Samsung and Airbus strike a deal for 400,000 rugged Galaxy devices - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

Samsung announced a concern with Airbus that volition spot the Korean institution supply 400,000 rugged Galaxy units to employees of the French Ministry of Interior and Overseas Territories. The devices selected were the Galaxy XCover6 Pro smartphone and Galaxy Tab Active3 tablet, which are particularly suited for the needs of the nationalist police, occurrence departments, and civilian security.

The concern is portion of a task led by the French Ministry, called Radio Network of the Future (RRF - Reseau Radio du Futur). Its purpose is to modernize connection of home information forces and to determination from narrowband technologies to 4G and 5G networks, and a consortium betwixt Airbus and Capgemini volition deploy the integration successful the adjacent fewer years.

KC Choi, EVP and Head of Global Mobile B2B Team, MX Business astatine Samsung said that selecting the Korean institution is an grant and his squad is “excited to spot the ruggedized devices go a portion of large projects”.

Eric Davalo, Director of Sales & Programs Europe astatine Airbus added that information is simply a “pretty demanding field” and Samsung has established itself arsenic a partner, offering the starring exertion that is perfectly adapted to the captious interventions of information and rescue forces.

Both the Galaxy XCover6 Pro and the Galaxy Tab Active3 are MIL-STD-810H, meaning their ruggedness is military-graded. Durability is 1 interest but these devices besides travel with the Samsung Knox information solution that adds an other level of extortion to the hardware and bundle from the halfway up.

Source (in French)