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Are you buying an Android Wear smartwatch today? [POLL]
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markbatham2009
Lurker
Yes I'm planing to buy it but little bit confuse that it would be good or not, please confirm which one is best?
GreenTea
Newbie
Are many ladies wearing these? Really.
IRL I've seen (well, noticed) maybe 10 people tops wearing a smart watch, and zero of these have been women--and I live in a high-tech area. A lady I know wears an older model Nano with a watch band, but that's it.
My main beef is that these gadgets don't seem to be designed for women. I wear a Gear 2 but I had to swap out the included band with some aftermarket bands to get a tighter fit and more feminine look. The Pebble people, Samsung, whoever, should offer a more unisex design, or at least the option to have a more "dainty" band. I don't have man hands, and a 22mm band is huge! Ok, rant over.
My, oh, my, though, the watch is great. Really. Aside from the giant size, it's pretty much perfect. I'd never go back to just a regular watch that only tells time.
I'm not interested in the Gear Live, as I don't believe it has a camera, but I see myself getting the Gear 3.
IRL I've seen (well, noticed) maybe 10 people tops wearing a smart watch, and zero of these have been women--and I live in a high-tech area. A lady I know wears an older model Nano with a watch band, but that's it.
My main beef is that these gadgets don't seem to be designed for women. I wear a Gear 2 but I had to swap out the included band with some aftermarket bands to get a tighter fit and more feminine look. The Pebble people, Samsung, whoever, should offer a more unisex design, or at least the option to have a more "dainty" band. I don't have man hands, and a 22mm band is huge! Ok, rant over.
My, oh, my, though, the watch is great. Really. Aside from the giant size, it's pretty much perfect. I'd never go back to just a regular watch that only tells time.
I'm not interested in the Gear Live, as I don't believe it has a camera, but I see myself getting the Gear 3.
Usual thing with watches intended for ladies, is their rather small sizes(calibres) compared to watches intended for men. Which for a smartwatch could very difficult to fit everything in. It was a problem with ladies LED digital watches back in 1970s, that had to have smaller, lower capacity batteries, which meant they didn't last as long. Battery life with power hungry LEDs was already pretty crap anyways, often a couple months at best. Those batteries were not rechargeable and often required a jeweller to change them.
The original period of LED watches was very short as well, 1972 they were extremely expensive costing $1,000s of bucks, and by 1977 couldn't even give the things away and almost nobody wanted them any more, cheap LCD watches and quartz analogue watches with good battery life had arrived. Could be the same for the current smartwatches, now they're still fairly expensive and can be proprietary, battery life is only a couple of days, e.g. Samsung Gear, but in about 3 or 4 years they're only a few bucks each because of China Inc. and what you buy now might well be obsolete.
The smartwatch of its day....
Anyone remember this from 1977?
The HP-01, a true smartwatch, however extremely expensive and very short lived.
The original period of LED watches was very short as well, 1972 they were extremely expensive costing $1,000s of bucks, and by 1977 couldn't even give the things away and almost nobody wanted them any more, cheap LCD watches and quartz analogue watches with good battery life had arrived. Could be the same for the current smartwatches, now they're still fairly expensive and can be proprietary, battery life is only a couple of days, e.g. Samsung Gear, but in about 3 or 4 years they're only a few bucks each because of China Inc. and what you buy now might well be obsolete.
The smartwatch of its day....
Anyone remember this from 1977?
The HP-01, a true smartwatch, however extremely expensive and very short lived.
AnonGuy
Android Enthusiast
Nothing. But the Gear 2 does things the Live doesn't do. I think this is why Google doesn't like Samsung smart watch plans. Their Tizen bad gear OS is at lease a year ahead of Android Wear, and that's being a bit strict on that estimate, with much better integration with Samsung devices than Wear would have.
That is one Area where Samsung commitment to their own ecosystem (WatchOn, S Voice, etc. ) has paid off.
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
I just got an LG G Watch and it works but I'm lost. Right now I got voice control nailed down (handy since my screen will remain smudge free) but at home it isn't currently showing any cards. I have literally zero idea what I'm doing and Google per usual are non informative about anything, the watch did a limited demo and said 'enjoy!' But how would I know if it is actually working? How do you get the weather card to stay on? I don't know if I should trust it after my Gear 2 had tons of sync issues (one being that the weather outright refused to update and it would randomly stop receiving notifications)
If, for example, it wasn't connecting or syncing properly would it suddenly go "Danger! Danger! Will Robinson! " or would I find out later that the weather hasn't updated since the time I last picked up my phone?
It has a beautiful UI that I expected given online pictures but it happens to be the most non-user friendly interface to have ever existed. I literally had to Google search how to find the installed apps I put onto the thing.
If, for example, it wasn't connecting or syncing properly would it suddenly go "Danger! Danger! Will Robinson! " or would I find out later that the weather hasn't updated since the time I last picked up my phone?
It has a beautiful UI that I expected given online pictures but it happens to be the most non-user friendly interface to have ever existed. I literally had to Google search how to find the installed apps I put onto the thing.