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The windows phone of smart watches.
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I see way more Samsung Gear smartwatches in the wild than I do Android Wear, to be fair
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CLAM DOWN posted:I see way more Samsung Gear smartwatches in the wild than I do Android Wear, to be fair Same. (though, I see like 10x more Apple Watches than those two combined.)
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Oct 11, 2017 18:21
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You also see way more Samsung phones than any other manufacturer. Ubiquity doesn't necessarily imply quality, though. I'd attribute the large number of Gear watches to people thinking that having two devices by the same manufacturer means better inter-op, rather than specifically seeking out the watches because of some feature they provide or do better than the alternatives.
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Oct 11, 2017 18:22
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G-Prime posted:You also see way more Samsung phones than any other manufacturer. Ubiquity doesn't necessarily imply quality, though. I'd attribute the large number of Gear watches to people thinking that having two devices by the same manufacturer means better inter-op, rather than specifically seeking out the watches because of some feature they provide or do better than the alternatives. No, but while we can neckbeard and sperg about it as much as we want, Samsung will continue to dominate the market.
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Oct 11, 2017 18:27
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:Still loving my Gear S3, just wish more people would develop for it.
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withoutclass posted:The windows phone of smart watches. At least it does more than Android Wear 2.0 
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:At least it does more than Android Wear 2.0 I really really liked Windows Phone. It still died a sad death because nobody could justify the cost of building/maintaining an app for the platform.
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:At least it does more than Android Wear 2.0 How is that possible? I mean, the app situation is not great on Wear, but surely it's far better than what you can get on Tizen?
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The Misfit Vapor is now a thing you can pre-order for $200. https://misfit.com/products/misfit-vapor Android Wear 2.0 Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor 4GB of storage 44mm wide 1.39" AMOLED display, with ambient light sensor Bluetooth WiFi accelerometer altimeter gyroscope heart rate sensor microphone water resistance up to 50m touch-sensitive bezel  The color choices (left-right) are: Gold tone / Desert strap Rose tone / Nude strap Stainless steel / Black strap Jet black / Black strap Rose tone / Midnight Blue strap
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Oct 24, 2017 20:22
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It's so close to what I want. It's just missing GPS and it'd be perfect.
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Oct 24, 2017 20:38
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Those look nice
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Oct 24, 2017 20:40
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Blue Train posted:thicc af I appreciate that the bezel is un-adorned, and am really interested in reports of how useful it is to be touch sensitive.
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Oct 24, 2017 20:44
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Except for the lugs it reminds me of an OG Moto360. That's a good thing.
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The two hands-on I read today said isn't actually running Android Wear but some custom thing instead. I'm confused.
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Tunga posted:The two hands-on I read today said isn't actually running Android Wear but some custom thing instead. I'm confused. They originally showed it at a consumer electronics show saying they would use a custom OS but then they delayed the release while they got Wear running on it. Any review or hands-on that doesn't mention Wear is obsolete.
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Thermopyle posted:Except for the lugs it reminds me of an OG Moto360. That's a good thing. Giant bezels are better than a flat tire I guess.
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My zenwatch 3 died. Like, was charged and working on my wrist, I toggled theatre mode for something, then it never came back on. Nothing happens on the charger, any button, nothing. Didn't even last a year. Think I'm done with smartwatches for now 
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Oct 25, 2017 05:17
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Does connected GPS mean it uses the phone's GPS?
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Lowen SoDium posted:Does connected GPS mean it uses the phone's GPS? That's what I'm assuming.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Does connected GPS mean it uses the phone's GPS? Yes.
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I'm fine with that as anytime i've seen GPS used on a smartwatch it drains the battery super-quick. I can see it being a problem if you're a runner and don't want to take your phone, though. (I run with my phone and it doesn't bother me which means, of course, that it shouldn't bother anyone)
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CLAM DOWN posted:My zenwatch 3 died. Like, was charged and working on my wrist, I toggled theatre mode for something, then it never came back on. Nothing happens on the charger, any button, nothing. Didn't even last a year. Think I'm done with smartwatches for now My ZW3 hasn't died (yet) but I've quit wearing it or any of my other smartwatches. That watch was 97% perfect and awesome but those last 3% (dreadfully slow, short battery life, inconsistent behavior) finally wore me down enough to make me just give up on it. I now have a couple of dorky casio/timex dad-style digitals that never need recharging and always show time/day/date without forcing me to wait 2-3 seconds for it to maybe display the time.
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Oct 27, 2017 23:00
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Is there any greater crime than a digital watch
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Blue Train posted:Is there any greater crime than a digital watch You take that back! I'll gladly admit that in non-sport contexts analog watches look better, but digital watches are without a doubt more useful. That's why smartwatches are awesome, one with a round display can look like an analog watch until you need to actually get information from it at which point it can display digital readouts or even analog-ish complications which are more readable than what would be physically possible to achieve in a real analog watch.
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For what it's worth, my 360/2 still works fine (poor software UI aside) but I'm pretty sure the battery meter isn't correct anymore, if it ever was. It's enough to make it through one day with 60% left but that 60% isn't enough to make it half way through a second day. With Wear 2.0 as terrible as it is, I have no intention of replacing it once it dies but I will say that day I had without it available I definitely missed having notifications on my wrist.
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Yeah, I'm having the same issue with the battery meter lately. It's fine if I charge it once a day, but it seems like it shuts off at like 40% anymore. I can still get a full day out of it, but if I don't charge it every night, it's dead by the next day (but reports like 47% when it first boots after changing a bit.)
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I have the same issues, except mine shuts off at about 70-75%. Some days it can last all day and other days it'll shut off halfway through the day.
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I'm glad to know I'm not alone. I was quite surprised that my watch was taken off the charger at 7pm, was briefly put on the charger at 7am and was removed at an indicated 93% was completely dead by 7pm the next day.
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Android Authority editorial: Dear Google, When are you going to fix Android Wear? https://www.androidauthority.com/fix-android-wear-809823/ Meanwhile, in Tizen land: Rastor posted:The Samsung Gear Sport reviews are out, and they're pretty positive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMmLdYBvEVg "Android Wear is on more wrists, but the software is kind of a dog." "If there's one area where Samsung really kills it in wearables, it's the interface [at 2:02]" Google, you are being beaten on Software Interface by SAMSUNG. You think about that, Google. You go into a corner and think about what you've done.
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I think this video review is bad. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like one of the most, maybe even the most important features of a smartwatch is how it handles notifications. Am I wrong? also, paying with your watch with nfc just looks awkward. That bending your wrist around... Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Oct 30, 2017 |
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Samsung pay is pretty awesome since it works on any magnetic stripe reader. I don't think I've ever had it not work on my watch or phone. Also, the Gear S3 is still awesome, all I need now is the Bixby update and I'd be more than satisfied. Also for people to design clean looking digital watchfaces that give me customizeable info. Almost every watchface on the Gear store is some godawful color and word salad.
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:Samsung pay is pretty awesome since it works on any magnetic stripe reader. Not on the Gear Sport...it just does NFC.
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Thermopyle posted:Maybe it's just me, but it seems like one of the most, maybe even the most important features of a smartwatch is how it handles notifications. Android Police in their review specifically mentions how much better at notifications it is than Wear 2.0 but doesn't mention if it has some kind of peek card-style thing for viewing a notification at a glance. I'm with you though, the only thing I bought a smartwatch to do is inform me of notifications and it pisses me off to no end that that's the functionality Google chose to remove.
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Thermopyle posted:Not on the Gear Sport...it just does NFC. Well that's disappointing. Nothing wrong with my S3 Frontier, and after a year it's help up better than my Moto 360 did in a year.
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Just got a sudden update on my hwatch 1, first time it updated itself when not in the charging cradle. No changelog, patch level october 2017
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SlowBloke posted:Just got a sudden update on my hwatch 1, first time it updated itself when not in the charging cradle. No changelog, patch level october 2017 Funny that, just as I'm reading this I look down and see a ring with a progress bar on mine.
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SlowBloke posted:Just got a sudden update on my hwatch 1, first time it updated itself when not in the charging cradle. No changelog, patch level october 2017 I got this too yesterday and now my watch fails to show any notifications at all. I even reset the watch entirely and they worked for about a day and i'm back to no notifications. Lovely. When I play music the control for that come up on my watch so it's clearly still connected.
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