http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Casio G'zOne phone to hit Verizon Wireless' shelves http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/May 25th 2009 9:58AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Oct 17th 2006 1:36PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Oct 17th 2006 1:56PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Oct 18th 2006 5:06PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/
And verizon's going to restrict the waterproofing to proprietary V CAST water only, and only if you pay 80 dollars a month and relinquish all of your MP3 playback and OBEX profiles.

I love thin phones, but this would be a perfect compliment to that olympus 702SW camera i'm getting for the holidays.

After seeing videos of the CanU 502, I can tell you that it's waterproof, sports a compass program that uses the external display, much more shockproof than even my tank-of-a-phone LG PM325(that i've thrown across movie theatres and out bus windows and still works), and if casio gives the US the same version they gave LG to resell in louth korea, stand-out lime and orange faceplates. disadvantages of the US version (as far as i can tell) are the fact that it's a VZ exclusive, and has that horrendus VZ software.]]>Oct 17th 2006 4:53PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Oct 17th 2006 11:13PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Oct 26th 2006 2:56AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/
To bad they had to add that darn stub antenna to it though! Takes away from the sexyness of the phone quite a bit.

Now, how is this going to be marketed in the USA? As a Casio or a UTStarcom? I am guessing we will know this phone as the UTStarcom NX9200]]>Oct 19th 2006 3:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Oct 19th 2006 4:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Oct 20th 2006 10:45AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/
I like it. I've had several requests for a rugged CDMA phone from various people in my time, and I like the G-Shock look on the front. I'd buy it for my wife, who has dropped phones from time to time. if we didn't just get a pair of Motorola E815s for ourselves. Also, the waterproofness is real, and it takes photos and video underwater, which is kind of awesome. (Check out my slideshow in the review above.)

Bluetooth is a sad omission but not fatal for a product like this with such a unique feature. And I wouldn't expect it on Sprint at all; it sounded to me like Verizon, UTStar and Casio worked together as a sort of special project to bring this to the US.]]>Oct 22nd 2006 7:14PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Jan 10th 2007 4:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Jan 10th 2007 4:35PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Jan 10th 2007 4:49PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Feb 12th 2007 8:53PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/May 7th 2007 1:34PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/I bought my teenage boy one, this should be intersting.]]>May 26th 2007 10:59AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/May 29th 2007 4:25PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/May 29th 2007 4:25PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Jul 9th 2007 2:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Aug 31st 2009 10:34AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/
I love this phone. It's big, ugly, and has survived multiple drops onto concrete, into a pool, and a hot tub with nary a scratch. Something my previous 3 LG Chocolates could not do. :-(

Go for it.]]>Jul 16th 2007 10:59AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Sep 13th 2007 7:59AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Thanks Bro'.... I have had mine for for over two-months and here about 4-days ago it started draining the battery while on standby in like 8-hours it would beep to tell me the battery is low! It had been staying charged for 5-7 days before that I was really impressed.
I spend a lot of time in my neighborhood north cascade mountains and it has better reception than the motorola's I had always been sold on and hasn't let me down until the battery trip started. I just ordered another battery on ebay!]]>Feb 4th 2008 1:50PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Sep 21st 2007 11:19AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/10/17/casio-gzone-phone-to-hit-verizon-wireless-shelves/Dec 1st 2007 7:25PM