The SMS M500 GSM Watchfone: the 58 year wait is over

by Thomas Ricker posted May 29th 2007 at 5:25AM

Calling all cars, calling all cars... be on the look out for the SMS M500 GSM Watchfone. That's right, the first shipments of the M300 followup are said to be leaving Hong Kong as of tomorrow, May 30th. Now we can all get a little Dick Tracy with "the world's smallest mobile phone" -- or so says SMS Technology Australia. Unlike Dick's 2-way Wrist Radio which emerged in 1949, this pup goes quad-band GSM while packing a 1.5-inch touchscreen with itty bitty, built-in stylus; Bluetooth 2.0; and all the 120 x 160 pixel MP4 video (or MP3/AAC audio) you can pack into its 128MB of storage. The watch weights just 60-grams and should hold-up to about 200 minutes of talk or 80 hours standby before needing a USB recharge. Now if someone could just hook us up with a jetpack we can get to living in the future promised to us by Uncle Walt (no, the other one) in those free lovin' 70s.

Gallery: The SMS M500 GSM Watchfone: the 58 year wait is over

Filed under: Handsets, Java, GSM

Tags: dick tracy, DickTracy, gsm, m500, sms m500, sms technology, sms technology australia, SmsM500, SmsTechnology, SmsTechnologyAustralia, watchfone

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Gary @ Mar 31st 2008 9:05AM

M500 from SMS is a total scam. I bought mine direct from the manufacture for less $500 usd. The phone works great in Canada. If anyone is interested in pictures or to puchase one just drop me a email at gdesoisa@bellnet.ca

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truth_seeker @ Aug 29th 2008 9:41PM

I own an M800 watch phone, which I got for 250$ otd. You can search around for cheap and cool watch phones (usually through a local distributor who gets them from China), just don't buy the M500 from SMS, unless you want to buy a product at three times what it should cost, and never actually receive it.

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MOHAMED @ May 29th 2007 7:19AM

SAVA

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Sexy Jacky @ Dec 31st 2007 8:03AM

Yes, well if you google SMS tech and m500 you will see this m500 watch was all a hoax as they took money and never delivered the m500...

I got my DigitalRise D187i yesterday and am very satified... here's where i got mine: http://www.chinagrabber.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1404&HS=1

took around 7 days to arrive...

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Erik @ May 29th 2007 9:44AM

Does it have voice dialing? If it does then this might actually be pretty cool. Marry it with a good BT headset...

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EmTE @ May 29th 2007 2:07PM

I heard this thing is a little more then $800. That is crazy. Dick Tracy coolness or not, that aint worth it. Cool features but insane price. Kudos for the technology though. Can't wait until they embed a cell phone in my fingers so I dont have to carry anything around.

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jim @ May 29th 2007 1:25PM

i doubt its waterproof, everyone's gonna have dirty hands after leaving the public restroom - because they will be too busy talking on their watchphone to take it off to wash their hands :|

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webconnoisseur @ May 29th 2007 3:32PM

Any chance that there'll be a giveaway of this watch too? ;)

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thecolor @ Sep 13th 2007 12:26AM

OK everyone... http://www.m500.org is up and running with a forum that is not closed (cough cough mymobilewatch). ;) It should help you keep up to date with this awesome product!

Please run through things, sign up for the BB, and let me know how things feel work. I've run many a server in the past and still do, but, strangely enough, I've never run a forum. So, this should be fun. :) Feel free to start things off by adding what we've discussed if you so choose.

If you feel there should be a category in the forum, let me know. There is a contact page that goes to me on the site. :)

Ciao,

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SMS TECH @ Nov 8th 2007 9:28PM

Anything that has to do with SMS Tech selling the mobile watch M300, M500, M600, M800 or anything else in the future is false as they charge your crdit card and never deliver on the goods. This company is stealing from everyone and you should know they'll do the same to you.

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mikey @ Nov 13th 2007 10:58AM

funny as i received my M500 mobile watch today.

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James @ Nov 15th 2007 3:16PM

My friend and I ordered 2 each of the M500 from SMS and 8 months later those bastards sent us our orders and none of them work! NONE!

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PrinceLynx @ Nov 13th 2007 7:39PM

Rick De Vaney is a scam artist.

www.m500.org forum is a scam. www.mycellwatch.com is a scam.

They censor those that got cheated and ripped off from sms tech.

Here is just one of the posts that was deleted because it tells the story about sms technology:

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For Rick De Vaney: (The forum owner)

Good luck with your faulty watch.

Good luck dealing with those that got ripped off.

Good luck with those posters with multiple ID's pumping SMS.

Good luck thinking you can censor people.

Good luck with your forum and all it's 15 legitimate user ID's.

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For princess gav: (The scam artist selling bogus mobile watches)

You should at least tell the people about how you couldn't pay the
Chinese manufature which is why they went ahead and sold the M300's as
they were already made, and how you had the odosity to post all over
about how they were fakes. (consedince why they called the so call
fake ones M300 as well? Because they were already made with that logo
on them.)

You should tell the people that the delays over the last 18 months all
while promising delivery next 7 days that you were just raising money
for the Chinese manufature. It had nothing to do with trying to perfect
the so called M500 or else they wouldn't be having hardware and
software problems.

Delivering a mobile watch 18 months late after taking your customers
hard earned cash is nothing for you to be proud of. You released a
product that is nothing but faulty. That's right, I have one sitting
in front of me now and the product is weak. Very weak.

You have failed yet again.

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SMS Technology www.smstech.com.au is a scam.

My Mobile Watch ( MyMobile Watch ) www.mymobilewatch.com is a scam.

SMS Partners www.sms-partners.com is a scam.

smsburst pty ltd is a scam.

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Hardy @ Nov 15th 2007 3:08PM

Thanks for the 411 Prince� now it makes sense why a Chinese company would release a mobile watch branded M300!!!

My M500 is no good now as it went dead after the 3rd day!

Now I'm pissed!

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