This isn't pretty...Samsung Galaxy XCover6 Pro - Six Months Later, but it works! 

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Wish they have a flagship device with that ruggedness and removable back, batteries.

Thank you for finally covering these phones. I've been frustrated at the tech media for years for pretending that Samsung hasn't been making phones with removable batteries and headphone jacks. Thankfully, in the past two years or so, they seem to have gotten slightly more mainstream attention. Believe me, it's frustrating to read "phones with removable batteries and headphone jacks can't have water resistance" on a blog when Samsung released a phone in the same year that defies those words. Share kinds of articles weren't even from that long ago, I'm talking like 2017.

It's perfect for my security company. The PTT for radio between officers, programmed the top button as a bodycam button (starts the camera), and talk & text all in one!!!

They really should've put the front camera in the massive bezel there's no need for that notch hahaha

Shit... I kind of want this 😢 If only it wasn't 600 dollars. Little kids in the comments complaining about specs when we literally get nothing like this anymore.

Just bring back removable batteries!!!!!

It would have been so nice if Samsung actually brought the active series back, flagship tier phones offering this level of durability.

Outside of Samsung XCover line, only Fairphone gives user-replaceable battery on their smartphone. I'm more than happy to take a thick phone with removable battery over thin fragile phones that can't remove the battery. As for this XCover 6 Pro, it does show that Samsung has no problem giving USB3 with wired video output and DeX for a phone with Snapdragon 7 series SoC. What's even more ironic is that the Tab S7 FE 5G with Snapdragon 750G SoC also support wired DeX. By right, the A42 5G, A52 5G, A52s 5G, and A73 should have no problem getting such a great useful feature as well.

Watching this on my s8 active FINALLY about to upgrade 😂 this thang still a beast

I wish they would have new version of the projector phones, that thing was awesome!

I just picked one up for 70$ to use as a gps on my motorcycle. Very excited

What? There are non-Chinese phones with removable batteries? Why didn't I knew this before?

Once it has been out of production for 6 months we will know if it was worth buying. I hope they start to make more compact devices again by then. Until that day I hope my xcover 5 keeps working....

The last line is all I needed to confirm this will be my dad's phone 😂

I've worked in a bakery for years and so haven't owned a NONruggedized phone since 2015. It started with the s6 active which lasted until it got run over by a jeep cherokee (which actually happened twice but it survived the first accident). Then I went to the s8 active which I bought refurbed in 2017 and which finally got the battery bloat of death last week. It survived being dropped in buckets of raw eggs, run over by rolling racks full of cake, knocked off my work bench a million times. So this week I've upgraded to the xcover6 pro in the hopes that it lives up to its predecessors' legacy. Hate the name, but love the phone so far. Ive read a few users having screen issues from the phone getting bent in their back pocket so imma just slap an otterbox on it anyway. And Ive already had the Android12 battery drain predicament which is easily fixed. You have to shut off Always On and responsive screen brightness and it goes back to normal battery life. its trying to use the camera as a light sensor which is foolish and i 100% blame android and not samsung.

Bought one for 4900SEK including shipping witch would be around 444USD after using the cat s62 pro for a year and it feels so much better besides the ruggedness. The Motorola you mentioned here would cost more than twice that at the cheapest i could find here and i do not like spending to much money on phones. For the price i paid i think it is worth it but the flashlight and the wake up/sleep button are my only 2 things i had any issue with.

yes would love to have this packaged with better screen with inscreen finger print sensor - come on Samsung please make this happen

Samsung Should Release Galaxy S23 Active Or Xcover Ultra Which Is Based On Galaxy S23

Which is better, XCover6 Pro or XR21? I need a phone that won't die in rain or snow.

My s8 takes better (not higher resolution, higher quality) pictures than my coworkers iphone 14, came with a 4500mah battery, and 1440p screen, all while being virtually damage proof. 3.5 jack, SD card slot, 4g, wireless charging, it has been my daily for almost 6 years now with not a regret besides the lack of viable replacements. Until now that is

I remember the rugby and it was amazing.

Thanks for the review. I am 100% agreement with you and the Active line. I am just now having to leave my s7 Active behind after 8 great years! The s5 active I had was equally reliable. I've been too scared to pull the trigger on an AGM (size n weight) or the DOOGEE v20 pro. Stick with what I know, I guess the xcover6 pro may be for me.

I'd get the Xcover if they had wireless charging. The Galaxy S5 had a removable battery + wireless charging + water resistance and I miss it. I had one of the new Nokias and it had a problem that could only be resolved by *shock* disconnecting and reconnecting the battery. Something easily solved if it wasn't a sealed design.

whyd u say its my dads phone? he has an s22 ultra, this is bad stereotype Im joking btw, just wanted to prove the point not all dads have an XCover 6 Pro. Btw now that I think about it..... does any dad even know the XCover? this is my personal first time hearing about the phone....

Great video

can you move around the navigation buttons?

it's an incredibly functional phone but it feels so unresponsive when I use it, which is something I never see reviewers talk about, you can even see how long it takes for it to open the photos at 3:20, for anyone wanting a phone that just does what a phone needs to do you may be better off buying a cheap used phone from apple or something, this phone was really meant for corporations

Will this work with Zello with the screen off while using the walkie-talkie

Nice I'm gonna be getting one for work tomorrow at walmart. :)

Can it use without battery like tab active?

Shame the 4, 4s or cover 5 don't share batteries with anything newer..m 4/4s shared with 5s of many years ago. So I had spare batteries.

The true replacement for the old active line is the xcover field pro line. I own a xcover field pro and the screen will not break.

What about the Nokia XR20?

x cover pro back detaches when it's dropped so its totally is NOT rugged because dirt or water can get inside. best solution always keep it in a case.

here too see if this phone is what i want as i just had the back camera quit focusing on my x cover pro. looks like ill be happy with it for only 75$ insurance claim fee through my cellular provider.

just bought it for 230€ , 1 year after this video. i think now its worth picking it up!

Seems the speed of the Xcover 6 pro in geekbench is pretty near close to the FP5

Dude, the phone is still new and in stores. What do you want a phone that is 1 day old?

Wait, it doesn't have 60 FPS video shooting? There's no way that's missing. It's a SD 778G. No way.

If you break the screen no one has replacements of like quality.

I'd kill for an official Samsung plastic container.

is this good phone i have xcover pro is this much better?

For the extremely low price i paid, new, screw any other manufacturer lol. Plus samsung supports their phones for ages.

Why in the world is there a difference in charging speed in the American version compared to the world version.... 25 watts compared to 15 watts.... Are we talking about the mobile are the chargers that does the difference.... I guess the mobile....

120hz or 60?

when SD 788G came 🤨

I told my dad, you had his phone. Good luck.

Buyer beware - I just bought one this month, and I have been slammed with junk emails, fishing emails, and - especially - attempts to install viruses via email attachments. I am getting approximately 60 of the emails each day, starting at 5 a.m., waking me multiple times every morning. As far as the phone, it has been a little glitchy. I think it is because I had to buy it via Amazon, so it is not optimized for my carrier, T Mobile. For example, all proper nouns are in all lower case letters. Additionally, voice-to-text is horrible...even worse than with the Ulefone Armor 9 it replaced (that is a horrible phone, btw). Ditto for auto-correct. I don't understand why new phones today perform these tasks worse than phones ten years ago. Now you know. I wish, wish, wish the major carriers would offer at least one rugged phone that works as well as ordinary phones. They don't.

Should have tested it with a 61 year old. My husband shattered that glass and no one wanted to fix it for less than 200. Won't spend that. Cheaper to buy him a different phone. At&t blame you Samsung

Why did you not just record the audio playing instead o drinking....a dog drinking....

Not for $600

Best phone. Iphonecels seething over gigachad Xcover sigmas

Too bad I’d still like good cameras and a nice screen. There is no reason manufacturers can’t build flagship-level phones with all of these features except that they don’t want to.

at 600 bucks why is it so much worse than the a5x models?

snapdragon 778g*

This phone is awesome don't listen to this guy!!!!!

nice

You definitely missed the point of this phone removable battery that's what this phone is about and rugged for the man who's always on the move and needs his phone while he's wearing gloves. I live on my phone I work from my phone I need a removable battery I have two wall chargers to charge my removable batteries and I have four batteries I never plugged this phone in ever the 3.5 Jack is a good thing it's something other phones are not offering. Programmable buttons one click flashlight these are thing.the working man need these phones were designed for fire departments police departments government workers and he working man. You really missed the point of this phone completely 6 months of owning this phone being on it 24/7 I probably dropped it a hundred times I broke the screen finally went on to Amazon bought a new screen for $25 and put it on myself I'm no gadget guy it was simple easy and cheap Samsung keep building his phones like this my past phones 6 months they were throwaways the batteries never hold up and the phone gets slow. Now I just throw the battery in the trash and buy another one from Amazon for $20 and keep on pushing.

No audio jack means I wont buy it. Bluetooth is just crap.

I simply cannot get my head around how this review dances around the elephant in the room, which can be boiled down to: No craftsman or hiker has EVER asked for a phaplet! Since this is the two main target groups for this phone, it genuinely seems odd that they've gone with the 6.6'' design. It is *BONK*ing mad. The Xcover series has committed suicide by making itself irrellevant - especially after 2027 where phones sold in EU must have user-changeable batteries (one of the last selling points for the Xcover series). Would they have used just some measure of user insights (I know, I know), they'd gone with an update of a completely different frame. Or slimmed the FieldPro down...

I miss my s7 active...

Undoubtedly Samsung cover x is the worst slowest most stupid phone I have ever been forced to use. Zero stars, avoid like the plague.

thanks lol or your grandma's phone....lol...

half a** active

I am very excited to comment first

Another Samsung failure

If this had an S pen and an IR blaster it'd be my forever phone. As it is, it'll likely be my dad's forever phone once his S5 finally craps out.

Gosh I wish all phones had a button for the light. It is so infuriating when you need a light to have to enter the phone and find it to use. That one button is a winner for me. Sadly I already have a new smartphone so will have to live life without it.

The processor of the phone is snapdragon 778g not snapdragon 788g.

I think this is a great phone. I don't know why people slam the speaker so much though, I really don't think its that bad, but I'm not trying to use my phone speaker to listen to music or movies, who does that on any phone? When using speaker phone I have never had an issue understanding or hearing the other person. I've been a flagship samsung person for a long time, and the cost of the new ones drove me to the XCover6, not sure I'll ever go back to the insanely expensive flagships ever again so long as they keep making ones like this. I would probably prefer they bring back the active line though, my S8 active was my favorite phone to date.

What makes this a dad phone? Samsung chose to stock it with 2019 spec hardware, not us. I would have loved to seen it closer to $1k with a modern snapdragon, 8gb ram, wireless charging if plausible, and nicer cameras.

I forgot Samsung did the active line 😂

All phones will require replaceable batteries

For what I need a phone, the XCover lineup has always been perfect for me!

Can you guys check out the Sonim XP10?

I work for Walmart and we are to these from the cover pro5 and I hope it will be better the pro 5 sucks and I'm a Front End Team lead and need my phone to work so I can support my cashiers when they need something

Wow a real phone... with the foundational 3 essentials.... what is the microSD fat32 or exfat?

okay apparently there is 2 different versions.... What is the plusses and minusses of the 2 versions, the normal vs the Enterprise Edition

If they would pack a better quality camera in a phone with a removable battery, headphone jack, and reliable water resistance, I'd buy that phone in a heartbeat. I miss removable, user-replaceable batteries.

I'm not a boomer, but I'm not young, I really appreciated that I can swap out batteries and use wired headphones when needed on this phone. Other people will say, just make sure your headphones are charged. But that's not always going to work when you are out and about and wired headphones are instant on. No need to pair or anything. As you'd imagine I have this phone and I've paired it with a charging dock which also charges an additional battery. Also, I have a wired/wireless headphone combination. When it's charged, I can use it as bluetooth, when it's not, I can use it as wired as well. Best of both worlds!

Im still using a Galaxy S5 Activ, its gonna be 10 years old next december. Starting to lose functionality now, but mostly due to lack of support or updates for the OS & apps. Best phone Ive ever had and its wild that its almost completely usable after 9,5 years.

I hope the make s23 active or xcover ultra

I probably would have bought this if it had an 8+ Gen 1 and the requisite 12GB of RAM. Instead I went for a Fold 4.

run your phones under a wheel chair,it happens tome

Xcover6 drop test certification 1,50 meters, Lenovo Thinkphone 1,25 meters. There is no microSD port, and no 3.5mm Audio on the Lenovo. Battery is non-removable on the Lenovo and it does not have POGO pins to easily charge in a dock. XCover6 has Gorilla Glass Victus Plus vs Lenovo with Gorilla Glass Victus. But the Lenovo has better performance overall in CPU, cameras, and charging.

I hate huge phones. I keep them in a front trouser pocket, and every time I sit to tie a shoe lace, or bend down to pick something up from the ground, the phone usually maxes out in the pocket space, then becomes a curve phone. I've managed to put a slight bend on a Nokia X20. A huge phone is also a magnet for taking a smack in a factory work environment, or in the railway working world, where bumping tables or rolling around on ballest under rolling stock usuall kills them. But I also want a phone that looks half decent, has good features, but most importantly - WORKS. I upgraded from the Nokia X20, after my T20 Tablet had to be replaced due to the battery not being charged one Christmas (Rookie mistake), and the X20 just being a headache most times, being less reliable with each update. I went out and got the Pixel 6. Great phone out the box. only a month later, and I'm asking myself what the meaning of life is, because it's clearly not with Android, since the Pixel 6 hasn't been able to keep a cell signal for more than 5 seconds, and compared to all of my past phones, I just can't hear it ring in my pocket, under my overalls. It's so damn quiet on full volume, Google should hang their heads in shame. I don't like Apples camp - too closed, but it does work. And I'm biting my wallet with Android, because Google has gone off the rails with so many updates that break every other phone.

Actually the MicroSD card looks like you can take it out while the battery is in it like the LG V20 - still far from perfect and as it should be but much better then with the battery locks it in place. Now the Simcard is another story.

I don't find the speakers to be that offensive. They are not amazing, but they get really loud and are definetly clearer than the ones from my parents older phones!

Anyone know if there's a way to root the device?

Is it as rugged as advertised when it comes to falls (without a case) ??❓❓

Bro, its my phone and im 13.

The real question is: "Does this phone shut off *completely* when its power is shut down?" That way I do not have to take the battery out when I want to have my privacy.

Does the US version have dual SIM?

Does it have fm radio?