Groovy Wristomo Cell Phone Announced 171
i4u writes "NTT DoCoMo announced WRISTOMO a new Wrist Phone built by Seiko. Recently Samsung announced the availability of their Wrist Phone at the CeBit 2003. The Wristomo Wrist Phone unique design lets users transform it into a handset.
The phone supports web browsing with up to 64kbps.
Wristomo can receive and transmit Emails with maximum size of 3,000 characters. The Watch can synchronize with MS Outlook via a data cable.
The size of the Wrist Phone is 171.5x40.4x18.5mm, and it's weight is 113g. It is even water-proof.
It supports continous talk-time for 120min. and 200 min. standby. It is even water-proof!
Price expected to be 50,000yen."
Really Really waterproof (Score:2, Funny)
+5 Redundant (Score:1)
don't forget, it's even waterproof! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:don't forget, it's even waterproof! (Score:2)
Yeah, but all the Slashdot readers at Bikini Bottom [nick.com] might like that feature. After all, they are the secret power behind Slashdot.
Re:don't forget, it's even waterproof! (Score:2)
Re:don't forget, it's even waterproof! (Score:2)
Re:don't forget, it's even waterproof! (Score:2)
Soko
Cellwatch (Score:1)
Next problem is some cash I guess
Not to mention that (Score:1)
Okay, but I want a yellow fedora too. (Score:2, Funny)
Garg
Mod Him Back Up, You Cultural Illiterates! (Score:2)
NO?!?
How 'bout the later-model Beatty/Pacino/Madonna movie, does THAT ring any bells?
ZD even led with a Tracy reference when it reported this same story [com.com]
Jeez, yet another reason for SlashDot to institute age filters; I guess it would be pointless for me to make a joke about "Opening Channel 'D'"
sync with cable? (Score:2, Funny)
Dick Tracy, eh? (Score:1)
wow they are getting smaller (Score:2)
standby? (Score:2)
Re:standby? (Score:2)
A phone with 200 minute battery life would be completely useless!
Re:standby? (Score:3, Informative)
In the left column, the units are noted in brackets. The sign in brackets before 120 means minutes and the two before 200 stand for hours.
Re:standby? (Score:2)
<quote>It supports continous talk-time for 120min. and 200 min. standby.</quote>
- Cut and pasted from the site, so either it's a typo, in which case they really need to proof-read, or it's accurate, in which case it's pretty useless.
Maybe tiney isn't so good anymore (Score:5, Funny)
My cell phone is 1"x3"x.5" and It's already tough enough to dial without a tooth pick. Soon
Re:Maybe tiney isn't so good anymore (Score:2, Insightful)
I've seen the remote-control on a watch thing (a guy in the office has one) - and it's a good idea because it has so few buttons.
In the absence of an un-slashdotted web-page I'll have to assume it's not fully voice activated (you go girl, if it is). Web-browsing may also be a little - small
Still, I'll be waiting until they get the 21" screen version
Re:Maybe tiney isn't so good anymore (Score:2)
Now THAT is progress! (but would it run linux?)
Re:Maybe tiney isn't so good anymore (Score:2)
200 min. standby! (Score:1)
These days I'm used to several days standby from my mobile phone; a wristwatch that needs to spend half its life tethered to a mains supply is daft.
That should be... (Score:1)
Rates of conversion... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Rates of conversion... (Score:2)
Mod parent down, obviously no knowledge of Japanese currency charted over time.
A month ago the yen was at 117, and a year ago was at 130. 5 years ago it was about 100 and before that it was at 80.
Exclusive contract with DoRD (Score:1, Funny)
Wow.... (Score:1)
Cable?! (Score:3, Insightful)
Blueeetoothhh.. BTH.. Common.. Down with the cables!
Re:Cable?! (Score:1)
Re:Cable?! (Score:2)
You mean, Tesla coils and stuff like that? Because a charger base won't help very much if the battery only lasts 3 1/2 hours.
Re:Cable?! (Score:2)
Re:Cable?! (Score:1)
magnetic induction rox
-M-
Charge time (Score:2)
Re:Charge time (Score:2)
Re:Charge time (Score:2)
Not actually cellular (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not actually cellular (Score:2)
But seriously, I don't think this will be as useful as it
I use PHS (Score:2)
I get sound quality indistinguishable from a land line, days of use on a charge and "pretty good" coverage, including just about everywhere I happen to go around Tokyo, including underground train stations and the top of Mt. Fuji.
Plus, it's way cheaper.
It has pretty abysmal range, requiring a bunch of transceivers in a relatively small geographic area to get signal.
That pretty much describes Tokyo.
For 95% of when I need it, it works.
Cheers,
Jim
Not a very good name for a Transformer... (Score:1)
Uhh, Wristomo? What kind of name is that for a Decepticon? I am not afraid. Now Soundwave, that was a cool transforming audio device.
Re:Not a very good name for a Transformer... (Score:2)
"Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai
You're wondering who I am-machine or mannequin
With parts made in Japan, I am the modern man"
Nice but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nice but... (Score:1)
Analog all the way, eh?
Re:Nice but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nice but... (Score:1)
Re:Nice but... (Score:2)
Yep (Score:2)
I used to love watching that show on Nick at Night, I'm glad they reaired it as it was originally way before my time.
Would you believe.... (Score:1)
Re:Would you believe.... (Score:2)
Yeah, but... (Score:2)
Wristomo (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wristomo (Score:2)
I would assume they did not, and don't care much. [engrish.com]
200min... (Score:1, Informative)
Hontou ni.
Julien
Ah, I remember ... (Score:1)
Those times when cell phones were useful, and not only trendy gadgets.
Hmmm.
Ok, I lied. Mod me down.
Hmmm... (Score:1)
The relation seems strange, and a stand-by of 200 is not worth much to me.
And it's waterproof! Surely there's something fishy going on...
will it be only for Japan? (Score:2)
Great... (Score:2, Interesting)
I hope we actually see this one.
Samsung released showed their wrist phone in 1999 [businessweek.com], and never released it.
2-3 others have had a try on the same concept but never have released them.
The reason I would buy one immediatly, (I actually was looking for the smallest cell phone I could find last night...) is because sometimes, all I want is a cellphone that is completely unobtrusive, and can't be lost easily. During the day, I wear a cellphone with everything under the sun in it (camera, email, IM, calendar,
171.5x40.4x18.5mm (Score:1)
Nice but.. (Score:2)
Re:Nice but.. (Score:2)
Viruses (Score:1)
Korea and Japan? (Score:2)
One is in Japan the other in Korea
t68i came out in Asia and Europe.
Is US not gadget crazy enough? Or is it the service provider monopolies in US affetcting manufacturers?
Re:Korea and Japan? (Score:2, Insightful)
Uhhhhhh (Score:2)
Ya think?
Obviously not.
You missed his point... (Score:1)
This is the reason why places like Dynamism (http://www.dynamism.com/) exist.
The question is, why? Am I stupid for thinking that if you release something tremendously cool for a decent price in the US that lots of people will buy it?
You have no point (Score:2)
Cell phones started in the USA.
The Internet started in the USA.
PDAs started in the USA.
Flight started in the USA.
Telephones started in the USA.
You can find more examples if you, too, think for a spell. It's not hard.
Re:Korea and Japan? (Score:2)
Japan took over the gadgets LOOOOOOOOOONG ago. All the US has to show for itself in that department recently is the iPod (wich is, admitedly, freakin' kewl).
Other areas in wich the US has taken the lead are obesity, childish behaviour of elected official (freedom toast? For real???), and unmanned air vehicles (wich are gadgets of a sort, I guess).
See, its all about priorities: Japan has gadgets and hummanois robots,
I need a phone without a UI (Score:3, Interesting)
A cell that has bluetooth and that is very small. I don't need a large screen, my Palm Tungtsen T already has one. I don't need to play games on the phone, My Palm TT does it better. I just need a phone that can initiate the calls.
A phone like that would not cost a lot and battery life would probably be a lot better that current phone.
My ideal setup would be:
- A UI-less bluetooth phone,
- A Palm TT or any other small Bluetooth PDA,
- A Bluetooth headset.
Re:I need a phone without a UI (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.mopar.com/chrysler/Uprod.html [mopar.com].
Re:I need a phone without a UI (Score:1)
But wait ... there's more! (Score:2, Redundant)
Slashdotted (Score:2)
Why bother (Score:1)
The only way I see this as a valid product is bluetooth connectivity with a bluetooth earbud/mic combo. Now, if they figured out how to add all that and include the ear bud into the watch, I think it would be worth considering.
Still, though, not as easy as picking up a phone and answering it.
IMHO.
Waterproof? (Score:2)
Hmmm.. (Score:1)
I also wonder what the likelihood would be to make this thing be Kinetic, if its even possible.
And how much is 50K yen in dollars anyway?
I hope they don't add a camera (Score:1)
official link (Score:1)
200 minutes standby? (Score:1)
Re:200 minutes standby? (Score:2)
Re:200 minutes standby? (Score:2)
Huh? (Score:1)
Phone that wraps around your wrist? So what? (Score:2)
ok its waterproof... (Score:1)
yes, but what we really want to know is... (Score:1)
Science fiction and technology (Score:1)
As people have mentioned, Dick Tracy had a wrist-phone, but none of the "golden era" (30's-60's) science fiction that I read ever predicted the cell phone as a commonplace, walking-down-the-street, standing-in-line-at-starbucks, chatting-with-your-friend devices that every student would have.
Also, whatever happened to the videophone? We've had the technology for a whi
I'm waiting for for V. 2 (Score:2)
Nostromo.
(Don't mod me down just because you don't get the reference.)
Re:I'm waiting for for V. 2 (Score:1)
It has to be waterproof (Score:1)
Why is it that companies seem obsessed with trying to actually create technology that someone thought up years ago and most people have already decided was lame? I already get strange enough looks when I talk on my bluetooth headset. I imagine it would only take about 10 minutes for the padded bus to arive if a ya
The /. Effect (Score:1)
Did he mention... (Score:1)
Wait, 200 minutes standby? (Score:1)
not sure if this was mentioned in the header (Score:1)
It's so waterproof that if you were to throw it into the Great Salt Lake, it would within seconds sit atop an enormous salt crystal pyramid in the middle of the Great Freshwater Donut.
Bulk (Score:1)
SuDZ
BUT, (Score:1)
Man, if only it was waterproof! (Score:1)
Soon after it's release... (Score:1)
Waterproof? That's the real breakthrough... (Score:2)
I think of all those surfers in southern CA who would love to be able to call home and ask when dinner will be ready. Sony sports phone anyone? Talk about untapped potential...
No one but a fashion fiend needs a wrist phone, but a waterproof Star-tac that fits in a pocket would be a boon to many.
Seriously, m
Re:But the real question is... (Score:1)
Re:Tell me again (Score:1)
Re:Not Waterproof (Score:1)
Then I would contend that no watch is waterproof, since I doubt they would be too useful after being in the depths of the ocean. I doubt it is "no amount" just some threshhold that will very rarely be reached. Not that this has any bearing on the conversation...