The Energizer Hard Case P28K, revealed at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year, hasn’t been designed specifically for load shedding but it’ll handle the task just fine. A distant sibling of 2019’s Energizer Power Max P18K Pop, which also debuted at MWC and was the first smartphone we might have described as ‘girthy’.
The Power Max P18K had one notable feature to thank for its thickness around the middle — an 18,000mAh battery. The Hard Case P28K, if you’re good at extrapolating numbers, has a similar feature. A 28,000mAh battery adorns its back, offering at least a week of uptime.
A real Hard Case P28K
There’s little practical benefit for this smartphone to exist. As with other Energizer phones, it’s more of a marketing exercise to grab a few headlines for Avenir Telecom, the device’s creator. In that, it has succeeded but we’re also sure there are a few folks out there willing to stick more than half a kilo of smartphone in their pocket.
The 28,000mAh battery is also the reason why the P28K is almost 3cm thick but the 122-hour talk time (almost five days of consecutive phone calls), the weight, and thickness are where the remarkable features end. The other specs are less impressive.
There’s a 6.78in display, a MediaTek MT6789 Helio G99 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage, as well as a triple camera array around back. GSMArena reckons there’s a 60MP main sensor backed by 20MP and 2MP secondaries in there, with a 16MP front-facer. The massive battery will arrive with a 33W charge speed (which isn’t great) and the phone will drop at a R5,200 price point. Expect a bit of a markup (but perhaps not much of one) when/if it launches here.