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Because if it's the latter it's no better on the key feature of portability than the existing Samsung/Pebble devices (AIUI).
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That's one solution. Or they could....hire two people? Might be a bit easier to pull off.
You do realize that the campaign is designed to show how a device is used throughout one person's day, don't you? How does adding a second person clarify that message?
Anybody care to enlighten an amateur how they did it?
I'm very impressed. When I saw the Google video, I thought the round watch was a photoshopped concept we may see in the future, but it's actually shipping in a few months. Also, is this the first mass-market device with a round screen? I'd be interested to see how the layouts work from a developer perspective. Whether relative or fixed, desktop, mobile or web, we're all so used to rectangular, grid based layouts.
Plenty of mass-market devices with round screen. Heres a 3+ year old Garmin watch with touch and pixel-based round screen: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/images/2011/04/IMG_0486A-720x479....
I tried finding pictures of the internals of that watch, but my google-fu is not strong enough.
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).
Am I the only one who doesn't wear a watch (even if I wanted to) because I don't like the way it scratches against my MacBook Pro?
Maybe it's only me, but I'm tired of big watches. I recently got a Jawbone UP and it replaced my wrist watch. The only downside is that the UP doesn't have a clock on it. I don't like having a lot of things on my wrist and I don't like having anything on the arm that I use my mouse with. What I want is the smallest possible watch out there, and so far I really haven't found anything.
Yes, but that doesn't matter at this time. We are pretty much getting what we expected out of a first gen smartwatch. What you are asking for is premature optimization.
I wonder how can you call someone? You can speak to the phone but how do you hear what is being said to you? Does it comes with some kind of wireless earphones or something?
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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…
I work from home so most of the time unless I'm in a google hangout I'm largely alone. I've found that using voice activated input for my moto x is something that I use more and more often. There will likely be a social stigma around voice oriented device control initially but for me it's just the simplest thing that gets the job done. All that said I agree with you about the battery. It'll have to be nice enough to…