http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/ Engadget Comments for "Widescreen" video watch touts 1.8-inch LCD http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
It's a great idea and all,but you need bigger screens to watch videos,but its already too big I think.I'd never wear that.So actually its not such a good idea...]]>Apr 18th 2007 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
Maybe I don't understand the term, but did anybody notice it is an "MP4 Player" but MP4 is not listed as a supported format?]]>Apr 18th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
UNLESS, it will be made a smartphone. Then I will think about it, as it might be convenient when driving.]]>Apr 18th 2007 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
Typo or Freudian slip?

]]>Apr 18th 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
That's a pr0n joke.

Seriously, though. I'll give $100 to the first guy who gets punched for wearing one of these.]]>Apr 18th 2007 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 18th 2007 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_MP4/MTV_Player#MTV_Video_Format

Sounds to me like the manufacturers figured it was cheaper to buy more flash than to include a decent hardware video decoder. The way I read that, it's about as ghetto as a video format can be -- they don't even compress the frames, it's just H x W x BPP, so it comes out to like 12-15 megs per minute, for incredibly low resolution.

Speaking of which... can anybody find a complete specs page for this thing? I was wondering what resolution that screen is. I guess if it's 1.8 inches across the diagonal, even 128x128 or whatever would look pretty good...]]>Apr 18th 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
Anyway, I also meant to point out that at 15 megs per minute, you'd get just over two hours of video in 2GB, and possibly less after format losses.]]>Apr 18th 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
The obviously copied Apple.]]>Apr 18th 2007 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/
This might be fine to wear by mainland China peoples since a TV-watch couldn't make them any MORE lame than they already are in scurrying around with those white SARS-phobia masks over their faces.
]]>Apr 18th 2007 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Apr 26th 2007 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/May 8th 2007 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/May 9th 2007 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/It's fun but looks, well, nerdy.
And the worst of it is, the only way to actually see the TIME is to press the power button briefly when the device is turned off. That shows you the date and time for 10 seconds. There is no way to get the time to display for any longer period.
And, when you turn the watch on (to access audio, video, FM functions), there is no way to get to the time display without powering down the watch first.
The earlier version of this watch(square screen, no builtin speaker) at least reverted to the clock face display after a brief period, regardless of what function you were in.
And the manual is written in 6 point type, awkwardly translated into english. I had to enlarge the manual on a photocopier to read it.
It's a nice idea but needs more work to be anything more than a flash in the pan novelty
]]>May 30th 2007 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/Jul 12th 2007 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/widescreen-video-watch-touts-1-8-inch-lcd/My problem is that woks bad, because the usb is "unlink" every 1 or 2 minutes... knows someone how can i change the firmware or a link where download it?
Thanks far all]]>Jun 29th 2007 7:29AM