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By "out there" I mean things like hiking, biking, travel, etc. Away from a sterile lab/work type environment. Things like scratches, rain, dust. Most smartwatches work ok only if really babied.

Interesting to know about the display of the notifications. I was wondering how cleverly they did that, and if it was a check box. Sounds like it needs to be a checkbox or something.

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The only scratch I have on it so far is from hitting the watch face against a brick column, but I don't even notice it anymore even looking for it.

Even as careful as I try to be with it I know I still hit it against things and it hasn't scratched up at all. Wheither that's due to the screen protector (not tempered glass, just a standard plastic protector you'd lay on a phone) or not I don't know, but it's held up pretty well. That includes biking and running outside.

I literally only take it off if I go for a swim or at night when I sleep (I don't like having something on my wrist while sleeping)

Very cool, I will certainly keep an eye out for them!

I also do want to say that looking at the Vector Watch SDK, everything with the watch is done through there servers. So that means that if they do go out of business I don't have much faith in the real smart functionality (outside of notifications) still working reliably.

That being said, as long as time and notification works I'm good.

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