Cat S62 Pro Rugged unlocked 6GB Smartphone – North America Variant – with FLIR Thermal Imager – Full Warranty Support in US and Canada
$329.99
Price: $329.99
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CAT S62 Pro Rugged Smartphone – North America Variant – with FLIR Thermal Imager – Full Warranty Support in US and Canada
Optimized For North American Carriers: Compatible with major carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and more.
Drop Tested: Withstands drops up to 6 feet onto steel surfaces.
Long Battery Life: Provides up to 2 days of battery life on a single charge.
Waterproof Design: Ruggedized to be waterproof and dust resistant.
Advanced Thermal Imaging: Includes FLIR thermal imaging for enhanced temperature monitoring.
Customers say
Customers have negative opinions about the functionality, responsiveness, and charging of the cell phone. They mention it doesn’t work with Ting-Mobile or Boost Mobile, doesn’t get signal, and doesn’t use mobile data. Opinions are mixed on durability, battery life, thermal imaging, and ease of use.
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10 reviews for Cat S62 Pro Rugged unlocked 6GB Smartphone – North America Variant – with FLIR Thermal Imager – Full Warranty Support in US and Canada
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MLF80110 –
You should seriously consider this phone!!
This phone is everything they advertised, and extremely durable. As far as that goes, I am basically the phone terminator – they usually only make it a few months with me. I have had this one for 2-1/2 years and it is still going strong.As for features and network compatibility, this thing is great:Network – I am using it on T-mobile, no issues. I routinely have a strong signal when others around me have no signal, so the radio in it has plenty of power. When I am in remote mountain areas, sometimes I do have to roam on AT&T and that works fine too (although AT&T claims these phones will not work on their network).Operating system – Android 11, very easy to navigate, and aligns well with the number and placement of buttons on this phone. This phone was so easy to learn, I often felt like I was missing something somewhere. Everything makes sense and no hoops to jump through to use features.Apps – This phone has no extra junk, and no built in ads. I love this. If I want an app, it’s Android so I can can add it, but I like it lean and mean. Less is better. If you ever had a Samsung and all their extra junk and ads, you will really appreciate this phone.Thermal imaging – it can see hot or cold spots in superb detail around my house, although the actual temperature readings aren’t necessarily spot on – distance from target can account for a degree or two, but it does illustrate temperature differences very well. I have found hot spots in my roof to add more insulation, a leaking hot water line in a wall, as well as underground sprinkler leaks.Touchscreen – I really struggle with touchscreens because I am a contractor and my hands are always either wet or super dry and cracked. This is the best touchscreen I had ever used. It is sensitive and accurate, but not too much so. It does work great with wet hands.Sound quality is super, voices are clear and music is clean, which I was worried about due to the extra waterproofing. The ringtone can be set to an obnoxious level if you’re like me and never hear your phone ring.Extra storage – it will read and use a 256 gig micro SDBattery life – I am a minimalist on phone feature usage but it is very solid, often going a week between charges. It is the original battery so that is pretty good after 2-1/2 years.The Power Bank â If you are considering the bundle with the power bank, I have 3 of them. They can charge the phone from zero to full 3-4 times before needing charged, and can hold a full charge for months. Great little back up!!
David Murphy –
Looks can be deceiving.
Looked brand new coming out of the package. Package was not damaged. Phone has no speaker. This phone was purchased specifically for the thermal imaging camera that does not work. You can open the app but you cannot do anything with it. Not responsive.
Mark R. White –
Great Rugged Phone, Excellent Features
I’ve had this phone for three months now. It’s phenomenal. The screen is beautiful. The camera is not the best in the world, but it’s solid. The performance is as good as you could ask for. Due to circumstances beyond my control, we had to migrate to Verizon from T-Mobile. This phone will only partially work on Verizon. With a Verizon SIM you can make and receive calls, use data, and send text messages, but you cannot receive them. The phone I picked up from Verizon for my new plan is the Kyocera DuraForce Ultra 5g. The CAT S62 Pro is superior to the DuraForce 5G in every way with the exception of 5G access as the S62 Pro is a 4G only phone. I like my CAT S62 Pro so much better I’m actually returning my Kyocera and am going to find a prepaid service to activate my CAT S62 Pro with.
Mc Nurse –
Sim card
It’s not working with any SIM cards in the US
Why not!!! –
Almost…so so so close…
This phone reviewed very well with exception to two key features. First, a list of what is very good about the phone.The fingerprint reader is in the perfect position and works very well. The single 12mp camera is surprisingly good. It is comparable to that of a Note 9 or S10. The battery seems to be unending. The screen resolution is outstanding…and this is coming from am AMOLED user. The speaker is bottom mounted and projects a very decent sound. Lastly, the thermal imaging system is the best I’ve every used. Its high resolution Lepton 3.5 system is simply…amazing. This phone is a ridiculous bargain when you realize you get a 3.5 sensor. In testing, the thermal system was able to located water mains below asphalt!!! It could also pick up residual wetness with almost pin point accuracy.Overall the handset is very good and as rugged as every review claims. The phone is well sized and easily fits in a pocket. There were a few shortcoming that made using this phone a less than optimal experience. First, if you are accustomed to wireless charging…this phone does not support that and it seems like a chore to have to plug in something that is this advanced. It might seem petty, but it makes a big difference when you actually use the device as intended. In fact, it is strange that for a phone intended for “professional use” that there are no POGO points for cradle charging. That would have been welcomed in the absence of qi charging.A second notable shortcoming was phone call quality. It would seem that the both the mic gain is too high and that noise suppression is not used. Every phone call I made with this phone was reported as noisy and poor. Unless you take a call in a quiet room, the phone itself is the weakest feature of this…phone. There appears to be no way to adjust or tweak this setting with ease.The review points on amazon request a rating for “Battery Life” “touch screen” and “picture quality”. IN all honesty, these three items are actually very good: 4.5 stars each. However, the phone quality combined with the lack of wireless charging seems like 2 steps backwards coming from any handset made in the last few years. I would say this phone is like a rugged iphone 8 or galaxy 7/8 with an amazing thermal camera.
Gustavo Kimura –
Excelente artÃculo, complio todas mis expectativas
tom –
Pretty happy with the phone. The finger print scanner stopped working, but not something I care about too much. The camera app is lacking. The flir camera app is pretty good though.
Mat –
Returned!I really, really wanted to like this phone, but I don’t. After a few weeks, I decided to return it because it’s not even close to being useful and user friendly.Some of the issues are with the OS, which is not the phone’s fault, but here is the list of the issues I have with it:Extremely poor reception. This is a phone, first and foremost and it’s not doing it. In places where my old Samsung Galaxy had one or two bars of reception, this thing doesn’t have signal. When talking on the phone and the reception is low or poor, the calls become very digital sounding and just cuts out randomly.The network operates on 2G, 3G and LTE. And as far as I can tell, it doesn’t seem to switch back and forth between them well. It states in the program it has wi-fi calling, but it has not worked. As for the reception, I have telus, and in the areas where the Samsung had good reception, this phone does not. The company blames it on the provider, but clearly the issue is with their hardware.Massive issue is the SD Card. When you first put one in, it requests to select how you will use it, to transfer files (removable and transferable between devices) or as internal expansion storage. Once you select it, the phone formats it accordingly. Well I want to use it to transfer files and plug it into my laptop when needed. Every time I remove the SD Card and put it back in, it has an error and requires to format the card AGAIN! Completely useless since it deletes everything.I contacted CAT and they recommend using it via USB to transfer. Well that doesn’t work either because the phone keeps either dropping USB connection or just hangs there doing nothing.Another completely screwed up feature.The camera video record feature sometimes records with no audio. No reason for it, once it works, once it doesn’t. I lost a bunch of footage I cannot get back because it’s with no audio. No visible setting or change that affects it. Completely unreliable and useless.No headphone jack! Seriously? This is supposed to be a work phone and many times on job sites I still need a headset. You have to buy a USB to headphone jack adaptor for that, one more thing to stick out of the phone and you can’t charge it at the same time.The camera’s HDR feature performs poorly in low lighting, also it’s 12MP??? Seriously, in 2023 you could even break 20MP?My biggest annoyance with it is the OS though. Its google heavy Android is annoying as hell. At least Samsung would give you the option to turn off features and updates. Google is all controlling, you’re getting updates even if you don’t want them.Oh and the pointless Google assistant at the top of the home screen can be disabled, but it NEVER goes away! It just sits there mocking you and telling you it’s disabled and you should turn it back on. Screw you Google Assistant!Everything tries to sync to Google and back-up, update, and notify you. Took hours to go through everything and turn as much off as I could.Another annoyance is the notifications, sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. I won’t get a new Outlook email notification for hours at times, same even with Gmail.The last annoyance is the sleep screen. Samsung figured this out, when sleeping, show a clock, because it barely uses battery and it’s useful. This phone doesn’t do that, only will do it if it’s in charge or a cradle? Regardless, when you select both, still doesn’t show normally.For a work phone that costs over $500, huge screw up CAT!I will never buy this brand again.
Luigi- O –
la Versión S61 me pareció mas robusta, el nuevo S62 da la impresión de ser mas un celular tipo ejecutivo que industrial.
Dean P. –
Before I dig in, we need some context. I’m a big guy working in the trades. Stick frame, steel frame, timber frame, log. Construction lead. I am always training someone’s kid into someone useful. I don’t baby my tools or my protoges. And if there is anything stand out for, head and shoulders above the rest? It’s destroying the latest and greatest phone. 3 in one week is my record. With 16 hours as my personal “best”. Before Cat came along, 3 months was what I’d hope for.Then I met the S61. I dropped it multiple floors. I dropped it in rivers and ponds. Took it high pressure blasting. It got driven over. Frozen and overheated. I slammed it in my tailgate and bent it a smidge, without breaking the glass. It was years old when I finally lost it in the bush, in deep snow. That thing was perfect for me.And here is round 2.Pro tip: if you cut or grind metal, toss it in a sealable bag to keep the metal filings and dust out of the speaker magnets. That stuff murders every phone out there. Even the good old Cat.