Gadgetory

have you ever thought to yourself why aren't there any rugged waterproof phablets are you a big tough person doing big tough things and need a big tough phone that can keep up with you Kyocera is adding a kaiju of a smartphone to its lineup this year but we've got to get it out of the packaging to see if it can live up to the marketing claims I'm Juan Carlos bag now for pocket now and here are my first impressions of the Kyocera dura force XD on AT&T GP cricket this thing is big nothing fancy coming by way of packaging dura force is an 18 t flavour of Kyocera so we've got the Sunkist orange box with a picture of the phone on the front and what a box it is I mean it has a phone inside and a battery and a charger and a USB cable and papers I'm glad we got this out of the way I'm sorry folks talking about packaging is just so underwhelming when we've got this monster phone to check out Jebus this thing is a brick now I've seen a lot of people complaining about the size of the LG v10 which has a reinforced casing for milspec 810g drop protection the dura force XD matches that 5.7 inch screen size but surrounds that screen in armor which would embarrass and OtterBox Defender also milspec a 10 G and ip68 water-resistant meaning you should be able to dunk it under 6 feet of water for up to half an hour no joke folks this beast makes the 6 inch screen - LG G flex feel petite by comparison hold on just a sec this is my favorite part of setting up a new phone oh yeah that's good I love peeling that plastic off okay and playing with the Brigadier in the original dura force I was seriously impressed by the scratch resistance of the Brigadier sapphire crystal screen but the matte rubber plastic on the door for seemed like it would H better than the smooth plastic on the Brigadier mine's literally all scratched a heck I'm glad to see Kyocera and ATT have stayed with a matte rubbery material adding full leather textured accents at the top and bottom Samsung introduced fancy engineering to waterproof the headphone and USB jacks on the galaxy s6 active and there's nothing that nifty the XD is all about brute force and resorts to port covers which include gaskets to prevent water from leaking in huge front-facing speakers make a return but I'll be very curious to see how the earpiece speaker performs after using the tissue conduction smart sonic screen on the smaller dura force the XD has a legit tough-guy style and happily we can swap the battery here unlike the Brigadier the bolt on the back is actually functional not really this thing screws and locks the backplate into the body of the phone it's not just a gimmicky switch like the loose piece of metal on the back of my samsung rugby the battery has a rail built in to ensure that the whole device stays contained in the event of a drop now we've all seen phones fly to pieces back plates popping open batteries ejecting but we'll have none of that here thank you very much hi mate Iveta this battery is big to a 3700 milliamp hour power pack which should provide ample runtime for the low power hardware crammed inside the screen is one of the brighter LCDs I've played with the whites are a bit warm for my taste and the 720p resolution feels a bit stretched on a 5.7 inch diagonal especially if you've been spoiled by four times that resolution over the same service area I was pleasantly surprised by how quick this phone fired up on first boot and there's a helpful little guide to walk you around some of the features on the phone after you've put in your Google account credentials already paging around the UI it's a bit choppy no surprise there knowing that the Qualcomm 400 series CPU isn't going to win any showdowns with other devices around this $450 price point but that's not really the point of a Kyocera though is it if you define power user as bleeding edge processor tech then this is automatically the wrong fit for you however if power user means the ability to withstand drops and water and a higher likelihood of surviving explosive concentrations of flammable gas then this will be right up your alley I honestly have no idea how I could possibly even test for that I'm I'm not a mythbuster it's built for rugged work conditions but is it a good fit for consumers outdoorsy lifestyle folks parents of precocious kids for all the regular non-explosive gasps phone testing and reviewing you can count on us to put the derp fors XD through its paces do you have any ideas for how we might torture test this phone drop us a comment below if you come up with something really creative maybe we can convince our PR contact to let us do a little gadget destruction porn probably not but you never know make sure you subscribe to see our full review of the Kyocera der force XD and hit that thumbs up button to help us out with a little positive reinforcement for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos Becnel and you can chat me up on Twitter and Instagram as some gadget guy as always thanks so much for watching and I'll catch you all on the next video