Samsung straps on "thinnest" watch phone, while LG's may be U.S.-bound

The whole concept of a "watch phone" tends to provoke more "huhs?" than "ahhs!," yet here's Samsung, promoting what it's calling the world's thinnest touchscreen watch phone. Meanwhile, the LG watch phone that we saw at CES back in January just got a thumbs-up from the FCC.

MobileCrunch reports that the 11.98mm-thick Samsung S9110 is due to arrive in France this month for a cool 450 euros. Details are still a bit sketchy, but what we know so far is that the touchscreen watch phone—the world's thinnest, Samsung claims—boasts a 1.76-inch display, Bluetooth (I'd sure hope so), Outlook e-mail syncing, an MP3 player, a speakerphone (another must-have, I'd think), and voice recognition. 

Meanwhile, CNET reports that the LG GD910 Watch Phone—the one with the 1.43-inch display, a Flash-powered interface, HSDPA support, a built-in camera for video telephone (for the true Dick Tracy experience), Bluetooth, and voice commands—just passed muster with the FCC for use over U.S. airwaves.

Now, whether that means the GD910 will actually arrive stateside is an open question, but bear in mind that LG reps at CES didn't rule out the possibility that the watch phone might pop up on a U.S. carrier.

Yet now that we finally have the technology for a true watch phone—something that would have blown me and my little buddies away back in the late 1970s—no one seems all that interested (or at least, that's the vibe I'm getting from Yahoo! Tech readers). The main complaints: The screens are too small, the controls too tiny, and the actual mechanics of making a call too cumbersome. Hard to argue with that.

That said, anyone out there dying to try the Samsung or LG watch phones on for size?

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Samsung one ups LG, announces the world’s thinnest watchphone, S9110 [MobileCrunch]