Smartwatch for iPhone - a personal experience and impressions

We present to your attention a note about their own experience of choosing and using smartchasov that sent the reader MacRadar Ravil Wolves.

Once in front of me there was a question of choice "wearable" that could inform me about calls, text messages and other events on my iPhone, when I, for example, riding a bicycle or driving a car. The choice fell on two completely different models from different vendors, which, as it turned out, and were created in very different ways. The first model - Cookoo from ConnecteDevice Ltd., second - Pebble, means for working out which was collected via Kickstarter. Now more about each device.

Cookoo watch came to me in an interesting box in a birdhouse for the birds, your watch look pretty brutal, their weight on the arm rather felt, and sometimes causes the strap when wearing some inconvenience. Rubber strap, sometimes unbuttoned, and in the summer a hand under it sweats. Clock completely of metal, glass and the dial is made from glass which can withstand drop impacts and not weak. Wear a shirt with narrow sleeves with Cookoo watch, too, will not work.

The main plus of this model wearable - battery. On the Delhi them there are two, one is responsible for the conventional quartz clock, and the second - for notification and alert, that they get with the iPhone via Bluetooth transfer protocol. If necessary, they can be used as a normal watch :) As they function, of course, inferior to the Pebble, but in terms of the charge they are leaders. When an incoming call, the arrival of SMS messages or other vibrating watches. May indicate a low battery level iPhone - all parameters are set via the Cookoo program - Time to Connect. Unfortunately, the program is still raw and can not take off from the blue, and the usability is poor.

Second my clever become notorious for hours PebbleAnd I have to say, I think this gadget is the best solution compared to all peers in the market. Packing clock made from recycled paper, as their states inscription, unremarkable kobochka, are inside the watch and cable Charging (when lose it, it is necessary to order a duplicate of the manufacturer's website or make a duplicate of your hands, which is quite problematic). The watch has an inscription on the back of Kikstarter Edition, they were sent in the first place to all the participants, to donate funds to the project. Clock made entirely of plastic, the screen clock also, unfortunately, made of plastic, and as a result, good scratch (well that in the new version Pebble screen made of Gorilla Glass). Wristwatch almost weightless, the strap is very convenient, the information on the display and can be seen in very bright sunlight and complete darkness, lights really works wonders. Appearance catches the eye, all who saw them in my hand, be sure to ask where I bought them and how much they cost.

Very cool pidumano with myriad themes - arrow design can be downloaded and dials for all tastes, can and does create a theme yourself. Functionality hours is enormous: about incoming calls, SMS alerts, tweets, switch tracks in the music player, synchronizing the mailbox. Hours are able to even show the weather and the data from the iPhone GPS-receiver. Not without flaws - the clock has not yet been able to correctly show all the messages in Cyrillic. Pebble require recharging every three or four days after their magnetic cable that something similar to from Apple MagSafe. The developers are constantly working on the clock, new versions of firmware are made frequently, functionality is growing. The program for the iPhone looks friendly and stable. Well, that's like and all I can say about their smart watches.

Start using intelligent clock some time ago, today I can say with certainty that "smartwatch" are needed, and in their absence, on the hand, I feel a certain discomfort. But then everyone decides for itself that for him is more important - just watch from a steep brand or clever and useful assistant. Thanks for attention.