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The iPhone 5 rumour mill is burning pretty bright right now. The latest jingle on the grape vine is that Apple’s working up a way to turn the iPod Nano into a Pebble Smartwatch competitor for the next iPhone using Bluetooth 4.0.
The idea is just like Sony’s rubbish SmartWatch, but hopefully better implemented. Coming out of Apple you’d kind of assume it’d be good, and considering the Pebble smartwatch totally rocked the socks off Kickstarter, maybe there is demand for this kind of thing. I can’t say I’d be up for wearing an iPod Nano on my wrist, but I do know people who do, sadly.
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Well people have been predicting/hoping for this for a little while now. It’ll be interesting to see how it progresses but the size might put me off (damn you puny wrists!)but I’d love to have a good smartwatch to live out my childhood sci-fi/james bond dreams. It’s basically one step up in cool from the tv remote watch my mate had in year 5 …and that was pretty cool!!
It would be good if it had GPS in it so it could be used as a proper run tracker
The idea is that it would communicate with your phone, using the GPS in your pocket to feed the vital stats back to you watch.
Yeah but running with a phone in your pocket sucks
True, I don’t think any of these products are going to solve that problem though. Unfortunately if you want to listen to music and track your progress the best thing will be a phone, otherwise you’re just looking for a phone without the phone – which may as well be a phone…
I’m guessing you’re against those arm straps too? They’re usually good enough for me – means you don’t get cable tied when using a short pair of headphones and a Pebble-like watch would make it easier to use the functions you need.
I used to use one of those arm bands when I had my iPod touch, but it is a different story using my HTC Titan
I have a nano I use as a watch. People seem to love it. I thought it would be too big but looks fine on my wrist.
With more functionality it could be pretty cool.
The awesome thing about the Pebble is how much thought they’ve put into it, and how small it is. I’m sure Apple could achieve the former but if it’s an iPod rather than just a watch it’s always going to be much larger, requiring storage, additional battery, and an LED screen (Pebble uses backlit e-ink).
If this were to happen, I expect it would be a different product from the Nano – even if it’s relatively cheap, knowing that you’re paying for a lot of extra hardware that you’re never going to use may put people off. While I’m sure they could do it well, it may be something they should just leave to 3rd party manufacturers (or maybe invest in Pebble to keep a stake in its operation and success).
People are already wearing their nanos as watches though!
I’ve been saying that watches weren’t evolving as well as they could for a while now, pity it’s apple that’s finally gonna be the ones that make it work =/
An iPod nano using this function would surely be a waste of technology though?
Maybe it would just use the same form as the nano, like the Airport and Time Capsule but have different guts.
In spite of what I think of most Apple products, I quite like the idea of a Nano as a watch. They look pretty good and they have (from memory) decent battery life.
I’ve been saying this exact thing for months. The iPod Nano would go perfectly with the iPhone. Changing songs without having to pull my phone out of my pocket is a big plus. Siri would be nice too, but I’m not sure how it would be displayed on the nano’s smallish screen.