Verizon Wireless and Casio today announced that the water, dust and shock resistant Casio G’zOne Brigade is available today. The Casio Brigade sports a QWERTY keyboard; an HTML browser; and Document Viewer for reviewing Microsoft Office documents and PDFs; plus Push to Talk capabilities that leverage Verizon Wireless’ 3G network for two-way communication. The Casio G’zOne Brigade is available today for $249.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

Key features:

- Dimensions: 4.4″ (H) x 2.2″ (W) x 0.9″ (D)
- Main Display: 2.9″ 400X240 TFT display w/up to 65K colors
- External Display: 1.2″ 128×96 Mono PM–OLED display
- Tough Technology Design – Horizontal clamshell with QWERTY keypad
- 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, video capture and LED light
- Water, shock, dust, immersion, vibration, humidity, salt fog, altitude, high and low temperature storage, and solar radiation resistant conforming to MIL-STD-810F
- Field Force Manager capable – A resource management tool that provides businesses with the ability to locate and communicate with their mobile field workers
- microsd card slot
- 2.5mm headphone jack

Casio has recently announced the availability of the G’zOne Brigade clamshell phone, the G’zOne Brigade, a Verizon product that’s also a rugged handset with very interesting specifications. This is a PTT-capable CDMA handset with support for EV-Do rev. A and complying to military standards.

Casio G’zOne Brigade is able to withstand shock, dust, vibration, water, humidity, salt, fog and low pressure without problems. Its specs list includes a QWERTY keyboard, a 2.9 inch WQVGA display and an external monochrome screen with a 1.2 inch diagonal (PMOLED, 128 x 96 pixel resolution).

The device packs a 1440 mAh battery, that should provide 6 hours of talk time and we found out that its feature list also includes a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, autofocus, face detection, multi shot and digital zoom. 123MB of built in memory, a microSDHC card slot, 192MB RAM, 256MB of ROM complete the picture of this rugged handset.

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If you’re not interested in the looks of your handset and you just want it to be tough, feel try to give the AIS rugged PDA a go. Pictured below, this handset runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and it packs a 3.7 inch QVGA display with an unimpressive 240 x 320 pixel resolution.

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Featuring Military Specification 810F for dust, shock, vibration, low temperature, high temperature, low pressure, solar radiation, salt fog, humidity and blowing rain, the new Motorola Brute i680 clamshell is available from Sprint for $119.99.

Motorola Brute i680 has all the features Nextel customers have come to depend on including the push-to-talk capabilities of Nextel Direct Connect, support of business applications and Mil Spec durability. This rugged clam shell is the ideal phone for anyone who will encounter extreme conditions and incorporates a 2-megapixel camera with flash, large internal and external display, GPS, large battery for extended talk time, music features and stereo Bluetooth. It also offers the upgraded ability to switch from an active push-to-talk call to an interconnect voice call at the touch of a button.

Verizon Wireless and CASIO today introduced the new Casio G’zOne (pronounced Jeez_wun) Rock, comes with 2 megapixel camera, LED light, bluetooth, microSD card slot and Triple Sensor technology for Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset and Tides software. The CASIO G’zOne Rock is available now for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

Lifestyle features:

• Earth Compass – functions as a standard compass; GPS shows the distance from and directions to over 40 domestic and worldwide locations
• Walking Counter – measures steps, time, distance, speed and energy consumption Thermometer – shows current temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit
• Astro Calendar – provides the moon’s age and days until a full or new moon
• Sunrise Sunset – shows the current time and position of the sun and times for sunrise and sunset for current, past and future dates; allows you to view times for select major cities; shows the ratio of day and night in numbers and graphs
• Tides – shows the tidal graph for the day; shows the time of ebb and flood tides; shows the time of sunrise and sunset; shows past and future sea tide levels; shows tidal graphs for 100 locations made available by Surfline’s webcams, and GPS will show the nearest location; shows the current tide and the best time for fishing

Casio has a brand new rugged phone coming, the IT-800 RGC-35 handset, that weighs 335 grams and packs a 3.7 inch VGA screen with a low-reflection touch panel. This PDA phone will be launched in January 2010 and you should know that the device is shock resistant.

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