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Available in pale pink, translucent white and light blue, users can clean their phones under running water. (Kyocera/File)
K
yocera’s latest innovation provides a solution for greasy phones that go days, months or even years without getting cleaned.
The Japanese-based electronics manufacturer has released rafre KYV40, a soap-and-water-resistant smartphone that will be in stores starting in March in Japan.
In a post on Friday, the firm wrote, “the smartphone is a successor to the original DIGNO rafre, which launched in December 2015 as the world’s first washable smartphone. In addition to resistance against foaming hand soap, the second-generation model possesses resistance to foaming body soap,” as quoted by The Hindu.
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Available in pale pink, translucent white and light blue, users can clean their phones under running water. It is resistant to hot water and has a touchscreen that can be used even when the users' hands are wet or while wearing gloves. The handset also comes with a cooking application that enables users to skim through recipes, set timers and answer calls by using hand gestures instead of tapping on the screen.
Other features of the phone include 5-inch HD TFT LCD display, Android 7.0 Nougat operating system, 16GB ROM and 2GB RAM memory, 13-megapixel rear-camera and a 3,000 mAh battery. (nik/kes)
