Casio GzOne Ravine

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

1
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Looks and feels great. Solid call quality. Long battery life. Versatile, outdoorsy apps. Extremely rugged.
Military specs and rugged design, PTT performance, Good call quality and signal reception, Large external clock

Cons:

Dated music player.
More bulky than the Casio Rock, HTML browser is limited, Camera flash is useless

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Last revision on August 26, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Looks and feels great. Solid call quality. Long battery life. Versatile, outdoorsy apps. Extremely rugged
Military specs and rugged design, PTT performance, Good call quality and signal reception, Large external clock

Reviewers Didn't Like

Dated music player
More bulky than the Casio Rock, HTML browser is limited, Camera flash is useless

Expert reviews and ratings

100

Casio got a lot of flack for their past series of PTT (Push To Talk) phones, the Boulder, Rock and Brigade. The Casio G'zOne Ravine is an attempt to fix issues with the above mentioned phones and offer general improvements and upgrades.So the big...

By BrightHub on May 17, 2011

It's safe to say that the Casio Ravine is the most rugged phone on the market, and certainly the best-performing rugged phone we've had the pleasure of significantly abusing. If you want a phone that will last longer than anything else...

By infoSync World on December 15, 2010

The Ravine is the ultimate rugged voice phone, virtually indestructible with great call quality and an impressive feature set. It still sounds great after you run it over with a car....

By PC Mag on November 05, 2010

Ah, the “rugged” cell phone. What better expression of man’s eternal desire to dominate his surroundings than to take a thoroughly unnatural creation deep into the wilds of nature? Though I don’t discount the sheer necessity of...

By MobileWhack on October 25, 2010

Overall, the Casio G’zOne Ravine is a nice upgrade to the Rock that came out last year. We are glad that it retains Military specs for durability, and its rugged design means that it should hold-up to almost anything you can through at it. But...

By Phone Arena on October 21, 2010

The Casio G'zOne Ravine is in some ways a very impressive, rugged device; and in other ways a collection of missed opportunities. The phone can take a serious beating, including a dunk in the pool or a drop into a dirty puddle. Some of the outdoors...

By Phone Scoop on November 30, 2010