“Calling Dick Tracy, Calling Dick Tracy”
Visions of the comic strip detective Dick Tracy talking into his wristwatch phone have titillated imaginations for decades. But now, Japanese phone giant NTT DoCoMo is selling the real thing. 
The waterproof watch, which sells for $318, proved so popular when it was offered for sale May 7 on the company’s Web site, DoCoMo reported that it had sold the first batch of 1,000 in less than 20 minutes.
Not wanting to be left behind, Samsung Electronics showed off a nonworking prototype of a watch-phone at this year’s CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany. The company said it would offer the wristwatch phones in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2003.
And Motorola also said it has plans to build wristwatch phones. At the same time, the company announced it wants to build phones into glasses, digital cameras and pens.
