The MetaWatch STRATA sportwatch wants to be friends with your smartphone

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STRATA will be available in blue/black, tangerine/black, green/black and camouflage/black styling

There's a running and cycling app bundled with each watch for at-a-glance feedback on workouts (currently compatible with Wahoo Fitness BLE sensors for iPhone 4s)

A MetaWatch app sits on the smartphone and drives most of the preset display formats on STRATA's always-on, sunlight-friendly 96 x 96 pixel mirror polymer network display

The STRATA is being billed as the first iOS 6-compatible smartwatch on the market

The pre-production prototype paired with an iPhone 4S running iOS 5 in the company's development labs in Espoo, Finland

MetaWatch says that the hardware has been finalized, the long lead time parts have been ordered and the team is now integrating new Bluetooth profiles into the Bluetooth stack, and the UI and firmware are being upgraded

The body and strap are made from double injection molded PU co-molded with a PC poly case, and a mineral hardened glass lens with anti-glare coating is surrounded by a stainless steel top ring finished in titanium

The sportwatch has a water resistance rating of 5 ATM that makes it suitable for wearing while swimming but not diving

The MetaWatch STRADA smartwatch pairs with an iPhone 4S, 3rd gen iPad or Android smartphone via Bluetooth and features vibrating alerts for incoming calls, SMS text messages, emails, and social network notifications

In addition to showing the time and date like a regular watch, the sportwatch features on-screen widgets can be chosen to display information on the weather, appointments, stock prices and more

Article Summary

Dedicated wrist-worn timepieces can be unquestionably beautiful (the Blue Ocean Watch or Zenith's Defy Xtreme, for example) but today's discerning gadget-lover requires much more from their wrist candy. The iPod Nano can already be made into a pretty decent digital watch but it doesn't (yet) have built-in Bluetooth connectivity so can't connect with the ever-present smartphone like the various flavors of the I'm Watch can. Smartwatch veterans Bill Geiser and David Rosales have just launched a consumer version of their open source, developer-focused, Bluetooth-connected watches. The STRATA is being billed as the first iOS 6-compatible smartwatch on the market and has already more than doubled its funding target on Kickstarter just a few days after its campaign launch.

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