Pebble's new $250 Steel smart watch aims for high end of wearable market

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  • Reply 41 of 57
    revenantrevenant Posts: 621member
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    Originally Posted by GQB View Post



    Actually, this is the closest to 'non repulsive' that I've yet seen. Decent band and nice watch face. All text screens still look like crap to me.

    I'm thinking that the uptake will happen when the following can be accomplished...

    1) color screen

    2) good resolution

    3) good battery life.



    With those 3 in place, these things could actually contribute to tasteful fashion. THAT is what will make people wear them. Nothing else.

    that is my only hesitation- screen resolution was a problem for larger displays- why do smaller screens suffer now?  i would buy an electronic watch only if it has a colour screen with great resolution and more than six day battery life.  all they did was change the band- not the screen, which is like a gameboy resolution on your wrist.  this is not 1998, and after raising $10mil on kickstarter, i am inclined to think we should get more.

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  • Reply 42 of 57
    alphafoxalphafox Posts: 132member
    /want
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  • Reply 43 of 57
    notscottnotscott Posts: 247member
    There's a high end wearables market?
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  • Reply 44 of 57
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    notscott wrote: »
    There's a high end wearables market?

    Absolutely and it's worth billions per year.
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  • Reply 45 of 57
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
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    One new tech-innovation for 2014 is featured at- Tablet Sprint-- and offers the new SmartQ Z-Watch ($155) is a smartwatch from Smart Devices, a company that introduced the world's first tablet with a built in DLP projector - winning a prestigious 2013 CTIA E-Tech Award; and now its Smart Q Z-watch is gainingnotice for its features and design and compares to Samsung's Galaxy smart watch at nearly half the price, offering a high performance 1 Ghz processor, a super high resolution color touchscreen and works with Android smartphones with an

    O/S update to work with Apple's iOS  in January.

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  • Reply 47 of 57
    Originally Posted by khhart2020 View Post

    watch… …1 Ghz processor

     

    This tells me two things.

     

    1. The software is horribly bloated and needed this to run at all; it still won’t run well

    2. The price is ludicrously inflated due to components far beyond what is needed to do what it can do.

     

    It runs Jellybean, for crap’s sake! And I foresee them getting into trouble with this:

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  • Reply 48 of 57
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    This tells me two things.

    1. The software is horribly bloated and needed this to run at all; it still won’t run well
    2. The price is ludicrously inflated due to components far beyond what is needed to do what it can do.

    It runs Jellybean, for crap’s sake! And I foresee them getting into trouble with this:
    <img alt="" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="36987" data-type="61" src="http://forums.appleinsider.com/content/type/61/id/36987/width/500/height/1000/flags/LL" style="; width: 142px; height: 128px">

    I wouldn't expect any iWatch to run iOS unless Apple found a way to do to iOS what it did to Mac OS in order to make iOS. But even then I doubt it could be as power efficient enough with IOS than with something that perhaps already runs the iPod Nano OS.
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  • Reply 49 of 57

    You Have No Idea What You Are Talking About.

     

    The standard Android Jelly Bean OS on the SmartQ Watch offers excellent performance.

     

    Also, SmartQ Devices January firmware update upgrades the OS to Android 4.4 Kit Kat

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  • Reply 50 of 57

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  • Reply 51 of 57
    Originally Posted by khhart2020 View Post

    You Have No Idea What You Are Talking About.

     

    All righty, you’re definitely an advertiser for it, just from post tone.

     

    The standard Android Jelly Bean OS on the SmartQ Watch offers excellent performance.


     

    So is the OS shaved down at all? Was any actual work put into removing the unnecessary APIs that could never possibly be used or was it just slapped into the hardware and booted twice before shipping?

     

    Also, SmartQ Devices January firmware update upgrades the OS to Android 4.4 Kit Kat




    It’s good to know that they’re forward-thinking enough to prepare for future bloat.

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  • Reply 52 of 57
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    All righty, you’re definitely an advertiser for it, just from post tone.

    Unlike the poster for the camera app yesterday I reported this new poster after their first two posts since they merely copy and pasted the same talking points across multiple threads. I don't see a reason to engage this poster directly based on their comments.
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  • Reply 53 of 57
    philboogiephilboogie Posts: 7,675member
    solipsismx wrote: »
    notscott wrote: »
    There's a high end wearables market?

    Absolutely and it's worth billions per year.

    Global Watches Market to Reach $46.65 Billion and Clocks Market to Reach $5.42 Billion by 2017, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

    http://www.prweb.com/releases/watches/clocks/prweb8358884.htm
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  • Reply 54 of 57
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    philboogie wrote: »
    Global Watches Market to Reach $46.65 Billion and Clocks Market to Reach $5.42 Billion by 2017, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

    http://www.prweb.com/releases/watches/clocks/prweb8358884.htm

    And that's before we consider all sorts of wearable markets like jewelry, clothing and shoes.
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  • Reply 55 of 57

    You people are nuts...

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  • Reply 56 of 57
    Originally Posted by khhart2020 View Post

    You people are nuts...

     

    We’re also Apples.

     

    Salad, anyone?

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  • Reply 57 of 57
    Pebble Steel sets out to answer the question, 'Can you wear a smartwatch and not look like a social outcast?'

    And answered, 'No.'
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