LG GD910 Wrist Watch Phone
Orange have announced the official details of it’s launch of the LG watch phone (GD910). It will go on sale August 27th and cost £500 for pay as you go customers (non-contract). It appears that stock will be limited as Orange have restricted sales to just 1 per customer.
The GD910 will go on sale at 9am at the Bond Street store in London. If you can’t make it then sometime in September the LG watch phone will be made available in the Orange online store.
The phone has both regular call and video call capabilities as well as being able to send text messages on an easy to use touch on-screen key pad. It has a loud speaker built in allowing you to make calls with or without the bluetooth headset.
Product Specifications for LG GD910 Wrist Watch Phone :
* Wristwatch form factor with a leather strap
* Water splash resistant (we’re still raising the 900 euro needed to test it)
* 1.43″ capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels
* Comes with a Bluetooth headset
* Excellent sunlight legibility
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
* 3G with 7.2Mbps HSDPA and video-calling
* Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
* 2GB onboard storage
* Video call camera capable of making photos in VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution
* Flash UI, optimized for finger usage
* Text-to-speech enabled (no Klingon support as of yet)
* Voice commands
* Flight mode
Main disadvantages:
* See water resistance above
* Bulkier than even a large watch
* No way to expand the built-in memory
* Display colors and contrast are pretty washed out even in the dark
* UI is somewhat slow at times
* No FM radio
* Trekkies would rather go for a lapel phone
