[Other SmartWatches] inWatchUSA:
Hi everyone, inWatch USA CEO here!

Hi everyone. It has been a few months since I last posted but my name is Sam Force, CEO of inWatch USA. I have been working hard to bring inWatch Z up to the standards that are expected by the US market and working with the forum members here has been very helpful.

We had an indiegogo campaign back in May/June that was run as a way to interface with the people whom we wanted to make a device for. At the time, the overwhelming response we received was "this is cool but I wish it had 3G". We also received feedback that the bone conductivity speaker was fun to play with but not really an every day kind of thing. So we went back to the benches and made one with a 3G radio and with a normal speaker in the band. We also knew that the Android 4.2 UI was not going to cut it so I began early talks with lokifishmars here on XDA about what we may be able to do together. He had some excellent insight and I still want to explore that arena more. This forum has some of the best and most dedicated wearables people on the net. The better we can tailor what we are doing to the tastes here at XDA, the warmer welcome I feel we will receive in the larger market. inWatch is trying to be a different kind of presence in the wearables ecosystem. Let me explain a little bit.

There are plenty of larger companies making wearable devices. They have their teams of market watchers and industrial designers busy making what they believe you, the consumers and public, will buy, like and use. And that is great, more power to them. I really enjoy what they come up with and with the larger players entering the space, the space itself is legitimized and its resources deepen. inWatch wants to enter the game a little differently. We are smaller and more agile than most. We have a lot of young, passionate people working for us and our collective goal is to make elegant, functional tech. What we want to do is keep checking in with those who we are building devices for. Are we building what you dream of owning? Why or why not? We then take that info to task, make changes and show you that we are listening. That is what we have done with Z over the last few months.

I know taking cues from the target audience is nothing new, this is how good products are made. We would like to be able to do this on a more active and participatory level. inWatch will be participating in hackathons and user forums, interfacing here with you and actively seeking new methods of including others in our creative efforts. We want to make things with you.

We are about to launch in the USA. Trusted online retailers will have Z, you may see it in some retail stores, the whole works. This is all because we made the changes suggested here and from other customer comments. So thank you, very seriously, from the whole team. Because you are dedicated to finding the best device, we are dedicated to making it. For those of you looking for the 4.4 firmware, just be patient it has not been released yet. I will be sure to let you know here first when it is. It will likely be an OTA update but if needed I will make it available in this thread as well.

We are growing. We have many surprises in store for you in 2015. I just had a baby daughter (1 month, my first!) and I couldn't be happier or more excited for the future. The best has truly yet to come.