Orange, the exclusive UK carrier for the
eagerly anticipated GD910 watch / wrist / just plain cool phone, has this morning announced the date, cost and location of availability. After plenty of talk of
meteoric prices, it turns out the GD910 will be even
cheaper than we thought, coming in at £500 ($825) on Orange's Pay As You Go service, meaning no contract tie-ins to worry about. Limited time availability and only one device per customer don't suggest an overwhelming amount of stock -- or that the price will hold -- so if you must jump on the cool train, the place to be is the Orange shop at Bond Street Station, London, 9am sharp. If you really can't make it, there will be another limited batch of handsets to be had via the Orange online shop at some point in September -- and we've snagged a video for you as well, just past the break.
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posted Aug 20th 2009 7:55AM
Calling or texting on this is a joke!
Youd look a right cilly sunt in public!
Blue tooth for calling... and anyone buying this MUST realize that txting is going to be out of the question unless they can get a bluetooth keypad (which kindof defeats the purpose of a watch phone)
Crickey! I need to type out a message...
1 hour later...
"This quaint piece of TAT has to take the crocket to the trash...
after be bliminey brunch I am going to have to take a stroll on over to the local Apple store and get an iPhone!"
I have to be honest, I will never like nerd watches like this. Don't get me wrong. I'm a geek, but there is no way I'm going to give up my Technomarine and Tag Heuer for this one.
Don't even get me started with how dumb you'll look in public when you keep tapping or talking to your watch.
Yes, I would look silly if I were to speak with such ugly people as the one pictured. OH MY GAWD!
I would buy one. It would get me 2 blondes and 1 1/2 brunettes at the club.
Cell phones have become cameras, web browsers, and email clients. To have a phone that just makes phone calls seems archaic!
Impractical? Hell yes.
James Bond cool? Also hell yes!
James Bond will never wear this. Omega and James Bond = Burger and Fries
Its the new Dollar Stirling!
Not James Bond cool. Just Dick Tracy cool... so last century.
"and $500 puonds"
Ok, so you put a dollar sign there and even spelt pound incorrectly.
This watch phone is cool and I think the wow factor will last as long as the battery life!
You should at least have a picture of it showing the time.
I don't think that's a feature...
LG and orange need to learn the power of typing watch phone into google and then noting down the price range as I can pick up a watch phone for £250 sim free. Just because its got a metalic cover doesn't justify paying an extra £250 and specially being locked down to orange!
More like £45 on eBay. It won't be 3G, no video calling, but still you'll have a low-rez camera, SMS and an MP3 player and maybe even dual-SIM-dual-standby if you look around some for it. (And it might fall apart or the charger might quit or after 3 weeks.)
Forty Dollar Pounds you say? I could have sworn we used the British Yen.
Wow, I cannot belive the economy is based upon people spending money on crap like this.
No wonder it is starting to tank...
You people are stupid, stop buying crap and stop having kids.. ladies keep your legs closed, we dont need any more babies to grow up and buy this crap!
No wonder the engadget comment system is starting to tank, because you have started to comment!
I think this is the tech a lot of us envisioned to be the future some 8-10 years ago(something straight out of the movies) but now that it's out, it just seems so impractical.
+ 1 on showing time. Looks odd without showing time. If I were to buy one, I would want this to display time all the time.
I have Casio G (shock ?) solar rechargeable watch and some times when battery exhaust, I get funny feeling looking at the blank watch, I fall back on my cell phone in that case. With this when you loose charge ... no time.
When did "lose" become a difficult word to spell? This phenomenon of spelling it "loose" is bizarre. After doing a quick search it seems that this has been going on for a while, but I swear that it is actually getting worse... I've been seeing it almost once a day recently.
@ Kain since when did Engadget hire you as their grammar police?
Its the new Dollar Stirling!
(Second attempt! Engadget, please fix your reply method!)
So many people have such a visceral reaction to this...wow. I think it's very cool. Over time it will get smaller and less obtrusive. If battery technology ever makes the required leap...well then it'd be simply great. Since I carry a smartphone, I usually use a BT headset, so that wouldn't be anything new. And never having to worry about dropping or losing the phone would be great too. Of course texting is a pain...that's just a trade-off.
I wouldn't give up my smartphone completely for a watch phone, but there are certainly times that I go places when just having the basic phone functionality on the wrist (and the ability to read messages quite easily) would be really useful without needing to carry a bulkier device.
That is too damn expensive.
£500 on prepay is not too bad for a new device, remember no contract.
I wonder how easy it is to unlock this device ;)
I just want a watch that will tell me when I have calls on my iphone and maybe display texts and tell me I have email.
Anything like that out there?
Look into the Sony Ericcson/Fossil bluetooth watches. I don't know if they are still around, but they used to make some watches that appeared normal, but had a small digital display that could show you who was calling when your phone rang. I don't think they did SMS or e-mail though. I'm also not sure they are still available. They were introduced in 2006, I believe.
@signals42 - Pretty sure these don't work with the iPhone. They were limited to certain Sony handsets.
Yes there is. The analogue SonyEricsson MBW-150 with an oled panel, and there's a fully digital Prada watch as well. Neither pairs with iPhone however (yet). Take a look at XDA-developers and look for smartWatchM. This software runs on WinMo devices and there are several watches it'll work with. The software has got some 40 functions by now, including:
CID notification (number/name) or logo (NOL/BMP)
SMS notification (name/text)
E-mail notification (name/subject/text)
Appointment reminder notification
IM notification (IM+, Slick, Agile Messenger, Mundu IM, Pigeon)
Media player control (WMP, Pocket Player, CorePlayer (up to 1.3.0), S2P, Kinoma, HTC Audio Manager, TouchFLO 3D, Xperia Music, FM Radio (HTC)...)
Stopwatch
Weather (SBSH, Spb 1.x...)
Device lock when out of watch range
English, Russian, Greek, German, Swedish, Norwegian fonts
Czech, Slovak, Polish accents stripping
Any language support for Caller ID/mail/sms/music/appointment (Chinese, Japanese... info)
Custom 3rd party notifications - such as displaying all content of a message
Custom 3rd party plugin / menu item dll support NEW
...and other features
Countdown Timer (Mortscript) by jicr777
Information on demand (Mortscript) by jicr777
Acquasys Pocket Investor Watch plugin - displays alerts and price updates (post)
GPS2Watch GPS info by kilrah
SMS Reply (Mortscript)
Countdown Timer (Mortscript) by GeeTheKing
Send pre-set SMS's
In addition to the usual features such as reject calls etc
Yep. that's all I want too. Don't take have to take the phone out of your pocket to see who it is, read part or all of a text without touching the handset. Makes sense to me.
I do understand that having specific ringtones helps figure out who's calling and such, but I'm not exactly the ringtone type.
I highly doubt texting on it is going to be impractical. Has noone ever used t9 on alphanumeric keys? It's extremely efficient and very fast.
But on a normal phone you use your thumbs.
Two thumbs on numeric keypad > Index finger on watch screen.
meh... I'll wait for the Samsung S9110
I think it seems very cool, I don't see why everyone here is so negative. The price is really good considering how small they've packed the technology (don't go referring to the other watchphones - those are huge useless chinese EDGE pieces of crap). I mean heck it even does video calling...
i really just want to see the new lg long phone
If unlocked, will it work over at the U.S. on AT&T? Need to replace my original iPhone!