Moto 360: smart and beautiful watch from Motorola

Back in March on Habré, the news that Motorola and LG are planning to release smart watches on the platform of Android Wear slipped. LG has already coped with this task by releasing the LG G Watch , and Google Motorola is about to ship the first batch of Moto 360 (the so-called device) for sale.

In any case, TheVerge journalists managed to test the Moto 360 test sample a bit. In addition, it was possible to "hold in the hands" and a personal device of the executive director of Motorola. According to journalists, both the test sample “for all” and the personal device worked equally well (their appearance is also almost identical, which is not surprising - it’s the same model).
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First impressions

The journalists liked the Moto 360 watch: it sits well on the arm, it looks great too, and the device can be called practical, it is not a decoration. Actually, the design of smart gadgets is becoming more and more interesting (for example, here is the Activité fitness tracker, which doesn’t look like a tracker at all).



Moto 360 will be available in different colors, including the “black-on-black” - very stylish, yes.

Design

As promised, the watch case is round (of course, the display too). The image occupies almost the entire area of ​​the screen, with the exception of a small area at the bottom, where the "iron" is located.

The screen is bright and quite large (1.8 inches). According to journalists, the touch screen is very responsive to touch, there are no lags and sticking.

By the way, the round design was not created by chance. The fact is that the designers asked a few kids to draw a smart watch, as they imagine. And without exception, the children painted the round clock. In general, this may be just a beautiful story, but Motorola listened to the opinions of the kids, and made round watches.

Functionality

In general, Moto 360 can do what other smart watches can do. This is a connection with a smartphone (Bluetooth 4.0 LE.), Which means that it is possible to receive notifications about messages and calls directly to the display of the wearable device.



This is a fitness tracker that shows how many people have walked per day and how many steps have been taken.



This organizer, showing what events are coming in the near future.



In addition, the device shows approximately how much time to go / drive to a specific location (traffic congestion in this region is also shown). Well, the weather now seems to be able to show and predict even irons.



The clock screensaver can be changed by setting, for example, the shell in the form of a conventional mechanical clock. From afar, one cannot say that these are not real arrows, but an image.

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Price and order

Most likely, the price will be about $ 250 (more precisely, so far it will not work). You can order the watch either from the manufacturer , plus request a notification when the device is on sale on the Madrobots website .