Who sells an iPhone-compatible Bluetooth watch?

One of my favorite geek gadget sites -- has a watch

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/c16c/?cpg=99H

careful - this site is addictive for gadget lovers!!

This would be a killer accessory if it included some basic iPod controls, too!

The ThinkGeek Bluetooth watch sorta works with an iPhone 3GS (running OS 3.1.2), but not fully.

The caller id works (but only shows the number - that is, it will not show the name of an incoming caller from your address book).

The SMS/MMS notification will NOT work at all, so if you wanted to be able to read messages - forget it.

It does allow you to silence the ringer on an incoming call if you see the number and choose not to accept the call. You can also answer an incoming call from your watch instead of pulling out the phone, but really, that's not too useful since you'd have to pull the phone out to actually talk to the person calling 🙂

It's a useful gadget if what you really want is for your watch to vibrate when you get an incoming call, and to be able to accept and reject calls from your watch. It's also useful if you have a habit of leaving your iPhone behind whenever you go someplace - you can set the watch to vibrate when you go out of bluetooth range - 5m or so. The watch then automatically re-connects to your phone when you're back in range.

There's an option to download your contacts details to your watch, but I've done it several times and this doesn't seem to actually do nothing. I'm not too sure why the feature is there at all, actually.

One thing I will say is that the manual which comes with the watch is written by someone who is seriously lacking a proper command of the English language, so pairing the thing with your iPhone involves invoking your inner-decyphering skills 🙂

I have tried many of these bluetooth watches and none of them fully work with any version of the iphone. Plus there are many functional problems irrespective of connecting to a phone. If you do a search on the net you will quickly see that it is not only a problem with the iphone, as most phones have the same problems. First, the caller ID does not work on most phones, including the iphone. I have read that if you put your address book on your computer, you can then download it to the watch from there, but I have not been able to get that working on any of my iphones. Secondly, if you walk a few feet from your phone, the connection totally drops, and you have to totally reconnect if from both the watch and the phone, unlike other bluetooth devices. In addition, the watch acts as a bluetooth headset and disables the speakerphone, etc. Basically, I think all of these watches use the same programmed chip, because they all work, or rather don't work, the same. So I have returned every one that I purchased.

Message was edited by: DennyHayes

Further to my previous post, I've now worked out that this ThinkGeek Bluetooth Watch (as DennyHayes quite rightly points out) like most others, simply connects to most phones as a headset with the speakerphone disabled.

What I have found however, is that this watch is a cheaper copy of the Sony Ericsson MBW-150 music watch (without the music functionality buttons down the left hand side).

Interestingly though, the way to get the caller id to work is to download the address book from your phone to the watch - but this only works with some phones. I have managed to get it working with a couple of BlackBerry phones. When I found out this watch was a copy of the Sony Ericsson MBW-150, I went out and tested every Sony Ericsson mobile phone I could get my hands on.

There is a list of compatible phones on the Sony Ericsson website at: http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/accessories/compatiblephones/mbw-150mus icedition?cc=us&lc=en. I have only tested about 5 of these, but I can tell these all work (including the MMS/SMS function.

More importantly, however, if you can get hold of one of these Sony Ericssons, you can connect it to the watch, download your address book, and then re-pair the watch with your iPhone. That done, the Caller ID will work with your iPhone.

wow dude Kudos to you. I've been searching on the internet for a while, but I think that your response is by far the most helpful. Thank you very very much!