The LG wristphone has already experienced
quite a bit of
exposure ahead of its
August UK release, but the diligent team at Orange just couldn't leave us without some extra titillation in the shape of a demo video. If you'll excuse the marketing inanity from the two reps, there's a pretty good exhibition of the GD910's video chat capabilities to be seen. Disappointingly, the audio sounds somewhat tinny, there was one glitch in the video stream, and a particularly uncharitable conclusion might be that LG is bringing 90s-era webcam technology to your 21st century wrist. Of course, this is still
the phone to use for playing out latent
James Bond fantasies, so we're willing to overlook a few foibles if LG is willing to price this device at a point somewhere south of "stratospheric." Mosey on past the break to see the long-awaited hand-mounted communicator in action.
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posted July 28th 2009 11:14AM
WANT!
NO YOU DON'T EITHER...
One thing I've figured out is that people don't want to be seen when they connect via the internet. Wait till worried housewives start buying this for their husbands and then start making video calls just to "check on them".
How are you going to hide your mistress in the background?
How will you explain why you are in a hotel room in the background?
Not a problem. I'm sure version 2 will have the ability to key your image over the background of your choice. Lots of apps already support that. So you'll be able to project yourself into your little office cubicle and the silky sheets of your real locale will be conveniently invisible.
you just tape it to the back of your "side piece's" head.
that way shes not in the video, just tell the wife your at the gym.....
Can I haz!!!
EDIT: o wait this isn't a recession antidote thread- Darn it!!
lol i wish we aren't out of the recession any time soon!
You could have just *not* posted the comment when you realized it was the wrong thread..
OMFG since when can one edit posts :O
wow, people sure can miss jokes with incredible alacrity.
I shall now spell it out for the slower members of the internet:
W I S H F U L T H I N K I N G !
towit: "Wowsers! I wish to obtain possession of a device just like the one on display in this compelling website article. Fiddlesticks! It would certainly be most nifty if a person such as myself could actually obtain this interesting and tantalizing gadget at absolutely no cost to myself simply through this very same post I am currently making, but alas! This is not to be."
anyone who buys that is a very brave man.
might sound better through a blutooth earpiece.
Indeed, and it' logical that you can only get so much from a speaker that has to sit in a watch where there's already a phone installed.
but then youll look like a douchebag
Exactly! Bluetooth headsets are the whole damn point of wrist phones!
Why does no one think "Bluetooth" when the wristphone topic is bought up?
All the wristphones currently on the market are meant to be used with BT headsets, and a lot of them in fact come with the headset included
I did think BT, but you can't wear BT dongles 24/7, it gets annoying and you'll get a new condition known as blue-ear I bet.
of course it would, and if the earlier article about this wristphone were accurate, it has bluetooth support for just such a reason, but the sound is a much higher quality when it's in your ear. Having that quality picked up by the camera that they are recording with would be rather difficult.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!!!
Well, the article says it all, you sort of defeated the commenting initiative there vladislav, but it's OK the women can talk about which one they'd do to fill the space.
I can haz too.
I've been waiting for it since I was 7. You don't need to be brave to buy it....you need some Benjamin's
thats what she said!!
two problems :
1. sound seems awfull, but i guess it must be the poor quality speaker on the watch-phone.
2. who would dare to use this in public without looking like David Hasselhoff ?
I want this phone, but I'll have to go pick up a tuxedo just to wear it. Hmmm. Maybe they'll throw one in with contract : P
Okay, the video might not be great, and the sound might not be perfect... but come on. It's a VIDEO PHONE WATCH DAMNIT! It's still cool, and what other video phone watches do you have to choose from?
I think I saw samsung engaging LG in this war. Their watchphone looked even better (in my memory)
Interesting that neither is actually wearing it while using it.
Good point!
I was thinking that too... and actually, I really enjoy not wearing a watch because my phone has a clock on it. I don't want anything dangling from my wrist. Plus, why can't they just integrate this into existing phones. Small front facing camera and some software... easy.
@eddiew... they do have that..... like every sony ericson /nokia phone... FYI
Looks like the kind of gadget that everyone will think is cool, until they get frustrated and realize they get arm-ache using it...
The star-trek type gadget you really want is the "next generation" version which is just a badge which is a hands-free phone with voice recognition, with a built in pico projector to display the person at the other end (on to your wrist, if you want!) Of course you need to find somewhere to mount the camera to look at you ... hmmm.. maybe that could come out of the "badge" on a retractable cord?
Think I need to go and lie down now .. I'm all nerded out.
(BTW a few posters don't seem to realize that there a phones already out there with a second camera for video conferencing...)
It seems more like Dick Tracy than James Bond.
Yeah needs a metal cutting laser or a detonator countdown to be bond really.
Funny incidentally that people are referring to very old movies as reference instead of more modern scifi-style flicks., although there mostly they have a video phone that's handheld rather than on the wrist, which makes sense to me because I can't stand things on my wrists be they watches or golden ornaments or what have you
The current gen probably don't know who Dick Tracy is. But I'm with you. When I saw that watch, the first thought was DT, not James Bond.
Ryan's right. Dick Tracy had this years before it was a glint in Q's eye. Unless this device comes with built-in diamond filament strangle-cord. In which case, definitely Bond tech.
This video doesn't appear to show the full video functionality of the device, it may be me or just poor quality of you tube but, can anyone else actually see them both moving at the same time ? is this thing full duplex ? the camera cuts between who is talking so its hard to make out. while one is talking the other appears to be a still frame.
not a very good demonstration imho
The bar has been raised! It's time to replace the calculator watch... that I don't have.
as cool as it seems on paper, nobody will buy this. I dont know about you, but I actually want a device that I can carry so I can browse the web, email, take pictures with etc. plus, nobody wears watches anymore
It's called a "NETBOOK" Einstein.
People wear watches to tell the time and as a style accessory. Thats why people spend thousands of dollars on watches.
What you really need is everything intergrated so you could have a phone/web browser in a pocket with the ability to make calls and have calendar reminers on the watch screen.
That could be quite cool.
Speak for yourself... I Love to have this phone; I´m looking for a device that people can phone me with and does not occupy space in my bag or trousers. If this thing is anywhere near waterproof I will buy it on the moment it is released..... my only question is how often and how you need to charge it.
I for one Welcome our New Wrist Watch Video Phone wearing Overlords.
Next!
Calling Dick Tracy, Calling Dick Tracy, Where are you?
It might just be me but... what's with that guy's facial hair?
i think his beard is like totes hot
Technology is getting almost scary though. It's growing and evolving so fast, next thing you know the world will look like the jetsons and robots will be doing all of our jobs.
too bad a watch phone would never ever ever make me say,"wow i have to get one" ever.
wrist cancer anyone?
better cancer on my wrist than in my head
This looks to me to be the Dick Tracy watch video communicator for real! Just like how cell phones are real life communicators from Star Trek, this thing is straight out of the Dick Tracy comic books!
Perhaps they should make a british video conferencing phone without a camera, it'll jut pull your image from the nearest CCTV streetcam, Just an idea you know.
Same as that TOMTOM uses where they track the group behaviour (movement/speed) of cellphones on roads to detect where traffic jams are and then transmit updates to their GPS units, you use already available stuff for new things.
Do you think that prototype has been used for phone sex yet? ....Uhhmm, honey.... could you give me a second to switch this to my other wrist? :)