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Digital we're here with the Qualcomm talk Smartwatch this is something I'm
actually pretty excited about and I've been trying to get my hands on one
hopefully we're going to make a full review happen soon but in the meantime
this is my first time actually touching it and I'm pretty impressed with the
overall fit and finish as you guys know I'm a bit of a pebble efficient Ado and
if you're going to try and convince me to spend double on of these you're going to have to give me something that has a
better ID and more functionality so let's jump into the industrial design
first it's got an adjustable uh band which is kind of a a rubberized material
it doesn't look like there's an obvious way to change it out and I suspect
that's uh not going to be something you're going to want to do because there
are actually two touch sensitive button surfaces on the band itself so the top
one double clicking it will turn your backl on or off and the bottom one acts
as a back button as well as a way to switch between all of your submenus or
just your watch face now when you're on the standard watch face you can go ahead
and swipe the bottom to switch between them I'm sure there will be customized
ones coming later but the SDK for the talk isn't coming until early 2014 for
the strap itself you just pop open the latch you can adjust it according to the
size you need with the holes on the side and then you are pretty much ready to
rock I mean it's a watch trrap it's not that much to go wrong charging wise this
is one of my complaints about the pebble and one of my complaints about a lot of
mobile devices in general is cables
there's micro USB which is fragile and then there's proprietary cables which
are easy to lose and expensive to replace the talk does use a proprietary
sort of charging dock solution that you go ahead and you stick it on but it's
wireless so at least it's convenient it lives somewhere it lives on your
nightstand you get home you crawl into bed you put it on there and you're
pretty much good to go to me wireless charging is sort of the Holy Grail of
smart devices in terms of making them something that I'd be likely to actually
use every day now let's walk through the functionality here so the first thing
we're going to do is we're going to tap the bottom and we can see our com Hub
which gives us notifications and gives us a log of everything that we have done
on this phone pretty much now of course you don't have to go into the com Hub if
you get a call or a text message or whatever else those will come up
automatically as you get calls but of course this isn't sync to my phone at the moment calendar shows you everything
that's going on today and tomorrow music can be used to control your mp3 player
as long as it's you know built into a Bluetooth capable device it's not magic
guys weather shows you the weather stock show you the stock status is a cool one
so you can see the connected phone as well as battery life you can turn your
phone's riger on and off using your Smartwatch it is only Android right now
but I've been I've overheard that there's talks about iOS but nothing
concrete one way or the other you can also ping your phone by clicking on find
phone settings is pretty self-explanatory Bluetooth airplane mode
as well as software update and finally your notifications so you can see any
notifications whether it's from USA Today or whatever else it happens to be
like I said the SDK is coming later guys so we can expect a lot more
functionality here now the last thing and this is a big highlight of the
device is the mirol display something I've never seen in person before now the
e in display on the pebble is in my opinion one of the strongest things
about that device because it enables for me about four days but they're saying
for most people about seven days of battery life to me a watch has to be
visible without a gesture where I lift it up to my face it has to always be
visible now mirol takes that eink advantage of battery life and adds color
and it also adds excellent performance I'd say probably even better just
looking at it in direct sunlight maybe maybe similar but you're getting color
you're getting that long battery life and let's check this out it also takes
reflected light that comes from the space around you so when you're in a
very bright environment it can be very difficult to read a digital display so you got the backl for dark and then
you've got the actual reflectiveness behind the screen to take care of that so we're going to do what they're
calling the talk challenge or something like that and we're going to take our
camera in b-roll here we're going to dial it in to read The Talk Smartwatch
correctly in direct sunlight then I'm going to put my phone up next to it on
maximum brightness and we're going to see how they both look in direct sunlight one way or another guys I'm
extremely excited to check this out in a in a more indepth sort of manner and uh
I appreciate them being here at the show so we can check it out all right so
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