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Japanese Manufacturer Creates A Washable, Foaming Body Soap Resistant Smartphone

Japanese Manufacturer Creates A Washable, Foaming Body Soap Resistant Smartphone
Kyocera Rafre Smartphone © Phone Dog

Kyocera’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

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. 


Source : Jakarta Post

Indah Gilang Pusparani

Indah is a researcher at Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Daerah Kota Cirebon (Regional Development Planning and Research Agency of Cirebon Municipality). She covers More international relations, tourism, and startups in Southeast Asia region and beyond. Indah graduated from MSc Development Administration and Planning from University College London, United Kingdom in 2015. She finished bachelor degree from International Relations from University of Indonesia in 2014, with two exchange programs in Political Science at National University of Singapore and New Media in Journalism at Ball State University, USA. She was awarded Diplomacy Award at Harvard World Model United Nations and named as Indonesian Gifted Researcher by Australian National University. She is Researcher at Regional Planning Board in Cirebon, West Java. She previously worked as Editor in Bening Communication, the Commonwealth Parliament Association UK, and diplomacy consulting firm Best Delegate LLC in USA. Less
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