Calling Dick Tracy...
Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!
The 990 is a unique iPhone-compatible cell phone accessory, which uses
Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR to let the user receive calls directly from the
wristband. Features include audible caller ID, incoming call and out
of range vibration alerts, up to four hours of talk time and 160 hours
of standby time on a single charge, echo elimination and noise
cancellation technologies, and support…
neat
Mike
> Helium Digital has introduced its new HDBT-990 Wristband Communicator.
> The 990 is a unique iPhone-compatible cell phone accessory, which uses
> Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR to let the user receive calls directly from the
> wristband. Features include audible caller ID, incoming call and out
> of range vibration alerts, up to four hours of talk time and 160 hours
> of standby time on a single charge, echo elimination and noise
>
> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/helium-digital-intros-hdbt-990-wristband-communicator/
>
> neat
I'm torn which will make you look the daftest, wearing a bluetooth
headset or talking into this, at least a headset is road legal.
If you're going for this why not go for a one of the watches on ebay
with a phone built in and can be used with or without a bluetooth headset.
Mike
Tom Harrington
<1fab0359-5d85-461c...@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
"Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!" <vic.h...@gmail.com>
wrote:
It's a Bluetooth headset designed to be attached to the user's wrist.
Calling it "iPhone compatible" is ridiculous, because it's compatible
with any Bluetooth-capable phone.
--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
Mike
> In article
> <1fab0359-5d85-461c...@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
> "Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!" <vic.h...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Helium Digital has introduced its new HDBT-990 Wristband Communicator.
>> The 990 is a unique iPhone-compatible cell phone accessory, which uses
>> Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR to let the user receive calls directly from the
>> wristband. Features include audible caller ID, incoming call and out
>> of range vibration alerts, up to four hours of talk time and 160 hours
>> of standby time on a single charge, echo elimination and noise
>>
>> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/helium-digital-intros-hdbt-990-
>> wristband-communicator/
>>
>> neat
>
> It's a Bluetooth headset designed to be attached to the user's wrist.
> Calling it "iPhone compatible" is ridiculous, because it's compatible
> with any Bluetooth-capable phone.
Not necessarily I've known bluetooth devices to not recognise certain
phones.
If you're aiming to sell lots of them why wouldn't you want to reassure
a huge section of the market that it's compatible with their phone?
Mike
Larry
news:1fab0359-5d85-461c...@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Unlocked-Cellphone-recorder-Bluetooth-
Headset/dp/B0017M255I
Geez, you guys gotta get your heads outa Apple's ass more often. These
things, without iPhone, have been available for years!
This one has a camera, BT, video/audio player and a GSM to connect it....
$129. No iPhone necessary....
salgud
I don't think good marketing is "ridiculous". 30MM iPhones in the US, and
counting (50MM world wide). And a group whom we know is spending money,
gadget oriented, particularly in this area, in a down economy. Show me a
better group to target for this product.
Todd Allcock
"Tom Harrington" <t...@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote in message
news:tph-C62FCD.10051404012010@localhost...
> In article
> <1fab0359-5d85-461c...@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
> "Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!" <vic.h...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Helium Digital has introduced its new HDBT-990 Wristband Communicator.
>> The 990 is a unique iPhone-compatible cell phone accessory, which uses
>> Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR to let the user receive calls directly from the
>> wristband. Features include audible caller ID, incoming call and out
>> of range vibration alerts, up to four hours of talk time and 160 hours
>> of standby time on a single charge, echo elimination and noise
>>
>> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/helium-digital-intros-hdbt-990-
>> wristband-communicator/
>>
>> neat
>
> It's a Bluetooth headset designed to be attached to the user's wrist.
> Calling it "iPhone compatible" is ridiculous, because it's compatible
> with any Bluetooth-capable phone.
Perhaps to pacify people like myself who ASS U ME bluetooth is actually a
standard. I had no idea the dumb little Poloroid "Pogo" BT photo printer I
bought as an impulse purchase on Black Friday (that works with "virtually
any BT camera phone") doesn't work with the iPhone! (I ASS U MEd there was
probably even an "App For That.") Unfortunately it relies on OBEX transfer
to get photos from phones. (Not a big deal- my wife can just email the
photos from her iPhone to my phone and I can print them.)
Tom Harrington
Mike <mikelovescham...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Tom Harrington wrote:
> > In article
> > <1fab0359-5d85-461c...@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
> > "Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!" <vic.h...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Helium Digital has introduced its new HDBT-990 Wristband Communicator.
> >> The 990 is a unique iPhone-compatible cell phone accessory, which uses
> >> Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR to let the user receive calls directly from the
> >> wristband. Features include audible caller ID, incoming call and out
> >> of range vibration alerts, up to four hours of talk time and 160 hours
> >> of standby time on a single charge, echo elimination and noise
> >> cancellation technologies, and supportS�
> >>
> >> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/helium-digital-intros-hdbt-9
> >> 90-
> >> wristband-communicator/
> >>
> >> neat
> >
> > It's a Bluetooth headset designed to be attached to the user's wrist.
> > Calling it "iPhone compatible" is ridiculous, because it's compatible
> > with any Bluetooth-capable phone.
>
> Not necessarily I've known bluetooth devices to not recognise certain
> phones.
>
> If you're aiming to sell lots of them why wouldn't you want to reassure
> a huge section of the market that it's compatible with their phone?
Maybe they could add that the charger for their device is compatible
with standard electrical outlets, and that it fits human wrists.
Wes Groleau
> Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid! wrote:
>> Helium Digital has introduced its new HDBT-990 Wristband Communicator.
Bzzzzt!!! Dick Tracy upgraded to the "two-way wrist TV decades ago."
If you want to look cool like him, sharpen your chin, strap your
iPhone to your wrist, and don't just talk into it, _look_ at it, too.
--
Wes Groleau
Free speech has its limits
http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=99
Larry
@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid! wrote:
>>> Helium Digital has introduced its new HDBT-990 Wristband Communicator.
>
> Bzzzzt!!! Dick Tracy upgraded to the "two-way wrist TV decades ago."
>
> If you want to look cool like him, sharpen your chin, strap your
> iPhone to your wrist, and don't just talk into it, _look_ at it, too.
>
http://www.unlikelymoose.com/blog/comments/P1406_0_1_30/
"There's an app for that!"
Mike
>
>> Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid! wrote:
>>> Helium Digital has introduced its new HDBT-990 Wristband Communicator.
>
> Bzzzzt!!! Dick Tracy upgraded to the "two-way wrist TV decades ago."
>
> If you want to look cool like him, sharpen your chin, strap your
> iPhone to your wrist, and don't just talk into it, _look_ at it, too.
>
Not much point as the camera is on the back ;-)
Mike
Mike
> In article <hht7iq$bps$2...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Mike <mikelovescham...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tom Harrington wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <1fab0359-5d85-461c...@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
>>> "Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!" <vic.h...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Helium Digital has introduced its new HDBT-990 Wristband Communicator.
>>>> The 990 is a unique iPhone-compatible cell phone accessory, which uses
>>>> Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR to let the user receive calls directly from the
>>>> wristband. Features include audible caller ID, incoming call and out
>>>> of range vibration alerts, up to four hours of talk time and 160 hours
>>>> of standby time on a single charge, echo elimination and noise
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/helium-digital-intros-hdbt-9
>>>> 90-
>>>> wristband-communicator/
>>>>
>>>> neat
>>> It's a Bluetooth headset designed to be attached to the user's wrist.
>>> Calling it "iPhone compatible" is ridiculous, because it's compatible
>>> with any Bluetooth-capable phone.
>> Not necessarily I've known bluetooth devices to not recognise certain
>> phones.
>>
>> If you're aiming to sell lots of them why wouldn't you want to reassure
>> a huge section of the market that it's compatible with their phone?
>
> Maybe they could add that the charger for their device is compatible
> with standard electrical outlets, and that it fits human wrists.
>
They would be assumptions most people make, if you are trying to sell a
cell accessory it ALWAYS helps to emphasise it's compatibility.
Mike
Wes Groleau
> Wes Groleau wrote:
>> If you want to look cool like him, sharpen your chin, strap your
>> iPhone to your wrist, and don't just talk into it, _look_ at it, too.
>
> Not much point as the camera is on the back ;-)
Judging by the original item cited, the point,
however silly, is to L00k Kewl like Dick Tracy.
--
Wes Groleau
"What progress we are making! In the Middle Ages, they would have
burnt me; nowadays they are content with burning my books."
-- Sigmund Freud, 1933
"He was never to know that even that was only an illusory progress,
that ten years later they would have burned his body as well."
-- Ernest Jones, 1953
Mike
> Mike wrote:
>> Wes Groleau wrote:
>>> If you want to look cool like him, sharpen your chin, strap your
>>> iPhone to your wrist, and don't just talk into it, _look_ at it, too.
>>
>> Not much point as the camera is on the back ;-)
>
> Judging by the original item cited, the point,
> however silly, is to L00k Kewl like Dick Tracy.
>
I doubt very much that many of the teen/twenty something iphone
customers remember Dick Tracey never mind idolise him to that extent! #
I know the name, I've never seen the comic strip but had the misfortune
to see the film with Warren and Madge <shudder>.
Mike
Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid!
> The comic strip is still in publication, but I don't know how many papers
> carry it.
>
> <http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy>
Who still reads newspapers?
I read all the comic strips that appeared in the paper I want to
online using either the MAC or the iPhone.
What is funny is that many of these sites try to prevent your access
for one reason or another.
I have a list of shortcuts I use to find the exact strip and just blow
down that for the whole collection.
The very best ones I can copy and paste into an email for sharing with
a friend who may have missed that strip. You can not do that with the
old paper without a pair of scissors and some postage stamps.
I am looking forward to the same or better thing on the iSlate.
Mike
> In article <hi1fnl$gij$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Mike <mikelovescham...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I doubt very much that many of the teen/twenty something iphone
>> customers remember Dick Tracey never mind idolise him to that extent! #
>
> carry it.
>
> <http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy>
>
Did you have to get your Wristband Communicator adjusted to fit or are
your wrists all thick and manly? :-)
Mike
Charles
<09d8536b-5269-47e6...@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>,
Google's Epic Fail: It is just another Droid! <vic.h...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I read all the comic strips that appeared in the paper I want to
> online using either the MAC or the iPhone.
> What is funny is that many of these sites try to prevent your access
> for one reason or another.
> I have a list of shortcuts I use to find the exact strip and just blow
> down that for the whole collection.
I get all the comics I used to read in the paper by RSS from the
Darkgate Comic Slurper.
--
Charles