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alex101
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With the imminent launch of the Samsung Gear and Sony SW2 (and maybe iOS) I was just wondering if anyone has had any of the new breed of smartwatch yet to examine?

There are some interesting devices on the horizon such as the Omate TrueSmart and the SimValley Pearl.

I was wondering what new evidence if any we may find from these devices or, if anyone thinks they will bring up new problems?

Just food for thought on a Friday afternoon that I wanted to put out there D

 
Posted : 13/09/2013 6:00 pm
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A bit more info on several of the new (and not so new) smartwatches capabilities and functionality.
http//omatetruesmart.wikispaces.com/Other

 
Posted : 13/09/2013 6:46 pm
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Good discussion thread alex101, thanks.

 
Posted : 14/09/2013 12:06 am
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I forgot to add another wrist watch phone was the A808

A808 Watch Phone With Bluetooth - http//sim2usim.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/a808-watch-phone-with-bluetooth.html

 
Posted : 14/09/2013 10:22 pm
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I forgot to add another wrist watch phone was the A808

A808 Watch Phone With Bluetooth - http//sim2usim.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/a808-watch-phone-with-bluetooth.html

That's the "old" type of smartwatch (they've been around for a good few years now). I was referring to the new full featured devices that come with full android (see Omate TrueSmart above) and probably other OS's (iOS at some point… maybe) .

To be fair the "old" type smartwatch devices and some of the new ones won't bring much new to the game. But I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on if, how, why some of the new devices could change things.

 
Posted : 14/09/2013 11:09 pm
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I expect that as smart watches are generally just a window onto what is on your phone (when connected) then for watches that are not used often they may show data that has since been deleted from as paired phone.

As always though I expect that we may well be surprised at some of the artefacts that we do find - time will tell - see what I did there? )

 
Posted : 14/09/2013 11:23 pm
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I expect that as smart watches are generally just a window onto what is on your phone (when connected) then for watches that are not used often they may show data that has since been deleted from as paired phone.

As always though I expect that we may well be surprised at some of the artefacts that we do find - time will tell - see what I did there? )

Thats a good point regarding data no longer present on the paired device. But the new breed are standalone devices that can be used with or without a paired device. They contain their own SIM and have independent wireless communication capability.

 
Posted : 15/09/2013 12:22 am
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I expect that as smart watches are generally just a window onto what is on your phone (when connected) then for watches that are not used often they may show data that has since been deleted from as paired phone.

As always though I expect that we may well be surprised at some of the artefacts that we do find - time will tell - see what I did there? )

Thats a good point regarding data no longer present on the paired device. But the new breed are standalone devices that can be used with or without a paired device. They contain their own SIM and have independent wireless communication capability.

Thats my point, although badly worded. They are either a standard "known" device, i.e. an android/whatever phone, or they are a snapshot in time of some other device. Its the snapshot that may give us something that we may not have got otherwise.

 
Posted : 15/09/2013 3:19 am
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I expect that as smart watches are generally just a window onto what is on your phone (when connected) then for watches that are not used often they may show data that has since been deleted from as paired phone.

As always though I expect that we may well be surprised at some of the artefacts that we do find - time will tell - see what I did there? )

Thats a good point regarding data no longer present on the paired device. But the new breed are standalone devices that can be used with or without a paired device. They contain their own SIM and have independent wireless communication capability.

Thats my point, although badly worded. They are either a standard "known" device, i.e. an android/whatever phone, or they are a snapshot in time of some other device. Its the snapshot that may give us something that we may not have got otherwise.

Ah, sorry. I misunderstood you Paul. You are right that there will be a lot of known data. However I do think that these devices may be used in different circumstances as they are generally cheaper, waterproof and probably a second device. I think they will be used in situations where a precious expensive larger phone may not. It will also depend on the apps that are out there and how they use them. Not to mention the apps that will undoubtedly be written for smartwatchs specifically.

Looking at the Omate TrueSmart it can pair with Android and Apple devices (and BB I think) so that in its self could prove interesting determining where the data has come from. Indeed determining if the data is created by the device itself or from a handset(s).

I'm sure there are more scenarios that could make this an interesting (headache) field.

 
Posted : 15/09/2013 11:30 am
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Looking at the Omate TrueSmart it can pair with Android and Apple devices (and BB I think) so that in its self could prove interesting determining where the data has come from. Indeed determining if the data is created by the device itself or from a handset(s).

Interesting area of work. The key to access perhaps lies in the Omate TrueSmart use of Omate UI v1.0. Open that access and it 'may' be possible to sync/export to numerous reader systems as I can only summise at this stage the data might not be encrypted in order to speed transfer for use in a range of disparate devcies e.g. Android/Apple/Blackberry, so that the devices can speedily make us of that data. That maybe pure speculation on my behalf as I have not researched any further at present and it might be the the watch require that the UI to be pre-profiled with a destination device/OS.

The OSs on alot of the watches I read about tended to be Android, but a smaller range tended to make use of of proprietory apps to interface to OSs and some made use of OS modified (Leaf) from the Android OS. There are other OSs (FreeRTOS, ANT+ PalmOS etc) that transfer output to other operating systems or like-for/like OS.

Bluetooth tends to be the common transport method referred to for communicating data from source to destination. I did read about a watch that uses pulse-light to transfer data and other watches having the capability to use a plug-in microUSB cable.

 
Posted : 15/09/2013 12:34 pm
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