Citizen unveils i:Virt M Bluetooth watches for loyal Softbank customers

Man, talk about a long time coming. The last time we saw a line of i:Virt watches from Citizen, it was a bright fall day in 2007, and obviously our style threshold was entirely different. Thankfully, the outfit's latest line of Bluetooth-enabled timepieces are far sexier, though we have to say -- the fact that they only support Softbank phones makes us shed a tear on the inside. As with most other BT watches, these too will display emails, alert you of incoming calls and even clue you in on the latest news (via RSS, we suspect). Both the TM84-0341V and TM84-0342V feature a stainless steel case and a life of around five days with a full charge; there's no mention of price, but frankly, we're too depressed to even find one. Poor us.

[Via Akihabara News]

[TRS @ May 20th 2009 11:05AM]

lulz, i bought a camera watch back in like 2001. it was the shiz.
what a terrible waste of money in hindsight.

[Brian @ May 20th 2009 11:11AM]

I'd love to have one of these! The watches look great, and it would be very convenient to have caller id on my wrist.

Are you sure they only work with Softbank phones? Isn't there a standard for bluetooth outputting caller id and the like?

[Aaron @ May 20th 2009 11:13AM]

Not quite a phone you can wear as a watch (with bluetooth earpiece to make calls), but it's a start.

[Schweppes @ May 20th 2009 11:17AM]

Call me (AHAHA) when they start to use something more battery and thin friendly like E-inc...

Also a ugh... timepiece of this size should BE the freakin phone... I know $50 can get you one from some Extreme dealings store
AHAAHAH

[Kendra @ May 20th 2009 11:22AM]

Also A Cool Watch 8GB Steel MP4 Watch 1.8'-Inch http://atxelectronics.com/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=215.

[kobioshi @ May 20th 2009 11:36AM]

why don't these manufacturers get a clue and stop making this stuff exclusive to X,Y or Z? IS it really so difficult to make one that is universal? I mean how does it work, each phone manufacturer designs its alerting system differently or what?

[martiniex @ May 20th 2009 12:17PM]

http://toystorejapan.com

[Matthew F @ May 20th 2009 12:44PM]

There's a guy on the XDA developers forum who wrote an app called SmartWatchM, it works with a number of BT watches out there, running them on WinMo devices. I bet he could get this thing going too!

[bdav @ May 20th 2009 1:54PM]

You're almost certainly right- If you want something quirky done with tech, there's a guy on XDA-Dev who can do it.

[Todd @ May 21st 2009 10:35AM]

Wonder if it would work with my Softbank Iphone? Ehh too bad I hate watches.