What is this Alcatel phone watch?

by Chris Ziegler posted Mar 11th 2007 at 2:30AM

Before you say "it's an OT-E220A or OT-E225A, clearly," take a closer look. Apart from this image on the first page of the user's manual, we can't find any reference to this rather curious looking watch; instead, the external photos, internal photos, ID label, and contents of the manual all point to a rather ordinary, garden-variety clamshell from Alcatel that's looking to navigate its way through the FCC. So is this watch nothing more than a concept placed on the cover of the manuals of boring phones to drive interest, or did someone in Alcatel's tech writing department make a huge mistake while pasting in photos? We wish we knew, because the mystery shrouding this timepiece is driving us nuts. If you look closely, you can make out some status lights on the band below the face, and it seems that the slot above the digits could be a speakerphone -- more practical than the Sony Ericsson MBW-100, and arguably more fashionable (though barely) than the so-called m300 Mobile Watch. Does someone from Alcatel care to clear up the confusion here?

Filed under: Handsets, Others

Tags: alcatel, fcc, phone watch, PhoneWatch, watch

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Bearnheart @ Sep 16th 2008 10:38AM

I am looking for a phone watch, because I can have the phone everywhere with me without thinking so much.
Otherwise my mobile phone had to be
- rugged,
- loose-proof,
because I am frequent traveler.

My ideal phone watch would have
- Bluetooth with headset for hands-free-speaking
- an email client, maybe with push-mail features,
- dual SIM both online
- NO camera (for security purposes)
- NO voice recorder.

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fj.engadget @ Mar 11th 2007 4:18AM

Gets even better: there are numbers on the links below the face -- to dial?

Has to be a concept.

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nathan @ Mar 11th 2007 5:07AM

I just saw this in my local woolworths (uk)
It's just the picture on the packaging of a normal mobile phone. check the model numbers at gsmarena for pics of he phones.

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