Moto 360

Post by wffurr » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

RyanZAG wrote: post #66

Yhippa wrote: post #2

Really 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).

If they price this to compete with typical mid-high watches, then you're looking at about $4000 [1] which is more than enough to get some very impressive display technology in there. If they skimp and try to put in cheap hardware and go for a $500 price target then this is going to fall flat. Hopefully they understand the watch market and know to charge more and put in the best materiel, but knowing the tech industry…

Post by sunseb » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 6:27 PM UTC

Post by DavidAdams » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

RyanZAG wrote: post #66

Yhippa wrote: post #2

Really 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).

If they price this to compete with typical mid-high watches, then you're looking at about $4000 [1] which is more than enough to get some very impressive display technology in there. If they skimp and try to put in cheap hardware and go for a $500 price target then this is going to fall flat. Hopefully they understand the watch market and know to charge more and put in the best materiel, but knowing the tech industry…

Post by knodi123 » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 6:32 PM UTC

fluidcruft wrote: post #95

wpietri wrote: post #60

That stem is interesting. The Pebble has 4 buttons, which are generally mapped to up, down, select, and back. That strikes me as the minimum for useful app interface. With the Moto 360's stem I can see getting up down and select, but now how they'd do back. Maybe a long-press?

Not really input related, but is it remotely plausible that winding could charge the battery?

  1. The dynamo would take up too much room
  2. Pinching a tiny metal shaft is ergonomically awful
  3. have you seen the tiny wind-up flashlights?  they're huge, and they require quite a lot of winding, and that's just to power an LED for a few minutes.
  4. groundbreaking features like a wind-up piece of personal electronics, are *flagship* features.  If this thing had a 1 week battery, or was windup, or whatever, that would be a *very high visibility* part of the ad campaign.

Post by mikestew » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 6:34 PM UTC

maxmcd wrote: post #45

revelation wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of mass-market devices with round screen. Heres a 3+ year old Garmin watch with touch and pixel-based round screen: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/images/2011/04/IMG_0486A-720x479....

Based on the size of the bezel couldn't that still be a rectangular lcd? I tried finding pictures of the internals of that watch, but my google-fu is not strong enough.