Nearly seven years later, we may finally have reached the end of this argument between two bickering tech giants. That and a really big phone this week on our show!
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The small but ambitious 2007-founded Martian Watches company has recently shut down its operations after desperately trying to find funds to stay afloat. Unfortunately, very few mVoice G2 units have been shipped.
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Amazon might be understandably hesitant about building another handheld that would probably never live down the Fire Phone mess, but with Alexa’s growing popularity, we wonder why third-party OEMs aren’t more interested in natively supporting the intelligent personal assistant.
If you feel comfortable literally talking to the hand, you can at least order Alexa via voice to make phone calls using Martian mVoice smartwatches now. As the name suggests, this was already a family of stylish analog wearables focused on voice interaction, with turn by turn navigation and a number of other very practical hands-free commands made possible out the box.
A software update however brings a massive new total of over 5,000 Alexa skills to the mVoice, including smart home controls, quick and secure Amazon.com shopping, To Do’s and Reminders, weather forecasts, various information web searches, restaurant scouting, and much, much more.
Granted, this isn’t the world’s first Alexa-enabled smartwatch, and Martian is hardly what we’d call an industry leader or pioneer, but it has a bit of experience in the field, an established reputation, and it’s not asking for Indiegogo pledges. Just $295 outright on the manufacturing company’s US website, or a far lower $160 through Amazon, where the wrist-worn gadget is “temporarily of stock.”
Alexa is officially supported on first and third-party tablets, smartwatches, intelligent speakers, digital media players and even robots nowadays, which again begs the obvious question – why not smartphones?
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While Martian’s offerings in the smartwatch world do look a tad alien to what we consider the norm, they have their own ways of doing what many consider to be the job of a smartwatch — deliver notifications to you and help you spend less time with your phone.The Martian Notifier was close to being our favorite Pebble/Apple Watch/Android Wear alternative just short of the
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Why must all good things come to an end? More importantly, why must they end before we get to truly appreciate them? Case in point, the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It feels like it only started yesterday. Because, well, it technically did.But as always, the vast majority of high-profile exhibitors hurried to take the wraps off their shiny new gadgets in the days leading up to the ...
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This year’s Consumer Electronics Show has probably been one of the most diverse tech expos in recent memory, with participant companies equally interested in now traditional smartphones and tablets, as well as ingenious new wearables,
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Update: Due to today’s difficulties with Hangouts, the below Hangouts video is not the ideal recording of today’s Weekly episode. Instead, we highly recommend the Libsyn-hosted version, edited by our own Jules Wang and available for streaming and download at the links below. Thanks for listening!One of the nice things about hosting your own podcast is that you get to decide exactly what qualifies as “news.” Not in the mood to pretend the latest wave of iPhone 6 display-glass leaks fit the description? Well, tweak the filter a little, and suddenly you’ve got ...
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When we first laid eyes on the Martian line of smartwatches, I was unimpressed. Too low-tech.When we first laid hands on the Martian Notifier, I remained unmoved. Too low-key.When AT&T and Martian dropped a Notifier on our doorstep, I almost recycled it for our
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