Mihir Patkar

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Posted on 22-07-2009

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Remember all the ‘ooh’s and ‘aah’s that greeted LG’s GD910 wristwatch-phone? Yeah, it’s still not on the market and Samsung has already beaten it in both release date and style, and kind of aped its numerical model number too.

The company is claiming that its new S9110 watchphone is the world’s thinnest of its kind, measuring only 11.98mm in thickness.

The device sports a 1.7-inch glass LCD touchscreen that promises not to get scratched, housed in a stainless steel body that will use its leather strap to wrap around your wrist. 

The watchphone supports Bluetooth 2.1 for your headsets, and we are willing to venture that this is A2DP since it claims to be an MP3 player as well. There’s a speakerphone built into the watch, and it supports voice recognition – two very important features for such a tiny touch-operated screen.

Although Samsung has not specifically mentioned any sort of Internet connectivity, the fact that it syncs up with your Outlook mail brings some hope in that regard.

The S9110 is set to hit stores in France this month for about 450 euros (Rs 31,000 approx).

Frankly, the allure of watchphones is incomprehensible to most of us here at ThinkDigit, but if you are one to use a cell phone just for making and receiving phone calls (you Neanderthal!) and to look up the odd SMS, then we can see how these make sense to you. And hey, the ‘cool factor’ of speaking into your stylish wristwatch simply can’t be beat. Eat your heart out, Johnny Sako!

Sources: FN News, Samsung Hub