Ever drop a phone and spend a few unpleasant moments cringing with anticipation of the flimsy shattering noise it will make when it ends its journey on the ground, battery asunder and various pieces scattered to the winds? We've all been there, which makes a rugged smartphone like the Nautiz X5 a little more appealing than it would otherwise be based purely on aesthetics alone. It's been rated IP65 (two marks higher than Sony's recent semi-rugged
GXD-L64H1 LCD), meaning it's completely dust-proof and can stand up to a heavy shower, but also sports modern conveniences like a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, a barcode scanner, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g, and a 3.5-inch VGA LCD through which you can get your Windows Mobile 6.1 on. All that is powered by an 806MHz Marvell CPU with 256MB of RAM, meaning it's not only beefy on the outside. No word on price or availability, but don't expect all that heft to come cheap.
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posted Mar 4th 2009 9:17AM
I can see a company buying this for inventory tracking or something to that effect but few, if any, consumers simply for aesthetic reasons.
That thing looks like a bootleg calculator from 1986
I could give two turds about aesthetics. Give me a phone that works, and if as a bonus i can drop it...then sign me up!
Whats that brand ? New competition for Intermec & Symbol (oops, i mean Moto...) ? Or a new "HandHeld Product" renamed Handheld ?
Am I the only one who noticed that this is not a phone? This device doesn't have anything on the i-mate 810-F.
Yes, you are the only person........................that is wrong! It actually is a phone, but the information is hidden in the Nautiz site. I want one!!!
What the... a buncha comments got removed. Weird. Anyway, I originally posted this;
Whoa… 806mhz marvell, check… 4400mah battery, check… 3.5″ VGA, check… water/dust/drop proof, check… this looks like an awesome phone. And the inclusion of all those buttons will make playing emulators a breeze. My only complaint is the size. If that thing is really 6 inches long, there is no way I’m going to replace my HTC Advantage x7501 with an even BIGGER device. Here’s hoping that was a typo!
PS - I wonder what kinda trouble I could get in with that barcode scanner…. hmmmmm…
wtf, my comments are gone,,,,