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My pebble lasts between 7 and 10 days. You must be getting a lot of notifications; do you enable accelerometer-triggered backlight? Do you listen to music often (with the music controls) ?
I get a pretty good number of notifications per day, and my pebble only lasts about 3-4 days.
Am I the only one who felt like he refused to acknowledge this might be a bad product? The Verge has been gushing over this watch for months now and when they finally get it they have the same faults with it as other Android Wear devices. Yet for some reason because it's round and stylish (I beg to differ) it's immediately a better product?
Am I the only one who felt like he refused to acknowledge this might be a bad product? The Verge has been gushing over this watch for months now and when they finally get it they have the same faults with it as other Android Wear devices. Yet for some reason because it's round and stylish (I beg to differ) it's immediately a better product?
Am I the only one who felt like he refused to acknowledge this might be a bad product? The Verge has been gushing over this watch for months now and when they finally get it they have the same faults with it as other Android Wear devices. Yet for some reason because it's round and stylish (I beg to differ) it's immediately a better product?
It wasn't just because it was round and stylish. It was because for the first time the reviewer believed that it felt like an actual watch. That is: discreet and unobtrusive. Those come from a device "feeling" different than another. Not just because of specs on a page.
Am I the only one who felt like he refused to acknowledge this might be a bad product? The Verge has been gushing over this watch for months now and when they finally get it they have the same faults with it as other Android Wear devices. Yet for some reason because it's round and stylish (I beg to differ) it's immediately a better product?
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It wasn't just because it was round and stylish. It was because for the first time the reviewer believed that it felt like an actual watch. That is: discreet and unobtrusive. Those come from a device "feeling" different than another. Not just because of specs on a page.
That's enough to warrant a 2 point bump over the other Android Wear devices? They gave the G Watch and Gear a 6.8, and a 8.1 to the Moto 360, yet they have very similar flaws. The focus, as evident by their wrap up, is all about design.
And as someone who cares about how they look design is the only reason I pick which watch to buy.
For me smart watches currently seem like tablets before the iPad. There's something not quite right about them but it's hard to pinpoint. I'm hoping that Apple is going to come along and fix that next week. Being their first new product category in 4 years I'm guessing than they've spent a lot longer working on it that LG/Motorola have. Of course I could be completely wrong.
Paste an Apple logo sticker on it if that makes you feel better...
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That's enough to warrant a 2 point bump over the other Android Wear devices? They gave the G Watch and Gear a 6.8, and a 8.1 to the Moto 360, yet they have very similar flaws. The focus, as evident by their wrap up, is all about design.
You do understand that watches are for a significant amount of people a fashion accessory ? Design is at least if not more important than functionality. And as someone who cares about how they look design is the only reason I pick which watch to buy.
So, here's something I've been wondering about smart watches, maybe someone here can answer. It seems like the big dealbreaker for these is battery life. But a cheap watch with quartz timekeeping and digital lcd display can last a year or more on a single small battery. Would it be possible to sandwich two lcd displays into the face of the watch, one that is cheap and one that is high-res full-color? Always display t…
It also depends what features do you expect from the watch. I have a Pebble. It does everything I want on a "smart" watch, and the battery lasts from 7 to 10 days. Which is obviously worst than a year, but it's good enough that it doesn't become a PITA for me.
If the reviews on the Moto 360 aren't too bad and the battery last at least 2 days, I will probably buy it.