• kbity@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Every time I think about smartwatches, I just think about how much I miss Pebble. I loved my Steel and Time Steel, and was bummed that the company failed before the Time Steel 2 happened.

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    1 year ago

    I wonder if it would be possible to recreate something like this for real, with cartridges for each software/tool (like a gameboy or similar?), excluding the comically tiny keyboard probably :P

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    1 year ago

    Today $300 or less can buy a watch that runs UNIX, can emulate any machine in 1981 in realtime, and stream data from the ARPAInternet over a wireless connection orders of magnitude faster than any leased line.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like a €30 smartwatch I’ve seen some 7 years ago. Yep, it costed that back then. It ran Android 4.4 and even the battery was user replaceable.
      I think it was called QW09.

      Unfortunately, I was 10 at the time, and €30 sounded like a lot to me, so I didn’t buy it :(

      Edit: Found some pics

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          1 year ago

          rectangular smartwatch master race
          i don’t care that watches used to be round because of a rotary mechanism. i want a SCREEN on my wrist and screens are square for a reason!

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            Tell me about it. They rather hamfistedly tried to fit a rectangular design language into a circular screen and it never quite works right.

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              1 year ago

              To be fair, Apple seems to have done a good job at fitting a circular design language into a square watch…