SWaP Signature watchphone
Posted February 23rd, 2010 by admin No Comments »
By Sandra Vogel (via reghardware.co.uk)
The Smart Watch and phone (SWaP) Signature looks enticing. It fits on your wrist, yet packs in a touchscreen, music and video playback, a Camera good for video and stills, Bluetooth with Stereo audio, a Micro SD card slot, and a suite apps including an e-book reader. Telephony runs to tri-band GSM with GPRS, but not to 3G.
But dear, oh dear, we can think of so many more things to do with £350.
Signature’s SWaP: wrist, watch out
Like all watchphones we’ve seen, the Signature is a sizeable beast. Your wrist will need to be broad enough to take a watch which has a face that’s 43mm x 40mm and is 15mm thick. The buttons on the side make it a little wider, and extensions to the strap a little taller than these measurements. The 24g weight quoted on the Signature website is a hopeful typo. Our scales put it at 124g.
The SwAP has a leather strap with solid, heavy-duty clasp, and comes supplied with a small, tidy Bluetooth headset. You get no information on how to charge this, though in fact it fits into a small cradle which itself plugs into the USB port on the provided mains power charger. Read the rest of this entry »
