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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (7 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) (5 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] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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