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If you're going spelunking or mountain climbing or hang gliding or you push yourself in any other extreme outdoor activity – or if you're just rough on gear – here's the phone for you.

The push-to-talk G'zOne Boulder, now available through Verizon for $129.99 after contract and rebates, is built to military specifications to withstand shock, water, dust, vibration, salt fog, humidity, solar radiation, altitude, and low and high temperature storage. To paraphrase an old ad, it takes a licking and keeps on connecting.

Inside its tough exterior are a host of helpful outdoor tools such as an electronic compass, a flashlight, stopwatch and GPS navigation. Among its more mundane cellphone features are EV-DO Rev. A connectivity, a speakerphone, stereo Bluetooth, voice command and, of course, push-to-talk service through Verizon.

When you're at base camp, enjoy the MP3/WMA/AAC-compatible music player that can be supplemented by a subscription to the Rhapsody music service, and the 1.3 MP camera. There's a microSD memory card slot that can handle up to an 8 GB card.

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