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Citizen/IBM To Make A Linux Watch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the time-to-get-ill dept.

backtick writes: " Yup, they're making the Watchpad. 'Besides telling time, the WatchPad comes with a calendar-scheduling application, a pager-like application for sending and receiving short messages, and a Bluetooth chip for wireless communication with notebooks, handheld computers and cell phones'" If they'll make a watch that runs Linux and takes pictures like Casio's camera watch, I might just switch back to a digital. Gerdts points out that the watch's battery life is either up to six hours, or only six hours, depending on how you look at it.

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  4. You are wrong by Bud+Dwyer · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    There are many Rolexes available for under $5000. The simple, beautiful Submariner in stainless-steel, for example, lists for a very affordable price of $3350.


    Only an over-rich Italian or colored person would buy platinum and ruby-encrusted Rolex.

  5. Thank God it's not a Windows watch by heretic108 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If it was a Citizen-Micro$oft joint venture, then the watch would need to be 'activated' with your credit card number. Thereafter, each time you look at the time, or check the alarm, it would keep a tally, and debit your credit card monthly. Also, every two years, it would forcibly download new software, and debit your credit card for more than the original price of the watch.

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