Casio G’zOne Boulder rugged phone for Verizon
by Sze | Filed under Mobile Phone
Verizon Wireless introduces the new G’zOne Boulder rugged mobile phone, that is built by Casio. Verizon’s G’zOne Boulder features a rugged design offering 810F standards for water, shock and dust resistance; immersion; vibration; salt fog; humidity; solar radiation; altitude; and low and high temperature.
It comes with a 2-inch main LCD display and a 1.2-inch mono display, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, support for Push to Talk and EV-DO Rev. A technology, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot.
The G’zOne Boulder offers also speech recognition, electronic compass, voice commands, speakerphone and integrated music player. It supports Verizon’s VZ Navigator, Field Force Manager, V CAST Music, and V CAST Video services.
The G’zOne Boulder is available for $129.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement.
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having connection problems w/ parrot bluetooth n vehicles. will not pair.
Only in the designer’s dreams!
Aug 12th, I purchased a GzOne Boulder thru Verizon as I needed an extremely durable phone that would withstand the rigors of my daily functions. Overall, I am extremely impressed with this phone. It is very user friendly and appears to be very durable. Unfortunately I won’t get to use it long enough to find out how durable and have simply donated $150 for nothing.
I have two issues with this phone. The first issue is the locking procedure for the phone. Every phone I have ever had, you pressed one button to lock the phone. You pressed another button to enter the unlock code. Sweet and simple. Your phone requires pressing the menu button, open settings & tools, open phone settings, open security, enter the code, press ok, press lock phone now. Far to many unnecessary steps and very poor programming. The unlock function is the same as every phone I have had.
By far the most important and disappointing is the accessory port. It totally destroys the viability, functionality and main purpose of the phone design. Plugging into the port is a major event as aligning the port and plug is very difficult. This port is for the charger and for accessories such as the headset connection which requires the use of the 2.5mm headset splitter connector entailing plugging a 3” adaptor cord into the port then plugging the head set into a one inch box at the end of the adapter. Now you have all this garbage hanging out the bottom of the phone that makes it almost impossible to use with a holster. It is also next to impossible to keep the plug connected when using a headset. The port is extremely fragile and poorly designed as my phone is two weeks old and already has connection problems with the port. Even though firmly plugged, it is loses its connection. Granted, bluetooth would eliminate this problem but many consumers such as myself cannot use a bluetooth attachment but must use a corded earbud setup. 2.5mm headset ports should be located at the top of every phone for efficient and durable use. This design is a first for me and extremely disappointing for what was supposed to be such a high caliber phone.
These two issue turn one of the best designed phones into a totally useless phone for the purpose it was designed. An extremely durable phone is only as durable as it’s weakest link which is the accessory port. As I have found on the net, this appears to be a major issue with the Boulder. Would be no problem for someone who carried it in their purse or wore a suit/tie every day but definitely is not designed for the working man or extreme activity. So now I must take my phone back to Verizon, go through all there procedures to determine IF there is a problem, then attempt to work with them to resolve this problem. My old LG AX390 at $60 puts this $150 phone to shame.