The smart watch is a pretty cool thing to have around. Except it’s like the biggest nag on the planet. This probably says more about me than it does the technology though.
- The default proposed “activity” goal of 10,000 points per day is just not happening. I’m thinking that if this was a smart ring and sat on one of my typing fingers I’d have this knocked out before lunch. But it sits on my wrist and so my watch thinks I’m a fat, lazy bastard. Which I am. So there is that.
- Alerts! For the who-knows-how-many-timeth today it has let me know that the Maple Leafs and Islanders play tonight. [Hush, the Islanders are my dirty secret–don’t tell the Canucks.] It’s just picking up what’s on Google Now from my phone and regurgitating that back to me. I could fix that by swiping that card but I like having that card there. Intermittently during the games I can check my phone and get scores in one place. So I don’t want to swipe that yet. Besides, if I swipe that it’ll just tell me that Vancouver is playing Dallas tonight…which is a game I’m more interested in any way. I could swipe that one too but then there’s whatever else Google Now thinks I need to know now. But, still, I don’t need to know this every [sync period that seems to be about 20 minutes]. So, watch, do a little tracking of state and run that alert like a marquee at least. Can we try that?
But the rest of it? Great fun. Sometimes I purposely lose my phone just so I can hit the “Find Phone” button and then do just that. Calling and texting people Dick Tracy style is pretty fun. Managing Spotify from my wrist is fun. I always know the time (weird, huh?) but also the current weather and temperature. And wearing a watch is a cool thing that I think I forgot about when my last watch battery died and I just ditched it for the phone instead of replacing the battery.
So that’s my review of the Toq after having lived with it for a few weeks. Thanks again, baby! You treat me too well.