Friday, November 16, 2018

Kyocera’s new rugged phone has a sapphire screen and a fingerprint sensor

From the makers of the soap-proof, washable phone, comes another phone that’s tough in a different way. The Verizon-exclusive DuraForce Pro 2 is Kyocera’s newest rugged phone, and it comes with more features than your average rugged phone, which usually do the bare minimum of taking phone calls and pictures, but you could drop a boulder on it. Rugged phones these days like the DuraForce Pro 2 have a 5-inch sapphire shield display, a fingerprint sensor in the power key, and charges via USB-C and wirelessly. Things are different now.

The DuraForce Pro 2 has three cameras: a wide-angle 4K rear action camera, a 13MP rear-facing camera, and a 5MP front-facing camera. There’s a 3,240mAh battery, and it’s IP68 certified to be waterproof and...

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