Kyocera Duraforce: Rugged Connectivity By ViperByteNetwork

Good evening, everyone and welcome to the white fur bite Network this evening, we're going to be doing a tabletop review of a new phone that has come out in the last couple of months called the Kyocera aura force, so we'll go over just some features. Excuse me and also some things that may make this unique to a lot of the other phones that are out there so to begin with I'll, just kind of do a walk around on the controls and some of the ports that are available so first off at the very top. As you can see here when you're talking on the phone that right there is for the speaker arm and that button that I just pushed their course takes it out of sleep mode or, of course, if you held it, it would turn it off or the way you turn it on the side. Here is the volume control and one thing since having this phone for a few weeks that I don't know if its good thing or bad thing, but you can't adjust this from the start screen. So, as you can see, I'm pushing that the only way to adjust it, I'm, sorry from the home screen of when you from the start screen and suggesting okay, this button right here, this black and red button is an actual, a programmable button. But it's used for like push-to-talk.

This phone has that capability. So if the company you work for has all push-to-talk phones, this would work for that. Also, on the bottom. Here is your charging port. It is micro, USB and over here, is for your is for your of any external storage card that you want to put in, but it is also where your SIM card goes and then at the top here right in the middle is another port for your headphone jacks.

The back is the external camera, and it does have a flash, and speakers are right down here. Okay, alright, let's go over just some specs on the phone. Sorry getting a little of a cold here, umm the Kyocera aura force is considered to be a ruggedized. It's a waterproof, android sports phone. It's got a four and a half inch HD display large battery wireless charging, a memory card slot, and it also has Kia Sears smart sonic receiver, speaker technology, so it has noise-canceling software in it, which is perfect.

If you're in a like urban environment, where there's a lot of background noise outside or even construction, you know where you may have heavy equipment, it is 4G the weight on. It is seven point: zero, six ounces, it's pretty heavy, its dimensions are 5.39 inches long. So it's a little over five and 3/8. Its width is two point: seven eight inches a little over 2 and 3/4 inches, and it is a little over a half inch thick at 550 thousand an inch so total talk time is 17 hours max or a thousand and twenty minutes, and its standby time is five hundred four hours or twenty-one days it does have a pretty beefy battery in it a 3100 William vision battery, but it is non-removable. So if you ever need to replace the battery on this you're actually going to have to send it to a repair facility for that the display it's an LCD with a resolution of 120 by 1280 pixels, as I said before, it's four and a half inch on the diagonal, and it's colors- are 16.7 million.24-Bit I won't bring a video up on this, but the videos do look really really perfect on this phone. Its operating system uses the Android version 4.4.2, and its processor is a 1.4 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core. It does have 16 gigabytes of internal memory.

However, only 12 gigabytes is usable by the user, and it has a 2 gigabyte of RAM. Its SIM card is a NATO version, ok and I know AT&T and a cellular one I believe are the two that are currently selling this I. Don't know if you could buy it unlocked or not. It does have a flashlight which most of them Android phones, do it uses the flash has that so any phone that has a flash. You need to get an app for that or whatever, but I guess.

One of the important things the reason I bought it was that it's considered to be ruggedized, and it's certified to ip68 it's dust and waterproof, and it meets military standard, 810g against dust shock, vibration, temperature, blowing rain, low pressure, high altitude, solar radiation, salt fog, humidity, and this can be immersed in water to a depth of 6 feet for 30 minutes now. Of course, you have to make sure that you have closed up these external ports um for that. But if you drop this like in some water or something like if you're, camping or if you work outside or god forbid, you drop it in a toilet. You know you have not trashed your cell phone, you don't have to stick it in a container of rice for a week, hoping it takes all the moisture out. So that is an advantage, and it is one of the reasons I bought it primarily for when busy and I go camping and hiking, and that sort of thing.

So, let's see, and I said it was cellular one, it's US, Cellular and AT&T are the two that are selling it. That I know of right. Now um, it does have adjustable text sizes, most smartphones do, and it is hearing aid compatible, which is good the languages. It supports our English Spanish French and Chinese um. It does have vibrated, and it is Bluetooth, okay, and it is also mobile hotspot compatible on its connector, like all the Android phones, is a micro USB.

Furthermore, it's not like the iPhones, where it's a proprietary connector. So that's good thing for all those old phones. You have out there with the micro, USB or other things. You can use the chargers and cables and that sort of thing it has a ringer ID and voice dialing. It also does the voice on the browser for browser search, and it uses Google Chrome.

It also has gather data tethering for those of you who might want to do that so um, that's kind of important um, its touch screen. What's really neat about this too, like I, said it's used for up you're used for folks outdoors in the military on the touch screen, works really well with gloves and when it's raining, so that's an advantage. The memory card slot you can expand this up to 32 gigabytes, so that will give you a total of 44 gigabytes of memory storage using a micro SD card with the internal, alright sports, pretty much every email, client, pop/IMAP, Microsoft Exchange in Gmail, and it's a headphone jack is a third 3.5 millimeter down here at the bottom. I. Don't know if I spoke about this earlier, but hereby below these buttons are the speakers, and they are stereo speakers.

They don't sound too bad I mean they're, not Bose, but they do pretty well the camera on the back here, like I, said it is flash, but that's an 8. Megapixel camera has autofocused HDR, it's got smile detection and something else. That's neat, and I can't remember the iPhone having this was. It has panoramic or panoramic view and night mode, which is kind of nice. Now the front camera is only a 2, megapixel camera, and it's it looks a little grainy in the dark, but you know it's only 2 megapixels, but for those of you that are into selfies that could be an issue.

Its video capture is 1080 HD and resolution and of course it does have speakerphone and, as I said before, on most of the versions it has push-to-talk. But of course you got to have that enabled so overall I've had this for a few weeks. It's a very sturdy phone. Is it feels a little heavy I mean you know you got a phone in here, I guess, what's nice, one of the things I haven't liked? Is these phones keep getting so big they're almost becoming like a tablet, and you know I wanted a new phone, but I didn't want one so big and this one feels perfect in the hand. I do have quite a lot of chance, but um.

You know it feels real good. The back here it has some a little of texturing to it. So it's not very slippery. Even when wet, and so you know it feels real good in the hand and the fact that it's already ruggedized and shockproof and that sort of thing you don't really have to get like an Otter box case for it. In fact, I don't even know if they make them for it, but overall it's been a real good phone so far, and I'm enjoying it, so I've one interest, you suggest you go check it out and definitely, if you're, a now door, type person or work in an outdoor environment on this very well might be the phone for you.

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