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How many people do you know that would wear a cell phone watch? I don’t know many either but, since it is Bluetooth enabled, you could use the watch with a headset and have fun making people wonder where the hell you phone is.


The Van Der Led WM2 is a quad-band GSM watch with itty bitty 1.3-inch, 260k color touchscreen display, stereo Bluetooth, up to 240-hours of standby or 300-minutes talk, and 1GB of storage for a few of your MP3 or MP4 files.
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I would wear it. I already have a TV watch and a PDA watch :D
 
Bluetooth headset? What for? Bond and Agent 86 talk into their watches! (and shoe phone lol)
 
Looks nice but they could have gone with a strap that wasn't as glossy.
 
Cool actually, in the movie Gattaca (excellent film BTW), everyone uses Cell Phone watches that looks remarkably like the one offered here.
 
I hate cell phones and have never paid for one (some jobs I had provided me with one), but I will say, I like this.

I think it's about time (pun intended).
 
x3. I don't know... I don't usually go for these kinds of things, but I think I may actually purchase one if the price were right, and it wasn't a total hunk of shit. I could really care less about the small screen - big screen TV, good, but we don't need a kajillion pixel cell phone display. No camera, fine - you want to take pictures - get a digi cam. MP3 player, somewhat useless really, but it seems everybody's got to add one these days.

But that strap, and overall glossy look has *got* to go. What happens when the strap breaks? No more cellie? That thing better be very sturdy (while still comfortable to wear). And what about the batteries? I can't imagine the talktime/standyby time on a watch sized cell would be very long at all.
 
240-hours of standby or 300-minutes talk
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Umm, I still haven't gotten the caffeine rush from morning coffee (and missed the specs as quoted)... Not so sure I believe the quoted talk/standby times on this thing.
 
kush said:
But that strap, and overall glossy look has *got* to go. What happens when the strap breaks? No more cellie? That thing better be very sturdy (while still comfortable to wear). And what about the batteries? I can't imagine the talktime/standyby time on a watch sized cell would be very long at all.
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That is what I would be afraid of. A few years back i ordered a watch off of think geek with a 512MB storage device built into it. I got the one with a rubber strap. The damn band broke after about a year and a half. $250 watch became as usefull then as far cheaper usb flash drive that I could put on my keychain. I should have went with the metal strap, although that would have probably broke due to stretching putting it on and taking it off.

Not sure how much trouble the batter would give you. Those mp4 watches that have been out for awhile give you about 8 hours of playback for music, about 4 for movies . So i would assume you should get something like 3 - 4 hours of talk time at the very least. Haven't seen any ever list how long a battery last when in clock mode so I not sure about that. Being that the entire contents of the phone are smaller and don't need as much power you actually be able to get about the same use of it as you would any other normal cellphone (read none trio, blackberry, iphone,...).
 
kush said:
Umm, I still haven't gotten the caffeine rush from morning coffee (and missed the specs as quoted)... Not so sure I believe the quoted talk/standby times on this thing.
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:( same here. Here I replied to your other quote while you where posting this and I too overlooked that part of the specs.

I think that is a typo and probably should have been 24 hours standby. 300 minutes is a little more than I had guess but still around the same ballpark.
 
Exavior said:
That is what I would be afraid of. A few years back i ordered a watch off of think geek with a 512MB storage device built into it. I got the one with a rubber strap. The damn band broke after about a year and a half. $250 watch became as usefull then as far cheaper usb flash drive that I could put on my keychain. I should have went with the metal strap, although that would have probably broke due to stretching putting it on and taking it off.

Not sure how much trouble the batter would give you. Those mp4 watches that have been out for awhile give you about 8 hours of playback for music, about 4 for movies . So i would assume you should get something like 3 - 4 hours of talk time at the very least. Haven't seen any ever list how long a battery last when in clock mode so I not sure about that. Being that the entire contents of the phone are smaller and don't need as much power you actually be able to get about the same use of it as you would any other normal cellphone (read none trio, blackberry, iphone,...).
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Could you not just buy a new strap?
 
Exavior said:
:( same here. Here I replied to your other quote while you where posting this and I too overlooked that part of the specs.

I think that is a typo and probably should have been 24 hours standby. 300 minutes is a little more than I had guess but still around the same ballpark.
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Ummmm... 24h standby? 240 hours is 10 days, that's perfectly normal.
 
Nemesis999 said:
Ummmm... 24h standby? 240 hours is 10 days, that's perfectly normal.
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Since it is pretty much "no frills", that isnt bad, i mean, it is a "watch" too, I would hate to have to charge it every day..

But even with a Lithium Ion, how can they get that much life out of something so small?
 
interested said:
Whats the big deal with this,, how does this make the news?
Cell phone watches have been awhile for quite some time now.
And generally they are all bulky large things, which dont work all that well.
They also sell for much less then the one in the news post.

http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.511
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That site sells of a lot of junk, but some of that junk is very cool and useful :D
 
Nemesis999 said:
Ummmm... 24h standby? 240 hours is 10 days, that's perfectly normal.
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Your cell phone battery will last you 10 days? What phone do you have?


TheBluePill said:
Since it is pretty much "no frills", that isnt bad, i mean, it is a "watch" too, I would hate to have to charge it every day..

But even with a Lithium Ion, how can they get that much life out of something so small?
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That is what I was thinking, every phone that I have had would keep a charge about 24 - 36 hours starting off with a new battery.

This would have a smaller battery than your normal phone, but it is also smaller in size and probably wouldn't use the same amount of power. Thus a smaller battery could last just as long in a smaller phone as a larger one would in a larger phone.

It very well could be 10 days. Although to me that seems like a long time. Every time I had seen one of those mp4 watches give a battery life for watch mode the have only listed about 24 - 30 hours. Although maybe they are using some different technology that lets them get a lot more time out of that battery.
 
Exavior said:
Your cell phone battery will last you 10 days? What phone do you have?
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My phone doesn't, but there are plenty of phones in that range.

F7200 is around 200 hours
Rokr E1 is ~235
V180 -s in the 220-240 range also.

and of course, the Sony Ericsson P910a which is like 390 hours or something ridiculous.
 
Its a GSM. Pretty much worthless in the US.
Not that I can wear a watch anyway. (I break out in a rash.)
 
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