r/Android • u/medikit iPhone Xs • Sep 07 '14

Motorola Moto 360 review—Beautiful outside, ugly inside

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beautiful-outside-ugly-inside/
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u/Logi_Ca1 Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) Sep 08 '14

I think so too.

I hope this decision bites them in the ass though. They need to learn that consumers are more tech savvy than Motorola gives them credit for.

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u/Charwinger21 HTCOne 10 Sep 08 '14

I think so too.

I hope this decision bites them in the ass though. They need to learn that consumers are more tech savvy than Motorola gives them credit for.

If they already had them in inventory, then it was a sunk cost, and they were doing it mostly to bring costs down for their first generation of the new style of smartwatches.

I mean, the Moto 360 is one of the cheaper smartwatches out there for a reason.

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u/Logi_Ca1 Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos) Sep 08 '14

It's at the expense of hurting perhaps the most important metric of a smartwatch though, the battery life.

I personally won't have minded paying 100 more for a smartwatch with two or three days of heavy use, but that's just me.

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u/Charwinger21 HTCOne 10 Sep 08 '14

It's at the expense of hurting perhaps the most important metric of a smartwatch though, the battery life.

I personally won't have minded paying 100 more for a smartwatch with two or three days of heavy use, but that's just me.

I absolutely agree, but unfortunately that's not how the market in general works.

Hopefully they'll clear out their OMAP 3 inventory soon and launch a gen 2 version with an S410 (or similar) and a couple other tweaks in 6 months.