I want one...
Now where's my damned flying car?
Watches that let you make voice and video calls sound like something from a James Bond movie. Or an LG catalogue. The Korean electronics giant has a wristwatch phone in the works and yesterday confirmed it is launching the high-tech timepiece at some unspecified time this year. LG_Watch_04 LG's GD910 phone/video watch Woo …
at the moment I have a watch with a mineral glass screen (or whatever you call the scratch resistant screens) as watches dont last long before I give them a nasty big scratch on the screen.
Theres something for the geek watch manufacturers, how about something more rugged? I had to buy this one in America as Casio still don't sell it over here.
No doubt you are now conducting market research to find the correct price point and signing up resellers.
Don't bother. You'll sell every one of these you can make, even if they're priced to be hand assembled by Tibetan nuns from rocking horse shit placed in an unobtanium casing and only sold through one online outlet in Baghdad.
Hmm, drool has the same effect on keyboards as coffee. Who knew?
Hmmm. Take 2.X Ghz, stand far enough away from a base station that your watch has to shout a little (not too much, mind, or you'll bring the cell down) and you've got a microwave next to your skin.
Antenna design? It'd better be bloody miraculous to get anything useful.
This is a pisspoor idea and I'm sure that, although blingy in the extreme, it will be at the bottom of the wardrobe once you realise how useless it actually is.
DoCoMo used to sell a wristphone called "Wristomo" back in 2003. However, it was a PHS phone, not 3G. As far as I remember DoCoMo also had a 3G wristphone at the Nagano Olympics but never offered it for general sale.
We have pictures of Wristomo on our blog entry from a trade show in Tokyo back in 2003:
http://eurotechnology.com/blog/2003/07/wireless-japan-2003-exhibition-tokyo.html
There never was another Wristomo phone, so I guess there wasn't much more than a niche demand. The problem I guess is that you really have to take the wristphone off your wrist to phone or send messages, or do mobile internet stuff like booking airline tickets, defeating the purpose to some extent. If the demand would have been huge and continuing - we would still have lots of Wristomos in Japan now.
Gerhard
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