34 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2020NEWS
IMAGE: SAMSUNGSamsung teams up with Microsoft
to sell a weirdly practical phone
that means business
A Galaxy phone with a removable battery is the last thing we expected. BY MICHAEL SIMONW
hile we’re all waiting for
the Galaxy S20 to arrive in
San Francisco on February
11, Samsung isn’t resting
on its laurels. After announcing the budget-
friendly Galaxy S10 and Note 10 Lite models
(go.pcworld.com/s10l) ahead of its recent
CES appearance, Samsung has turned itssights to a new kind of Galaxy phone, and it’s
getting a little help from Microsoft.
The Galaxy XCover Pro (go.pcworld.
com/xcvr) is something of a return to the
“Active” phones that Samsung made from
the Galaxy S4 to the S8, but it’s more than
just a rugged, IP68 water-resistant, MIL-STD
810G certified handset that doesn’t need a