I'd also be willing to wager that Apple could put out the greatest watch known to mankind and because it had an Apple logo it would get bashed, from people, like yourself for instance.
Works both ways you know.
Please tell me about my Apple bashing.
I'd also be willing to wager that Apple could put out the greatest watch known to mankind and because it had an Apple logo it would get bashed, from people, like yourself for instance.
Works both ways you know.
1 day battery life, are they freaking serious? This is not a smart phone; it is a watch, and I don't want to be plugging it in every 24 hrs!
Massive fail, as usual wait for the real McCoy from Apple. This is a prime example of why Samsung copy, their original ideas suck!
Qualcomm also announced a $300 smartwatch today... with 3-5 day battery life and an included inductive bedside charger. Interestingly, the battery is on the bottom of the strap (see left photo), so the display can be thinner.
Its Mirasol screen is a Qualcomm invention, which combines e-Ink low power with kind of a metallic color display that's visible in sunlight.
Basically links to an Android (possibly iOS later) phone and allows the usual Bluetooth call view and control, music playback controls, along with notifications, calendar, weather, etc. Qualcomm promises an SDK for developers.
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Samsung fragmentation is a subset of Android fragmentation.
Every fragmentation within Samsungs android-based phones is also an fragmentation of Android in general.
In order to not suffer from fragmentation, every Android device that is capable of running the newest version of Android, would have to be able to work with Galaxy Gear.
Everything else = fragmentation.
All the good reasons for fragmentation are unimportant to the user.
My other thoughts on the iwatch.
Could be cool, but i think it will really need to have a wow factor thats going to make me/others switch from a normal watch. Yes, the iwatch will do fancy things, but lets face it, to switch to a 5 day battery life is a tough call for me. I have casio's with solar that just keep going, ones with a normal battery that needs a swap say every 2 years and a citizen with eco drive. Pretty much all of use have this sort of set up with a watch, so we are definitely engrained with not having to worry about our watches. To shift people over to a much shorter charging period is tricky. I tried the pebble, sold it due to it being a bit annoying at staying connected via bluetooth (the main reason for the thing!), but the other nagging thing was charging the thing every few days.
I've read a lot of positive posts about the new Mac Pro, many of them loving the design. A round computer is revolutionary. Of course if anyone else had made a round computer even more powerful it would have been a gimmick. And I saw the rumors of a cheap plastic iPhone become a wonderful idea in the past few weeks. Plastic phones which were junk according to many here are now fantastic. Samsung Galaxy= plastic junk, iPhone 5C in lime green plastic =great idea. I can't name specific people who have flip flopped on either of these, but simply by reading this forum daily I have seen a big shift from negative to positive.
Of course you can't name specific people. Case closed. Thanks for the confirmation.
It's not worth my time to search thousands of posts to check if someone flip flopped. But we both know that by reading here daily that what I said is correct. Plastic went from garbage to good.
Pebble and Gear are two very different things. Pebble is a watch+. Gear is a gadget that happens to also offer a watch (just like mobile phones do). I did not follow Samsung announcement and I wonder if they actually call Gear a "smart watch". All reviews do call it a smart watch but I think it's misleading. Nobody would want a watch with one day battery life. However, if it's a gadget that is very useful to some people those people may consider buying it. Fitness, health monitoring seem to offer a value for some. It's hard to predict which other features will offer a significant value for regular smart phone users.
I think this is pretty embarrassing... I hope Apple doesn't release one.
P A S S I can think of many other things to do with $300!
Yeah, scruff! Show me one time anyone here has ever said plastic was terrible and cheap!
Fanboy sellout hater astroturfers.
Really Samsung? This is what you came up with?
And what's with the camera on the strap?
Yeah, scruff! Show me one time anyone here has ever said plastic was terrible and cheap!
Fanboy sellout hater astroturfers.

Whats interesting is the battery. Rumors say apple wanted 5 days of use. This watch lasts 1 day using a 315mAh battery, so going by that a 5 day battery would be approx 1500mAh, which isn't far off the iphones 1700 odd mAh.
You can see then what a design issue this is and the delay in making something last 5 days with bluetooth, vibration, and a full iOS.
How do you know how big it is? And expensive, yes, but it's a Swiss watch, what did you expect, and it's expensive in the same way the iPhone is.
As for no one knows about it? Well everyone that reads engadget ot T3 or Stuff or Pocket Lint or any other tech news website, will have read about it.
Oh and you obviously didn't bother reading the watches website as it actually DOES have apps being developed for it.