The question, then, is whether they're complimenting you because it's new and they've never seen it before or because they actually think it's a good-looking watch. People complimented PT Cruiser owners when those things first came out. :P

Well I imagine it's a little of both -- also, there's a sort of retro-chic that still goes with large/squarish devices... Style is so subjective -- look at the new porsche blackberry phone, that's a PT Cruiser if I've ever seen one

And yeah, PT Cruisers are terrible.

How do you like the Smartwatch 2? I have enough points on my Sony card to pick one up, but I'm still on the fence as to whether or not I would actually use it.

Hey I actually love it! It's a fantastic watch, has good functionality -- lacking tons of apps, but then again, it's a watch.

I used/liked:

1. Show to people at parties/in social situations, people are very curious about it

2. Look at texts/email (and possibly fb/twitter, but I didn't want that stuff going to my wrist) without taking my phone out. Especially when driving with both hands on the wheel, reading short texts (one word/short sentence) was pretty easy (and not too terribly dangerous, I thought).

3. Configurable face is amazing -- you can design your own watch face, add widgets like weather, battery, bluetooth connection, etc

4. If you develop, it's great to at least have one thing on the platform, in case you decide to develop for it.

One of the negatives is the closed platform. Like the galaxy gear, Sony doesn't really make it easy for you to modify the hardware/low-level software, and there's the whole silly "get our app to communicate" business, which is just trying to lock people into a walled garden.

But all in all, the smartwatch 2 is fantastic, and it's got a great (non-prohibitive) price tag. I got mine for like $100-130 on Newegg Flash

Thanks! I've been researching, but it's always good to hear from a hands-on real-world user.

Yeah, it's a huge improvement over SW1. I'd also suggest that you go after a Galaxy Gear 1 (if those sony-bucks are convertible) -- it's become very cheap now, and it's not that the technology has gotten any worse, it's still also an amazing device (with more functionality than the SW2).

Same here as well, Pebble and LG Gear, and noth have been noticed and complimented on frequently.

And still less useful than this from the 90s:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GAWSAY

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i removed it, didn't know what that was. I copied from amazon on a link clicked directly from google search

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