Posted 07.18.2007 at 5:46 pm
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After spending most of Monday evening unsuccessfully trying to help a friend resuscitate a phone that had been swamped on a dock, I’m thinking more companies need to follow Fujitsu, which just unveiled a super-thin, completely waterproof mobile called the F704i. Sidney—no, that's not her in the picture—went with the sinking-the-phone-in-a-bowl-of-rice trick over various others, including alcohol immersion. But if you’re the active type, and around the water enough, the F704i just seems to make a lot more sense than resorting to Uncle Ben's for help. And it’s more than splash-proof, too. Apparently the phone can be submerged for up to 30 minutes. For now the F704i is available in Japan only, but I’m hoping it gets here before too long.—Gregory Mone
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FYI, Casio has the G'Zone phone for sale in the US - only on Verizon - and it's waterproof to the same specs. The first model is kind of ugly; the second one looks a lot better.
Nextel used to offer a number of ruggedized Motorola phones, but they seem to be downplaying that since they merged with Sprint.
As a kayaker, I would love a phone I don't have to zip into a drybag; I wish each US carrier (or at the very least, mine) offered one.