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grilldos posted:So syncing music to a Wear device rather than a phone is for the very specific use case of when you want to use a Bluetooth headphone connected directly to your watch and leave your phone at home?
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I got my 360 yesterday and am pretty happy with it so far. In order to customize watch faces, you need Moto Connect on your phone, which I do. I've been using it with my VZW Droid Maxx to text from my computer. I can't for the life of me find how to add an additional device (the watch) to Moto Connect. Any suggestions? Clockwork Sputnik fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 24, 2014 22:31
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JoeMB posted:Pretty much. I doubt many people will use it but its nice to have. It's for running. Leave your phone at home and take your GPS and music with you.
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Oct 24, 2014 22:53
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Clockwork Sputnik posted:I got my 360 yesterday and am pretty happy with it so far. The big + icon right on the top bar on the left not doing it?
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Oct 24, 2014 23:13
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bull3964 posted:The big + icon right on the top bar on the left not doing it? Bingo. Just needed to update the app. Thought I had it set to auto update. Thank you.
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edit: already went back to stock band since this was too thin/shiny. Good thing I know a jewellery store employee. Put a metal band on the GWR 
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Tunga posted:Yes, absolutely. I love my Moto 360 and wouldn't swap it for any other Wear device currently on the market but the lag that sometimes occurs when it first turns on is disgusting and obvious to anyone with eyes. I'm not even comparing it to other watches, it is just objectively bad in and of itself. Alright, after reading your message I sat here playing with my notifications, and I kinda see what your saying. I guess, in my opinion anyway, is it seems so minimal that it's not a huge deal. This is obviously something that is going to be different from person to person. Early adopter issues or whatever. I still love it as well. Three Olives posted:There are two issues, it's less power efficient and TI has basically discontinued support, it was a stupid, stupid design decision. I'd be fine with a slower processor if it meant better battery life but there is no good reason to put a barely supported slow power hungry processor. The no support thing doesn't seem to be stopping them from updating the software on the watch (as of yet, anyway) so there is that. I find that I can easily make it through a whole day with ambient mode on, are people looking to have it go longer than that? Maybe my usage is very different from others. I just treat it like my phone and charge it every night.
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Yeah, I meant standalone GPS and heart rate monitoring this way I can leave the phone at home to go for a jog. It seems like a moto 360 or LG watch R with GPS and better battery life is what I'm looking for.
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lostleaf posted:Yeah, I meant standalone GPS and heart rate monitoring this way I can leave the phone at home to go for a jog. It seems like a moto 360 or LG watch R with GPS and better battery life is what I'm looking for. The Sony Smart Watch 3 (just released on US Play store) has standalone GPS and pretty good specs otherwise but its looks are divisive. 
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Oct 25, 2014 18:27
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Reverse Centaur posted:The Sony Smart Watch 3 (just released on US Play store) has standalone GPS and pretty good specs otherwise but its looks are divisive. I actually dont mind the look of the sony watch but it doesnt have wireless charging or heart rate monitor. Especially with the crappy battery life, the wireless charging is a must.
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G Watch R video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6xQgFBM2kI Looks ridiculously huge on him. Not so bad on your average whitey
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Reverse Centaur posted:G Watch R video review I have never seen a goatee wrap so closely around somebody's lips before.
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Oct 26, 2014 06:03
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Reverse Centaur posted:G Watch R video review
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I experimented with ambient mode on with my 360 this weekend. On Friday, I decided to turn it on around 11am just to see what would happen. I had been off the charger since about 9 am and it was only charged to 86% when I took it off the charger because I had forgotten to charge it the night before and didn't put it on the charger first thing when I got up like I usually do. When I got home at 2:40 am, I had 1% charge left. So, about 14 1/2 hours off charge (though, only 86% as a starting point) with 12 or so of those hours being with ambient on. Granted once it dipped below 15% it turned ambient off automatically, but it seems like I could easily go a "normal" day with ambient on and have plenty of charge left by the end of the day. Not as good as something with OLED or snapdragon to be sure, but completely acceptable to me since it takes less than an hour to top off the battery.
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Mine is always on ambient mode, I'm a pretty light user, mostly just notifications, but I get about 16-18 hours out of it which is plenty.
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Oct 27, 2014 17:46
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I don't think I've seen my g watch r drop below 60% yet and I wear it from 8am to 10pm most days. After 3.5 hours today it's at 94%.
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Oct 27, 2014 19:24
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That's great and all, but I feel like this conversation is similar to the gently caress-off huge phone battery one: if it lasts a day of good use, who cares what percentage it's at when you put it on the charger, as long as it's still running? People are used to charging their [device] daily, so anything that doesn't break that routine is fine.
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Oct 27, 2014 19:31
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Reverse Centaur posted:I don't think I've seen my g watch r drop below 60% yet and I wear it from 8am to 10pm most days. After 3.5 hours today it's at 94%. So you paid for ~60% larger battery than you need!
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Thermopyle posted:So you paid for ~60% larger battery than you need! Oh god, can't wait until someone on reddit says that seriously. hooah posted:That's great and all, but I feel like this conversation is similar to the gently caress-off huge phone battery one: if it lasts a day of good use, who cares what percentage it's at when you put it on the charger, as long as it's still running? People are used to charging their [device] daily, so anything that doesn't break that routine is fine. Agreed, but I have to baby my 360 to not worry about battery. It's almost good enough after all the updates, but not quite.
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I just ordered one of these to use while traveling. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K8HG8YW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Basically, it could charge my 360 10 times over and it's the right size that I'm probably just going to be able to secure it to the charger with the strap (but likely just use a velcro or rubber band.) Sure, it would be great if the thing had the battery life to the point where I could rely on it lasting two days out of a charge for some edge cases, but I don't expect to have to use that charger much either. With such a tiny battery, it charges so drat quick that it's really easy to give it an extra boost if necessary. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Oct 27, 2014 |
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Reverse Centaur posted:Agreed, but I have to baby my 360 to not worry about battery. It's almost good enough after all the updates, but not quite. The problem is that the battery in that Moto360 will only have half of it's life in a year. So a 16hour battery will be only 8 hours once the battery has some time on it. The battery is not replaceable either. It's a lot of money for a watch that will only last maybe two years before it's completely useless. I know the lifespan on consumer electronics are pretty short, but really for $250 you can get a regular watch that last you forever.
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:The problem is that the battery in that Moto360 will only have half of it's life in a year. What are you basing this on? Phone batteries don't deteriorate THAT quickly. Did they use an inferior battery here?
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I'm not really sure I agree with that. Batteries are a lot better about their lifespan than they used to be. You aren't looking at the 50% range until you are well into 1200 to 1500 charge cycles so even if you depleted it to 0% every day, you are still looking at over 3 years before the battery life is halved. However, I usually end the day with ~50% life left, so it would be over 6 years before I would have to worry about it. Compared to a watch, it's a shorter lifespan, but $250 every 5 years is pocket change when compared to smartphones and such.
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bull3964 posted:I just ordered one of these to use while traveling. Less than that - Qi drops your efficiency by about 30%, according to this. Makes it seem like a bad thing on a power bank. (Yeah, 7 charges is still plenty for a watch, but it'd be wasteful for a phone.)
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Oct 27, 2014 21:53
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You can still charge a phone conventionally from it, so it's not really that big of a deal.
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Is it just me or is the voice recognition (text in particular) on the 360 not quite as good as on, say, my Droid MAXX, or am I doing it wrong? On a lighter note, my facial recognition unlock doesn't recognize me when I'm sober.
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Clockwork Sputnik posted:Is it just me or is the voice recognition (text in particular) on the 360 not quite as good as on, say, my Droid MAXX, or am I doing it wrong? For some reason the first few days I tried voice recognition it sucked. Now I can send texts or set alarms for my break and not even look to see if it did it right.
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Manky posted:Less than that - Qi drops your efficiency by about 30%, according to this. Makes it seem like a bad thing on a power bank. (Yeah, 7 charges is still plenty for a watch, but it'd be wasteful for a phone.) Not having to carry around wires is nice
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My Moto 360 mic is definitely worse than the other two Android Wear watches I've owned. Although today I told my wife "I'm coming" and my G Watch R decided to spell it "cumming" instead.
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I dunno, I'm actually able to whisper to my 360 under some pretty noisy circumstances and it tracks me perfectly. I mean, I just mumbled 'OK Google' with the TV at full volume and it picked up and recognized right away.
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Reverse Centaur posted:Although today I told my wife "I'm coming" and my G Watch R decided to spell it "cumming" instead.  Sorry if I've missed this, but what was the price for the GwR? I see some for $329 shipped from Asia. I figure if they are $249 in the US, tax will peg it within $50 of the eBay price (of which, I have $29 in eBay bucks, so looking at $11 more to get it now).
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Vintimus Prime posted:Okay that Fitbit surge has me intrigued This is very exciting:  http://blog.fitbit.com/fitbit-charge-charge-hr-surge-welcome-to-a-whole-new-world-of-fitness/
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hotsauce posted:Obviously pulling it from the saved dictionary terms on your phone. An intimate glimpse into your life I'm married, the only person who knows about me cumming is redtube.com. $329 US was about what I paid. No brainer as a Canadian (we still don't have 360, who knows when anything else will get released) and Fedex forgot to charge ~$25 in customs. Oopsy!
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Nitrousoxide posted:Not having to carry around wires is nice But you're already carrying around a power bank. Some, I believe, even have cords built in. My Anker bank came with a little bag and coil cord, it'd be silly not to keep them together. e: I'm not and wasn't trying to say Qi is bad, just people should be aware that they won't get the mah on the box if they use the gimmick. Manky fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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KingEup posted:This is very exciting: I was hugely disappointed, not enough functionality for a smart watch replacement in any of the devices, limited water resistance (Can't shower in them) large size, non-replaceable wristbands, basically a huge step down from the Flex as a everyday wear device, extremely limited functions as a smart watch along with a high price. I wear my Flex with my Pebble or G Watch but I wouldn't wear any of these instead of a more mature smart watch. The nice thing about the Flex is I don't even think about it, sleep in it, shower in it, charge it like once a week.
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Why would you shower with anything on you? That's so weird.
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KingEup posted:This is very exciting: Meh, it's too little, a year too late. Given they've said they don't plan on syncing data into HealthKit (and presumably not to Google Fit either), it kills a lot of the draw in buying this. I really liked the Fitbit Force, notwithstanding the ugly rash it gave me. But at this point I'm not going to buy one again. I'd rather have a smartwatch that puts data into a platform like HealthKit that other apps can draw from and write into. I noticed the Panera Bread app for iOS lets you order your lunch online and then have the calorie counts written straight into HealthKit. It's cool to see cool uses for HealthKit shaping together, and and it sucks that Fitbit is deciding to go it alone.
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To my knowledge this is the only wearable on the market that does continous HRM, GPS and can be taken out for a run without a smartphone in tow.
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I have an anecdotal story about the 360 battery life. I took my 360 off the charger at 5:30am yesterday before work and as of this post it's at 22%. So it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. I had to charge my drat phone three times yesterday for reference.
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Behold the Microsoft wearable: With the same idiotic screen as the Gear Fit, is there anyone on earth that can comfortably hold their hand to make a screen like that usable in landscape? Jesus.
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