Today Verizon Wireless and Casio announced the G’zOne Rock, a mil-spec rugged clamshell that can withstand water, shock, dust, vibration, humidity, salt fog, solar radiation, altitude, and high and low temperature storage. The G’zOne Rock is even more of an outdoorsman tool than its predecessors.
It uses its GPS both for a distance-aware compass as well as a pedometer; it also has independent apps for the lunar calendar, sunrise/sunset, temperatures and the tides. Other features include Push to Talk, EV-DO Rev. A, a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder with flash, microSD card storage up to 16GB, support for V Cast videos and V Cast Music with Rhapsody, and stereo Bluetooth. The Casio G’zOne Rock will be available form Verizon Wireless on November 20 for $199.99 with a two-year customer agreement, after a $50 mail-in rebate
Motorola announced that the touch-based Crush is for sale from U.S. Cellular. The Crush is expected to be available in Q4 2009 via US Cellular for unannounced price yet.
The Crush is an EV-DO Rev. 0 device with an interesting design, having the power and lock keys above its 2.8 inch, 240 x 400 pixels touchscreen display, and no keys at all below it.This stylish phone sports a 2MP camera, a virtual QWERTY keyboard, a music player, a microSD card slot (up to 16GB), stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack, a 950mAh battery. Crush comes loa Crush’s tap-to-silence feature lets you silence the ringer with a simple tap to its exterior, eliminating the risk of having your phone ring at the worst moment. ded with fun extras such as a pedometer to count your steps and music and video players to keep you entertained.
Windows Mobile will now receive Opera Mobile 10 beta. That means users can benefit from a more enjoyable browsing experience from their handsets than is usually the case with built-in and other third-party web browsing tools.The new beta works on Windows Mobile 6.5, 6.1, 6.0 and 5 Pocket PC handsets, including brand-new models like the HTC Touch Pro2, the HTC Pure, and the AT&T Tilt2. You do get a host of new features with Opera Mini 10 beta for Windows Mobile which ought to offer a close resemblance to a desktop-like browsing experience
Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile has the following features:
*Opera Turbo support so you can use their servers to reduce bandwidth and increase speed
*Speed Dial for faster access to your favorite sites
*Password manager
*Tabbed browsing
*Kinetic scrolling
*Auto-rotation
*Adaptive zoom
The Motorola Droid will be commercialized outside the US under the Motorola Milestone name. the Motorola MILESTONE is now available at O2 in Germany! It only costs 1 Euro if you sign a 2-year contract costing 20 euro/month. The cool thing is that the cell phone is completely unlocked and takes SIM cards of other carriers. The Motorola Droid made quite a big impact on the US Market with success being reported both from media reviews and sales reports. Now, the Droid crossed the ocean..
Sadly, there is no Google Maps Navigation this time as it simply doesn’t work in Europe but you do get a 60-day trial of MOTONAV application.Vodafone Germany and some Italian carriers (there is still no mention which exactly) will be the next to get the Motorola MILESTONE
