On 09/11/2013 10:57 AM, Erik Beugelaar wrote:
Hello Alex,
I am a Dutchman and a Dutch worldwide known product designer, called
Hermen van denBurg, is designing smart watches since 2009 so long before
Samsung is now claiming to be the first company to present an Android
smart watchŠ He has various models.
The website is http://www.burgsmartwatch.com/
Certainly looks convincing.
I don't have any sort of watch as I just don't like them.
Richmond.
Good luck,
Erik Beugelaar
http://www.solidit.nl
On 9/11/13 1:43 AM, "Alex Tweedly" <a...@tweedly.net> wrote:
On 07/09/2013 22:07, Peter Haworth wrote:
Just curious - is anyone rushing out to buy one of these things?
No, not rushing out to buy one now. In fact, I'd say the likelihood of
me buying one within 2 years is just about 0%. But within 10 years ? -
probably 50%.
Indeed, I think within 5 years the capability will exist to build a
smartwatch that I would very much like to have - though whether it will
be within my price range is another question. And of course my wish-list
may be so different from what the manufacturers want to build that I
never get one.
My needs (and/or desires)
1. Robust.
- at least 10m water resistant or I won't even consider it; in
practice 1 meter would be enough for me - but I probably wouldn't feel
safe buying it unless it was safe for at least 10m.
- wide operating temp range (Yes, I do sometimes sleep in a tent
below -5C)
- somewhere near to as scratch-, bang- and knock-resistant as my
current mechanical watch
2. Power. Ideally auto-powered (cf Citizen self-winding quartz watches),
but I'd settle for 24 hour battery life and easy charging (i.e.
non-contact) on my bedside table within 2 hours.
3. Close to size/weight limits of reasonable mech watch
4. Voice activated for at least some functionality (yes, I know, I have
a Scottish accent, so this will be a source of great frustration much of
the time :-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/collections/p00hvv42
5. Good apps for mail, voice calls, browsing, calendar, etc. - need
quite a bit of improvement and/or adjustment from current phone/tablet
versions.
6. Significant progress in availability and use of sensor and remote
control apps. (e.g. TV / radio remote, walkie/talkie over wifi to other
family members, etc.)
Given those as a minimum (and a huge wish list to go along with them),
I'd be a customer.
Of course most of those could be done by your phone. But apart from my
wedding ring, my watch is the *only* thing that goes everywhere with me
- even the phone gets either accidentally left behind (or mislaid)
sometimes, and it does occasionally get left behind deliberately. Having
a watch that could replace 85% of the function (even if only 50% of the
convenience) would make it possible to leave it behind more often. A
phone is (today) still too heavy, intrusive and fragile
-- Alex.
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