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TAG Heuer Launches "Connected" Android Wear Smartwatch With Intel Inside (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Today, TAG Heuer officially announced its Connected Watch, which is its fist watch to run Google's Android Wear operating system. $1,500 may sound like a lot to spend on a smartwatch, but TAG Heuer reckons that the high price tag won't matter given the pedigree attached to its newest wearable. The Connected takes more than a few cues from TAG Heuer's own Carrera analog watch, but replaces the intricately designed and assembled mechanical internals with microchips. TAG Heuer worked closely with both Google and Intel while developing the Connected. The smartwatch is powered by an Intel Atom Z34XX processor and offers Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, 4GB of internal storage, gyroscopic sensors and a grade 2 titanium casing./i
As for battery life, TAG Heuer says that you’ll get roughly 30 hours of runtime in typical usage scenarios.
you know it's bad when your watch can't outlast a winding watch from the 19th century.
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Are you serious dude? It's a fist watch. The first fist watch! Do you not understand the implications of this development?
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This is useless trash. EXPENSIVE useleess trash. That doesn't have an Apple logo.
Customers will be measured in the tens.
Interestingly, I work with pilots, real professional pilots, and they seem drawn to TAG Heuer. Don't know why, but it is what it is.
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The point is, if you want a real watch, that will still be nice 100 years from now, don't get a "smart watch", that's just dumb.
If you want a "smart watch", get the cheapest one that suits your needs - it will be trash in less than 4 years.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
$1500 IS a lot for a watch. Especially one which will be bitrotten or obsolete within 2 years. It'll just be some worthless piece of crap gathering dust at the bottom of a drawer after that.
Interestingly, I work with pilots, real professional pilots, and they seem drawn to TAG Heuer. Don't know why, but it is what it is.
Well, there's a couple of things at work here. First there's cachet; the Tag Heuer brand is widely recognized among pilots as being "the best". Part of that in truth is the heavy marketing TH did in aviation magazines showing lots of pilots with their TH watches especially during the 1970's and 1980's (though it continues to this day along with Breitling).
Second thing at work is simple visibility. The TH watches have always been designed to be high contrast and easy to read. That's surprisingly important in a cockpit when time is the essence of navigation and you're in turbulence. Try reading your watch while swinging your arm in random directions and you get a feel for it... high contrast is key.
Now, the truth is the second thing is almost irrelevant today with navigation electronics in anything larger than about 6 or 8 seats and more than one engine... but if you're flying a single engine craft then there's always the risk of losing all your electronics in an alternator/generator failure so you're usually expected to be spending your time between nav points plotting your course on your paper map and using your watch to keep track. Since all pilots start from single engine Cessnas and the like, this idea of "I must have a watch I can read at all times" is pretty well ingrained... and those who have actually had an electrical failure en-route probably will never be separated from their watches. Especially if you're flying in instrument conditions a good map and an easy-to-read watch can actually save your life.