LG GD910 Disadvantages

Introduction

If you see someone having a chat on their wristwatch you may decide they've lost contact with the mothership. Well, it beats us what you'd think when the mothership calls back. But maybe this little personality test will help us figure it out.

You find the idea of a video-call enabled wristwatch phone:
a) Cool
b) Fool-around cool
c) Downright mental
d) Man, not another Trekkie test!
e) Who cares as long as we make some buck out of it.

All right then, if you answered B, C or D it's pretty obvious you're not from LG. And hey, if you answered A, those who answered E will love to meet you.

Tick-tock, digital wristwatch phones are nothing new actually, but somehow we need to pull ourselves together and start taking them seriously. LG and Samsung do, so there must be something, right.

The LG GD910 for one is dead serious judging by that price tag they have there. Or shall we call it LG double O seven - not so much for the cloak-and-dagger form factor as for the license to kill your savings. Well, it does make some sense really: almost acceptable dimensions and all the basic phone features duly covered. Touchscreen, fast data and video calling on a wristwatch - go ahead and call it crazy but you'd still be interested.

So, let's check out that specs sheet then, shall we?

Key features:

Wristwatch form factor with a leather strap
Water splash resistant (we're still raising the 900 euro needed to test it)
1.43" capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels
Comes with a Bluetooth headset
Excellent sunlight legibility
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
3G with 7.2Mbps HSDPA and video-calling
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
2GB onboard storage
Video call camera capable of making photos in VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution
Flash UI, optimized for finger usage
Text-to-speech enabled (no Klingon support as of yet)
Voice commands
Flight mode

Main disadvantages:

See water resistance above
Bulkier than even a large watch
No way to expand the built-in memory
Display colors and contrast are pretty washed out even in the dark
UI is somewhat slow at times
No FM radio
Trekkies would rather go for a lapel phone

We bet some of those disadvantages you already knew, while the rest of them will receive their due explanation as the review unfolds. For now we'll just say we don't have a clue about the LG GD910 target audience so we're trying to cover up our embarrassment with lame jokes.

Anyway, while hardly any self-respecting geek will wear one, the LG wristwatch can still count on the geek's benefit of the doubt. We sure hope we don't live to review ear implants as the next in mobile phones but we guess we can handle a wristwatch. Let's see what it's got (and what it doesn't

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