LG Wristphone on Stephen Fry’s wrist

The very concept makes it somehow better. [@stephenfry]

1. [J France]

   I was right behind this until, just now, I realised I’d have no idea how to actually hold the thing to make a call. Unless it’s speakerphone, which is instant fail.

2. [Zarniwoop]

   Why do they have to mount the screen portrait-wise? Why not landscape? Then you could actually fit a decent screen in there.

3. [Aelfscine]

   Seems like it’d be more sensible to make the phone horizontal, so it lays across your arm, rather than vertical and sticking out over your arm.

4. [Ronald]

   Blue tooth yes. And allow skins for when not in use to show time with a theme. I want one also as a belt buckle.. actually scratch that last one.. radiation will be too close to my “vitals”

5. [andygates]

   Yup. That was the mistake Nokia made with the Internet Tablet series of devices, and why the iPhone killed ‘em (wah – 770 fanboy here). Phone-ness is cool.

   This is exactly the kind of device that cries out for a flexible e-ink display, though.

   And you know, it’s not *that* much bigger than my HRM…

6. [RedShirt77]

   You all can keep complaining. I’ll take one.

7. [HeatherB]

   Not even Dick Tracy’s watch was this big and ugly.

8. [Sgt. Cold War]

   Only Fry’s Brobdingnagianly-fat wrist could make such a huge, clunky monstrosity look small and workable.

   On you or I it would probably look like a clipboard.

9. [Anonymous]

   Watch phones are old hat. You can pick up a variety of styles from various vendors of chinese crapgadgets.

   http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.511~search.watch

10. [Reed Savory]

    Am I the only one who thinks this would be 10x cooler (and probably a hell of a lot simpler to make) if instead of a phone itself, it was a Bluetooth-enabled unit you could pair to any cellphone?