Smart Watches ??

[nerdrunner]

Are there any smart watches under consideration for porting?

Any suggestions for a hackable smartwatch?

[pamaury]

Hi,
that's an interesting question. First I assume that would require some bluetooth headphones because smartwatch don't have an headphone output (I guess), which in turns means that the bluetooth stack of the watch must be programmable / not written with a binary blob. Also I think most smartwatches run a stripped down Android which is both good and bad because:

• in theory you can get the kernel source
• still most of the hardware is probably undocumented
• the bootloader might be locked as in many android phones
• you could run rockbox as an application, but it might not be sufficient to achieve a full port (especially audio)
• there is the question of storage: I don't know if smartwatch have a lot of storage or a microsd port

Also I fear the same thing which happened (and is happening) to smartphone will apply to smartwatches: tons of new models all the time, so the port will be obsolete even before starting Probably that the best candidates would be the most well known ones like the Pebble.

[krkvt]

I'm also interested in rockbox for smartwatch. In this case, yes, I think an app would be the best way to go since I still want the watch to be able to function as a GPS running watch. I'm specifically interested in the Garmin GPS music watches. They "hold 500 [or 1000 depending on model] songs", so have some amount of internal memory. I'm interested in audiobooks and most audiobook players blow, especially when you are trying to shoehorn a music player into working with audiobooks. I love that Rockbox has all my features covered, ability to play at different speeds without sounding like a chipmunk, skip back or forward in short hops, and just generally being flexible to work how I want it to rather than how most people want it to. I really hope you'll consider adding an app at some point.