Caterpillar CAT S75 evaluate

Modernity meets past cases. The Cat S75 is an efficient rugged outside phone with excessive IP certification and militia protection requirements. On the choice hand, the highlight of the Cat smartphone is the verbal change with geostationary satellites, which is meant to offer advantages over Apple’s satellite emergency name.

Marcus Herbrich, 👁 Florian Schmitt, ✓ Anton Avdyushkin (translated by DeepL / Ninh Duy), Published 05/15/2023 🇩🇪

Teach: The producer might per chance per chance per chance also employ parts from rather about a suppliers along with demonstrate panels, drives or memory sticks with similar specs.

      CAT S53       CAT S75       Gigaset GX6       Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro       DIN A6 171 mm / 6.73 shuffle 81 mm / 3.19 shuffle 16 mm / 0.63 shuffle 320 g0.705 lbs171 mm / 6.73 shuffle 80 mm / 3.15 shuffle 11.9 mm / 0.4685 shuffle 268 g0.591 lbs170.7 mm / 6.72 shuffle 82.2 mm / 3.24 shuffle 11.9 mm / 0.4685 shuffle 278 g0.613 lbs168.8 mm / 6.65 shuffle seventy nine.9 mm / 3.15 shuffle 9.9 mm / 0.3898 shuffle 235 g0.518 lbs148 mm / 5.83 shuffle 105 mm / 4.13 shuffle 1 mm / 0.03937 shuffle 1.5 g0.00331 lbs

The Cat smartphone is dispensed with Google’s running procedure Android 12. The producer advertises five years of update toughen for its rugged phone, but finest two predominant Android updates are planned. Accordingly, the offer will cease with the subsequent Android know-how 14.

Safety updates are readily available for three years, but finest serious security gaps will likely be mounted for one other two years. At the time of the take a look at, the Cat S75 had out of date security patches from February 2023.

The rugged phone from Caterpillar permits satellite verbal change (NTN) by project of Bullitt Satellite tv for computer Messenger besides to to the predominant 4G and 5G toughen of a top rate phone. This satellite provider, but without text messaging, might per chance per chance per chance even be weak without cost for twelve months after purchasing the Cat smartphone. After that, a subscription must be taken out, which fees up to 60 Euros month-to-month.

As a alternative of relying on a proprietary satellite community, as with an Apple iPhone 14 Pro, the Cat S75 communicates by project of ancient 3GPP NTN indicators as a result of a MediaTek chip, so satellites from rather about a suppliers might per chance per chance per chance even be weak reckoning on which satellite permits the finest connection quality. Thus, users must repeatedly be ready to ship and compile text messages and originate emergency calls, even when no cell community is immediately available.

The skin phone finest offers Wi-Fi 5 throughout the residence Wi-Fi community, which is finest sufficient for practical transfer rates of much less than 400 Mbps along with our reference router Asus ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000.

The Cat S75 makes employ of the satellite networks GPS, BeiDou, Galileo, and Glonass in twin-band besides to SBAS for positioning. The phone offers correct accuracy outside. We also test the positioning accuracy on a bike tour and compare the outcomes with Garmin’s Venu 2 smartwatch. The Cat S75’s route is extraordinarily shut to that of the reference instrument.

The name quality with the Cat S75 by project of the cell community, along with VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling, is correct and the constructed-in microphone transmits voices loudly and clearly. Video calls by project of the compile in entrance-going thru digicam also worked without issues within the take a look at. The skin phone supports twin SIM, but one card slot is occupied when the employ of the satellite provider.

Picture Comparability

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Our Cat S75 comes with neither a charger nor a car adapter within the scope of shipping. Moreover, there might per chance be now not any protecting movie on the demonstrate ex-works. The sphere finest incorporates a USB cable and recordsdata discipline topic.

The producer grants a 24-month guarantee on its smartphone which is proper worldwide the compile the CAT provider is immediately available. A customer and support provider in case of emergency (Disaster Response Heart) shall be readily available 300 and sixty five days a year in over 200 languages by project of the Bullitt Satellite tv for computer Messenger.

The Cat S75 offers two programmable keys that might per chance per chance per chance even be weak for push-to-talk and emergency calls. The skin phone has a capacitive touchscreen with convincing gliding properties. There shall be nothing to whinge about in terms of precision, so our inputs with the fingers are precisely implemented.

The fingerprint sensor constructed-in on the again unlocks the rugged phone reliably. The period till the demonstrate activates from standby mode shall be short sufficient. The FaceUnlock characteristic by project of the entrance-going thru digicam (2D) shall be equipped and recognizes the person rather speedily in correct lighting fixtures stipulations.

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Show camouflage Flickering / PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation)

Show camouflage flickering / PWM now not detected
In comparability: fifty three % of all examined devices cease now not employ PWM to unlit the demonstrate. If PWM used to be detected, a median of 18911 (minimum: 5 – maximum: 3846000) Hz used to be measured.

The IPS panel of the Cat S75 achieves a catch shadowy designate of 0.47 cd/m² in our demonstrate measurements. The honour ratio of over 1000:1 is collected sufficient.

The demonstrate analysis is conducted with the support of a photospectrometer and the Calman utility. The deviations within the color (5.0) and grayscale (4.4) reproduction are to be rated as excessive and variations to the reference colors are clearly considered.

Demonstrate Response Times

↔    Response Time Sunless to White
15.5 ms … upward thrust ↗ and fall ↘ blended	↗ 10 ms upward thrust
	↘ 5.5 ms fall
The camouflage reveals correct response rates in our assessments, but might per chance per chance per chance also very effectively be too unhurried for aggressive avid gamers. In comparability, all examined devices vary from 0.4 (minimum) to 240 (maximum) ms. » 28 % of all devices are better. This implies that the measured response time is healthier than the frequent of all examined devices (22.4 ms).
↔    Response Time 50% Grey to 80% Grey
36.8 ms … upward thrust ↗ and fall ↘ blended	↗ 17.9 ms upward thrust
	↘ 18.9 ms fall
The camouflage reveals unhurried response rates in our assessments and might per chance per chance per chance effectively be unsatisfactory for avid gamers. In comparability, all examined devices vary from 0.25 (minimum) to 636 (maximum) ms. » 43 % of all devices are better. This implies that the measured response time is analogous to the frequent of all examined devices (35.3 ms).

The skin phone leaves a catch influence outside, but demonstrate negate is infrequently ever considered in negate sunlight. The colors of the IPS panel are catch at flat viewing angles, but the demonstrate looks rather weak.

Internal the Cat S75 works a MediaTek Dimensity 930, along with an Creativeness IMG BXM-8-256 because the graphics unit. The procedure plod is sufficient in on an ordinary basis employ, but minute lags are collected there.

The efficiency of the Dimensity 930 is below that of a Snapdragon 778G within the Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro, particularly within the multi-rating of Geekbench, the compile the MediaTek SoC rankings weakly for this designate vary. The same applies to the graphics unit launched in 2014. The IMG BXM-8-256 can now not even beginning to take care of with a mid-vary GPU from Qualcomm – an Adreno 642L delivers nearly twice as excessive rates because the Cat S75 in GFXBench.