Facom F200 3G/WiFi SIM-Free Rugged Smartphone (2.4" - Micro-SIM - IP68 - Android 4.2) Black/Red

It's OK, it's big, it's heavy and the user manual is a joke.I'm still trying to find the default Phone Security Password... 0000, 9999,1234... do not work.

I was searching for something similar for years already, and it suddenly happened! I bought it without thinking a month after release.For me this phone was very promising.PROS:1. Very good build quality, feels very realiable.2. Keyboard and touch screen3. Android 4.2.2 with google services4. 3G, call quality quite good for me5. You can uninstall most of the apps you don't need, which is a very good thing6. Wifi7. Hotspot, you can share your internet connection with someone else or your other phone8. Decent audio output with a pair of sennheiser earphones.CONS:1. Android 4.2.2, and this means you can't control the permissions for apps. For that kind of smartphone and target aidience I would expect some firewallthat will allow me to block apps from accessing my contacts, internet connection etc.2. Custom Android OS with Many bugs.3. I use the phone like a hotspot for a phablet to navigate over the net. After 1h or so, the data connection on the this phone simply dissapears and won't comeback for hours, even if you restart the phone. It simply does not work. You need to wait several hours before you can use the hotspot again. ON/OFF of data connection or resetting APN does not work. Also can happen that the phone restarts while being used as a hotspot.4. 512MB RAM. This amount of RAM is very small if you want to use your phone for multitasking or for browsing something more complicated. Often Android OS simply closes your browser or the HERE MAPS or other heavy apps.5. FLASHLIGHT is faint and its light is not enough6. MicroUSB port is not covered by any rubber protection. Also, if you put your phone in jeans or you drop it in mud, you'll have hard time cleaning it up and you can damage it.7. Speaker on the back has a cloth protection and it is not reliable. Ear speaker gets dirty fast and pretty hard to clean.8. Battery drains extremely quickly if you use WiFi or browse the Web9. No DUAL-SIM!10. Manual is too short and basically not useful.11. You cannot program your buttons as you want. I uninstalled all the cusom apps, and I cannot get them back. And now the buttons are useless.12. No proximity sensor. This means that in calls, the OS simply turns off your screen. Every time you need to press a number, you are forced to push the RED button to show your screen, and SURPRISE, if you have a pin code on screen, you will be forced to input it! And after the timeout you selected, the screen goes OFF again and repeat!13. Screen is 320x240. Maybe this is OK, but for the size of the phone, it could have been 320x480 I think, and the people would have had much many possibilities!14. You cannot set your own ringtone.15. You cannot set your own sound for alarm. The built in are scary and irritating.I wouldn't buy it again.Buy only if you will use it's functionalities not so often because it is ways better than a pheature phone. Overpriced.Why I gave 3 stars? Because it is unique. If the software parts will be fixed, it has some chances to be a good phone!

Il va très bien, la batterie dure très longtemps (mais en même temps je ne m'en sers que pour téléphoner et envoyer des sms car ça n'est pas un android). Il reste froid, du à sa DAS faible. Hyper solide, lampe torche de folie. Bref, je recommande !

Gutes Telefon, etwas schwer, aber es tut, was es tun soll. Man kann lästige Anrufer in die schwarze Liste eintragen und 500 Kontakte speichern. Würde den Kauf weiterempfehlen.

tutto ok mancano purtroppo le istruzioni in lingua Italiana e quindi e complicato capire bene tutte le funzioni del telefono.

Le matériel est vraiment bien : solide, 15 jours d'autonomie (sans utiliser le partage de connexion, sinon la batterie dure beaucoup moins longtemps), la lampe marche vraiment bien !Par contre, le logiciel est vraiment moyen ...Quelques exemples :- pas de fonction minuteur : il y a les alarmes, le chronomètre, mais pas de compte à rebours- certains paramètres se réinitialisent lorsque on éteint le téléphone (la préférence du clavier, les états des alarmes, parfois d'autres ...)- les modes de la lampe de poche cyclent dans l'ordre : un appui long sur le bouton l'allume en mode normal, un deuxième l'allume en mode puissant, un troisième en mode stroboscope un 4e en mode SOS, et un 5e l'éteint. Et ce quelque soit le temps d'utilisation de chaque mode, donc quand on utilise la lampe, il faut appuyer 4 fois sur le bouton pour l'éteindre ... Pas très grave mais bon ...- pas possible de mettre un raccourci vers le partage de connexion (alors qu'il est possible d'en mettre un pour les préférences wifi, qui ne servent quasi à rien)- ...Plein de petits détails qui ne sont pas bien graves mais qui gâchent un peu le produit ...Edition après plusieurs mois d'utilisation : les inconvénients logiciels se cumulent et gâchent de plus en plus le produit ...Nouvel avis après encore quelques mois : le téléphone est devenu inutilisable à cause de quelques grains de sable qui se sont glissés sous la touche de gauche/décrocher ... Pour un téléphone soit disant IP68, c'est une honte !

I am very happy with the product it meets all the criteria I had in mind :- It is really shock proof- It does internet thetering- The powerful flash light is very handy- The battery last more than two weeksSpeaking of which I contacted FACOM in order to know if batteries were available for the future ?Answer : not now and not in the future ... what ? why is the battery then accessible in the phone ?This is ridiculous !!! A product rugged like this is meant to last way beyond the battery lifetime.I am very disappointed by FACOM in this context. So once the battery is dead, so is the phone ? very nice and well thought product !This is so ridiculous that I am throwing 1 star instead of 4