Orange prices up LG 3G watchphone for UK Orange has finally posted a UK price for LG’s watchphone, the GD910. GD910_new_02 LG's GD910: £500 from Orange Despite previously stating that the video call-capable wristwatch could carry a UK price of up to £1000, Orange has now confirmed that the must-have gadget will only cost £500 ($827/€580) when it launches on 27 …
I'm told the most common way for men to carry a mobile is in their left front pocket, in close proximity to several vital organs and the family jewels. Having the phone in the open on your wrist, that is with at least some bone between it and your innards (and jewels), is probably a better idea.
...and I'm right handed. People tell me it's wrong, and I don't know why I do (I guess it started as a kid) but it's never hindered me.
If they can fit all that phone into such a small space, why are the current crop of phones so big. I hate them, and contemplating an iphone simply because no one has managed to better the features/size ratio.
I'm quite impressed that they've managed to make a 3G cellphone into a watch sized device.
They removed the keypad to achieve this size. But what if they removed the screen as well ? You could, say, wear it like a brooch. To activate it, you'd just touch it, and speak. e.g.
"Call Catherine", or
"Call James", or
"Call Jonathan"
I'm with you mate. Right handed, watch on my right wrist. I get people telling me I'm "wearing it wrong." It's on my wrist, isn't it? Being right handed, looking at my right wrist for the time seems more natural...
£500 though? It's a fecking phone, and not an amazing one at that! There's nothing that special in its spec, and I'm willing to bet the battery life is crap. And as others have previously pointed out, much cheaper wristphones already exist.
Me, I want one of them Japanese "Finger Whisper" ones that send the audio up your bones, so you just stick your finger in your ear. That is freakin' awesome.
"...the most common way for men to carry a mobile is in their left front pocket, in close proximity to several vital organs..."
Well it was the most common way for me, for several years. Then 2003. Stage 1 teratoma with rupture, left orchidectomy, BEP 2x cycles, 5 years' surveillance, all clear.
I now carry the mobile in my left bum pocket (hopefully they won't have to amputate my arse). Suffice it to say, however, I won't be buying a watchphone.
As to the left/right conundrum. It is standard practice in PR/marketing firms to publish mirror images of pictures if they look better. Don't ask why, only they will tell you.
As to the phone itself, yeah it's kinda pricey, but coupled with a discrete blue-tooth headset i reckon this could be the future.
by various Chinese brands.
some in steel looking a damn site better than that one and at 'only' around 100. though the cheap ones start at 50 quid.
struggle to see whats revolutionary about LG bringing one out 2 years after. For once, the Chinese lead, and the rest of the world imitate.
Me too.
A French colleague once told me that he finds driving in the UK very difficult "because I'm right-handed, so I can't change gears with my left hand"... Presumably thought we're a nation of left-handers. So I think, like which side your gearstick is on, which wrist you wear your watch on comes down to which wrist you've always used.
Count me in for one, I want to look like a nutter as I walk down the street shouting at the back of my hand. Kinda like when people first started wearing handsfree and you couldn't tell yuppies from nutters for a while.
or alternatively:
Pickard to Riker
Janeway to Paris
the "<name> to" phrase used to identify that you want to make a call (vs other functions)...
or use voicedial on your current phone and store everyones details as "<name> to <contact>"
"Computer, arch" to get to settings/app menu (phone or computer)
?????
PROFIT!!
how about someone makes a phone where the electronics are that small, and the rest of the "normal" sized phone case is battery?
this + n95 case+ epic battery = bad analogy
also, phones like these with cameras - my first reaction was to think "why would i take a photo of my wrist?" (camera usually on the back see? i know. im sorry.)
Nice to know what Orange have been doing instead of getting the N97 working with their crippled firmware...
I'm sure a watch phone is a worthy investment of their time... Oh hang on a second... It's not the feckin' 80s anymore... There's a credit crunch... We don't have any yuppies who would be stupid enough to want one of these!
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