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hey I'm Scott Stein have ever want to make a phone call from your wrist I know there are a lot of wrist watches that claim that but I mean seriously a phone call from a phone on your wrist a wristwatch phone that takes SIM cards Micro SIM cards 2g and 3G oh did I also say this runs Android 4.2.2 it's got four gigs or eight gigs of storage it has Wi-Fi Bluetooth GPS it's water-resistant it has an IPS display yeah oh and a 720p video camera built into the bottom I'm talking about the ohm a true smart and this is on my wrist right now there's a Kickstarter campaign watch that has been slowly trickled out and is being trickled out to people who have been campaign contribution tribute errs to it but what the prices is not exactly clear but this is a watch that is very real and we have one here at CNET and I'm checking it out and let me tell you I've never seen a watch this fully featured before I don't know if you need or watch this fully featured in fact I'm pretty sure you don't but it definitely stands as a testament to how a full-featured truly independent SmartWatch can exist right now it has its own little charger doesn't have any plug in USB to ensure that it has water resistance and you control everything through this touch display but you can run Google Play on it for instance which does not work on this model but they claim you will be able to connect to it I was able to sideload apps that were sent to me via Gmail I was able to install applications like Spotify I was able to run Twitter on here and send tweets including photos from this watch and of course make phone calls although the phone call quality wasn't always that great this does have Bluetooth 4.0 so you can connect the headset why would you want to do this that's a very good question you probably don't want to but imagine a future where you have a standalone device like this pair to other wearables that you've got on you maybe Google glass maybe pivothead which is a wearable camera that's trying to work in connectivity to this because this is a full Android SmartWatch it can act as a hub that may sound complete crazy but maybe crazy is what's needed now and wearables I don't know what had ever used this for but the fact that I was able to pair a Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard to it and start typing tweets on my watch made me feel ridiculously geeky and also pretty damn cool at the same time I have to admit the hardest part about using a watch like this is a screen this small I felt like I was committing microsurgery taking a look at some of the small font sizes and trying to swap swipe around and do things on this now some apps may take advantage of this size and start building applications that feel a little more tuned to this screen we'll have to see it's a Kickstarter project so you never know where it's gonna go but it's up and it's running we'll have to see how the battery life performs and this certainly bodes interestingly for where the weird world of wearable tech is gonna be heading in 2014 I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the omate true smart completely smart standalone SmartWatch