Caterpillar CAT S42 H+, Dual, 32GB 3GB, Black

I bought the Cat S42 as an upgrade from another CAT phone which made me fall in love with these phones. Unlike the phones I've had before, the screen is incredibly strong so I don't have to replace the screen if I accidentally drop it. Very happy.My personal reviews of this even saw others turn to these phones because I've found them reliable, relatively cheap and great quality.

I purchased this for work purposes, I'm a multi drop courier.I've used it for a good few weeks now and it's performed perfectly until yesterday.Let's start with the good, the battery easily lasts me a full day of work, screen on all day and in use (approx 10 to 11 hours).Touchscreen is nice and responsive even in torrential rain and a soaking wet phone.I've dropped it multiple times, even down a flight of concrete stairs and it's survived without even a scratch.I also use the phone to knock on doors with to save my knuckles in these freezing temperatures.The phone isn't super speedy but more than sufficient for my needs.I've been recommending this phone to everyone at work as I was so impressed with it but yesterday, it rained, constantly, extremely heavy for around 4 hours, the phone got wet, not a problem I thought as I'd got it wet before and it's been fine, however I had to make a call and water must have got into the speaker as the volume went extremely low and I couldn't hear the customers, they also couldn't hear me clearly.This has now cleared up overnight after drying out indoors and the volume levels are back to normal again but this is a major issue and now means this phone is no longer fit for purpose for my needs so I'll be replacing it.Such a shame as I really like the phone but if it can't do my job then it's no good.

My husband struggles with phones this is so simple for him to use great phone

Perfect for dusty environmentEasy to use, good touch screen

I have owned this phone for a year and for the first time ever have decided to write a review to prevent other unfortunates from buying this phone. I owned a CAT S41 before this, the predecessor to the CAT S42. How mistaken I was to think that this phone would be an improvement on the already excellent S41, or at least of the same quality. The S42 is a massive step down in all regards. The speaker is poorer, with a tiny quality that the S41 never had. It also doesn't like being squished (funny for a tough phone) and the sound becomes unintelligible after it's happened. The battery life is not as good as the S41 by some margin. I am having problems with the screen flickering after only a year. But far and away the worst thing about this phone is the pathetic processor in it. It is so painfully slow and underpowered that it can barely run the operating system, with huge pauses whenever you require it do do anything (loading apps, using the internet etc). I assumed that it would be a similar processor to the S41, but it turns out the processor they have used for the S42 has less than half the CPU processing power of the S41. It is not fit for purpose. Don't make my mistake, avoid this awful phone.

I enjoyed this phone for its strength and ability for the screen to take on so many bashes, but after about six months, it kept playing up by either freezing, crashing, or forcing me to delete apps for storage, but I could not re-add any or fix settings. Ultimately, I had to call it a day and buy a cheaper Samsung until I could afford a new, expensive, robust phone. It was an excellent phone for its price until it gave up on me. I couldn't even transfer files over to my New phone laptop or onto a USB as it was not recognised, and if it were, it wouldn't offload files. I like the phone, but its longevity is not guaranteed.

great device and seller. Would highly recommend both

Many many software problems....As it is just an extension of google, with only google software on it (the lamentably poor gmail app for example), time needs to be spent searching for and loading software for email, notes, text messages, voice recorder, time zone widgets etc. etc. It also cannot read an SD card transferred from another device without reformatting it, so in transferring one to the phone, it is necessary to copy the SD card contents to a computer, format the card in the phone, then transfer the data to the card on the phone with the cable.One is also forbidden from removing call notifications (missed calls for example), so these build up.... to deal with this the CATphone 'chat' adviser told be to install the latest version of Android....... repeat all of the above (including the SD card reformatting) only to find that the bluetooth no longer worked and the original problem of call notifications remained.Further time consuming chats and software downloads followed - which again required all apps to be re-downloaded and the SD card reformatted - were to no avail. The chat staff confirmed it had to go back to the factory. I give CATphones credit for having responsive chat staff, even though some we clueless, some were very good.So, after 20+ hours of repeat set up, I gave up and sent it back to Amazon and bought a Samsung Xcover5. Set up time less than 2 hours. Is the CATphone rugged? I never had the chance to find out.