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Samsung's Smart Watch Coming September 4th, Without Flexible OLED Screen
First time accepted submitter lager_monste sent in a tidbit from Mashable about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Gear Smart Watch: "Samsung will launch its smart watch, the Galaxy Gear, on Sept. 4 ahead of the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin, Germany. Lee Young-hee, VP of Samsung's mobile business, confirmed the date and some details about the device in an interview with The Korea Times."
Ars Technica notes that the Gear is nothing like what was expected from a patent filing for a watch with a flexible OLED. Maybe next generation.
If it's also a phone and doesn't need another phone to work, I want one.
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Why do some people seem to bummed that the screen isn't flexible? Considering it was just a few tech demos and a patent filing it's not like it's a major let-down or anything. How about looking at the device's functionality? TFA says almost nothing about it, like what OS it runs or what capabilities it has.
This story is pretty lame.
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If it's also a phone and doesn't need another phone to work, I want one.
I am more concerned that these devices seem to be full computers themselves. I am looking forward to a smartwatch, but having the large screen, with large battery, with large processing power in my big pockets. I would rather a watch be a dumb device and your smart device being your phone.
Why do some people seem to bummed that the screen isn't flexible?
Because without it being flexible it is limited to 2" by 2" display as opposed to a 6" by 2" display. Whatever you think of that.
The article says, "we will be introducing a new wearable concept device..." So is this going to be marketed, or just a concept vehicle (perhaps to let some air out of a possible Apple iWatch announcement?)
Last time Samsung sold a water-tight phone, it, well, wasn't.
What exactly do these smart watches do? Do they just tell time and maybe connect to wifi for stock numbers or something? I don't get it.
Only wading boots, I was thinking more along the lines of chest waders.
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...But does it have "Ctrl+Shift+T" functionality to see the last Time you looked at the Time on the watch? A sort of "Ctrl+Z" for the Time?
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Do you know what's really funny? Even as you smirk at Apple and Apple's customers you totally expect Apple to come up with a better product than Samsung is able to.
If you're even fainly unprejudiced, you'll realize there are two undeniable truths underpinning GPP's assertions:
The self-evident "meh"-ness of Samsung's concept device, and the Pavlovian responsiveness of Apple's advocacy.
As to your assertion, I'm pretty sure my 7-year-old could come out with something better than this loser from Samsung. Apple's engineering varies between fairly good and awesome, but you don't even have to be fairly good to get over the ridiculously low bar this proposed POS sets.
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Nothing quite like having a futuristic wristlojackimator. And it saves a bunch of hassle in reaching into a pocket to pull out a cell phone.
Of course, it makes it quite a bit more awkward to film everything in sight, but that's not something I do anyways.
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Apple's engineering varies between fairly good and awesome
True, but their control fetish varies between fanatical and fascist. While they have the advantage of being the sole hardware provider their products need to work with, they cripple their devices so much it greatly reduces the flexibility.
Samsung panics and rushes out some thrown-together POS and the only thing it's going to accomplish is make whatever overpriced, walled-gardened bauble Apple finally rolls out look like the Second Coming in comparison. This is so bone-headed of them, it almost feels like 'sung and Cupertino are colluding. When the iWatch does come out, best wear some wading boots if you'll be around fanbois, as the excretions will be record-setting.
There were dozens of MP3 players out before the iPod, dozens of tablets before the iPad, and dozens of smartphones before the iPhone. None of these companies were "colluding" with Apple.
Apple doesn't do things first, they do it *right* first. Then the Asian copycats come out.
This watch one is interesting given the history.
Think tablets, they were around, and Apple was working on a tablet since 2001. But Apple refused to release one until they thought they could do it right. They even released the iPhone as a rushed side project in 2007, but still couldn't get the tablet down. All this time others were producing tablets that basically sucked. Finally they did it, people loved it, and Apple owned the market for a while until others could duplicate what they did.
Given that Apple is known to have been working on a watch for a couple of years, we may see a repeat. Or Apple's watch may suck. Who knows?
Apple's engineering varies between fairly good and awesome
True, but their control fetish varies between fanatical and fascist. While they have the advantage of being the sole hardware provider their products need to work with, they cripple their devices so much it greatly reduces the flexibility.
Maybe, but flexibility is the last thing you want because then you would need to find out what the damned thing is actually good for all by yourself. You'd get maximal flexibility out of a smartwatch that just runs Android on a 2" screen. It also would be totally useless for most people.
The point of such appliances really is that someone else already put lots of work and thought into what it's good for and optimizes the device for that. Some people call that "control fetish" other call it outsourcing boring work and getting a device that gets to the point and does something useful as it is.
Carry whatever tech you want in your backpack (I do) but the thing on your wrist should be mechanical and made in Switzerland or you'll never get either a girlfriend or a job. Nothing that a tech company makes will ever be as beautiful as this
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Apple was working on a tablet since 2001. But Apple refused to release one until they thought they could do it right.
Apple was working on tablets long before that.
And when they "thought they could do it right" and released the first one, the market let them know loud and clear that they had NOT gotten it right.
They didn't get it right until MUCH later. (It's debatable whether they have gotten it right yet.)
Apple was working on a PDA, a term actually invented for the Newton. What killed that was a complete lack of vision in the company and scope creep from hell. That's the Sculley years for you.
But something did come out of it: The company that designs the ARM architecture, now ARM Holdings, was created by Acorn, Apple and VLSI to make the ARM chip for the Newton. This would be the basis for all future portable and embedded ARM implementations.
Everything can be refined, but given that all following tablets copied the iPad, and using this model have managed to encroach on the PC market, they definitely got it right.