Bittium Tough Mobile 2C Review: When Private, Secure, and Rough Matter
We face a mobile that serves what it does: for privacy and security at a professional level with the Bittium Tough Mobile 2C.
We have not previously had the opportunity to test a mobile from this Bittium brand dedicated to security and privacy (which we must never lose sight of in the Android settings), so today becomes a special day by presenting the Bittium Tough analysis Mobile 2C.
We believe that we make it very clear in the title for the analysis for a smartphone that has been manufactured with several objectives in mind that have nothing to do with what we are used to in other smartphones.
Bittium and its experience in tactical communications
Before starting the analysis, we have to say that Bittium is not just any company and has more than 30 years of experience in radiocommunication technologies and biosignal processing for tactical communications with mobile devices and certified cybersecurity solutions.
That is, troops use its solutions on battlefields, so first, we have a company that knows what it is launching on the market for a specific type of user.
With this in mind, we can get closer to a mobile launched in 2019 with its characteristics and at a price that may seem far away to many: 1,550 euros (although it depends on the solution you purchase).
Bittium Tough Mobile 2C
For this reason, Bittium offers additional services for individual users with Bittium Secure Call and Bittium Secure Suite to add extra layers of security in the professional field through an annual subscription.
As well as offering specific servers for government agencies or enterprise users with special needs. In short, we are facing a device that is part of a conglomerate related to privacy and security at the highest level.
What makes it special?
When we go to those prices, the generated questions are many, and after using it, there are even more since we are facing a mobile with Android 9.
Bittium Tough Mobile 2C made in Finland.
In short, the Bittium Tough Mobile 2C carries several layers of protection for severe encryption, authentication, and the use of security measures related to a Yubikey.
Like it performs security checks, a tamper-proof security platform, and it even has a private mode.
Safe Mod
This private mode is similar to the one offered by Samsung in its high-end with Knox to have almost its operating system within another (don’t forget to go through the Secure Folder). The main difference in Bittium’s mobile is that we can start this mode by keeping the power button pressed to activate it.
When this happens, we will need to have the Yubikey security key close to us so that just after entering the password, place it on the back of the terminal and thus access that private mode.
Then we will find applications such as SafeMove and SafeSave, as two more dedicated to the main function of this phone, with the last one dedicated to saving documents with sensitive information.
Interface
SafeMove is Bittium’s app to know the state of the internet, mobile phone management, and the VPN. Use of the VPN is recommended for safe browsing through your own Bittium browser.
Screen
The screen complies.
One of its most special points is that we can use it with gloves and in adverse weather conditions to place our fingers even when wet.
After this characteristic, a very basic 5.2 “screen is among its most trivial and concise aspects to go unnoticed.
Design
Rough-in design, but it has the details that make it a very special mobile, although it is undoubtedly the ugly of the family.
Bittium Tough Mobile 2C Corners
Corners of the Bittium Tough Mobile 2C Manuel Ramírez The Free Android
Of course, its bezels are very wide on the front, but aside from being finished in matt aluminum, that generates a lot of firmness.
A point in its favor in the design is that thin metallic strip surrounding the entire front perimeter that gives it its that.
Details
It is not one of the most resistant mobiles in its exterior design that we have seen. We have a glass with a very concise camera module in the back with those metal sheets that surround the main lens and the LED flash.
Of course, it shows firm in hand and weighs its own to return to that adjective that defines it in several aspects: how rough it is.
Its resistance and hardness: military certified
It has MIL-STD-810G military certification, which means that it has had to pass 29 tests by the US military, which is the one that finally certifies it. That is, it has had to survive tests of low pressure, high temperature, ballistic shocks, solar radiation, rain, and much more. So its design is circumscribed around that certification to make it a hard and resistant mobile.
You only have to go through some of its details in the manufacture to realize it.
Another detail of its manufacture
So you can better understand the price of this Android terminal by going through that military certification that companies do not dare to test, although we have several examples such as the Nokia 800 Tough, the Casio WSD-F30 smartwatch, and the tablet. Crosscall CORE-T4.
Part of your hardware
We will bring together photography, autonomy, and its interface (pure Android 9) in the same section since we are facing a mobile that is quite concise in characteristics, although it does allow us to install applications and games.
Bittium Tough Mobile 2C camera
In the photograph, it stays in those 12 Mpx on the back to take photographs that comply. As with its 5 Mpx front camera, that goes hand in hand with the main one.
Exteriors
We put some examples without going before a gallery of photographs as we usually do for the simplicity of your camera. It only has one, and it couldn’t be simpler, as you can see in the images.