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this doesn't happen often I did it with the xclaim xi3 access point which I

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still stand behind 100% having been using them as our office access points

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for a couple of months especially now that they have their cloud-based management tool up and running and I'm

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going to do it again with the zenat 2 this is an imperfect but very compelling

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product and you should seriously consider buying one stay tuned to find

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out why

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Corsair's RMI series power supplies feature premium components for great

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performance with very low noise check out the link in the video description to

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learn more it starts today as it always

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seems to start with the physical tour of the watch and given what a simple device

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the Zen watch 2 is that's probably not going to take very long at the back you

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will find the magnetic charging contact

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this does require a proprietary cable but I understand that it's being done

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for a reason the watch is IP67 rated

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making it waterproof for all but the most demanding uses like diving and at

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least by the look of things it's not a system that will need to be reinvented

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every single time ASUS releases a new watch like what Pebble has been pulling

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for the last couple of years moving to the side we've got a traditional looking

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Crown but don't be deceived by its looks it's just kind of mushy feeling home

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button it's not a dial that can be spun to travel through time or anything like

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that and then at the front is depending on which model of the zenat 2 you opt

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for either a 37 mm 280 x280 resolution

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display or a 41 mm 320x 320 resolution

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display no matter which display size you go for you'll be getting what I would

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describe as a functional but not particularly stunning OLED panel with a

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curved piece of Gorilla Glass 3 covering both it and the larger than I would

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prefer bezels than joining just about seamlessly with the metal casing that

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makes up the main body of the watch and that body that's where things get

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interesting I mean sure the specs are nice you got a Snapdragon 400 processor

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52 Megs of RAM 4 gigs of storage with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity with a

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300 milliamp battery in the smaller body and a 400 milliamp battery in the larger

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one but the solid feel of the device is

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what really makes the zenat 2 stand out to me it's it's really well constructed

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and manages to be low profile enough that the smaller model will work great

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for all but the daintiest of Lady arms with the 42mm being a good size for most

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men although with my petite wrists I actually found the smaller of the two

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was a better fit for me I just wish I'd gone with one of the other available

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strap colors since this taupe thing is pretty girly and there's actually more

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good news as well even with a mere 300 milliamp hour battery the Zen watch 2

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never went below 25% battery at the end of even the longest of days for me with

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the screen always displaying all my critical information and a 5-second

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Timeout on the screen dimming function it's not multiple day battery life like

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a pebble but I've been trained at this point like a like a seal to charge my

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devices daily anyway so let's talk more

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usability stuff just like with their motherboards I initially ignored ASUS's

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optional software that goes with the watch some because I just don't really

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care like the wellness one and others because I was pretty sure that they

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would be buggy full of spelling errors and generally not very useful so to say

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that I was pleasantly surprised by the zenat manager app would be a gross

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understatement it's actually full of genuinely useful customization options

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like being able to set the screen dimming timeout something Apple doesn't

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allow for fear that their users will discover what a power sucking piece of

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wrist junk their watch is the type of hand movements on analog

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watch faces and whether new notifications will pop up in the bottom

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of the screen on their own or stay hidden until you swipe them up a really

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cool little touch for folks who care about privacy and for folks who just

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like their watch face to be clean all the time not that I'm one of those uh

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this was my preferred watch face for my time with the Zen watch 2 I was able to

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choose up to six widgets things like the battery life of my phone battery life of

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the watch the weather the humidity Etc that can actually be clicked on to

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reveal more information if needed like the weather one which we can swipe down

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and see that is that a Chinese character in there okay so there are definitely

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some Polish issues the calendar widget on this watch face clearly shows an

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event on the preview yet when you press on it there are no events

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which okay it it worked this time I can see the events but but this is what I'm

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talking about there are there are some other imperfections that I noticed as

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well like yes friends this is the part the video where I reveal the ugly

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ducklings that are going to break into your house at night and eat your bacon or whatever in my time with the watch I

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experienced not one but two crashes one where the wellness app in spite of me

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never once opening it crashed and needed to be restarted and another where I

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tried to do a factory reset because I was switching phones and the watch was

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just stuck on the shutting down screen for several hours until the battery

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drained and I was able to power it back on and reattempt the reset add to that

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the occasional choppy animation of the UI compared to my daily driver gatr

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which is odd because they're both running Snapdragon 400 processors at 1.2

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GHz and the I would describe as worse

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than average gesture detection to wake up the screen and activate Okay Google

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and you've got some pretty you know yo that's kind of a bummer issues so then

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hold on a second lonus what was up with that recommendation to buy it at the

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beginning well the zenat 2 is

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$150 that's the punchline here if you're willing to Overlook these things there's

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a beautiful well- constructed No Frills

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wearable here that stands up very well to other Android Weare devices and

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broadening the competitive analysis I would argue that compared to the Apple

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watch has better functionality I mean I'll trade being able to see the damn

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time whenever I please for Apple pay and a heart rate sensor any day and on top

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of that it turned heads the whole time I was wearing it with people asking me

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like oh that looks nice is that the Apple watch giving me an opportunity to

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explain to them that no it's not it's actually a much smarter purchase because

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while like the Apple watch this product is not perfect at least its flaws are

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ones that don't interfere with basic telling the time functionality and on

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top of that its price allows me to replace it with something much better a

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generation or two down the line three whole Times by

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definitely worth the watch see you guys next time