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Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by jamesfranco »

Whatever you wear reflects on you. I don't think this is something for someone who is fashion conscious people (like many people in LA). Wealthy people would prefer an Audemars or a Rolex any day compared to a Motorola or Samsung. Definitely see maybe teens and techies in Silicon Valley wearing these.

Like the iPad when it first when out, the smartwatch should do some key things better than any other device, which it does and some minor things like telling the weather, taking notes etc. although reading long articles, viewing photos or anything that involves a lot of interaction is be suited on a phone, tablet or computer.

Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by lugg »

CodeMage wrote: post #169
smokinjoe wrote: post #54

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More and more I'm thinking that some sort of Digital Bill of Rights is necessary to carry on in this technological-based World. At first I always thought of it as a nice thing, but perhaps a little too abstract or extreme to really do what it needs to do. However now we have some very large and real threats to our personal lives via this medium. I just feel like it makes a lot of good sense to produce something of th…

Call me defeatist, but when I see an existing Bill of Rights being violated so frequently and carelessly, I don't think a new Bill of Rights would be a solution.

I find the existing bill of rights quite adequate. We don't really need anything new, maybe an amendment here and there but in reality most of today's issues are already covered, they're just being utterly violated and nobody seems to realize as the ap has so eloquently demonstrated.

Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by wutbrodo »

bane wrote: post #106
wutbrodo wrote: post #68

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As far as I'm aware, the Moto X is very much able to avoid triggering by anyone's voice except the one it's keyed to. I was curious about how well it worked, so I tried repeatedly to launch Voice Search on my girlfriend's phone (even trying to imitate her voice); I wasn't able to do it at all. Trying to do so to an arbitrary person's device would be even harder.

That's good to know, but also a bit disconcerting, that Google has a voice print profile for me sitting on their servers somewhere.

How would this even work if it was stored on the server? Every singkr sound triggers a roundtrip to the server from your phone to check the voice? I can't imagine this working any other way than being stored locally.

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Post by abhn »

smokinjoe wrote: post #54
kshatrea wrote: post #3

I am in the position of being torn apart by two very strong feelings. One is the world where information flow due to companies like Google does a real service to humanity: for e.g. wearing devices that can keep us reminded of our meds or monitor sugar levels, to talk just about the possibilities in healthcare. Then I think of Edward Snowden and I now know that what Google knows, maybe America/Russia/China/WhatHaveYou…

More and more I'm thinking that some sort of Digital Bill of Rights is necessary to carry on in this technological-based World. At first I always thought of it as a nice thing, but perhaps a little too abstract or extreme to really do what it needs to do. However now we have some very large and real threats to our personal lives via this medium. I just feel like it makes a lot of good sense to produce something of th…

Digital Bill of Rights? Ask rms about that one ... even I don't know if i'm joking.

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Post by Mikeb85 »

hugofirth wrote: post #66
dictum wrote: post #57

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> in my nation (India) being gay is illegal Sorry for the flame material, but why is it that this is rarely mentioned in western news media (at least in the countries whose news I follow)? For those who, like me, didn't know that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_India

It is odd - there was uproar around the Russian propaganda laws regarding Homosexual relationships running up to the winter olympics (and rightly so! I am not suggesting otherwise). Yet, I (who, perhaps arrogantly, consider myself fairly well informed) had absolutely no idea that homosexuality is illegal in India. This is wtf-worthy.

Not only that, but homosexuality is actually completely legal in Russia.

The law that everyone was in uproar about is that in Russia you're not allowed to promote non-traditional sexual relationships.

Yet in what many claim is a 'free' country (India), homosexuality it outlawed outright.

Funny how propaganda works.

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Post by XorNot »

macspoofing wrote: post #128
XorNot wrote: post #18

Urgh...I wish we could skip this whole awkward smart watch phase and just realize its a bad idea.

If you watch people interact with their phones for a few minutes you realize it is a good idea. Take any average person and you'd see them constantly checking their phone for time(!!), messages, emails, weather, missed calls, current calls (i.e. who is calling me right now), change playing song etc. All those functions could be easily handled by a companion watch device.

Firstly: you can't fit all those notifications on a watch sized display. So you'd have to interact with the display.

Secondly: To interact with something strapped to your risk, involves both hands.

To interact with your phone requires 1 hand.

There's also a mild security element - notifications and information are essentially constantly being displayed to anyone looking at you, projected outwards from the body.

Add in all the other unsolved issues - i.e. no improvement in battery energy density for a couple of years now, and the whole thing is a non-starter. It can only provide less information, less conveniently.

The only benefit a watch brings to the table is when for whatever reason you can't carry something in your pocket.

Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by dobbsbob »

fab13n wrote: post #141

We're in a situation comparable to smartphones pre-iPhone: we know there is value in displaying stuff on your wrist, we know we need some way to send information in response to those received from the screen, but all of this doesn't click together. We have fragments of a solution, but we don't know which problem it solves, and certainly not how to integrate it into a life-enhancing experience. Smartphone builders had…

I want the watch from They Live so I can lift my wrist up to my head and summon the secret alien police.

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Post by notatoad »

wutbrodo wrote: post #183
bane wrote: post #106

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That's good to know, but also a bit disconcerting, that Google has a voice print profile for me sitting on their servers somewhere.

How would this even work if it was stored on the server? Every singkr sound triggers a roundtrip to the server from your phone to check the voice? I can't imagine this working any other way than being stored locally.

if it's stored locally, it's probably stored on a server too.

Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by Kiro »

atrilumen wrote: post #172
Kiro wrote: post #69

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* My phone is on permanent silent mode. * I never miss a call. * When biking I know if I need to stay and bring out the phone just by glancing my wrist. * It's very convenient to be able to read texts and emails on your wrist (this is even better than you imagine). * Great for meeting notifications. * If I leave the phone on my desk I still see when people call (several times I've catched calls by running to my desk…

When do you charge it? (Sounds like you wear it 24/7.)

Only need to charge it once a week but I do it at my desk via USB.
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