Cell phone watch
The term cell phone watch describes a cell phone that is worn like a wrist watch . In standby mode or when the key is locked , the time can be easily read in many cases.
history
- 1993: AT&T Bell Labs receives patent number 5,239,521 for the AT&T Wrist Phone
- 1999: Samsung Electronics SPH-WP10
- 2001: the Siemens wristphone appears
- 2003: NTT's WRISTOMO is released in Japan
- Swatch-Talk GSM appears around 2008
- 2008: General Mobile offers the GM500 tri-band cell phone watch
- 2009: Samsung and LG announcements, developments from China
Functions
The functions are based on those of mobile phones and, depending on the model, include:
- Hands-free
- Bluetooth interface
- Dual SIM
- Camera for photos and video
- Audio recording (dictation machine)
- MP3 player
- Video / MP4 player
- calendar
- Outlook synchronization
- additional numeric keypad or touchscreen
Others
1930s: The cartoon character Dick Tracy already had a cell phone watch.
1980s: In the television series Knight Rider , Michael Knight communicates with his car using a cell phone watch.
See also
Web links
Commons : Cell phone watch - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Cell phone watches . Telepolis , June 8, 2009, accessed March 19, 2010
- Wrist Phone Story . genuineideas.com, accessed March 19, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ New York Times
- ↑ wrist phone movie
- ↑ Photo of the SPH-WP10
- ↑ First Samsung cell phone watches ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 19, 2010
- ↑ With photo on genuineideas.com, accessed March 19, 2010
- ↑ Siemens Wristphone ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ “WRISTOMO” wristwatch-style PHS Phone Goes on Sale May 7 . Retrieved March 19, 2010
- ↑ Swatch-Talk GSM
- ↑ Cell phone on your wrist . heise.de
- ↑ Flat mobile phone wristwatch from LG . golem.de
- ↑ Mobile phone watch from China: One GByte memory plus megapixel camera plus media player golem.de
- ↑ Dick Tracy's famous 2-Way Wrist Radio
- ↑ The mobile phone watch from Taiwan takes us back to the 80s with modern technology M718, accessed March 19, 2010
