Any reason to not get a Cat phone?

[Vlinny-kun]

Spoiler: Specs

I want a waterproof phone that will last a long time, but I hate the ones out of samsung where the edges are curved to where it falls out of your hand when you grab it or accidentally click something on the screen. I'm aware that there's chink phones with bigger screens and longer battery life, but I'm immediately suspicious of anything coming from china lasting a few months before bugging out. The low resolution camera doesn't bother me.

Thoughts?

 

[Knight of the Rope]

Cat phone? Well, it's no bear computer.

On a serious note, I remember looking at one of these earlier in the year on a whim and I was put off by all of the people complaining about calls dropping out, weak signal and a grainy microphone. If I'm going to pay that much for a phone that has shitty camera resolution and a relatively piss-poor processor/RAM, then it has to at least work as a phone.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

If my cat does a better job as a communication device than an actual phone it's a failure and this thing will scratch your head if you put it to it and try and dial a number on it's stomach.

 

[DerKryptid]

Bear phone retаrd

 

[zero-who]

Why don't you just get a bulky case so it can't fall out of your hands?

 

[WeWuzFinns]

just get a 150$ chink phone and buy a new one when it breaks. if it even lasts a year it is well worth the price

 

[lemonsarebetter]

How autistic do you have to be to drop a big ass phone?

 

[Thumb Butler]

The Cat phones are often used at industrial sites or other dusty/wet environments like a troon dwelling. They are expensive but I believe they are quite well made, or at least used to be.

 

[sasazuka]

I still want to get a cat phone.


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I like that Garfield's eyes open when you pick up the handset.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I'm skeptical, that isn't ugly/cool enough to be a good tough phone. Screen probably cracks if you back over it with a tractor and can you really hose it off if it is caked in mud and shit?



The Nokia 800. Ugly/cool, the 320x240 screen resolution makes the fonts of text messages large and easy to read, 2MP camera, running on pure Chinesium(KaiOS) so it will not be compatible with any software. €99 and it comes with Snake.

 

[sasazuka]

I'm skeptical, that isn't ugly/cool enough to be a good tough phone. Screen probably cracks if you back over it with a tractor and can you really hose it off if it is caked in mud and shit?

I've seen CAT phones used on Big Clive's channel. They look tough but I've always been skeptical that anything that tough would still have a touchscreen instead of a regular screen behind several millimetres of tough material.

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The Nokia 800. Ugly/cool, the 320x240 screen resolution makes the fonts of text messages large and easy to read, 2MP camera, running on pure Chinesium(KaiOS) so it will not be compatible with any software. €99 and it comes with Snake.

I like it, I just wish they'd add a couple more megapixels resolution to the camera. I think phone camera sensor size is good to around 5MP (roughly as much detail as you can resolve with a sensor as small as most phones have since there are optical limits to how small each pixel can be; they can make tiny sensor cameras with 20MP or more resolution but it's just a 5MP-quality picture with a lot of extra noise).

 

[Uncle Buck]

I still want to get a cat phone.

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I like that Garfield's eyes open when you pick up the handset.

Nobody's catphone will ever be as cool as Richard Harrison's catphone.

 

[byuu]

I've seen CAT phones used on Big Clive's channel. They look tough but I've always been skeptical that anything that tough would still have a touchscreen instead of a regular screen behind several millimetres of tough material.

He also made a long-term use review of it:

And he tested a Chinese alternative:

But what he cares most about is the thermal imaging camera. I don't know if OP cares about that.

 

[murdered meat bag]

The Cat phones are often used at industrial sites or other dusty/wet environments like a troon dwelling. They are expensive but I believe they are quite well made, or at least used to be.

cat phones suck. they're rebranded chink phones that brick for.no reason. theyre slow and their phone quality is terrible.

they made a model with a flir camera that ive never used.


if you want a toughphone the kyocera line is cheap as is the samsung xcover.

 

[totallyrandomusername]

Well, the on-board storage is small, the USB 2.0 connection sucks, but other than that it is decent. The FLIR Lepton sensor is very nice. I don't know of any other phone that has that.

 

[Art Kassul]

cat phones suck. they're rebranded chink phones that brick for.no reason. theyre slow and their phone quality is terrible.

they made a model with a flir camera that ive never used.


if you want a toughphone the kyocera line is cheap as is the samsung xcover.

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The Xcover even has removable battery. Unless you need FLIR, seems like a better choice.

 

[Vlinny-kun]

But what he cares most about is the thermal imaging camera. I don't know if OP cares about that.

I don't. I do think the feature is neat. Don't know what I'd use it for though.

if you want a toughphone the kyocera line is cheap as is the samsung xcover.

Kyocera is a brand I haven't heard about in years. I had one of their sliding keyboard phones and I really liked their ringtones.

Had no idea samsung made toughphones, although I was only looking through their waterproof phones and I only saw like 3. That one with the removable battery is going to be hard to beat.

 

[murdered meat bag]

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The Xcover even has removable battery. Unless you need FLIR, seems like a better choice.

only thing with the xcover pro is an update fucked up the bluetooth chip so some headphones dont work anymore
i dont know what the specs are bit my a aftershokz and jlab headphones dont work with it while working fine with the s9. i had some beats that work fine with both.

I don't. I do think the feature is neat. Don't know what I'd use it for though.


Kyocera is a brand I haven't heard about in years. I had one of their sliding keyboard phones and I really liked their ringtones.

Had no idea samsung made toughphones, although I was only looking through their waterproof phones and I only saw like 3. That one with the removable battery is going to be hard to beat.

the duraforce line has saphhire for all the glass. dont know what the quality is like these days but back then it was a great phone.

 

[Picklechu]

Very disappointed that it isn't a phone that lets you talk to cats.

This is why I should never get my hopes up.

 

[Shroom King]

I was looking at CAT phones because they make smaller phones that you can fit into your pants pocket (unlike the current trend of making smartphones bigger than a Buick), but the Android OS on the phone looked like it was EOL. I don't know much about Android OS stuff but the phone was to be for work so I didn't want issues with work apps not working due to an older OS.