Announcement. Cat S75, Motorola Defy 2, Defy Satellite Link - twin smartphones with two-way satellite communication plus a very useful device
Two-way satellite communication has reached the world of android smartphones. The Motorola Defy 2 and Cat S75 smartphones announced today can both send and receive messages via satellite.
In order.
MediaTek has developed a special MT6825 chip for smartphone manufacturers. Like, put this chip in your smartphones - and get satellite communications on them. (By the way, not only in smartphones, but more on that later).
The Bullitt Group, which produces smartphones under the Cat (Caterpillar) brand, became friends with Motorola and released the aforementioneda couple of smartphones that are equipped with just this chip. In fact, Motorola Defy 2 and Cat S75 are the same smartphone. Only the design of the back is slightly different. And maybe different LTE / 5G bands are supported there, I don’t know. Why was it necessary to produce two devices? They are for different geographies. Motorola will be sold in the Americas. Cat - in other regions of our globe.
Everything is implemented, judging by the description, quite elegantly. A special application is installed on smartphones - Bullitt Satellite Messenger. If you decide to send through itcommunication, it first tries to send it via Wi-Fi or mobile Internet, and only if this fails, it starts knocking on the sky.
The recipient of the message receives it as a regular SMS. Plus, he is invited to download the same application that will allow him to send a reply message.
Also, of course, a satellite SOS service is attached to the new smartphones.
About ordinary smartphone features.
Motorola Defy 2 and Cat S75 are armored smartphones of the typical middle class. Full armor-piercing set announced - IP68, IP69K, MIL-STD-810H. Can be washed with soap, wiped with alcohol, photographed under water, dropped on smooth steel plates from a height of six feet.
The chipset is rare - MediaTek Dimensity 930. I don't have any performance data yet. I predict that there will be around 400 thousand parrots in AnTuTu, which fits perfectly into the modern, fancy middle class.
Memory. Here they were a little greedy. In such interesting and serious devices, it could have been put more. But no. Only 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. Support for memory cards is available.
Screen�� fairly standard. 6.58" diagonal (105 cm²), resolution 1080x2400 (400 ppi), refresh rate up to 120 Hz.
The battery is average, 5000 mAh. For some reason, they attached wireless charging. The thing, of course, is good, but is it really necessary in "extreme" smartphones? It would be better if they added an extra ampere-hour.
Cameras. Here, apparently, everything is rather modest. 8 MP front, 50+8+2 MP rear. What sensor is in the main camera, we don't know yet.
The fingerprint scanner was sent to the back. There is Type-C and dual-band Wi-Fi. There is no standard audio output. NFC module not mentioned
About money. $599 (₽44800) for the USA (including a year of SOS Assist), €599 (₽47700, $638) for Europe (including 3 months of free messages, but no more than 30 messages per month).
Tariffs for satellite communications do not look very brutal. They start from $5 (₽374) / €5 (₽398, $5.33) for the same 30 posts.
But, in fact, God bless them, with these smartphones. However, they are quite specific.
More interestingly, at the same time they announced an extremely useful device called Motorola Defy Satellite Link (70 grams, 600 mAh, GPS, IP68, 810H). Which can beConnect with any smartphone via Bluetooth and which provides exactly the same features. Those. it has the same MediaTek MT6825 chip and it can also receive and send messages via satellite in the same way. Well, on a smartphone - on any smartphone - we put exactly the same messenger. And we get exactly the same satellite connection as on Motorola Defy 2 or Cat S75.
$99 (₽7400) for all the fun (i.e. for the device itself). Plus a subscription to a tariff plan, of course.
Main characteristics of Caterpillar Cat S75 ScreenS-IPS, 6.58", 105 cm², 1080x2400, 400 ppi, 120 Hz, 16M colors, touch, capacitive, multi-touch, Gorilla Glass Victus HardwareMediaTek Dimensity 9302.2 GHz, 2 x Cortex-A78, 6 x Cortex-A55, IMG BXM-8-256 MemoryRAM 6 GB, ROM 128 GB, Micro-SD Mobile Internet5G
LTE
HSDPA, HSUPA
EDGE Mobile networks5G Bands 1-3,5,7,8,20,28,38,40,41,75,77,78
LTE Bands 1-5,7,8,20,28,32,38-41
UMTS Bands 1(2100), 2(1900), 4(1700), 5(850), 8(900)
GSM Bands 2(1900), 3(1800), 5(850), 8 (900) Rechargeable Li-Pol, 5000 mAh, wireless charging 15.00 W Dimensions171 x 80 x 11.9 mm Weight268 g Rear camera: triple, flash, autofocus
- 50 MP, f/1.8
- 8 MP, wide-angle, f/2.2
- 2 MP, macro, f/2.4
front camera: 8 MP, f/2.0, no flash, no autofocus NavigationGPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo OSAndroid 12 SensorsAccelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Proximity, Ambient Light, Fingerprint Scanner (rear) USBType-C Key features of the Motorola Defy 2 ScreenS-IPS, 6.58", 105 cm², 1080x2400, 400 ppi, 120 Hz, 16M colors, touch, capacitive, multi-touch, Gorilla Glass Victus HardwareMediaTek Dimensity 930
2.2 GHz, 2 x Cortex-A78, 6 x Cortex-A55, IMG BXM-8-256 MemoryRAM 6 GB, ROM 128 GB, Micro-SD Mobile Internet5G
LTE
HSDPA, HSUPA
EDGE Mobile networks5G
LTE
UMTS
GSM Li-Pol battery, 5000 mAh, fast charging 15 W Dimensions171 x 50 x 11.9 mm Weight268 g Rear camera: triple, flash, autofocus
- 50 MP,f/1.8
- 8 MP, wide-angle, f/2.2
- 2 MP, macro, f/2.4
front camera: 8 MP, f/2.0, no flash, no autofocus NavigationGPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo OSAndroid 12 SensorsAccelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Proximity, Ambient Light, Fingerprint Scanner (rear) USBType-C
