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Panasonic today officially launched its Toughbook Android tablet along with upgrades to three of its Toughbook laptop range including the fifth generation of its CF-19, second generation of the CF-31, and the new CF-53. This announcement came at the Defence and Security International (DSEi) exhibition in London. The Toughbook tablet carries a 10.1-inch XVGA touchscreen, which offers high brightness…
Motorola recently announced the Defy+, which looks more or less the same as the original, but has a 1 GHz processor instead of 800 MHz. We had an inkling Motorola was working on a successor to their last tough smartphone, so no huge surprise there. The Defy+ will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and like the…
Attention to the clumsy, klutz’s, and those with butterfingers, T-Mobile is offering the Motorola DEFY for free today, and today only. The rugged phone may not be the cream of the crop, but free is free, right? The water-resistant, dust-proof handset is one of the better looking devices of its kind, and we’d pick this…
Clumsy enough that you know that you should begin to tread into rugged phone territory for your next purchase? Well Verizon is looking to help you out in that department with possibly the ugliest Android phone we’ve ever seen, the Casio Commando. The Commando was spotted in the leaked Verizon Roadmap yesterday, but pictures of…
The rugged, push-to-talk Motorola i1 that has been hanging out on Sprint since the summer is now coming to Canada by way of Telus and their Mike iDEN network. For those who live and die by immediate two-way PTT communication and need a tough phone for an unforgiving workplace, the Motorola i1 will feel exceptionally…
Sprint announced that they’d be carrying the Motorola i1, a ruggedized push-to-talk Android phone about 4 months ago, and now they’re finally getting around to releasing it. Various regional carriers have been getting the Motorola i1 out much earlier, but Sprint’s iDEN network will probably be offering the widest coverage and service. We’ve known about…
Nevermind handling a few bumps, the HTC Incredible is apparently able to live through bonfires and still work (calls, browsing, you name it) with superficial damage. Either it’s dumb luck, or HTC has made an exceptionally tough phone. I could only imagine a lesser handset would have been a lost cause after hanging out with…
While we might not get the luxury of seeing if it handles a drop test as well as the iPhone 4, one HTC EVO 4G owner has shown us how well the screen handles loose change, keys, razors and screws before he had to ship it back to Sprint. The problem that the EVO 4G…
A cell phone repair shop got some parts for Apple’s iPhone 4 early, and decided to see how tough it was. Taking into account that there’s no circuit board inside, the casing handled 2 drops from 3.5 feet onto concrete, shattering on the third. In a separate test, the iPhone 4 handled 6-7 drops before…
Some time ago TELUS shipped me one of their Motorola Mike Brute i680 devices. It’s a ruggedized device that is Military Spec certified against things like rain, shock, salt, fog and more, this bad-boy is indeed, a BRUTE. A grey rubberized coating adds to the toughness of this rough little flip phone. After having spent…