Garmin Wrist Temperature – to be removed – well, not officially added
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Last month I reported that Wrist Temperature calibration during sleep was coming. Well, this month, I can report it’s going! as the code has been removed from all of Garmin’s public sources.
This might simply mean it’s being delayed and/or that there were problems with getting it to work on whichever Fenix/Forerunner/Venu derivative it was initially planned for.
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3 thoughts on “Garmin to Postpone Wrist Temperature Feature for Future Smartwatches”
Smells like patent troubles?
1. measure useless raw temperature at some skin location
2. in a device that’s -omg!- connected
3. ??? algorithm (unspecified) fixes all the measuring errors that would come with that
4. profit
Sounds exactly like the kind of zero effort dibs-calling patent offices are all too willing to enable
could be
i thought it’d either leaked too early or just didn’t work.
Might be the same as the wrist-based ECG-like measurements with the regular optical heart rate monitors of the Fenix 6 that were rumored over a year ago and still haven’t seen the light of day in terms of implementation.
Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Smells like patent troubles?
1. measure useless raw temperature at some skin location
2. in a device that’s -omg!- connected
3. ??? algorithm (unspecified) fixes all the measuring errors that would come with that
4. profit
Sounds exactly like the kind of zero effort dibs-calling patent offices are all too willing to enable
could be
i thought it’d either leaked too early or just didn’t work.
Might be the same as the wrist-based ECG-like measurements with the regular optical heart rate monitors of the Fenix 6 that were rumored over a year ago and still haven’t seen the light of day in terms of implementation.
Guess we’ll have to wait and see.