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and it's joshua regard from android authority what's going on everybody and today we're taking a look at kyocera hydro series right here we have the hydro extreme if I could just find the power button there there we go and over on the right side we have the hydro edge now these are both waterproof phones hence the name hydro oops went over to messaging there and these are coming to prepaid markets in the US in the coming months this one in particular the kyocera hydro extreme is coming to US cellular even at the end of this week and what we have here is a is more of a mid-range phone sporting a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor it is running jellybean 4.1 which I'll show you right here I believe we can do the yep there you go jellybean 4.1 point2 and the screen on here is a four-inch screen at wvga resolution so obviously with mid-range specs you're not getting too big of a screen but for many people that is not going to matter as you can see it goes through its elements pretty well it's able to run pretty much everything that Android has to offer so you will be able to get a good experience no matter what coming around the back over here you'll see the 5 megapixel camera and this rugged more ruggedized rather textured plastic back gives it a nice feel and of course in the hand with a smaller form factor you will get a nice handling on the phone this is definitely a far cry from the 5 inch screens that we're seeing these this this year but four inches for a lot of users is still more than enough for a good experience this is shock resistant as well as being water-resistant and we're going to show you the waterproofing in a little bit but yeah we're going to go ahead and move over to the hydro edge which is a little bit less in on tour in terms of the specs and the mid-range extreme all you have on the edge instead is a dual core 1 gigahertz processor you are still running jellybean 4.1 point2 on here which I'll show you is here just kind of tap on the android version and there it is jellybean 4.1 point to the battery on this is 1600 milliamp hours as opposed to the 2,000 milliamp hour battery found in the extreme again this is water resistant as it is a hydrophone coming around the back you have a 5 megapixel camera as well on the back as well as a bit of a tapered look with the top a little bit higher up than the bottom portion right here again it is a 4 inch screen wvga resolution on both of these phones you do get 4 gigabytes of onboard memory and 1 gigabyte of RAM so as we said this is more of a mid-range market for these two phones but they are going to be good soldiers as kyocera has been able to have a lot of success with boost mobile US cellular all of the prepaid markets are available in the US this one in particular the hydro edge will be coming out on boost mobile sometime this summer while the extreme will be coming out on US cellular by the end of this week alright and the last thing you kind of want to take a look at here is one thing that I have to mention before is that when you're looking at this version of Android it is pretty much stock Android so you're getting a very similar experience to the original jellybean 4.1 point2 so that's really cool to keep things simplistic and also very usable so what I have in my hand right here is the hydro edge and this is the 3g variant the hydro extreme as the 4g one this is coming out on boost and sprint what we wanted to show you real quick is if you look at the screen here and i'll have a shot coming up right now just kind of highlighting it there's no speaker hole at the top and the reason why is because there's a technology in here called the smart sonic receiver so typical speakers or speaker grills that are found on other phones use air conduction in order to get the sound into your ear however instead there is a there's a transponder inside of here that uses vibrations to vibrate to send vibrations actually through the tissue of your hair to create a bitter sound there's not really much of a way to to show it to you on video right now but basically if you have the phone covering your ear not only are you going to get that air conduction from certain parts of the screen but also the entire screen will vibrate the tissues in your ear in order to create the sound straight to your eardrum for an even better sound whether or not the call quality is better than even some noise canceling traditional phone grills are is kind of up for debate but I will tell you this when you have the phone pressed up against your ear it does create a very nice and loud sound so that's just one of the last features I wanted to go through so once again this is we're here at kyocera at ctia 2013 and we just took a look at the two hydrophones in the hydro line the extreme and the edge we'll see you on the floor at ctia 2013 is Joshua Vergara i'll see you guys in the next video