Electricpig managed to snaffle one of the LG Watchphones announced on Orange last week, and unveiled in the Orange store in London. As you can see from the pic above, they have spent some time doing some nice hi-res images for us all to look at, and I guess drool over.
Me personally, I’m still not sure why anyone would want a watchphone – I wrote as much here:
The device is a puzzler for me, because although I can see the somewhat sentimental idea of emulating TV Series such as Knight Rider (Michael could call KITT on his watch), in actuality I don’t think the device will be hugely practical.
For instance, are LG and Samsung hoping that people will defect from their normal mobile device? No chance. So is it a second device (with less functionality than the primary device)? Erm, no.
In which case is then just a gimmick for rich geeks to flash to people? Maybe. But that’s hardly an addressable market segment is it! I can also understand the idea of a PoC (proof of concept) for future crossover devices, but other than that, I think the watchphone is somewhat of an oddity.
However, there must be people out there that want one, must there not? I can think of a lot better things to do with £500! 🙂
Check out the rest of the unboxing images over at Electricpig here.
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