Google Nears Smartwatch Launch

Re:Google Nears Smartwatch Launch by VLM on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @12:57PM (#6635665)

I had a feature kind of like that on a flip phone about a decade ago, a really small second screen you could look at without flipping open the phone, to see who's calling or the current time, and battery level.

All you need do is standardize android phones to have a secondary screen on the other side that never turns off or needs to be unlocked, eink or whatever. Then transition that small screen to also display on your wrist.

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Re:Google Nears Smartwatch Launch by snogglethorpe on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @07:38PM (#6638351)

That's great idea! Standardizing on an interface that can be implemented by standard phones as well means there'd probably be much better and more widespread support.

I suppose they could even support the "small secondary screen" interface on phones without a physical secondary screen, by simply displaying its contents inside the lock screen.

I used to have a foldable phone with a small secondary screen like that as well; it really was nice, and would be even better if it didn't need a button-press to activate (e-ink or whatever), as turning on the screen is always about 80% of the effort when I just want to see the time... [they can't make the button too easy to press after all, to avoid accidental activations...]

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