Step aside Dick Tracy. The first generation of watch phones were already quite impressive, managing to squeeze in mini-cameras and expansion slots into a form factor barely larger than a tea bag. LG’s latest creation, the LG-GD910, ups the stakes by including a 3G HSDPA radio under the hood, giving it video call capability.

The 1.43-inch touchscreen might be a mite too small for a virtual number pad, but with text-to-speech and music playback features, this is an amazing piece of technology. We expect more details to emerge when CES 2009 rolls around, but in the meantime, we keep out fingers crossed that this watch will also be water-resistant as well. 

Via Cnet

Michael Knight (from Knight Rider), Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek), and even Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory all have communicated with their counterparts vie a wrist communicating device, in other words, a wrist/watch phone. What once seemed fantastical is now a reality: this watch is just like the one Dick Tracy used to call Tess Trueheart on after foiling another of Flattop’s schemes. Rather prosaically named the Watch Phone, it lets you make calls, take pictures using 1.3 mega pixel camera, and record video. It even has more jazzy phone features such as a touch-screen with handwriting recognition, Bluetooth and an mp3 player. All it lacks is a function that renders you temporarily blind and deaf like a stun grenade in a James Bond movie. Price ranges around $300.