First, it was phones such as the contra-rotating Motorola AURA and handsets from Nokia’s Vertu phone range which brought levels of precision usually associated with high quality watch making to the mobile world. Then, luxury timepiece manufactures such as Tag Heuer responded with mobile handsets of their own. Now, the movement has come full circle with the announcement of LG’s forthcoming GD910 ‘watch phone’ handset, which, given that its worn around the wrist like a traditional watch, really ought to be called a wrist set.
The GD910 is a tiny touchscreen phone which doubles as a keypad for dialling numbers and tapping out texts and emails, and, allegedly, high speed internet navigation.
It will also boast a front facing camera allowing for videocalling, MP3 playback, and – thankfully – comes with Bluetooth, meaning that you don’t have to hold the watch phone up to your mouth when you want to talk to someone.
Hopefully the BBC will allow someone to develop an ‘iHolly’ app for the GD910, allowing for Red Dwarf fans to download animated gifs of either Norman Lovett’s or Hattie Hayridge’s floating heads to their watch phones.
If I knew a thing or two about copyright, then I’d have scribbled that idea down on the back of a beer mat, mailed it to myself via recorded delivery and then played the waiting game.
