smartWatchM hooks Sony Ericsson watches up with WinMo, adds features

by Chris Ziegler posted Feb 2nd 2008 at 9:28PM

Who says you need a Sony Ericsson phone for a Sony Ericsson watch to function correctly? Well, Sony Ericsson does, but xda-developers is taking a slightly different tune. Member moneytoo over on the Windows Mobile hacking haven has fashioned "smartWatchM," an app that not only gets the Sony Ericsson Bluetooth wristwatch of your choice up and running on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices, but -- get this -- actually manages to make it more functional than it is on Sony Ericsson's own phones. Besides the usual caller ID, SMS, MMS, and out of range notifications, smartWatchM adds weather, your task list, operator, profile, and phone battery / signal strength, among other things. Now before you get all worked into a lather about this, Sony Ericsson, bear in mind that this app is only going to sell more of your fricking watches, okay?

[Thanks, maflow]

Filed under: Peripherals, Software, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile

Tags: bluetooth, ericsson, smartwatchm, sony, sony ericsson, SonyEricsson, watch, windows mobile, WindowsMobile, xda-developers

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CB17 @ Feb 2nd 2008 11:44PM

I can haz wth ifone plz?

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jboston511 @ Feb 3rd 2008 1:41AM

Holy crap! I am in love with whoever made this app. I have kept my original mbw-100 waiting for something like this to come out. I have bugged a few people about possible developing something like this but many said there wasn't enough interest to take the time.

Now just for fun, can anyone do this for a blackberry?! :)

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Ed @ Feb 3rd 2008 10:58AM

I've always wanted one of these watches, but didn't like the limitations if you didn't have a SE phone. I'm stoked now that I'm getting the HTC touch. F'n stoked. :D

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deadlock32 @ Feb 3rd 2008 1:47PM

symbian pls ^_^

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MWLK @ Feb 11th 2008 9:17PM

The one thing that I want to know is whether or not this app will allow you to use the watch with more than one phone simultaneously. By that I don't mean having the ability to sync two phones to the watch but only being able to use one of them exclusively at a time. I think that you should be able to seamlessly communicate with two or even three phones at the same time. Does anybody know the answer to this question?