I've got a G-Shock Tough Solar and I really like it. And it automatically sync with the Atomic Clock in Denver.
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Apple Watch Gets Another Competitor in the Android-Based LG Watch Urbane
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I've got a G-Shock Tough Solar and I really like it. And it automatically sync with the Atomic Clock in Denver.
You are so right about one thing: I am an early adopter.
... If you're familiar with Ev Rogers' work, I'm definitely on the far left side of the chart. However, I think it is tech reviewers and members of the press who may have fits over battery life more than the average user. It wasn't until I got my first smartphone in 2002 that I suddenly had to worry about battery life. Prior to that, phones often went days without being charged. My old Handspring Visor didn't even need recharging. You just threw in a fresh set of batteries when you were getting low.
It will be determined by what usage you are referring to. If you have your screen on all the time, if you're constantly checking/using fitness tracking, if you're using it as an iPod replacement, etc.
There's still a ton of people out there that think Macs have no right click, you'd be amazed how many have asked me about this when I pull out my Mac. I also love the 'Macs and iPhones are overpriced' argument, when a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is $750 retail just like a 6 Plus, and the Dell XPS 15 and Razor Blade are thin, light, powerful laptops clearly inspired the rMBP that cost $2000 just like the mac. Or the $2000 XPS One 27" AIO that only has a 750M.
As has been stated earlier by more than a few, premium is a perception. Case in point: Hyundai has entered in to the premium segment with the Genesis and Equus and while they are fine automobiles that have even captured some former Mercedes and BMW (I know a few personally), that doesn't necessarily make Hyundai a premium brand. Solid yes. Reliable yes. Great warranty. But still overall not a premium brand.
Luxury and Android dont go together. Android is for the masses that want cheap products.
Itd be like Chevy touting luxury in an entry level car going up against a Lexus.
Itd be like Chevy touting luxury in an entry level car going up against a Lexus.
Vertu would disagree with you.
http://www.vertu.com/us/en/collections/signature/
$16k for an Android phone.
Your analogy falls a bit short since you can't throw up an entry level car from a mass market brand against an entire premium brand. However if you were to pit the Chevy SS against a comparable Lexus GS you might have more a point.
I have been eating of the Apple fruit since the rainbow days of the late 1980s (MacPlus in the house!) But your assertion that Android cannot be equated with luxury sounds embarrassingly uninformed! The Vertu example is an excellent one. But I'll go a step further and say Sony still considers itself to be a premium brand much in the way Apple does and their phones use Android OS.
Then what does that make the iPhone since it is the #1 selling phone in the world?
You can thank Apple marketing for that. Apple has the perception of luxury thanks to their sleek, contemporary, and smooth designs. Android run smartphones on the other hand can have rather clunky and unintuitive designs.
Does Apple use different kinds of metals, glass, or internals against other smartphone makers? Better quality elements?
At the bottom of it, they're all mass produced in a Chinese factory. Hardly luxurious, IMO.
Yeah round is not the way to go for a smart watch, and metal doesn't automatically make anything better. It's a horrible design. Period.
It really is insane to make these things round in the first place.. It reminds me of making viny paneling look like wood because of tradition or perceived consumer acceptance.
Design rule number 1 : Form follows function.
Which is precisely why traditional radial analog watches are round.
Making a computer display round, or making it metal does nothing necesarily to forward function on smart watches.
It really is insane to make these things round in the first place.. It reminds me of making viny paneling look like wood because of tradition or perceived consumer acceptance.
Design rule number 1 : Form follows function.
Which is precisely why traditional radial analog watches are round.
Making a computer display round, or making it metal does nothing necesarily to forward function on smart watches.
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All this bickering over nothing. Fact is apple products are a way for the "ordinary consumer" to feel good knowing they are buying what is being marketed as a premium product.
Considering premium cars are at least $10,000 just buy having a name, (look at the cheapo BMW's out these days), apple products at least have a "slight" $200-300 brand markup on phones and perhaps $500 on a laptop.
It's why so many girls wear channel earrings. Same concept.
Considering premium cars are at least $10,000 just buy having a name, (look at the cheapo BMW's out these days), apple products at least have a "slight" $200-300 brand markup on phones and perhaps $500 on a laptop.
It's why so many girls wear channel earrings. Same concept.
Manufacturers always have a protocol to give an indication of real life usage time. Or just give standby time. The likely reason they only gave the battery capacity was because of embarrassingly poor run time.
You are right, I don't know much about R&D, to be honest I know nothing at all. But I have used one of these so called smart watches (galaxy gear) and also have played with some others. With all seriousness, you use that product and try getting the impression that they have worked on it for years? Not a freaking chance!! Sometime the quality of the product does reflect quite well the amount of work and time dedicated to it, even to someone like me who doesn't know anything about R&D. Lot's of these smart watches scream "Rushed to be the first"
The person who came up with "Urbane" as the name for this smartwatch should be forced to wear a mullet for the rest of his/her life.
Honestly I can't remember. It was the 80's and it lasted through the 90's. And sometime in the early 2000's I parted with it. Visually it looked much like a standard Casio in silver and black. Except that it had a small solar panel on the face. And it would dim slightly if you covered the panel, but it ran forever before it died.
It's one of those fluke things you found in a store and turned out to be better than expected. Back then there was always something new and it was either a gimmick or it worked.
as a matter of fact i don't own any sammy stock. and i did not call any "Apple fan/consumer dumb" i just stated a well known fact, that there are more dumb people than smart people. and by you not knowing the difference, you showed everyone here which side of the scale you are on
We all know what you meant and I only had to look at your last 15 posts to realize you are an Android owner and Apple basher. Why are you here? Just to troll?