Casio G'zOne Type-S (Verizon Wireless)

This phone is all about durability and it is probably the most durable phone available. I am a customer who tosses the cell phone in a backpack or shoves it in a pocket. I've broken hinges in less than a month - usually the face plate is scratched by the end of day one. After almost two months with me, the phone still looks relatively new and nothing is broken.

The phone is a great complete package, but taken individually the features are behind the competition.
The battery gets a "poor" rating from me. If I'm using my phone a lot or travelling in the countryside and losing reception from time to time, the battery barely gives me a full day. If I forget to charge at night, I'm in trouble the next day. Not since the jump from analog to digital have I had to worry about my battery.
The camera/video is adequate, but side-by-side my wife's chocolate is alarmingly better. Casio did have a nifty idea of a video light, but really the light is only bright enough to draw attention to yourself and won't light up anything past about 10 feet. It did help for finding the stairs in a dark theater.
It can't convert voice recordings to ringtones, so if you happen to record something that you want as a ringtone you have to run it through your computer. Then, it isn't listed on most ringtone sites, so you have to guess which of all the listed models is similar enough for it to work - I only sent a few homemade ringtones, but about half worked and half didn't. You can, of course, use your airtime to look for ringtones on your phone and then pay your carrier for the download.
Don't even bother with the GPS. It only works when you can maintain an open call. If you're truly lost and you have to climb to a mountaintop to call, you probably won't get a decent GPS reading. It doesn't make sense to market this GPS feature to the "adventurous types" because most outdoor adventures will carry you out of the service area and render your GPS useless.
I've had several cases of the silent mode button getting bumped and had it ring during meetings. I've also inadvertantly silenced it and missed my calls all day. There isn't an easy way to lock the outside keys without locking the entire phone. This is just tedious whining and would be fixed if I would put it in a case instead of my pocket.

Concluding Remarks:
This is a very rugged phone that will hold up better than anything on the market. The drawback is that Casio doesn't have enough experience with cell phones and they tried to cram every possible gadget inside a compact, yet sturdy case.