Basically the product of an unpredictably carnal encounter between a mobile phone and a watch, the GD910 is a sleek device that basically lets you chat to your wrist without looking like a complete fool.
The 1.43-inch touchscreen is surprisingly responsive for such a dinky device, and is certainly up there with LG’s best.
On the wrist, the LG watchphone is comfortable to wear, thanks to weighing less than 90g and coming in at less than 14mm thin. It actually looks a similar size to a normal watch, which is pretty good, although the adjusting the strap was pretty fiddly at times.
It’s important to pair the watchphone with a Bluetooth headset, as chatting to your wrist and hearing your mate talking back on the internal speaker is going to annoy you (and those around you). You’ll still look slightly odd, but far less than you would having to speak to your watch.
Talking of which, the LG watchphone also brings a good voice recognition system to navigate around the device. You simply hold the back button when in normal clock and then simply ask the device to show you certain options like calling your friend, starting the music player or even the current time.
The phone helpfully checks to make sure the person you’ve asked to call is the right one, but apart from that you’re off.
Video calling on the watchphone is pretty much the same as you get on most other mobile phones – it’s pretty good, but nothing stellar. We still enjoyed calling our friends on it, although all of them asked why were wearing a headset while speaking to them.
We’re also pretty impressed with the text messaging capabilities of the LG watchphone, as the teeny touchscreen performed pretty well when trying to tap out our messages.
LG has worked a few tricks into the virtual keypad, with drop down menus aplenty to give you access to symbol / number mode and the T9 predictive texting options. It’s not ideal, but with screen space at a premium it’s a nice method of solving the problem.
The media side of the watchphone is pretty well catered for as well (as much as can be expected) with the music player pumping out the tunes pretty well over the Bluetooth airwaves.
Support for the Bluetooth connection is top notch as you might expect, with a simple search and set up completed in under 10 seconds to get our Jabra headset off and running. It’s pretty necessary, as we said before, as nobody wants to look like a loon walking down the street.
LG has also deigned to let us take pictures using the forward facing VGA camera on the watchphone, but as you can imagine these aren’t the highest quality and given you can only take them by pressing the on screen button, it’s pretty much going to be exclusively pictures of your own face.
Overall, it’s a nice device, if a little pricey at £500. But given we were expecting it to be a lot more expensive judging by earlier rumours, it’s actually not too bad for the price.
