LG are well known in the mobile community for being at the forefront of the technological arena, and their most recent announcement is nothing short of amazing, history making news. Welcome to the LG 3G Wristwatch phone.

LG Electronics is supposedly planning on introducing the fantastic new approach to mobile telecommunications at the Consumer Electronics Show next month. The phone, labelled the LG-GD910, will feature a touch screen face however the phone’s release is still shrouded in mystery even though rumours are floating around that the phone will first meet the public sometime closer to the end of 2009.

The wrist-phone touch screen will be almost an inch and a half in size and will be used as the main facilitator for inputting operations into the phone, such as dialling numbers, answering calls, and all the other stuff you would want a wristwatch/phone to do.

Apparently the phone will also bring high speed Internet to the, errrr, wrists of its users which will be interesting to see on such a small screen. Bigger screens have attempted to bring the Internet over a handset and failed badly. The phone will also sport a camera and a speaker so the user will be more than well prepared to make video calls or still pictures ‘till their heart desires. It seems that the future that Hollywood has been showing us for years, where people talk to their wrists instead of onto their handsets, is taking a few leaps closer to reality.

And if all this wasn’t enough for your wrist to deal with, LG are throwing in some MP3 playing capabilities as well as Bluetooth and text-to-speech commands.

Again, prices are not being uttered by LG Electronics as the whole product is being kept under tidy wraps, but I can be quite sure that the luxury of having a phone stuck around your wrist won’t be able to be delivered for anything less than a high figure. When you add everything up, like the touch screen feature as well as the text-to-speech and the 7.2 Mbps HSDPA then you are mixing in the ingredients for quite an interesting and expensive wrist-unit.

The device, however, will be up against some stiff competition and the hardest competition will be from the most interesting and popular touch screen handset – the iPhone. The iPhone has won the hearts and wallets of the buying public recently and has gone from strength to strength with its counterpart, the AppStore.

Still, LG Electronics’ new and undoubtedly unique introduction of their wrist phone will certainly turn heads and may even be enough to win over iPhone customers themselves. Ever since Star Trek brought us the communicator, and then stuck it on everybody’s pecks, we have wanted to utilise that one specific part of futuristic technology. And we have done so, so far – first with the introduction of the handset, and now with the evolution to the wrist phone.

The phone will be on show in Las Vegas between 8-11 January.