This brick of a phone includes a projector, a camping light and a 17,600 mAh battery

Tank X is a phone with a 220-lumen projector built in
It also includes a camping light and a night vision camera
Its battery is huge at 17,600 mAh

If you thought all phones were starting to feel the same, then you might want to check out 8849 – a brand you probably haven’t heard of, but one that’s been quietly putting all sorts of interesting features into its phones – including projectors.

The Tank X is the latest of these phones, although we previously wrote about the Tank 4, which has its own projector. However, it is only 100 lumens, while the Tank X’s projector can deliver 220 lumens of brightness.

That’s still only a tenth of what the Epson Pro Cinema LS9000 projector can do, for example, but given that the projector here is built into a phone, it’s still pretty bright.

The Tank X also has a massive 17,600mAh battery, which puts even the 10,001mAh Realme P4 Power to shame, and which supports up to 120W charging.

There’s also a 1,200-lumen camping light, a 6.78-inch 1080 x 2460 display with a 120Hz refresh rate, a 50MP main camera, a 64MP night vision, an 8MP 3x telephoto, a 50MP front-facing camera, a mid-range MediaTek 0 chip of 8GB, 8GB and 512GB of storage.

(Image credit: 8849)

Big, heavy and niche

Of course, with all that technology packed in, this isn’t a slim smartphone – in fact, it’s positively huge at 31.9mm thick and 750g in weight. By comparison, the iPhone 17 Pro Max – which is on the large side for a regular smartphone – is 8.8mm thick and weighs 233g.

But then the Tank X isn’t meant to be a mainstream smartphone, it’s a niche device designed for use in the outdoors – where that camping light, night vision camera and big battery should come in very handy.

You might wonder about the projector, and frankly, we do too. Marketing images show the phone placed on a rock and projected onto an unseen surface. So if you can find a suitable surface this might be a way to take movie nights on camping trips with you.

But while we’d think this feature would work better indoors than outside, we can see how having access to a projector anywhere and everywhere could be useful. 8849 keeps making these phones anyway, so someone has to find a use for them.

If you’re one of those people, you’ll be able to grab the Tank X from February 1st, but the price has yet to be revealed.

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