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hey guys it's joe from pocketnow.com and today i really wanted to show you about a desktop app the ties in with your Android phone called Android desktop notifier it's kind of like Chrome to Phone but in Reverse it lets your Android phone send notifications about phone calls text messages all kinds of stuff to your desktop over your Wi-Fi network or over Bluetooth after several hours I couldn't get it to work so instead I'm gonna show you what I think is cooler which is sending those same notifications to your watch let's go take a look okay on the Left I've got my Nexus One and on the right I've got my Sony Ericsson Bluetooth watch now through an app called open watch which is available free in the Android Market and is actually available for other smartphone platforms like blackberry and Windows Mobile - I can pair this watch to this phone and get notifications right to the watch's LCD screen you can hook this up to all kinds of different watches and even some what they call bracelets but don't want that turning off guys their little metal bands that go around your wrist has an LCD panel on it that isn't a watch so what are you gonna call it but it'll let you do that to those you can get from places like thinkgeek these you can find online they're really not making them much anymore but they're really super cool then with apps like open watch you can do neat things with them so first let me show you what a standard message looks like let's go ahead and send a test over and look at the watch over here we'll send that and immediately there you go it's got the information that I'm running an open watch version 1.1 zero if we wanted to do some other information you can you can go in and get information from the watch itself like the firmware but let me show you everything in here you can send to the watch phone calls SMS MMS Gmail k9 mail Google Talk calendar alarm music external apps this has an API so you can have an app that talks to this app that talks to the watch so you don't have to build all of the open watch stuff into your app to be able to send messages to the watch twitter twitter ID mundu i am some other Iams just lots and lots of stuff it's got support for several Bluetooth watches and I'll just let you take a look at that list and a whole bunch of stuff that you can configure in here so really quite cool and I've got it set to auto start right now you can even pull information from the watch by doing a firmware check so right now it's telling the watch hey I want to know what firmware you're running but watch this okay here you go that's the firmware so two-way communication on there it's pretty neat and it doesn't interfere with being able to use a head or hands-free headset or a car kit or anything like that so let's go ahead and start sending some messages over so you can see what it looks like okay off camera I have just composed an email on my wife's Android g1 and sent that over to my gmail account and we should see it show up here on the watch momentarily let's take a little bit of time because I've got an email forward in between so that routing takes a minute but as you can see here I've got a new email from my wife and there's your email address if you want to send her happy wishes and whatnot remember be nice kind of cool let's go ahead and look at some other stuff all right for this test I've got the screen of the Android turned off and I'm gonna send a regular text message over to my phone so we'll send that now and see we've got the pulse indicator showing that I've got new email and right there it shows up as a new text message and it'll show you the contents of the text now another thing that it's doing is the watch is vibrating while it's doing this so it's letting you know hey you have a new message and it didn't show you the text of that text message but it lets me see easily hey I've got a new text I need to read this doesn't work presently with Google Voice text messages so that's something that I'd like them to add it doesn't do it right now laughs let's go in and show you what a phone call looks like okay placing the phone call right now that's going out over a Google Voice so it's gonna take an extra couple seconds while it negotiates for that Google Voice line phone is ringing on the sending end second ring and you can see here move that off screen it shows my wife's name Natalie Levi that she's the one that's calling the phone is vibrating the watch is vibrating it's really quite cool to see that I've got somebody calling right here and I can send it to voice mass it's voicemail just really easy by touching one of these buttons so you know it's not quite as cool as what I'd intended to show you or maybe it's cooler showing in these same types of notifications going to the screen on your computer yeah that's neat but having them on your wrist right there so you can see them at any time oh and by the way it also tells time if you couldn't tell because it is a watch I mean that's just really cool you can also tell when you're getting too far away from your phone it'll tell you that it's disconnected and of course if your watch goes too far away from your phone that will tell you on the phone as well that your watch is disconnected if you wanders away for whatever reason but really cool I like it a lot and this is what I use every day to help me be a little bit more in touch and a little bit more tech-savvy if you want to go ahead and do this finding these watches is kind of tough finding the Bluetooth bracelets from ThinkGeek relatively easy relatively inexpensive so go ahead and give it a try if you want to keep up to date with cool stuff like this I mean this isn't just Android phones this is stuff that makes using your phone better to do that you've got to subscribe to our YouTube channel we put all kinds of cool stuff up there and we've just passed a thousand videos so thank you for watching and and tuning in if you like this kind of video give it a thumbs up if you've got any questions or comments put those down in the comments down below then as always I'm Joe for pocketnow.com