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A proper smartwatch (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Today $300 or less can buy a watch that runs UNIX, can emulate any machine in 1981 in realtime, and stream data from the ~~ARPA~~Internet over a wireless connection orders of magnitude faster than any leased line.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Sounds like a €30 smartwatch I've seen some 7 years ago. Yep, it costed that back then. It ran Android 4.4 and even the battery was user replaceable.
I think it was called QW09.

Unfortunately, I was 10 at the time, and €30 sounded like a lot to me, so I didn't buy it :(

Edit: Found some pics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this looks cool. Particularly this rectangular screen is great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

rectangular smartwatch master race
i don't care that watches used to be round because of a rotary mechanism. i want a SCREEN on my wrist and screens are square for a reason!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tell me about it. They rather hamfistedly tried to fit a rectangular design language into a circular screen and it never quite works right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

To be fair, Apple seems to have done a good job at fitting a circular design language into a square watch…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, you can probably still get 300 different variants of that on aliexpress for less than $10

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think you had it right, let's bring ARPANET back.