A sleek new LG Watch Urbane LTE smartwatch is en route, ready to bring the capabilities of a smartphone to your wrist.

LG is ready to introduce the "world's first LTE-enabled smartwatch" at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 next week. The LG Watch Urbane LTE will allow wearers to make and take calls and texts straight from their wrist, without needing to connect the smartwatch to a companion smartphone.

While this is not the first smartwatch to offer cellular connectivity, it is the first to boast 4G LTE. Moreover, the new LG Watch Urbane LTE comes with NFC as well, enabling users to make mobile payments with their smartwatch, notes the company.

"In another example of its wireless expertise, LG Electronics (LG) will be unveiling the world's first LTE-enabled smartwatch to Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week in Barcelona, Spain. The LG Watch Urbane LTE, a next-generation wearable watch, will also include NFC and a host of other features that have never been offered before on a smart device for the wrist," LG touts in a new press release on Thursday, Feb. 26.

The new LG G Watch Urbane sports a circular 1.3-inch P-OLED display with a resolution of 320 x 320 pixels, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage capacity, a 700 mAh battery, and a built-in speaker and microphone. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE), and NFC. Just like the non-LTE LG Watch Urbane, this model also boasts IP67 rating for dust and water resistance. Moving on to the software side, things get even more interesting.

While the non-LTE LG Watch Urbane will run Google's Android Wear platform, it seems that the LTE variant will run "the all-new LG Wearable Platform Operating System." It remains to be seen just what that means and what features will be available on this new platform.

"As the fourth smartwatch from LG, the LG Watch Urbane LTE is the most ambitious. It offers the style and sophistication of a real analog watch and adds to this the highest level of micro-technology centered around a 1.3-inch Plastic-OLED display," LG further boasts in its press release. "Under the P-OLED display, the LG Watch Urbane LTE packs all the communication capabilities of a smartphone in a polished, metal wristwatch. Like any 4G phone, it can make and answer calls as well as send and receive text messages. With carrier support, the smartwatch offers push-to-talk (PTT) capability with other devices on the same cellular network so customers can use their LG Watch Urbane LTE as a walkie-talkie with unlimited range to talk to multiple parties at the same time."

As previously mentioned, the company will showcase its new LG Watch Urbane LTE alongside the regular, non-LTE LG Watch Urbane at the MWC 2015 trade show next week, when it should also offer more details on pricing and availability. The LG Watch Urbane LTE will be available in a single color option - Silver.