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Verizon Wireless and CASIO today introduced the new Casio G’zOne (pronounced Jeez_wun) Rock, comes with 2 megapixel camera, LED light, bluetooth, microSD card slot and Triple Sensor technology for Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset and Tides software. The CASIO G’zOne Rock is available now for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

Lifestyle features:

• Earth Compass – functions as a standard compass; GPS shows the distance from and directions to over 40 domestic and worldwide locations
• Walking Counter – measures steps, time, distance, speed and energy consumption Thermometer – shows current temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit
• Astro Calendar – provides the moon’s age and days until a full or new moon
• Sunrise Sunset – shows the current time and position of the sun and times for sunrise and sunset for current, past and future dates; allows you to view times for select major cities; shows the ratio of day and night in numbers and graphs
• Tides – shows the tidal graph for the day; shows the time of ebb and flood tides; shows the time of sunrise and sunset; shows past and future sea tide levels; shows tidal graphs for 100 locations made available by Surfline’s webcams, and GPS will show the nearest location; shows the current tide and the best time for fishing

Featuring both the Casio G’zOne water and shock resistant and the Casio Exilim camera, Verizon Wireless and Casio have introduces the new Exilim C721 with a 180-degree rotating display, 5 megapixel camera and 3x optical zoom. Available in silver color, the camera module also have a LED flash and support auto focusing with Image Stabilizer.

The CASIO Exilim Mobile is $279.99 after a $50.00 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card.

Casio has developed a 2.0-inch a-Si TFT (amorphous silicon thin-film transistor) color liquid crystal display with a resolution of 960 x 540. Casio’s newly developed LCD is based on the company’s original HAST (hyper-amorphous silicon TFT) technology, which permits higher resolution and a higher aperture ratio.

The amount of transmissive light loss (which results from higher pixel density) has been reduced by adopting a new structure based on a wiring design involving multi-layered wiring for transistors and their surrounds. Despite a reduction in dot pitch to a small 15.5 micrometers (as opposed to the 23 micrometers in Casio’s current displays), it has been possible to maintain light aperture.

New Casio G’zOne Boulder Rugged Phone has been submitted to FCC for approval. Revealed today, the FCC did not put up the detail photos or documents to the public. Since the previous few models were released to Verizon Wireless, this new model G’zOne Boulder should be available to Verizon Wireless subsribers in US when announce.

Here is one of the model which was released last year, the Casio G’zOne Type-S

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Verizon Wireless has just announced that it will be the exclusive provider of the Casio G’zOne Type-S rugged cell phone, starting tomorrow. A successor to the Type-V handset it debuted a year ago, the Type-S is much smaller and has a more streamlined designed, but it was still made with the same military-grade specifications. According to Verizon and Casio, it is able to withstand extreme humidity, three feet of water for up to 30 minutes, and drops from about five feet; it can also resist dust as fine as silica flour. It certainly looks rugged, too, with its sturdy build and shock-absorbent rubber packaging. As a Verizon phone, it also comes with several Verizon applications, like the Verizon’s Get It Now mobile Web browser, instant messaging, and support for VZ Navigator, Verizon’s location-based service. A definite upgrade from the Type-V is the inclusion of Bluetooth support, though the move from a 2.0-megapixel to a VGA camera is small yet important downgrade. It’ll be available nationwide starting tomorrow for about $149.99 after a $50 rebate and a two-year service agreement.