Samsung Galaxy Xcover6 Pro

Samsung Galaxy Xcover6 Pro In Kenya

The Samsung Galaxy Xcover6 Pro price in Kenya currently stands at Ksh 17,500. The Samsung Galaxy Xcover6 Pro sports a triple rear camera with a 50MP main lens with OIS, a powerful Qualcomm SM7225 Snapdragon 750G 5G processor, and 6.4-inch TFT LCD display that supports a 120Hz refresh rate and stereo speakers for a surround sound experience. It also has an IP67 rating for spill, splash, and dust resistance. It comes with a large 5000mAh battery and promises up to 3 years of software upgrades and 4 years of security updates.

Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro

The Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro is yet another refresh to a niche series in Samsung that specially catered for the outdoors client devices, therefore bringing not-so-ordinary features to the mainstream market. An IPS 120Hz LCD screen, a primary 50MP camera, 15W fast charging, a huge battery at 4050mAh and a shatter & waterproof build. This makes it quite competitively priced, considering it’s not a mainstream product. This phone is tailored to a specific clientele, but it still performs great as a great daily driver device.

Design

The Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro comes with a 6.6-inch IPS LCD 120Hz screen with a teardrop notch design for the selfie camera. It’s a beauty, with very even bezels and a very narrow chin, with a screen-to-body ratio of 77.8%. It has an aspect ratio of 20:9 and supports HD10 which makes it an absolute delight to consume media with. It has a plastic frame and a Corning Gorilla Glass Victus+ front panel. It is the back however that makes this phone stand out. It has a rubberized exterior that makes this phone an outdoors device. Its IP68 water and dust resistant in 1.5m of water for 30 mins, and drop to concrete proof from a height of 1.5m. It is very bright and vivid, peaking at 450 nits. Fortunately, it keeps the headphone jack. It has a fast-side-mounted fingerprint sensor integrated into the power button. It has a loud downward firing speaker, which offers great sound when playing media.

Performance

The Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro comes with the midrange Snapdragon 778G chipset, making it relatively fast and excellent for gaming. It has a Octa-core CPU with storage options of 6 GB for RAM & 128 GB for ROM. It also comes with a dedicated expandable memory option. Paired with the high refresh rate LCD screen, running the latest Android 12 with One UI 4.1 skin on top, the performance feels very fast and premium. Samsung’s UI is rich in customizations, supporting numerous always-on screen animations. No lags or slow transitions on this one. Everything feels fast, fluid, and rich in color.  It also supports Samsung Dex which allows for mirroring of the desktop wirelessly using a special interface that includes a keyboard and a mouse.

Cameras

The Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro has a double camera arrangement on the back. It comes with an excellent 50 MP primary sensor, with 12.5 MP picture binning for those excellent daylight photos. It has an 8MP ultra-wide with a 123˚ FOV, for great landscape and group photos. Being an outdoors phone, everything is optimized for the outdoors, and that includes the camera. The video can support 4K video at 30 fps, and 1080p at 30fps, with HDR supports & gyro-EIS stability assistance. The selfie camera is a decent 13MP wide sensor, capable of 1080p video at 30fps. The selfies and videos are great and well-exposed.

Other features

The Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro has a decent 15W standard charging, which can charge the phone to 100% in a little over an hour. That is in addition to the fact that it also comes with a huge Li-Po 4050mAh non-removable battery. Even with intense use, this should be more than a day’s worth. The main concession would be that there is no wireless charging nor wired reverse charging. It, fortunately, does support NFC for contactless paying.

Similarly, priced phones would include the Oppo A54, Oneplus 5T, Infinix Note 10 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy A22 5G. the main talking point is the outdoors nature of this device. Being waterproof and outer padding to withstand falling on concrete are not features you see on many mainstream devices.

For the price, it’s a great device. Superior outdoor design, high-quality screen, water and dust proofing and a very huge battery. The Xcover series is certainly a niche device, especially for the extreme outdoors, but the rest of the phone is still well spec’d to compete with other midranges. It comes in Black.

Common Q & A

1. How much is a Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro in Kenya: the phone is currently retailing at Ksh 17,500
2. Where can I buy a Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro in Kenya: you can buy it at com, both online and offline, with optional delivery on request
3. Does Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro have wireless charging: No. instead, it has very quick 15W fast charging that can get the phone to 100% in an hour. The reason being, that the battery is huge at 4050mAh
4. Does Samsung Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro support 5G: Yes it does.

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