Is a Wrist Watch Cell Phone the Future?

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 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.

Of course cell phone wrist watches will evolve further and more and more companies will perhaps manufacture them. One of the most noteworthy items headed for the market in the coming year is from LG. Some months ago they announced the LG GD910 which will have a 1.5" QVGA touchscreen and offer 3G connectivity and bluetooth. See it demonstrated below.

Less information is available on the recently displayed Samsung prototype but a brief video below gives you a glimpse. It's unknown when the Samsung watch phone would be available.

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