This rugged phone has hardware to rival some iPhones — and it only needs to be charged once a month

As this product isn't available, consider this a hands-on, as between now and its release, some of the issues I'll talk about might well be fixed.

Punkt. is a Swiss company that manufactures in Germany, and the MC03, as the name suggests, is the third iteration of its secure, minimalist phone design.

If you like minimalist things, perhaps in black and white, and your Android phone not spaffing your personal data around carelessly, then perhaps the MC03 could be for you.

Comparing it to the MC02 model, the new MC03 swaps up the Dimensity 900 to the newer Dimensity 7300 SoC, more RAM and storage, but largely the same camera.

However, the thing that makes this offering stand out is AphyOS, a fork of AOSP 15, a GrapheneOS-related development, according to Punkt., is inherently more secure and able to keep the user's data from being easily harvested ...