The Apple Watch

Re:The Apple Watch by taude on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:04PM (#8292563)

You know, I was thinking the same thing. I think I prefer the roundness of the 360, than the rectangular Apple design. However, you won't catch me wearing either of them until you don't have to have a phone with you.

I'm thinking Minimum Viable Phone (or communications device) that I can wear on my wrist when doing thing, and have some casual interactions with text messaging, and glancing at emails)...

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Re:The Apple Watch by Kequc on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @04:37AM (#8295531)

But I never leave my phone behind anywhere and the way the watches work is quite brilliant in that they interface with your phone. They do everything you can do on your phone but at a glance, that's the whole point of them. They are small, easily accessible and harness the power of a larger device.

I fear that you might be representing too small a fragment of the market to get your desired product.

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Re:The Apple Watch by andor on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @07:51PM (#8294098)

The Samsung Gear S will have a 3G radio of its own.

http://www.samsungmobilepress.com/2014/08/28/Samsung-Gear-S-...

Edit: replaced link

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Re:The Apple Watch by masklinn on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:12PM (#8292670)

> I'm thinking Minimum Viable Phone (or communications device) that I can wear on my wrist when doing thing, and have some casual interactions with text messaging, and glancing at emails)...

The problem's these require extensive radio interaction/SoC, without a phone support (which can stream the information via bluetooth LE) you have to carry that in the watch itself.

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Re:The Apple Watch by taude on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:16PM (#8292719)

Yeup. So wake me when this becomes a reality: I'm sure somone's patenting building a cellular antenna into a watch band as I type this. Plus, I'm sure 6G networks will be faster and require even less power....

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Re:The Apple Watch by eloisant on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @05:09PM (#8293167)

They exist, but I don't think the experience is great.

http://fr.aliexpress.com/item/Intelligent-Bluetooth-watch-mo...

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Re:The Apple Watch by masklinn on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:20PM (#8292757)

The antenna is not the problem, the radio chips (and power) are.

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Re:The Apple Watch by alwaysdoit on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @05:09PM (#8293165)

Specifically, you need enough power to regularly transmit an electromagnetic signal on the order of miles that scales with the inverse square law.

Considering that they can't even get the battery life up without that requirement, it might be a while unless we make significant scientific breakthroughs in battery or wireless technology.

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Re:The Apple Watch by andor on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @07:56PM (#8294113)

Considering that they can't even get the battery life up without that requirement, it might be a while unless we make significant scientific breakthroughs in battery or wireless technology.

"Both the Samsung Gear S and the Gear Circle will be available in global markets in phases through Samsung’s retail channels, e-commerce websites and via carriers beginning October."

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Re:The Apple Watch by alwaysdoit on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:49PM (#8298282)

Gear Circle requires a smartphone for connectivity. I'm interested to see what kind of battery life the Gear S is able to get with a 300mAh battery.

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Re:The Apple Watch by AJ007 on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @05:21PM (#8293261)

Those will be built in to the Apple Pants. You can leave your iPhone at home, you will just need to wear these special pants.

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