Citizen VIRT Bluetooth Wristwatch Talks to Your Mobile Phone


Finally a Bluetooth Wristwatch is going to be available. Seiko was talking about Bluetooth watches already back in 2001. Today not Seiko, but Citizen announces a commercial available Bluetooth wristwatch dubbed Citizen VIRT.
The Citizen VIRT Bluetooth watch (W700) communicates with your mobile phone and displays incoming calls. With vibration and light flashing you get notified that a call comes in.
A small organic EL display is used to display name of the caller if the phone has an entry for it. Another very useful feature of the Bluetooth watch is that it notifies you if you leave your phone behind.
The design of the world's first commercially available Bluetooth watch is a bit too industrial for my taste. The display is way too small and it is too thick with close to 15mm.