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favorite buddy michael fisher with pocket now here at MWC 2013 in barcelona we are checking out the caterpillar booth which has something that we didn't necessarily expect to show up the cat b15 smartphone and ultra rugged device let's have a look at it so this is the b15 it is a very very rugged device as we said in the intro very similar to the Kyocera torque we saw the other night except obviously styled differently and branded with this very recognizable cat brand and it feels a little bit like the boots that you would wear or the you know the forklift that you would drive or something which I guess is the idea this is a compound manufactured device it is obviously not going to win any contests for smelt nests or anything of the sort but it is meant for folks who need a rugged phone it is built to I believe ip67 for recognization it is waterproof it is it has no problem with immersion it has wet finger tracking as well so if you happen to get up with the screen is soaking wet pulled out of the pond it'll actually still work and a lot of devices won't this is scratch resistant Gorilla Glass up front and refreshingly the Android build is not 4.4 as we see on a lot of kind of mid-range durable phones which is 4.1.1 on this unit it is dot 2 on another unit here this one is is a little bit older we were told and obviously all usual stuff here 3g Wi-Fi bluetooth onboard media player all that kind of stuff but very rugged device the third to be branded by caterpillar but only the first smartphone this is a 5 megapixel camera around the back VGA up front so just a quick look in case you need something that's going to survive a fall into a swamp whose bottom is lined with razor blades this is going to be worth your consideration Michael with pocket now Tony behind the camera stay tuned for more from MWC