Wadda ya think of _these_ specs?

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... powered by a quad-core 1.39 GHz MediaTek processor. It will also be available in two different variants featuring 4GBs storage/512MBs of RAM and an 8 GB storage/1 GB RAM configurations. ... has some other interesting features, too, like a 2 MP camera with 720p video recording support. And, while it doesn’t have 4G LTE support, you get a Nano SIM slot with most of the 3G bands you can find on your phone.

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... for a watch. :eek:

In spite of having seen the tech improvements over the decades I still get flashes of remembering when my hot rod XT clone 1983 Leading Edge Model M) ran at a screaming 7.16 MHz with a whole 640kB of RAM (128kB factory installed with space for 128 kB on the motherboard. The rest stuffed onto a full sized extension card. That's 72 64kb DIP-16 chips in all) and 20 (Count 'em, 20!) MB of hard drive storage!!! Which was roughly the size of all three LOTR paperbacks in a stack. I spent a lot of time sticking those (goddamned :)) chips (and bending over those little bitty legs when I screwed up :o) onto that memory card and half a dozen others for the machines my BIL got for his sadly-ahead-of-its-time typing business. Finally got really good at it, too. :p

Yeah, yeah. I know. It's all gotten to be old hat, and anybody here around my age or older has probably seen all this and more, (Core memory, anyone?) but every once in a while I still get a little frisson of wonder at having been able to live to see changes like these.

A watch, for cripes sake! And not even a singularly exceptional one, at that. Just incremental improvements on what is now a ho-hum platform. It's most distinctive feature is that it is going to be running an OS that is an open source alternative to Android Wear.

Well, that, and maybe that it doesn't need a smartphone to pair with to work.

Take that, Dick Tracy.

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