[Thunderbuck]

Nice watches but the suunto ambit has them all beat
Attachment 142605

Specialized Outdoor functions

_Full-featured GPS (SiRFIV chip)
_3D Compass
_Barometric altitude
_Barometer
_Temperature
_Waypoint and route ?navigation with GPS
_Point of Interest creation and storing in watch and in Movescount.com
_Location in multiple coordinate systems

_Highly responsive pace / speed (FusedSpeed?) and distance from accelerometer integrated GPS
_Peak Training Effect & Recovery Time*
_Chrono
_Manual and autolaps
_Heart rate graph in real time*
_Heart rate limits*
_Heart rate zones in Movescount.com*
_Track logging and analysis in Movescount.com
*with optional Suunto ANT or Dual Comfort Belt
Mountain and everyday exploration

_Mineral crystal lens
_Water resistant to 100 m / 328 ft (ISO 2281)
_Light / dark display switch
_Rechargeable lithium-ion battery
_User adjustable backlight
_Robust BuiltToLast casing
_GPS timekeeping
_9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch
_Watch settings in Movescount.com
_Upgradeable with new functionalities through Movescount.com

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It's a beautiful watch, to be sure, but you realize that if it just connected with your phone over BT4.0 you could dispense with the GPS and improve the battery life immensely. Plus, you'd have notifications from the phone and the opportunity for functions like media controls.

[cevag]

Personally I wouldn't buy one, if I'm at the gym the last thing I do is look at my phone. I can imagine the string coming from the headphones to the wrist watch being anoying.

While driving you get an email, do you really need to see it right away? Soon they are going to ban looking at your watch while driving. Lol

My phone already rings do I need a watch to tell me the same. If I can't pick up the phone because I'm busy will I want to pick up because I have a watch telling me who's calling? Nope, I have my phone setup with different ringtones, I already know when its someone of importance.

Its not a bad idea, I know lots of people would go for it because its cool. not I, can you imagine a company like rogers charging an extra data plan for using a smart wrist watch.

[Thunderbuck]

you missed the point of my post and focussed on the "names". The quuestion of this thread is what our opinion is.
I gave my opinion. You can disagree.
By the way on the smart watch thing, I really like the design of this one ..been out for a year
i'm Smart

The i'm Smart is definitely the nicest design out there right now, though I've heard horror stories about its actual usability. I like the MetaWatch (which is the successor to the Intune) and the Martian watches.

And you're entitled to your opinion, absolutely. My opinion of your opinion was that it came across as kind of elitist, is all.

[DatMisterB]

Please BBRY don't make a watch, thanks.

[Ray III]

If it was very small and unobtrusive and was for the purpose of alerting me to incoming messages on my phone in my pocket and letting me read them, then yes. It would greatly improve communication at work while operating heavy equipment.

[sam_b77]

The i'm Smart is definitely the nicest design out there right now, though I've heard horror stories about its actual usability. I like the MetaWatch (which is the successor to the Intune) and the Martian watches.

And you're entitled to your opinion, absolutely. My opinion of your opinion was that it came across as kind of elitist, is all.

My other issue with these watches is the need to charge them every day. As it is I have to keep the battery ticking on my Playbook, Z10, Lumia and my Bluetooth headset. It's coming to a point where I don't have enough sockets in my room. Charging a watch ks the last thing I want to do

[Omar Olayan]

I'm against the idea. Generally watches made to live longer.. If I'm going to recharge it everyday then what's the point of having a watch!!
It need to be as simple as possible.
I don't mind buying a regular classic watch if it has a cool blackberry design!

[devinthomas]

I would buy one for sure if it let me know who was calling so I didn't have to pull my phone out of my pocket or let me read a text etc

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[Saiga]

Nice watches but the suunto ambit has them all beat
Attachment 142605

Specialized Outdoor functions

_Full-featured GPS (SiRFIV chip)
_3D Compass
_Barometric altitude
_Barometer
_Temperature
_Waypoint and route ?navigation with GPS
_Point of Interest creation and storing in watch and in Movescount.com
_Location in multiple coordinate systems

_Highly responsive pace / speed (FusedSpeed?) and distance from accelerometer integrated GPS
_Peak Training Effect & Recovery Time*
_Chrono
_Manual and autolaps
_Heart rate graph in real time*
_Heart rate limits*
_Heart rate zones in Movescount.com*
_Track logging and analysis in Movescount.com
*with optional Suunto ANT or Dual Comfort Belt
Mountain and everyday exploration

_Mineral crystal lens
_Water resistant to 100 m / 328 ft (ISO 2281)
_Light / dark display switch
_Rechargeable lithium-ion battery
_User adjustable backlight
_Robust BuiltToLast casing
_GPS timekeeping
_9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch
_Watch settings in Movescount.com
_Upgradeable with new functionalities through Movescount.com

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I liked my Ambit. It was good for its day. Then the Garmin Fenix came out and made the Ambit seem sorda meh. In what ways does the Ambit beat the Fenix? None that I can think of. The Ambit's waypoint limitations and map are clear cons to the Ambit. Pretty much everything my Ambit did my Fenix will do and then some and the Fenix is in my opinion better looking.

Things right off the top of my head that my Fenix does or has that my Ambit didn't or couldn't do:
The fenix has a high detail map
The fenix can have 1000 waypoints - compared to ambits 100
The fenix has paperless geocaching with support for up to 2,000 caches at once - my ambit didn't do geocaches.
The fenix also does navigation by trackback. If you hike five miles, you can turn around and go back over the same steps you took and follow it on the map. Compared with Ambit's waypoint navigation only, which just does a straight line back to where you started from.

If you like the Ambit, you might wanna check out the Garmin fenix, I made the switch and couldn't be happier.

[fairfaxnut]

I'm old school... jewelry. I love a good analog. If they could make something jewelry like with some added tech I would be on board.

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[LoganSix]

I'm old school... jewelry. I love a good analog. If they could make something jewelry like with some added tech I would be on board.

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Look back at my post of the Citizen Proximity.
I believe that's where BlackBerry should start. Not some cheap looking tiny screen, but with a nice watch that you don't know it has smart technology until it presents itself.

[dannyd86]

I liked my Ambit. It was good for its day. Then the Garmin Fenix came out and made the Ambit seem sorda meh. In what ways does the Ambit beat the Fenix? None that I can think of. The Ambit's waypoint limitations and map are clear cons to the Ambit. Pretty much everything my Ambit did my Fenix will do and then some and the Fenix is in my opinion better looking.

Things right off the top of my head that my Fenix does or has that my Ambit didn't or couldn't do:
The fenix has a high detail map
The fenix can have 1000 waypoints - compared to ambits 100
The fenix has paperless geocaching with support for up to 2,000 caches at once - my ambit didn't do geocaches.
The fenix also does navigation by trackback. If you hike five miles, you can turn around and go back over the same steps you took and follow it on the map. Compared with Ambit's waypoint navigation only, which just does a straight line back to where you started from.

If you like the Ambit, you might wanna check out the Garmin fenix, I made the switch and couldn't be happier.

I'll check it out for shur

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[bizzyqu]

I'll stick with Tag Heuer, Smartwatches are a silly idea I can't wait till apple launches one so I can start ridiculing all the fanboys who have on their apple collar.
My new baby:

[keypad]

Martian Smartwatch

What a beauty

[LoganSix]

Martian Smartwatch

What a beauty

Time traveler? The site says they won't be available until next month.

[keypad]

LOL
Correct
This is just a promo pic.

[D.Vader]

My opinion on this is the same as my opinion regarding Samsung going for watches, health/fitness monitors, etc. Leave it to the third party developers/manufacturers - creating an in-house solution would alienate capable, focused developers whose sole focus are these devices and their services. I see the growing value of these products, and I'd especially love a FitBit or Garmin GPS + fitness monitoring watch, but BlackBerry is not the right company to make such a device. It is, however, the right platform... QNX...yadda yadda... embeddable micro-kernel... yadda yadda... Skynet... yadda yadda...

I disagree you have phones and devices getting bigger, there is no reason why companies shouldn't be dedicating time to making devices smaller. If you had a watch that did everything your phone did, would you carry your phone around as much as your watch?

[keypad]

I like the look of this Smartwatch so thought I would add to the thread.

[early2bed]

Perhaps BlackBerry should make a watch that just tells the time really well. That way CrackBerry fans could use it and insist that they don't need a watch that does anything else.

[keypad]

Perhaps BlackBerry should make a watch that just tells the time really well. That way CrackBerry fans could use it and insist that they don't need a watch that does anything else.

I like this idea

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[early2bed]

Smartwatches will be a dime a dozen soon. Blackberry should develop a smartbelt. It seems logical since the Passport is a wider phone, they could also widen the smartwatch form factor into a belt buckle. It could give you information about how big your waist is, check your pulse via your defending aorta, and even tell you if your bladder is full or not. No need to worry about battery life because you can put a huge battery in there.

[Ment]

Smartwatches will be a dime a dozen soon. Blackberry should develop a smartbelt. It seems logical since the Passport is a wider phone, they could also widen the smartwatch form factor into a belt buckle. It could give you information about how big your waist is, check your pulse via your defending aorta, and even tell you if your bladder is full or not. No need to worry about battery life because you can put a huge battery in there.

very nice. Went well with the morning coffee.