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Apple Watch Hack Adds a Browser For Your Wrist

Posted by timothy on from the close-at-hand dept.

TechCrunch reports that the Apple Watch now evidently has an tantalizing, but unofficial, feature: a browser, created by the jailbreak developer known as Comex. "Not great" is their headline-level assessment of what it looks like to use, which can't be too surprising: even a large watch face is still a small screen, by comparison to a laptop, a tablet, or even a phone. Venture Beat's assessment is similar: "As you’d expect, it’s an awkward mess." Making hardware do things it wasn't intended to is still a worthy pursuit, though, and TechCrunch notes: Out of the box, running arbitrary code like this shouldn’t be possible — while a native SDK is inbound, only stuff built with Apple’s somewhat limited WatchKit framework is supposed to run on the device for now. Is this a subtle demonstration of the world’s first jailbroken Apple Watch?

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  1. Re:Sums the watch up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I figure they mean on any watch sized screen...not just the Apple Watch.

  2. WAP by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The return of WAP sites.
    Are any of them still around?

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