- [Man] What do you do when your top smartphone
already has epic durability and air quality censor
and a thermal camera?
Well, you add a freakin' laser beam.
I'm Mr. Mobile and this is a quick look at Cat S61.
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Cat branded phones have been around for about eight years
at this point.
So I think we can boil down the preamble to three sentences.
Yes, it's the tractor company.
Yes, they're made for people with rough and tumble jobs.
And yes, we've seen a lot of this tech before.
Thermal cameras that you can plug in the smartphones,
portable air quality detectors,
phone censors that can directly measure
the world around them.
It's all been done.
What's new is building all of that together
into a single device
that also happens to be one of the
most rugged smartphones around.
Let's touch on that ruggedization before we fire the lasers.
Bullitt, which is the company that builds these phones
for the cat brand,
first certifies this thing to IP68.
Now, that's not particularly rare these days.
It's the same dust and water resistance you can find
in phones like the Galaxy S9.
But the s61 is also tested to mil standard 810G
for durability which subjects it to a whole other
avalanche of abuse.
And after that, Bullitt puts it through another IP test
to make certain all those bumps and bruises
haven't ruined the waterproofing.
To cap it all off, the phone has protective covers
over the headphones and USB c ports.
They're not needed for the IP rating,
but they help keep mud and sawdust out of the phone.
Onto the censors.
Lots of phones today have dual cameras but this one uses
the secondary for a FLIR thermal imager.
FLIR took its name from the military acronym
for forward looking infrared
and it means you can point this phone or object
and detect their exact temperature
between negative 20 and 400 degrees celsius.
The idea is to let workers see heating pipes behind walls
diagnose problems in engines
or even see through total darkness or fog or smoke.
They can also stream that video live to off-sight experts
to help with whatever job they're doing.
The second censor comes in if the fumes you encounter
on that job get too dangerous.
Behind these holes on the right side rails sits an
air quality monitor.
For once every thirty seconds, it sniffs the air for VOCs,
volatile organic compounds.
These are the kind of things through an paint fumes
or solvents
and it sounds an alarm if the concentration gets high enough
to threaten your health.
The final censor is the most buzz worthy.
And it's also maybe the simplest.
This is a range finder.
And it uses an optical laser much like the one
you'd find at a traditional laser pointer
to paint a red dot on an object.
Then the phone uses its camera to determine the distance
to that object up to 10 meters away.
The measurements can be saved directly to the phones
you can call them up later
and cat says there's some kind of area measurement function
that I didn't get to use really.
Like I said, it's simple.
But sometimes simple is good.
When the alternative is clambering across a room
with a tape measured, you know?
How well any of this works in the real world setting
remains to be seen.
And for MSRP of $999, that's a very important question.
But how many times have I complained about other
thousand dollar phones that don't do much more than
competitors half their price?
The s61 brings one of a kind tools.
And it delivers them in a package that's a lot harder
to break than, say, an iPhone 10.
That might be worth the price tag to a specific set of folks
and I look forward to trying it sometime later this year
to see if it delivers on its laser powered promises.
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