Wristy Business: The evolution of iWatch

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• Surprised you missed the Garmin Forerunner Range.

  Ok single focus units but pretty high tech all the same!

  

  martin_js

  22 February, 2013 01:23

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• Why do you all keep ignoring the imwatch?

  http://www.imsmart.com/en

  

  toddbottom7

  22 February, 2013 01:36

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  • I'm a bit sus

    On the I'm think, can't find any proper contact details.
    Speaking of which, I'm all so a little sus on you! ;-)

    

    martin_js

    22 February, 2013 02:17

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    • No edit function

      I mean thing not think,

      

      martin_js

      22 February, 2013 02:24

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• Where's the Timex Datalink/Beepwear?

  I really liked mine.
  
  You updated info on the watch by holding it up to your screen, which was super-cool. News came via the pager network. Think it was like $17 per year.
  
  Accd to the Wikipedia page, it's the "It is the first watch capable of downloading information from a computer." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink)

  

  MammyNun

  22 February, 2013 01:48

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• How about the Fossil Abacus running Palm OS?

  http://www.gizmag.com/go/1641/

  

  nokryptonite4me@...

  22 February, 2013 03:54

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• Wrist grunge

  After a quarter century of both emotional and physical attachment to the Casio Data Bank, which I had to replace every few years, I finally gave it up for a smartphone in my pocket. There were times when having access to the data on that watch saved my bacon, if not my life (insert harrowing stories of dark streets in hostile territory, where the pin code access feature was especially useful). But, no, don't make me strap it back onto my wrist. I am happy to be free from the grunge growing under the watch band.

  

  wls

  22 February, 2013 15:48

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  • Same here

    I used a Timex Datalink from the time they were first introduced, but I was happy to stop wearing it once I got a smartphone. Watches are clunky, catch on everything, gather filth in every crevice, give you a white stripe around your wrist, and these days, they look rather dorky when everyone is using a smartphone instead. An iWatch is a pointless waste of development resources.

    

    BillDem

    22 February, 2013 17:58

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• Battery life!

  Short battery life is the problem with all these watches. My ideal watch would have e-ink display, backlight, alarm with vibrate, bluetooth receiving capability and battery life of at least 6 months.
  If I have to charge my watch as frequently as my phone then I see no reason to have such watch. It is like having two smartphones for no good reason.

  

  paul2011

  22 February, 2013 21:58

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