Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal unboxing

This is the Armor 28 Ultra and Ulefone wasn't kidding with the name.

Here are the quick details - it has a 6.67-inch 1080p 120Hz AMOLED display (the company's first rugged OLED phone), a 50MP 1-inch sensor type main camera, a 64MP night vision sensor, a ThermoVue Pro thermal camera, IP68/IP69K, and MIL-STD-810H certification, and a 10,600mAh Li-Polymer battery with 120W wired and 50W wireless charging.

You get the 120W charger in the box (it's a Power Delivery unit no less), a 5A cable, and a tempered glass protector.

Unboxing the Ultra Thermal

You can also opt to equip the Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal with the uSmart C01 digital microscope ($60 at the time of writing this article) - it connects to the phone via a special screw-in pin connector - and brings 50x-1000x magnification at 1MP.

The optional digital microscope

Here's what it can do. These are the fibers in a couch and a pillowcase as well as the pixels of a Galaxy Watch6 Classic.

Specs-wise, the Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal is no slouch with a 4nm Dimensity 9300+ SoC with 16GB of RAM. It's running Android 14, though. On the upside, the phone packs 1TB of storage!

The Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra

Moving to the back, where the 1-inch type main camera isn't the most interesting feature! The phone has a smartwatch-sized second display here, complete with its own watch face and side-swipeable interface. There's a compass and our favorite feature - a viewfinder for the camera, so you can use that 50MP 1-inch main camera for selfies.

Being a Ulefone, you know it has a thermal camera, heck it's in the name. Thermal imaging is done with the ThermoVue Pro app and at 640x512px, it's the highest-resolution thermal camera from Ulefone yet. It's noticeably higher quality than what we've seen in the Ulefone Armor Mini 20T Pro. It's also snappier in operation.

Then there's the infrared-assisted night vision camera. It uses a 64MP OV64B1B sensor, likely with a removed IR-cut filter, aided by a separate infrared array to give you a black-and-white feed in the dark. It's not space-grade stuff, but it's pretty cool. You can see it next to the Xiaomi 14 Ultra below - the Xiaomi picks up some of the light from the Ulefone here - it doesn't see anything in the pitch dark.

See in the dark with the infrared camera

Here's a photo taken with the camera. It's very nifty, you can walk around in complete darkness with the Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal.

Fully dark room

The Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal is quite the beast - figuratively and literally! But it also commands an Ultra price. It's on pre-order for €1,400, which is up there with the latest Galaxy S25 Ultra. However, Ulefone's Ultra has a 1-inch type main camera and comes with 1TB of storage, which are two things its more popular rival lacks.