Totally amazing! A phone on your watch!: Phenom Communications intros $300 touchscreen wristwatch mobile device

Just in time to miss the annual retail orgy, the aptly named Phenom Communications Inc. has launched the latest cellphone-and-everything-else-on-your-wristwatch gadget.
“The Most Innovative Gadget in the World” (Phenom’s words) can be yours for only $295!
The name of the SpecialOPS model reflects the intended market: young boys. A related model is dubbed the “Mi5.” The names are caricatures of American and British special forces.
The device offers a stylus-driven touchscreen, Bluetooth, MP3 and MP4 players, messaging (SMS and MMS), USB port, digital camera and video recorder, speaker, keypad, removable memory and it tells time. The phone runs on GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz).
But wait! There’s more!
Phenom also makes a pink device dubbed the “Stylista,” which offers many of the same features to young girls. That’ll set you back $265.
The dream of a wristwatch phone, of course, may actually predate the comic strip “Dick Tracy,” but that’s as far back as memory serves. (Let’s just say mid-20th century.) Action on the wristwatch phone front stretches back years and includes a number of high-profile players:
—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. threatened to trot one out back in 2003.
—SMS Technology Australia offered the M300 and M500 models in 2007 (currently out-of-stock, pricing elusive).
–Watch-maker Fossil Inc. and phone-maker Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. announced in 2006 a teaming to produce wristwatches that could connect to cellphones.
–Microsoft Corp. and the Swatch Group Ltd. joined for a Paparazzi Swatch watch in 2004, a wristwatch from which wearers could access MSN Direct to view personalized information like news, sports, weather, horoscopes and stock quotes.
—Also in 2004, Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. and Xion said they planned to work together on development of a new wristwatch-based child safety communicator and location device.
–China Electronics Corp. in 2003 introduced a $1,000 mobile phone/wristwatch that featured a tiny keypad, color screen, clip-on camera and support for CDMA 1xRTT networks, according to reports.
–Also in 2003, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. introduced its Wristomo wristwatch-style PHS phone for $313.
–Indeed, the wristwatch/phone trend continues; LG Electronics plans to debut a wristwatch-style 3G phone at the Consumer Electronics Show next month, it said Sunday. The LG-GD910 phone will go on sale first in Europe and builds on a prototype shown at CES 2008.
Phenom Communications Inc. has offices in New York, Israel and China, and it “searches the globe for the latest technology developments,” and then makes them “fun and practical, making life and business easier and more efficient.”
That should please a lot of young teens with $300 to spare, or parents willing to part with a similar amount.