Samsung smartwatch wrist smart phone

[Glass]

what do you make of this technical innovation? To me it's new form for old function or is it?


Samsung unveils new smartwatch that makes calls

BERLIN (AP) - Nearly 70 years after Dick Tracy began wearing a two-way wrist radio in the funny pages, the technology that once seemed impossibly futuristic will be widely available by Christmas.

Samsung on Wednesday introduced a digital watch for the holiday season that will let users check messages with a glance at their wrists and have conversations secret agent-style.

So-called smartwatches have been around for several years. But so far, they have failed to attract much consumer interest. That may change with the Samsung Galaxy Gear, which offers the company a chance to pull off the same as feat Apple did with the iPad - popularize a type of device that has lingered mostly unnoticed on store shelves.

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/thumbnails//Germany_Gadget_Show_Samsung.sff_BRO114_20130904133 556.jpgThe Gear must be linked wirelessly with a smartphone to perform its full range of functions. It acts as an extension to the phone by discreetly alerting users to incoming messages and calls on its screen, which measures 1.63 inches diagonally.

With Gear, you're able to make calls and receive calls without ever taking your phone out of your pocket," Pranav Mistry, a member of Samsung's design team, told reporters at the launch in Berlin ahead of the annual IFA consumer electronics show here.
Sony and Qualcomm also introduced smartwatches Wednesday. Apple Inc. (AAPL (http://research.scottrade.com/public/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?id=1&symbol=AAPL)) is expected to release its own smartwatch, though it's not clear yet when. The release of separate products from so many manufacturers could stir interest in smartwatches in general. Meanwhile, Google is working on Google Glass - a device designed to work like a smartphone and worn like a pair of glasses.

With smartphones and tablets now ubiquitous, electronics companies are trying to create a new category of products that put advanced computing technology into everyday objects such as wristwatches and glasses. Research firm Gartner projects that wearable smart electronics will be a $10 billion industry by 2016.

But Ramon Llamas, an analyst at research firm IDC, said many things have to go right for smartwatches to succeed. Llamas said the devices need to offer a range of useful applications that justify carrying around - and charging - another digital device.

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[chad]

retarded. it's requires a smartphone to work. i can take the phone out of my pocket and do all the stuff it does.

[EE_]

First they have to get you to wear this chipped device on your skin, then they'll work on getting it in your skin.
They really should name these devices "TMOTB".

[Twisted Titan]

retarded. it's requires a smartphone to work. i can take the phone out of my pocket and do all the stuff it does.


When has logic stop sheep from gobling stuff up?

[Son-of-Liberty]

It is limited by the size of the screen also. I have a LG nexus and it has a fairly large screen which is nice. Still fits in a pocket but larger then an Iphone. Makes typing or looking at a web page easier. I have an Ipod nano and the sceen doesn't allow you to do much.

A toy.

[madfranks]

retarded. it's requires a smartphone to work. i can take the phone out of my pocket and do all the stuff it does.

From the OP...


With Gear, you're able to make calls and receive calls without ever taking your phone out of your pocket," Pranav Mistry, a member of Samsung's design team, told reporters

So their potential market is people who don't want to take their phones out of their pocket to make a call or send a message? Doesn't sound like a very large market to me. Nobody I know has ever complained about what a hassle it is to have to take their phone out of their pocket to make a call.

[Horn]

They need a phone that combines with a palm size switchblade, or stiletto.

It could have option to be made of high strength plastic to pass the TSA even.

[Son-of-Liberty]

When has logic stop sheep from gobling stuff up?

They will probably sell millions of them to all the secret agent wannabees that want to talk into their sleeve.

[Libertytree]

I'm interested in seeing the designs that all the other companies are getting ready to unveil and what they're capable of. IMO, one aspect that is going to have to be overcame is the need to have to have a smartphone that enables the watch to work to its full functionality. The company that achieves a great design and a fully functional stand alone smartwatch will be thhe winner.

That being said, I'll probably never own one. I still have a dumbphone :)

[Glass]

my first thought was that it sounds a lot like a bluetooth headset that you wear on your wrist and has touch controls. other than that same same.

[palani]

Funny. As reported on the news last nite .. Hoda Kopb was demonstrating this gadget and somehow her cell phone number got shown to a wide audience. Immediately voice mails started arriving. In a minute she had 20 of them and before she could get her phone disconnected the count was over 1,000.

List this as one of the things you don't want given out on national TV.