Samsung Xcover Pro 2 with Snapdragon 778G spotted at Geekbench

14 March 2022
It has been just over two years since the Galaxy Xcover Pro launched with an Exynos 9611.

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Edge, 30 Mar 2022While powerbanks and 15-minute charging mean phones you are... moreThe market for professional rugged phones disagrees with you. Panasonic, Sonim, Zebra, Motorola Solutions, Handheld... virtually all their devices are water resistant with a replaceable battery. The organizations buying these could buy consumer devices, but they go for replaceable batteries. There are multi-battery chargers for the common devices to maintain large sets of charged batteries. Combining water resistance with a replaceable battery has been a solved problem since well before the smartphone - consumer phones may struggle with this because they are fragile glass sandwiches that fight for very half-millimeter of thinness, leaving no room for reliable sealing, but at the dimensions of enterprise phones this is not an issue. Such a phone can maintain its water resistance despite drops and conditions that would break the seals of integrated consumer phones.

Switching SIMs to a charged phone is a horrible "solution" - besides having to buy multiple phones rather than multiple batteries, you'd likely also end up having to reconfigure/reactivate multiple apps after each switch.

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    • 30 Mar 2022

    Zakalwe, 17 Mar 2022Samsungs posits the XCover line as phones for enterprise an... moreWhile powerbanks and 15-minute charging mean phones you are already powered up by the time you’ve logged in for your shift and started your engine - you would still obtain the same rare ‘‘instantaneous full recharge” by switching Sims to a backup phone instead of the battery, were it still a genuine criteria (and anyway its easier keeping that spare battery charged and safe within another phone casing, rather than loose).

    It just doesn’t make sense to compromise waterproofing in a rugged phone with a removable battery. It is a separate category and typically a budget one, not professional-use. - so It devalues both these features by merging two distinct categories into one phone.

      Anonymous, 18 Mar 2022This is not only about recharging the battery. It is also a... moreGood point, and for some reason manufacturers rarely advertise this aspect. Maybe because doing so would emphasize the problem in the consumer range, something they would rather not have people thinking about?

      That being said, I am not sure how concerned companies are about this. At my place most people are supplied with base-model iPhones by default. When the battery goes bad you go to IT and replace the phone, all settings are carried over, negligible downtime. No idea what happens to the old phone, but they are definitely not reused within the company, so probably recycled. Cost does not seem to be an issue. :(

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        • 18 Mar 2022

        Zakalwe, 17 Mar 2022Samsungs posits the XCover line as phones for enterprise an... moreThis is not only about recharging the battery. It is also about replacing a dead battery. Changing a dead battery doesn't anymore need for the phone to be taken to a repair shop, and to destroy the phone. And it is cheaper for those companies that buy thousands of those Xcover phones. If they had to bring each phone to a repair shop for a battery swap, this would be very pricey.

          Edge, 17 Mar 2022Removable battery and ruggedness seem an unlikely pairing w... moreSamsungs posits the XCover line as phones for enterprise and first responders. The combination of ruggedness and removable battery is standard in that area. That way you can "recharge" the phone almost instantly in the field, or when the next shift takes over. It is not a big deal regarding engineering. The phone may be 10 mm thick rather than 8 mm, but that is not really relevant in practice.

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            • 17 Mar 2022

            lneam, 16 Mar 20221. from year 2017, all the snapdragon SoC even from series ... moreTell that to Xiaomi who still use USB 2.0 to date.

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              • 17 Mar 2022

              Edge, 17 Mar 2022Removable battery and ruggedness seem an unlikely pairing w... moreTell that to Fairphone. You must be new to smartphone, are you?

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                • 17 Mar 2022

                Removable battery and ruggedness seem an unlikely pairing when the former deems waterproofing is impractical and the latter implies it is essential. Xcover feels rather like selling one geeky anorak to both trainspotters and war-gamers when one group permanently lives indoors and the other set is always outdoors!

                With power banks and fast chargers there seems less requirement to replace an empty battery with a full one in 60 seconds now. Better to seal the rugged phones and have separate (and cheaper-because-there’s-no-waterproofing) removable battery phones for the rest who prefer replacing a worn-out battery to migrating their phone) or just want to remove the battery to reset or securing the phone.
                keep those removable batteries as a value for money feature Samsung!

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                  • 16 Mar 2022

                  1. from year 2017, all the snapdragon SoC even from series 4 support USB 3.0 with HDMI to USB. Devices ...... ? NO
                  2. i believe this device will have removable battery
                  3. price ??? 600 + $

                    Edge, 15 Mar 2022Just hope it will be a sensible price, not $500 for what is... moreAgreed. A rugged enterprise phone with long-term support is bound to cost more than a same-spec consumer device, but the markup should be reasonable. Compared to other big-name rugged manufacturers Samsung has shown remarkable restraint in this regard, tough. And with the Pro 2 I hope they remember that they already have the XCover 5 and 4S covering the cheap mediocre "it'll-do-the-job" niche, so the Pro 2 could be a notable step up in specs, even if it costs.

                    However, the XCover FieldPro was placed above the Pro in (some) specs and price, and I do not think it got much market share (updates are veeery spotty). It is an odd market that does not value the features consumers want and which is unlikely to pay for a SoC that is faster than the job requires and a camera that many companies would rather disable anyway. So I do not think Samsung will risk having the Pro 2 reach as far up on the tech ladder as I would like it to. :)

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                      • 15 Mar 2022

                      Just hope it will be a sensible price, not $500 for what is essentially a $300 phone as they did with the last xcover pro

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                        • 15 Mar 2022

                        Anonymous, 14 Mar 2022a) Samsung has been doing this since forever, so you know h... moreThey've been like that a long time ago. But at least they have something like this so if it keeps the removable battery and ip68 rating, it can be used to slap the sealed battery squad's faces.

                          Snapdragon 778G really is a huge step up from Exynos 9611. If Samsung can give DeX capability to this phone while still keeping the removable battery as in the previous Xcover Pro, this will be one to look forward to.

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                            • 15 Mar 2022

                            Better camera hopefully.

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                              • 14 Mar 2022

                              Man those XCovers receive updates in real-time, every month, like a desktop computer. And as incredible as it sounds, they have removable battery. I only hope they keep sdcard, time will tell

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                                • 14 Mar 2022

                                The highlight of this line nowadays is the removable battery and the "rugged" design.

                                Rugged as in: not cheap plastic but no glass either. Some metal frame would be good, but I guess due to electricity conductivity is out of the design for safety.

                                Either way, glad to see it's not dead and hopefully it will be cheaper or maybe keep the same price this time.

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                                  • 14 Mar 2022

                                  vrvly, 14 Mar 2022I usually expect ir camera on xcover phones... Otherwise it... moreWtf are you on about?

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                                    • 14 Mar 2022

                                    Magnificent Suleiman, 14 Mar 2022This could be a very interesting option if the price isn�... morethe price will be too close to the price of

                                    S21 FE 5G

                                    be sure

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                                      • 14 Mar 2022

                                      Might buy if it launches here

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