[fireman15]

I have been using a Samsung Gear 2 watch with my Samsung S3 phone for the past few months. It does an awful lot, in fact one of the most common criticisms in reviews is that it does too much. It is an attractive time piece; the first thing I did was use one of the apps to put a Rolex watch face that I copied from a high resolution jpg. It is not going to fool anyone, but it was fun to do.

It has a good speaker and microphone; you can answer or make phone calls, you can send texts by giving voice commands; it takes your pulse; it tracks your sleep; it acts as a pedometer; it will use your phones GPS to work as a cycle computer; it will connect to a Bluetooth headset and listen to music; you can do all of this without ever taking your phone out. The battery lasts up to about 3 days depending on which features you use, but it charges up in just a couple hours.

I am wondering what the iWatch will do that the Samsung Gear 2 Watch will not.

[ctdonath2]

I want it to give me my notifications in Morse Code. Gotta practice for the General license somehow that matters...

[Jonty30]

It sounds like a grand way for the government to keep track of you.

[Vendome]

I don’t understand

Seems my G5 does all that already.

[Vendome]

In fact, my pedometer says I’m up to 19,000 steps today .

[Jonty30]

Sell for a premium?

[fireman15]

Samsung Gear 2

Apple iWatch

I forgot to mention that the Gear 2 has a surprisingly good camera. I am not sure why they included it other than novelty and possibly scanning barcodes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

HP-01, 1977. Everything you need in a watch. And it ran the best calculator Language ever - RPN, stack-based post-fix. Nothing ever matched it.

[DaxtonBrown]

I wonder how well an iWatch will do starting my 57 Chevy Bel Air?

[doorgunner69]

So everyone that refuses to get a smartphone is doomed?

Refusal to follow fashion trends is a badge of honor, and a great way to laugh at the lemmings, rushing off to the next great new thing!

[Star Traveler]

Something for the group ... :-) ...

[4rcane]

I hate the Apple Watch, mainly because the power doesn’t last very long. I hate charging daily

[steve86]

I would never knowingly purchase any product from a company with a faggot CEO and avoid vehicles with remote keys and power locks and windows, for that matter.

[GraceG]

Steal a person’s watch and get their car too....

[catnipman]

I have some more “next big thing” ideas for Apple to add to the iWatch accessory line:

1. The iCuffLink.

2. The iSuspenders.

3. The iWingTipBrogans.

4. The iFedoraSnapBrimHat.

5. The iBuggyWhip.

6. The iRotaryTelephone.

7. The i33RPMVinylRecord.

8. The i8TrackTape.

9. The iTieTack.

10. The iBlackAndWhiteTV.

11. The iConsoleRadio.

12. The iCassetteTape.

[garjog]

[fireman15]

I actually posted a picture of the wrong Samsung Gear Watch. Here is what the Gear 2 looks like when the default media player is being used. This is the type of band that I am using, but I is interchangeable.

[Swordmaker]

The AppleWatch may be your key to your car — PING!

AppleWatch Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Bob434]

used to be you could go and get a duplicate key for about $5 total- maybe $10- then along came ‘smart keys’ with chips in them, and getting a duplicate now costs well over $100- some as high as 3-400 after all the programming is doen to them by the dealers who are the only ones ‘qualified’ to program the keys (unless you go online and find the corre4ct combination of brake taps, door lokcs, and horn blowing to properly program the key)

Now they want ot have a several hundred dollar device as the ‘key’?

[mc5cents]

From the article:

October 2014

Cook comes out as gay in an article for Bloomberg Busnessweek.
"I'm proud to be gay, and consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he wrote.

Well isn't that special! -- Churchlady

[montag813]

I prefer real watches like this: