TAG Heuer Launches "Connected" Android Wear Smartwatch With Intel Inside (hothardware.com) 55
MojoKid writes: Today, TAG Heuer officially announced its Connected Watch, which is its fist watch to run Google's Android Wear operating system. $1,500 may sound like a lot to spend on a smartwatch, but TAG Heuer reckons that the high price tag won't matter given the pedigree attached to its newest wearable. The Connected takes more than a few cues from TAG Heuer's own Carrera analog watch, but replaces the intricately designed and assembled mechanical internals with microchips. TAG Heuer worked closely with both Google and Intel while developing the Connected. The smartwatch is powered by an Intel Atom Z34XX processor and offers Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, 4GB of internal storage, gyroscopic sensors and a grade 2 titanium casing./i
So less features than the Huawei Watch... (Score:2)
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With Intel inside, its more likely to be the other way around.
Grade 2 Titanium Casing (Score:2)
Grade 2 titanium casing?! PERFECT for a grade 8 Slashvertisement.
This is useless trash. EXPENSIVE useleess trash. That doesn't have an Apple logo.
Customers will be measured in the tens.
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This is useless trash. EXPENSIVE useleess trash. That doesn't have an Apple logo.
That sounds like a good description of TAG Heuer products in general.
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This is useless trash. EXPENSIVE useleess trash. That doesn't have an Apple logo.
Customers will be measured in the tens.
Interestingly, I work with pilots, real professional pilots, and they seem drawn to TAG Heuer. Don't know why, but it is what it is.
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Interestingly, I work with pilots, real professional pilots, and they seem drawn to TAG Heuer. Don't know why, but it is what it is.
Well, there's a couple of things at work here. First there's cachet; the Tag Heuer brand is widely recognized among pilots as being "the best". Part of that in truth is the heavy marketing TH did in aviation magazines showing lots of pilots with their TH watches especially during the 1970's and 1980's (though it continues to this day along with Breitling).
Second thing at work is simple visibility. The TH watches have always been designed to be high contrast and easy to read. That's surprisingly important in
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- it is not allergic at all (important for some)
- it has excellent corrosion resistance
- it is lighter than steel which becomes noticeable in a big watch like this
- while it has the above advantages it is not crazily expensive (well of course TH would ask for a bigger upmark)
The only real disadvantage is that it scratches more easily than steel. It is possible that grade 2 is actually an alloy to reduce that surface softness (I am to
not good (Score:5, Funny)
As for battery life, TAG Heuer says that you’ll get roughly 30 hours of runtime in typical usage scenarios.
you know it's bad when your watch can't outlast a winding watch from the 19th century.
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and you know it's just a cheap disposable digital watch when there is no way to replace its battery.
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and you know it's just a cheap disposable digital watch when there is no way to replace its battery.
TAG Heuer watches are not all that "cheap".
Get a real watch (Score:4, Insightful)
If you want a "smart watch", get the cheapest one that suits your needs - it will be trash in less than 4 years.
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Unlike other smartwatches Tag has promised that this will be upgradeable to the latest technology for a fee. However, if they add a heart rate monitor or other such features the casing itself would need to be modified. Not that I'm arguing in favor of the device but it is worth noting.
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Actually, that's not what Tag Heuer promised. They said that after two years you could exchange it for a mechanical Tag Heuer — for a $1500 fee. Not so impressive.
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http://www.wareable.com/smartw... [wareable.com]
"The watch will change the technology as it develops, Jean-Claude Biver was clear about that. We want to be able to change the technology but keep the watch elements."
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Your information is > 6 months old. There is no technology upgrade.
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Although possibly not for everyone, there is a modular smartwatch that may be able to alleviate some issues in this regard:
http://www.chooseblocks.com/#m... [chooseblocks.com]
I'm not sure whether this is something that will stick, but the general idea appeals to me, especially as the developers have said that the intent is to open it up to development of parts/modules by third parties.
OTOH, given that third parties will also develop the exterior, having modules from different manufacturers might leave the band looking like sh
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I don't know when self-winding mechanical watches were invented, but a few years ago my quartz watch died, and I wore an old 1970s-era self-winding Timex as a temporary stopgap that turned into a couple of years, until my GF got me a new quartz because she thought the Timex was ugly. Sure it lost a minute or two every week, but I didn't find that a big deal to adjust with my computer's clock always o
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Sony are releasing a smart watch next year that goes for a week on a charge. It doesn't have an LCD display, just a notification LED and some health sensors. The analogue watch part has a separate watch battery that lasts for years.
That's the sort of watch I'd like to own. A normal watch with normal watch battery life and performance, but also some built in health sensors and Bluetooth so I don't have to wear a separate band like a FitBit or whatever. Wireless charging once a week, a simple notification LED
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It doesn't have an LCD display, just a notification LED and some health sensors. The analogue watch part has a separate watch battery that lasts for years.
There's not much need to eliminate the display. I've got a nice watch. It has analogue hands, and a couple of digital displays, one of which usually shows the date. I've no idea how long it lasts on battery power because it's solar powered, and needs very little light to stay charged (I think it's good for a few months).
A normal watch with normal watch
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Ultra low power LCD displays are fine, I was referring to the typical full face ones with colour that we see. As for health sensors, they are useful for managing certain conditions (e.g. ME) and for managing weight (because they can give you a reasonably good estimate for calorie burn per day).
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I do prefer a mechanical watch, but I can see her point.
Fist watch (Score:2)
"Today, TAG Heuer officially announced its Connected Watch, which is its fist watch"
Finally the watch you can use to punch all those smart watch haters.
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Why didn't they use a Quark? (Score:2)
You know, the lowest powered processor intel makes...
That should have enough performance for a Smartwatch and prolong battery life to boot....
Actually, I do not understand why intel does not have a few quark SKUs for Smartwatches and multicore Quarks for Low End smartphones...
Outdated in a two years... (Score:2)
My 1980s Casio digital watch still keeps perfect time, and my father's Omega Speedmaster from 72 or so still runs like a champ.
$1000 on a watch that'll have a dead battery and have it's firmware downlevel in no time.
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More expensive == better == you are an alpha!
Get with the program.
The time (Score:1)
Wife wears a broken watch that looks pretty as the phone is practically glued to her hand, and the moto 360 I bought her was worn for a week, then added to the tech junkpile that's my desk.
Perhaps we just don't need watches these days? Like we don't need a PDA and a phone. The phones ARE the pocket watches of old that do everyth
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It depends a lot on your use case.
I use my 360 all the time. It's right there on my wrist, so even while driving if I receive a notification that I've received a text message I can flip my wrist over and check the summary on my wrist to see if I need to respond to it, or if it can wait until I get to my destination. I don't need to pull my phone out of my pocket or retrieve it from my jacket that may be hanging in the back of my car (depending on where I put it). I get reminders of appointments and again I
$1500 may sound like a lot? (Score:3)
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$1500 IS a lot for a watch. Especially one which will be bitrotten or obsolete within 2 years. It'll just be some worthless piece of crap gathering dust at the bottom of a drawer after that.
First go read TFA, then:
1. $1,500 is a competitive price for a Swiss-made luxury watch.
2. They offer to replace it for free by a regular mechanical watch that looks exactly the same as Connect.
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So no you don't get a mechanical watch for free. You get a mechanical watch if you drop another $1500. So $3000 in total. And which mechanical watch does it get you? It doesn't say.
I very much doubt it's "Swiss made" or even what that even means for a device whose innards were probably produced in some far East fact
Pricepoint (Score:1)
Ugly, expensive, obsolete--pick three! (Score:2)
As a cyclist, I've got a special place in my heart for things made out of titanium. But something about the casing on this watch and the matte finish makes it look like plastic, and the face looks really fake. I know that it IS fake, but it LOOKS fake. Some of the other smartwatches out there have the good sense to at least attempt the illusion of depth.
But what part of this watch is actually Tag Heuer? Not the internals, and the watch face isn't anything special if you can just swap it in and out for anyth
Fist Watch (Score:1)
> its Connected Watch, which is its fist watch
So it must be waterproof, but I'd imagine it might go missing in some inconvenient places.