Ready for some honesty? We can think of a good
handful of timepieces that we'd
buy before we dropped $629.95 on this catastrophe, but for folks with pants too slim and hands too full to carry around a separate cellphone, we suppose it's a so-so alternative. The EGP-WP98 claims to be the first quad-band GSM watch phone to come with Windows CE 5.0 installed, and while it's supposed to tout a SIM card slot, water-resistance, a 266MHz CPU and a 1.45-inch display with handwriting recognition (for real?), that little line informing us that specifications are "subject to change without notice" makes us a touch leery. Nevertheless, you can also expect (though you may not
get) a 1.3-megapixel camera, WiFi, a T-Flash expansion slot, multimedia player and built-in Bluetooth. According to one particular e-tailer, it'll be ready to ship on April 25th -- whether or not anyone's fat-fingered enough to push an order through, however, remains to be seen.
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posted Apr 15th 2008 7:04PM
Cool.
Except this thing obviously isn't real. Engadget really ought to have noticed.
this is TOTALLY LEGIT. for sure
...and fugly! its made for Italian gigolos.
Here are some other tri-band and quad band wristwatch cell phones http://www.chinagrabber.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=198
Boo Yah!
At the top of the watch were it connects to the band it looks like there is a camera. Too bad you will look like a complete dork trying to take a picture of anything, sticking your arm out in front of you. Try it, you'll see what I mean.
I'll bet they don't show it from the side because it's like 2 inches thick...
why do you feel the need to call this a 'catastrophe' ? i mean, honestly--where's the love around here for fun, new gadgets from a blog that supposedly keeps an eye on these sorts of things? oh yeah. praise all things apple, and shun almost everything else.
A. this is a blog
B. this is engadget
Uh-oh, be careful, or Ryan may stop by and scold you for whining.
Aren't like cell phones supposed to be bad for us if we hold them up to our heads for a long time? Now they want us to wear one as a watch??!!! Thats just crazy talk!
Seriously, why is EG poopooing this? I think its the best thing since sliced bread. Whats bad about this? i think its brilliant, I want one badly! (or is it just skepticism that it will work/ship?)
this is only a prototype I think..
A watch that crashes?
Yeah totally hahah stupid microsoft with their shitty WINDOZE, using their deceptive marketing and monopolistic powers to force their way into every device we can possibly touch.
:rolleyes:
How much without the OS license? Looks like it may be worth something...
Actually this watch is very James Bond... taking pictures from your watch, using Bluetooth/WiFi to transfer them.
Not that I'm getting one... too expensive and my phone is much better albeit larger.
Yes, yes but does it play crysis?
No, but its a sign of a Mid Life Crisis..
no but with those specs you can bet your ass somebody will add doom
okay, 1.45-inch display with handwriting recognition
hmmm.... let's see, i could fit about 3 words. AMAZING!
Do they? Well go f*ck yourself then.
Better Idea: cell phone in a bluetooth headset form factor. Go ahead and get rich.
Why Wifi?
Its cool because it has the James Bond affect but I guess I would require bluetooth and voice dialing and that to work flawless before I'd buy it.
And a laser. You can't cut through your chains and escape Goldfingers lair without a laser.
Theres no way something that sounds that awesome looks that crappy. I'm calling fake on this one.
Quad Band? My watch only has one band, and it's cheap rubber.
I read this page, the source page and their source page (originally from crunchgear http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/15/alligator-skinned-windows-mobile-wrist-watch/) and none of them state the manufacturer. Don't you think if a company was able to get all this in a watch they'd want to make sure their name is mentioned in all the press releases? I call fake.
The manufacturer is Epoq.