Sony cuff-puter to do one thing smartwatches can't: Give you DAYS of hot wrist action Sony is to bring out a smartwatch with an e-paper screen that solves one of the biggest wearable shortfalls: battery life. Sources familiar with the project told Bloomberg the gadget will use the entire wrist band to display information, but it will not be as advanced as other arm-slabs on the market. Unlike today's crop of …
If it is paired to a smartphone there is no need for compute power in the first place. This is the most ridiculous part about the current smartwatch generation. You already have a 4 core monster sitting somewhere nearby so why the hell are you sticking half a gig of RAM and 600MHz CPU as well as all radios known to man into a wrist device? WTF?
"If it is paired to a smartphone there is no need for compute power in the first place. This is the most ridiculous part about the current smartwatch generation. You already have a 4 core monster sitting somewhere nearby so why the hell are you sticking half a gig of RAM and 600MHz CPU as well as all radios known to man into a wrist device? WTF?"
Depends if you consider a device or an accessory.
Pebble uses a memory LCD, similar idea to e-paper but much faster refresh.
Personally I'm not buying another watch or wearable unless I know I can swap out the battery. Everything seems to be disposable now, my Fitbit Flex lasted about 9 or 10 months before the battery died completely, I got a replacement free of charge but how many times will they honour that?
My Pebble lasted about 6 or so months before the battery life decreased to about two days, then I got fed up with it buzzing "20% battery remaining" all the time. Pebble is glued shut, no chance of replacing the battery in that.
That what having a R&D and a vision is all about. Seeing into the future and producing what people may want rather than asking what they want now and delivering it to them 18 months later when they now want something else.
The iPad was something people said "I can't see the point of it" etc... at the time. Tablets are now everywhere.
er no, the iPad was not the result of that kind of thinking.
The iPad was the final result of a continuous "I want a touch PC in a tablet" thinking that produced no end of good and not-so-good products.
The reason for success was the realisation that a specific, non-PC OS would be required to make it usable, as well as the technology of displays, touchscreens, processors and cells etc. becoming good enough to realise the product.
I think Steve Jobs rejected nearly-pads many times before accepting what became the iPad.
this has to be a better route to innovative products than using market analysts who can only suggest things that have already been done.
Somewhat hilariously, this comes as a comment on a 'new product' that is about as unoriginal as it can get (e-paper watch? Naaaah, never heard of that one before...).
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