Ulefone Armor 26 Ultra
Ulefone Armor 26 Ultra -THIS IS A STRONGLY NEGATIVE REVIEW- But I will still give credit where it's due - I have owned the phone for almost 3 years. I bought it mostly for its ruggedness, good battery and cameras, despite already knowing the this model had occasional spontanious updating and/or restarting issues. I hoped that the issue would be fixed and stuck with the phone. It has amazing 120W fast charging, which fills the large battery in a matter of minutes. I am mostly satisfied with the cameras (using a 3rd party app proshot often), but they have some quirks (preview at about 2-5x zoom is from a different camera, than the one that actually takes a picture, which means focusing issues in some special cases, and misplacement of objects). Telephoto lens are very decent and I've made some amazing mounteneering and nature photos over the years. And yes, it fell from a balcony, on the rocks, on the floor plenty of times and there is no real damage. .....BUT..... all the good things are often useless because of this frustrating reason. My phone keeps randomly restarting, sometimes as many as 10+ times in a single day. This makes it extremely frustrating and unreliable for everyday use. The problem persists from the beginning when I bought it. Sometimes it doesn't do that for a week or two. But then decides to shut down while you are in the mountains, tracking your path. Or having an urgent call. Or navigating in a busy city road where a few minute restart phase leaves you without the nav. Let's not waste words about having to turn it all on again and start at the highway speeds. On top of that, one of the shutdowns corrupted my android system, so the phone had to be factory resetted. Goodbye photos and all the data, since android didn't even start. The problem has persisted, and despite my experience with Ulefone support while the warranty was still active, I have not received an effective solution - and to my knowledge, neither did the other users. A rugged smartphone should be dependable. Instead, I have a device that I cannot trust to stay switched on when I need it. I am a stubborn guy. I wanted to stick with this phone's strong points despite it's glaring weakness. But it saddens me greatly to say, that it is not worth the hassle, even at a cheaper price! Stay away from it.