What's the most useful smartwatch of them all, If you guessed Sony's, you 've got reason to smile. We just got word that it's Finally available here in USA as expected the SmartWatch costs $ 150.
SmartWatches have never quite caught on with consumers, and yet they continue to fascinate we on the fringes of Geek Chic. Dating back to the days of Casio’s calculator and Data Bank models, the novelty of packing computing power on our wrists has held some strange appeal to at least a few of us. As I kid I owned at least two calculator watches, not to mention a PAC-Man gaming watch with four-button “D-Pad.” Then I hit middle school, got self-consciously awkward, and bought the most conservative Swatch in the mall. But I digress.
Microsoft made a run at getting out in front of the smartwatch market back in 2004 with their ill-fated SPOT watches, and almost a full decade later the trend is threatening a comeback. Apple’s not-quite-smart iPod nano has achieved some wrist top success thanks to a small cottage industry of accessory wristbands, and a small handful of companies big and small are also throwing their hats er, bracelets – into the fray with an array of takes on the 21st Century wrist-mounted computer.
Among the entrants is Sony, ney Sony Ericsson, who this week launches SmartWatch in the U.S. market. The successor to last year’s LiveWire Manager, the Sony SmartWatch features a 1.3-inch color OLED touchscreen, internal vibrating motor, and Bluetooth 3.0 radio packed into a lightweight, square housing backed by a spring clip that makes it easily mounted on a watch band or your clothing. Priced at $149.99, SmartWatch requires a compatible Android smartphone to bring “timely and personal information … straight to your wrist.” Think Email, Facebook and Twitter updates, Calendar notifications, and so on. Dick Tracy, meet the 21st Century, where everything flows through your cell phone.
Being the newly minted smart watch enthusiast I am, I eagerly accepted Sony’s offer to spend a few pre-launch days with SmartWatch wrapped around my wrist. How’d it go? Read on to find out.
Software, It’s worth mentioning up front that LiveWire Manager – the software framework that loads apps and settings onto SmartWatch – is a framework Sony is planning to use in support of gadgets beyond just a single wristwatch. But more on that in a momentSmartWatch’s functionality didn’t exactly wow me, either. Once I got it up and running, the watch performed as advertised. But I didn’t find myself in too many Dick Tracy-style, “Gotta get some ultra-discrete Twitter updates, stat!” situations during my week of testing, and since there’s no way to reply to messages or post status updates directly from the watch, whenever it did bring important information to my attention I immediately reached for my phone to deal with the situation. I suppose that serves the purpose of cutting down on the number of “reach for my phone” moments in the day, but for my money the convenience of not reaching for my phone is far outweighed by the utility of actually reaching for it.
SmartWatch works by running apps that pull data from your smartphone via Bluetooth. Your smartphone, in turn, must be receiving data via a cellular or Wi-Fi in order for SmartWatch to update itself. When I first tested the watch, I had it paired to the Sony Live, which was connected to my home Wi-Fi network. Live and my router didn’t get along very well, and so the watch kept freaking out. Moving to a different Wi-Fi network resolved the problem, but the snafu speaks volumes to a cold reality of Sony’s system: If the link between SmartWatch, smartphone and smartphone data is broken for any reason, the watch becomes mostly useless. Bluetooth gets mucked up? Useless. Smartphone data goes out? Useless. Sony’s SmartWatch is merely a window into the soul of whatever smartphone it’s paired with; on its own, it’s not good for all that much.
Sony’s SmartWatch disappointed me. Some of that has to do with expectations and preferences: Given SmartWatch’s positioning as a secondary display tethered to a primary device (smartphone), I view it as a luxury gadget that had better be packing high-end aesthetics, bleeding-edge wizardry, or both. While SmartWatch did what Sony said it would do, it didn’t do much for me on an emotional level. Sure, the display is readable, but in a world of 720p phones and Retina tablets, it’s also not very good. I know Apple’s iPod nano isn’t a watch, but as far as wrist top displays go, its TFT is miles ahead of Sony’s OLED. Aesthetics aside, the novelty of scrolling through Emails, tweets and updates on my watch wore off every time I wanted to reply to to something and had to reach for my phone, anyway.
Specificatins :- Sony's SmartWatch is a smartphone connected wristwatch and acts as a remote allowing the wearer to see alerts, such as text messages, emails and social media updates, without the need of having to take out your handset. Alerts are also communicated to the wearer through vibrations, a feature commonly used in mobile phones for many years.
Display, With a 1.3” LED display, the SmartWatch can also link to tablets and allow the streaming of music, effectively converting the device into an mp3 player. Available in a variety of wrist strap colours, the SmartWatch will retail at around $150, but so far one considerable flaw is holding back current and future sales.The device at the moment will only pair with Android devices.
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SmartWatches have never quite caught on with consumers, and yet they continue to fascinate we on the fringes of Geek Chic. Dating back to the days of Casio’s calculator and Data Bank models, the novelty of packing computing power on our wrists has held some strange appeal to at least a few of us. As I kid I owned at least two calculator watches, not to mention a PAC-Man gaming watch with four-button “D-Pad.” Then I hit middle school, got self-consciously awkward, and bought the most conservative Swatch in the mall. But I digress.
Microsoft made a run at getting out in front of the smartwatch market back in 2004 with their ill-fated SPOT watches, and almost a full decade later the trend is threatening a comeback. Apple’s not-quite-smart iPod nano has achieved some wrist top success thanks to a small cottage industry of accessory wristbands, and a small handful of companies big and small are also throwing their hats er, bracelets – into the fray with an array of takes on the 21st Century wrist-mounted computer.
Among the entrants is Sony, ney Sony Ericsson, who this week launches SmartWatch in the U.S. market. The successor to last year’s LiveWire Manager, the Sony SmartWatch features a 1.3-inch color OLED touchscreen, internal vibrating motor, and Bluetooth 3.0 radio packed into a lightweight, square housing backed by a spring clip that makes it easily mounted on a watch band or your clothing. Priced at $149.99, SmartWatch requires a compatible Android smartphone to bring “timely and personal information … straight to your wrist.” Think Email, Facebook and Twitter updates, Calendar notifications, and so on. Dick Tracy, meet the 21st Century, where everything flows through your cell phone.
Software, It’s worth mentioning up front that LiveWire Manager – the software framework that loads apps and settings onto SmartWatch – is a framework Sony is planning to use in support of gadgets beyond just a single wristwatch. But more on that in a momentSmartWatch’s functionality didn’t exactly wow me, either. Once I got it up and running, the watch performed as advertised. But I didn’t find myself in too many Dick Tracy-style, “Gotta get some ultra-discrete Twitter updates, stat!” situations during my week of testing, and since there’s no way to reply to messages or post status updates directly from the watch, whenever it did bring important information to my attention I immediately reached for my phone to deal with the situation. I suppose that serves the purpose of cutting down on the number of “reach for my phone” moments in the day, but for my money the convenience of not reaching for my phone is far outweighed by the utility of actually reaching for it.
SmartWatch works by running apps that pull data from your smartphone via Bluetooth. Your smartphone, in turn, must be receiving data via a cellular or Wi-Fi in order for SmartWatch to update itself. When I first tested the watch, I had it paired to the Sony Live, which was connected to my home Wi-Fi network. Live and my router didn’t get along very well, and so the watch kept freaking out. Moving to a different Wi-Fi network resolved the problem, but the snafu speaks volumes to a cold reality of Sony’s system: If the link between SmartWatch, smartphone and smartphone data is broken for any reason, the watch becomes mostly useless. Bluetooth gets mucked up? Useless. Smartphone data goes out? Useless. Sony’s SmartWatch is merely a window into the soul of whatever smartphone it’s paired with; on its own, it’s not good for all that much.
Sony’s SmartWatch disappointed me. Some of that has to do with expectations and preferences: Given SmartWatch’s positioning as a secondary display tethered to a primary device (smartphone), I view it as a luxury gadget that had better be packing high-end aesthetics, bleeding-edge wizardry, or both. While SmartWatch did what Sony said it would do, it didn’t do much for me on an emotional level. Sure, the display is readable, but in a world of 720p phones and Retina tablets, it’s also not very good. I know Apple’s iPod nano isn’t a watch, but as far as wrist top displays go, its TFT is miles ahead of Sony’s OLED. Aesthetics aside, the novelty of scrolling through Emails, tweets and updates on my watch wore off every time I wanted to reply to to something and had to reach for my phone, anyway.Specificatins :- Sony's SmartWatch is a smartphone connected wristwatch and acts as a remote allowing the wearer to see alerts, such as text messages, emails and social media updates, without the need of having to take out your handset. Alerts are also communicated to the wearer through vibrations, a feature commonly used in mobile phones for many years.
Display, With a 1.3” LED display, the SmartWatch can also link to tablets and allow the streaming of music, effectively converting the device into an mp3 player. Available in a variety of wrist strap colours, the SmartWatch will retail at around $150, but so far one considerable flaw is holding back current and future sales.The device at the moment will only pair with Android devices.
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