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Omate’s new TrueSmart Elegance smartwatch is lighter, more colorful

The Omate TrueSmart is a watch with the guts of an Android smartphone, and the software and features to match — including the ability to make phone calls from your wrist. Omate raised a million dollars through Kickstarter last year in order to build its first smartwatch, and now the company is showing off an […]

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Omate TrueSmart watch finishes Kickstarter campaign with $1 million in pledges

Most companies offering so-called smartwatches are really offering watches that serve as companions to your existing smartphone. The Omate TrueSmart is designed to work as a standalone device: You can even use it to make phone calls. Or you can use it to view notifications from your phone if that’s what you’d prefer. A lot […]

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Omate TrueSmart: $199 smartwatch that makes phone calls (Kickstarter)

Omate has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for its TrueSmart smartwatch. It looks like a wristwatch, but it has the guts of a smartphone — and unlike some smartwatches which only work as companions to your phone, you can actually use the TrueSmart to make phone calls. The developers started showing off the […]

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Omate TrueSmart smartwatch has the guts of an Android phone

The Omate TrueSmart runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, features a dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, and has 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage. While that might sound like the spec sheet for a low-end Android smartphone, the TrueSmart is actually a wristwatch. Or at least, that’s the goal — right now the project is still […]