Avenir Telecom manufacturers of Energizer range of products earlier this year acknowledged that “there is a rising interest for smartphones with incredible battery life, which can also be used as power banks”. The company has got some big battery phones itself, the biggest of which is the Energizer P18K with a monster 18,000mAh battery. Apart from that, there are other models with equally big battery sizes. The company has got somewhat of a competitor in the aspect of a big battery and rugged build. The device is the Gigaset GX290.
The phone is manufactured by Gigaset – a former division of Siemens that is best known today for its DECT phones. The device packs a 6,200mAh battery and that’s not all. It can be charged without just three hours as it packs a 15W fast charging technology deployed over a USB Type-C port.
Apart the big battery, the Gigaset GX290 comes with IP68-level waterproof build. The phone is also shock-resistant even though it doesn’t have an official MIL-STD rating.
In erms of other specs, the phone packs a 6.1-inch LCD screen which is optimized for outdoor use with 520nits of brightness and a contrast ratio of 1,000:1. There is a Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top of the screen. However, the display has a disappointing HD resolution of 720 pixels.
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At the heart of the device is a MediaTek Helio P23 chipset (octa-core Cortex-A53) but the RAM size wasn’t disclosed. There 32GB of internal storage onboard. The rugged phone gets its interface from the Android 9.0 Pie OS.
On the camera end, the device packs an 8MP selfie camera. At the rear, there is a dual-camera setup consisting of a 13MP main camera and a 2MP depth sensor. There is a physical fingerprint reader just under the rear cameras.
As for the price, the device comes with a price tag of around €300, but availability is limited.
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