We’ve always favourite a idea of carrying a Bluetooth watch streaming feeds from our phones, since deep down inside, we all want to action like special agents in public. Sadly, there aren’t most of these wearables to select from in a benefaction market. In actuality, with the inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry seemingly stuck in dilapidation, what we have left is a Europe-only Sony Ericsson LiveView for Android, as well as maybe something good from Fossil as well if the notion pattern gets picked up. To seize this opportunity, Velocity Micro is right away working upon the own connected Android watch — currently known as the Cruz Watch — that’s destined for a sub-$200 market in mid-Q2 2011.

Here’s what we schooled about this cool-looking antecedent during our exclusive hands-on at CES: in most ways, it’s conceptually matching to the LiveView — it’s a watch, it’s a Facebook feeds reader, it’s a multimedia remote control (for Android’s song app as well as Android-powered TVs), as well as it can uncover you incoming tourist IDs. While the Cruz Watch may be the bit of the lightweight when it comes to apps, the hardware positively bests SE’s charity in multiform ways: for starters, it has a full touchscreen that takes appropriate as well as tap gesticulate inputs (instead of regulating navigation touch controls on the bezel), as well as it sports a 1.8-inch LCD instead of the 1.3-inch OLED arrangement. There have been also the couple of software facilities which we puncture, generally with a interchangeable clock face: two analog, two digital; as well as the incoming call notifier pulls a caller’s form photo from your hit list, that is something which a LiveView can’t do. We’re told which since this watch is powered by Android 2.0 (and presumably something different upon retail units), Velocity Micro competence be means to exercise app installation in the nearby prospect, so we shall see. Video walkthrough after a break.
Velocity Micro Cruz Watch hands-on preview

Via Engadget