{"id":415383,"date":"2010-03-11T02:58:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T07:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27742"},"modified":"2010-03-11T02:58:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T07:58:33","slug":"verizon-officially-launches-the-rugged-text-friendly-casio-g%e2%80%99zone-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/415383","title":{"rendered":"Verizon officially launches the rugged, text-friendly Casio G\u2019zOne Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gzone.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gzone\" width=\"504\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27745\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/03\/10\/casios-ultra-tough-gzone-brigade-going-on-sale-tomorrow\/\">we were saying<\/a> that Casio&#8217;s built-to-be-beaten G&#8217;zOne Brigade would be launching today &#8212; and sure enough, it just went live on Verizon&#8217;s web site.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-27742\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a rugged phone, it&#8217;s flagship feature is that it&#8217;s.. well, a rugged phone. These things usually don&#8217;t pack much functionality beyond that. This one, however, sneaks a full QWERTY keyboard into its clamshell body, along with push to talk, visual voice mail, and a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash. <\/p>\n<p>Alas, durability doesn&#8217;t come cheap; the G&#8217;zOne will set you back $299 on a 2-year contract, though they&#8217;ll knock that down to $249 if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/b2c\/store\/controller?item=phoneFirst&#038;action=viewPhoneDetail&#038;selectedPhoneId=5111\">buy it online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Wdc_xUpx_WpbKY4LD6XHj4sOLfo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Wdc_xUpx_WpbKY4LD6XHj4sOLfo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Wdc_xUpx_WpbKY4LD6XHj4sOLfo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Wdc_xUpx_WpbKY4LD6XHj4sOLfo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=o_pu2LvmLt4:DFLGSupLqhk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=o_pu2LvmLt4:DFLGSupLqhk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=o_pu2LvmLt4:DFLGSupLqhk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=o_pu2LvmLt4:DFLGSupLqhk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=o_pu2LvmLt4:DFLGSupLqhk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday we were saying that Casio&#8217;s built-to-be-beaten G&#8217;zOne Brigade would be launching today &#8212; and sure enough, it just went live on Verizon&#8217;s web site. As a rugged phone, it&#8217;s flagship feature is that it&#8217;s.. well, a rugged phone. These things usually don&#8217;t pack much functionality beyond that. This one, however, sneaks a full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}