Suunto and Microsoft have joined forces in an effort to make their shared vision of “a world in which small, connected, intelligent devices can deliver highly personalized, customized information to people wherever they are.”
Microsoft developed a new radio receiver used in the wrist-top computer, which will help with the transmission of data. The device will be able to provide mobile internet access, personal messaging, and display channels for weather, news, sports and stock quotes.
Suunto was listed in the SEW OR Show Review as a “Brand to Watch” and they have followed through with this first-ever collaboration. If this goes over, it will open up a new market to the wrist-top computer, which has been exclusively distributed in the elite-athlete specialty stores.
“Suunto is well-known to sports enthusiasts around the world for our top quality products and the many high-tech features they already offer,” said Dan Colliander, President of Suunto. Sports wristops
will be indispensable not only to active sports players, but also to a wider market of people who want timely information delivered on a fashionable and functional device.”
Suunto plans to launch the first of these “n-series” products in Q4 of 2003.
