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'Britney Jean' producer Will.i.am launches his Smartwatch
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Will.i.am, the award-winning musician and tech entrepreneur, took the stage at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco to launch Puls, a smartwatch that he hopes will be successful enough to bring him some tech-industry credibility.
The device is about two inches wide, and looks more like a cuff than a watch. It doesn’t depend on a cellphone like other smartwatches—it connects to a cellular network by itself to make calls, send text messages, check in on social networks, find location on a map, and of course, play music. It has an integrated touch screen to operate the forked version of Android that powers it, and like Android Wear and the Apple Watch, it has a voice-activated digital assistant, too, named Aneeda instead of Siri.
I.am is mum on other hardware details for now, except for the fact that it runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip inside, and delivers about 5 hours of continuous battery life, so you’ll need to charge it at least once a day. Pricing and launch date haven’t been announced yet, either. But will.i.am told the Journal it will go on sale through AT&T in the U.S. and O2 in the U.K. in time for the holidays.
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