What rugged (dumb) phones are people using

[RRD]

Tuff phone T500 still can't break mine

[Duncan.]

5 hours ago, Acerforestry said:

I bought a Sonim XP5 from the States (via Ebay), they are cheap as chips over there as they are pretty common, and if you get a used one there's no duty. They are pretty much unbreakable and waterproof military-grade but more importantly than anything else the sound quality is excellent, I have had several CAT phones and they are very durable but a lot of the time people struggled to hear at the other end. And battery life is super. Or as J said the Ulefone models are pretty good but I still managed to break the screen on mine

Does this phone have a conversation format for texts? I find that pretty handy.

[Acerforestry]

No idea Duncan I'm a technophobe, what is conversation format

[Big J]

10 hours ago, RRD said:

Tuff phone T500 still can't break mine

 

I had one. It was OK, but the battery life was terrible (6-7hrs when on headset listening to the radio through it) and the rubber outer case just peeled away. 

 

The Ulefone Armor X3 is a big step up from the T500. With the exception that the Tuff phone sounds like it should be a Terminator model. The Ulefone can't match it for cool 😎

[billy_wizz]

46 minutes ago, Big J said:

 

I had one. It was OK, but the battery life was terrible (6-7hrs when on headset listening to the radio through it) and the rubber outer case just peeled away. 

 

The Ulefone Armor X3 is a big step up from the T500. With the exception that the Tuff phone sounds like it should be a Terminator model. The Ulefone can't match it for cool 😎

Had a tuff phone lasted 6 months very slow and laggy shame as there customer care was great

Edited December 25, 2021 by billy_wizz

[Big J]

3 minutes ago, billy_wizz said:

Had a tuff phone lasted 6 months very slow and laggy shame as there customer care was great

 

Very much agreed. I liked the company, but the product wasn't up to scratch unfortunately. I'm a heavy user (so to speak) and within a year it wouldn't last a working day without a top up charge. 

By contrast the Ulefone is usually 3 days at work on one charge. 4-5 days if I'm not at work, and 2 days if I'm using it continuously when travelling, including sat nav. 

[RRD]

Think I may be upgrading then in the near future

[Duncan.]

On 25/12/2021 at 17:52, Acerforestry said:

No idea Duncan I'm a technophobe, what is conversation format

Not sure if that's what it's actually called but It's where you can see your sent messages and received messages on the same page like a conversation and you can scroll up and down through the conversation rather than go into the inbox and all messages are individually opened. Sorry if that makes no sense.