Last year, Italian smart watch manufacturer, I’m Spa, unveiled the I’m Watch Android smart watch concept. It was then turned into a prototype that debuted at CES and was then put up for pre-order. Now the bad news is that if you were planning on placing your pre-order or if you have already done so, it seems that the watch has been delayed. According to the company, the delay supposedly has something to do with them improving the hardware on the watch, which we guess is them hoping to offer up a more enticing gadget compared to the Kickstarter success, the Pebble smart watch.

For the first batch, 300 I’m Watches are expected to begin shipping out on the 15th of June. Supposedly these are meant for testing and feedback, and further outstanding orders will be fulfilled by the 15th of July, and all orders are expected to be dispatched by the 15th of September. Given the huge success that the Pebble smart watch has seen with its Kickstarter funding, we’ll have to wonder which of these smart watches will prevail. In the mean time you can pop on over to I’m Watch’s website for more info, or check out the email below for details about the delay.

Dear Customer,

we appreciate the patience you’ve shown so far regarding the delivery of i’m Watch. We are aware that you have encountered some inconveniences and that, above all, you were not able to use a device that grows every day further interest around the world.

Unfortunately we have verified once more the validity of that saying: “The best is the enemy of the good!” What do we mean?

We want to tell you today with great transparency and humbleness that, not only have we met all the difficulties of an extremely innovative and ambitious project (and the unforeseen events that have surpassed any logical expectation), but we have especially given into the temptation of implementing some modifications in order to increase and improve the adaptability of i’m Watch towards the future development of technology (for example, enabling it to handle a larger number of apps than initially expected). All of these factors brought us to lose precious time and, particularly, has prevented us from providing you some certain dates for the delivery.

But we are now able to define them as follows, taking into account that we intend to conduct a last serious testing program with our customers:

1) By June 15th we will provide i’m Watch to a group of 300 customers, who will cooperate with us for a final and ultimate check, to be completed by July 15th. We will ask them to give regular feedback on their experience, which will be reported in a public blog on the website www.imwatch.it in order to allow you to follow its evolution as well.

2) Starting July 15th we will begin to ship the product to all those who have an unsent order. We expect to fulfill the delivery for all current orders within and no later than September 15th.

Given that we understand that you might have lost interest in the purchase, we decided to offer you the following possibilities:

Giving up the purchase and requesting an immediate refund of the paid amount, providing by July 15th an e-mail to the following address, if you are residing in Italy: …, or to the following: … if you are residing abroad. If instead you are willing to wait until the expected date of delivery, you will receive at the delivery a 15% discount on the price paid.

We thank you for your cooperation, very confident that i’m Watch will fully meet your expectations.

Best regards.

Manuel Zanella and Massimiliano Bertolini President and CEO of i’m Spa

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