Software & Performance
As mentioned in the introduction, LYF focuses more on hardware rather than on software. Hence, the LYF Water 9 comes pre-installed with Android 5.1 Lollipop OS. Google had launched the Android 7.0 Nougat in August 2016, but manufacturers like LYF are still using the two years old operating system. Although, the customised UI comes with gesture controls, and a fingerprint based application locking software. The LYF Water 9 is definitely not a smartphone for gamers. The hardware is not powerful enough to handle heavy games at its native display resolution. The phone is powered by the MediaTek MT6573 chipset; it has an octa-core processor, a Mali-T720MP3 GPU, and 2GB of RAM. The inbuilt storage of 16GB is expandable via a microSD card.