Sony Smartwatch 3 - My Ideal Smartwatch?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,580 words · ~7 min read
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the Sony SmartWatch and Sony SmartWatch 2 both ran Sony's own proprietary
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platform which while cool and all left some people wanting more the Sony
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SmartWatch 3 introduces a ton of new features and now Sports Android Wear
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stay tuned to check out those features out and slam the like button down below
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if you want to see a review on the NVIDIA Shield which is apparently a
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console this time
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around Kingston KC 310 series ssds feature
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firmware based power loss protection massive capacities up to 960 GB and
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business grade reliability click now to learn more the Sony SmartWatch 3 is
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running a 1.2 GHz quad core ARM cortex
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A7 processor with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB
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of permanent storage which when all put together is considerably more powerful
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than my first computer kind of an interesting thought it also Al Sports a
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1.6 in transflective display at 320x 320
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pixels ambient light sensors an accelerometer a compass a gyro a radio
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GPS and those are all powered by a hasht 420 mamp battery which states about 2
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days of normal use and I would agree with that spec after I've been using it
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for about 3 weeks it's relatively light weighing in at about 66 G when equipped
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with one of its standard kind of rubbery silicon bands the band itself comes in
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pink yellow white or black Sil brown or black leather or steel when looking at
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their website but please note that any other options other than silicon will
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come at a hefty price premium also for reference a replacement silicon band
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costs about 50 bucks which while expensive isn't too surprising for a
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fashion piece more on the band The silicon feels nice on the skin the band
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doesn't have a huge series of links like a metal band does so it doesn't pull
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your hair out the easy to ous adjustment system makes it very easy to change the
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sizing on the Fly and the snap class asasp is very easy to put on and take
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off at any time unfortunately sometimes
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a little bit too easy when walking around I tend to get the metal bit of
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the clas caught on my pocket which results in the watch Coming Undone but
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honestly I can't complain too much personally because after a while I kind
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of found it a little fun and started doing it on purpose just something to
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note if you're someone who might be a little annoyed by this my other three
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gripes about the band were one that the overlapping silicon on the band and the
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metal clas mechanism on the bottom of the wrist added a bunch of bulk made it
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rather annoying for my wrist if I was doing something like say typing on a
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table two that this particular silicon
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material seems to pick up a lot of dust and lint which results in it losing its
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attractiveness rather quickly and three
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due to the way that the band holds the watch face so it can be super easy to
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pop out you can't swap the band for a standard 22 mm strap like you can on
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something like the LG G gatr which
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essentially means that you don't really have any options outside of buying
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whatever Sony decides to offer you and it's fairly unlikely that a third party
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guys are really going to make any bans specifically for this watch the
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Smartwatch 3 definitely get has the sporty style aesthetic thing going on it
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may not look as classy and sharp as the Moto 360 but it suits most categories of
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casual dress if you're still worried about this you should know that the band
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swaps out incredibly quickly and you could easily have one for the gym and
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one for the office or whatever setup you want there isn't any fancy power dock or
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wireless charging system for this guy but I don't really mind that it's a
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little weird to plug it in with the band on but you just pop the watch face out
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out like I was talking about earlier and remove the small silicon protector and
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it's quite easy to plug in it allows you to avoid the hassle of hauling extra
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stuff around just in case your watch dies or being out of a watch for who
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knows how long because your charging dock died like what happened to lonus
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also please note that the Silicon protect protector for the micro USB plug
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isn't just there for your comfort this watch steps it up a notch over most of
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the other smart watches with an ip68
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water and dust resistance rating meaning it can withstand submersion of up to 4.9
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ft of water for 30 minutes compared to
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the more common IP67 rating which is
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3.28 Ft underwater for 30 minutes uh
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yeah again no real diving but it might add some survivability to the watch in
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general use case situations for the general Android Weare software coverage
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you can check out Linus's Moto 360 review here but if you're looking into a
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smartwatch please know that it's more there mainly for simplification of
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things that you already do I mean I mainly just use mine to reduce the
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amount of times I have to pull my phone out of my pocket in general to do things
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like music control or receive notifications you also have some Google
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Now options like texting people and search and navigation with some other
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things like reminders and the weather but the Smartwatch 3 does bring some
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unique things to the table these unique features are mostly focused on being
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able to do things without your smartphone like listen to music from the
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watch or GPS track your running rades using something like ghost rcer these
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features may be gold for some people but they're not that useful for me if I'm
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going to go out I'm going to have my phone with me because I need to be able to be easily contacted kind of all the
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time and I have pockets and all my shorts I would also have appreciated a
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heart rate sensor the watch has a nice sporty design and GPS for the Casual
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Runners out there but for like hardcores that want more data available to them a
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heart rate sensor can help a lot for Fitness this thing still leaves me
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wanting a proper Fitness tracker like a Fitbit and I would really like to see
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the Two Worlds of fitness trackers and Android Wear Collide in the near future
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even though that may be a lot to ask in conclusion the Smartwatch game is still
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a battle of trade-offs you have the Fitness Camp and the Android Wear camp
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both going hard with their various pros and cons then you have the awkward Apple
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watch kind of sitting in the corner selling a ton of units for whatever
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reason the Sony SmartWatch 3 brings the ability to do something like serious
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running and listening to music without needing your phone in proximity and it
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does it as a really nice USD price of
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$175 on what seems to be a consistent sale on Amazon which is amazing or the
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less nice price of $400 on the Canadian
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Amazon so final Mouse is a pretty new entrance into the peripheral Market
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they're putting a lot of their emphasis on Esports and gaming and this is the
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between the preset DPI levels and you're pretty much ready to go it features an
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extremely light shell and omon switches
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and basically has has been the mouse of choice for Ed here in the office for
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quite some time but how can you get one well we're actually running a giveaway
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for these three final mouses mice final
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mice final mouses I think when it's the name of a product it would be final
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