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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. Google Is Trembing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because you know, they haven't been doing anything to prepare the next version of Google Glass. I'm sure they'll get started right away after this.

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

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

    2. 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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    3. 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.

    4. Re:Google Is Trembing by rk · · Score: 3, Informative

      Demo at CES != "product". There's no link where I can actually buy it or even get a price in either link. this video seems to suggest 2nd half 2014, but I haven't heard an MSRP yet. I would love to investigate HUD computers like this without coming up with $1,500 and a reason sufficiently hip to satisfy some Google engineers.

  2. Specsmanship by TheloniousToady · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's all well and good, but what about the spec that really matters: does it beat Google Glass on dorkiness?

  3. 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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  4. 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?'

  5. 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?

  6. When? by Threni · · Score: 4, Funny

    It seems like I've had to read about Google Glass for about 2 years now. Really boring, no interest in it, but inescapable. Google, please release it so all the early adopter tossers can drop £1500 or whatever and strut around like the fucking hipster idiots that they are, then, as a released, naff product the tech press will take a little less of an interest in it and we can all move on with our lives.