News - Allerta announces inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry

[HEXUS]

World's first BlackBerry watchphone scheduled to ship in February 2010? Kind of.

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[Biscuit]

how exactly is this useful to anyone? just keep your phone in your pocket...

[miniyazz]

Just a gimmick. What it needs, IMO is the ability to synch with your Blackberry (or whatever smartphone, ideally) on a one-off basis. It should then be independent of the Blackberry (so you could leave your Blackberry at home, for example, if you're short on pockets) and have basic functions including the ability to make and receive calls via inbuilt microphone - and presumably earpiece to plug in when required. The ability to read/write texts would also be a very good thing, but I think there's probably less call to be reading/responding to emails etc with one of these things.
It also needs airport mode, for times when it would interfere with important equipment, just to turn off everything apart from the watch - that would also increase battery life, of course. Vibration alert is all that's needed in terms of ringtone, but should be discreet.
With regards to battery life, integrating the technology they use for watches (kinetic?) would be a winner if feasible for the greater battery drain - the motion of your wrist keeps the watch charged.

If they can somehow make that happen for <£150, I think they'd have a winner.