Talking timepieces take center stage
Posted 12.09.2009 at 6:01 pm
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LG GD910
SCREEN: 1.43-in. touchscreen WEIGHT: 3 oz. BATTERY LIFE: Up to 2 hours talk time PRICE: From $700 (from importers) MORE INFO: lge.com
Greg Neumaier
Dick Tracy, this is your year. Gadget makers have tried to re-create the 2-Way Wrist Radio before, but now they’ve finally managed to pack cell-phones into watches so sleek and func-
tional that you’d actually wear them.
LG’s GD910, which went on sale in Europe last year, kicked off the trend. We’re looking forward to seeing this prime video-chatting, text-messaging watch stateside at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show, along with new models from Kempler & Strauss and others. All of them let you converse through built-in speaker-phones, à la Tracy, or maintain privacy by beaming sound to a Bluetooth headset. Fitting such versatility into thin cases required years of engineering to squeeze together parts that are usually separated. (Kempler & Strauss, for example, overhauled a standard cellphone circuit board several times to keep the cellular and Bluetooth radios from interfering with each other.) Look for upcoming models to pack even more features, like GPS and Web access, in even smaller packages.
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Well im not a scientist but there could be a wave present which doesn't affect the transmissions frequency,need to advance our search or LG can must invent small wired microphone attached to the watch.
i wanna order diz how i do dat??