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ChipSiP Smart Glass Specs Better Than Google Glass?

Posted by timothy on from the wait-for-a-flood-of-do-alikes dept.

First time accepted submitter SugarManner writes "Google Glass is in for a fight even before they hit the market. The Taiwanese company Chipsip has just released plans for a competing product that beats Google Glass on all specifications. (Seen on the Swedish Elektronik Tidningen — warning: written in Swedish) Nine sensors on the Taiwanese product 'Smart Glass' can detect speed, altitude, temperature, light and position. It has built-in GPS, Bluetooth 4.0 and a microphone. The processor is based on Rock Chips Cortex A9 system RK3168 running at 1.5 GHz. While Google Glass supports 802.11g communication, Chipsip Smart Glass supports 802.11n. The camera and screen resolution also top Google Glass by a notch, and with stereo sound on the Smart Glass compared to Google's mono sound, it seems that the Taiwanese company has hit all the right spots to make Google goggle. Or not. Google Glass is still in Beta, so specs on the final product may change."

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  1. Cool. Here's hopeing Google doesn't... by Noishkel · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... send in an entire armada of lawyers to try and stamp this out before it can even happen.

    I'm far more interested in what other companies will do with the idea than what Google will do with it. Especially if these 'knock offs' don't come with Google+ mandatory installed.

  2. Features != UX by gilgongo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "detect speed, altitude, temperature, light and position. It has built-in GPS, Bluetooth 4.0 and a microphone. ..."

    OK. It'll fail.

    When will product managers understand that trying to compete by stuffing features into products does not a better product make? Has the tech design industry learnt *nothing* from the likes of Apple?

    When Google's "inferior" product completely crushes them, I bet these idiots will be crying to their mystified managers that they didn't "market" it hard enough.

    Muppets.

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  3. And the specs that matter? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I suspect that Google is going to be deeply unconcerned by anything that doesn't beat them to the punch on 'battery life' and 'What exactly does having this thing attached to my face do to make up for having this thing attached to my face?'

  4. Not the Point by gr4nf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point of Glass isn't putting a powerful computer on your face (well, it's not the only point, anyway). It's Google and its Sum-Of-All-Knowledge apps. Who's gonna want a more powerful system if they can't use Google's maps on it?

    1. Re:Not the Point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Exactly the point. I want a device that will integrate with all my Google things, not some random collection of shit that some Taiwanese company threw together. It's the same reason why iPhone is popular. Same reason why the Nexus line is popular. Same reason why Kindle is popular. Integration. This is why companies like Microsoft and Facebook suck, they have nothing to integrate with, or just don't get it.

  5. Re:Google Is Trembing by olsmeister · · Score: 3, Insightful

    or - acquisition in 3... 2... 1...

  6. Re:Google Is Trembing by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because you know, they haven't been doing anything to prepare the next version of Google Glass.

    Beyond that very good point, this company, do they have an actual product? Because, you know, anyone can write "specs". But have they actually built one yet?

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  7. Re:Google Is Trembing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google isn't trembling but Glass should be. They kill off far more successful projects on a weekly basis.

    Captcha: infanticide.