Motorola - Moto 360 23mm Smartwatch for Select Android Devices - Dark Metal
Model: 00420NARTL
SKU: 9698195
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Customers consistently note the Moto 360's extended battery life and attractive design. Many users appreciate the convenience of receiving notifications on their wrist and the variety of watch faces available. However, some users have expressed concerns about its compatibility with certain devices, its weight, and limited functionality.
So, I did a lot of research on smart watches for about a month while I waited for my rewards points to become available. I didn’t find any thorough reviews from a “real life person in action” so I created one. In a nutshell, this watch is great for work, play and style. There are already a few people I know looking to go buy it since they saw mine “in action.” My observations from the past week: 1. Battery Life This was my first concern that was quickly squashed to a non-issue. (thanks Google.com) When I opened the device for the first time on 1/31/15 it right away did an update to the latest firmware, Lollipop. Once I got it synched up to my phone (HTC One) after that, the battery was dropping DRASTICALLY. On that Monday, I unplugged it from the charger at 6:45AM and by 8AM I was at 70%. I did a little research, and I found that doing a factory reset on the watch after the update was probably needed for some reason. This was a user comment, not from Moto or anything. I did this and the watch is now flawless. It’s now 3:25PM and I have 55% life left. I don’t sleep with a watch on, so I could care less if it lasts more than one day. It gets plugged in with my phone when I go to bed. I did spring the $39 for a second charger for my office. The reason is that if you plan, for example, to go out at night right after work it would be a good idea to put some juice back in the watch. By the way…it charges SUPER FAST. 1-2 hours TOPS for a 0%-100% charge. So plugging it in at work for 15 minutes makes a huge difference for a late night. On a side note, my phone’s battery life is great now. I thought by keeping my Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS on all day, it would drain quickly. Since I now look at my phone infrequently since everything I used to look at is displayed on my watch, the phones battery is improved. The screen on the phone is what drains your battery. 2. Style The watch speaks for itself. I have some coworkers that collect very expensive watches, and the fact that they were complementing the style says a lot. I wouldn’t change a thing. Especially since you can change the faces to whatever wardrobe, etc… 3. Email Notifications The notifications are great. Think of it as an extension of your phones notification tool bar. It’s that simple. I love that I can read an email or text from the phone. I do get a lot of emails, so I am a little bummed that if more than one email comes through, I can only see a list of the emails and who they are from. I cannot select them to read each one individually. You can read it in its entirety if there is only one email waiting for you. I have a feeling this is an Android thing with the phone, so I’m not worried about it, just would be nice. Maybe one day we can select one out of the 5 emails in the notifications to read. Not a deal breaker. 4. Text Message Notifications Text messaging is cool, you even get the picture of the person that your phone has on file when the notification pops. I just don’t like that you can’t select to reply to the message using your watch. The only way to reply is to use the voice activation to create a new message to that person. Not a BAD problem, because it turns out to do the exact same thing, but it would be nice to swipe and click reply right away as you can with the emails. I’m sure Android Wear will fix this soon since you can reply to emails in that way. Looks like an oversight by Google. 5. App Notifications You get the exact app notification that you have set up to get sent to your phone. Plus when you open the notification, you get the background changing to the apps picture. Nothing special. You can select to open the app. If it’s not a “wear” app, it opens on your phone (assuming it’s not PW protected). It will be nice to see “wear” start interfacing more with more apps. That will just be time, it’s still early. 6. Watch Faces Comes with some cool preloaded faces. The moto app that it prompts you to download allows you to customize the color accents, number format, etc… on the faces. I downloaded a few 3rd party, but they weren’t that much better that I have found yet. 7. Blue Tooth This is my only complaint. It takes a significant amount of time to connect to my HTC One. Sometimes I have to disable and re-enable the Bluetooth. It does work “in the background” so you can still connect to a blue tooth speaker. About 25% of the time I connect to a blue tooth speaker, the voice activation stops working and I get a disconnected notification on the watch. So, I am either getting lucky that it works sometimes, or it’s glitchey and needs improvement on connection statuses. Other times, no issue at all. This would be the only thing that has me bugged sometimes. 8. Pedometer/Heart Rate The pedometer was shockingly accurate. I, unfortunately, tested it by counting my steps on my walk to lunch. It was exactly 200 steps that I took and meanwhile fixing my shirt sleeve and holding a coffee. It registered exactly 200 steps. I was impressed because my wrist wasn’t moving in the perfect forward/backward motion the whole time. The heart rate monitor is good. I honestly don’t really care about it, but it’s good to have with my running app, Endomondo. I like my watch loose and the heart rate app will tell you to tighten your band. I have the steel band, so I got a link removed, and it works great, from what I can tell. 9. Running Works great for running too. I just say “start a run” and it starts up Endomondo and starts tracking everything. Pretty cool. Not worried about sweat as it’s water proof, I just give it a wipe down afterwards.
This review is from Motorola - Moto 360 23mm Smartwatch for Select Android Devices - Natural Silver
Posted by JA84
When I bought the Moto 360 it was my third Android Wear device, but not my third choice. My first choice was the Moto 360; however it was not the first one ready for release to the public. The first three announced were the LG G Watch, the Samsung Gear Live, and the Moto 360. The only problem, the Moto 360 was the one everyone wanted but was the last one released. So I like many got the first one I could get my hands on (the LG G Watch), and I was probably one of the first to return it because it was ugly. Then I tried the Gear live and felt like a member of the cast of Star Trek. Every product has it's problems, the LG G Watch problem was looks, it was UGLY. Let's call a spade a spade, it's ugly. The G watch was a blocky square box on your wrist fastened with an ugly rubber strap. There was one button that was located out of reach on the back and could only be pushed with the tip of a pen. It's form factor was not conducive to fitting comfortably on your wrist with a long sleeve dress shirt. The only great thing about it's looks is that it looks great with the night rider watch face that can be downloaded from the Play Store. In the world of cars there is a term when discussing ugly cars, and that is "there is an &%# for every seat". I don't quite know what the translation would be for a watch, but I think you can get the point. The good news was LG saw the flaw and to their credit went quickly back to the drawing board to fix it. In one of the quickest turn around of bad design LG developed the G Watch R. To their credit they made a watch that turned heads, and at least brought the looks into the 90's. With it's massive G shock like bezel it actually looks good. On the other end of the spectrum is a watch that has come from a company that has already developed it's own OS for the smart watch world. Now they are seeing the opportunity of being part of the next big thing "Android Wear". Unfortunately they have not gone to the next big thing with the looks of their first android wearable. Again to give credit where it is due, they have refined the look of their previous square face, but with its brushed metal body, and rubbery band it looks like it should be worn on the wrist of someone piloting the Star Trek Enterprise. I will say it was actually comfortable on my wrist, and would allow me to wear it with a long sleeve dress shirt at work. Then there is the clip on charger that was a rush to production after thought. Yikes! At the release of Android Wear the lead speaker was wearing the most anticipated of the three announced Android Wear devices. Motorola was the only company to come to market with a watch that actually looked like a respectable timepiece. With a Stainless steel case, a band made of real leather, and a face that looked like it had hands floating just like a real watch. Three things that have hurt the impression of the watch were the old Texas Instruments processor, the lowest resolution display of the bunch, and the plastic back that is fragile and cracks when any amount of stress is put on the band. While people criticize the processor, the performance is very comparable to the competition. The Display may be the lowest PPI of the bunch; however it is beautiful in the way that it appears the faces float up to the top of the watch face. As for the back of the watch cracking, well there is no excuse it's a problem. People have sanded the edge of the plastic back to eliminate the pressure applied at the corners, while others have bought ugly plastic inserts to extend beyond the plastic back to help the poor design. Motorola then came up with the best fix of all, they decided to turn lemons into lemonade. Motorola made a flush fitting plastic insert that connects a beautiful color matching metal band to the beautiful body of the Moto 360. The metal band is wider than the original leather band, giving the Moto 360 a very refined, and classy appearance. Now probably the only watch that would actually look good with a suit to date (soon to be challenged by the Asus Zen watch) the Moto looks like a winner. It also allows the person wearing it to feel comfortable breaking a sweat wearing it, and not feeling like they are going to ruin the leather. After all it was one of the few to have a heart rate monitor, leading you to believe maybe you should wear it when going for a run. On top of fixing the problem Motorola made it's customers feel the fix was an upgrade that was worth an extra $50.00 on the retail shelf. To be honest I feel like I got an upgrade when I swapped out my cracked leather band model, and purchased the Model with the steel band. Overall I would say the Moto 360 is still the best looking Smart Watch to date.
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Posted by MikeFlaherty
I gave it to my husband for his birthday and he told me it was the best gift ever! His watch connects to his cellphone via Bluetooth and gets his emails, text messages, weather, stocks, music, GPS, etc. Its face can be customized and looks very elegant and stylish. It was a great purchase!
This review is from Motorola - Moto 360 23mm Smartwatch for Select Android Devices - Natural Silver
Posted by Mabybe
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