Google Is Working On Two Android Wear Smartwatches, Says Report (theverge.com) 25
An anonymous reader writes: A new report from Android Police says Google is working on two Android Wear smartwatches. The Verge reports: "The two smartwatches -- one codenamed Angelfish, the other Swordfish -- are said to place a heavy focus on the Google assistant artificial intelligence 'bot' that headlined the company's recent I/O keynote. In terms of size and design, the larger Angelfish watch fits somewhere in between the 42mm and 46mm sizes of Lenovo's Moto 360. It'll feature LTE connectivity, built-in GPS, and a heart rate monitor, so it's got everything necessary for a little independence from your smartphone. The watch design reportedly features three buttons. There's a circular crown like many other Android Wear devices, but Angelfish also has two other buttons, and it's not yet known what they do. The smaller, thinner Swordfish watch has a look that resembles the Pebble Time Round, according to Android Police, with much less bezel surrounding the circular display. It's got just a single button, and might ship without the LTE, GPS, and heart rate sensor included inside the higher-end model. They could appear sometime this fall alongside new Nexus phones and the launch of Android Wear 2.0, though Android Police suspects they'll be announced separately." Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, were able to track a smartwatch wearer's hand movements at an ATM and figure out their pin with 80 percent accuracy on the first try.
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They already get all of that from my phone... which I'm going to be carrying anytime I would be wearing the watch.
I have seen some interesting things done with the smart watches (most simply nice gimmicks that I could probably just as easily do on the phone) but my main concern is battery life. I bought my current watch over two years ago and I haven't had to replace the battery yet. I'm not expecting that kind of lifetime but I will not buy any watch I need to charge more frequently than my damn phone. Whe
GPS and LTE? (Score:1, Funny)
So it can have a battery life of 5 minutes?
better than a phone (Score:1)
at tracking your every move.. gps and lte modem built in, among other things, just for that purpose, don't kid yourself.. it's not about you, it's about the treasure trove of data you will give them.
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80% of the time, it works all the time.
More ways to track your data (Score:2)
It's sad because 30 years ago when I was a teenager, this sort of stuff would of been great. Now though, I know the reality of the situation, that it's used to track users to harvest information and data.
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It's sad because 30 years ago when I was a teenager, this sort of stuff would of been great. Now though, I know the reality of the situation, that it's used to track users to harvest information and data.
Unfortunately, I am guessing that health insurers will require you to wear such a device in a few years. Is your heartbeat too fast? Time to cancel your contract, because of the risk of heart attack. Or, do you have nicotine or alcohol in your system?
But my absolute favorite would be:
If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.
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If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion
Is that from THX-1138?
I imagine you are correct though with insurers, etc wanting to know everything about us:
BM's per day
Blood profile
Length of stride
Weight loss/gain over time
Hiccup streak...
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That is why I still prefer and wear Casio Data Bank watches!
Smartwatch? Yawn! (Score:3, Funny)
Anything else is just a complex variation on bluetooth earbuds.
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Why? That sounds completely useless. It'd be almost impossible to use most of the smartphone features on something the size of a watch.
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It'd be almost impossible to use most of the smartphone features on something the size of a watch.
Not if you're willing to talk to your wrist.
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Not if you're willing to talk to your wrist.
That's a regular phone feature, not a smartphone feature.
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Sounds like the world would be better off with you asleep.
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One of the few weapons able to injure the watch-king of Cupertino.
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You, anonymous sir, deserve mod points. Well played.
Google lagging behind again (Score:1)
In recent times Google has been lagging behind a lot. They had a go at social media with Google+ years after Facebook had already conquered the markets and now it's the same thing with smartwatches. The only difference is of course that nobody has conquered the smartwatch market because there are no fucknig markets to begin with as nobody is interested about that crap.
Another major flop that comes to mind was Google Video. They overcame that by giving up with their own solution and went ahead and bought You
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