Samsung, Microsoft bring enterprise-grade rugged smartphone

San Francisco: Joining hands together, Samsung and Microsoft have brought an enterprise-grande rugged, mid-range $499 phone for first-line workers like flight attendants, construction workers or nurses.

Named “Galaxy XCover Pro” is the South Korean major’s stab at making an enterprise-edition smartphone, much in the same way last year’s Tab Active Pro filled that niche in a tablet.

It marks a joint venture with Microsoft, using the company’s recently announced Walkie Talkie function in Microsoft Teams (a text and video chat platform integrated with Microsoft’s suite of Office tools) to “enable frontline workers” and “deliver new mobile-enabled business solutions”, Gizomodo reported on Sunday.