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Android Wear Is Here
An anonymous reader writes with this breakdown and comparison of the first two Android Wear watches available today. The first two watches built on the Android Wear platform launch today. One is from LG, the G Watch, and the other is from its arch Korean peninsular rival, Samsung, the Gear Live. Should you buy one today? Maybe. It depends on how early you like to adopt. Let's take a quick trip through analysis lane. First, let's talk about Android Wear, because both watches run on the same platform, and both of them have more or less the same software. Android Wear really does two main things, it moves app notifications to the watch's face, and it puts Google Now's voice-powered search capabilities on your wrist. That's about it. But that's pretty powerful.
call me when a charge lasts a week or so. So long as I have to charge it every day I'l keep my solar powered radio synced watch which has told me the time for the last 5 years without having to touch it.
Why the hell are they so fixated on using Displays? Give it an e-paper face and be done with it - you get "always on" and better battery live. And even monochrome displays can be made to look beautiful
Here we go again. Let's just skip ahead to the arguments made every time there's a story about smart watches. Please note that the exclamation point at the end of each argument is the indicator that THIS argument is right, and everyone else is a moron.
1. Nobody wears watches anymore, they are just jewelry!
1a. These are too cheap and ugly to count as jewelry. I only wear a $180000 dollar watch to show off how awesome I am!
1b. I wear a watch, because I hate pulling my cell phone out of my pocket!
2. These are dumb, the charge doesn't last long enough to be useful.
2a. My $5 watch from 1993 never needs to be charged!
2b. My $180000 watch doesn't have a battery, it is wound by a servant that comes into my room every night to care for the watch!
3. They aren't rugged/waterproof enough!
3a. Neither is your $1800000 jewelry watch!
3b. I don't care what happens to my $5 watch, but it keeps on working, what about these?
3c. I regularly go scuba diving, parachuting, race car driving, and enjoying fine wine on my yacht. That's when I'm not busy having great sex twice a day. This watch won't work for me!
4. I don't want to be MORE plugged in! What happened to just getting away from all your notifications and enjoying life?
Ok, now that we've gotten those out of the way, is there any NEW discussion about these things, or should we just move on?