Casio WMP-1 Android Watch Face I made and forgot to mention

[Wildsided]

Way back in 2000, Casio released the first MP3 player that you could wear on your wrist. It had a staggering 32 MB of storage and could hold about 1 hour of 60kbps audio or half an hour of 120kbps.

It looked like this

I got one in about 2001 and it eventually died, but I loved that watch. Fast-forward to 2021 and out of nostalgia I bought another one. I still love it, but 32MB of storage is a bit useless for modern sensibilities. Sadly, even though the internal card reader will read and format a larger card, for unknown software/hardware reasons the watch refuses to allow anything more than 32MB of data to be sent to it. 😔

In 2022 I bought a Kospet Optimus 2 Full Android 10 smartwatch that could use custom watch faces and I'm sure you can see where this is going.

I used a combination of A:M, Photoshop and a program called Clockskin to make a digital version of the watch that had all the same functionality as the original watch. pressing play for instance opened the watch's media player etc. But it also had a step and heart rate tracker and battery display that the original didn't have.

Here's a shaded wireframe of the A:M model and a pic of the finished watch face.

I renamed it the WPH for "Watch Phone" because the Optimus 2 is a full android phone in watch format and it's now an ACE.CO product instead of Casio.

[robcat2075]

A watch in a watch!

That sounds like a cool watch. Casio had a number of close-but-not-quite products back then.

I had their PDA called the "Cassiopeia" back around 2000 or so. iPhone sized but no phone, of course.

One day it just stopped working... and it had all my pass words it!

[Wildsided]

I used to love Databanks and PDAs! I miss that whole era of technology. In the UK, we had these catalogue stores called Argos and Index, and I'd sit for way longer than a small child should going over their features and visual design. My mum's cousin, who seemed to get a lot of them as free gifts, gave me a few databanks. My first proper PDA was also a phone. It was an HTC Himalaya rebranded as the O2 XDA 2 in the UK. 

[Roger]

Very cool watch. 

Sometimes when I see stuff like this, I wonder how far we are from a point where you can make your computer function exactly the way you want it to.  

Was your favorite environment something like 4DWM, OS/2 Warp or maybe Amiga OS?  Just reskin your boring OS internals and away you go.  Probably not terribly practical in reality, but it's interesting to think about.