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One of the most talked about products from this year's Consumer Electronics Show was LG's Dick Tracy-esque watch phone prototype. The device can link to your headset via Bluetooth, or you can fulfill all your crime noir fantasies and talk directly to your wrist. Necessary? Probably not, but the touch screen device's sleek interface has to be seen to be believed: Check out our hands on video with LG after the break.
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Subscribe to commentsKilgoreTroutJan 13th 2009 9:35PM
Oh my; I know I'm gonna buy that thing (unless is priced like a Rolex obviously).
I absolutely want it.
I always wanted it.
And LG made it perfect.
Want, Want, want.
Now
mz213Jan 14th 2009 5:30AM
OK, it's cool. But now we will have people driving while staring at an even smaller screen. Bad for safety. And I know there's voice dial and such but I assure you folks will want to look at their new bauble.
WindyJan 14th 2009 7:40AM
Yes, it is easily portable, but I do not believe this will sell well after it's initial gadget rush. It seems like some old school design precisely to fulfill the Dick Tracy fantasy.
People are out of the habit of wearing watches around their wrists.
The equipment is bulky for women who are more fashion/jewelry concerned.
It cumbersome to keep holding up your wrist for you phone and/or MP3 -- just as it is no fun at the gym to mess with your equipment once it is strapped to your arm.
I'm more comfortable holding something in the palm of my hand, like the LG-ENV that flips open like a mini-laptop and can be rested on my steering wheel while driving ;-) Hey, at least my eyes are pointed in the direction of the windshield and not the floorboards!
iphonerulezJan 14th 2009 7:49AM
I'll admit the concept is cool, but I'm sure the battery life is short. I like the mp3 player part and using it with a BT module would be nice to have. Didn't Dick Tracy have a two-way wrist TV when that strip ended. I vaguely remember his wrist gadget. I never knew what the range of that device was. Was it on a net or did it just use it's own broadcasting power? I'll have to look up that now that I think about it. I guess now we do have the technology to have such a wrist device, say for use on a WIMAX network.
dudeJan 14th 2009 10:29AM
That's stupid... I'm still waiting for the Star Trek comlink... with the "beam me up " feature.