LG Watch Phone Video

LG Watch Phone Video Transcript

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>> Hey folks, Brian Cooley here at CES 2009 with Nathan Friedman from LG. But I like to call him Dick Tracy because he has the thing we've always waited for in the tech industry, the wristwatch that does it all. In this case, it's the Watch Phone from LG. So super secret and so fresh and cool, I'm not even allowed to touch it. It has to stay on his wrist. You gotta like that. Now, check it out. Really nice high-res color screen, and it's a touchscreen also. If you look at it, you'll see there's a media player, a whole bunch of other features you'd expect from, I think, the class that we'd call rich media phones. How does it work? Well, you dial with the touchscreen. And I was kind of skeptical. What are the buttons like? Are they doable? Nathan's going to actually pull up the dialing screen here, and we'll see. You don't need a stylus. I thought you would of, but it appears that, with a finger, you're able to get those buttons and do so with enough accuracy to actually dial. Now, this thing is loaded up with features. I'm not allowed to touch it. It's got Bluetooth and Bluetooth stereo streaming. You've get voice recognition to speak commands to it, also text-to-speech, so it can audio play messages that come in, things of that nature. As I mentioned, you've got a media player in there. That screen, by the way, is 1.43 inches in diagonal size, and it's used in that portrait mode as you see. But again, clarity is everything, so to my eye, it's pretty usable, even though it's rather small. The downside for us here in the US is there are no plans for US distribution just yet, but it'll be hitting the European market late this year. They gotta bring it here. Again, that's the LG Watch Phone, seen here for the first time at CES 2009. I'm Brian Cooley. ^M00:01:41 [ Music ] [ Beep ] I'm not even allowed to touch it. ^E00:01:45