The rugged Galaxy S9 Active that never was is now official under a different name

After releasing "Active" variants of all its Galaxy S-series flagships between 2013 and 2017, Samsung just... kind of stopped doing that all of a sudden, which . Of course, the company did unveil both and , but the former was only able to rub more salt in the wounds of those hoping to see another high-end model designed to survive the toughest environments.

Mere months after the saw daylight, however, the is now . Specifically, Galaxy XCover FieldPro, which seems like an overly complicated and unnecessarily confusing label. After all, the "field-ready" 5.1-inch handset shares ...