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Thursday April 9, 2009
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 Update: And... seems the videos have been removed from YouTube. As consolation, we added a few more screen grabs after the jump.
This is definitely one of the stranger official product announcements we've seen in a while. In a YouTube video filmed like amateur soft porn, Casio seems to be announcing the new Exilim Mobile camera phone for Verizon Wireless, complete with prominent Verizon logo. This is a slim, waterproof flip phone that has (as shown at 0:14 on the video) a 5.1-megapixel camera on the back.
Casio also makes Verizon's Gz'One line of waterproof phones, which we also tested in the shower, but with a much less attractive model. No, not the phone model, the human model.
Casio's second video is ... well ... it gets more gross the more you think about it. Maybe not as gross as the Boost Mobile "unwronged" ad campaign running on TV right now, but in a similar vein.
There have been a bunch of leaks of this phone's existence before, but this is the first official announcement, coming as it is from an official-looking Casio YouTube account and promoted to us via a PR person. It's very rare, though, that manufacturers get to tout Verizon Wireless phones before they're released. Actual shots of the phone after the jump. Verizon Wireless has not announced a release date or price for this device.
 
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April 10, 2009 12:16 PM
yeah...i had to watch the second video a few times just to make sure that it was, in fact, interpreting it correctly. i wonder what percentage of electronic water damage is actually...well, you know...
April 11, 2009 12:07 PM
Now this video is lost forever...
Someone please re-upload it.
April 11, 2009 10:03 PM
Google video "casio exlim verizon" pulls it up