UlefonePower Armor X11 Pro Rugged Smartphone, 8150mAh Battery, 64GB/128GB SD Octa Core, 5.45 inch Tough Screen Outdoor Phone, 3-Card Slot 4G SIM Free Unlocked, 16MP Waterproof Camera, NFC

Firstly I will point out I did more than unpack the Ulephone Power Armour X11 admire it and fantasise about how I might use it. This review is at the end of a couple of weeks intensive testing. The phone has a very specific audience, it is squarely aimed at the outdoors community who work in harsh environments and require long battery life, or the adventurer who spends time out in the outdoors. The battery life is exceptional, the best I got was six days without a recharge with daily use: calls, whatsapp and GPS. This is undoubtedly a large phone, that said, it fits well in the hand or the pocket, it’s ruggedised without being oversized. The design makes it easy to operate with gloves or slippery hands, the extra programmable button, in my case mapped to a mapping app is really good and a great time saver. There is no fingerprint unlock which isn’t a bad thing for the target user who is likely to be wearing gloves or have hands that are dirty from working, the facial recognition is very good and rarely failed me even with hat or safety helmet on, on the rare occasions that it did I simply used the pattern to log in, imho this is often quicker to use pattern login than repeatedly pressing a grubby finger on the screen trying to unsuccessfully unlock the device. Wireless charging isn’t included, but as this phone is designed to be out in the field that isn’t a loss to me and kept the weight and bulk down. The Satellite positioning uses GPS, Glonass, Galileo & BeiDou, is ultra quick to acquire solid lock and is accurate, for activities like location finding, Geocaching and other mapping and for me scored a solid 100%. The operating system is the current Android 12 and has none of the big manufacturers bloatware, all my apps chrome, Whatsapp, Banking, Dropbox etc worked just as quickly as a Samsung s21 5g, there is dual sim and has a slot for a micro SD card which is useful for storing onsite pictures from the more than capable 16 megapixel camera, the screen is bright and clear even under direct sunlight. In short for the outdoors I love this phone.TLDR; if you want a phone to pose down the pub with, look elsewhere, if if you want an proper tough outdoors phone this is the one.

I bought this as a cheaper, more rugged second phone to use primarily with the OS Maps app when hiking as I've found that using my main phone (Samsung Note 10) for this causes the battery to drain in about 3 hours, espcially when taking photos too, which is no good when on an all-day hike. As such, I won't be using a SIM with it but I did try it and it took a couple of gos to be recognised, for some reason, but then worked ok. It takes quite a long time to boot up but that's not a big issue.The phone itself is very chunky and heavy in a reassuring sort of way - it's basically a power-pack with a phone attached. It's not super quick, the screen isn't perfect and the camera is not good at all but that doesn't concern me too much for my purposes although the battery symbol in the notifications area is incredibly hard to read. The phone came with a screen protector and also a tempered glass screen protector packaged separately. It's not clear to me whether this is the same or better than the one pre-fitted so I've haven't used it yet.The Amazon page showed that it came with a free belt-loop connector but it turns out that if you didn't use the promotion code (what promotion code?) you have to ask them for it directly and supply them with your name, address, email, etc. to get it and I'm not doing that. It did come with a lanyard, however.I gave it a test run the other day and it worked brilliantly as a GPS device with no SIM and found that at the end of the day, it was still at 92% battery so I'm pretty chuffed about that. The facial recognition unlock is a bit hit and miss which is an annoyance when you are continually taking it out to check your route. I might have to bypass security when I'm using it.It might be expensive just to use for GPS but I bought a Garmin GPS a couple of years ago for half the price and it turned out to be next to useless - you couldn't downloaded routes OTA, it was hard to use and the screen was tiny and difficult to navigate. This is obviously miles better as it's a standard Android 12 phone and I was able to download map data in the field via my other phone using wifi tethering so I didn't even need to swap the SIM to do that.In conclusion, for what I want it for it's great. I would think twice if you want to use the camera a lot and I would certainly not want to use it as my only phone as it's a bit sluggish.

After using this phone for almost a month now I have to say that I'm quite impressed. I was a bit skeptical about the claims for the battery life but despite using it to play music via Bluetooth for several hours a day and many, many long phone calls, it has always lasted at least two days and usually three before needing a recharge. The phone is very sturdy and rugged and with the extra case and screen protector fitted should survive most normal activity. I've used it with both the belt clip and the carabiner and both have felt secure, it does hang upside down from the carabiner but this seems right and wasn't a problem for me.I haven't tested the underwater capabilities but as long as it can cope with a rainy day I'll be happy.One thing this phone isn't is light or slim but it's no worse than any of the larger I-phones or similar.I don't use the Face Recognition or Fingerprint unlock so I can't comment on these.The camera seems to be more than adequate but I don't tend to use it much so I'll leave that for others to decide.Android is Android and does what it should , i haven't found any problems with it or any of the apps.I bought this phone for day to day use at work and when out and about and it's been perfect for my needs.

The battery life and performance aren't what is advertised. Very slow performance and battery only lasts less then two days.