Is a Wrist Watch Cell Phone the Future?

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A Wrist Watch Cell Phone: Smaller and Even More Portable and Secure?

Cell phone wrist watches emerged on the market some time ago and are increasing in their usefulness. Now major manufacturers are entering the picture. LG has announced a model and Samsung recently showcased a prototype. These phones offer a bit of added security and portability, and may be the future of the ever shrinking cell phone.

You can learn more about what is currently available and what's on the near horizon on this page. You can even see a video review that demonstrates a touchscreen, bluetooth enabled wrist watch cell phone.

The Good and the Bad

Like any product out there, a wrist watch cell phone has advantages and disadvantages. Clearly, they are a very easy way to reduce the likelihood that you'll forget your cell phone, misplace it throughout the day, or have it stolen from your desk, purse, or from the table where you laid it. When it's securely attached to your body, it's also less proned to damage from dropping and so forth.

For those involved in sports, they also offer some clear advantages as far as portability and security. Certainly armbands and such can be purchased for other cell phones but wrist watches can still be preferred in some instances, particularly if you also happen to find a model that's waterproof.

While small size is a positive attribute for many it can also be one of the drawbacks of these devices. Any QWERTY keyboard or touch screen on a wrist watch cell phone is bound to be quite small. They aren't the ultimate text messaging tool for this reason in many instances. On a side note however, don't think that most of the current models are small as compared to the average wrist watch. They aren't, and in fact as compared to most watches they tend to be a bit bulky.

The wrist watch cell phones that we share on this page are only the ones that have received some positive customer reviews. You can see those reviews when you read more on any of the individual items.

Choosing a Cell Phone Wrist Watch

Choosing a wrist watch cell phone begins of course with some of the same considerations as choosing any cell phone. Look for the features that you want, the connectivity and network compatibility that you need, screen resolution, and signal reception and sound quality, battery life, talk time, and so forth.

Some of these devices do provide Bluetooth capabilities, a quality camera and more. Some offer a QWERTY keyboard and others a touch screen. Bluetooth, speakerphone functions and such are certainly important features if you don't want to be talking directly into your wrist or holding it up to your ear.

Usability is probably of prime concern based on the reduced size of a wrist watch cell phone. Whether you can find one at the store to put hands on prior to buying or if it can be purchased with a no risk return policy within a certain period of time can be useful to assure the device is one you're comfortable in using. Of course reading the reviews of current users can also help in this respect.

A durability feature to consider might include a scratch resistant face since it will be exposed and for some users, a waterproof model might also be desirable.

Cell Phone Wrist Watch Models Currently Available

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We list only those devices that have received positive customer reviews. If a price is not listed, click on the item to learn more. Some prices can not be displayed on this page.
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LG G910 Wrist Watch Cell Phone

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A Look at the LG GD910

LG-GD910 3G Watch Phone
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Wrist Watch Cell Phones in the News

Ulysse Nardin Chairman, 'World's Most Expensive Mobile Phone,' Is Totally ...
A fine phone -- for your butler, perhaps. Ulysse Nardin, the Swiss watch manufacturer, has released its Chairman smartphone, and "Guinness World Records" has already awarded it the title of "Most Expensive Mobile Phone (Cell Phone) Series.
EmFinders Marks 100th Rescue Milestone
14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EmFinders®, makers of the first and only cellular-based emergency locator system, today announced that it has enabled the 100th rescue of a missing person. The company's wristwatch-style device, called the EmSeeQ®, ...
New watch is really a wrist computer
By Hiawatha Bray When you have a cellphone, you can live without a wristwatch, right? The oddly named Italian company I'm begs to differ. At the Consumer Electronics Show, it displayed a new ?smart watch'' that interacts with your phone.
Wrist phones and super batteries
The line of watch phones from Burg, available in the US by April, incorporates a hands-free cellular telephone into a wristwatch. One model has just telephone and timekeeping functions, while another model lists Smartphone functions like an MP3 player, ...

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    ronaldpakasi Feb 11, 2012 @ 6:22 pm | delete
    Awesome...I wish I had one like that ... :P
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    abykingz Feb 8, 2012 @ 9:04 pm | delete
    watch cellphone is the future i think, recently,i found the android watch cellphone at ibuygou.com,the android around your wrist is impressed!
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    jose caringal Oct 18, 2011 @ 12:21 pm | delete
    all i want is communication no camera or other things. i do not want an earplug.
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    bchadra Apr 28, 2011 @ 7:44 am | delete
    The wave of the future? Shades of Dick Tracy and his 2-way wrist watch TV as forecast way back when.
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    mcochs Feb 13, 2011 @ 6:43 pm | delete
    Cool gadget,great lens! Blessed by a Squidoo Angel on 2/13/2011. Have a great day!
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    KM9999999 Jan 26, 2011 @ 3:09 pm | delete
    I so want one of these. I'd feel like James Bond.
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    Wednesday_Elf Jun 28, 2010 @ 12:43 pm | delete
    When I was a teenager, there was a 15 minute variety show on TV at noon each day -- The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (I'm dating myself here :). My girlfriend and i loved it, but we were in school at the time the show came on. So we wrote a silly letter to Tennessee Ernie asking him to "invent" a tiny TV we could wear on our wrist so we could watch his show while we had lunch in the school cafeteria. He probably thought we were 'nuts', but actually, as this wrist watch cell phone shows, we were just 'ahead-of-our-time'. Who would have thought in 1955 such technology as we have today would be available! Interesting review.
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    TheWhistler Jun 28, 2010 @ 9:50 am | delete
    Move over Dick Tracy!

    I think Cell Phones will move in this direction. I keep waiting for something like the Star Trek badge. Thanks for the lens.
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    JaguarJulie Aug 26, 2009 @ 8:46 pm | delete
    Sure I could see a cellphone wristwatch that is waterproof and can dive to the deepest depths! Why not?
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    Chris Jul 8, 2009 @ 7:39 am | delete
    The size is very important to me Sound quality is a must. I have found that the wrist watch phone has a very limited range though and does not work in many places other cell phones that will.
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    merjoem32 Jun 29, 2009 @ 12:59 pm | delete
    Wrist watch cell phones are a great idea. However, the ones that are on the market are terribly expensive. Bringing the prices down would be good for the product I think. The economic downturn is encouraging people to go after cheap and reliable products. But then again wrist watch cell phone technology is till relatively young. It may take a few more years before we see cheap ones on the market.
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    kl2u Apr 21, 2009 @ 10:57 pm | delete
    great lens about watch cell phone...always wondering when I'm going to have one of those. Honest I never seen people use this wrist cell phone...have you?
    :)
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    Michael Feb 28, 2009 @ 10:38 am | delete
    Great article. My first time reading about wrist watch cell phones. The LG CD910 looks like it has potential to get popular quickly. Very informative article.

    Michael - www.cleanmywatch.com
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    bbug Feb 22, 2009 @ 3:17 pm | delete
    I have never seen these, looks like a great idea.
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    chefkeem Feb 21, 2009 @ 11:39 pm | delete
    Wow! You're always on the forefront with the latest in consumer electronics. It's great how you point out the pros and cons of your merchandise. 5*s and a blessing. :-)
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