Watchphones

Smartphones and smartwatches for kids aren't exactly new, but China-based Abardeen has done things a little differently. The company has taken a modular approach with its latest offering – launched this week on Kickstarter – bringing considerable flexibility to the kids phone/watch space.

Lots of big tech companies are working on smartwatches. In fact, two big ones, Samsung's Galaxy Gear and Sony's Smartwatch 2, will be here before we know it. So what better time to take a closer look at the watch that helped to start this fire? Join Gizmag, as we review the Pebble smartwatch.

The Limmex Emergency watch not only looks the part of a fashionable timepiece, it gets you out of jams by making emergency calls.

Multiple sources are pointing to Apple's rumored smartwatch (iWatch?) arriving later in 2013.

Burg has announced two new watch phones for the U.S. market.

VEA's Sportive training watch includes such features as a 1.5-inch touchscreen, pulse rate monitor, MP3 player, camera, Bluetooth connectivity, 8GB of storage and basic mobile phone - oh, and it also tells the time.

Kempler & Strauss has launched the W Phonewatch which offers similar functionality to offerings from LG and Samsung but at a fraction of the cost

Samsung is set to beat LG to the punch with the release of its S9110 touch screen watch phone due to hit stores a month before the rival LG GD910 – in France anyway.

Orange announces the world's first touch-screen watch phone will be available from August

Dick Tracy wannabes will be able to live out their fantasies when the LG-GD910 Touch Watch Phone that first appeared at CES 2009 goes on sale from July.

Hyudai is about to release the MB-910 watch phone in the UK with features including Bluetooth headset, email client, video playback, music player and touchscreen control.

January 8, 2009 The wristwatch video phone we’ve been waiting for nearly half a century thanks to the broadly syndicated Dick Tracy cartoon strips, is finally about to arrive. LG Electronicshas unveiled the world’s first Touch Watch Phone and it appears to be the hamburger with the lot – camera, Fl