I Just Tested Oukitel's Wp60, And It Changed My Mind About Rugged Smartphones

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Oukitel WP60 Android phone

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

The Oukitel WP60 is connected waste connected nan brand's website for $280.
This is different monolithic telephone from Oukitel pinch a immense artillery and coagulated performance.
Like astir Oukitel phones, nan WP60 is dense and bulky.

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I've been reviewing Oukitel rugged phones for immoderate clip now, and nan 1 point that trips maine up pinch these devices is nan performance. Yes, they tin each return a superior beating and person batteries that shame astir each different devices, but they person a estimation for being slow and laggy.

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This rumor doesn't haunt each of Oukitel's phones, but it surely does travel up connected lower-end devices. But considering nan brand's better-performing phones (such arsenic nan WP60) waste for a specified $280, it's difficult to contradict them arsenic a viable option.

Let's talk astir this circumstantial model.

My experience

As usual, nan first point I noticed astir nan WP60 is its heft. Yeah, this telephone is conscionable arsenic dense arsenic astir of their devices. Coming successful astatine 360g, that's 161g much than my Pixel 9 Pro. When I took it retired of nan box, I realized conscionable really large it is: measuring 7.244 x 3.42 x .58 inches, pinch a whopping 7.2-inch show and 85% screen-to-body ratio.

When you comparison nan WP60 adjacent to nan Pixel 9 Pro, you get a beautiful bully thought of conscionable really large this telephone is. In hand, it seems to beryllium moreover bigger. The WP60 is for illustration having a mini tablet successful your hand.

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When I first publication nan specs of nan WP60, I was shocked astatine nan magnitude of representation it claimed it had. The first number I spotted was 48GB. Shortly thereafter, I realized nan instrumentality I was sent only had 16GB of memory, which is expandable up to 48GB via nan representation description features.

I've ne'er been a large instrumentality of nan representation description action for a mates of reasons. One, I don't find that nan expanded representation makes a noticeable betterment connected performance. Two, erstwhile enabling representation description , you suffer retention space. Imagine if you want to bump that 16GB of RAM to 48GB, you suffer 32GB of retention space, which is logic capable not to fuss pinch nan feature.

Even pinch only 16GB of RAM, nan WP60 felt arsenic accelerated (if not faster) than immoderate fund Android telephone I've used. Apps unfastened and instal quickly, animations are smooth, and there's adjacent to nary lag successful switching betwixt apps.

There is 1 point that caught maine by surprise. I went to cheque for an Android strategy update and it wanted support for System Update to make and negociate telephone calls. No acknowledgment connected that.

Currently, nan WP60 runs Android 15, and I'm not judge if aliases erstwhile it will beryllium updated to type 16. Given Android 16 is simply a bigger upgrade than we've seen successful immoderate time, it's difficult to cognize if this telephone will moreover support it. That being said, Android 15 runs very good connected this device.

The Smart Key

The WP60 besides includes a useful small characteristic called nan Smart Key. With this feature, you tin configure nan left-side fastener (it's red, truthful you can't miss it) for circumstantial actions. There are 3 actions: azygous click, double click, and triple click. You tin configure each click to do 1 of nan pursuing requests:

Start signaling audio
Open flashlight
Screen shot
Open nan underwater camera
Open SOS

You tin find nan Smart Key action successful nan Settings app (labeled Smart Key).

A bully capable camera

As acold arsenic nan camera is concerned, I person nary qualms pinch nan WP60. No, it's not connected par pinch nan Pixel 9 Pro, but it does person a decent macro camera, and nan image action useful reasonably well. If a high-quality, flagship camera is your main priority, you'll want to walk connected nan WP60. If you want bully photos pinch plentifulness of options (pro, slow-motion video, GIF, time-lapse, QR Code, Panorama, and Night-View), nan WP60 is surely viable.

ZDNET's buying advice

Usually, it's beautiful easy to fastener down who Oukitel's phones are for. Most often, they are those who activity successful unsmooth conditions and request a instrumentality that tin motion disconnected nan elements. The WP60 is simply a spot different because it performs good capable to beryllium useful for different types of people. That being said, you person to beryllium okay pinch a very dense ceramic of a telephone that looks thing for illustration what astir users transportation around.

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At nan aforesaid time, if you want a telephone pinch a artillery that lasts aggregate days without a charge, you can't spell incorrect pinch Oukitel. This telephone has a 10,000 mAh battery, and you won't find immoderate flagship instrumentality pinch 1 that large. I've utilized galore an Oukitel telephone pinch 10,000 mAh batteries, and they ne'er neglect to person maine saying, "Will this artillery ever tally retired of juice?"

If you request a rugged device that performs very good and includes a artillery that will past for days, this is nan telephone you want. If looks, a best-in-show camera, portability, and fame are your cardinal needs, conscionable bargain a Pixel.

Oukitel WP60 tech specs

CPU Model - MTK Dimensity 7025, wave - 2.5 GHz, 8-core
Framework - 2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78, 6x 2.0 GHz – Cortex-A55
GPU Model - IMG BXM-8-256
Operating System - Android 15.0
OTA - Support
Display - 7.2" HD+ pinch a solution of 720 X 1560, a pixel density of 239 PPI, a refresh complaint of 120Hz, and a brightness of 500 nits.
Memory - 8GB, 12GB, aliases 16GB
Storge - 256GB aliases 512GB
Cameras - Front 32MP pinch a Sony IMX616 sensor, a sensor size of ½.74", an aperture of F2.2, and video signaling of 2K@30fps. Main camera - 108MP pinch an S5KHM6 sensor, a sensor size of 1/1.8, an aperture of 1.89, a wide perspective of 79 degrees, and video of 4K@30fps.
Connectivity - 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4G+5G), Bluetooth 5.2
Frequency - GSM: 2/3/5/8, CDMA: BC0/BC1/BC10, WCDMA: 1/2/4/5/6/8/19, LTE-TDD: 34/38/39/40/41, LTE-FDD: 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25/26/28AB/66/71, NR: N1/2/3/5/7/8/12/20/25/28/34/38/39/40/41/48/66/71/77/78