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Very cool - hopefully '360' is not a reference to how many minutes of battery life it will have. I hope for one that it uses an OLED screen, so the black-background watches will use very little battery. Also, I found it interesting that each of the pictures were of vascular men-forearms. I guess they don't expect this to be well adopted by the female population.

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If you look at the difference in surface area between traditional men's/women's models of the same watch [1] there's a pretty massive difference in what you'd be able to do with the space. However, you do see more women wearing men's watches now, so I could see it catching on.

I think they will need to hit a pretty big number for battery life. A "40-hour power reserve" (what most mechanical automatics have) would be a big step towards being taken seriously as a watch instead of a gadget.

[1] http://www.omegawatches.com/collection/seamaster/aqua-terra-...

The Moto X uses the OLED screen to effectively support the active notifications feature without burning battery. I've been very pleased with this feature and taking that technology to a watch just seems to make sense in my opinion.

Off Topic, but I had a MotoX and couldn't figure out for the life of me what "Active Notifications" did that Apple's iOS Notifications didn't.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to pick up a Nexus5 soon, but it still bugs me that I can't figure it out.

I mean, if the phone is face down it doesn't display anything on the screen. I get that. It's kinda clever. But it's so minor I have a tough time calling it a "feature" much less a compelling one.

Otherwise I was more annoyed with the MotoX notification system than anything. When you get a notification your unlock slider changes position. If you get more than one you can't jump to the specific one you want, only the latest. iOS didn't have either of these issues but it seemed like everyone considered Active Notifications somehow revolutionary. Or at least state-of-the-art. And it felt like neither to me.

So I dunno. Going off on a tangent I guess. Just curious what I was missing is all...

OLED makes sense in terms of battery life, but since it's going to be showing a watch face for 95% of the time, burn-in might be too much of a problem.

Looking forward to seeing how they solved this.

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