Wearables - Page 3

Timex's Ironman ONE GPS+ is a fitness smartwatch that does not need to pair to a smartphone - it's a 3G connected device by itself and can connect to Timex's fitness web site to upload your data and share with contacts. It also has a messaging applications, music player and GPS. The display is 1.5" color Mirasol display (Qualcomm also provides the chipset and Brew platform for this device).

The Ironman ONE costs $399 or $450 with a heart sensor.

Tomoon Technologoy's T-Fire is an Android (v4.3) based smartwatch that uses a 1.73" 320x240 curved E Ink display. Other features include a 1Ghz CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB flash memory and sensors (gyroscope, compass and gravity.

The T-Fire should launch towards the end of December 2013 in China. The company says they got almost 20,000 pre-orders already, and they are also working on an iOS compatible model.

Allerta's Pebble is a smartwatch that can connect to iOS or Android devices. The watch has a 144-168 active-matrix E Ink display. The phone includes a vibrating motor, four buttons, a 3-axis accelerometer and Bluetooth.

The Pebble was funded via Kickstart and raised over $10 million. They will start shipping 85,000 watches on Janaury 23rd for KickStarter pre-orders. It will later be available to buy for $150.

Phosphor's watch offers a large SURF (segmented) touch-enabled curved E Ink display. The watch several times zones and you can swipe across the screen to change the zone.

The new watch costs $79 (a lot cheaper than previous Phosphor watches which start at $175).

The new World Time Curved watch has an E Ink "surf" display which offers 24 time zones, several display modes and has a new ultra-thin (9.3mm) curved case. This is Phosphor's next-gen E Ink watches (here's the original ones). Here's our review of this watch.

The watch costs $150 and is now shipping from Phosphor's own shop.