Let's talk about smart watches!

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Alright. I officially have a kind of love-hate thing with this watch.

The battery drain issue is fixed. My phone drains at a normal rate now. The tick box must have fixed it, because the MTK Bluetooth dropped completely out of my battery monitor as the leading cause of drain and everything is good.

I've had numerous compliments on the style of this watch. I even mentioned that I thought it was too big, but the people I was with insisted it went well with my "mojo".

I can definitely take calls through the watch. I've done it inadvertently twice now. The calls come through loud and clear. Loud enough for everyone within 25 feet of me to hear. Even though it'd be a sweet feature for the right person, I wish I could disable it altogether for me.

I can also play music through the watch. I have done this inadvertently as well. Loud and clear.

After 30 hours of use, the watch's battery is about 70%.

I guess my biggest beef is that the watch simply does too much. It does everything I want it to, but all the extras I find annoying. I wish I had some advanced settings to disable 90% of what this thing is trying to do. I also wish it had a smaller footprint. Bluetooth pairing seems kind of buggy right now. It works well 95% of the time. Every time it pairs it re-sets the setting to route my calls through the watch instead of through the phone (or through my car).

Even though the watch is pretty awesome, I suspect I'll continue to use this for another week tops before losing interest altogether. Stupid crappy attention span.

Thanks for the updates - in particular the size/weight thoughts.

It sounds as if the biggest problem with the device (other than bluetooth) is the inability to disable functions. Personally, even the off chance of my evil devil music starting to play from my wrist during a business meeting is enough to make me think twice (three time, four times...) about such a device. I have never had this problem with older watch-phones and frankly, it never would have occurred to me that this could be an issue.

When I use mine, I always have it paired via bluetooth to my Samsung pen device or headset. So, out of morbid curiosity, if the external speaker volume is turned all the way down (or muted), is the bluetooth volume also turned down? Basically, I'm wondering if bluetooth volume can be left alone but the device external speaker be turned off, thus removing the possibility for an embarrassing moment.

Also, thinking that these types of devices are essentially wholly dependant on bluetooth to make them useful (earpieces, car pairing, music headphones, etc), do you think that even though it works 95% of the time, the pairing failure rate is high enough to have to check it for proper function each and every time? I have to admit that this would not only drive me insane but also be another deal breaker.

Thanks for the information, it is highly appreciated. I'm very close myself to getting a Samsung Gear S, but the fact that to make a lot of the functions work I need to have one of my Samsung phones is giving me pause (that, plus no Android OS, so no standard apps on the device).

Currently, I'm on the lookout for a minimum dual core, 512MB RAM, TF (or lots of ROM), Android 4.2 or higher w/play store, relatively thin capacitive display device, bluetooth, AND 850MHz enabled 3G watch phone. If you come across something like that, I would love to hear about it. There are a fair amount that have come close, but fail with a lack of 3G, low ROM/no TF, older Android, no play store, or are fat enough to have an encampment outside of McDonalds.