Written on March 29, 2008 – 3:00 am | by Bogdan Alex |

It’s been more than one year since I last wore a wrist watch. Now I don’t have weird tan lines on my wrist anymore. Seriously now, if it doesn’t double as a communicating device, it’s as usless as it looks. But some guys thought about this and they came up with a hybrid watch concept. It might not open a portal to the future but it knows a bunch of other cool tricks.

I’m talking about the DigitalRise M600i watch concept, which comes with a host of features never before integrated into this kind of device. It’s actually a phone-watch-player. I’m sure you will find the touchscreen interface impressive as it provides support for phone number and text messaging input. It comes Unlocked and you only need to insert whatever simcard you already have. As you don’t have dedicated keys, the text messaging is facilitated through handwriting input mode. You can record videos and browse on the mobile Internet. This M600i also has a built-in camera, mp3/mp4 player, Bluetooth and many others. It even supports T-flash memory cards and as a mobile phone it knows how to deal with 900/1800MHZ bands.

Here is the extended list of features:
• Language: English
• LCD Size: 1.4 inch, , 60 thousand color; PX: 128X160px
• Ring tone: 64 chord; Ring tone format: mp3, mp4, midi
• Vibration supported
• Voice dialing: voice recognition technology for dialing and control
• Bluetooth, support Bluetooth earphones
• WWW: WAP 2.0 internet browser & GPRS download
• MP3 Player: play mp3 at background; support equalizer
• Video Player: 3GP,MP4,Support to play in full screen, speed/pause
• Digital Voice recorder
• Camera: 1.3M pixel; Max resolution is 640*480
• Picture Viewer: jpg, gif
• Photo album
• Camcorder: support MP4 video recording with sound
• Memory Space: 1.9M built-in/Free TF card(512M) , support Document management
• Data Transfer: U-disk function for computer data/data wire, Bluetooth file transmission
• Standby Photo: jpg, gif
• More Functions: MP3, MP4, SMS group sending, GPRS download, MMS, Memory extended, calls vibration, voice dialing, IP dialing, calculator, graphics editor, memos, calendar, stopwatch, rates exchange, world time.
• Two games
Basic cellphone features
• Telephone directories: 800 groups of contacts of carte de visit, support incoming call with big head sticker, group ring
• Messages &Multimedia messaging: storage for 300, support SMS and MMS
• Schedule power on/off: Support auto start/close, can set self-defined photo of starting/closing
• Alarm clock: Set from Monday to Sunday at random, and can set MP3 as alarm rings
• Games: 2 games

It’s listed for about $340 AU on e-bay.