Design and durability
Is it really only three years ago that a four-inch screen seems incredible in a phone? 4-inch Hydro Edge, the 800-by-480-pixel touch screen, made out to "Dragontrail" glass ignore attempts to scratch it with a key but reflected back the sun from almost every pixel at certain angles -Now the appearance of compact next to anything but an iPhone. But at 4.9 by 2.5 by 0.4 inches (HWD), the Hydro Edge is much thicker than many competitors.
Unfortunately, Kyocera chose to follow the unwise practice of other Android vendors by replacing the standard Android recent apps button for a menu key. It invites confusion for consumers moving from Android phone with Google button-spec; You can also find iPad owners themselves unwittingly invoking Siri soon get used to pressing the home button on the Hydro Edge to allow run-recent apps list. And to push Google Android developers to move functions from the menu on the toolbar, the need for a dedicated menu keys are diminishing.
Prying off the battery cover and removing the battery reveals a microSD card slot to fill, rather only with 1GB of internal storage, which is almost a 0.88GB available out of the box, the Hydro Edge are starved for storage.
The cheap-looking plastic exterior and discovered USB and microphone port does not suggest strength, but twenty minutes in the bottom of a pot full of water had no effect on Hydro Edge. It does, however, reveal an interesting Quirk including "Smart Sonic Receiver," which transmits sound by vibrating the entire display: Under water, a quiet phone call has become a powerful Screech until I switch the phone on speakerphone mode.