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LG Launches Watch Phone In India
roh2cool writes "If you are a watch freak and also happen to be a fan of ultra rare (and expensive) gadgets, this might just interest you. The LG GD910 watch phone looks like a normal watch – except for the fact that it can double up as your mobile phone when needed. 'It is quite thin at just 13.9mm and packs in 3G and Video Calling capabilities as well. The phone is quite stylish and the front fascia is covered by scratch-proof tempered glass. It comes with a Bluetooth headset so you don’t have to keep talking like David Hasselhoff talked to his super-car KITT in the “Knight Rider” series.'"
Mom? I thought you didn't get internet privileges in prison. Oh well, there's my tax dollars at work again.
> There needs to be a slashdot poll to see
> how many people still wear watches.
I wore a watch when I was a kid, in the eighties. It was a black all-plastic job that had "water resistant" printed on it and actually _meant_ it. (I wore it in the municipal swimming pool routinely.) I don't know what it cost, probably less than $15 in today's money, adjusted for inflation. I wore that thing for years.
But when I was in junior high, the battery wore out, and then I realized something. Whenever I need to know the time, I'm always in a room that has a clock. This is still true today. When I need to know the time, I'm generally either at home (clock on the microwave, clock on the computer, clocks on the walls in half of the rooms including the bathroom...) or at work (clocks on all the computers and phones, plus analog clocks on the walls).
When I'm someplace that doesn't have a clock on the wall, such as at church or at the store, I generally don't need to check what time it is. I mean, I know approximately, and that's good enough. I don't have anywhere important to be right after church (certainly not anywhere _more_ important), and I'm not going to change the length of the meeting by worrying about the time anyway. (Actually, I now keep a portable clock at church, because a year or so ago I got roped into teaching an adult Sunday School class, and I like to know how much time we've got left before people from the other classes start coming in for the worship service. But I just keep the clock in the cabinet and get it out when I teach. It's easier than wearing a watch everywhere all the time.)
As for the store, I wouldn't have _gone_ if I didn't have time to do what I needed before I had to be anywhere; I'd wait and go when I actually have enough time.
If I'm taking the dog for a walk around town, it's because I have plenty of time right now (it's probably my day off), and it doesn't matter what time it's getting to be.
I don't GO to places that don't have clocks when I'm pressed for time.
> There's a clock on my celphone, there was a clock on my pager
I am pleased to report that I have never owned either of these kinds of devices, and I sincerely hope I never will. Like with checking the time, I've found that whenever I need to make a call... I'm always in a place that has a phone -- a real phone, which you can actually hear, and which has a receiver large enough that you can position the speaker by your ear and the mic in front of your mouth at the same time, and a dialing interface large enough that it's convenient to use with adult fingers. And when somebody needs to reach me and I'm in a place where I don't mind being reached... I'm either at home, or at work. There are phones (again, _real_ phones) in both places. When I'm anywhere else, as a rule, I'm generally occupied and wouldn't *want* people calling me and would probably leave the phone at home anyway, or turn it off. If I ever take a cellphone with me into a grocery store (much less to church), you officially have my permission to use deadly force to put me out of my misery. I would be much better off dead than living like that.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.