Oukitel WP15 rugged smartphone review

Overview Two minutes

Oukitel plans to succeed with a large battery smartphone when the others before, especially the power of Energizer that looks strange Max P18K POP and the 18Ah battery, has failed. While Energizer has the biggest battery we have ever seen on a smartphone, it never happened general sales while WP15, at least, achieved that goal without using Shenanigan crowdfunding.

With battery 15.6AH, 5G connectivity, IP68 / MIL-STD-180G ranking, this is a multipurpose smartphone that can easily double as a cellular hotspot All weather affordable for busy outside teams, even though someone can’t challenge the dedicated 5G hotspot like Netgear Nighthawk MR5200 5G WiFi 6 Portable Mobile Hotspot Router.

Throw to a very interesting price label and some high-resolution camera sensors and you end up with a truly unique smartphone – for the right audience and scenario – will be a gift. On the other hand, the size will divide the opinion because you basically get a smartphone paired with a portable battery charger and lemed into the shockproof casing.

The competition is already there – the newly announced ulefone power protector has a smaller and 4G (not 5G) battery but has a busy accessory including wireless chargers and endoscope.

Price and availability

WP15 is available from Aliexpress only for under $ 300 at the time of writing. Prices do not include local taxes and shipping companies can add additional retribution. As usual, warning chaos if you plan to buy this smartphone from China.

Design

First, let’s discuss the elephant in the room; WP15 is the largest and toughest smartphone that we handle until now, although it does not have the biggest trail. At 178.2 x 86.2 x 23.8mm for 485g weighing (it is more than one pound in weight), it feels like a brick but the design of the v-shape is combined with the usual 8-sided form factor makes it a little easier to hold.

Oukitel, like most other rough smartphone vendors, has adopted a conservative design with black bunyian metal and black rubber, provides a display of devices originating from the intergalactic spacecraft. There are several extra precautions – such as reinforced rubber angles – added to prevent damage to the screen.

The bottom of the cellphone is a hosted for rubber flap that hides the type-C USB port and lawingan lanyard connector.

On the left side of WP15 is a button that can be adjusted and the SIM tray while the other edge contains a double fingerprint reader as a power button and the volume of rockers.

Behind is three sensors (48MP SONY IMX314, 2MP one and 0.3MP one) plus four LEDs set in a strange V form. Display HD + HD + 6.5 inch is covered with a layer of oleophobic and surrounded by a thick protective rubber frame and has an 8MP-Teardrop selfie camera sensor in the middle.

Hardware

Spec sheets

Oukitel WP15 is equipped with the following hardware:

CPU: dimensity mediatek 700

GPU: Arm Mali-G57

RAM: 9GB.

Storage: 128GB.

Screen size: 6.5 inches

Resolution: 1600 x 720

Weight: 485g.

Dimensions: 178.2 x 86.2 x 23.8mm

Rear camera: 48MP, 2MP, 0.3MP

Home camera: 8MP

OS: Android 11

Battery: 15.6AH.

While the battery is 15.6Ah is a unique selling point of WP15, the remaining specifications are actually not as bad. Especially, he used the dimensity of MediaTek which was capable of 5G 700 paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB EMMC storage.

Wireless connectivity includes NFC, Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 5. Note that the phone is filled using the 9V, 2A (18W) power supply unit with OTG capabilities which means you can use it to power on other devices as well.