A smartphone for the clumsy.
Casio's G-Shock watches have been around for almost 30 years. Designed to withstand knocks, bumps, and water, the tough watches are instantly recognizable. However, did you know that there's also a G-Shock phone?
Designed by, you guessed it, our good friends at Casio, the G-Shock watch is a smartphone for users that often find themselves in rough-and-tumble situations. Rather similar to the G-Shock watch as far as aesthetics are concerned, the G-Shock phone features a rubberized bumper around the edges, and is able to survive a 10-foot drop. What's more, it's water-resistant up to 10 meters and can take a full ton of weight. That's one tough phone!
Not much else is known about the device, other than it runs on Android, which is clear from the photos. It was on display at Casio's booth at CES, but it's not clear if this is just a concept, or a real phone that the company plans to launch at some point in the near future. Still, we would love to take one for a test drive. And by test drive, we mean we'd like to test drive a truck over the phone.
Had one of those myself, the good old nokia 3310 I assume your talking about. Thing lasted me over 3 years of heavy abuse till it bit the dust. In the end I had to hit the phone to hang up till i got to the point where i had to hit the phone against pavement to hang up. People thought I was crazy because they hear me say something like "Bye Mom" and than proceed to bang my phone against the curb, but it was the only way to hang up.
My old nokia 3310, I don't think it blend that sucker was a tank
Now this smartphone, yeah I bet it will, its not a tank it's just padded in rubber, but we better try just for the sake of science to prove weither or not I am right or wrong
When were done with that we can call Mythbusters to shoot one out of a cannon in the name of science.
Fixed.
IMHO toms is not a good place for G-Shock to advertise...
Had one of those myself, the good old nokia 3310 I assume your talking about. Thing lasted me over 3 years of heavy abuse till it bit the dust. In the end I had to hit the phone to hang up till i got to the point where i had to hit the phone against pavement to hang up. People thought I was crazy because they hear me say something like "Bye Mom" and than proceed to bang my phone against the curb, but it was the only way to hang up.
My old nokia 3310, I don't think it blend that sucker was a tank
Now this smartphone, yeah I bet it will, its not a tank it's just padded in rubber, but we better try just for the sake of science to prove weither or not I am right or wrong
When were done with that we can call Mythbusters to shoot one out of a cannon in the name of science.
Fixed.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5634
LMAO
just waiting for a "challenge accepted" meme for that.
It was HEAVILY abused. It was exposed to water a lot, I use to walk from one class to another campus a little over a mile away and when it was raining I be drenched and sometimes the phone. As all my jacket did in that weather sometimes was just stop the wind and funnel the water down my jacket. I also use to leave it in my cargo pocket so it would frequently hit doors and other such things on a daily basis. And when I left it in my backpack it would always find it's way to the bottom and I always tossed my backpack around which weighed 50+ pounds. Still never pee'd on a phone though, I'm sorry but that takes talent and I hope a lot of good booze was involved, as it sounds like the start of a good story.
Phone after that I had I accidently walked into a lake to push out a boat, killed a lot of pixels on the screen on that one.
3rd phone didn't die or anything.
4th one bit the dust prematurely when I touched it with a slightly damp hand the water somehow seeped into the keypad and fried it.
5th one my droid incredible is still chugging along, minus the annoying software issues I have with it. But hardware wise its good, I just may end up rooting it to fix the thing.
use it only when all other phones die on me
-_-
This one is only covered in rubber and well sealed, nothing too fancy.