Quechua Phone: smartphone from baroud

Starting next week, hikers and other extreme sports enthusiasts can get a smartphone designed for their playgrounds.

The "rugged" smartphone. you dreamed, Decathlon did. In partnership with Archos and marketed under its brand Quechua, the brand specialized in sport offer on 5 December smartphone resistant to shocks, mud, water, sand, cold, snow: brief everything that makes the salt hiking and other outdoor or extreme entertainment. The device features IP 54 class certification.

Quechua Phone incorporates a Qualcomm quad-heart 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, a 5 megapixel camera, a micro USB port and Micro SD. The device runs on Android 4.1 Jellybean. The screen size is 5 inches and it is readable even in bright sunlight.The entire outside but also from inside the unit were treated to meet the requirements of IP 54 certification. One of the most interesting points is the autonomy of the Li-Polymer battery 3500 mAh with which the supplier claims a range of more than 22 hours of calls.

" This launch from an observation that we could do it ourselves with our customers, the supply of smartphones is indeed bloated, yet there is no device on the market truly suitable for the practice of hiking and the outdoors  , "says Christian Ollier, director of the Quechua brand of our colleagues Echos .

Quechua Phone does not carry the latest components or 4G but that is not the goal. The idea is to propose a robust device at an affordable price as a second phone dedicated to these activities. As it will be marketed 230 euros and will have specific applications: hiking, national parks, ski resorts, mountain guides plants ...