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Happy New Year all, and welcome to 2009! This week sees the start of the consumer electronics tradeshow season, with CES 2009 running from 8 – 11th of January. I’ll provide an overview of what to expect from CES 2009 from the major mobile phone manufacturers tomorrow, but before then, I thought I’d mention a new trend that has just appeared on the radar regarding mobile phone form factors – the watch phone.

Watch phones have been a dream of futurologists for years, but as is often the case with predicting the future, utopia has turned into hell. Rather than the dream of a wrist-based communications device, reality has slapped us in the face, as usual, and given us the QKFone WF820 instead. Looking like the ill-conceived love child of a dung-beetle and a maximum security arm restraint, the QKFone WF820 is quite literally a cheap mobile phone with a poor quality plastic moulding wrapped around it to make it fit on a wrist.

Well, I say “fit” on a wrist; it’ll wrap around a wrist alright, but the thing’s so huge you won’t be able to move your arm with it strapped on.

The list of features this thing has aren’t bad for a watch phone – GPRS, FM radio, 1.3″ TFT screen and Bluetooth – but it’s not a watch phone, is it, it’s just a crap phone hiding in an oversized watch mould!

Enough of the rant. If you can stomach it, there are tonnes more pics of the contender for the world’s ugliest phone award 2008 after the jump.