WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:07.680 Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for 00:00:05.319 --> 00:00:11.719 great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:15.120 Digital we're here with the Qualcomm talk Smartwatch this is something I'm 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.960 actually pretty excited about and I've been trying to get my hands on one 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:22.240 hopefully we're going to make a full review happen soon but in the meantime 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:25.640 this is my first time actually touching it and I'm pretty impressed with the 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:28.880 overall fit and finish as you guys know I'm a bit of a pebble efficient Ado and 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:35.360 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 00:00:32.599 --> 00:00:39.320 better ID and more functionality so let's jump into the industrial design 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:43.239 first it's got an adjustable uh band which is kind of a a rubberized material 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:46.879 it doesn't look like there's an obvious way to change it out and I suspect 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:50.480 that's uh not going to be something you're going to want to do because there 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:55.120 are actually two touch sensitive button surfaces on the band itself so the top 00:00:53.160 --> 00:00:59.600 one double clicking it will turn your backl on or off and the bottom one acts 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:03.680 as a back button as well as a way to switch between all of your submenus or 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:07.560 just your watch face now when you're on the standard watch face you can go ahead 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:11.439 and swipe the bottom to switch between them I'm sure there will be customized 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:16.000 ones coming later but the SDK for the talk isn't coming until early 2014 for 00:01:14.119 --> 00:01:20.000 the strap itself you just pop open the latch you can adjust it according to the 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:22.880 size you need with the holes on the side and then you are pretty much ready to 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:26.439 rock I mean it's a watch trrap it's not that much to go wrong charging wise this 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:30.840 is one of my complaints about the pebble and one of my complaints about a lot of 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:33.000 mobile devices in general is cables 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:36.799 there's micro USB which is fragile and then there's proprietary cables which 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:41.159 are easy to lose and expensive to replace the talk does use a proprietary 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:44.840 sort of charging dock solution that you go ahead and you stick it on but it's 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:47.840 wireless so at least it's convenient it lives somewhere it lives on your 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:50.960 nightstand you get home you crawl into bed you put it on there and you're 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:55.640 pretty much good to go to me wireless charging is sort of the Holy Grail of 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:58.960 smart devices in terms of making them something that I'd be likely to actually 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:01.399 use every day now let's walk through the functionality here so the first thing 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:05.439 we're going to do is we're going to tap the bottom and we can see our com Hub 00:02:03.399 --> 00:02:10.000 which gives us notifications and gives us a log of everything that we have done 00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:13.200 on this phone pretty much now of course you don't have to go into the com Hub if 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:16.200 you get a call or a text message or whatever else those will come up 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:21.480 automatically as you get calls but of course this isn't sync to my phone at the moment calendar shows you everything 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:25.000 that's going on today and tomorrow music can be used to control your mp3 player 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:28.920 as long as it's you know built into a Bluetooth capable device it's not magic 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:32.599 guys weather shows you the weather stock show you the stock status is a cool one 00:02:30.920 --> 00:02:36.040 so you can see the connected phone as well as battery life you can turn your 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:40.280 phone's riger on and off using your Smartwatch it is only Android right now 00:02:38.200 --> 00:02:44.000 but I've been I've overheard that there's talks about iOS but nothing 00:02:42.440 --> 00:02:47.400 concrete one way or the other you can also ping your phone by clicking on find 00:02:45.959 --> 00:02:51.760 phone settings is pretty self-explanatory Bluetooth airplane mode 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:55.159 as well as software update and finally your notifications so you can see any 00:02:53.640 --> 00:02:59.159 notifications whether it's from USA Today or whatever else it happens to be 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:02.560 like I said the SDK is coming later guys so we can expect a lot more 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:06.200 functionality here now the last thing and this is a big highlight of the 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:10.280 device is the mirol display something I've never seen in person before now the 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.640 e in display on the pebble is in my opinion one of the strongest things 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:17.000 about that device because it enables for me about four days but they're saying 00:03:15.040 --> 00:03:21.200 for most people about seven days of battery life to me a watch has to be 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:25.879 visible without a gesture where I lift it up to my face it has to always be 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:31.239 visible now mirol takes that eink advantage of battery life and adds color 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:34.920 and it also adds excellent performance I'd say probably even better just 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:38.239 looking at it in direct sunlight maybe maybe similar but you're getting color 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:42.720 you're getting that long battery life and let's check this out it also takes 00:03:40.519 --> 00:03:45.560 reflected light that comes from the space around you so when you're in a 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:50.000 very bright environment it can be very difficult to read a digital display so you got the backl for dark and then 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:54.640 you've got the actual reflectiveness behind the screen to take care of that so we're going to do what they're 00:03:52.519 --> 00:03:58.239 calling the talk challenge or something like that and we're going to take our 00:03:56.200 --> 00:04:02.000 camera in b-roll here we're going to dial it in to read The Talk Smartwatch 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.799 correctly in direct sunlight then I'm going to put my phone up next to it on 00:04:03.640 --> 00:04:09.879 maximum brightness and we're going to see how they both look in direct sunlight one way or another guys I'm 00:04:07.959 --> 00:04:15.760 extremely excited to check this out in a in a more indepth sort of manner and uh 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:19.120 I appreciate them being here at the show so we can check it out all right so 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:23.120 thank you for checking out this video here at CES 2014 remember our trip to 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:26.919 the show is powered by nc.com your source for great technology selection 00:04:24.919 --> 00:04:30.080 and Service as well as Corsair memory and Western Digital without them we 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:33.280 wouldn't be able to be here bringing you guys this content