Bastion Enterprise 5
phone
$746.10$829.00
Issued by IT, locked by IT, approved by nobody. It runs a two-generation-old chipset, gets seven years of updates and will outlive the company.
Specifications
- Chipset
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, two generations old and still fine
- GPU
- Adreno 750
- AI Features
- On-device transcription and a VPN that logs nothing it admits to
- Memory
- 12 GB
- Battery
- 30 hours
- Battery capacity
- 5000 mAh
- Display
- 6.5" 2400x1080 AMOLED, 120Hz
- Camera
- 50MP main and 12MP ultrawide, both disableable by policy
- Weight
- 214 g
- Colour
- Bastion Black
- Charging
- 45 W
- Storage
- 256GB encrypted with keys held by IT
- Durability
- IP68, drop tested and tamper evident
- Included
- USB-C cable, dock, security key fob and an asset tag
- Included Software
- MDM agent, hardware keystore and 7 years of updates
- Ports
- USB-C with a locked-down file transfer policy
- Build
- Magnesium alloy frame, sealed, warranty void if opened
- OS
- Android 16 Enterprise with a hardened kernel
- Software support
- 7 years of OS and security, patched on schedule
- Ads
- None, which is the only perk it advertises
- Unskippable
- Compliance notice on every boot, dismissible
- Premium
- $14.99/month for the management console you do not control
- Total
- $829 plus $14.99/month, or the phone your IT department already bought
- Power
- 45W wired and 15W wireless
- Use case
- Work email, work calls and work compliance
- Previous life
- Returned from a pilot deployment with 41 policy profiles
- Condition
- New, unopened and already enrolled in MDM
- Reality
- You cannot install anything, and that is the selling point