LG Launches Watch Phone In India 109
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roh2cool writes "If you are a watch freak and also happen to be a fan of ultra rare (and expensive) gadgets, this might just interest you. The LG GD910 watch phone looks like a normal watch – except for the fact that it can double up as your mobile phone when needed. 'It is quite thin at just 13.9mm and packs in 3G and Video Calling capabilities as well. The phone is quite stylish and the front fascia is covered by scratch-proof tempered glass. It comes with a Bluetooth headset so you don’t have to keep talking like David Hasselhoff talked to his super-car KITT in the “Knight Rider” series.'"
Re:Linux is *still* for fags (Score:3, Informative)
wow (Score:1, Informative)
that's almost $1,100
Nice but... (Score:3, Informative)
Just by googling "watch phone" I found many [surprisinggift.com] different [chinagrabber.com] waistphones for US$ 250 or less.
Not just India; cheaper elsewhere too! (Score:1, Informative)
According to Engadget, it's five hundred quid: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/lg-gd910-watch-phone-review/
...which they relate to being a more humble $808 US. Significantly better than the Indian price.
That site is dead as a dodo (Score:3, Informative)
Slashdot has done it again!
Decent idea (Score:5, Informative)
The phone on your wrist is a decent idea which is severely flawed for several reasons.
1: Extreme lack of space for all that needs to go in it.
2: Lack of space to dial numbers.
3: Kinda annoying to charge, especially due to the fact that it will need to happen often.
Also, I fail to see how this is newsworthy, dealextreme.com offers several watch phones.
For instance: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13058 [dealextreme.com]
Also, the link isn't only slashdotted, the page is even suspended for using to much bandwidth.
Not a new idea and not as great as it sounds (Score:4, Informative)
The problem is that it's just not a product that really sells well. Most of the big manufacturers pretty much abandoned the idea because it just doesn't work that well as a phone or a watch. A watch is good for telling time, but it's generally fairly small for having buttons to dial with and it's too small to put a descent speaker in. If you make the watch bigger, it becomes cumbersome.
A watch is a bit difficult to hold to your ear, which means you either have to make it a speaker phone or use a headset. A wired headset is going to defeat the purpose of a wrist phone, but a bluetooth headset might work. In that case, you have to ask why not just put the phone in the headset. A watch also doesn't have much room for a battery.
That's really the problem. It's been technically possible to put a phone in a watch for a while, but it doesn't make a great place to mount a phone.
Re:Who wears a watch? (Score:2, Informative)
Why wear a watch?
Well, if the watches isn't a reason enough of their own: .. Maybe the UR-202 will get cheaper now? Not that it makes a difference.
* Urwerk UR-202 [youtube.com]
* Gerald Genta Arena Metasonic Sonnerie [ablogtoread.com]
* Mr. Jones The Accurate [watchismo.com]
* Or say Harry Winston Ocean Project Z6 [watchluxus.com], but now when I just checked there was also a new UR-203 [watchluxus.com]
What about a watch being one of the few jeweleries for men?
Better website (Score:2, Informative)
Apparently the LG-GD910 was first introduced in Korea last year. [indian-tech-news.com]
Re:Ridiculous (Score:2, Informative)
It tells you the correct date and time and everyone else you're rich.
This watch is gigantic - I know its subjective but I seriously doubt "stylish" is what comes to mind when most people look at this thing.
das (Score:1, Informative)
slahdotted
Another link on GD910 (Score:3, Informative)