The LYF Water 5 features a 5-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) display with Dragon trail Glass protection. It is fueled by a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) processor, which is clubbed with Adreno 306 @ 450MHz GPU, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage. The Water 5 runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system.
The Water 5 gets its strength from a 2920 mAh Lithium-ion polymer non removable battery battery, which claims to deliver up to 15 hours of talk time and up-to 290 hours of standby time on 4G network. The smartphone flaunts a decent 13-mega pixel auto focus shooter with LED flash on the back and an 5-mega pixel fixed focus selfie camera on the front panel. Camera features include Digital Zoom 6X, Touch Focus, Auto Focus, Face Detection, Manual HDR, and Panorama.
Further, the LYF Water 5 offers Dual SIM, 4G LTE with VoLTE (Video & HD Voice Call), Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), WiFi Calling, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, a Micro USB Port 2.0, Gravity Sensor, Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, E-compass, and Accelerometer. The handset measures 142 x 70.5 x 7.7mm and weighs around 136 grams.