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MEDIA RELEASE Minuum Keyboard Partners with Omate TrueSmart Watch Smarter virtual keyboard available for free to Omate users TORONTO, Canada (April 23, 2014) — The Minuum keyboard is now available on the Omate TrueSmart, the innovative standalone smartwatch that launched in December 2013 after raising over $1 million on Kickstarter. Capable of being both a smartphone companion and a standalone device, the TrueSmart is at the vanguard of smart, wearable lifestyle products. It partners with Minuum, the oneline virtual keyboard that also blew past its crowdfunding goal and that is uniquely designed for smart input on wearable technology. Minuum will allow Omate users to type quickly and easily on their smart watches, while still having access to most of their screen space. “Minuum and Omate just make sense together,” says Laurent Le Pen, CEO at Omate. “Minuum’s compact design and intelligent algorithms make it a perfect keyboard for small screens. Typing with it is easy, fast, and exceptionally accurate. We’re bringing the truly smart keyboard and the truly smart watch together.” Omate is the first smart watch to feature Minuum, which will be available for free to all current Omate users through the OStore. Omate users will receive automatic Minuum updates with new languages and features as they become available. “We are very excited to partner with the Omate smartwatch,” says Will Walmsley, founder and CEO of Minuum, “Omate is a leader in the field of standalone wearable technology, and Minuum will allow its users to take full advantage of features like messaging, immediately available on their wrist.” See a video of Minuum on the TrueSmart watch here: http://youtu.be/F7dT_UqyBAA minuum.com | © Whirlscape, Inc. 2014. All rights reserved | [email protected]
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Minuum Keyboard Partners with Omate TrueSmart Watch Smarter virtual keyboard available for free to Omate users
TORONTO, Canada (April 23, 2014) — The Minuum keyboard is now available on the Omate TrueSmart, the innovative standalone smartwatch that launched in December 2013 after raising over $1 million on Kickstarter. Capable of being both a smartphone companion and a standalone device, the TrueSmart is at the vanguard of smart, wearable lifestyle products. It partners with Minuum, the oneline virtual keyboard that also blew past its crowdfunding goal and that is uniquely designed for smart input on wearable technology. Minuum will allow Omate users to type quickly and easily on their smart watches, while still having access to most of their screen space. “Minuum and Omate just make sense together,” says Laurent Le Pen, CEO at Omate. “Minuum’s compact design and intelligent algorithms make it a perfect keyboard for small screens. Typing with it is easy, fast, and exceptionally accurate. We’re bringing the truly smart keyboard and the truly smart watch together.” Omate is the first smart watch to feature Minuum, which will be available for free to all current Omate users through the OStore. Omate users will receive automatic Minuum updates with new languages and features as they become available. “We are very excited to partner with the Omate smartwatch,” says Will Walmsley, founder and CEO of Minuum, “Omate is a leader in the field of standalone wearable technology, and Minuum will allow its users to take full advantage of features like messaging, immediately available on their wrist.” See a video of Minuum on the TrueSmart watch here: http://youtu.be/F7dT_UqyBAA
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Visit minuum.com/mediaroom for photos, FAQ, technical details, product specifications, and more. For more wearable and ubiquitous computing video demos, see: youtube.com/minuumproject About Minuum Minuum is a Y Combinatorbacked Canadian tech startup with roots in humancomputer interaction (HCI), machine learning, and natural language processing. Minuum has developed autocorrection so powerful that it allows fast, accurate typing even when the keyboard is minimized to one line. The Minuum keyboard lets users do more on smartphones by freeing up screen space, and provides the only way to type on the next generation of wearable devices. Minuum is known for its recordbreaking crowdfunding campaign with 10,000 people contributing via Indiegogo in March 2013. (www.minuum.com) About Omate Omate is a telecom software design company whose primary goals are to make the world connected through our wrist and make Android wearable. The company’s flagship product, TrueSmart™ is the world’s first Android smartwatch 2.0 powered by a Dual Core ARM 7 processor MediaTek MT6572 chipset and running the OUI 2.0. The TrueSmart™ has been funded through Kickstarter entering the Top 10 most funded projects of the Design category in September 2013. (www.omate.com) Media Contact: Maria Lioutaia maria(at)whirlscape(dot)com minuum.com/mediaroom
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