Sony Ericsson’s Cyber-shot camphones have always been solid enough to survive the odd scrape but its new 3.2-megapixel packing, HSDPA-careering C702 model is ruggerdized for extra protection against life’s more severe assaults.

Or so we thought, because the C702 tough guy image is seemingly all front. Sure enough, its plastic is a tad more durable than your average Joe handset and the rubberised battery cover is locked tight by a screw mechanism, but the compact C702 is nowhere near as ‘nails as the JCB Toughphone and Samsung Solid dogs of war. And while it been stamped with an IP54 tough certificate to prove it dust and water resistant, just don’t be taking it with you in the shower or on a trip to the Sahara desert.

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Last year’s Z8 multimedia smartphone may have put Motorola back on the mobile radar after the RAZR years fall out but its two-megapixel snapper was woefully pedestrian. Thankfully, its successor, the Z10, is wise to the fact we crave megapixel power and upped the ante.

Apart from swapping the Z8’s lurid fluorescent trim for classier silver and revamping the keypad for the better, this pair of Z phones could easily have been separated at birth. But while the design has stood still, it means you still get to play with its ace phizog hugging kick-ass banana slider action.

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