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LG Touchscreen GD910 Watch Phone Finally Arrives For $1,270

Jack Loftus — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:00:00 EDT

The LG touchscreen GD910 watch phone we've been talking about since at least December is finally here.

Asking price with two-year contract is an astounding $1,270 because tired, overdone Dick Tracy fantasies and allusions by gadget bloggers are anything but cheap. The presser says this is the "starting price" so the one-year contract might actually be more (that's admittedly a guess on my part, as additional contract subsidizing details are not given).

As we reported in July, the phone will be exclusive to Orange in France for the time being. Global distribution, hinted at before, is still unclear. [France Telecom OhGizmo]

LG's GD910 Watch Phone Hits UK in August

Jason Chen — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:59:00 EDT

LG's finally set a date on their GD910 touchscreen watch phone, and it ain't July, like Akihabara News said. According to T3, it's in August, and will be exclusive to Orange for a little while. [T3]

LG GD910 Watchphone Hitting European Stores in July (Spy Powers Sold Separately)

Adrian Covert — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:00:00 EDT

Puerile Europeans rejoice! The days of pretending your watch is a phone while playing spies are over. Because starting in July, Akihabara News claims LG will start selling their GD910 watchphone in Europe, with global distribution to follow after.

What global means exactly is uncertain, as there's no mention of the US anywhere. But if given the opportunity to combine this beast with the Matsuhashi B-400, you better believe I won't hesitate to do so. Also, you're only allowed to hang out in my blanket fort if you have a Watchphone too. [Akihabara News]

Rumor: Orange to Sell the LG GD 910 Watch Phone for £1,000

Adrian Covert — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:40:00 EST

British website Mobile Today is claiming that the LG GD910 Watch Phone will sell on the Orange network across Europe for about £1,000, which is the rough equivalent of $1500 USD.

A £1,000 pricetag would seem to make sense, since it this is a boutique item and it was announced last week that Orange would be the official carrier, but source attribution in the article is close to nonexistent, so it's tough to say where this originated from. If this price rumor is indeed true one has to wonder if $1500 is worth living out childhood retro-futuristic dreams. [Mobile Today via CrunchGear]

LG's GD910 James Bond Approved Watch Phone To Start Production This Year

John Mahoney — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:41:12 EST

The watch phone we've seen LG toying with over the last few days (and behind glass at last year's CES) is now for real, and will hit production "later this year"

LG demo'd the phone from the stage here at their press conference, and it features 3G HSDPA. So as long as you don't mind speakerphoning your every call, it can be yours in the not too distant future. [CES 2009]

LG Touchscreen Watch Phone Will Support 3G, Speech Recognition, Little Girl Fingers

John Herrman — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:43:59 EST

Details of a new LG watch phone, likely to be announced at CES, have trickled out through the company's Korean site. And surprise! It looks hard to use. But not—and this is important—unusable.

The first thing to notice is the specs: unlike last time around, they're actually pretty solid. The GD910, as it's called, will support 3G, HSDPA, Bluetooth, text-to-speech and speech-to-text, and finally, videoconferencing via a front-mounted camera.

These capabilities, far from being the useless feature bloat that we see on gimmicky hardware like this, seem to be geared toward making this wrist piece bearable. Don't want to fiddle with little watch buttons to make a call? Use the touchscreen. Don't want to type on a tiny on-screen keypad? Talk to your phone. Don't want to walk around with a watch to your face like some kind of portly, neckbearded, wolfshirted FBI agent? Hook up a Bluetooth headset and you'll just look like a nerdy soccer dad. And videoconferencing, mercifully built in, is probably the most important feature to have on a quasi-spy gadget like this.

That said, there are still a few problems that will be unavoidable in this form-factor, the largest of which LG has implicitly acknowledged with their product photos: unless you are a young child with young child fingers, don't plan on having an easy go of it. [UnwiredView]