aNewDomain.net — Here in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2014 (MWC 2014) Magellan GPS announced that its Echo sports watch is shipping now. Our Todd Townsend took a long look. Check out his dive into this watch technology below — and scroll below for more details and pics.
Video: Todd Townsend for aNewDomain/shooter Al Green and exec producer Justin Webb for aNewDomainTV
The $149 Echo sports watch is a rugged, sweat-proof smartwatch that lets you run popular mobile sports apps through a wireless connection.
You get a real time stream of fitness data, and you’re able to wirelessly control and get your music from your Apple iPhone, iPad or iPad Mini via Bluetooth smart tech, too.
You do have to carry your mobile with you when you use the Echo — the point is wireless streaming from your mobile device to the Echo watch.
Click here for a list of sports apps that will work with the new Echo watch. There are four apps that work with it now — those are Stava, Wahoo Fitness, Map My Run and iSmoothRun — and more are expected soon. The Echo has an open API inviting more app development, execs said.
The Echo watch will soon work with some Android devices, execs told aNewDomain, but for now it’s Apple iOS only.
The Echo will work with Apple iPhone 4S, 5, 5C, 5S smartphone models, the Apple iPod Touch 5th generation or later models, the Apple iPad Mini and 3rd generation Apple iPads or later.
In Barcelona for MWC 2014 and reporting from the ShowStoppers press event, I’m Todd Townsend. Watch this spot for video of my hands-on review of the Echo sports watch, shot here at the show.
Based in New York, Todd Townsend is aNewDomain’s senior on-air correspondent. An alum of C-Span, NewsTalk in NYC, Cisco and IBM, Todd has been doing online video coverage for awhile now. For us, he’ll combine his broad knowledge of tech and trends in greentech, space, automotive tech and biotech to deliver up-to-the minute video content for aNewDomain.net.
