Even then, unless they want to create proprietary everything, they'd need to open up the ok Google api for the functionality in the video
Google unveils Android Wear: a version of Android for smartwatches
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Even then, unless they want to create proprietary everything, they'd need to open up the ok Google api for the functionality in the video
Stellactic
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Concept video sounded like LCD Soundsystem, in which case take that Samsung Gear!
people live in places called cities... traffic time can vary hour to hour and day to day. It also tells you how long it is to get to your next appointment and when you should leave to be there on time.
If all you do is go to work, work there, and go home, its usefulness isn't quite as high as say, someone who goes places
A watch is more... discrete?
Just like Samsung with the Gear, it feels like they're missing the whole point of a watch...
No one wants their watch to mirror the exact same functions of their phone. Pebble is the only company that actually gets the smartwatch concept.
No one wants their watch to mirror the exact same functions of their phone. Pebble is the only company that actually gets the smartwatch concept.
Barbacoatl
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So you look like a watchhole instead of a glasshole.
RoadHazard
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But basically entirely useless outside the US (and maybe a few more countries?). Can't do anything beyond basic Google searches with voice here in Sweden. No commands, no asking it a question and actually getting an answer, nothing like that. Not very surprising I guess, since actually understanding what you're saying is something completely different from just recognizing the words. Google Now also does almost nothing here. Weather, travel directions, nearby locations, not much else. Almost all of the cool stuff you Americans can do with it is missing here.
So yeah, that makes something like this a lot less interesting to me. Here the watch would just be a dumb mini-smartphone on your arm, nothing like the kind of personal assistant they're pitching it as.
I was referring to the the mentions of home automation, not the watch.
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Also I like what Google's done here. They pretty much perfected Google Now and Voice Search and then just created a device which basically only does that. Google Now, I think, is the greatest piece of innovation from the past few years and works really well on its own.
Think of it more as extending your smartphone (and all the information it provides) to your wrist to enable an alternative way of interacting with it.
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They're working with Fossil, I'm screwed. I own three Fossil watches and I'm eying a fourth.
Wearable devices spur the same kind of arguments we already had when tablets arrived. "Who needs this, I have [previous gen device] and it does the job". The point is indeed, it does, but having a new experience at doing the same task is one of the privileges of a consumer society. We all like it. Plus you can always find excuses such as "phone screens are getting bigger, I'd like to be bale to keep it out of my pockets and still get the right info".
After owning a pebble since launch, I know a good smartwatch with a nice design and good UI would do wonders for me. However, it has to be as smart WATCH, not a smart small ugly screen on my wrist. Hence the interest in the Fossil collab.
Wearable devices spur the same kind of arguments we already had when tablets arrived. "Who needs this, I have [previous gen device] and it does the job". The point is indeed, it does, but having a new experience at doing the same task is one of the privileges of a consumer society. We all like it. Plus you can always find excuses such as "phone screens are getting bigger, I'd like to be bale to keep it out of my pockets and still get the right info".
After owning a pebble since launch, I know a good smartwatch with a nice design and good UI would do wonders for me. However, it has to be as smart WATCH, not a smart small ugly screen on my wrist. Hence the interest in the Fossil collab.
Tathanen
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If they can get these watches to connect to my phone via bluetooth when I'm out and about, but connect to them over a wifi network when I'm at home, then I am SUPER on board. Let me access my phone stuff on my watch when I'm in the living room and the phone is on a table two rooms away.
Yeah i know, and i recognize that it can be useful in some scenarios and for some people, but i still see this and glass as another way of technological slavery... maybe i am crazy.
Junior Mint
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That moto watch looks good
They are suppose to be easy to glance at to gather quick information, do fitness tracking etc.
Sexy.
If you used Google Now, you'd probably know that it gives you results based on the location you're currently at. So if you're downtown somewhere and you want food, just look at your wrist and bam, list of restaurants is there. Not only that but it can say how long your commute will take, how long it will take to get home, when the last trains for subways stop running, etc.
Of course most of this is useful only where Google allowed it to be and I know lots of countries don't get the same features as what you would get in the US.
So why use this over your phone? Well, this one is always on your wrist. It won't be intrusive and insulting to others to take out your watch in the middle of something important. In addition, it's readily available so if you just need the basic information such as weather, time, and the other contextual info that Google Now offers, it's easier to just take out your watch and just look. Imagine during Winter or something and you have your phone in your inner coat pocket. Instead of unzipping to take out your phone, you can just look at your watch and see the information you'd probably want to see already there.
Barbacoatl
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Yeah, it looks like MyFirstWatch.
Throwing money at my screen so hard right now.
creationtheory
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Is there a Flavor Flav smartwatch meme yet?
Jzero
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Seriously. I need this!
Bomber Bob
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YES GOOGLE
Lone_Prodigy
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Circa 2004: I don't understand the point of smartphones. Why not just check your email/surf the web at home?
Someone dig up an iPad thread. The same posts there can be applied here.
Do you wear a regular watch today?
Halcyon
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So just a bunch of assholes now easily able to stealth ignore you while looking at their wrist. It will be even more disconnected because there won't be the shame of grabbing the phone from your pocket before you proceed to ignore them.
There are going to be people walking around(and already are) with a watch, a smartphone, a tablet in their man-purse, with google glass on, who get in their car with a tablet display and a garmin on the windshield.
I understand the watch is cool, but the old man yelling at cloud in me is thinking this stuff is a bit ridiculous.
Ken Masters
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Apples move now
Shoutout to chromeo getting some love!!
Shoutout to chromeo getting some love!!
Mr. Wonderful
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I am also not sure why I need this.
I also can't stand wearing things, in general. Glasses, jewelry, ...clothes.
I also can't stand wearing things, in general. Glasses, jewelry, ...clothes.
This is all to condition us to say "Okay Google" so that phrase just becomes ingrained into our being before they take over the world isn't it?
Agreed, while more intrusive, I think I'll wait until imbedded cybernetic devices.
Agreed, while more intrusive, I think I'll wait until imbedded cybernetic devices.
Sweet mother. You can hardly tell that's a smartwatch..
Wonder what kind of price points were looking at.. $300+ it'll sell some but nothing mainstream
You've got to be kidding.
theepicoftyler
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I love that Moto360 design. I hope it delivers.
samus i am
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How much do we think this is going to be?
Personally I just grope my breasts to see if its raining or not when I'm outside.
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