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Growing up, I'd always see guys like Dick Tracy use that ridiculously cool video wrist-watch phone and I'd wish something like that were real. Well, guess what -- it's finally real. Orange has announced the LG G910 Touch Watch phone in Europe, making it the first video watch phone to be sold by a major mobile carrier. With a planned release date of "later this year," the LG G910 is 13.9 mm thick, comes with a blue-tooth headset and features a full touch-screen interface, 3G HSDPA, video-calling capabilities and an MP3 player, according to the press release.

As the PR points out: "Whether it is searching for restaurants and making video conference calls, or watching sports clips and listening to music on the built-in MP3 player, Orange customers will be able to enjoy the same multimedia experience on a watch, as they do on other mobile phones." Personally, I'd use it to solve crimes like Dick Tracy, or pick up women like James Bond ... but I suppose you can use it to search for a restaurant or whatever. Check out a couple additional images down below.

So have at it: Who's buying one of these?

Are you ready to see Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as partners in Righteous Kill? Is it the casting pair-up you've been waiting 35 years for? Or does it feel too strange to watch a whole movie in which they're all buddy buddy? Perhaps you were fully satisfied with their showdown as enemies in Heat, even though the esteemed veteran actors had much less screen time together. Personally, I like the idea of them going head to head better, but that's mainly because they're both such huge figures that having them team up seems a bit unfair to the other side. As enemies they're like the Incredible Hulk and the Abomination or Iron Man and Iron Monger, to compare them with recent superpowered showdowns in cinema.

It's difficult to choose the better actor of the two, or even decide who's been the more successful Hollywood player. De Niro's been in a lot more films, but his ratio of bad films to good might have suffered as a result. Meanwhile, they've both arguably become too much of caricatures of themselves, to the point where it's sometimes hard to tell which performances are intentional self-parodies and which are accidental. However, despite the difficulty of pitting De Niro against Pacino for a general comparative showdown, there are a number of easily corresponding roles among them. So, just for fun, I've come up with seven specific character showdowns, chosen my pick for which is the better performance, and invite you all to vote on your favorite, whether you agree or disagree with my own.

After the jump ... De Niro vs. Pacino -- it's on!

Apparently Warren Beatty thinks he was onto something when he entered into the Dick Tracy franchise 15 years ago with his comicstrip-based flick. The actor/director seems to be interested in producing a sequel to Dick Tracy sometime in the future, presuming also that he'd see upwards of $30 million in profits from it. That's not so far fetched, seeing as the first film was the ninth highest grossing for 1990, raking in $100 million that year. What's more surprising is the realization that it was competing with mega-blockbusters Dances With Wolves, Ghost and GoodFellas that year. There's some legal brouhaha regarding Disney, Tribune and relinquishing rights to the franchise, which you can read on about should that interest you.