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Palm OS Wristwatch
countach writes "Amazon are taking orders for a new Palm OS Wrist Watch. It has an infra-red port, touch screen, back-light, stylus and 2MB of RAM. Price is $US 295.00." Because sometimes you don't look nerdy enough ;)
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So whoâ(TM)s the market? The guys who enjoy the nostalgia of the daily beatings, 0% chance that any girl would talk to them, and the smell of the inside of a locker, because they had a Casio CFX-40 Calculator Watch?
Mike
Won't someone think of the (geeky) children?
Friends don't let friends drive drunk girls away.
How can Palm make a Wrist product? They should prolly change the name of the OS to Wrist OS or something...
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
... when they do the Pulp Fiction remake in 5 years.
Just imagine the scene between the army dad and the dead guy's son - "I kept this watch up my ass for 5 years - and I have the photos to prove it!".
Who came up with that name? I can see it now:
"What, you're still wearing that old Fossil? Get with the times, man!"
...and they're funded by a VC firm made up entirely of optometrists. The flash demo on the Amazon site is at least 1.5x actual size - so we'll all be going blind in record time. Trifocals not included.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
I have a Palm and I love it. However, when I use it, I rarely think to myself "if only I could be holding my arm awkwardly up to my face right now, life would be perfect". Likewise, it is only infrequently that I moan over how much extra screen real estate my Palm has. Since these two things seem to be the only problems that the Palm Watch solves, why would I want to spend $300 on it?
Um, yeah - like 'accidentally' getting 12,000+ copies of an appointment from repetitive hand motions...
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
It says "Fossil" on it, dude. Do you expect it's style to be current?
including "Sport". ... As if people Geeky enough to buy this would be into sports.
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Is this watch waterproof? The screen is touch-screen, but where do you put the stylus? Does it have a stylus? I hate to loose the stylus underwater.
There is nothing like checking my list of contacts and to-do list (never know when you need reminding of stopping by at the local hardware store after a day of underwater welding) and picking up a few daily necessities, like some Doritos...mmmmm.
Sheesh. Super-ultra-retro-nerdy. They're even giving a choice of accessories with every purchase:
1) Yellow super dectective hat
2) Pocket protector and sliderule with matching taped glasses.
3) Official James Bond "nuclear watch" tuxedo
4) Rubber stamp that says "I just bought a $300 watch and only got 2 megs of RAM!" It even comes with a guide to forehead application.
*honk*
This is my sig. It's prescription, I swear. I need it for reading things... on the other side of things
I might need a second watch for that...
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
From the specs:
So, in other words, it has a 2-hr battery. So much for using it on a long road trip. Do they expect me to plug it into a cigarette lighter? I can just see the headline now:
DUMBASS CRASHES CAR
Keeps watch on during recharging; can't turn left.
Duct tape and an iPod; slap it on your wrist. Hey, at least it will be sexier.
NMG
"Amazon are taking orders for a new Palm OS Wrist Watch.
Amazon also claims that "All your orders are belong to us."
It's not really a Palm if you wear it on your wrist!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gee, this was only announced 30 weeks ago at Comdex Fall. Perhaps a watch article could be on time?
No way I'm getting one of these. The screen is just way too large. I'm holding out for the Palm OS Pinky Ring.
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Why do you think it runs Palm OS?
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If this thing really uses a touchscreen, the stylus must only be about an inch long!! People have enough trouble with losing their Palm styluses - I hope this thing comes with about 50,000,000 spares... I hope they don't expect people to use Graffiti on this thing...
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I'm very interested to see how Palm handled this, if they handled it at all.
:)
By making it cost $295, I think they've pretty much convinced the user to not abuse it.
....does it tell time?