Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition looks indestructible — and has night vision mode

Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition looks indestructible — and has nighttime vision way

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Samsung's Galaxy S20 is getting a Tactical Edition: a hardened version of the flagship phone designed for military usage.

The Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition was revealed in a Samsung press release (via TechRadar), and will be the successor to the Galaxy S9 Tactical Edition. It's been given various new features to make sure it can survive in the field and piece of work well with other war machine equipment. It's simply available to selected It partners, so you won't be able to pick one up at your local carrier store.

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As an example of these new abilities, Samsung boasts that the S20 TE will piece of work with "tactical radios, drone feeds, laser range finders, external GPS and more." Plus, it's 5G and WiFi 6 compatible, simply similar the normal S20.

Samsung is as well pushing the benefits of its DeX desktop mode for planning and grooming purposes. Meanwhile its Bixby virtual assistant button has been remapped to launch and hibernate mission-disquisitional apps instead.

Of course, information technology's important that the S20 TE can survive any, which is why it'southward locked up inside a chunky sand-colored case. The instance covers all of the back and sides of the telephone, which is likely why the S20 TE looks to exist using virtual buttons for navigation instead of gestures. The touchscreen can also conform for utilise with gloves, which sounds like a handy characteristic for civilians to have too.

In that location's also Night Vision style so you can still read the phone while wearing infrared goggles, and a Stealth mode to turn off all connections to the phone. The release also mentions how secure the phone is thanks to Samsung's own Knox security organisation and DualDAR.

Unfortunately at that place's no official specs given for the S20 TE, so nosotros don't know exactly what cameras or internal components it uses. The merely sensor mentioned past Samsung is a 64MP photographic camera, which sounds like the telephoto sensor found on the Milky way S20 and Galaxy S20 Plus. Based on the single prototype of the phone's rear, information technology looks more than like the triple photographic camera assortment of the S20, rather than the quad-cameras on the S20 Plus.

Richard is a Tom's Guide staff author based in London, roofing news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, audio and whatsoever else people need advice on. Post-obit on from his MA in Magazine Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he's also written for WIRED U.Chiliad., The Annals and Creative Bloq. When not at piece of work, he'southward likely thinking almost how to brew the perfect cup of specialty coffee.