Remember when push to talk was popular and while walking down the street you’d often hear someone’s phone make that infamous chirping sound before a muffled voice magically started coming out of their pocket? Our younger readers may not remember the late 90s and early 00s, but we sure do. Most people don’t use that feature anymore, partly because it makes you look like an asshole, but mainly because the devices that support push to talk are rather antiquated. That’s no longer the case with the soon to launch Motorola Titanium. Documents acquired by Sprint Feed show that America’s second largest CDMA operator is planning to introduce the Titanium on the 24th of this month for $149 with a 2 year contract. It runs version 2.1 of Google’s Android operating system, has a QWERTY keyboard that looks like it’s been lifted straight from RIM’s BlackBerry lineup, 5 megapixel camera, and best of all it meets “Military Specification 810G”, which is a fancy way of saying you can beat the living shit out of this thing and it’ll keep on truckin’.
If you’d rather have something with a larger screen, and still want that same toughness, then you’ve got two choices. You can either get the Motorola Defy for T-Mobile, who now sells it for just $40 if you order it online, or Verizon’s Casio G’zOne, which was released in April for $200. Both run on Android, both can withstand their fair share of drops and accidental flushes down the toilet. Say you prefer an iPhone or BlackBerry, then it’s best to pick up your device of choice and shove it in an OtterBox case as soon as you take it out of the box. The protection those things provide is frankly amazing, but you pay for it by making your smartphone ridiculously bulky.
It’s worth it if you have the worst case of butter fingers the world has ever seen.