The world's first phone with a built-in thermal camera is kinda hot

The CAT S60 is a brand new smartphone that features the world's first ever Thermal Imaging camera, allowing you to go all Alien vs. Predator. The camera can detect heat signatures from 50 - 100 feet away.

It has it's own app, so you can open the standard Android camera when you're in your down time and flick open FLIR when it's time to get to work. A new rugged phone from Cat has a similar camera built in. The FLIR sensor sits above the regular 13MP camera on the back of the phone, meaning you can overlay a real-world outline over the thermally-imaged image. The company will showcase the device at MWC 2016 in Barcelona next week. Considering the fact that the smartphone more resembles a working tool than just a handset, its price does not seem to be too high, especially given that the smartphone thermal camera market is starting to take off (albeit at higher than 80x60 pixed quality).

While the structural process was a major focus in the S60, the thermal camera is certainly a big selling feature. If you capture an image and want to find out later what the exact temperature was in any particular spot, it's possible to press on it to find out - all of that detail is captured with the picture and stored in its metadata.

As well as being dust and dirt resistant the S60 is waterproof and can be fully submerged underwater up to depths of 2 metres, or 5 metres if you make sure the tiny protective covers are over the microphone and charging port. The phone is waterproof (IP68) and should survive drops of up to 1.8 metres.

The Cat S60 will run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 octa core processor clocked at 1.5GHz, which will be backed by 3GB of RAM and will have an internal memory of 32GB, which can be expanded up to 128GB with a microSD card.

"The Cat S60 represents a milestone for smartphones".

Sure, the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy phones are slim and stylish, but they can be as delicate as a vase in an antique shop if you're not careful.

Launching in June, the Cat S60 will cost $599 (€649, £500) and will be sold unlocked, so can be used on any network.

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