[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23961692 ]Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. [/url]
LOL at thread title.
Product looks fairly shit.
I'm interested. Variety and all that 😉
www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/smart-watches-anyone-got-one-or-know-much-about-them
Love the Title. Don't love the materialism of our society
Do people really need facebook/ twitter updates that badly?
Now if you could talk to the knight industries two thousand on it......
As I said in my thread, I can see it being useful for cyclists at least though whether that's a big enough market to make it worthwhile is debatable
I don't see the problem with it, far more convenient to quickly read a message on your watch than get your phone out of your bag/pocket etc.
I'd probably be interested in using a sports app on it to track location/speed/HR at a glance while leaving my phone in my camelbak.
You are probably right Chambord, I will probably have one soon, just like Flashtart.
Nah, CFH has an insurmountable superiority complex 😉
Meh.
After looking at the specs I notice it has a camera and can record HD.
Just wonder whether this could be mounted to bars and record video whilst showing GPS making a GoPro/Garmin love child type device.
I still don't think I'll buy one, they're pretty hideous.
EDIT: Read a bit about it and battery life will be an issue for anything other than the odd snap. Does seem to be a rushed product.
I don't see the problem with it, far more convenient to quickly read a message on your watch than get your phone out of your bag/pocket etc.
and then to reply? - you'll have to get the phone out of your pocket anyway
but the idea of trying to make a calls - trying to talk into and listen to your wrist... when theres a perfectly good phone in you pocket - or try and take a picture - with your wrist, when theres a perfectly good phone in your pocket. Its not going to happen is it.
It seems like they've raced into the market to claim first as they've heard others (apple) might make a watch but theres doesn't seem to have been any real thought as to why you'd make one other than its possible to do so.
and then to reply? - you'll have to get the phone out of your pocket anywaybut the idea of trying to make a calls - trying to talk into and listen to your wrist... when theres a perfectly good phone in you pocket - or try and take a picture - with your wrist, when theres a perfectly good phone in your pocket. Its not going to happen is it.
It seems like they've raced into the market to claim first as they've heard others (apple) might make a watch but theres doesn't seem to have been any real thought as to why you'd make one other than its possible to do so.
This is all true and I agree it's a gadget that exists purely because it can and because people like spending money on gadgets.
I do see the potential for a device which relays important info from your phone to a display on your wrist though (More like the Pebble I suppose).
Like I said, I'm not going to buy one.
More convergence madness!
No officer I was not reading texts behind the wheel of my car. I was clearly just checking the time. Potentially life ending invention in the hands of the general population.
So it's expensive and requires their own phones. For that reason, I'm oot.
The Sony one is widely regarded as being gash.
Pebble, then?
Can't see too many Rolexes being abandoned for that shite
however put a picture of a fruit on it and it would be hailed up there with the second coming 🙂
Could be an interesting start to the market though I can imagine your cuffs calling everyone all the time
1.9 mega pixel camera, cutting edge tech right there.
and then to reply? - you'll have to get the phone out of your pocket anyway
That's the point though. You can quickly see whether you actually do need to stop to reply.
Clearly not a critical item but then since when had that stopped people buying things?
don't think it's aimed at grumpy middle aged, middle class, middle England types with kids n mortages that ride a bike in a wood on a sunday TBH. "Look at this cool new watch it does stuff.." "yeah ****ing yeah, look at the debt I'm in and the sick on my shoulder, and I've only just bought a new Ipad cos the other one wasn't the latest Ipad....and now I've got to buy a ****ing mini ipadwatch that isn't even Apple. I'm so confused!"
I like the fact my current watch needs a new battery every couple of years so the idea of having to manage the power on yet another device doesn't interest me.
Does seem to be a rushed product.
That's Samsung though. They release products quickly and iterate quickly. Apple spend years doing the same behind closed doors. Samsung do seem to have shot themselves in the foot making it only compatible with their phones though.
I'd probably be interested in using a sports app on it to track location/speed/HR at a glance while leaving my phone in my camelbak.
I have a Garmin for that. Battery life is excellent and I hate wearing watches when I'm riding as the sweat destroys leather straps quite quickly.
When the apple version comes out, the idiots will go nuts for it.
That is totally weapon 🙂
Can't yet think of a reason for a smart watch, until it can do Starva and make calls/texts (for emergency purposes) so I don't have to take the phone at all.
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totally weapon
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What the hell is that?!
(And what's in its hand?)
What the hell is that?!
Nathan Barley, an early Chris Morris programme. very very good.
I'll have a geek pie please.
wonder if they could fit some kinetic battery charging guff in there - then it might be just about OK
an early Chris Morris programme
and one of Charlie Brooker's early TV things too