LG Wristphone on Stephen Fry's wrist

HeatherB

#1 – 5:13 AM August 21, 2009

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

Reed Savory

#2 – 6:39 AM August 21, 2009

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?

andygates

#3 – 9:35 AM August 21, 2009

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...

Anonymous Anonymous

#4 – 12:18 PM August 21, 2009

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

RedShirt77

#5 – 7:03 PM August 21, 2009

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

Sgt. Cold War

#6 – 9:38 PM August 21, 2009

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.

J France

#7 – 2:09 AM August 22, 2009

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.

Zarniwoop

#8 – 6:51 AM August 22, 2009

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

Aelfscine

#9 – 8:53 AM August 22, 2009

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.

Ronald

#10 – 8:29 PM August 23, 2009

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"