Smartphones are great, but they can be awfully easy to break. A tumble onto concrete or a slip off the table will often lead to chips, cracks, and undesirable dings. If you work in construction, the ...

There’s always an assumption that phones designed to take a substantial beating will be ugly. We generally think tough phones should be like a pair of walking boots, ready to wade through mud, and ...

The flip or clamshell phone design has gone the way of the dinosaur, but there is still at least one company that makes them. Not only has Samsung been launching a flip phone for China and South Korea ...

BARCELONA -- Remember the FLIR One thermal camera that attached to your phone, giving it thermal vision capabilities? A new rugged phone from Cat has a similar camera built in. The company showed off ...

The CAT S42 marks the fourth CAT branded phone that I’ve had the pleasure of dropping intentionally on the pavement. The S41 was the predecessor to the S42. The CAT S60 and S61 used up all my synonyms ...

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