Moto 360

#1

Post by uptown » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:41 PM UTC

Moto 360
moto360.motorola.com

Re: Moto 360

#2

Post by Yhippa » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

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).

Re: Moto 360

#3

Post by yathern » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

Very cool - hopefully '360' is not a reference to how many minutes of battery life it will have. I hope for one that it uses an OLED screen, so the black-background watches will use very little battery. Also, I found it interesting that each of the pictures were of vascular men-forearms. I guess they don't expect this to be well adopted by the female population.

Re: Moto 360

#4

Post by lsb » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

So I'm only seeing white male hands

Re: Moto 360

#5

Post by napoleoncomplex » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

yathern wrote: post #3

Very cool - hopefully '360' is not a reference to how many minutes of battery life it will have. I hope for one that it uses an OLED screen, so the black-background watches will use very little battery. Also, I found it interesting that each of the pictures were of vascular men-forearms. I guess they don't expect this to be well adopted by the female population.

OLED makes sense in terms of battery life, but since it's going to be showing a watch face for 95% of the time, burn-in might be too much of a problem.

Looking forward to seeing how they solved this.

Re: Moto 360

#6

Post by ghotli » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

yathern wrote: post #3

Very cool - hopefully '360' is not a reference to how many minutes of battery life it will have. I hope for one that it uses an OLED screen, so the black-background watches will use very little battery. Also, I found it interesting that each of the pictures were of vascular men-forearms. I guess they don't expect this to be well adopted by the female population.

The Moto X uses the OLED screen to effectively support the active notifications feature without burning battery. I've been very pleased with this feature and taking that technology to a watch just seems to make sense in my opinion.

Re: Moto 360

#7

Post by buckbova » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

lsb wrote: post #4

So I'm only seeing white male hands

It's the same model. Unless you want him to go black arm, that's what you got.

Re: Moto 360

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Post by sfeng » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

lsb wrote: post #4

So I'm only seeing white male hands

It's all the same model. Do they need to hire a model from every race to prove something?

Also, now that I look, he might be Hispanic... not that it should matter to anyone.

Re: Moto 360

#9

Post by uptown » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

lsb wrote: post #4

So I'm only seeing white male hands

It's one person. Would you prefer he changes skin-tone between photos?

Re: Moto 360

#10

Post by zacinbusiness » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

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).

See that's one of the problems with current tech and these watch devices. First of all, it will take a whole lot of convincing to make me buy another watch as I currently own an $800 Seiko that's nearly 15 years old and I've never had to change the battery (because it's kinetic). Second, if I DID buy a new watch it would take even more convincing to get me to take it off more than once every few years just to charge it. A normal watch lasts at least a year on a battery, and a kinetic watch such as mine literally never "winds down" unless I stop moving for months at a time. And finally, a watch as a display device is fine, but I'm simply not going to use it as an input device. Thus, I can see context-sensitive info on my watch (which is cool, I readily admit) but I still have to whip out the smart phone or laptop or tablet in order to really do much with that data. Now I'm not saying that someone won't make a good interface, but I just think the physical size limitations of making a watch that doesn't look and feel ridiculous will make any such interface very (very) difficult to pull off.