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Are you accident prone? Is your phone always slipping out your hand onto a concrete floor or into a toilet or into the garden dirt? If you're a bit klutzy, the rubberized a837 Rugby world phone from Samsung, available from AT&T for $129.99 with a two-year contract and after a $50 rebate, is encased in metal and is rated to military ruggedness standards to withstand dust, shock, vibration, rain, humidity, solar radiation, altitude and temperature extremes. Or, just a bad case of the drops.

Inside its tough exterior, Rugby is a push-to-talk 3G flip phone with an external speaker for walkie-talkie conversations, and AT&T's subscription-based Video Share, which lets you transmit live or recorded videos while you're in the middle of a call. The phone also is compatible with the AT&T Navigator service ($9.99/month), which offers turn-by-turn directions via assisted GPS (aGPS), which uses both GPS satellites and local cell towers to quickly triangulate your position.

Rugby's other less exotic features include a 1.3 MP digital camera, mobile email, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot, and is available in black, deep burgundy and construction yellow (pictured).

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