PineBook manufacturer PineBook Pro Linux laptop, the company turned its attention to the wearable device is currently developing a Linux smart watch.
The Linux-based smart watch called "PineTime", is expected to sell for about $ 25.
Tentative PineTime heart rate monitor features include multi-day life and the like, with a desktop charging base, and zinc alloys and plastic chassis. Waterproof, touch screen support, and the overall display quality yet to be confirmed. However ,, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and system-on-chip (SoC) and other details have been announced.
Of course, all the features and functionality or to a large extent depends on the software equipment operation. PineTime software will be more widely used Linux development community development in light FreeRTOS or ARM MBED basis. The company said: "We generally allow communities and developers to push it in the direction they want."
In addition, with other products Pine64 by supporting some kind of application integration it is also very possible.
PineTime to watch based on a 64MHz operation Nordic nRF52832 the ARM system M4F the Cortex-chip, the chip 5 has a Bluetooth, a Bluetooth network, a 2.4 GHz ANT proprietary stack and NFC-A. The exact Flash and RAM is unclear, but it may have 512KB Flash and 64KB SRAM.
Currently, PineTime not accept any reservations, all have to wait until next year Pine64 developed.
Source: omgubuntu