Sony Becomes Their Poor SmartWatch Right Into A Designer Playground

SmartWatch - Straight back through the heady days of 2012, before the Pebble lifted a crazy amount of cash on Kickstarter, Sony quietly introduced an SmartWatch of a unique. By most accounts it wasn't excellent, but that does not suggest that Sony has directed it for the junk pile.

No, with hindsight being what it's, Sony is trying to breathe some new life into that curious little device with some help from the developer community. The organization has knocked off what it calls the Open SmartWatch program to acquire developers preparing up custom firmwares for the point.

In the event you haven't been monitoring the wearable gadgetry area, Sony launched the SmartWatch in question last year to mixed reviews. The concept is a very familiar one the view syncs to an Android-powered smart-phone and displays messages and notifications, along with goes a multitude of bespoke SmartWatch apps. Any of the copycats which have sprung up in its wake or because of its Android underpinnings, you may easily consider it being a better quality model of the Pebble.

As iffy as Sony's second-gen SmartWatch was, nearly all of the issues appeared to be rooted in its application (and to its credit, Sony keeps pushing out patches and upgrades for that issue). Sony's is one of the prettier SmartWatches on the market, and the specification list has just enough oomph to create it a stylish option for some frenzied night time tinkering. By draining out Sony's work and starting fresh, hackers are mostly left with a slate, and the business is focused on highlighting a few of the most novel firmware when they start appearing.

To simply help end this whole thing off, Sony has also tapped Arduino to hold a in Malmo, Sweden, to have antsy designers more familiar with the SmartWatch and what it is able to. There's, as often, a caveat: you may be breaking new ground with a product that a lot of people have not given a second thought to, but you'll be giving up access to the almost 200 compatible purposes boating in the Google Play store.