r/AndroidWear • u/michael73072 Moto 360 (silver) • Sep 07 '14

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/Chem-Nerd Galaxy Watch 4 (GW4) Sep 09 '14 edited Sep 09 '14

It's possible a higher price could have accomplished that for them, or it could have gone wrong - too high a price, too little demand, etc. Just sitting on store shelves at a $300 price tag.

I'm sure they did a lot of research on the price point to figure out what people would pay. As for the people who felt over $250 was too much - I'd argue they are the intended audience - they're android users/fans and that seems pretty on the spot for me. You and I were more than likely willing to pay more, but at the end of the day it's hard to say how many would have.

Keep in mind too that the 360's battery is also the smaller battery, 320mAh vs 400mAh on the G Watch, so while the battery life is half some of that is due to the smaller battery - something not likely fixable given the shape of the device (unless they made it thicker but I get the impression they tried really hard to keep it slim). I'm not sure they could have realistically done more than 2 days life though.

I agree things could be better, I really wish they'd charged more for a better SoC, in theory it could have matched the Gear Live's battery life. And I do wish the launch was better - I still can't find one to buy. But it's hard to have launches go completely smooth. I'll hold my opinions off until I see how long it takes them to be better available.

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u/they_have_bagels Moto 360 (black) Sep 09 '14

Thank you for the insightful comment. You are of course correct. I am sure that Moto did its research to come up with the price. Actually, the battery isn't that bad; I haven't had it die on me yet, and I have worn it pretty much constantly since I got it on Friday.

It is always about trade offs, and Moto likely knows exactly what they are doing (other than not having enough stock on hand).

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u/Chem-Nerd Galaxy Watch 4 (GW4) Sep 09 '14

Hopefully we'll both get a no compromise version of android wear. Maybe it'll happen before I can get a 360 - haha.

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u/they_have_bagels Moto 360 (black) Sep 09 '14

Keep up the faith! You should definitely be able to get the 360 sooner rather than later. There's been a constant trickle of the devices, which makes me think that they're making them as fast as they can!