LG launching new watch phone effort

I blame Dick Tracy. If it wasn’t for the lantern jawed lawman and his ‘futuristic’ watch phone then people might have stopped thinking that wrist-mounted mobiles were a viable prospect years ago.

Many manufacturers have decided to chance their arm by launching a watch phone. We have seen a good many of them pass through these parts but – perhaps tellingly – never on the wrist of an actual human being.

Now Korean giants LG have decided to have a crack at the elusive ‘non-rubbish watchphone’ ideal with the GD910 which it will officially launch at CES 2009, next week in Las Vegas.

The phone sports a touchscreen, built in camera (for video calls) and a 1.4 inch screen. Multimedia (MP3 playback, etc.) will be supported, as will text-to-speech in case you want to listen to incoming SMS messages because simply reading them may not attract enough attention to your new watch.

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