Walmart buys 740,000 Samsung Galaxy XCover Pros for use in its stores in the US
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Jun 2021
Interesting. Not.
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- Sarkirssian
- 6sR
- 05 Jun 2021
I work in a international company (Leroy Merlin), it belongs to a huge group (ADEO). Here, in Portugal, all +5000 works have a Samsung A50 or A51, with ulimited phone calls, msg, and mobile data. I use it with my personal SIM card. It works great and no phone has ever gone missing and only a few got broken.
You want to be treated well? You need to have responsibility.
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- Anonymous
- 4$S
- 05 Jun 2021
Anonymous, 05 Jun 2021Um, they are Walmart employees, not a skilled profession or... moreI'd say having to deal with idiots like yourself is a trade in and of itself. I suppose your "skilled profession" is going online and posting anonymous comments to belittle a entire workforce. WalMart employees had to show up to work each day during the pandemic so asshats like you could buy truckloads of toilet paper to clean up all your bullshit.
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- axelwoax
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- 05 Jun 2021
Anonymous, 05 Jun 2021How are they gonna get around the 3G sunset issue? This pho... moreI'm pretty sure most companies use their mobile devices exclusively indoor with only company's Wi-Fi
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- Anonymous
- fk5
- 05 Jun 2021
Phones fan, 05 Jun 2021Soon we will see a lot of chinese rugged phones, and may be... morelol wut, outside of the US, there are ONLY Chinese rugged phones with up to 10000 mah batteries. They are usually like $200-$250 too. The only thing is that it's really rare to find one with even an upper midrange chip. They mostly use lower to mid-midrange chips. They are very common for civil engineers working in the desert here in Egypt, or in the middle east. The same goes for many Asian countries. Normal phones will easily shut down after 1-2 hours of usage on site. They replace satellite phones which are extremely expensive.
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- Anonymous
- Ic7
- 05 Jun 2021
How are they gonna get around the 3G sunset issue? This phone doesn't support VoLTE in the states
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Jun 2021
FatShady, 04 Jun 2021and yet can't afford to pay them a decent wage.Um, they are Walmart employees, not a skilled profession or trade.
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- Anonymous
- sUS
- 05 Jun 2021
Is there hope that these sealed batteries go under fire since lots of people are claiming their phones are good enough for more than 2 years?
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- Anonymous
- sUS
- 05 Jun 2021
kek, 04 Jun 2021Great news, since this means Xcover Pro will get to see a 2... moreAfter 3-4 years. :(
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- Anonymous
- IbE
- 05 Jun 2021
Anonymous, 04 Jun 2021Removable battery was never a reason to not have IP ratings... moreThe S5 Active had a rating of IP67, removable back and battery.
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- r31ya
- sED
- 05 Jun 2021
This is pretty good phone, Exynos 9611 which is powerful enough to run casual app smoothly, 4000 mAh removable battery, and rugged phone package (ip68, dropresistant 1.5m, mil-std-810g).
Its just a fair bit expensive.
All it need is a custom wallmart specific rom and it'll be perfect pocket tools for the employee. If it has wifi network based comms like walkie talkie, it would be even better.
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- Phones fan
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- 05 Jun 2021
Soon we will see a lot of chinese rugged phones, and may be we will see a rugged iPhone.
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- kek
- GBh
- 04 Jun 2021
Anonymous, 04 Jun 2021Removable battery was never a reason to not have IP ratings... morethere are literally cameras with removable batteries that have ip68 lol
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- Anonymous
- 34q
- 04 Jun 2021
Kedar284, 04 Jun 2021This device is rugged and is just 10mm thin that too with a... moreRemovable battery was never a reason to not have IP ratings. Some very old phones like the Samsung Galaxy S5 of 2014 had IP ratings (albeilt, reasonable IP at its time), and even other older phones also. Never believe manufacturers claims without reasearching by ourselves.
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- FatShady
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- 04 Jun 2021
TooFatTooFurious, 04 Jun 2021This allows Walmart to see literally every single move of t... morehello there captain obvious, we haven't seen you in a while, better late than never i guess.
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- AnonD-940827
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- 04 Jun 2021
Active is much better! Even though they haven't made any new ones.
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- CSR
- vx6
- 04 Jun 2021
what about CSR working on the account?.
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- TooFatTooFurious
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- 04 Jun 2021
This allows Walmart to see literally every single move of their employees:
1. Exact location at all times.
2. Time of arrival / smoke-breaks / exit.
3. Listening to every single conversation.
And you bet it's going to be forbidden to use personal phones during work hours.
So their bloatware will also track visited websites, opened apps, received calls and text messages.
What a great time to be alive.
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- Natural Selection
- L95
- 04 Jun 2021
good for you samsung,good for you... (tells motorolla CEO when reads the news)