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Sony Unveils New Calling-Capable SmartBand Talk, Android Wear SmartWatch 3 and Lens-style cameras
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Sony, Samsumg, MS, they are all shaking.Showing their roadmap right before Apple's keynote.
I definitely understand Apple's secrecy
That may be true but at least they're all trying - what are we going to get from Apple at the keynote?
"Ladies and gentleman, the new iPhone! It's a bit bigger, like all our competitors, buuuuuut it's 0.8mm thinner!!!! Thank you, thank you, no need for applause, oh go on then, we know we're great but we'll indulge you..."
It still could get lost. Especially if there is a big gap to the actual launch of these killers. Which won't really be killers since they are only android compatible. They might kill the Fitbit etc but they won't take iWatch sales away from iphone users. The best they could hope for is snagging a few disgustled iphone users that aren't impressed with the new iPhone and decide to try an android phone or some of the smart phone holdouts lured by cheaper prices
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Smart phones already get crap for having 'tiny' batteries and 'tiny' screens. Unless this smart watch has some kind of kinetic or solar charging or can charge off the tiny charges in our skin and has a body like something Captain Jack Harness wears its unlikely they will hurt the phone market
The history is the week after Labor Day. Which is why the 9th has been rumored for a while. Even if they booked IFA a year ago any decent company knows that history
Am I missing the point, or is everyone else missing it...if this Sony 'Wrist Band' can make and receive calls without a tethered phone, just like the Samsung Gear S, then this is pretty cool (IMO).
You can leave your actual phone at home while jogging, leave your phone in the hotel safe while down in the pool, leave it at home when going surfing, etc, and you still can get calls an answer anything important that might come up right from your ultra feather weight, water-proof wrist band.
This is awesome (I must be missing something because this is huge props to Samsung and Sony).
To clarify, the phone form Samsung has built-in cellular...it makes and receives calls on its own, no bluetooth/tethered device required.
You can leave your actual phone at home while jogging, leave your phone in the hotel safe while down in the pool, leave it at home when going surfing, etc, and you still can get calls an answer anything important that might come up right from your ultra feather weight, water-proof wrist band.
This is awesome (I must be missing something because this is huge props to Samsung and Sony).
To clarify, the phone form Samsung has built-in cellular...it makes and receives calls on its own, no bluetooth/tethered device required.
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Really...you would think the person familiar with the matter would know the battery life for whatever Apple will be announcing - to me that's the key - 5-10 days its a sale - otherwise forget it.
And less coherence. Google's business model for Android is entirely different from Windows... more of a platform than a product.
Define something special. Your answer is likely to be way different than many other folks.
I think the reason Samsung etc come off as junk is that they are doing too much at once. Creating a band or watch that can be a camera and a phone etc is tricky. They should have started simpler and worked up to this big thing in a version or too.
In this thought I'm not going to be shocked if the iWatch is little more than a fuelband type device with perhaps a little bit of a pebble function. And maybe some very limited controls like picking up a call or shuffling music. Both would be great for bluetooth users who would rather keep the phone in the pocket. It won't take photos or make calls on its own or any of the stuff.
I know, right? I remember when good consumer electronics meant Sony. Theyve done pretty well in the video game market, the PS4 even seems to be doing well. Heck, they helped to kickstart and win the HD optical race by including BD in the PS3. Great cameras, and their high[er] end notebooks have some beautiful designs.
I totally dig on this product. I get it, its a little niche, but there are some really cool use cases you cant duplicate with other gear.
But there is plenty to bash with what was released before this week. They don't need to change anything to have their talking points
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Tell that to all the stock analysts crying Apple is doomed because they now only have like 40% of the tablet market share.
"When are you coming home?" because this is what i want to be seeing on my wrist.
If this image is supposed to convince me I need a SmartWatch it is failing to do so.
Wry cynicism. I like it.
Yes, indeed it is. Google has been the Evil Empire for over a decade now and they are just now hitting their stride.
Wow...what's up with the sarcasm and criticism? Are you too young to remember that Sony is actually a company that Steve Jobs admired quite a bit, both for its design language and its culture?
Why is that certain folks in this forum feel the need to bash anything that's not directly made by Apple? Perhaps a hidden inferiority complex is driving the need to criticize all non-Apple products and companies? I'd really like to know why there's so much vindictiveness.
ianKent - care to explain to me why you felt the need to "hate" on Sony? Or maybe you were just trying to be funny?
I agree, although I feel it's wishful thinking.
Steve's dead. The revolution is over. I fear we will get the iOS 7 of watches instead of something truly extraordinary.
That said, I like(d) Apple so much I am still hanging on to the irrational hope we'll see something awesome come the 9th.
Agree. Let's wait and see what the iWatch will offer.
If Apple includes cellular into the iWatch, I hope they can innovate more than Samsung by 'spreading' the cellular, wi-fi, gps and battery components around the wrist band, so as to not embed everything directly below the screen like Samsung has done wight he Gear S. This could keep the screen 'thin' and inline with the band as in the concept shot below.
Wouldn't it be cool if this thing can make/receive phone calls and 3G data and not have to be tethered to your iPhone to do so?
This watch would be cool if it had a downward-facing camera on the band which fed into the background of the screen. Every time you looked at it, it'd look as if part of your arm is missing and your hand is just floating there.
I'm so easily amused..
But the bigger question is why's she wearing it on her right wrist, the big weirdo...
More stylish, at a glance, than what Sony imagines for my wrist:
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When I dislike a product, it's usually without prejudice to the producer. So, for example, I'm recently critical of Yosemite.
I do think that Sony's device for the wrist is amusingly dislikable. Shapely.
Other things that are shapely: hovercrafts, the T.A.R.D.I.S., my cat. But none of those shapes, at any size, would look particularly good wrapped around a wrist that is also adorned with fine silver or platinum bangles.
When I dislike a product, it's usually without prejudice to the producer. So, for example, I'm recently critical of Yosemite.
I do think that Sony's device for the wrist is amusingly dislikable. Shapely.
Other things that are shapely: hovercrafts, the T.A.R.D.I.S., my cat. But none of those shapes, at any size, would look particularly good wrapped around a wrist that is also adorned with fine silver or platinum bangles.
