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Those things look huge. Until "smart watches" can be made smaller and lighter, the adoption rate will be abysmal. Seriously, those things are electric hockey pucks with straps.
I'd rather see them start purposefully small so developers will have to be more creative when adapting to the form factor.
Also not really sure about the round LCD, why not a curved rectangular LCD?
The commerical, PoC is great. But its idea has the same flaw as Facebook Paper ( https://www.facebook.com/paper ). I can check the weather, get alert and listen to my music from my smartphone. I can enjoy some home automation with Canary ( http://canary.is/ ). If I have free time I can design my own app and integrate a speech recognition to open the door (I am sure there are companies selling this too). What unique "…
That's an argument against all smartwatches, not just Google. Nevertheless, I think you're wrong. I have a Pebble and it has changed my life. I will never leave the house without a wearable on my arm again.
Secondly, smartphones don't have the same flaw as Google wearable. Unless you use bluetooth, you can't say phoning someone on a wearable is easier than phoning someone on a mobile phone. Smartphone comes with a large screen and is good for content reading and gaming. Wearable can't go big. How do you text someone? Can you read your email from your watch?
I am in the position of being torn apart by two very strong feelings. One is the world where information flow due to companies like Google does a real service to humanity: for e.g. wearing devices that can keep us reminded of our meds or monitor sugar levels, to talk just about the possibilities in healthcare. Then I think of Edward Snowden and I now know that what Google knows, maybe America/Russia/China/WhatHaveYou…
I just feel like it makes a lot of good sense to produce something of the sort. I'm also naive enough to believe that it isn't too late to attempt to establish such a document and have it not contain all sorts of loopholes that would render it useless.
I can understand why the feds want to monitor the Internet and various communications, however there needs to be that pushback, that line drawn where we can hold their overreach accountable. It may not always work, but there needs to be something that us ordinary citizens can lean back on for protection.
I'm intrigued, but the price has to be good. Anything over $100 is just going to be a nonstarter in my opinion.
Will I have to charge it 3 times a day, not going to work...etc.
There's lots of difficulties with packing this in to a usable form factor and selling it.
The galaxy gear had a return rate > 30%. But it's also a $300 watch. For $300 it better do more than make it mildly easier for me to do things that I already do on my phone, which sits literally inches away from where my watch would be on my wrist.
And let's say it's wildly successful, I'm really interested in how a watch, on a bus full of people with watches, will know that you are saying "ok google" to it and not somebody else. Imagine sitting in a subway car, and some guy comes in and shouts "ok google, find me a bukake site!" or similar and now everybody on the train has to deal with that.
I am in the position of being torn apart by two very strong feelings. One is the world where information flow due to companies like Google does a real service to humanity: for e.g. wearing devices that can keep us reminded of our meds or monitor sugar levels, to talk just about the possibilities in healthcare. Then I think of Edward Snowden and I now know that what Google knows, maybe America/Russia/China/WhatHaveYou…
Sorry for the flame material, but why is it that this is rarely mentioned in western news media (at least in the countries whose news I follow)?
For those who, like me, didn't know that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_India
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moore's Law will eventually catch up. The Pebble is currently the PalmPilot of smartwatches; perfectly suited to the current state of the art. However, progress being what it is, eventually the technology will be good enough that Android (or iOS) on a smartwatch will become the better solution.
Moore's law is about transistor count; what does that have to do with battery life?
I'm far more interested in how we're going to solve issues like battery life with these devices than how they're going to look. So yes, this preview looks great. But for now I still consider my Pebble watch to be a much better option.
Wireless charging. Supposedly, pCell's new RF beamforming technology with their picocells is able to also transmit power by "beamforming" electromagnetic fields.
Urgh...I wish we could skip this whole awkward smart watch phase and just realize its a bad idea.
Also, if the watches switched from the pebble form factor to something like this: http://moto360.motorola.com/ would you still have the same opinion?
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