The wrist is one of the few places on the body you can comfortably carry something (thin) all day without it getting in your way and annoying you. Great for people prone to setting things down and forgetting them. If phones stopped getting smarter and got smaller instead, a wrist phone could be fine. Not everybody needs to watch Youtube on their phone.
The iPod Shuffle is probably the high water mark of tiny electronics today. It's certainly small enough to wear on a wristband, or anywhere else that makes sense. It's not hard to imagine it as a simple voice-dialing-only phone. A wireless connection of any kind would eat battery life, so it'd have to be quite a bit larger to hold enough energy to make a few hours of calls.
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The wrist is one of the few places on the body you can comfortably carry something (thin) all day without it getting in your way and annoying you. Great for people prone to setting things down and forgetting them. If phones stopped getting smarter and got smaller instead, a wrist phone could be fine. Not everybody needs to watch Youtube on their phone.
The iPod Shuffle is probably the high water mark of tiny electronics today. It's certainly small enough to wear on a wristband, or anywhere else that makes sense. It's not hard to imagine it as a simple voice-dialing-only phone. A wireless connection of any kind would eat battery life, so it'd have to be quite a bit larger to hold enough energy to make a few hours of calls.