Smart-Watches

Continuing on my recent post about Wearable Activity Trackers I’ve taken a look at Smart-watches. It’s truly an exciting time for consumer electronics where we see innovation in many areas. This year we will get a new Playstation and Xbox, we will see a new iPhone as per usual and the other Smartphone manufactures are releasing models such as the Galaxy S4, Note 3 and Lumia 1020.

Smartwatches seem to be in the news daily and with the recent announcement of the Samsung Gear its worth taking a look at the options today. In line with previous post I’ve made a comparison between models, this time focusing on technical details. It’s not an exhaustive list of watches that are “smart”. I’ve left out a few with characteristics that I personally don’t see fit for a watch to be truly “smart”, namely:  

• Analog display
• Screen resolution smaller than 100x100 pixels

I believe for any of the watches to be successful there need to be support from developers, as it is a software platform on top of the gadget. Analog style watches and small displays simply don’t offer enough possibilities for the developer community to catch on.

Without further delay I direct you to the sheet. As you see there are three tabs:

•  Released  (on sale today)
• Announced (will be on sale on a future date)
• Rumored  (gossip and might not even exist)

I welcome anyone to commen and point out incorrectness. I'll do my best to update as news appear!!