Is That an Android On Your Wrist?

[wraggster]

Two startups are about to go chrono y chrono (http://deviceguru.com/android-smartwatch-smackdown/) with competing Android gizmos. The I'm Watch (http://live.imwatch.it/) exclusively targets smartwatch applications, whereas the WIMM Platform (http://www.wimm.com/) is meant to create 'a new market of connected wearable devices that deliver timely, relevant information at a glance' — of which smartwatches are but one example. The Italian-designed I'm Watch runs a customized Android 1.6 on a 454 MHz ARM9 processor with just 64MB of RAM; the WIMM module, a product of Silicon Valley, runs Android 2.1 on a 667 MHz ARM11 CPU. Would you actually wear one of these things?"Personally, I'd rather have an IBM watch running Linux (http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/linuxwatch/linuxwatch.html).

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/29/015246/is-that-an-android-on-your-wrist