Ok it’s 4G and Android 12, so a little bit behind the times, and weighs over a pound, but it has 65 watt fast charging and a built in 1200 lumen flashlight (I wonder if that doubles as a video light). I found out about it a few days ago and have been fascinated by it since then. The weight isn’t so bad if you consider that it gets rid of the need to bring a power bank.
Not gonna buy real soon but wow. Maybe they will do a 5G version sometime. I posted in another community that I want to be able to pull it out and say “that’s not a phone, THIS is a phone”.
Any thoughts?
It would be more interesting if one of these have swappable internal batteries, so it would be more of a portable battery pack that you can use as a phone in a pitch than the other way around.
Yeah it seems unfortunate to me that the battery pack in that phone is not swappable. I really want a phone that takes swappable 18650’s straight up. But, that Tank phone is (at least spec-wise) pretty impressive as a phone, because of the many sensors, cameras, built in video(?) light etc. A 22,000 mah battery pack that weighs 1.2lb and costs $300 would be a non-starter unless the phone is pretty good. I’ve gotta say the new 5g version ($400+ and several ounces heavier) seems almostsilly.
I finally have a USB-C phone and it seems like a big improvement over the old micro USB. Will see if it stays able to reliably charge. That makes external battery packs easier to use, though there is still energy loss in the different voltage conversions, if you are charging the external pack from a low powered source such as a solar panel.