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Mobile operating systems are to blame for lousy cross platform wearables
You wear a watch to help you know what time it is. Some watches tell you the day and date in addition to the time. Some display two time zones. Some have altimeters, barometers, stop watches, countdown timers, and more. Your smartphone likely has all of these features and functionalities as well. So why do you still wear a watch? Convenience, of course. It’s easier to glance at the watch on your wrist than it is to fish your phone out of your pocket, turn it on, bypass its security mechanisms, find and launch the corresponding app, and finally see the information you’re ...
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Huawei Watch review: sharp style at a princely price
When your principal standouts in the United States are fringe or affordable smartphones, debuting your first Android Wear smartwatch at $349 is an audacious move. Only one other wearable in the Google Store hangs out in the rarified air above the $300 mark, after all, and $349 is just entry level pricing for the Huawei Watch. ...
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Can the Gear S2’s awesome hardware overcome its software shortcomings?
Samsung does some really cool things, especially when it comes to displays: curved edges, round screens, and even screens that wrap part way around your wrist! That last one was one of the things that attracted me to the Galaxy Gear S – the big, beautiful screen that wrapped around your arm. However, two aspects to the otherwise amazing wearable kept it off my wrist: it ran Tizen when Android Wear was just gaining in popularity and functionality, and you could only pair it to a Samsung phone or phablet.This ...
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Five smartwatch problems you’d think they’d have solved by now
As fun as it can be to marginalize and criticize them, smartwatches are magical pieces of technology. From something as mainstream as an Apple Watch to something as fringe as a Cogito Classic, today’s wristborne wearables are modern miracles of miniaturized intelligence. As I say at the top of every Pocketnow Weekly ...
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Pebble Time unboxing & hardware tour (Video)
It was over two years ago that we first strapped on the Pebble to get a taste of what the redefined wristwatch might be like – and after a quick jaunt with its metallic cousin the Pebble Steel, we’re ready to try out the true next generation: the Pebble Time.Despite the significance of this sequel, the Kickstarter-funded Pebble Time comes in much the same packaging as the original: a nondescript, Postal ...
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Wrist phone: a week with the Samsung Gear S smartwatch (Video)
Samsung’s newest Gear is also its most ambitious. The Gear S smartwatch packs a curved two-inch display, IP67 ingress protection, and a custom Tizen UI into a cuff-like wristband that weighs in at a surprisingly airy 66g. Oh, and it packs cellular and WiFi connectivity along with the usual Bluetooth.That last important detail makes the Gear S more than just your typical smartwatch. As we discovered during our first hands-on at IFA 2014, the Gear S is capable of ...
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3 terrible reasons I’m looking forward to the Gear S
It’s really tough to get me excited about a new smartwatch from Samsung. That’s not necessarily because of the company’s earlier efforts, : I stood up for the original Galaxy Gear and enjoyed it much more than did most of my fellow tech reviewers, and I even bought and used a Gear Fit for a short time, preferring its
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Round is the new square: why circular smartwatches captivate us so
Back in “the day”, telephones were made up of a round speaker connected to a round microphone via a handle. To call someone, you picked up the “handset” from the “receiver” and “dialed” the number. The reason we still use that term today is because the apparatus for inputting our contact’s phone number was a round dial. You’d stick your finger in the hole that represented the number you wanted, rotate the dial until it stopped, pull out your finger, and wait while it returned back to the starting position.This wasn’t such a ...
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I was wrong: the Martian Notifier smartwatch is pretty sweet (Video)
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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LG G Watch review: Android Wear’s undercooked Nexus (Video)
At its core, the mission of a smartwatch is to make life easier. To improve on the smartphone experience by giving you leave to keep it in a pocket or leave it on the table across the room, because your messages, calls, emails, and other notifications are coming straight to your wrist.The nondescript, water-resistant G Watch does a fairly good job of delivering those notifications, popping up inbound messages alongside weather reports, calendar items, pedometer readings and much more on the 1.65-inch IPS LCD. But it’s not until the Snapdragon processor spins to life that the G ...
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Could smartwatches finally make augmented reality attractive?
It seems that every time we hear about “augmented reality” (AR) it’s from someone who has a new product they’re trying to peddle, which usually takes the form of some hideous looking piece of headwear. Recently, however, consumers are turning to smartwatches rather than eyewear. This is evidenced by the number of available apps for Android Wear compared to Google Glass, especially considering the latter has been available for so much longer. That’s what one company is banking on: an augmented reality smartwatch.According to most definitions, “augmented ...
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Buy the LG G Watch or Samsung Gear Live right now in Google’s new Android Wear store
Right on time (ish), Google has lifted the veil on the new Android Wear section of its Play Store, putting both the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live up for preorder, with shipments starting July 8th.In case you missed our extensive I/O coverage, both of these devices bring Google’s ...
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Samsung Gear Fit review “pre-buttal” (Video)
While Samsung’s fashionable Gear Fit smart watch/fitness accessory saw plenty of action in our recent exercise adventure with S Health, our coverage of the device itself has been limited to just an initial hands-on and an
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A less obtrusive smart watch: The Martian Notifier (video)
One of the big draws in getting a smart watch is being able to see all of your smartphone notifications with a quick glance at your wrist instead of having to take your phone out of your pocket. Personally, I’m still not sold on the utility of this concept, but it does seem to be getting some traction and there are numerous new smart watch models coming out that all do different things in different ways. I recently found a new smart watch manufacturer at a press event that I hadn’t heard of ...
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