Motorola Moto 360 : Best Smarwatch Design
Motorola Moto 360: Design
Watch features a round face is favored Moto 360 for the most part, but unfortunately it is not so perfect circle when you get up close. The first thing is how chunky it is actually the case. At the height 11mm thicker than most smartphones and small wrist us it does have an elaborate display. Compare with most standard analog watches and Moto 360 just does not have the grace to make it interesting in the wrist.
It says a lot about the watch when the strap is actually the best part. Motorola uses Horween leather, and while it probably will not mean anything to you, we know that it sits snug at the wrist and does not give any irritation. A choice of stainless steel bracelet is on the road, which is probably a better accompaniment to watch stainless steel face, but it still does not hide the fact that this is far from sleek timepiece.
Another problem is that the screen does not sit flat with bezel and when you see the notice, especially on lighter background you get some refraction at the edge of the screen, which creates a strange warping effect. This is not as big a problem as a black bar, but it was enough to put us off.
Around the heart rate sensor's optical surface inductive charging, to support wireless charging, which means you do not completely rely on proprietary charging cradle that came in the box with wireless charging dock.
Like the first round watches Wear Android, Moto 360 water resistant with IP67 certification, so you can submerge in water up to one meter deep for 30 minutes. As we discovered while wearing them in the bathroom and caught in the rain during a run, you'll have a hard time using the touch screen in these conditions, and that the leather watch strap can remain wet for a while before finally dries off.
Motorola Moto 360: Screen
Moto 360 uses a 1.5-inch IPS LCD backlit display, which is a surface that is smaller than rival Android Wear choice - though without the thick bezel actually seems a little bigger. It has a resolution of 320 x 290 with 205ppi pixel density, making promises about the quality of the same screen with G Watch and Gear Live, and also struggle when you need to display an image.
Good screen response, register friction and prods to launch the application properly when you are stationary. Moving, however, it was a slightly different story and can take an extra swipe or tap to get it to work. Moto 360 is not alone in this - it is something that needs to be addressed across the board wearable.
For those worried about the durability of the screen, Motorola uses Gorilla Glass 3. That not only means that there is an extra layer of protection on the screen to watch, but also helps to increase the viewing angle.
Motorola Moto 360: Features
360 again does not differ too much from the competition. The brain is a TI OMAP 3 processor, which is the CPU setup is a little older than the Snapdragon 400 architecture lies in its competitors. It was accompanied with 4GB of internal storage and 512MB of RAM to match other Android smartwatches Wear.
There is not much difference in performance here. There are some slight lag in general navigation compared to Gear Live, for example, and voice search query processing is not as fast as we want to be.
Said 'Okay Google still be a core part of the experience Wear Android, so Motorola has included dual microphones to make out with a clear voice commands. It works well, but did not feel much better than the previous Android Wear watches. If you breathless mid-run, may struggle to make out simple commands that are designed to be recognized by 360, such as: ". Show me my heartbeat"
On the fitness side of things, Motorola includes a pedometer to track steps, plus a heart rate monitor. It is built to work with Google's own Fit and Heart Rate and Heart Rate Activity Motorola applications. It was immediately confusing process, so that you really need to worry about is part heartbeat. Here you will be able to see how hard (or not so difficult) you are working out. The problem, as Gear Live, is that the heart rate readings are inconsistent and sometimes struggle to give a reading at all.
Motorola Moto 360: Battery Life
Motorola recently introduced a firmware update where some users have noticed the battery life is longer, but after not receiving updates we can only base our findings on older firmware.
Unlike standard digital watches, Moto 360 does not have an always-on screen by default, but you have the option of using the Ambient screen mode to keep the screen turned on.
One thing that rivals Moto 360 has no support for wireless charging. Small wireless charging dock work with a standard micro USB cable and you can sit down to watch either way round to power it back.
It quickly restore the battery 360 as well, do it in just over an hour, and can double as a bedside clock if you do not already have one or use your phone to do the same.
Conclution
Moto 360 is not smartwatch we hoped it would, and still leaves Android Wear with a lot of convincing to do.
