Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Hands-on with the Runcible, a smart pocket watch – MWC 2015”.
Hey guys, it’s Shaun from the verge and I’m here with what might be the coolest thing we see at MWC. This is a smart pocket watch it’s made by a company called mano ohm, it’s called the runcible. You can see, it’s got these wood backs to it. So, while we’re here seeing all these companies like Samsung and HTC, announced metal and glass phones, this is going to be something that actually has a wood back they’re going to offer options like ceramic tin, copper, brass and they will actually all be able to swap these Backs the idea here is to pull you a little bit further away from your smartphone with this sort of form factor and it’s going to have. You know fewer notifications on the screen. I mean it’s obviously a very unique design.
So there’s a camera right here in the back of the device they’re actually working on a pretty cool feature for the camera. That’Ll. Let you turn the roundtable like this to zoom in focus and Mottola also tells us that the camera that they’re going to have in the consumer version will be comparable to something like the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 5s. So it actually should have a pretty good camera and it will work well in low light and it will have some pretty great resolution. This is early prototypes that we’re seeing right now, but they’re going to look pretty similar to this when they hit the market. Later. This year, so the goal here is it’s going to be charged by the new USB type-c, the reversible USB, and that will actually give mahtim the ability to. Let you put different covers you’ll, be able to attach keychains and stuff so they’re, actually working on designs, where you know leather covers that will flip over to the top of the device make it look a little bit more like a traditional pocket watch. So, basically, in a just about every corner of this device, I mean it doesn’t have any corners, but every corner of this device is going to do things a little bit differently than your normal smartphones, for example, that on the maps, feature they’re going to offer you The ability to take the more scenic route it’s going to bring you to your destination on a route, that’s going to look a little bit nicer and not going to be maybe the most direct and utilitarian way to get to where you’re going. I mean it’s really a very Victorian. Looking piece you’ve got, these watch faces that keep coming up here. This is just a demo we’re looking at right now, but you know it’s really built with sort of past centuries in mind and its really kind of a cool device. It’S really comfortable holding hand very light would be a little tremor when it hits the market. So the runs of all runs on Firefox OS and we’re told that when it gets released by the end of the year, Oh cost you just under the price of a unlocked flagship phone like the iPhone yeah. This is the runcible from mano .