Qualcomm Toq - OMG This is my Next Smartwatch! - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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Digital we're here with the Qualcomm talk Smartwatch this is something I'm
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actually pretty excited about and I've been trying to get my hands on one
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hopefully we're going to make a full review happen soon but in the meantime
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this is my first time actually touching it and I'm pretty impressed with the
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overall fit and finish as you guys know I'm a bit of a pebble efficient Ado and
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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
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better ID and more functionality so let's jump into the industrial design
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first it's got an adjustable uh band which is kind of a a rubberized material
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it doesn't look like there's an obvious way to change it out and I suspect
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that's uh not going to be something you're going to want to do because there
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are actually two touch sensitive button surfaces on the band itself so the top
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one double clicking it will turn your backl on or off and the bottom one acts
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as a back button as well as a way to switch between all of your submenus or
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just your watch face now when you're on the standard watch face you can go ahead
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and swipe the bottom to switch between them I'm sure there will be customized
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ones coming later but the SDK for the talk isn't coming until early 2014 for
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the strap itself you just pop open the latch you can adjust it according to the
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size you need with the holes on the side and then you are pretty much ready to
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rock I mean it's a watch trrap it's not that much to go wrong charging wise this
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is one of my complaints about the pebble and one of my complaints about a lot of
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mobile devices in general is cables
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there's micro USB which is fragile and then there's proprietary cables which
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are easy to lose and expensive to replace the talk does use a proprietary
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sort of charging dock solution that you go ahead and you stick it on but it's
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wireless so at least it's convenient it lives somewhere it lives on your
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nightstand you get home you crawl into bed you put it on there and you're
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pretty much good to go to me wireless charging is sort of the Holy Grail of
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smart devices in terms of making them something that I'd be likely to actually
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use every day now let's walk through the functionality here so the first thing
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we're going to do is we're going to tap the bottom and we can see our com Hub
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which gives us notifications and gives us a log of everything that we have done
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on this phone pretty much now of course you don't have to go into the com Hub if
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you get a call or a text message or whatever else those will come up
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automatically as you get calls but of course this isn't sync to my phone at the moment calendar shows you everything
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that's going on today and tomorrow music can be used to control your mp3 player
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as long as it's you know built into a Bluetooth capable device it's not magic
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guys weather shows you the weather stock show you the stock status is a cool one
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so you can see the connected phone as well as battery life you can turn your
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phone's riger on and off using your Smartwatch it is only Android right now
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but I've been I've overheard that there's talks about iOS but nothing
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concrete one way or the other you can also ping your phone by clicking on find
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phone settings is pretty self-explanatory Bluetooth airplane mode
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as well as software update and finally your notifications so you can see any
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notifications whether it's from USA Today or whatever else it happens to be
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like I said the SDK is coming later guys so we can expect a lot more
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functionality here now the last thing and this is a big highlight of the
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device is the mirol display something I've never seen in person before now the
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e in display on the pebble is in my opinion one of the strongest things
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about that device because it enables for me about four days but they're saying
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for most people about seven days of battery life to me a watch has to be
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visible without a gesture where I lift it up to my face it has to always be
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visible now mirol takes that eink advantage of battery life and adds color
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and it also adds excellent performance I'd say probably even better just
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looking at it in direct sunlight maybe maybe similar but you're getting color
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you're getting that long battery life and let's check this out it also takes
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reflected light that comes from the space around you so when you're in a
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very bright environment it can be very difficult to read a digital display so you got the backl for dark and then
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you've got the actual reflectiveness behind the screen to take care of that so we're going to do what they're
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calling the talk challenge or something like that and we're going to take our
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camera in b-roll here we're going to dial it in to read The Talk Smartwatch
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correctly in direct sunlight then I'm going to put my phone up next to it on
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maximum brightness and we're going to see how they both look in direct sunlight one way or another guys I'm
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extremely excited to check this out in a in a more indepth sort of manner and uh
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I appreciate them being here at the show so we can check it out all right so
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