Kyocera announces military-grade Torque X01 clamshell

The smartphone industry has been quite unforgiving with clamshell phones. We're rarely in the position to report the launch of such devices these days, let alone talk about a good clamshell handset.

Kyocera is one of the companies that are not afraid to bring the past into our lives. The Japanese company has just announced the ultra-tough Torque X01 clamshell, which features Military Standard 810G certification.

MIL-STD-810G has been defined by the US Department of Defense, and the Torque X01 is compliant with 18 categories of the durability testing. On top of that, Kyocera's clamshell ...