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January 9th, 2010, 00:20
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We managed to track down the guys from Canada's Allerta and got to spend some time with a couple dummy models of the soon-to-be-released inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry (http://www.engadget.com/tag/inpulse). Design-wise, it's very attractive, with a brushed metal body and a leather band. As a bonus to early orderers, the first 1,000 sold will be custom-milled on a CNC router -- ironically, it'll actually be more cost-effective for them to do it that way while they build up production volume. In terms of functionality, it will launch with support for displaying text messages, caller ID, new e-mails, and BlackBerry Messenger messages (yes, it supports BBM!). It'll give you information on who the message is from and a preview of the message's contents. We couldn't get a hard shipping date, but rest assured we'll let you know as soon as we do -- for now, our hands-on gallery will have to suffice.
Gallery: inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry wrist-on (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-00_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600880/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-01_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600882/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-02_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600883/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-03_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600884/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-04_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600885/)
inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry wrist-on (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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We managed to track down the guys from Canada's Allerta and got to spend some time with a couple dummy models of the soon-to-be-released inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry (http://www.engadget.com/tag/inpulse). Design-wise, it's very attractive, with a brushed metal body and a leather band. As a bonus to early orderers, the first 1,000 sold will be custom-milled on a CNC router -- ironically, it'll actually be more cost-effective for them to do it that way while they build up production volume. In terms of functionality, it will launch with support for displaying text messages, caller ID, new e-mails, and BlackBerry Messenger messages (yes, it supports BBM!). It'll give you information on who the message is from and a preview of the message's contents. We couldn't get a hard shipping date, but rest assured we'll let you know as soon as we do -- for now, our hands-on gallery will have to suffice.
Gallery: inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry wrist-on (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-00_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600880/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-01_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600882/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-02_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600883/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-03_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600884/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/allerta-inpulse-hands-on-ces-04_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/2600885/)
inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry wrist-on (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/inpulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry-wrist-on/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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