G’zOne Ravine

By Justin Tracy

The Casio G’zOne Ravine is built for ruggedness and a work phone. It has a feature called field force manager, but we will get into that later. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera that takes pictures and videos. This phone includes for a nominal fee a feature called VZ navigator, which is a gps service that helps you get directions to places.

Let’s first start with the looks of the phone. It has a circular front display, which shows a large clock and has the date and cell signal, as well as a battery level indicator. To open the phone you simply flip it open then you are brought to a screen with a very rugged black look to it. This phone is shock resistant, water resistant, and dust/salt resistant. I can tell you first had this is a phone because I have had to opportunity to chuck one as hard as I could at a brick wall then go swimming with it and make a call under water and text under water as well. When it came out it was completely fine. There was no water damage at all. Then just because we could we ran it over with a truck and it still came out fine.

The VZ navigator feature allows you to speak or type a destination and it will bring you there. Now being Verizon this can’t come free and it doesn’t. It has a nice little 9.99 per month fee tacked on with it. If you need a gps that often when your driving around I would recommend buying a GPS instead. One reason to buy a GPS instead is because this feature will drain your battery quickly. In addition to that you shouldn’t be messing with your phone while you are driving. There isn’t any special about the camera. It’s a rugged work phone what do you expect. It takes videos and pictures.

Now one of the most desired things about this device is the field force manager with the push to talk feature. This allows you to use your phone as a walkie-talkie device to talk to your workers quickly without having to start a phone call every time you need to talk to someone. This phone has as small button on the side where you can just push then you talk then once your done you let go. It’s that simple. Naturally this comes with a 5.00 per month fee if you want it. This phone is not for the everyday guy but if you work in construction or management positions where you need a quick to talk rugged phone, this is a great solution.