Energizer Phone: 18,000 mAh clean energy

Phones are made by many companies, even those about whom you will not immediately think that they are related to thin consumer electronics. For example, the company Bosch, which is known for its devices for construction and repair, used to produce its own line of phones.

It turns out that Energizer also makes smartphones, it specializes not only in batteries. True, these are very specific devices. At the Mobile World Congress, a very thick phone was introduced, which was called the Energizer PowerMax P18K Pop. Its most important difference from other devices is a battery with a capacity of 18,000 mAh.

If we examine the issue more carefully, it turns out that the phone was not created by the company itself, the brand simply issued a license to use its name Avenir Telecom. This is a French technology company that has been manufacturing smartphones since the beginning of 2016.

The phone became known from a press release published a couple of weeks ago, and only then it became available for review to journalists.

It is worth noting that this is not the first phone from Energizer. A similar device was demonstrated at WMC last year. Which is called Power Max P16K Pro . Judging by the name, it’s already clear that the smartphone had a capacity of 16,000 mAh. The declared price tag for it is $ 738, but, unfortunately, it never hit the market - for some reason, the project was closed.

The developers have already revealed the characteristics of the smartphone. There is nothing outstanding. A 6.2-inch display with a resolution of 2220 × 1080, a MediaTek Helio P70 chipset, 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of main memory. In total, the phone has five cameras. Three on the back and two on the front panel. By the way, retractable cameras are a rather unusual design.



The selfie module includes a camera with 16 MP and 2 MP. As for the three rear cameras, here we have 12MP + 5MP + 2MP.

Despite the thickness, the phone has almost no frames, which is very fashionable.

According to company representatives, such a powerful battery provides 90 hours of talk time, 100 hours of listening to music and 2 days of watching videos - all on a single battery charge. If you put the device down and do not touch it, then it will last about 50 days. In addition, this giant battery can be used to recharge other devices via a USB cable.



The thickness of the device is 18 mm, which is two (or even three) times more than the usual smartphone. But there are no complaints about the size - after all, the device was clearly not conceived as a design device, which surprises everyone with non-standard features.

By the way, the phone does not have a headphone input, apparently, the developers expect that everyone will use Bluetooth devices or USB adapters. As far as you can understand, all because the company took a standard device (thin) and just added a huge battery.



All phone control buttons are concentrated in its upper part.



As far as we know, the phone should appear on sale in June 2019. As for the price, it is not yet clear how much the device will cost. But if it is $ 700 or so, then it is unlikely to become very popular - for the money you can buy a regular phone plus an arbitrarily capacious bank.

The phone can be useful to those of us who are often on the road, employees of organizations whose units work in places cut off from civilization, where you can not recharge every day. As for the average hand of the user, there is doubt that such a gadget will interest an ordinary person. True, everything can change if the cost is not very high.

Journalists in some publications have suggested that the phone may not go on sale this time. And it was developed only in order to provide advertising for the main brand - Energizer. On the other hand, the company introduced not only this phone, but also the second, which is an exact copy of the first, but without a massive battery. The second one will definitely not make a hype wave, so this time there is a chance that phones will hit the shelves of electronics stores. Where devices will begin to be sold is also unknown.