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How could you possibly put the web on a screen where my fingertip is big enough to cover up 25% of it at any moment? This seems like one of those cases where less is definitely more.
you seem to think that in 3 years there won't be 5" watches...
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This was, by far the best cost/benefit watch that I found latelly: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VR9HP2/ref=oh_details_o... Also, Swatch have some very nice ones, with a VERY good price.
Don't take this the wrong way but: That thing doesn't even have a respectable water-resistant rating, I was very exciting when I clicked on that link because I'm in the market for a new watch, but I need something that can take more than a couple drops of water... For comparison: My first two watches lasted 2 years each and costed me ~$10 a pop plus they had a WR rating of 300m. Sadly they looked kinda juvenile and I…
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In other words, you can tell by some of the pixels?
An easy way to tell: look at the edges of the text area's white background. See how they're kinda jaggy, almost like steps? That's due to low resolution. Either the device is low res (which most smart phones are) or the source image was. Now look at the edges of the 3D watch's hands: they're all smooth at every angle. That means either a 3D mock-up or an incredibly high res screen. Yet look at the black watch face in…
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You really don't have an option if you're on a macbook - the keyboard rests a good sixish inches behind the front of the machine.
He means that your wrists shouldn't be touching anything. They should be hovering a couple of centimetres above the flat area in front of the keyboard.
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The Lenovo Yoga line is pretty great in general. I've been eyeing them pretty hard recently.
I eyed them a while ago, but read a bunch of not very favourable reviews; anyone have hands-on experience for at least a month?
I'll address them in order. 1. there was a marked discoloration when i saw pictures on the forums, and i almost returned it due to bing scared. When i got it, nothing. Absolutely nothing, though it looked a bit over saturated, which i kinda like on a non-workstation device.
2. The flimsy hinge is not a problem, end of story. Its stiffer than a MBA or MBP,m and only wobbles significantly if you tap it real hard.
3. Battery life is a problem, but if you're like me, i use it in multiple short spurts, coupled with a few long ones. It lasts all day, and while i do wish for a bit more, as for waht it is, it's good. Not great, but good.
4. No backlight bleed, nuff' said.
Furthermore i have found myself using the touchscreen far more than i anticipated. It's hands down, IMHO, the best laptop availible today thats an ultraportable. Go get one.
I wonder if they will let you flip the screen orientation so left handers can wear it properly..
Besides that: don't count on it. If you pay close attention, you see that the bottom part of the round screen stays black. Most likely to accommodate the controller for the screen. Upside down will not work for that reason.
In a square watch, it might.
I'm excited about this, and disappointed in Pebble. They were first to market but totally squandered their opportunity. I got my Pebble last year, and stopped wearing it after a week because all the promised apps were still a work-in-progress. One year later, not much has changed :/
I'm using mine with RunKeeper and it works great. I'm pretty happy with my Pebble's notifications as well. Having said that, I didn't have great expectations to start with. I wasn't going to play games on a watch. I wasn't going to type responses to my SMSs or e-mails. I'm happy because I don't miss calls anymore. I see my notifications instantly. And when I'm outside running, I can easily see my distance, pace etc.…
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The LG watch looks more like an iPhone strapped to your wrist than a watch. http://i.imgur.com/yP1Qpa9.png I was kind of excited after viewing the Motorola page, but after the videos, I'm disappointed. I don't want to speak to my watch, and I don't care about having yet another app for weather, calendar, etc. The videos just reminded me that I don't care about any of this information, or having it available on my wri…
> I don't want to speak to my watch Doesn't everyone want to look like a TV show FBI agent?
I wonder if they will let you flip the screen orientation so left handers can wear it properly..
Is that a problem in any other watch? Left or right wrist, the 12 stays on top. Only the button is on the other side. Besides that: don't count on it. If you pay close attention, you see that the bottom part of the round screen stays black. Most likely to accommodate the controller for the screen. Upside down will not work for that reason. In a square watch, it might.
With a completely digital display though, theoretically, it would be possible to rotate the watch and have the display rotate as well. The clasp would still potentially be upside down, but depending on the type of clasp, that doesn't matter much.
As you said, if the controller face of the screen is dedicated and not able to be rotated as well, that wouldn't work.
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Maybe because they have simple and straightforward names that it's reasonable to expect most people will understand. Whereas if you said "my Dell Latitude 3300" most people would have no specific mental image for that. Like it or not, the simplicity of Apple's product line and naming scheme makes their product names more meaningful.
no it's the other way around. if people who own another brand of device would mention the name every other time, we'd have (or make sure to have) a good mental image for those as well. Like a William Gibson novel. I don't know what a "Dell Latitude 3300" looks like because its owners do not mention they own one when they talk about "their laptop". If they did, after a few mentions, I'd have gotten a clearer idea on t…
Apple laptops don't have numbers in the last decade. There's been several generations of the "MacBook Pro". The screen size is a descriptor and not actually part of the product name.
The same effect is evident in cars: if I say "BMW 3-series" or "328i" you have a pretty good idea what I'm talking about, but if I say "Kia Cadenza"... and that's because BMW has maintained that brand for what, 30 years now?