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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