CAT PHONES Caterpillar S40 Rugged Waterproof Smartphone

This phone should be great, It is hardy, waterproof (yes I have tested that) it runs all the apps I like, bags of memory, great camera, plays music and video and runs google like a pro...but the phone sucks. Half the time it will not even answer the phone, if you try to make a call it may call someone else in your contacts and the dial pad occasionally gets stuck and you end up having to delete several thousand 7's while the phone frantically try's to dial the impossibly long number you just entered and then gets confused and crashes. So if you want a tough, waterproof entertainment computer with internet features, this is the device for you, but if you want to accept a call your mom or place an order for pizza look some where else.

This phone looks great and feels great everything runs smoothly and when I first turned it on I was excited to see the CAT logo. Durabiltiy is something thats important for me and this delivers. The only downside was that I had terrible signal from Metropcs with this phone and my 100 dollar old phone had much better signal.

I give this phone a 4 star, but it deserves a 4.8. The operating system is a little slow, and a little larger in size that I would like. But, if you can get by that, let me tell you a story. I dropped this phone into a bunch of mud while helping a friend get his jeep out of a creek. Bam! I lost my phone. After numerous search attempts, 25 days later with a metal detector, it was found about 3 inches deep in mud. The phone was dead, but with a charge it came back to life! It's a good thing I knew the area I lost it in!!!!!

Terrible. Marketed as a heavy duty work phone, but after 2 months the metal around the buttons broke/bent after not doing anything out of the normal that I've done while having the phone. Only got 1 star because it's required to pick a star to post a review.

Its a great phone my husband works on construction site digging in dirt and rock all day and has dropped several times. No issues however from day one of getting it , the phone will occasionally just turn off for no reason but always comes back on

The phone is well built for rugged use but unfortunately the hardware is not good enough to be used in today's age. The phone was so slow that sometimes it was hard to receive a phone call because everything will freeze up on it. From the apss to the main screen and even sometimes when pushing the back button. This may have been an ok phone in 2015 when it was released but today it is too archaic to be used.

FOR MY IS NO FUNCIONALITY BECAUSE I CAN USE WITH MY TWO CHIP, AND WHEN I BOUGHT THE SELLER SAID THIS IS DUAL SIM

Su resistencia, lastima que el primero se perdió

Let me start off by saying I had no idea Caterpillar also made phones. I have bought several pairs of caterpillar shoes in the past, but I did not know they also made phones. I have now used this CAT S40 smartphone for a week now, and here are my impressions.- The phone is rugged and comes encased in a great waterproof case with anti-slip rubber back surface. So, you cannot open the phone up. Which means, the battery compartment cannot be opened and all the ports and openings have a protective flap over them to make sure water does not get in. So, the SD card slot, SIM slot, and micro USB charging port are all covered and are accessible from the outside of the phone.- I like the fact that the phone comes with a plastic film screen protector already glued onto the screen. So, I did not have to worry about that and could start using my phone immediately. Also, the screen is made of gorilla glass, which are usually standard issues on electronic devices used for heavy duty use, such as by the military. So, that lets me know that this phone has one strong screen.- I have a Chatr and Fido SIMs. I checked, and they both work on this phone. I do not know if SIM from other companies work, but the product description says it works on all Canadian phone SIMs.- The phone came partially charged from the factory. So, I only had to charge it for 30-40 minutes the first time for a full charge. It lasted 48 hours on a single charge, and there was still some charge left when I decided to recharge it. That was impressive, especially considering that I was using the phone the first few days very heavily-- downloading and installing various apps from the Play Store, and also browsing the internet all the time. I also took quite some photos and videos to test the phone. So, with all that going on, I was impressed to see the battery last for 48 hours.- The phone runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop. I use the phone for the usual stuff like browsing the internet, Facebook, and messaging. I don't play games in my phone. Listening to music and watching videos has been smooth. The audio is loud and clear. The videos are crisp. So, for my normal daily use, the phone runs quite fast and smoothly. I have not had the phone freeze at me even once. So, I am quite satisfied with the performance.- The front facing camera looks like it is 2MP. So, photos taken in the evening or in a room with low light is barely any good with the front camera. The main back camera is only 8MP. So, again, the photos taken in low light are not good. However, outside in the sunlight, the photos are great. Even when there is a little bright light in the room, the photos are great. The photo app has all the usual built-in editing tools. So, editing the photos in the phone itself and posting them online (on Facebook etc.) is a breeze.

Phone is slow and glitchy. Freezes up often. Drives my husband crazy! It freezes and won't allow him to take calls. Shuts down randomly and takes hours to turn on again. It can't handle many apps at all. I would NOT recommend this phone to anyone who uses their phone for more than basic calls or texts. Even for that it's barely capable. We got rid of it after 8 months

Guy txs

Really Happy with this phone !

Update: I forgot to mention a very important detail. Sometimes it can be confusing for users of Wind Mobile/Freedom Mobile whether a phone will work or not with their network, but I can confirm that this phone works perfectly fine on Wind/Freedom both the mobile data and voice.Purely as a smart phone in terms of the technical features for what it costs, this would be a 2 star phone at best. But obviously that's not the whole story with this phone, actually, it's barely the point of this type of phone at all and after carefully considering everything I'm giving this 4 stars for delivering on what it promises extremely well even though it is a bit like a lanky teenager inside a full plate suit of armor. It lacks punch but can take a beating.I'm not the type of person, regardless of the fact that I'm in the tech industry and have always been about as much of a technology geek as anybody ever was, to care if I've got the latest and greatest phone. In recent history I stretched using a Nexus 4 for years, went through a second hand Nexus 5 before having to retire it for my wife's use after she broke her phone with a minor drop and currently use a second hand Galaxy S5. None of these phones were state of the art when I bought them so I'm writing this review of the very interesting but decidedly archaic Caterpillar S40 from the point of view of somebody who firmly believes that you absolutely don't need the fastest phone on the market.That being said, there is no way around this, the technology inside the S40 *is* archaic to today's standards. The CPU is a Snapdragon 210, which was announced in 2014 as a low end solution to begin with when it was new. The screen, while I would not call it "low resolution" if taken out of context - but by comparison with even flagship phones a number of generations old is quite a downgrade regardless. This phone is definitely not meant to be a ruggedized direct replacement for those of us who want or need a tough phone that competes with today's general consumer power houses, but rather should be looked at as a tough phone that is utilitarian in features but offered at a reasonable price with the technology concessions taken into account and overall this is fine as long as your expectations are in line. While the hardware is not even close to being leading edge, it does get a few things right in that they built in an SD slot rather than attempting to milk you on in-built storage upgrades. At the end of the day, although the phone is vastly underpowered on paper next to "regular" phones in the same price range, I haven't felt that it actually impacted my day to day use of the phone as somebody who isn't very concerned with playing games on my phones. While I would have appreciated a little more muscle at this price point I have to concede that it gets the job done and probably would not be willing to add hundreds to the price in order to beef it up under the hood. As it stands, in day to day use some things can feel a big sluggish compared to my Galaxy S5 running Cyanogenmod however it's not so bad that it's frequently annoying.For a ruggedized technology device, this is an example that is actually not nearly as bulky as I've come across in the past having used ruggedized versions of other tech devices like laptops (such as the Fujitsu ToughBook) in the past. While it is definitely bulkier than a regular phone in all dimensions, even after adding a case to one, it is not so bulky that it actually gets in the way. While it's not the only water proof phone on the market, it definitely takes the water proofing to the next level with substantial rubberized port flaps that secure tightly and the phone does remind you to check the flaps when it senses they aren't seated correctly to avoid any mishaps. The overall design is surprisingly attractive for a device of this type and overall it does a great job avoiding the impression that you're carrying around a walkie talkie making the phone inconspicuous in regular use as a daily driver.In some ways, the extra bulk actually seems to help when attempting to handle the phone with gloves on. Actually this was one of the first things that I tried to do with the phone, as traditional phones are all but impossible to operate properly with anything but the most useless thin gloves. The extra girth and the fact that the designers had the forethought to outfit the phone with large physical navigation buttons eschewing the trend of relying on either on-screen navigation controls or better but not as good capacitive discrete navigation buttons make a huge difference when operating the phone gloved.The operating system of the phone is, unfortunately, as archaic as the hardware. The phone runs Android Lollipop and while CAT does provide firmware updates for the phone, I checked to make sure that I had the latest updates but the phone has not been modernized to either Marshmallow let alone Nougat so as such you will have a version of Android that is two generations behind modern. In practice, at least for now and the foreseeable future, this will not cause compatibility issues with any apps you might want to use - adoption of newer versions of Android is notoriously slow and app developers always target android many versions behind the latest, however it is something to take into consideration going into the future and important to note that you won't have all the latest and greatest bells and whistles that the newer versions of the operating systems offer - much of which are designed to improve battery life.Though there is a tray that appears it is made to accept dual SIMs this model I suppose does not support that feature as the second slot on the SIM tray is physically blocked. I suppose for the north american market they decided this feature was not needed, though I know a lot of people that covet it so it would have been nice if they just left it there. Note that this phone takes NANO SIM sized cards, which initially posed a problem for me since my SIM card was slightly larger. I needed to go to the cell phone providers store and have them cut the SIM down and provide me with an adapter so I'd have the option of inserting it into my other phones still. In terms of connectivity unfortunately this phone only seems to support connecting to the 2.4Ghz band of WiFi and doesn't seem to have any 5Ghz band support. Wifi performance is disappointing, getting only 53 Mbps on SpeedTest.NET on my network. My Galaxy S5 in the same location gets 295 Mbps on the 5Ghz band.One point of potential contention here is that the phone isn't extra loud, the speaker is about "normal" both the internal earpiece one and the loudspeaker. The S40 is no worse than "average" in this BUT this is also something that is surprising considering the situations that this phone is marketed to be used in are generally not corner office quiet. I personally feel the volume is passable but could be better. The actual sound quality is not great either, when turned up all the way the audio is tinny and lacks detail and depth. Obviously not a multimedia phone to begin with but really, it could be better regardless.The second thing that has been annoying me a bit is that generally the screen doesn't seem super responsive and sometimes has a hard time keeping track of swipes and taps. For example, I frequently have to re-try my unlock pattern even with bare fingers where on my other phones I have never had this issue.The last thing I have to comment on is the camera, it's a huge disappointment and something that I personally think should have been given more of a priority on a phone like this. As someone who is undergoing a large construction job right now I don't know how many times over the last few months I have had to rely on my phone to take quick photos of something happening on site and much of the time it's the details that matter. While I would never chastise a phone like this for not taking DSLR quality portraits I have had a lot of difficulty getting clear photos under normal indoor conditions typical of a construction site where you often find yourself in lighting that isn't great. The photos all lack detail and are rather "grainy" and the flash doesn't seem to help much.One tip I have to improving the user experience on this phone is to get rid of the default launcher it comes with and install Nova Launcher from the play store. It's more responsive, better featured and just generally makes a lot of the use of the phone seem snappier.The S40 does deliver on most of the promises for being a durably built phone with features that make sense for use in environments that aren't typically phone friendly. I like the overall design of the phone. While not cheap, it's not expensive either as far as phones go these days and you absolutely will not find a phone better put together at this price point. My main beef with the phone is the camera, if you feel like you're going to rely on the phone for taking a lot of pictures you may want to look elsewhere regardless of everything else the phone has going for it.