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Splash away with the Kyocera Hydro Edge (pictures)

The Kyocera Hydro Edge from Sprint and Boost Mobile is waterproof enough to survive most of your splashiest summer activities.

Lynn La
Lynn La covers mobile reviews and news. She previously wrote for The Sacramento Bee, Macworld and The Global Post.
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The waterproof Hydro Edge

As the successor to the Kyocera Hydro, the Edge can survive a good dunking. In addition, the 3G smartphone has a 4-inch IPS screen, a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1GHz processor.

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Water with no worries

The device is advertised as being able to survive in up to a meter of water for 30 minutes. Our review units survived many dunkings, 30 minutes completely submerged in a cylindrical container, and sitting inside a running shower for 20 minutes.

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A look at the rear

Inside the handset is a dual-core Snapdragon 1GHz processor and a 1,600mAh battery that has a reported talk time of 13 hours.

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Still a comfortable hold

The phone measures 4.9 inches tall, 2.5 inches wide, and 0.39 inch thick. It weighs 4.5 ounces, and while the top half of the Edge is a bit heftier than its bottom half, it's still comfortable to hold in the hand.

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Audio via Smart Sonic Receiver

The Edge does not have an in-ear speaker. Like a handful of other Kyocera smartphones, the Edge features Smart Sonic Receiver technology, which uses an embedded ceramic transducer to transmit audio via the hard tissue inside your ear.

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Say cheese

The 5-megapixel camera has six photo sizes (ranging from 640x480 to 2,560x1,920 pixels), digital zoom, a flash, six picture modes including HDR and continuous shooting, 14 photo effects, three focuses, six scene modes, geotagging, three image qualities, blink detection, three auto-exposures, five ISO levels, five white balances, and grid lines.

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Running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

The device ships with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and comes with a number of Google's services, like Chrome, Gmail, Plus, Local, Maps with Navigation, Messenger, Search, Talk, and YouTube. The Google Play stores for Books, Magazines, and Music are included as well.

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