The first ever dedicated smart watch keyboard

I really like how they're stealing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H repurposing the 2008 Obama for America logo for their company. Although, to be fair, their logo does have one less red stripe across the bottom.

Compare:

Obama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_logo

TouchOne: http://www.touchone.net/Public/Home/default/images/logo.png

Logo very reminiscent of Obama's campaign brand. Doesn't really seem in keeping with the product, style-wise.

I might be asking the obvious: isn't this just T9?

I really like the idea of a circular keyboard for a smart watch. And yes Qwerty makes little sense on such devices since the only reason for it is all those people who trained to touch type learned qwerty which they can't do on anything but a normal sized physical keyboard.

Still while using the same "button" for three characters might have some advantages using a autocorrect system I'd like to see a rotary phone dial like interface where you can reliably enter one character at a time and without heavy reliance on autocorrect.

It'd be nice to see an 8pen implementation on watches. It was a nifty take on a keyboard interface that didn't get much traction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vsUF4NuLk