It could be a good idea if someone can do it right. For those who still want to use a watch it could be nice to have one that does a lot more. Of course it needs to last longer then a day and do the right tasks.
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It could be a good idea if someone can do it right. For those who still want to use a watch it could be nice to have one that does a lot more. Of course it needs to last longer then a day and do the right tasks.
For a companion device, I think $199 is too much. In fact, I'm going to go lower than my earlier statement. $79 would be ideal. $99 is more likely. $129 is possible, but definitely the limit. Any more and it should be its own animal.
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i'm not buying it
what is the use of the device if you need reading glasses to check it if your over 40yo
not the form factor for me
i'm not buying it
what is the use of the device if you need reading glasses to check it if your over 40yo
not the form factor for me
Windows 8 is such a failure that its allready in more houses than all osx versions combined.
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Take off the camera and make it $199 max.
Only reason to have a camera would have been if it could sense and memorize where you are and auto set functions that way.
I also never see the point in a watch that you'd have to turn on to see the time. eInk displays make more sense here.
Only reason to have a camera would have been if it could sense and memorize where you are and auto set functions that way.
I also never see the point in a watch that you'd have to turn on to see the time. eInk displays make more sense here.
Haha... I was thinking... hoping for the same thing! It's going to flop, even Apple's I believe won't stick. Apple must know this? They did file to get those patents for the flexible battery to go in the wrist strap though. It's just one more thing for thugs to steal from you and it will be flashing them in the face saying take me, my owner is a moron
Coming out with a watch is.
Coming out with a new device that isn't a watch but still is worn on your wrist is not.
Have to unlearn what you have learned.
Exactly the "iwatch" patent is for something else. Like at tv set top box or itv, who knows?
After reading all these threads it is safe to say, apple won't be putting out a iwatch like Samsungs. I'm sure it was to mislead and Samsung and they took the bait. Who really cares, if someone wants to shell out $299 on a device let them, it is their money.
I hoping the Iphone 6 with a larger screen comes out along with the 5C on the big date. Sick of waiting, otherwise it is the S4 for me.
It's funny how Samsung themselves are driving the Android fragmentation. I'm not talking about screen sizes or devices with old OS versions and such, but how they're bolting so many proprietary features into Android. Like Android's MDM specification. There's a whole raft of Samsung-specific extensions ("SAFE") that don't work on any other devices. Probably more than the stock-standard Android MDM spec (and most of SAFE's features are lifted from iOS). And again here with "S Voice". One could easily come to the conclusion that Samsung has designs on subsuming or supplanting Android. "Android S" or "Samsoid" or something.
I'm approaching geezer-hood and after wearing a watch for like a 100 years I cast mine off after I realized the time is displayed just about everywhere I look. (Or I just don't give a rat's arse what time it is.)You mean you are not texting, or otherwise staring at your phone, every waking minute? Must be a generational thing.
I don't know why you think to know what I know, but ok...
I find it quite normal that people who like the rumored products speak positively about them here, it might give you the impression that "Apple fanboys like any junk as long as an Apple logo is applied to it", but that's irrelevant.
I'm a good example for it - yesterday or so I wrote that the blue iPhone 5C looks good - now someone like you obviously would think "wow, Apple users like plastic phones, but they hated plastic before" , but I never did hate plastic before. So really it all goes down to either finding those "flip floppers" or just accepting that your theories about Apple fanboys liking anything with an Apple logo on it is extremely basic (aka primitive) generalizing.
Your post is wack! You seemed to have iWatch, or whatever Apple releases, figured out. It doesn't take a genius to know that the very idea of a smartwatch is a pathetic excuse to try and get the sheep to go out and spend more on junk that they don't need.
Why in the world would I need a smartwatch? Let me think this through properly
1. To tell the time?
Nah! My watch already performs this function well with acute accuracy
2. To tell the weather?
I have a smartphone. Watch do I need a watch for to do that?
3. To read emails?
Nah! My cell phone does a great job of that already.
4. To measure my heartbeat?
Nah! I don't care about that unless when I am talking to my hot wife or some random hot chick.
5. I have to recharge my iWatch..
WHAT?? I would need to now keep an eye on my smartwatch battery life? Nah! You can have it back.
A watch is a watch! There is not much else you can do with it because the screen itself is a major limiting factor. Apple is essentially going to re-brand ipod nano into a smartwatch. The very idea of a smartphone is going to be a fail irrespective of the manufacturer.
Yeah, scruff! Show me one time anyone here has ever said plastic was terrible and cheap!
Fanboy sellout hater astroturfers.
Please elaborate - where exactly did anyone state that "nobody ever said that 'Plastic was terrible and cheap'"? Thanks for your effort.
I was lying. No one ever said that. It's what I'm paid by Samsung to do around here.
If Apple's 'watch' is anything like this in implementation or design, then I will not be interested.
It is bizarre to launch a watch whose battery life lasts "about a day". You need a watch all day and then some with heavy usage allowed for, or there is no point. It is not like a phone or laptop where you can just plug it into a power supply and accept that fact.
It need's to not look like this, not be so bulky and last for day's.
It is bizarre to launch a watch whose battery life lasts "about a day". You need a watch all day and then some with heavy usage allowed for, or there is no point. It is not like a phone or laptop where you can just plug it into a power supply and accept that fact.
It need's to not look like this, not be so bulky and last for day's.
iWatch
I believe the iWatch trade mark registered by
is actually for the TV product they are working on. The watch is a complete red herring and is designed to show the world who are the cribbers of the world.
This would be so funny and, would actually show the consumers and not the judges directly what copy cats do.
I believe the iWatch trade mark registered by
is actually for the TV product they are working on. The watch is a complete red herring and is designed to show the world who are the cribbers of the world.This would be so funny and, would actually show the consumers and not the judges directly what copy cats do.
If and when Apple decides to release a "smart watch" I hope it won't act just like a secondary screen companion to a phone like the Gear is.
My wants:
1. Heart rate monitor
2. Pedometer
3. Bluetooth / NFC
4. Storage for music for workouts
5. Fluid UI
I hope the watch is geared more towards health awareness and fitness than a companion device to a phone....and it better not cost $300
My wants:
1. Heart rate monitor
2. Pedometer
3. Bluetooth / NFC
4. Storage for music for workouts
5. Fluid UI
I hope the watch is geared more towards health awareness and fitness than a companion device to a phone....and it better not cost $300
