Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro | Rugged (IP68 Rated) Unlocked (Verizon and AT&T) | Dual Sim | 64GB of Storage | SM-G715UZKDXAA, Black

VASTLY EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS
Yada yada yada, this phone, that phone, all kinds of phones everywhere you turn – you get so bombarded with cell phone ads and commercials it becomes obnoxious. What sold me on this phone is the incredibly easy to remove / replace battery which you just can’t find much of anymore. All of these new phones do not particularly serviceable batteries, so what happens after a 1000 charge cycles? If you want to keep a phone for years to come, this is it. When they say BEAST, it truly is in everyway. While it is not a slim small phone that you could forget in your pants pocket and accidentally end up in the washing machine, it is not overbearingly large or heavy. This IS definitely a commercial heavy duty grade phone. I put what I considered to be an enormous 256gb micro SD card in it, so along with the 60GB it already has built into it, it now has more space available in it than my laptop PC does. Yes, there are no particular instructions that come with this phone, but it is truly rather intuitive to learn to use. Battery life has been amazing. Reception has been amazing, even in the metal building I work in that is usually dicey for reception at best under any carrier. There is such a dramatic leap in technology with this phone that I am actually stunned – Android 10 is very well done. It is not listed as 5G, but I wouldn’t be one bit surprised if it gets a software update at some point and magically meets the new mark. As it is, it downloads things and plays HD videos so quickly and smoothly that I wouldn’t likely even be able to tell the difference if it switched to 5G.So I receive the phone, a little anxious about whether I can just swap in my Verizon SIM card out of my old phone and go. Ooops… Apparently SIM cards got smaller when I wasn’t looking – DOH! NANO SIM cards now? Ok, so I have apparently been living under a rock. My older SIM was too big to fit. I hopped online and researched it, and what do you know, you can actually see a ton of online tutorials as to how to simply trim your older / larger SIM card down to the new NANO size – interesting. I ordered a new replacement NANO SIM from Verizon at no charge, but it will take a few days to get here. Anxious to try this bad boy phone out, I nervously trimmed my SIM card down with scissors, sanded the plastic side down a bit, and popped it right in. Not sure if I had possibly wrecked the SIM card, and also not sure if Verizon would accept the phone without a fight, I powered it up, went through the initial on screen set up prompts, and BAM – up and running perfectly (standard personal Verizon account – not commercial or prepaid). I transferred all of my data from my old phone to the new phone using the Wondershare Mobile Trans software I have installed on my PC, and everything transferred over perfectly – hooray!Now what they aren’t advertising much just yet is that this phone has a dual sim card capability – wow. I haven’t tested it yet, but am going to yank the SIM card out of my wife’s Verizon phone and pop it into the the slot labeled “SIM 2”. There was some mention that this feature is coming soon via a software update, but who knows – maybe that day has already come? I am VERY curious to see what it does with two SIM cards in it, speculating that it will act like a “Line 1 or Line 2” phone. WAAAAAAAY back in the early days, I had a Sprint phone that ran two lines. I ran a business line and also a personal line on that phone – I sure have missed that capability since then. If this works and I have two lines, I may try one of those companies like Cricket to provide a low cost second line. Again, I haven’t tested this yet, but I’ll bet you it works, which will tickle me silly for my business and personal usages.It has only been a few days now, but I am beyond tickled with this phone. I took a bit of a gamble on it, seeing some reviews that ranged from soup to nuts. The outcome? Tickled silly 🙂 BIG SCREEN, ultra fast processor, more capabilities than I ever imagined (still finding more and more cool features as I continue to use it further), outstanding battery life, incredible HD audio clarity on the phone (bizarre how clear actually), phenomenal camera and video with all kinds of different possible settings, and on and on and on. Rated for being immersed in water up to five feet for thirty minutes??? Military grade drop tested with a Gorilla glass screen?Can you tell how tickled I am with this phone? And to think I was just sold on the fact that you could pop in a spare fresh battery in ten seconds flat – this is an AMAZING SUPER PHONE PEOPLE !!! I occasionally get something that under promises and over delivers – rare, but it happens. This is most definitely one of the best purchases I have made in years – SERIOUSLY 🙂 🙂 🙂

OK phone, NOT WATERPROOF, warranty laughably short
update 5/23/22, phone purchased 8/7/20, the phone has been in an otterbox it’s entire life.sometime around August 2021(around the time the ONE YEAR warranty expired) the lock button/fingerprint reader started going out. by May 2022 the fingerprint reader had been completely dead for a few months, and the lock button was to the point that it took 5 minutes of fiddling around to turn the thing on.sometime in May 2022 I dropped the phone in some water, less than a foot deep. I immediately fished it out, rinsed it off, and dried it off. The phone started showing signs of water ingress(not from the back cover seal, I checked, luckily I was able to pull the battery while I found an old phone to back up to.I sent the phone to Samsung for repair, so far they’ve charged me $180 for the repairs, will update again when I get it back./ old review below /huge replaceable battery, headphone jack, sd slot, USB C, excellent screen that works with normal gloves on, reasonably fast, decent camera, not abnormally thick, otterbox makes a case for it.one gripe is that it doesn’t play nice with google fi, switched to my family’s at&t unlimited plan, no issues with that.

Delivery, packaging and the product is very good.

The most vulnerable for damage is the Screen. It breaks easily. I been changing the screen for 3 times already from Aug 2022 to Oct 2024