It's no secret that FM transmitters are dodgy at times, but if you were wading through the endless supply of
MP3 watches on the market in an effort to find one a notch below
hideous, having that feature built-in certainly wouldn't hurt. The
king of all things USB has upped the collective ante once more, as its FMP3 Watch not only musters a bearable design scheme, but it also offers up a nice laundry list of specifications to boot. Aside from telling you the time and day of the week, it also boasts 512MB, 1GB, or 2GB of internal memory for MP3 / WMA playback, headphone out, an integrated voice recorder, USB connectivity, volume controls, eight-hours of battery life (three if beaming over FM), and the obligatory FM transmitter to stream your tunes to one of several FM options. If you're anxious to get your wrist into one of these suckas, all three flavors are available right now, and can be had for ¥12,800 ($108), ¥16,800 ($142), and ¥19,800 ($167) from least capacious to most.
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posted Apr 6th 2007 4:24PM
Not that I would personally buy one... but I think the biggest problem with these have always been the fact that you have a cord going from your ear straight to your wrist all the time. If it had bluetooth these things might have more than a snowball's chance in hell... I mean... everyone loves "all-in-one" type devices as long as they look good and function well/easily...
To me the size of the mp3 watch wouldn't seem to be a main problem (within reason, obviously) because I would suspect "most" people would want to use something like this for exercise... obviously... the smaller the better.
Im a big fan of high end wrist watches(this statement is supposed to make me seem like a watch expert). And i just wanted to say that this watch is not bad looking at all. Usually these things look completely nerdy with no style but this looks like a decent watch. But i still dont want one.
"I think the biggest problem with these have always been the fact that you have a cord going from your ear straight to your wrist all the time."
It has an FM transmitter. Get some FM headphones.
This watch is interesting, nice looking, and functional. Look at the picture above. What you see is the watch while driving. That’s the main purpose. Load your MP3 or WMA audio, and wirelessly play it on your car stereo while driving. The wireless function is why they have the FM transmitter. That said - FM is sometimes prone to interference when driving in certain areas. Looks like a fun product though.
That'd be useless in the UK
Radio 2 occupies the frequencies this watch emits at.
Not a bad looking design though.
the fm transmitter is my favorite feature, well that and its not gaudy as hell like most of the others. it would be so much easier, when getting in a car and driving to just turn on the radio and press a button then messing with a "real" mp3 player. if it is in fact that easy :o