Kyocera Hydro Life Review

Kyocera Hydro Life is a mid-end Android cellphone, counting with a very powerful 1.2 gigahertz Quad-Core CPU, a 4.5-inches screen, and two cameras, a 5 mega-pixels back facing camera and a 2 MP front camera. But it's time to get into some more details.

This phone is available only in color black. Though the Kyocera Hydro Life is very thin it's not close to being one of the thinnest cellphones currently available, with a thickness of 0.43". This phone is quite a compact device, taking into account that it has a 4.5" screen and it only has 5.19" long. Apparently Kyocera decided not to care much about the weight in this 4.8 ounces cellphone.

This phone is equipped with a interesting 4.5" screen with a 960 x 540 resolution, providing this phone with a nice graphic quality. Its screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

Kyocera decided to power this cellphone with an extremely powerful Quad-Core processing unit clocking at 1.2 GHz, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8212 chip with a big 1,5 GB of RAM. To collaborate with graphic intensive tasks, it also uses an Adreno 302 GPU working at 400 megahertz. A good point of this cellphone is its quite big 8 GB internal storage memory and a slot for external memory cards, allowing the user to install a couple hundred apps without any trouble.

This phone features two cameras, a 5 megapixels back side camera and a 2 megapixels front facing camera. This phone can also film videos in HD 1280x720. The camera also has some good characteristics like flash, auto-focus, HDR mode and geo tagging.

This device features wi-fi capability (which can be shared with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G HSPA+ data connection, which is not so fast as LTE-A or LTE 4G networks and 3G fast internet connection, using HSDPA and EDGE technologies. This cellphone works with a Micro SIM card for GSM connection.

This phone also includes some nice characteristics as Bluetooth (4.0, EDR) and GPS, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This cellphone counts with a medium capacity 2000 mAh Li-Ion replaceable battery that provides this phone a below average battery duration. Kyocera reports a 13.5 hours talk time and a 480 hs stand by time for this phone.

This cellphone is priced about $ 210, which is not a really offer for this type of phone. In case are looking for a social device, this cellphone is the correct option .