Kyocera Hydro Reach

Affordable. Waterproof. Good outdoor screen visibility. Loud earpiece volume. Expandable storage.

Lackluster display quality. Poor camera. Limited RAM. Mediocre battery life.

Software and Conclusions The Hydro Reach comes running Android 5.1 Lollipop with some heavy UI changes. Apps, widgets, the notification shade, and the settings menu are all significantly altered from stock. There aren't very many additional features...

Taken as a whole, nearly every other phone offered by Boost Mobile is better than the Kyocera Hydro Reach. The best feature of the Reach — its waterproof skin — is limited to just a couple devices in Boost's lineup, and none are as inexpensive as the...