Reviews

If you're interested in this watch, I can make the decision really easy for you. As always, I'll go into all kinds of detail below, but for the majority of you, this first paragraph will be all you need. Here it goes: If you're an athlete who wants to optimize his or her workouts by monitoring your heart rate, and you're a geek who wants to be constantly connected via MSN Direct, then buy this watch. Don't hesitate. There are no other watches out there with this combination of functionality,..

The first thing I'd like to do is congratulate Fossil for finally bringing the Wrist PDA to market. The Fossil and Abacus Wrist PDAs have been in the works for at least four years, and now they have finally arrived. Thanks, Fossil, for not giving up on the Wrist PDA. In my opinion, it was worth the wait. Before I get into specifics, I want to answer the biggest question I had when I first started reading about the Abacus and Fossil Wrist PDAs: yes, they do actually work. I don't just mean..

There are two things which distinguish the Abacus Wrist Net (AU4003) from the other dozen or so MSN Direct watches currently out there: 1) It is the cheapest ($129 retail), and 2) it is, in my opinion, probably the best looking. If you've been toying with the idea of taking the MSN Direct service for a spin, the Abacus Wrist Net might be just be the price point you've been waiting for. And now that MSN Direct watches get national news and high and low temperatures in your area for free, you ..

The nTren MP3 watch is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing world of wrist MP3 players. Ironically, what sets the nTren MP3 watch apart is not its prowess as an MP3 player, but rather its surprisingly good looks. Just when most watch geeks had resigned themselves to having to strap hideously conspicuous devices to their arms in order to get their constant technology fix, nTren subverts the stereotype with what I think is a pretty darn elegant looking MP3 watch. If you're into MP3s, and ..

The Xonix 256 MB MP3 watch is essentially a simple quartz analog watch embedded inside a small and equally simple MP3 player on top of a 256MB USB storage device. Although the Xonix MP3 watch packs a fair amount of functionality into a single device (including the USB cable, tucked neatly away in the band), Xonix manages to keep both the size and the price very reasonable. If you're really into watches, or you're really into MP3s, I'll warn you right from the beginning that the Xonix MP3 wat..