![]() ![]() * Display turns off and watch goes into sleep mode when you’re not looking at it (use sensors to determine this). * Good battery life – anything less than a week between charges is unacceptable in a watch, IMHO. ![]() run apps, change clockfaces, various normal watch modes like stopwatch, countdown timer, alarm, radio controlled to keep time in sync?). * Ability to act completely independently for most of its operations (e.g. * Colour e-ink display (no other type of display makes sense surely?). * Reasonable price (ideally under $200 for the cheapest model). * Reasonably good looking (metal strap if possible – resin ones break…see all of Casios range!). * Will *only* pair with other Samsung devices (WTF?!). * Does very little except tell the time when another device (phone or tablet) isn’t within range. * Generally fuglier than most normal watches. It’s very difficult to actually say anything kind about the Samsung Galaxy Gear because it basically suffers from most of the major drawbacks of so-called “smartwatches” to date: Though the definition is vague, as it’s mainly a marketing term now anyway:Ĭouple that with the fact that it’s a US term that made it’s way to other countries, and that in the UK the term “Feature phone” was not used till well after the term “Smart phone” was established, it’s really not a very useful description anyway. not a random OS created specifically for the phone by the vendor, examples being Symbian, iOS, Android, BlackberryOS, Maemo/Meego…), with a large screen usually with touch input (resistive or capacitive), installable apps (or some potential for expanding the installed apps), a full web browser, WiFi and a wired connection to a computer (serial or USB.) This is not unlike the combination of a PDA and a mobile phone. Originally a smart phone was something like a small computer running a specific mobile operating system (i.e. The elements you’re assigning to “Smart” came a long a lot later for phones. The term Smartphone was coined to mean any phone that was capable of being more than a “feature” phone. Smart means having predictive capabilities and reasoning… ![]()
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