There is so much to this incredibly sized, ideally priced, feature-packed smartphone that I am in a fix of where to start. Perhaps its ruggedness could be an easy place. Designed to compete with the best rugged smartphone brands in the business, the Oukitel WP200 Pro is a scorcher. It weighs 320 grams, which is heavier than an iPhone 16 Pro but significantly lighter than many rugged phones that push past a pound.
If you have used a rugged phone before, you know many of them just feel like a plastic brick in the hand. The aluminum body of the Oukitel makes it a tad different. It feels sturdier in the hand, without the sense of being overbuilt. The phone’s back panel uses a diamond-textured design that improves grip. The giant, round camera bump is where things get different on this otherwise usual rugged phone. The bump here is not just for the aesthetics; it doubles as a charging dock for the mounted smartwatch/earbuds.
With that, Oukitel WP200 Pro is a rugged phone that tries something unusual. It ships with a detachable smartwatch that doubles as a secondary screen on the back of the phone, and even as a Bluetooth headset. It’s a clever take on making bulky handsets more useful. This little display module snaps off from its dock in the phone’s camera array and functions as a single Bluetooth earbud for taking calls, listening to music, or hearing real-time translations. If you don’t want to use the detached screen as an earbud, you can attach it to a provided wristband and have it function as a smartwatch. The watch is the real twist. It works as a standalone fitness tracker with health monitoring and notifications.
The phone itself is no slouch. The 6.8-inch OLED screen refreshes at 120Hz. The screen brightness is a tad lower at 500 nits, but it is powered by a pretty capable MediaTek Dimensity 8200 chipset, which is paired to 24GB of RAM and an almost absurd 1TB of storage – that’s more than your MacBook. Oukitel fits an 8,800mAh battery into the phone, helping it offset the heavy specs, while the inclusion of 45W fast charging makes it more manageable even when you need a quick juice-up.
Oukitel WP200 Pro has a 108-megapixel main camera capable of producing good shots at par with recent flagships, though its macro performance lags a little in similar comparison. The phone’s OS is close to stock Android, with support for Google services, NFC, Android Auto, and 5G coverage. For quick access to the phone, it has an under-display fingerprint sensor.
With the WP200 Pro, Oukitel, of course, is not aiming at the mainstream. It’s a rugged phone that experiments with modularity in a way that feels useful and productive, no matter the condition you are using it in. The phone retails for $699.99 but is currently available at a 16 percent discount at $589.99.
