WEBVTT 00:00:00.199 --> 00:00:06.799 so way back in the Stone Age Motorola worked with me very briefly when I did 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:11.920 my Moto X and Moto G reviews then they went silent for a bit and frankly I 00:00:08.559 --> 00:00:13.599 didn't care anyway then the Moto 360 got 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:16.720 announced and went holy crap I need to get in touch with Motorola again and 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:22.039 apparently so did every other reviewer on the planet because I finally got one 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:26.800 a couple of weeks ago just like we finally got the go-ahead to publish our 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:28.920 senheiser factory tour soon yay and so 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:34.000 here are my thoughts on the Moto 360 specifically and Android Wear in general 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:34.000 I 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:45.320 guess The Cooler Master nepton 240m features an exclusive pump design and 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:48.800 their new silencio fans to provide impressive near silent performance click 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:53.440 now to learn more the setup process with the Android 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:56.760 Wear app is really simple I'm pairing my phone worked effortlessly but what 00:00:54.879 --> 00:01:00.840 exactly did I just pair my phone to Hardware rundown time on the inside of 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:05.360 the watch you'll find 500 112 Megs of RAM 4 gigs of storage Bluetooth 4.0 low 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:10.720 energy a podometer and heart rate monitor dual microphones a vibration 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:12.640 motor a 320 mAh battery that supports 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:17.159 wireless charging with the included Dock and finally and this has been the source 00:01:14.479 --> 00:01:21.320 of much discussion about this device even though it doesn't seem to have a 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:27.119 performance impact a Texas Instruments TI omap 3630 processor which is a 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:29.439 4-year-old CPU design built on a 45 NM 00:01:27.119 --> 00:01:33.000 manufacturing process so the speculation is that Motorola could have potentially 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:38.960 extended battery life with something a little bit newer onto the outside I've 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:41.520 got the stone horor leather band on mine 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:46.240 which I think is pretentious hipster for not waterproof but very lightweight and 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:49.799 comfortable dyed cowhide but if you don't like leather then it's available 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:53.119 in a variety of well okay there's a different color of leather but also it's 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:57.520 available with metal bands although the Tinker among you may want to pick up the 00:01:55.360 --> 00:02:02.240 leather model anyway and then a pebble metal band for 30 bucks they're actually 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:07.439 compatible and you can do the swap yourself if you're a little bit handy 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:10.720 The Watch Body itself is IP67 water and dust prooof something you can learn more 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:14.400 about here if you feel like it and features a heart rate monitor on the 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:18.599 bottom a stainless steel housing around the round watch face with a microphone 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:24.599 port on the left and the watch's lone physical button on the right then 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:27.319 finally the main event a 1.56 in 320x 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:31.040 290 backlit LCD touchscreen display covered in Corning Gorilla Glass 3 I 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:35.800 think this is a good opportunity to say I was really impressed with the watch's 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:40.200 ruggedness overall I'm pretty careless and in spite of me wearing it every day 00:02:37.640 --> 00:02:45.239 for 2 weeks the Moto 360 you see in our close-up footage is in basically perfect 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:50.040 condition excellent considering that this is what my daily driver watches 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:56.920 tend to end up looking like even if they have Gorilla Glass the display is good 00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:02.440 it's 205 pixel per inch pixel density is noticeably non-retina but not enough to 00:02:59.519 --> 00:03:06.680 be normally distracting in day-to-day use and viewing angles are very good 00:03:04.799 --> 00:03:11.720 with full brightness and a watch face with high contrast between colors but in 00:03:09.519 --> 00:03:16.000 ambient mode when the display is on but dim you will need to look at it a bit 00:03:13.799 --> 00:03:21.599 more directly what is ambient mode you might ask well instead of just having 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:24.080 the display off or Max brightness with a 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:28.680 very deliberate motion gesture required to wake it up ambient mode is much more 00:03:26.440 --> 00:03:33.799 Loosey Goosey about waking up when you gesture more casually and then it stays 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:38.000 on i'llbe it at a lower brightness for longer after activation allowing you to 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:42.560 use the watch more naturally you know tilt it toward yourself on the couch use 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:45.519 it while lying on your back uh you know pull up your sleeve before checking it 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:50.080 and lots of other stuff that doesn't normally work very well in the in the 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:54.840 regular mode if you're using ambient mode you can probably still get through 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:58.799 a full day on the battery but it's much tighter and you can basically forget 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:03.640 about using a lot of the Android Wear functionality that's being added like 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:09.560 running apps or even games directly on the watch oh yeah Linus Android Wear how 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:13.920 is that anyway honestly right now pretty buggy um thankfully there were no 00:04:11.480 --> 00:04:17.680 outright crashes or anything but while none of this stuff happened consistently 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:20.239 enough for me to reproduce it on camera here are some irritating bugs I've 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:24.680 encountered over the last couple of weeks in no particular order uh refusing 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:29.160 to take voice commands while running turn-by-turn navigation failing to 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:32.120 display incoming calls on the watch even though I can clear see they're coming in 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:36.600 on the phone and they are connected switching to a playlist of the ringtones 00:04:34.400 --> 00:04:40.039 on my phone when I receive a text message while listening to Google play 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:44.639 music over a Bluetooth headset displaying gobble deg instead of proper 00:04:42.840 --> 00:04:50.680 characters in place of weather and date data and the list just goes on and at 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:55.320 times honestly the stuff that did work correctly wasn't a lot better thought 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:59.840 out if I get text messages from two different people in between checking and 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:05.440 responding to them not only can I not do ful things like respond with voice or 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:07.080 Mark as red I can't even read them 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:11.000 Hangouts handles this much better with swipes to the right opening the message 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:14.720 that you start your swipe on but not Everyone likes Hangouts Google and 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:19.639 another great example of this broken functionality is Twitter direct messages 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:24.720 and mentions just pile up with the only option being open on 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:27.199 phone I also dislike the way information 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:31.560 gets managed sometimes music Control is one of those situations where if I'm 00:05:29.039 --> 00:05:36.120 listening to music I probably want the control of it at my fingertips and it'll 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:40.600 get buried under other cards as new notifications roll in another is if I'm 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:44.960 on a call it would be nice if there was a notification card for it I can accept 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:48.840 a call with the watch but I can't terminate it I mean what if I use my 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:53.440 Watch to take the call because I was planning to use a speaker phone like if 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:57.919 I'm driving or a wired headset if I have to take the phone out of my pocket to 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:02.919 hang up then the watch is very purpose of me not needing to take out my phone 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:05.080 phone was defeated there is really great 00:06:02.919 --> 00:06:09.440 stuff too though reading whole emails instead of being stuck with previews 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:14.280 like the pebble is almost a switchable advantage in and of itself Google Now 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:18.759 voice recognition worked great for me indicating solid integrated mics drop 00:06:17.039 --> 00:06:23.319 cam notifications complete with a snapshot of what's going on are awesome 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:27.240 for checking on the baby and discovering that I could have my turn-by-turn 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:30.720 navigation on my wrist was another almost switchable moment for me and 00:06:29.080 --> 00:06:35.080 probably a lot of people who don't have Car mounts for their phones and that's 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:39.680 just that's just the tip of what Android Wear will be able to do in the future I 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:43.919 mean you can already get other cool stuff like thirdparty watch face 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:48.319 managers um I used facer which you can use to download and create new watch 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:52.080 faces to augment the utterly anemic stock selection although I have to say 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:55.360 it is appalling to me that you even need to work around with a third party tool 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:59.680 for this but I digress and then there are other useful apps including the 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:04.360 usual Smartwatch you know ring my phone buzz me if I go out of range and health 00:07:01.599 --> 00:07:09.520 tracker stuff but also you know some androidy stuff in there like custom 00:07:06.440 --> 00:07:12.280 launchers which you can learn about here 00:07:09.520 --> 00:07:17.400 uh calculators a Google Keep integration a network status change Notifier a 00:07:15.080 --> 00:07:21.160 screen Locker so errant water drops don't fire up Google Now all the time if 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:25.160 you're in the shower for example and even this super handy spin the bottle 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:29.039 app if you happen to be a daring adolescent okay that one's not that 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:34.800 useful but at the point is we're going to see more in the future so bottom line 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:40.000 though is it awesome lonus are you ready to abandon your Pebble Steel for Android 00:07:36.840 --> 00:07:42.039 Wear the answer is unfortunately no um 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:45.800 part of this is the hardware I continue to believe in the importance of 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:49.639 multi-day batteries for mobile devices even though the convenient wireless 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:55.599 charging dock takes some of the sting out but the biggest part of the problem 00:07:52.520 --> 00:07:57.360 here for me is software smartphones won 00:07:55.599 --> 00:08:02.599 me over to single day batteries by giving me Oodles of function ity that my 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:07.680 old flip couldn't and while being able to run apps in the background on a on a 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:12.319 watch something that Pebble can't do opens up a whole new world of 00:08:10.080 --> 00:08:17.840 possibilities I would still personally hold off a little bit more until Android 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:22.560 Wear continues to mature because it will mature I can already see it's going to 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:26.479 be awesome this isn't like the 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