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Land Rover Explore Review – Literally Holding A Land Rover In Your Hands

Well, the smartphone world keeps hitting us with surprises that we welcome with open arms. The latest surprise is the Land Rover Explore released by British Car giant – Land Rover in conjunction with Bullitt Group, a company renowned in making rugged smartphones for technology giants such as Caterpillar and Kodak. The Land Rover Explore almost mistaken for the Land Rover Explorer automobile is a rugged smartphone on every front. From the design down to its internal parts and so on and so forth. Stay with me as the full specs and review of the Land Rover Explore smarphone makes it to your screens.

Design & Display 

The rugged outlook of the smartphone is pretty interesting. The speaker grille at the base bezel looks like a car’s grille. At the top bezel, the earpiece and front camera are the occupants while the dedicated keys take the left side of the device. Just around the back, three vertical lines are seen and above these three vertical lines, the rear camera is seen as well as a dual-LED flash and the Land Rover emblem. Water resistance and dust resistance of the smartphone gives it the IP68 certification. Furthermore, the smartphone can survive up to 1.8 metres in water.

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The smartphone has a 5.0-inch display with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. This display is of the IPS LCD origin while the display colours hit the 16 million colors mark. Multi-touch input as well as 24 bit color depth are present on the display.

Camera

The rear camera has a 16 megapixel sensor that takes pictures and videos. This camera produces bright images in low light conditions as a result of the dual-LED flash present. The front camera on the other hand makes use of an 8 MP sensor for taking selfies. Features such as HDR, panorama, face detection, phase detection auto focus, touch focus, geo tagging and continuous shots are supported.

CPU, OS & Storage

MediaTek Helio X27 serves as the chipset of the smartphone. This chipset comes together with a 64-bit processor of ten cores that clocks at 2.6 GHz. ARM Mali GPU supplies the graphics on the smartphone while the software is the Android Nougat OS. The device multitasks with the aid of a 4 GB RAM in place while storage of files is taken care of by 64 GB ROM. This storage can also be expanded with the aid of a MicroSD card.

Battery

Land Rover Explore uses a non-removable Li-Ion 4,000 mAh battery as its powerhouse. Also, Bullitt Group made provision of an Adventure pack that comes with an extra 3,600 mAh battery as well as a Bike pack with handlebar mount and 4,370 mAh battery extra. This pack can only be added one at a time. The use of the first pack is when the user wants to go climbing while the second pack is when the user wants to go cycling.

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Land Rover Explore Full Specifications Table 

General

Device Type Smartphone
Model Land Rover Explore
Announced February 2018
Released February 2018
Status Available

Network

2G Network Yes
3G Network Yes
4G Network Yes
SIM Type Nano SIM
SIM Count Two

Data

2G GPRS Up to 32 to 48 kbps; EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps
3G Up to 21 Mbps (HSDPA), 5.76 Mbps;(HSUPA)
4G Up to 300 Mbps
Speed HSPA 21 Mbps
Web Browser Yes, HTML5

Design

Type Smartphone
Dimensions
Weight
Body Material Rubber, Metal
Colours Balck

Display                                                               

Display Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
Size 5.0″
Resolution 1080 x 1920pixels
Colors 16M colors
Pixel Density 282 PPI
Touch Screen Yes
Protection Yes
Features Capacitive touch
Secondary Display No

Camera

Primary 16 MP
Image Yes
Video Yes
Features HDR, autofocus, Geo-tagging, ISO, panorama
Flash Yes, dual-LED flash
Secondary 8 MP

Software

Operating System Android 7.0 Nougat OS
User Interface Yes
Java Support No
Skype Yes
Whatsapp Yes
Facebook Yes
Youtube Yes

Hardware

Chipset MediaTek Helio X27
CPU Deca-core 2.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A53
GPU ARM Mali
RAM (Memory) 1GB
Internal Storage 64 GB
Card Slot Yes
Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, ambient light sensor
Controls Lock Button, and Volume Key

Connectivity

Bluetooth Yes, Bluetooth v4.0 A2DP (Advance Audio Distribution Profile), LE Profile
Infrared n/a
Wi-Fi Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-fi Hotspot Yes
USB Type Micro USB v2.0
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC n/a
HDMI n/a
Wireless Charging n/a

Battery

Battery Type Li-Ion Battery
Capacity 4,000 mAh Battery
Placement Non-removable
Standby Up to 179 hours
Talk Time Up to 9.3 hours
Music Play Up to 13.1 hours

Messaging

SMS Yes (threaded view)
MMS Yes
Email Yes, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP
IM Yes & BBM

Media

Audio Playback Yes, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AC3, FLAC
Video Playback Yes, 3GP, Mp4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 player
Video Out n/a
FM Radio Yes, Stereo FM radio with RDS
Alert Types Vibration, Ringtones
Ring Tones MP3, WAV
Loudspeaker Yes
Handsfree  Yes, 3.5 mm audio jack

Other Features

– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player
– DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.265 player
– Photo/video editor
– Document viewer

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Land Rover Explore costs around US $800.

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