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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC9/9/14 12:51 PM |
Haha!
I'll bite:
He already had the order in!
Seriously, it's exactly what I thought should be happening as the logical next step, and has been wondering why Apple hasn't gone there...
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real9/9/14 12:55 PM |
To old, I will not be able to read it.
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rickhardy
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 1492
Location: Needham outside of Boston - the hub of the universe9/9/14 1:01 PM |
Vibrating turn by turn directions
Might be useful on the bike but unfortunately you might not even notice during D2R2 LOL
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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5141
Location: Back in the snowy homeland9/9/14 1:23 PM |
I'm contemplating the Moto360 ;)
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/9/14 1:36 PM |
Didn't Sandi get on the Beta test team for that ? ;)
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT9/9/14 2:29 PM |
He says he missed the announcement today...
Yeah, right.
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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven9/9/14 6:21 PM |
Sandiway is probably wearing the third generation as a beta tester...
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Steve B.
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Posts: 769
Location: Long Island, NY9/9/14 7:26 PM |
So I spend a couple of years getting used to not needing a watch, glancing at my iPhome to tell the time and now I have to get a watch to read my e-mail, get the weather, send a text....
Think I'll skip this phase...
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/9/14 7:45 PM |
Android has has a SAT remote wrist controller for a while now, no?
I have enough trouble seeing the phone screen size/data.
But funny... When I posted my 1st post on this forum it was so long ago I would have chuckled if I had read that in a post... A lot less tech then, I was a CNE back then.. see how knows what that was...
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henoch
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 1690
9/10/14 7:06 AM |
It strikes me as a singularly unneeded and unnecessary item.
So they said about the iPhone and then about the iPad.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT9/10/14 7:07 AM |
I want to agree
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It strikes me as a singularly unneeded and unnecessary item.
While I really want to agree with this statement, something in the back of my mind keeps saying "Yes, but you thought that about notebook computers. Yes, but you felt that way about cell phones. Yes, but you felt that way about smart phones."
We'll see. I still wear a $10 Casio.
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine9/10/14 7:14 AM |
me too
My first reaction is also to agree, but then I also saw no need for a sixth cog in the freewheel, and every other subsequent change in bike equipment.
Again, initially it seems to me you could accomplish the same thing by getting a cheap watch with "I am a geek" inscribed on it, but I will withhold judgment.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/10/14 8:40 AM |
always better mousetraps...
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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5141
Location: Back in the snowy homeland9/10/14 9:39 AM |
Not entirely sure if I'm ready for a smartwatch. I like the geek factor but the more I think about it the more I have to look at what value it adds to my experience. I don't have any problems doing anything on my phone and I really don't need to be able to see who texted me when I'm riding my bike. I was thinking about a Moto360 but the more I think about it the more I'm starting to think I won't.
The thing I see no need for- electronic shifting. I think it's adding massive amounts of unnecessary complexity and potential breakdowns where they can be easily avoided. I know I haven't put the lifetime miles in a lot of you have but I've put in a fair few. Never had a shifter cable break. Nor a brake cable for that matter.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/10/14 9:53 AM |
Agree, I like analog bike and planes. ;)
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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven9/10/14 11:03 AM |
I hate wearing a watch or any jewelry at all for that matter. Since I don't have any interest in it I suspect it will sell well. it seems to duplicate what I use mu phone for.
I like the 6 plus "phablet" sized phone as I don't hane a notebook or ipad.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/10/14 11:12 AM |
"hate wearing a watch or any jewelry at all"
+100
Don't wear a wedding ring even. Elaine put a gold chain and small cross on me 4/9/83. She has a ring, that is what she wanted being very traditional. Should have been her first red flag, probably was.
2014-1983=maybe we got it right. I know I did! ;)
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sandiway
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
Posts: 4902
Location: back in Tucson9/10/14 1:08 PM |
nice watch for running
Ha, ha. I'm further behind the curve than what you guys think!
Not many details are emerging but it seems like a nice watch for running. It has a HR sensor built-in (Mio, perhaps?).
It has an internal accelerometer.
BUT it has no GPS. WTF. No GPS. So it'll need to connect with an iPhone to get that.
So you have to run with an iPhone as well. FAIL.
Well, I'll probably still buy one (or not...) :)
Sandiway
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven9/11/14 7:55 AM |
The watch requires the iPhone, whether the phone & watch must be used concurrently, it's not clear to me. Other companies have similar HR setups, but they are not nearly as accurate as using a chest strap to collect HR data.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/11/14 10:22 AM |
So what is new about this? I remember seeing an android device that was a remote wrist controller to the phone a while ago.
Apple, MEH! LOL So when they say and do something that is not even first the fools and their money all line up. I was born in the wrong body. ;)
If I still had the Fat Mac I bought in 1980somthing I would go kick it. ;)
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PLee
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 3713
Location: Brooklyn, NY9/11/14 12:39 PM |
I'm betting that metal circle on the inside of the strap is the heart rate sensor, so better than the Mio, which you have to touch with the fingers on your other hand to take a pulse.
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