While todays android based smartwatches (mainly the galaxy smartwatches) are so much more optimised to function like a watch, there's something so unique and appealing of the fact that you have a device on your wrist that is running full fat phone like android. Great video!

"They tend to motivate me to lie down, until the need to exercise passes" I've never heard more relatable words

OK, 4:05 may be the greatest "Are you really sure you know what you're doing?" UI design I've ever seen. Brilliant. Also, love the purpose you've found for it!

my first smartwatch! I worked in a call center back then that didnt allow phones, books, writing; any of that. I loaded mine up with gameboy roms, FLIT keyboard, some rdp client, and textab. Navigating Tucson with google maps on my wrist while streaming podcasts from youtube was the cyberdeck of my dreams when I was a kid. This was also the first time I started increasing screen density by modifying dpi. I feel like FLIT keyboard is a must for entering text on these tiny devices, although google keyboard's carousel layout was a satisfying (but slow) stim.

It's so interesting to see how much more you can do with older hardware vs what we have now.

6:25 the XDA peeps should really start uploading their custom rom files on Internet Archive, a lot of file hosting sites tends to delete custom roms either due to the uploader inactivity or ToS breach. Great video btw.

The screen damage is probably a bulging battery

I like these older wearables because I feel like the software was actually intended to help with fitness rather than sell me a subscription service for something. I still use my fitbit Blaze from 2016 as my primary watch, and fitness tracker for these reasons.

that music really pumps you with excitement while flashing. remembered it also on my feature phone... but wrong firmware and went to bootloop

I wish i found this channel earlier, i like the simple presentation and easy to understand videos makes me even more interested and fascinated of technologies of the past.

You have by far the most interesting project videos that I've ever found on youtube. thanks

From what I gather online, it sold for $250 USD on launch, and $30 for the strap. I imagine the strap would have been included in the base model, so $30 would be for an additional strap...? I would hope... Got this info from a 2011 "DC Rainmaker" blog. It was about on par of the price of a iPod Touch 4th gen which came out around the same time. Pretty neat tech to carry around.

Love your pick of demoscene tracks!

This thing was definitely ahead of it's time and surprisingly capable.

Just found this channel recently and am surprised you don't have 100k+ subs already

Thanks for showing the internals especially! Fascinating.

Bubba I love these videos. Its like you know everything I'm interested in and you have already made the video. Thank you man I'm tearing my way through your videos at all massive rate.

Great video bro! I love how you got the car lights in the background to compliment the scene demos!

Cool video fam. KZfaq has been forcing your videos into my home feed for a month now so I finally watched one. Me likey

Love these 'old' devices reviews vibe that KZfaq os showing me

Nicely repaired! Those scene demos remind of milkdrop from winamp days.

I think there were chinese android wearables before that, even with a sim card slot and calls. Also, the first LG G Watch has many customizations and roms too. My first smartwatch was Sony LiveView from 2010, it was very dumb, but you were able to read txt files from a phone and install other custom plugins, so it helped me on the exams back in school, nobody knew I can read from a tiny watch back then 😁

Another banger video, scene demos on the go :D

So glad I found your channel bro! Always spectacular videos!

There is something absolutely brilliant about getting into the hardware and running a full version of android. That's something that I resent about modern smartwatches, I want it to be fully fledged. No matter how small and pointless!

You make such great content. You are now on my favourite channel list

Wow i wish newer watches had this level of hackability. Also great outro Janus!

Great video man. Came across your channel couple of weeks ago, been hooked since!

I must thank you very sincerely for introducing me to old msdos demo scene and indirectly to the most beautiful dnb music I've ever heard in my life. just thank you

Neat cute device, thanks for posting. Reminded me of the Ben Nanonote I had back in the day and tried to backport some of the iPodLinux demos to it (but didn't get too far with it). Sorry, but one nitpick would be sound normalization. I tune my volume to hear the voice clear and nice, and then the music starts and all the neighbors have a disco to the sound of my blown out eardrums :D

Love your unique take on tech videos! Can you do something on the Nokia Communicator series? Even owning and using Samsung Folds for few years now (which i love), Comminocators are still my all time favorites.

Dude I know this is gonna sound super weird but I have watched this video a few months before it was released. I remember details of your voice and the watch vividly. It's like a deja vu.... when I clicked on the video I was in shock that it was just like what I had seen previously

When this came out in 2011, it lit up my wait for good wearables. I've tried an LG smartwatch and then got the apple watch. Having computer on your wrist is awesome

Omgosh your channel rocks, how did I not find your videos earlier!!! Hello from a new fan, fellow Tasmanian?!

Lovvved your production and presentation🤍💙 Especially the choice of retro-isque music😊. . I am South Asian person in my forties now. And although in my childhood we did not have access to foreign movies or shows much.. i tried to catch up.. after the internet happened. And for some reason.. this production kept reminding me of 'Back to the future'. 💙Following🤍 you❤ now, while I wonder .. how I did not come across your channel.. till now!

I just discovered about this KZfaq channel. And boy I'm hooked

love the teckno jungle song you played

Hi! I loved this! Thanks so much for posting

not even gonna lie this some underrated content, definitely placing you up there with dankpods

Neat. I love making tech that should otherwise not function properly any longer have a solid use again. I have a pebble I'm still rocking using Rebble. This seems like a similarly neat little project.

THANK GOSH THIS VIDEO WAS IN MY RECOMMENDATIONS

damn im in love with this channel, this is my vibe

This bring backs memory of flashing roms and bootloader's haven't seen clock recovery in years

this video was really wholesome thank you :)

Your videos are food for the soul

Just found this new channel and I really enjoy your videos ! Just a little tip... lower the volume of music when talking :)

Nice to see you running some #demoscene prods on this, I've actually managed to get quite a few running on more modern Android smartwatches, like my Diesel On smartwatch... again same issue of no speaker but it's a pretty neat effort...

Thanks for the videos! Love the misterious vibes and curious tech like Windows 7 on a phone or full Android on a smartwatch. I also got attracted by the idea of having a full Android on a smartwatch and dropping my full-size Android phone. So much that I bought a Lemfo LEM12 running Android 7.1.1 in 2020. What a waste of money that was. As you can imagine no regular Android App is usable on a tiny circular (!) screen. Neither Google Maps nor WhatsApp or a browser. Really nothing. I played around with it for a couple of months and later bought something actually usable - a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. Still that was a lot of fun - fulfilling my childhood dream of having a computer on the wrist. Thank you!

Wow! I had this watch 9 years ago, it was way ahead of it's time! I did this Android rooting hack too and was successfully using MapsMe for step-by-step navigation and was even able to download and listen podcasts directly from the watch. It was a pain to find compatible apps that can be usable on screen that small. Sold mine because strap stated to came apart, and there was no any reasonable solution to fix it that time. Im not a fitness guy at all, but fitness features implementation on this watch was perfect and was even able to motivate me to move =) I have solved a speaker problem by connecting tiny cellphone speaker to the 3,5" jack and creating a part to clip this speaker to the watch. Was loud enough to wake me up with alarm chime. LMK if you want me to send some pictures (hope I will be able to find them) Thanks for your video, so many nostalgic memories!

The hackability of this watch really appeals to me, huge gadget appeal too, but it could also be very useful -- I wonder if its possible to run any hacking tools on it?

I'm so glad I found this channel

Love your efforts sir!!

I have no words to describe how cool is that. Wow. 😮

Takes me back.. Loved older instances of Droid. Would allow much more fun things.

Very interesting video, I love early Android stuff. I used to compile/mix and match custom ROMs for the HTC M7. Would this device be usable with a good lock screen app and wifi tether to the phone so I could get notifications and weather updates? Honestly, that's all I care about when it comes to smartwatches.

Your confident voice makes the viewer focus on your content...

Awesome video mate.

Reminds me of the Xperia mini phone. Great look back at this device. I really enjoyed using it as a mp3

Really, the only problem I have with this channel is that the music is so loud compared to the speaker. But great content! I watched quite a bit the last few days

Loving your videos!

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

that supersu logo really brings back the nostalgia.

Ohh the cwm recovery. Memories !!

this was impresive

I still got my MotoActv. It was pretty sweet and worked well with their S9 headphones.

I knew you will blow up, Good job!

im watching this dude channel from 20 k subscriber and it gre quickly!

seeing cwm recovery menu is bringing back memories...

I had one of these and *loved* it!

I love that he used clockworkmod recovery in his watch

I love your video's. I do this kind of stuff at home too. Just like getting things to do what they wasn't meant to do.

tbh googlemaps on a smartwatch sounds to me fabulous and having a dedicated mp3 player on your wrist . damn its cool

Love the content, this channel is fantastic. wonderful music in this video, I just kept replaying the rom flash section and jamming. where can I find it?

Super cool, well done.

"I don't use fitness trackers, they tend to motivate me to lie down until the need to exercise passes" Hahaha ;D iknow the feeling

This is the best channel,so simple and clean

i have that exact speaker, picked up from woollies. once the battery died i removed the old and purchased a J car 4 AA battery holder, soldered directly to the MB the 4 AA battery holder was glued to the base of the speaker, it housed a switch and USB out port to charge other device. the best part was the batteries were accessible so that any type of AA, rechargeable OR not can be used for the speaker and or charging a device in a pinch. the life of the speaker was insane if you didnt charge other devices such as a phone or mp3 player and surprisingly the speaker was decent for the princely price of $10 AUD new.

Nice video man.

God, I had one of these. The Mirasol display is still really neat.

I wanted this so bad. I completely forgot about this.

Great as usual. May be you should try pair bt controller, OC cpu and run GTA III or Max Payne. That will be epic.

Great vid dude!

I still have mine, in perfect condition. I love the belt clip. I wish i could find a use for it.

Wow, a clockworkmode custom recovery. I haven heard that name in a while!

Awesome video, great job on the music. The atmosphere in your videos is great! Does someone know if it’s possible to play demo scenes on modern smart watches like the samsung galaxy 4 😅 that would be awesome to play videos instead of an watch face 😊

CWM recovery brings good old rom flashing memory. those days rom flashing easy, simple and no complications...

This is insane broo

very good video i loved it

HAHA I love mine! I used to be the Motoactv guy on KZfaq. I used to post the "how to hack" videos and other demo videos for this thing waaay back. Still use it as an MP3 player these days. Battery is still kicking!

As an old fart now.. Who watched screen demos who remembers when the ideal of opening an app within a game was a neat concept. Thanks this vid made that still feel alive.

I miss Moto, they always swung for the fences instead of playing it safe. Pure crazy at times.

Thumb up for demoscene prods.

this is crazy tech for its age.

There was also the Android based "i'm Watch" which was announced in 2011 and released in 2012

Cwm Clock work mod is relic of a bygone era. These days it's replaced by twrp . But this brings back lots of memories

Awesome video

My first smart watch was a Pebble Time. No other watch has topped it, and it was far from perfect. I see so much potential but its all being ignored for... Fitness Tracking, which is dumb Watches should be focused on the concept of time: telling you time, saving you time, and helping to manage your time. Even something as simple as games on your smartwatcg saves you time since you don't need to pull out your phone for a quick game of Tetris. A battery that lasts at least a week also saves you time, since you won't waste that time charging your watch every day.

Love your vids

Mind.blown.

Reminds me of that Neptune Pine all in one wearable watch and back than i always thought thats what a smart watch was meant to be instead of what we had later that is just a gadget that needs pairing to your phone as a accessory.