The flood of major reviews of the Apple Watch is coming in, and they're consistent: Apple Pay is magical. Nice hardware. Third-party apps are pretty bad. Haptics are cool. 3D emojis are not. This is the best smart watch. Using one will take some getting used to. Joshua Topolsky at Bloomberg writes about how it's a fair amount of work to figure out which … [Read more...]
Verge Review of LG’s G Watch R: “Meh”
The Verge spends some time with LG's G Watch R, and comes away less than fully impressed. They like its round face, but Android Wear's interface is based on rectangular cards. Circling the square results in notifications being cut off awkwardly. And if the central feature of an Android Wear watch is the notification function, that's sort of a problem. Also, like any other … [Read more...]
Inside the Moto360 Design Process
There's a nice interview in The Verge with Jim Wicks, the design chief on the upcoming Moto360 smartwatch, the flagship hardware of the Android Wear OS. (Remember: none of this -- hardware or software -- will ship for months.) The team, of course, had a lot of choices: mimic smartwatches that already existed, re-invent the idea of timepieces, or something else. They decided to … [Read more...]