Review: Kyocera DuraForce tough smartphone

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

This is the Bear Grylls of smartphones and while its middling specs are more than enough for most applications, build quality and design really make this the only tough Android smartphone worth considering for serious outdoor and construction applications.

The tough-smarphone market isn't all that big. Aside from great looking devices that happen to be dust and water resistant like Sony's Xperia Z line, we also get tough variants of existing smartphones like the recently reviewed Samsung Galaxy S5 Active. These devices pale in comparison with smartphones designed from the ground up for use in extreme conditions. Kyocera's DuraForce isn't a slim phone pretending to be a tough device, it is clearly a bruiser that's built to survive.

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Kyocera gets tough with the DuraForce rugged smartphone on Bell

Need an Android smartphone that's tougher than the rest? Kyocera and Bell Mobility recently announced the new Kyocera DuraForce, a rugged, waterproof, 4G LTE Android smartphone coming on Decemeber 20th for $99.00 on a two year plan or $449.95 contract free.

“Kyocera and Bell Mobility have teamed up to offer the Canadian market an ultra-rugged, affordable smartphone designed to meet the demands of extreme lifestyles," said Eric Anderson, senior vice president and general manager of global sales and marketing at Kyocera Communications. Hit jump for all the specs and details of this Diehard device.

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