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#22Maybe it's only me, but I'm tired of big watches. I recently got a Jawbone UP and it replaced my wrist watch. The only downside is that the UP doesn't have a clock on it. I don't like having a lot of things on my wrist and I don't like having anything on the arm that I use my mouse with.
What I want is the smallest possible watch out there, and so far I really haven't found anything.
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#23I'm very impressed. When I saw the Google video, I thought the round watch was a photoshopped concept we may see in the future, but it's actually shipping in a few months.
Also, is this the first mass-market device with a round screen? I'd be interested to see how the layouts work from a developer perspective. Whether relative or fixed, desktop, mobile or web, we're all so used to rectangular, grid based layouts.
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#24An aside: When does the deal of selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo close? I'm assuming not for a while and this is why they're still branded as a Google company?
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#25Really cool stuff! From what it looks like this is a big departure from the previous Android smart watches that look like they jammed Android 1.0 on there. Two big concerns for me: 1) Battery life 2) Display visibility They go hand-in-hand for me. Get that nice high-res display but will it last me a day? For battery life it would be nice to have induction charging if it were to last about 8 hours (my personal guess).
Right... in theory, a smartwatch type device sounds great.
Battery life, screen brightness/visibility (can I read the screen on a clear summer day at noon?), size, and ease of use are all really important. Price matters for business purposes, but I wonder what could be done if that were not considered as a factor.
But since they'll have to compromise on those parameters (or just physically can't push them too far) it makes you wonder if this thing will actually be worth it. It's definitely cool, but is it really that much better than just having a smart phone? Is it $600-$1,000 better? I have a hard time imagining it would be... hopefully I'm wrong!
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#26Maybe it's only me, but I'm tired of big watches. I recently got a Jawbone UP and it replaced my wrist watch. The only downside is that the UP doesn't have a clock on it. I don't like having a lot of things on my wrist and I don't like having anything on the arm that I use my mouse with. What I want is the smallest possible watch out there, and so far I really haven't found anything.
Traditionally, female watches are small, and male ones are larger. I don't see this changing any time soon.
Try a Nike Fuelband however, it's very thin. It's not always on, but it sure is fancy when you click the button in public.
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#27Am I the only person hoping this comes through with some type of iOS compatibility? It seems to be the only smart watch out there that looks like a watch and not a futuristic-80's-era-digital-caluclator-watch
Definitely second your point about the styling. This is the first smart watch I've seen that I could see myself wearing (although it still looks a bit thick for something I'd be wearing on my wrist -- but that's a hard problem to get around with current-generation technology).
Current smart watches remind me of those Windows convertible tablets from 2006-2007. It was a good idea, and for certain use-cases it was the best thing out there, but the technology just wasn't quite advanced enough to make them practical for most people. I see smart watches catching on when they are sleek enough to function as a no-compromises watch while also integrating all the contextual information they promise to make available.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's one solution. Or they could....hire two people? Might be a bit easier to pull off.
You do realize that the campaign is designed to show how a device is used throughout one person's day, don't you? How does adding a second person clarify that message?
Because people more strongly identify with, and are thus more receptive to suggestions from, people with whom they are alike physically. And as it's a campaign that's trying to sell yet another gadget (that exists in a space primarily full of failures) then it would probably be a good idea to try to reach several types of person, rather than just the one.
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#30So I'm only seeing white male hands
Also how about trying to make a watch that women will want to buy? I just don't see that happening for most women who won't really care about this kind of gadget (maybe I'm wrong).
Part of the problem in doing that is that most women's watches have really small faces. Fitting a usable amount of information and interface onto a huge men's watch (even by men's watch standards) is a challenge already.