over my testing period. I may plane be worldly-wise to get some underwater photography use out of this if I am unliable to alimony it for my trip to Turkey later this month! It then the north sea may have to suffice instead not that you will be worldly-wise to see much in there!!

If you are interested in picking up a tough phone from CAT or increasingly specifically the CAT s75 then you can do so from the CAT phones store now for £549. If however, you prefer your phones with Motorola branding then you can moreover pick this phone up as the Motorola Mobility made Defy 2 although I think this is limited to America’s at this time.

As a small treat here is a link to the app satellite messaging app working as it should, not as I tried to demo unsuccessfully in the video above!!