Energizer and its collaborative associate Avenir Telecom shocked many at MWC 2024 when the 2 unveiled a brand new rugged smartphone that homes an enormous 28,000mAh battery.
It’s referred to as the Exhausting Case P28K and it appears like a brick. You will discover images taken by folks on the occasion on X (the platform previously often called Twitter) evaluating the system to different telephones. There, you’ll see it fully dwarfs an iPhone. Details about the P28K was initially scarce; nonetheless, the corporate managed to offer us the within scoop by giving us an official specs sheet. In line with Energizer, the telephone has a chat time of 122 hours (roughly 5 days) and a standby time of two,253 hours which is a bit of over three months. TheVerge of their protection states it may “final for an entire week” of normal utilization on a single cost.
The Energizer P28K is thicccc That is mainly a 28,000mAh battery that has a telephone inside 😂#MWC2024 pic.twitter.com/XTv0fZmzGVFebruary 25, 2024
To keep up such a giant battery, creator Avenir Telecom needed to make the system exceptionally cumbersome. Their product clocks in at 570g (effectively over a pound) and is 28.8mm (about an inch) thick. As TheVerge factors out, that’s over 3 times the dimensions of a mean iPhone 15. You could suppose a battery this huge would take ceaselessly to cost, however that might not be the case. The Exhausting Case P28K helps 33W quick charging. An organization consultant instructed us the telephone can totally cost in about an hour and a half.
Charged with options
In fact, there’s extra to this cellular system than simply its measurement. It sports activities a 6.78-inch LCD display able to outputting a Full HD Plus (2,460 x 1,080 pixels) decision picture. On the again is a triple digital camera array consisting of a 64MP, 20MP, and 2MP lens. It’s unknown if the final two are the ultrawide and periscope choices. We assume they’re for the reason that info we acquired did not present actual particulars.
One thing we discovered notably spectacular is that the Exhausting Case telephone has a resistance score of IP69. This implies it’s fully protected towards mud plus it may survive underwater submersion for an prolonged time.
Regardless of these spectacular options, there are a number of points which will disappoint consumers.
For starters, it doesn’t help 5G connectivity because it solely goes as much as 4G LTE. Beneath the hood, the P28K runs on a MediaTek MT6789 chipset which is the extra generic title for the midrange Helio G99 SoC (system on a chip). Reminiscence and cupboard space peak at 8GB and 256GB, respectively. Though you do have the choice to bump the storage as much as a full terabyte by way of SD card slot. Energizer’s smartphone will include Android 14 put in so, no less than you’ll have the system’s newest options out there.
Availability
An actual launch date has not been given. Formally, the Exhausting Case P28K is ready for “closing approval” from Energizer. TheVerge does, nonetheless, say the smartphone will likely be on sale for €249.99 this October in each nation the world over – apart from the US. For no matter motive, the US is getting snubbed.
It could possibly be as a result of Avenir Telecom is a European company. We reached out to Energizer asking if it has plans for a US launch and if it may present particulars on rear cameras amongst different issues. This story will likely be up to date at a later time.
Till then, be sure you take a look at TechRadar’s listing of the very best rugged telephones for 2024.