The company Omate, partly from the Netherlands are managed, only two days after the passing of the KickStart goal in the production of its smart TrueSmart watch launched. In October and november to get the first people who support the project from their Android watch.
The Omate TrueSmart is a multiple of smartwatch projects on Kickstarter, his goal achieved, but in contrast to many other initiatives, is almost immediately after the achievement of the objective of the production started. Thursday, 13 hours after the start had the support of 100,000 dollars by 650 persons inside, but now that amount has risen to more than 380,000 dollars by 1900 ‘backers’ and is the production started.
The TrueSmart is a smartwatch on which Android runs, a 1,54″screen with resolution of 240×140 pixels and a slot for a micro-sim card ownership. The device has wi-fi and 3g support and can operate independently, but can also be in combination with a smartphone or tablet via bluetooth 4.0. For the first developer versions had for $ 199 supported, then the support 179 and now $ 189 amounts.
First 1000 developer editions of the smartwatch was built in October, to developers sent. In november then get the first “backers” to have their device within, in multiple batches of 500 pieces, says Dennis List of Omate against Tweakers. “We were able to start quickly because we have good connections with Chinese manufacturers. We had all the parts and materials reserved,” said List, who says that the company strives to be in the first quarter commercial roll-out via partners such as telecom companies. Here, however, should still negotiations to be held. The team behind the TrueSmart is an international company that, among others, the Netherlands, New York, France, and China operates.
The device features a Cortex A7-dual-core. This is the MediaTek MTK6572, which at 1.3 GHz and the Mali 400 as the gpu. The ram is 512MB large. The watch has support for gps and a 5-megapixel camera, microphone, speaker, accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass are present. The battery has a capacity of 600mAh.
According to the List compared to last week, when the Kickstarter project was announced, further to report that the TrueSmart as any smartwatch until now, Googles Play Store will support: “We are working hard to optimized variants of the main apps to develop.” The operation of the device occurs under other using gesture controls and voice control. For the on-screen keyboard works Omate together with a large party, that List is not further want to indicate. New features the company hopes to add via so-called ‘stretch goals’. The first of these must have a strong sapphire glass to the watch, which is possible if $ 500,000 is collected. New goals are based on va of user input determined, but according to the List in any case, more memory is high on the agenda.