With bluetooth watches now becoming more popular, Citizen announced a new generation of their Bluetooth wrist watch line. Compared the first Citizen Bluetooth Virt watch the company launched back in 2006, the new line of Citizen watches are very compact and look like a normal LCD watches. Early this year Citizen introduced a slightly updated model, but the down fall being screen size.

Features of the new Citizen i:virt Bluetooth watches include display and vibration alarm of incoming calls, incoming e-mail or news.

In collaboration with the Japanese Carrier Softbank Citizen even allows you to read a preview of an email on the Bluetooth wristwatch. Another fun feature is the ability to trigger the camera of a compatible mobile phone via the watch.
The new Citizen Bluetooth watches will hit the market in Japan in November. Via this Citizen press-release (Japanese).

The Bluetooth watches are already available from Fossil but are not that feature-rich yet and not so compact. Let’s see if Fossil can beat Citizen with their next generation (if they actually do another Bluetooth watch generation) of Bluetooth watches.