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Think you have a tough phone in a rugged, outdoor case? Sorry, you're wrong: the king of this particular hill is unquestionably the Kyocera DuraForce Pro 2. This phone's so rugged that you can film underwater or drop it off the back of your truck: It meets MIL STD 810G for shock protection and toughness. Does your delicate little phone boast the same?
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ got his hands on a Kyocera DuraForce Pro 2 and shows what's in the box. It's pretty bare bones, but hey, with a phone this tough, do you really need some silly little earbuds? :-)
Learn more at https://www.att.com/buy/phones/kyocera-duraforce-pro-2-64gb-black.html
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The Kyocera DuraForce Pro 2
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Let's open up the box and see what's inside. Dave Taylor here, and I'm doing an unboxing
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So, this in the box is the Kyocera DuraForce Pro 2. This is this super rugged phone that's great if you're a construction worker or an emergency response person or hunters
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Fisher, if you go kayaking, whatever it is, it is so tough that not only is it waterproof
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but you can take video underwater with this phone. Really cool. Now, AT&T is not going to let me
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test that feature out, but we're doing an unboxing anyway. We'll figure out what we're going to do
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when I get to the full review a little later down the road. Now, let's give it a look. So
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first off, thank you AT&T for sending this phone for me to check out. It is a pretty tough
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and rugged phone. So I do have the protective film on the display. Let's take that off
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So let's see if I can get this thing to power on. There's a lot of buttons here. Let's see
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This might be the power button. Let's see. Or this one. One of them is going to power on this phone
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Here we go. Okay. So this is the, like I said, Kyocera DuraForce Pro 2 powered by a Qualcomm Snapdra
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2.2 gigahertz octacore CPU and should be booting up what's going on here
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there we go it just took a little while let's see 64 gig of ROM 4 gig of RAM 4G
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LTE or GSM and the screen's actually pretty interesting this is a 5 inch
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Dragon Trail Pro display which means it's extremely scratch and impact resistant. It also is not exactly the highest resolution. It's 1920 by 1080. So that's just your
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regular 1080 HD TV image. A lot of the fancier phones have much bigger displays, much
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bigger density but you know I not sure you need it This is still at 443 pixels per inch so it still pretty dense It going to look very crisp In fact this already looks pretty crisp
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It is a smaller phone. If you look on the back, though, it is clearly tough and rugged
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There is protection and impact protection on the edges. There's not much I'm going to be able to do this phone that's going to make it get hurt, right
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So that's great. I could probably chuck this out of my car on the highway
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and if I assuming I could actually go back and find it, probably be fine
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Right? It is actually built to Mill Standard 810G. So if you're tired of your phone breaking because they're so fragile, right
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Well, this is not a fragile phone. This is not the latest iPhone
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This is not the latest Samsung. This is a whole tough, different kind of phone from Kyocera
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Now, it is powered by Android, but there's not much I can tell you about the software yet
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because I want to actually demo it. and take pictures and videos and everything. But let's talk about the microphone
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They do some neat things. They have four microphones built into this phone
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so that they can cancel out ambient noise if you're using it as a speaker phone or a regular phone
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And it also supports what they call push to talk, which is kind of funny, really
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Push to talk is basically, let's pretend it's a walkie-talkie even though it's an actual phone
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But it does enhance push-to-talk and it even has a dedicated button just for that
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task. So all you need is to get some software. And again, for like an emergency responder, very, very
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helpful, very useful. Now, camera wise, there are two rear facing cameras. The 13 megapixel is the big one
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There's also a 4K rear camera. Gives you a super wide 135 degree photo shoot if you want that
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And like I said, it's all completely waterproof. The camera is protected with what they call a sapphire
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shield so you can actually take this in the pool and you can make videos while you're in the water
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Super fun, right? No extra case, no nothing. Just take your phone and use it in the hot tub
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Whatever no problem The front facing camera is a 5 megapixel camera So that going to be plenty enough for those critical selfies while you rescuing people at the top of burning buildings I mean hey if there no photo it didn happen right
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Battery-wise has a 3,240 mill-amp-hour battery, which gives you 21 hours of talk time
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and that gives you wireless charging and fast charge. And what I'm not doing is unboxing
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So, you know what? Let's unbox the darn thing. Top display? Nothing
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Then we have this. Flap opens up. Comes with a little booklet
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That gives you everything you need to know, even though I probably just told you half of it
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And then what else is in the box? All right. Also in the box is..
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Let's see. This should be a USBC charging cable. I'm assuming I can get it open
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Apparently not only is the phone rugged, but the packing is rugged. Yes
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USB. charging cable because on the bottom under the waterproof protective flap if you can open it up
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opens from the side you have a USBC charging port it also supports wireless so of course
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you can just drop it on a wireless charger but if you are going to use that then let's see it also
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comes with very handy comes with a wall plug to go with that USBC charging cable
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I was going to tear all this stuff apart even the plastic's tougher right That's great
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So, wall plug, USBC charger, the phone, and I think that's literally everything that comes in the box
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It is otherwise completely empty. So what it doesn't come with is it doesn't come with any headphones or earbuds
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It doesn't come with an SD card, though I believe you can put an SD card in to expand the memory
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I'm not exactly sure where you do that. But if you actually, oh, it's probably on this side
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Let's see. So if I pop this off, that might require a screwdriver to pop off
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But I think on this side is actually space for probably a micro SD card or something
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but that would give you more storage space if 64 gig isn enough But again the real feature of this phone obviously you know this is a pretty bare bones phone but it is tough and rugged And if you need a phone that going to be tougher than
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you are, then this might be your phone. So let's talk about the price. But before we get there
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let me ask if you can subscribe to my channel, really appreciate it. I get a lot of gear from a lot
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of companies and I'm super honest with what's good and bad about all of it. And with this particular
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Kyocera, I will definitely be reviewing it. So you want to come back and you want to check out
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the full review with sample photos and videos and everything. Now, price wise, this is the
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Kyocera Dura Force Pro 2. Let me say that differently. Kayaara DuraForce Pro 2. And it's
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44999 at AT&T.com. If you want to just buy it out. And there's a couple of the carriers that have this, but I work with AT&T
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So this is the AT&T version. And here's the thing is AT&T has payment plans
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So if you can't drop $4,49-99 for a new phone, totally understand that
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You can pay $15 a month for 30 months, and that gets you this phone in your hands and an incredibly
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small bump on your cell phone bill. So definitely a cool phone
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Really interesting. I love that it's just, you know, who doesn't like doing it
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doing this with devices because we're so worried about how precious and sensitive and fragile
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our devices are. This is not that device. Really looking forward to trying it out and testing
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it. And with that, I think I am going to try to figure out where you put that microSD card
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before my next video. It's tricky when you're doing an unboxing because you can't really
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spend a lot of time digging into the components because you want to have it be fresh and new
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right? Let me know in the comments if that's how you look at unboxing reviews. So
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Appreciate that and I'll catch you in my next video
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