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Samsung Unveils $299 Galaxy Gear Smart Watch With One-Day Battery Life
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Doa
One day battery life. Requires a bluetooth connection to another device to provide functionality.
One word: Fail.
Someone posted that this is the start of the "smartwatch wars". No; this is just the sacrificial lamb. I watched the Samsung intro video. The CEO ought to be fired. This product is an obscene waste of corporate resources.
One day battery life. Requires a bluetooth connection to another device to provide functionality.
One word: Fail.
Someone posted that this is the start of the "smartwatch wars". No; this is just the sacrificial lamb. I watched the Samsung intro video. The CEO ought to be fired. This product is an obscene waste of corporate resources.
Take that Apple FanBois...a company that ACTUALLY INNOVATES!
This thing is gonna be a huge....flop.
HA HA HA...Hamstrung took the bait!!!!
This thing is gonna be a huge....flop.
HA HA HA...Hamstrung took the bait!!!!
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.
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.
It reminds me of the old joke. Some guys are standing in line for the theater. The guy in front is showing off all the amazing features of the gadget on his wrist. As they move ahead in line he keeps kicking ahead a big box on the ground in front of him. Finally the second guy asks "What is that box you keep pushing in front of you?" to which he replies "The Battery."
The Qualcomm watch is uglier than the Samsung. Why waste screen space with that horrible gray strip housing an oddly placed logo?
Don't name it Fragmentation, Name it DIVERSITY, devices adapted to consumers, not consumers adapted to a single device.
Do you think it would be possible to use some combination of solar and battery in an iWatch? I think if it is intended to be a sport watch, water and shock resistant, and good battery life, that it has some excellent possibilities. I read here on an earlier iWatch thread about some new tech for non invasive reading of blood sugar. Now imagine that on an iWatch along with heart rate, etc. I think there is a good market for that if it hits the high points.
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.
Yeah, scruff! Show me one time anyone here has ever said plastic was terrible and cheap!
Fanboy sellout hater astroturfers.
The Pebble is a smartwatch not a watch+ with its own SDK, but it can function on its own as a watch, timer and so far, as a remote. It interacts with apps on your phone. I think the the Gear is trying to be more like a "super" smartwatch. This is the biggest problem with it trying to be too many things at once. That one day battery life probably doesn't take into account the use of apps, camera and calling. Being used for other things may cut that battery life in half. As the reviewer said the demos they had didn't last a day.
Apple please don't
I agree. The coolest thing Apple could do right now would be not to release a smart-watch at all. They should continue to work on the fuelband concept with nike, and just add features to it. That way, they never have to copy anything.
I agree. The coolest thing Apple could do right now would be not to release a smart-watch at all. They should continue to work on the fuelband concept with nike, and just add features to it. That way, they never have to copy anything.
Qualcomm and Samsung just don't get it. They both are making watches that have wrist straps that can't be changed. Pebble even makes that aspect a selling point of their watch; the ability to change straps using typical straps. There were many people that had ordered the longer straps when it was offered by Pebble. I know it sounds like a moot point but don't underestimate comfort.
Yeah, scruff! Show me one time anyone here has ever said plastic was terrible and cheap!
Fanboy sellout hater astroturfers.
I know, I have to get my eyes checked. I must have misread all of those posts claiming Samsung phones were crap because they were made out of plastic, and Apple would never lower their standards and make a plastic phone.Really Samsung? This is what you came up with?
And what's with the camera on the strap?
I believe Samsung is far more innovative than Apple could ever hope to be. They've invented the world's first fap-cam.
(Apologies if someone else said this already. I couldn't face going through 12 pages of this thread)
Yeah, scruff! Show me one time anyone here has ever said plastic was terrible and cheap!
Fanboy sellout hater astroturfers.
I hate plastic devices and I'll still hate them come Tuesday.
Samsung Galaxy Gear
Wow... thats just... wow. Its hideous. For a moment I thought they were going with a vintage look on it. But I don't think there was any cohesion in that "style" especially with the rubber, no leather? And that bulge for a camera. No to the hefty price as well. The name on the other hand I like!!!
Wow... thats just... wow. Its hideous. For a moment I thought they were going with a vintage look on it. But I don't think there was any cohesion in that "style" especially with the rubber, no leather? And that bulge for a camera. No to the hefty price as well. The name on the other hand I like!!!
I would guess that Apple's watch wouldn't be a stand alone device rather an add-on IE all of the processing power occurring in your iPhone and it only being a low powered bluetooth touch display. Essentially Siri/Notification Center on your wrist.
There is no reason this thing should be $300.
Hoping
Hoping the iWatch is a total bait and switch. Allowing apple to unveil the real product that has nothing to do with wristwatches. Going to be something completely new and awesome.
Hoping the iWatch is a total bait and switch. Allowing apple to unveil the real product that has nothing to do with wristwatches. Going to be something completely new and awesome.
Just looking at the profile pic it juts out and would likely catch on all sorts of objects. I've never heard of it and I read those mags (occassionally) and sites. If I haven't heard of it and I consider myself very tech savvy, 99.99% of the population most definitely won't have a clue.
Having apps being developed and having apps for it are 2 different things! No one will support this in the long run because the userbase is miniscule because cost of entry is too high. If they used some open source version maybe you could get some 3rd party developers, but even that's a stretch.