This is a reboot of a model. They had a little while back they’ve decided to change the game here to incorporate a new design uh and a new aesthetic, as well as some new features. Here for 2021 we’re going to take a little quick review of the moto 360., so the first thing you’ll probably notice about this watch is the design they did a really excellent job in the design of this watch. This is the silver model comes with. Two bands. Comes with a black silicone band, as well as a brown leather band, they’re, both 20 millimeter interchangeable, quick interchangeable too, which is nice. You get this little sort of metal clasp. That makes it easy to take on and take off it’s a 42 millimeter case, which is really not that big. When you compare to other smart watches and now they’re, just big watches in general, this uh analog farer is about a 40 mm case design. You can see somebody that has a wrist like myself, which is rather small. This watch fits really really well on people that have small wrists and so for me, i really enjoy that. I like the fact that it doesn’t feel too bulky. It is a little thicker than your sort of standard watch, because it’s got ta, have room for that battery and the sensors and stuff. But if you like, watches – and you like particularly analog, watches that are round face that have well designed, i think you’ll really enjoy this watch 1.
2 inch circular amoled screen with a ‘0 by ‘0 display resolution and pixels and the screen really is fantastic. I mean to me, the screen is the nicest thing about this watch it’s, just very, very sharp. The colors are really crisp and clear and it’s really responsive. The touch screen works really well and the colors, and just the the accuracy of the display is really nice. Other specs to talk about is that it is water resistant. The waterproofing um is limited to three atmospheres, so basically like 10 000 swim strokes is what moto 360 likes to quote. Um three atmospheres is, i think, is about 90 feet um, so that’s got a lot of uh of water resistance to it as well. It’S got one gig of ram and eight gigs of internal storage. It has a 355 milliamp hour battery. The cool thing about the battery is that it charges from zero to 160 minutes, which is really really cool, that’s, a really quick charge. It’S got a qualcomm snapdragon, 3100 processor, accelerometer gyroscope barometer, heart rate, monitor uh the backlight on there that you can see on here as well. Bluetooth, gps with glonass, wi, fi it’s got all the bells and whistles that you would expect from modern day smartwatch and the charging cradle is actually pretty cool too. It actually snaps in here. So you can see the context kind of rests in there boom and it does two things: it’ll either sit like this on your bedside and so it’ll kind of like allow you to see the watch charging or you can lay it flat.
So it can do two different ways to charge, which is great and, like i said that fast uh one hour charge is going to be really really helpful for people, because the battery life on this thing is rather poor. You know you’re looking at two days max battery life on this thing, more than likely one day with normal use, i’ll show you just how quick it is to snap on some new watch bands on here. You literally just do this flick this little guy right there boom come down here, flick this little guy right here, boom come down there. You don’t need any special tools, just some fingernails and then boom you’re ready to go really really cool. If we jump into the android wear app on my phone here, you can see just how easy it is to actually get things changed and set up on the watch like if i want to change my face of the watch boom. Just like that, it’s one click, easy one click setting and then it’s done um. The other neat thing about the app is that you can adjust stuff. Like you can add tiles to the watch. You can look at the settings. You can look at um stuff, like the battery life, which is pretty cool. So if you go to watch battery, you can see how long the watch has been on for and what is actually consuming your battery life. So if you have any issues with battery life, you can check it out on the watch.
The other neat thing about the app is that it works on iphone and android, which is pretty cool i’m using it on android right now. I haven’t tried it on iphone but i’m going to try that here shortly to see how it works. I’M, actually recording this on an iphone so be curious to see how the watch performs using ios. The thing that i don’t like about the watch, my one primary complaint is that, even though you can customize these this button here for its intended function, this button, which is the hybrid select back button or or app tray back button just as funky to get used To because when you’re at your home screen right, you sort of press this to look at your apps. You scroll down and your sort of default reaction is to press it again to select what you want. But it takes you back in the menu and that’s frustrating and annoying. You have to then go by and then choose it with your finger, which again is okay but like it’s sort of dumb to have a button that selects something and then takes you back. Like i’m, just never gon na get used to that functionality wise! Well. What can it do? What makes it a smart watch? Well, obviously, with wi fi and bluetooth connected to your phone, when it has data it’s gon na be a lot more useful than when it doesn’t have data. And so when you have a data connection, you can ask google stuff, like hey, google.
What time is it in singapore and you know, you’ll get an answer um, which is pretty cool so like, but you got to remember too that it needs a data connection. So when you’re not using the watch without data it’s not going to work, but you can do stuff like send text responses, you know. Obviously, you can load apps on here, which is pretty cool so like if you scroll through the app store, it’ll, actually show you the apps that are on your watch, that you can use um to then see what will install on the phone right. And so, if i go here like this is the apps that are on my phone that will work on the watch, which is cool so, like you, can control your camera for doing like far away pictures, i installed maps off my phone, which is pretty cool so, Like you can see where you are on google maps and like zoom in and zoom out right, but the downside to that is like. Are you really going to use this? You know without your watch or without your phone in your pocket, and why would why wouldn’t you just take out your phone because it’s not going to work without a data connection. So maybe, if you’re like in your house and want to see something in your phone somewhere else, but aside from that it’s cool, the screen looks good. Like i said, the colors are nice and sharp like it’s a really really nice watch a nice display.
You also have some quick access to settings like here like the flashlight mode. You can turn that on it lights up the screen, which is kind of cool. You can then do stuff, like all the fitness calculators, like steps mileage, heart rate, all those great things, so it’s, a great fitness monitor. Notifications are another thing i really like on this watch. The other thing that i like is that it gives you really easy access to reply to stuff so, like facebook messages texts that come in you can hit like. Yes, no thank you whatever right from the watch, without digging out your phone, which is pretty darn cool. Um, so aside from the kind of usability elements that i don’t like with this button over here, i like the notifications and i love the display, and i love the ease of use, and i think that you know apple watch is sort of like the crown jewel Of smart watches these days, but the moto is great and it’s not very expensive and, like i think, they’re charging 179 now on sale um. So the fact that you can like remove the watch bands it’s got all the sensors and features in there that you want. The style is killer. I mean this thing crushes the apple watch in its style if you’re a traditional watch lover like myself. So if you look at this compared to a traditional watch, i mean it’s super super similar in terms of its design and the fact that you can customize the watch faces and add some add a unique look to your watch and change the bands it’s like boom.
You can have a different watch every day of the week. If you want, the display is great. Battery life is okay. The quick charge feature is super nice. The usability i’d give it like an eight out of ten. You know it’s not going to replace your garmin, for example, but it might just replace your everyday quartz watch if you’re looking for an upgrade hope.zaoXlggtFO4