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Hands-on with the waterproof Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2

2013-02-25
I'm Andrew Foyle for cnet and i'm here at Mobile World Congress taking a look at the Samsung Galaxy Xcover to the X cover to its a four inch samsung galaxy phone but unlike some of these other models it's designed to be a bit more rugged so you can see it's it's got a bit of a fatter shape it's got these these handy little grip marks down the side and it's waterproof to a depth of 3 feet I'm not going to be enough for you to take it diving or go swimming but it will at least keep it safe from rain or dropping it in a lovely muddy puddle you can see on the front it's got these big chunky buttons to make it easier to hit perhaps if you're wearing if you're wearing gloves and the the textured back should make it a bit easier to keep hold of you can see a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash on the back as well on the front is the 4 inch screen and that has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels which is it's far from the yet 1080p levels we're seeing on a lot of new smartphones but it you know it looks reasonably sharp also seems quite bright and bold so it should be good enough for a bit of web browsing and a bit of youtube if you get bored turning on a 1 gigahertz dual-core processor which isn't up to the standards of some of the quad-core chip something are bringing out in these other phones but it should keep the essentials ticking along nicely it's running on android 4.1 point to a jelly bean and if you've used any of samsung mobiles before then the interface will be immediately familiar so no surprises there there's been no word on pricing yet but we're expecting it to land sometime in quarter to so expect to hear a bit more on how much it'll cost near of a time I'm Andrew Hoyle 50 net and this is a samsung galaxy xcover 2 you
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