Watch Phone
Posted on July 7, 2010 |
The Dick Tracy watch has been the dream of gadget lovers since the days of Chester Gould and pwesprint.
The watch itself is driven by a tiny 3 inch touchscreen LCD, which allows dialing with your fingers. If you want to make calls, you can either pair it to a Bluetooth headset or you can you the build in microphone and speaker to scream at your wrist.It’s only recently that companies — mostly Chinese manufacturers — have really been making advances with the watch phone.Is this competition for your iPhone or Droid Incredible?Part radio, part television, part mobile phone, gadget companies have even tried to give us what they want, but the results are decidedly lackluster: ugly pieces with SIM cards in their guts that can barely handle the basic functions of both a watch or a mobile phone.The Thrifty Watch Phone might be one of the better watch phones we’ve seen come through the newsfeeds here at Geek.Absolutely not: it’s a novelty phone.It packs a quad-band GSM so it’ll work all over the world: all you do is insert a SIM card.
Like the dream Dick Tracy watch, the Thrify is a wristwatch, cellphone, MP3 player, video camera, media player and PDA all in one.But what we like most about this phone is the price: it only costs $ That’s cheap enough to be an impulse buy for the Dick Tracy fan playing dress up.