did anyone else notice how there are no ports on this watch...hoping for inductive charging!
Moto 360
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Call me a tinfoil hatter, but I am not touching this tracking device with a five foot pole.
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#153Really 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…
This is not targeted at watch enthusiasts. This is for the consumer electronics market.
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#154Does anyone have any details? That page is amazingly non-informative.
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#155Its a little strange that all of the promo pictures on the site are of male arms. I wonder if it was on oversight or if they really are only going after a male demographic.
I assumed that they used only large arms to make the device appear smaller. On a typically sized woman's arm, I suspect this thing would look quite hefty. The fact that it seems to be relatively large may unavoidably limit its appeal to smaller individuals of either gender.
Do you think that a smaller version might make the interface unusable? I wonder if they are keeping it that large because they cant get the insides smaller or because it would not be easy to use.
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#156Am I the only one who doesn't wear a watch (even if I wanted to) because I don't like the way it scratches against my MacBook Pro?
I find it hilarious that you name the exact model of laptop.
This is anecdotal evidence but I've noticed people using idevices mention the models rather than generic device names.
I wonder why that is.
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#157I'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.
I was 100% sure that Apple's iWatch would be round. This looks almost exactly like I imagined the iWatch would look, and weirdly it feels like they copied it. (Well, it looks like a normal watch, and that's what I expected from Apple, not from Google/Moto).
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#158So I'm only seeing white male hands
Very perceptive.
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#159how it is different from Moto Watch[1]? I guess they just changed the dial.
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#160I'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.
I was 100% sure that Apple's iWatch would be round. This looks almost exactly like I imagined the iWatch would look, and weirdly it feels like they copied it. (Well, it looks like a normal watch, and that's what I expected from Apple, not from Google/Moto).
Wait what? You're accusing Motorola of copying your imagination of what an unreleased Apple product might look like?