Thuraya X5-Touch is the world's first satellite Android smartphone
Thuraya took the wraps off its first Android smartphone, the X5-Touch. Like every other product from this company, it's a sat phone. It's also a normal smartphone that looks nothing like a normal smartphone.
It has a 5.2-inch 1080p IPS touchscreen, the Snapdragon 625 chipset, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, an 8 MP rear camera, a 2 MP selfie snapper, and a 3,800 mAh battery. It disappointingly runs Android 7.1 Nougat for some reason.
It weighs 262g and comes with IP67 water and dust resistance as well as MIL-STD-810 certification for being able to withstand extreme conditions. The X5-Touch has NFC on board and it supports navigation through GPS, BeiDou, and GLONASS.
For satellite calls a retractable antenna has been added, and the phone has always-on dual-SIM functionality with one SIM working on conventional 2G/3G/4G networks and the other dealing with satellites.
The Thuraya X5-Touch will be available in 160 countries for £999. The company says it will be out in December, though it may only make it to certain markets (like the UK) at the end of January.
Source (in Russian)
Reader comments
- BasBoos
- Fvd
Nice and good start but 16GB external storage? Very slow system with 2GB of Ram. They should invent a BT modem you can click onto you phone so you can use every android/iPhone like Iridium had in the beginning.
- MyBest
- PIF
This specification is out of date if you campare it with Samsung S23 or iPhone 14 Pro Max. I dont even think this phone can run games smoothly.
- Johnblack912
- 0Pj
X5 is an excellent phone only and a very bad smartphone. If you install many apps then all of a sudden a menacing message appears upon switching on the mobile „system process not responding“. The only solution is to reset the mobile to the factory d...
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