Fossil Abacus Wrist PDA: Principles of Operation Fossil Wrist PDA: The Unofficial Manual Overview The (a member of Fossil's Tech Watch series) is an awesome little gadget. It's a PalmOS device in a wristwatch form-factor. I've never seen anything like it before, and I sincerely hope that its growing popularity will encourage the development of more wearable computers that (like it) are practical and affordable. This page is not about the MSN Wrist NET watch. A certain Redmond-based company is (frightfully) on the right track generally with their idea, but thankfully haven't taken over the world with it just yet. Reviews If you punch in some combination of fossil, abacus, or wristpda into google, you'll find nothing but reviews. I'll refrain from endorsing any by linking to them directly.

My personal opinion is that it's an amazing device. Unlike my old Handspring, I actually use it. Mostly, this is because I always have it with me since it's not a nuisance to carry (since it's on my arm). I can get about 2 days of battery out of it (I charge it overnight on alternating nights). It's a bit bulky for a watch, but I'm used to carrying around lots of hardware, so I don't mind. The screen is a bit small and (without the backlight) is only suited for reasonably bright, direct light.

I still find that a small price to pay for the remarkable convenience it offers. As for connectivity, I'm basically satisfied. It charges and hotsyncs through a USB cable (recent models have a USB mini-B port on the side). It has an infrared port on the top. It's amusingly very geeky-looking to zap things over to other abacus-wearers this way.

It has no wifi or bluetooth capability (no room in the watch, I imagine, not to mention a battery-hog). I occasionally find myself wishing it did, but since everything is so small, I really wouldn't want to do much more than casually check my e-mail using it anyway. Models / Hardware There seem to be a rather large number of models, most of which are internally pretty much the same. It seems the original name was 'Fossil WristPDA,' and then the name 'Abacus' crept in, but that has since been dropped in recent models. Like a lot of manufacturers, Fossil is annoyingly not making it easy to keep track of models through well-published model numbers.

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