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Palm OS Wristwatch

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-can-it-tell-time dept.

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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  1. Price bump? by greenfly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one that remembered them quoting $149 for this watch back last fall when slashdot did the original story on it?

    It could simply have been a mixup on the part of whoever submitted the story, since their old pda watches (non-Palm) were $149, but still, I got my hopes up until I saw the $300 price tag.

  2. Re:I don't think Fossil did their homework... by nilepoc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well this is the second or third attempt at this, and according to a wired article from a couple of months ago, they broke some of the major rules in watch design in making this. One, and they admitted it is a big one, was exceeding the (percieved by the public) height limitation of a watch case.

    I give it a couple of months at the most. Just like the last few designs. Palm sales are on the decline anyway, and I can't see a watch getting a better reception than some of really cool designs that are out now.

  3. Re:I don't think Fossil did their homework... by Saint+Stephen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Jeez louise, that first year they came out (before the Math teachers were aware of their existance) was sweet. You could just blantantly be fiddling with your watch during a math test and no one would know what you were doing. By the next year they'd caught on.

    Are there any purists out their who don't allow calculators in math anymore? Last I checked almost all students use graphing calculators (wimps!)

  4. Re:Calculator Watches by uunh+haun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just bought a casio wave ceptor. Not only does it have a calculator, but it recieves the time via radio waves. So I know exactly when it is 12:21:17, 11:21:25, 11:21:32....

  5. US $295 short ... by hackster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... and about 20 years late to market. My old Seiko RC-1000 Data Terminal from 1983 did almost as much with 2K memory, 6 buttons and a 2-conductor serial interface to a TRS 100 / Olivetti M10 (software on cassette). No touch screen (thank goodness) but no market then, and no market now ... except for collectors ...

    FWIW ...

  6. Re:Get an OnHand PC Watch! by isaac · · Score: 3, Interesting
    That Fossil Palm watch isn't a full PDA, it still needs to sync up with a regular Palm (or PC)

    You're thinking of fossil's other so-called PDA watch. This one runs Palm OS and has a 160x160 screen. It is a "real PDA." You can sync it to a PC, but you can also enter data directly into it with grafitti or an on-screen keyboard.

    I suggest looking into the only true watch-PDA, the onHand PC Watch. It has an estimated three months battery life, as opposed to the Fossil's 4 days (at 30 minutes a day).

    The Fossil uses a rechargeable battery - IOW, put the watch on a charger while you sleep. The onHand uses lithium coin cells that you have to pay to replace every few months. It also has a downright painful interface, compared to the button/rocker switch/touchscreen input of this fossil watch.

    -Isaac

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    I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. For Entertainment Purposes Only.