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I don't know if this goes here or in FLC but doing more research on the UP3 and I was completely wrong, it does resting heart rate with a mention of doing fitness heart rate at some point in the future. So I guess I am going for the Charge HR? Is there another one that I am missing that isn't further into the smart watch territory like the Band or Basis Peak?
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Three Olives posted:I don't know if this goes here or in FLC but doing more research on the UP3 and I was completely wrong, it does resting heart rate with a mention of doing fitness heart rate at some point in the future. Ugh that's pretty lame. I think and I could be completely wrong, that Fitbit took multi sport from the charge HR and it's only in the Surge. Which was a big reason why I was initially looking at it in the first place. To get close to accurate calorie burn stars when doing things like lifting or high intensity workouts.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:46
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So Pebble now natively supports Android Wear notifications.  God, if they manage a color ePaper display and some added horsepower at CES with similar battery life and still undercutting Apple and Google they could have a huge, huge winner on their hands.
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Dec 16, 2014 19:53
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Well, supports in Beta. It will be interesting to see how they adapt to the evolving Wear API as they are essentially writing a wrapper for it. If they can keep up, it's a great thing for Pebble owners. If they can't or Google prevents non-wear devices from utilizing wear notifications somehow, then they are back to square one.
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Dec 16, 2014 20:24
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Don Lapre posted:It says you can reply also on their site?! Tried it out last night and this morning, there's reply "templates" like "See You Soon" etc, and a shortlist of emoji (mostly the basic faces, poop is there too though!) If they get some semblance of navigation display working I'll be set (I've tried NavMe's trial, baked-in support would be preferred though). This is great.
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I'm not sure if this is the best thread for this but is anyone aware of boxing day/post-xmas sales on Android Wear devices? I finally have the spare $$'s to treat myself but after the $80-100 spree of G Watch sales on Black Friday, I'm hesitant to drop cash on something at the immediate moment ( even if I can find G Watches for $130 on Amazon ). It's probably too early for retailers to be advertising those types of sales since they want to get the most they can out of people buying xmas presents, but you never know!
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TollTheHounds posted:I'm not sure if this is the best thread for this but is anyone aware of boxing day/post-xmas sales on Android Wear devices? I finally have the spare $$'s to treat myself but after the $80-100 spree of G Watch sales on Black Friday, I'm hesitant to drop cash on something at the immediate moment ( even if I can find G Watches for $130 on Amazon ). It's probably too early for retailers to be advertising those types of sales since they want to get the most they can out of people buying xmas presents, but you never know! Newegg just had the gwatch for $79.99 again yesterday. Setup a slickdeals alert or something.
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fyallm posted:With the new update everytime I delete an email notification or anything on my Moto 360 it buzzes after it has successfully completed the action. I cannot for the life find the option to turn off this annoying buzz, anyone have any idea? Anyone? I still can't figure out how to turn off the completed buzz.
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So some Targets have Fitbit Charge HRs in stock right now, Fitbit released limited stock of the Surge and Charge HR early. I picked one up today. I really liked the Jawbone UP3 but continuous HR monitoring is huge and it looks like the Charge HR is the only thing in the near future that has it even though I am not terrible happy about being locked into the Fitbit ecosystem so much I already have a Fitbit Aria so eh.
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Dec 19, 2014 20:19
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Three Olives posted:So some Targets have Fitbit Charge HRs in stock right now, Fitbit released limited stock of the Surge and Charge HR early. I picked one up today. I really liked the Jawbone UP3 but continuous HR monitoring is huge and it looks like the Charge HR is the only thing in the near future that has it even though I am not terrible happy about being locked into the Fitbit ecosystem so much I already have a Fitbit Aria so eh. Some Sports Authority stores also supposedly have it, but I've checked both there and my local Target twice this week with no dice. The Target electronics people were under the impression they still weren't going to see it until January. I have to imagine there was some engineering or production disruption that kept the Charge HR from shipping until now. Surely you don't gather around a boardroom table and say "folks, our fall 2013 flagship product was kind of a clusterfuck and we had to buy them all back, so let's top that by shipping our 2014 model a week before Christmas and not telling anyone."
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Dec 20, 2014 04:41
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Ok facer is pretty great. I was finally able to get just a plain black background with text for the time without all that crazy bullshit that other premade watch faces include.
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kitten smoothie posted:Some Sports Authority stores also supposedly have it, but I've checked both there and my local Target twice this week with no dice. The Target electronics people were under the impression they still weren't going to see it until January. Yeah, I really don't understand what they are doing, I guess whatever production issues they were having cleared up and they didn't want to just sit on a bunch of inventory through the holidays. And to make things even more confusing there is the Charge HR and the Charge, the Target that I bought mine at had them both mixed together. I honestly don't understand why the Charge without HR even exists, the $20 price differential is nothing for continuous HR monitoring. I get that for most people HR is useless but they should be selling them the Flex instead of the Charge, managing 8 SKUs over a $20 price difference is insane to me.
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Well, the plain old Charge basically seems to be the Force, except with a screwed together enclosure instead of one that's glued. Fitbit eventually concluded it was the glue in the Force that was causing the rashes. It's so much the same device that Charge-havers with older sync software have the software saying they've got a Force. So they can reuse the engineering from last years model, and get something in the market at a little lower price point for people who want a display but don't want to drop $150 on the HR model. That said I can't think of a reason to buy the vanilla Charge, even if you don't want HR tracking. The clasp on Fitbit's bands is way too much of a hair trigger and it has this tendency to snap off way too easily. The HR has a buckle like a watch, instead of a snap clasp, so it's not going to snap off when you snag it on a sleeve.
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kitten smoothie posted:Well, the plain old Charge basically seems to be the Force, except with a screwed together enclosure instead of one that's glued. Fitbit eventually concluded it was the glue in the Force that was causing the rashes. It's so much the same device that Charge-havers with older sync software have the software saying they've got a Force. Which explains why the Charge is inexplicably larger than the Charge HR, I didn't consider that but it makes perfect sense.
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Glad i got the metal band for the pebble. Not having to worry about water is a godsend
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Speaking of bands, where the hell do I get one for the G Watch that's stainless steel, has a deployment clasp with buttons, and isn't $100?
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Protocol7 posted:Speaking of bands, where the hell do I get one for the G Watch that's stainless steel, has a deployment clasp with buttons, and isn't $100? Its just 22mm right? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=22mm+metal+band
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Don Lapre posted:Its just 22mm right? Don't get the http://www.amazon.com/Ritche-Stainl...22mm+metal+band It literally fell to pieces after about a month of use and I had to get a new one.
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Any longterm moto360 users give any recommendations as I'm getting one for my birthday for apps/ setup for wear etc... ? I'm running a nexus 5 on lollipop.
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captain poopfister posted:Any longterm moto360 users give any recommendations as I'm getting one for my birthday for apps/ setup for wear etc... ? I'm running a nexus 5 on lollipop. I'm running the same phone, and I love my Moto 360. As far as apps go, things are pretty basic right now, but it's got great support for fitness stuff like Runkeeper, and the update offers some fantastic watchface options. What are you hoping to use it for? Maximizing your battery life kinda varies on what you're willing to tolerate. I have Ambient Mode off/Tilt To Wake Screen on, and it's pretty conservative; I hear the other way around is also decent. Or you can turn them both off and have it run for days.
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I'm planning to basically help me organize as my work runs off google docs/mail, track my fitness a bit, help manage the anxiety I get (old job was very stressful, but Im recovering well) and track cycling stuff.
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Dec 21, 2014 21:38
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If by track your fitness you mean use the heart rate/ step counter they are both basically useless.
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Three Olives posted:If by track your fitness you mean use the heart rate/ step counter they are both basically useless. What's wrong with the heart rate checker?
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Takoluka posted:What's wrong with the heart rate checker? Unless something has changed it is super, super finicky with questionable accuracy and doesn't really track data in a meaningful way.
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Takoluka posted:What's wrong with the heart rate checker? As someone who owns a moto 360 and will always recommend it, don't buy it for the heart rate sensor
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Three Olives posted:Unless something has changed it is super, super finicky with questionable accuracy and doesn't really track data in a meaningful way. I find that as a ballpark for "am I being paced" it's good enough - 95-120 means no, 70 means yes.
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Three Olives posted:Unless something has changed it is super, super finicky with questionable accuracy and doesn't really track data in a meaningful way. How are you finding the Charge HR's accuracy? Like yourself I was thinking of picking up the new UP Band, but I've since been swayed to try out the Fitbit.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:How are you finding the Charge HR's accuracy? Like yourself I was thinking of picking up the new UP Band, but I've since been swayed to try out the Fitbit. No problems with reading, It's winter and dark outside by the time I get home to run so I've been on the treadmill. It's within a few beats at 170ish according to the treadmill hand grips (Top of the line Cybex), I haven't checked against my Forerunner chest strap yet. The one thing is it is reading my resting heart rate at 70 the last day when it is normally in the high 40s low 50s but it has been a boozy and stressful two days, it put me at 55 the first day.
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Is anyone else, since updating to android wear 5.0.1 (on a G watch or others) seeming to get notifications a lot less reliably, and also not having google play music controls pop up anymore? I'm kind of pissed it used to work great, and now seems very unreliable. Edit : This is running on a Note 4 on 4.4.4 NK3 Nerdrock fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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Nerdrock posted:Is anyone else, since updating to android wear 5.0.1 (on a G watch or others) seeming to get notifications a lot less reliably, and also not having google play music controls pop up anymore? I'm kind of pissed it used to work great, and now seems very unreliable. I'm getting this on a Moto 360 (paired with a N5 runing 5.0.1), same as you, started when Wear updated to 5.0.1. Rebooting the watch seems to fix it but it starts again after a day or so, it's pretty annoying.
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Chasiubao posted:What made you choose the Charge HR over the Surge? Already own a Android Wear, Pebble and Forerunner and I'm not going to run without my phone on me so I didn't see any point to getting the Surge because it overlaps so much with everything else I own.
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Nerdrock posted:Is anyone else, since updating to android wear 5.0.1 (on a G watch or others) seeming to get notifications a lot less reliably, and also not having google play music controls pop up anymore? I'm kind of pissed it used to work great, and now seems very unreliable. I have no new problems with Lollipop on my G Watch and 4.4.4 on my M8, although I do notice the only time my watch bothers to light up and vibrate for Facebook messages is when I'm actively using the phone, and can, you know, see a Facebook message pop up there, too.
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Protocol7 posted:I have no new problems with Lollipop on my G Watch and 4.4.4 on my M8, although I do notice the only time my watch bothers to light up and vibrate for Facebook messages is when I'm actively using the phone, and can, you know, see a Facebook message pop up there, too. For me, Facebook Messenger is the app that's consistently given me that issue ever since I got the thing.
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I'm getting it on Hangouts and Gmail, doesn't seem to be app specific. If I wake the watch up I'll get the missing notification (complete with vibration) so it's almost like it's gone to sleep and isn't waking up properly when required.
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Three Olives posted:Already own a Android Wear, Pebble and Forerunner and I'm not going to run without my phone on me so I didn't see any point to getting the Surge because it overlaps so much with everything else I own. Thanks for the reply  I have none of those and I don't run with my phone so that helps make the decision for me. Surge is my second choice after the Band but gently caress if I can ever find the latter in a store.
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Chasiubao posted:Thanks for the reply If you are looking for the Surge Target had them when I bought my Charge HR but it's the same with the Charge HR, it's not "officially out", there is just haphazard stock in some stores.
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