Cast your mind back khổng lồ the period between August và October 2012, và there was barely a whisper about a smartwatch round these parts. Pebble was funded and well underway, và we discovered a curious Google patent -- but that was pretty much it. In that same period one year later, you"ll find nearly 40 news stories on Engadget alone. There"s definitely been a climate change.
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One player in this year"s wrist-based công nghệ battle is Sony"s Smart
Watch 2. That number appended khổng lồ the kết thúc of its name lets you know that this isn"t the company"s first foray into this area (it"s technically its third). Because it"s a tech giant, then, & also one of the more established players in this market, our expectations were rather high. So, can Sony show the competition how it"s done.
Hardware
Watches have a tough job from the outset. Not only must they fulfill their functional purpose, but they also have an intrinsic liên kết to style, image và fashion. A good watch must stand up to lớn both tasks, ahem, at hand (sorry). What looks good to lớn you, however, will largely be a matter of taste, và there are plenty of pictures here and above to let you decide if it"s khổng lồ your liking. What we will say, however, is that it might not fit all occasions (it"s definitely not a dress watch for example), but it won"t look too out of place with most smart-casual outfits. As for the thiết kế itself, well, if you"re at all familiar with any of Sony"s phones, you might already know what you"re getting into. The Xperia DNA (that"s not the name of an actual phone!) is more than a little evident here. That means a square face with rounded corners, chamfered edges và flat sides. The strap on our model is a basic rubber affair; it"s practical, at best. It feels a lot softer và more comfortable than it first looks, but it"s not at all jazzy. You can, however, spice things up & change it for a number of other straps, including leather & metal ones.
The watch has a 1.6-inch, sunlight-readable display (220 x 176-pixel TFT), surrounded by a moderate bezel -- the bottom of which is where you"ll find three capacitive buttons. These are similar to what you might find on an Xperia phone: back, home and menu. In brief, this is how you"ll interact with the watch in addition to the main touchscreen. Khổng lồ rate the screen on its px density (176 ppi, if you"re interested) seems a little heavy-handed. The reality is that it"s fine to look at for glancing at the time (which, incidentally, you can vày without having to lớn interact with the watch, unlike the Galaxy Gear). It"s also adequate for navigating the menus, et cetera. Icons và text can look a little pixelated at times, và viewing galleries or truyền thông media from the phone isn"t that great. But it"s acceptable for general use, and matches what you"d expect from a device like this.
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There is one more control we"ve yet lớn mention, & that"s the aluminum nguồn button on the right-hand side. As you"d expect, it switches the device on & off, but it also wakes the watch lớn activate the touchscreen. The only remaining hardware feature is the micro-USB port on the other edge, which is kept out of sight thanks khổng lồ a sealed cover -- much lượt thích on the Xperia Z & Z1, in fact. There are more than just aesthetic reasons for having a sealed charging port: the Smart
Watch 2 carries the same IP57 dust- và water-resistance rating as the Xperia Z. This technically means it"s good for 30 minutes under one meter of the wet stuff, but the marketing material is a little more conservative, suggesting it should survive rain showers và splashes while washing your hands. Really, though, it"s unlikely water or dust will penetrate anyway, as there"s no microphone or audio jack opening. In fact, there"s just công nghệ bluetooth không dây 3.0 và NFC for communicating with the outside world. We feel that pulling out the processor details might be a little bit much for a watch, but for "thems that wants khổng lồ know," it"s a single-core ARM Cortex-M4, clocked at 180MHz. As for the performance, we"ll be returning to lớn that in just a moment.
Software and apps
Most smartwatches we"ve seen so far lean heavily on the host phone for their actual "smarts." They often rely on a companion tiện ích for configuring the watch via your handset, và that"s the case here, too. Before you even get this far, however, you"ll want khổng lồ get set up. Fortunately, this is a relatively simple process. A key point to mention here is that unlike Samsung"s Galaxy Gear -- which only works with a limited number of devices -- Sony"s Smart
Watch 2 will work with any android handset running 4.0 and above (we used it with a Galaxy chú ý 3). Without reading the instructions, we simply held the watch against the phone"s NFC sensor, và sure enough, we were sent off to the Play Store to download the corresponding Smart Connect app. Once that was installed, we were good to lớn go. We"ve read other reports saying this process went less smoothly, but we can only confirm our own painless experience. If your phone doesn"t have NFC, or you prefer to lớn get set up manually, you can of course do so. Simply grab the Smart Connect phầm mềm from the Play Store, and pair devices as you would any other accessory.
Customizing the watch is also straightforward. Once you"re mix up, you"ll see the watch symbol in the status bar of your handset; just swipe down from there và you"ll be able khổng lồ access the settings directly via a persistent notification. In total, there are three sections in this view, all of which relate to apps. Up top is a shortcut to search for Smart
Watch apps; beneath that is a menu of those you"ve got installed; và if you keep going down, you"ll find a list of recommendations. If an installed phầm mềm has configuration options, it"s here that you can play around with the settings. Likewise, the app tìm kiếm feature can be done manually, but the shortcut drops you right into those that are optimized for the Smart
Watch 2, and you can broaden that tìm kiếm to show all compatible apps. There"s also a settings app on the watch itself, and this is where you can control some of the more practical features such as turning bluetooth on/off, toggling vibrate, choosing watch faces, enabling or disabling some default apps, triggering master reset và so on.
Given that there"s no camera or mic, we"re pretty much dependent on apps to add features & functionality. The good news is that -- thanks to the backward compatibility with the previous Smart
Watch"s apps -- there"s a generously stocked larder to choose from. The not-so-good news is that much of the selection isn"t really worth getting excited about. As you scroll through apps that have been optimized for this device, you"ll quickly spot some thẻ games, a currency converter & many other offerings that are neither practical nor work well. What"s even more frustrating is that a surprising number of these are paid apps, which you can"t kiểm tra without ponying up first. We"re obviously not against ever paying for apps, but many that cost a few dollars here would be the sort of thing you"d expect khổng lồ see for miễn phí if it were for a phone -- including a $2.99 Nyan cat! There are still some good apps, but beware that any boast about how there are 100 or so apps specifically optimized for the Smart
Watch 2, & nearly 300 in total doesn"t tell the full story.
Naturally, notifications are key with smartwatches. Sure, you might not want to read all your email, tweets and Facebook updates on your wrist, but being able to lớn glance at your watch & know if that beep from your pocket is worth your attention is the whole product category"s raison d"être. The tin nhắn notifications show you the email"s sender, along with a quick snippet of the text. It"s usually enough information to let you know if it"s something you urgently need to lớn attend to, but if you were hoping you could scroll through the whole message, then you"re out of luck. There"s also an official email app from Sony that works with the default e-mail client on Xperia phones, should that be your weapon of choice.
As for social networks? Well, this will depend on how much "noise" you want. Twitter and Facebook both have apps, & they can be a little bit spammy. On the plus side, Twitter"s short-worded nature means that you"ll usually get the whole message on screen. With Facebook, of course, it depends on the post. Both apps let you manage whose updates will trigger notifications, making them reasonably easy to tailor khổng lồ your needs. It is worth pointing out, however, that you can"t click web links in either of these apps, since there"s not actually a web browser on board.
Despite these three big hitters, there are some notable sites that don"t have official apps (Google+ and Instagram, lớn name but two). If these happen to lớn be your haunts of choice, then what"s a smartwatch owner to do? Well, there is hope. An tiện ích called "Watch
It" lets you get notifications for pretty much anything you wish, including popular messaging apps such as Whats
App & Line, et cetera. OK, so it"s not as neat as an official app, but it"s a good all-round solution for those who want an easy way to keep tabs on what"s going on in their pocket/bag/digital world. It"s worth noting that the vibrate alert on the watch is quite strong, so you can imagine it gets quite distracting if you have it set khổng lồ shoot out a large amount of alerts.
Something related to this, is wearing the watch while driving. We"ve all suffered the tease of hearing our phone alert us khổng lồ an incoming message while we"re busy at the wheel -- and it never fails to happen when we"re actually expecting news. But, if you"re in slow-moving traffic và that message can be read just by twisting your wrist a little, the temptation is potentially a little too strong. This would be true in theory for any watch that has notifications, but perhaps due lớn the ferocity of its vibrate, we noticed it more here than when wearing, say, the Galaxy Gear.
On the flip side, perhaps, is basic gọi handling. As there"s no speaker or mic, all you can really vày is reject or answer a gọi from the watch face. Answering a gọi is really only a useful option when you"re wearing a bluetooth headset. However, when an unwelcome điện thoại tư vấn springs upon you, like when you"re driving or have two hands full of groceries, you can reject it swiftly.
Our last word on notifications goes to what, at first, seemed like phantom wrist vibrations. If you walk any amount of distance away from your phone, the Smart
Watch 2 lets you know it"s lost connection to lớn the phone. But, sometimes it loses connection when you"re right by it, too, triggering an unexpected alert. Oh, we said just one more thing, but we meant two. The number of unread notifications for an phầm mềm is shown next to the icon on the watch (as on i
OS), so you have lớn "mark all as read" from the phone companion app, even if you glanced at them all. It seems lượt thích a minor point, but having to lớn go back to the phone (or go in & read every email) to lớn reset things means you either start ignoring the number, or are forever resetting. Sony, if you"re reading this, perhaps we can get a basic long-press option next time? Thanks.
Performance & user experience
The Smart
Watch 2 was designed to lớn fill a small gap in our lives: that gap between your hand and pocket/bag/purse. It"s also a watch! The time-telling part is hard to fault. The display is clearly readable in daylight, even when not backlit. Just glance at your wrist and you"ll see if you"re late for that meeting just as easily as any other horological device -- even Samsung (which asks you push a button, or perform a gesture) didn"t quite nail this part. As for general "smart" performance? It"s a bit of a mixed bag. In general, the touchscreen is responsive enough. Unlike with phones, you"re not expecting lớn wade through lots of screens & menus. Scrolling isn"t as swift as you"d expect from a half-decent phone or tablet, but it"s not prohibitively sluggish by any means. Taps, however, don"t always register. You can find yourself poking the screen two or three times, unsure if you"ve missed (perhaps touching the next icon,) or if it"s just not responding. This can be even more of a tease when you"re actually aiming for a long-press. As there"s no voice command/S Voice-type option, this is your only way of opening apps, so we"d hope it was as painless as possible.
As for those notifications (we didn"t talk enough about them already, we know), they sometimes came in twice, in short succession. We"ll defer khổng lồ your patience on how much of an issue that is, but if you get a lot already, you don"t really want any more. Additionally, there were a few other software hiccups that surprised us. Take "Smart Camera," one of the official Sony apps. It"s a useful tool that lets you use the watch"s display as a viewfinder/shutter button for the phone"s camera. Great for taking self-portraits, or any other photo where you might not be able khổng lồ trigger the phone directly. Unless it crashes frequently, occasionally freezes or is just a little bit slow to lớn respond (as was the case for us). If this had been a third-party app, we"d put it down to bad coding.
The same goes for the official media-control app. It makes sense to lớn be able to lớn skip through songs và adjust the volume of music from the watch. It"s just a shame that the tiện ích rarely worked well enough that we wanted lớn use it. Beyond general unresponsiveness, we"d often swipe khổng lồ move on khổng lồ another track, and it"d instead restart the same track. Repeatedly. Or display the wrong cover artwork, or hide the volume bar. It even caused the phone & watch to disconnect when we went to double-check it before writing this very paragraph. We had to restart the watch completely.
On the bright side, we were impressed by how quickly the battery charges -- around half an hour from empty. You could almost (if you"re so inclined) watch the battery percent number grow in front of your eyes. For us, real-world battery life came out khổng lồ between two và three days of serious usage -- not unlike what we saw on the Galaxy Gear, which took a beating from critics about its charger dependency. At least that quick charge time means you can drip feed it at your desk with fast results. We"d wager you could get more battery life out of it if you limit the number of notifications (and therefore vibrations) it has to dole out.
We also have to hand it to Sony for keeping the user experience simple. Essentially, if you can work a touchscreen phone, you know how khổng lồ use the Smart
Watch 2. You can arrange the icons by name and favorites, & while there are clearly some software bugs, they seem to be app-specific, rather than endemic lớn the interface itself. The companion/controller phầm mềm for the host phone might be basic, but it provides the access you need without getting in the way, though we would lượt thích to see the option for some of the watch settings (e.g., alarm, vibrate on, language) available on the larger screen too, just lớn provide an easier option.
The competition
As we alluded to lớn in the intro, the smartwatch space is one that"s really starting lớn heat up. That said, the category is crowded with almost as many rumored products as real ones. With word of devices from Nokia, Google và Apple in the works, there"s been plenty of speculation to go around. In the here & now, however, competition comes mostly from two camps. There"s the Galaxy Gear that we"ve mentioned several times already. At $300, it"s a lot more expensive, but it does have a few chất lượng tricks -- namely, a camera và better hotline handling. The other contender is Pebble, the most successful Kickstarter campaign the world has ever seen. In brief, the Pebble"s strengths are its price ($150) & battery life (about a week of use) & a healthy tiện ích developer community. There are a slew of other offerings, too, that might meet your specific needs. The I"m Watch ($299) has a lot of promise, but has yet to lớn establish its reputation. For the more fitness-oriented, Nike"s new Fuel
Band ($149) và the Fitbit Force ($130) are both technically watches, & will be available in the next two weeks. Perhaps the dark horse is Adidas" Smart Run, which is both a sports tracker và Android watch. Again, not available until November 1st for a rather hefty $399.
Wrap-up
Mỗi yêu quý hiệu công nghệ lớn trên cố kỉnh giới hiện nay đều có riêng cho bạn một sản phẩm smartwatch. Sony là giữa những hãng mũi nhọn tiên phong trong lĩnh vực này với các thành phầm Live
View trong năm 2010, sau đó là Smart
Watch mỏng với kiểu cách, và bây giờ Sony đã reviews phiên bạn dạng thứ 2 với tên thường gọi chỉ đơn giản dễ dàng là Smart
Watch 2.
Trên thực tế, giống như tất cả những dòng Smart
Watch từ bỏ trước cho đến nay, Sony Smart
Watch 2 SW2 không hẳn là vượt thông minh. Thành phầm chỉ như là 1 trong những chiếc vòng treo tay mà bạn có thể sử dụng như một phụ kiện nhỏ tuổi với màn hình hiển thị thứ hai, phối kết hợp với chiếc smartphone Android trong túi của mình.
Chiếc đồng hồ đeo tay chạm màn hình Sony Smart
Watch 2 SW2 được thiết kế theo phong cách để cảnh báo bạn về các cuộc gọi, thư điện tử và tin nhắn, và cho phép bạn kiểm tra lại cấp tốc chóng, hoặc điều khiển máy nghe nhạc của người tiêu dùng ngay trên cái đồng hồ. Đây là kẻ thù nặng ký với tất cả Sam
Sung Gear tốt Pebble.
Thiết kế của Sony xuất hiện trên Sony Smart
Watch 2 SW2 là 1 trong những màn hình vuông vắn color đen phủ quanh khung viền sắt kẽm kim loại mạ chorm chắc hẳn chắn, ở phía bên dưới là nắp sống lưng làm bằng thép không gỉ. Chiếc đồng hồ có một nút nhấn và cũng chính là nút nguồn mang thiết kế Omni
Balance tương đương với dòng smartphone Xperia của hãng.
Chiếc đồng hồ có thể tháo dời dây mang và mặt đồng hồ. Sẽ có tương đối nhiều màu sắc dây mang khác nhau cho chúng ta lựa chọn như màu sắc vàng, màu hồng, màu ngọc lam, tím và đen. Ngoài ra, chúng ta có thể chọn dây domain authority với màu be và đen.
Với trọng lượng vơi chỉ 122,5 gram cùng dây đeo silicon, chúng ta cảm giác gần như đang đeo một chiếc vòng đeo tay thông thường. Sony Smart
Watch 2 SW2 không tồn tại phím bên cạnh nút nguồn,mọi thao tác trên mặt đồng hồ thời trang 1,6 inch cùng một cổng micro
USB với nắp bảo đảm trên phía bên trái để sạc mang lại thiết bị.
Sản phẩm cản trở được nước cùng đạt ghi nhận IP67, vì vậy chúng ta có thể đi trời mưa,hay tắm giặt,bơi lội cũng không ngại chiếc đồng hồ thông minh của mình bị hỏng.Điều này cho phép bạn để giữ cho điện thoại của khách hàng một cách bình yên trong bâu áo khi bình chọn một tin nhắn văn bản,hay cuộc hotline nhỡ trong đk ẩm ướt.
Sony Smart
Watch 2 SW2 có screen 1,6 inch, độ phân giải 220x176 pixel,RAM 512 MB,chip lõi tứ Cortex A7 vận tốc 1,2 GHz thuộc với viên pin 420 m
Ah.Thiết bị gồm cổng kết nối Bluetooth,WIFI,NFC và tích vừa lòng GPS.
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