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Military Smartphone: Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition
- Stevvo 6y agoPretty impressive marketing for what's essentially a case with a remapable Bixby button.
- elitistphoenix 6y agoStealth Mode. That's a great way of referring to airplane mode!
- Paraesthetic 6y agoThis case looks awesome, but great work on the marketing team selling what is basically all software upgrades. Would be a cool statement piece even without the military uses though.
- vvanders 6y agoArs had a pretty good take on it: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/the-galaxy-s20-tactical-edition-is-a-shock-and-awe-campaign-against-reality/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/the-galaxy-s20-tacti...
- ryuukk_ 6y agoLOOOOOL what country will fall into this trap samsumg LOOOOOOOL
- exabrial 6y agoI thought this was satire for a minute.
- swiley 6y agoThere's no way I'd trust an android with anything critical.
- crystalPalace 6y agoIf you look at current pictures of operators in the field many are already using Android phones (usually Samsung). They primarily mount on the upper chest in the admin area of a plate carrier which helps keep the phone out of the way and makes the device immediately accessible. This Tactical Edition uses a Juggernaut case which is already the defacto standard case and mounting solution. ATAK is an interesting platform even in the limited version civilians have access to.
- swiley 6y agoThere are no buttons, so there’s a pretty big limit to the accessibility (although I’ve seen the catastrophic UIs on the previous generation of military gear that was mostly resistive touch so maybe this is considered an improvement.) Plus that still doesn’t answer the complete lack of stability in android; stuff crashing all the time is just how the OS is designed to function.
- holri 6y agoAfter 11 years of daily use without any hardware issues I accidentally dropped my Nokia N900 into the big river this week. It was a few seconds completely under rushing water. I fished it out, removed the battery, dried it over the night and stated it again the next day. It worked flawlessly! Well that is what I call military quality.
- dirtyid 6y agoNot going to lie, I wish hands-free chest mounted cell phone systems was more popular in the civilian world.
- ximeng 6y agohttps://gizmodo.com/the-four-eyed-night-vision-goggles-that-helped-take-dow-1654543721 https://gizmodo.com/the-four-eyed-night-vision-goggles-that-... in case anyone else is wondering about the four-lensed goggles.
- drcongo 6y agoThe only people who will buy this will be the Liberate Michigan types, and then they'll wear it in a belt clip.