The square interface on the round watch is pretty weird. I didn't expect to see square interface elements being lopped off the sides. The software seems to be almost a complete afterthought, I would have expected at least some innovative ways of making rounder interfaces.
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#22Is NTP handled differently when Android is wearable? If not, I can imagine some will find the accuracy of the time lacking.
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#23Pebble lasts 5 days. I like the look better too. Plus it seems simple, and I like the screen in sunlight better.
Plus it works with iOS AND Android - which is good, since I'm a multiplatform kind of person.
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#24Is NTP handled differently when Android is wearable? If not, I can imagine some will find the accuracy of the time lacking.
What exactly would be wrong with Android time accuracy?
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> The device's battery life is probably proportional to how often the screen is kept on I would expect a smartwatch's display to always be "on", displaying a watch face.
It won't be. You have to tap it to display the watch face. Edit: Nope, I am wrong - the screen does indeed stay on all the time, sorry.
I thought Android Wear devices had some sort of gesture detection so that the screen only turns on when you move it towards your face?
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#26So, 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…
I don't think that the display is the biggest energy draw here. It will be the CPU which is drawing most power compared to the quartz crystal in a simple $10 LCD watch.
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Be careful displaying your Casio F-91W if you visit an Arab country.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Claimed_use_in_terr...
Cheap casio watches are used as bomb timers because they are ubiquitous. Any market stall selling watches in almost any country in the world will have a Casio F-91W or a clone of it. If you wore a cheap Casio watch in an Arab country nobody would think anything of it because everyone else is also wearing them. Terrorists often wear boots, but wearing boots does not make one a terrorist.
The fact they're ubiquitous hasn't stopped them from being used as evidence that people are terrorists, unfortunately.
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What exactly would be wrong with Android time accuracy?
I've seen it drift more than 30 seconds over a few weeks. (Not sure if this is true of 4.4, say.)
I've seen it not drift for any seconds on 20+ devices we have for development testing.
I have seen networks send wrong time to the phones which caused wrong time issues on phones with "sync time with network" enabled.
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#30The square interface on the round watch is pretty weird. I didn't expect to see square interface elements being lopped off the sides. The software seems to be almost a complete afterthought, I would have expected at least some innovative ways of making rounder interfaces.
True. I thought Google made a big deal about Android Wear working on round watch faces too.