The Kyocera Hydro Elite is not currently available from any carriers
The Kyocera Hydro Elite has been discontinued by the following service providers.
The Kyocera Hydro Elite has been rated 0.0 out of 5 stars by users.
Picked one up on craigslist,rooted it,then downloaded sqlite so I could edit the apn's and now I use it on Tmobiles $30 5gb plan. Dont get LTE but I do get hspa plus and the download speeds in my area are around 15mbps.The phone is only a little thicker than my 5s. Pros-size,waterproof,nice screen,and price. Cons-The phone seems to heat up pretty fast
You can find these phones on eBay for less than $100. The Hydro Elite is a solid performer and has the best battery life of all the Android phones I carry around with me. I get Verizon LTE about 99% of the time, except for in a few counties in my state where they don't have a license. The phone almost looks like an iPhone5 clone from the front, but is a little thicker and has a more textured back side.
Call quality is one major drawback of this device. I made some calls to people on landlines from this phone and a T-Mobile iPhone, and they preferred the voice qualty of the T-Mobile call, hands-down. The landline users to me sounded tinny, cold, and hollow using this phone. They said I sounded robotic on the Verizon call. Verizon has had a pretty crappy voice codec for awhile, and this phone is no exception to the rule. Hopefully when VoLTE comes along, this problem will be solved.
Pros:
Cheap (used)
Water resistant
Battery life
Simultaneous voice and LTE data
RF performance
LTE performance (up to 40mbps in my tests)
Cons:
Poor call quality (Verizon/codec issue)
Verizon bloatware
Camera quality
