Casio G-Shock Phone Offers Variety Of Protection Measures

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Your smartphone is designed to be taken with you, where ever you happen to go. I know, nice blinding flash of the obvious for you, but it’s something important to keep in mind. Because, you see, for a device that’s designed to go where you go, it certainly doesn’t seem to be, sometimes. Spill some water on it, it’s gone. Drop it on hard concrete, it’s gone. Maybe it got some dust in it–just as dead.  Your smartphone may be supposed to go with you where ever you go, but it sure can’t take much of a licking when it gets there. That seems to be what the folks at Casio are looking to correct with their upcoming G-Shock smartphone.

Perhaps the ultimate fusion of Casio’s rugged smartphone and G-Shock watch lineup, Casio’s G-Shock smartphone offers up plenty of great protection against the slings and arrows of modern life. Not only will it survive a drop from a height of ten feet, it will also survive immersion in water up to 30 feet, and can even survive having one full ton of weight placed on it.

The phone is still in its prototype stages, at last report, so they’re still figuring out just what features will go into the phone above and beyond the obvious of extreme invulnerability to common hazards. Based on early results, though, some kind of GPS is likely to be found in it, and demo screens show that a version of Android is running on it, though how much of that will make it into the final version is as yet unclear.

Still though, it’s clear that this phone was geared to take the harsh treatment every day life can dish out, and would likely be valuable for plenty of people as long as the basics of a smartphone–camera, Android Market access, games and the like–are sufficiently respected to make this more than a one-trick pony that can merely take a beating, metaphorically speaking.

But what do you guys think here? Think there’s a place for a device like the G-Shock smartphone? Or do you think that regular smartphones do the job just fine and don’t need all that armor? No matter what you think, head on down to the comments section and tell us what you think!