Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal unboxing

Under the microscope

Specs-wise, the Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal is no slouch with a 4nm Dimensity 9300+ SoC with 16GB of RAM. It’s running Android 14, though. On the upside, the phone packs 1TB of storage!

The Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra

Moving to the back, where the 1-inch type main camera isn’t the most interesting feature! The phone has a smartwatch-sized second display here, complete with its own watch face and side-swipeable interface. There’s a compass and our favorite feature – a viewfinder for the camera, so you can use that 50MP 1-inch main camera for selfies.

Being a Ulefone, you know it has a thermal camera, heck it’s in the name. Thermal imaging is done with the ThermoVue Pro app and at 640x512px, it’s the highest-resolution thermal camera from Ulefone yet. It’s noticeably higher quality than what we’ve seen in the Ulefone Armor Mini 20T Pro. It’s also snappier in operation.

Then there’s the infrared-assisted night vision camera. It uses a 64MP OV64B1B sensor, likely with a removed IR-cut filter, aided by a separate infrared array to give you a black-and-white feed in the dark. It’s not space-grade stuff, but it’s pretty cool. You can see it next to the Xiaomi 14 Ultra below – the Xiaomi picks up some of the light from the Ulefone here – it doesn’t see anything in the pitch dark.

See in the dark with the infrared camera

Here’s a photo taken with the camera. It’s very nifty, you can walk around in complete darkness with the Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal.

Fully dark room

The Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Thermal is quite the beast – figuratively and literally! But it also commands an Ultra price. It’s on pre-order for €1,400, which is up there with the latest Galaxy S25 Ultra. However, Ulefone’s Ultra has a 1-inch type main camera and comes with 1TB of storage, which are two things its more popular rival lacks.