Want a phone you can wash with soap? Now you can have one

You ever think what your phone goes through on a typical day?

It probably gets pretty grimy and gross. But many phones can't handle getting wet, much less actually washed.

Well, now a company in Japan is doing something about that, creating a smartphone that users can actually scrub clean with soap and water. But is that one feature enough to make it appealing? 

In IT Blogwatch, we make sure all our devices are squeaky clean.

So what is happening? Rafael Fariñas has the background:

Kyocera...introduced...the next model in its lineup of washable devices: the Kyocera Rafre. The smartphone is resistant to regular washes with soap and water...The Rafre is the second washable smartphone, preceded by Kyocera’s DIGNO Rafre released in December 2015.

Not entirely sure what that means? Andrew Grush explains:

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