Verizon Launches Casio G'zOne Brigade, Rugged QWERTY Phone

By Allen Tsai | Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:56 pm

Verizon has released the Casio G'zOne Brigade, a rough and tough push-to-talk clamshell built to military specifications to withstand shock, water and dust environments.

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Casio G'zOne Brigade (C741)

The Basking Ridge, N.J.-based company said the Brigade has a rugged design that meets military standards for water, shock, dust, immersion, vibration, humidity, salt fog, altitude, high and low temperatures and solar radiation.

It comes with a built-in QWERTY keyboard for text messaging, 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera for photo and video capture, a document Viewer to view Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs, and text-to-speech to play text messages, multimedia messages and emails.

For fast two-way communication, customers can have push-to-talk conversations on Verizon's high-speed 3G network. The carrier also provides music and video services, and audible maps and turn-by-turn directions to more than 15 million points of interest.

Verizon said the Brigade is available now at stores and online for $250 with a two-year contract.

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