Friday, September 5, 2014

Motorola Launches the Moto 360: Hands On and First Impressions

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The Moto 360 at this point is one of the most hyped products I've seen this year. However, in my time with the product it seems to be a mostly standard Android Wear watch, but with a few major differences. Motorola wanted to emphasize that this was a modern timepiece rather than a smartwatch, and they’ve implemented a great deal of new technologies in order to support the intended industrial/material design and user experience. Some of the key highlights include the round LCD display, custom antennas that are in the metal housing but don’t require any antenna lines, custom metal wristbands that don’t interfere with the antennas of the watch itself, dual microphones and custom noise cancellation profiles to handle different acoustics from being strapped to an arm, a recessed strap to improve comfort and better hug the wrist, and a custom heart rate sensor that should have better performance and reliability when compared to competing solutions.





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