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Your Price: $149.99 with service Find Coverage: Release Date: Q1 2010 Released For: Verizon Released for Verizon Wireless, the Casio G'zOne Brigade is a water- and shock-resistant tough phone with a rugged QWERTY keyboard so users can text their friends in harsh conditions. The handset can withstand military standards for water, shock, dust, vibration, humidity, salt fog, solar radiation, altitude, and high and low temperature storage. It also has a full HTML browser and document viewer for reviewing Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs, and has a new text-to-speech function, which lets users to listen to their text messages, multimedia messages and emails. Additional features include a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash, push-to-talk, stereo Bluetooth, music player and GPS for directions at your fingertips.

• Tough horizontal clamshell design with a QWERTY keypad that meets military specifications for water, shock, dust, immersion, vibration, humidity, salt fog, altitude, high and low temperatures and solar radiation
• Built-in 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with flash and video capture
• Document Viewer lets users browse Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs
• Text to Speech lets users listen to their text messages, multimedia messages and emails
• VZ Navigator for audible maps, turn-by-turn directions to more than 15 million points of interest
• Field Force Manager resource management tool gives businesses the ability to locate and communicate with their mobile field workers
• Push-to-Talk capabilities that leverage Verizon's high-speed EV-DO Revision A technology for fast two-way communication

1. Posted by sven55	Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:15 am
My new Casio G'zOne Brigade arrived in the mail and I quickly put it to work. No problems switching over. Then, as their website said: Put it to the test. Casio claims is can survive 3 feet of water for 20 minutes. You would think a simple rinsing it off under the faucet would not hurt it, in fact the owner’s manual suggests this cleaning step. WRONG! The display (which has no ports to close) instantly filled up with moisture and the phone began to fail. Verizon said, “you got it wet inside your warranty is voided". Bottom line is: Casio apparently failed to install internal seals correctly, but it’s my problem and Verizon just does not care. The phone was only 2 hours old. DO NOT BELIEVE CASIO PROMISES. Was this review helpful? :: 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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Technical
Network:	CDMA 800 / 1900
Form Factor:	Clamshell / Sideways
Dimensions:	113 x 56 x 25 mm
Weight:	156 g
Antenna:	Internal
Navigation:	QWERTY Keypad / 5-Way Keypad
Battery Type:	1440 mAh Li-Ion
Talk Time:	6 hours
Standby Time:	31.7 days
Memory:	192.0 MB
Expandable Memory:	microSD / TransFlash
Safety
Radiation (SAR):	(0.75 W/kg)
Imaging
Main Screen:	TFT 65,000 colors (400 x 240 px)
External Screen:	OLED 2 colors (128 x 96 px)
Camera:	3.2 MP / Flash / Zoom / Auto-Focus / Multi-Shot / Face Detection / Video Recorder
Audio
MP3 Player:	VCAST Music
FM Radio:
Speakerphone:
Push-To-Talk:
Multimedia
Wallpapers:	400 x 240 px
Screen Savers:	400 x 240 px
Ring Tones:	MP3
Themes:
Games:	BREW
Streaming Multimedia:	VCAST Video
Messaging
SMS:
EMS:
MMS:
Email:
Chat:	AOL / Windows Live / Yahoo
Predictive Text:	T9
Applications
Phonebook Capacity:	500
Calendar:
To-Do List:
WAP:	2.0
Voice Commands:
Calculator:
Connectivity
Bluetooth:	2.0 (A2DP / AVRCP / DUN / HFP / HSP / OPP)
Infrared Port:
High-Speed Data:	cdma2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A
Wi-Fi:
GPS:	VZ Navigator / Field Force Manager
PC Sync:	USB 2.0
More Information
Website:
Discussion:	Manufacturers Forum

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