Smartwatch Thread (news/apps/updates)

bonzo5988 said:
Update

have contacted samsung again. they have informed me that the charger is out of stock, but i should receive one within the month. it would have been so easy to include this information when i received my watch.
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Not necessarily big companies can't move that fast with stock changes I don't think
 
QC SD 3100 finally announced: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...-3100-puts-battery-life-ahead-of-performance/

The 3100 is focused more on battery life so we should start seeing watches reach around 3 days given QC's estimate of a 4-12h increase from current watches.

It's using what QC calls "Big-Small-Tiny", similar to ARM's big.LITTLE. The big set is still A7 cores, small being the DSP and tiny being QC's proprietary co-processor the QCC1110. The tiny core will be in charge of ambient mode so when not in use the battery drain should be tiny. Other things will also be offloaded to this co-processor (GPS, HR, etc) which should also free up resources on the A7 cores and help with with performance.

It's still on a 28nm process though, but QC says it's due to the process being a lot mature compared to smaller nodes, and has less passive drain compared to 10nm. Still, surely even 16/14nm would've been better?

On the other hand it seems a shame they stuck with the A7 cores, I find my HW2 to sometimes lag when waking up from ambient mode. Hopefully there's at least a clock increase to help but nothing about that has been revealed so far. And I guess it makes sense to stick with 32-bit since 64-bit will most likely increase the die size.
 
Can't say I'm impressed.

I'm not that fussed about battery life (as long as it lasts a day), charging every night has become the norm now and it's not that much of an inconvenience.

Wear OS runs like a dog on the 2100 so I'm miffed as to why they're using the same architecture for the main cores. If the new low power core is just taking GPS and HR then that doesn't help either as my LG Watch Sport is laggy as hell when not even using those features.
 
Orcvader said:
QC SD 3100 finally announced: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...-3100-puts-battery-life-ahead-of-performance/

The 3100 is focused more on battery life so we should start seeing watches reach around 3 days given QC's estimate of a 4-12h increase from current watches.

It's using what QC calls "Big-Small-Tiny", similar to ARM's big.LITTLE. The big set is still A7 cores, small being the DSP and tiny being QC's proprietary co-processor the QCC1110. The tiny core will be in charge of ambient mode so when not in use the battery drain should be tiny. Other things will also be offloaded to this co-processor (GPS, HR, etc) which should also free up resources on the A7 cores and help with with performance.

It's still on a 28nm process though, but QC says it's due to the process being a lot mature compared to smaller nodes, and has less passive drain compared to 10nm. Still, surely even 16/14nm would've been better?

On the other hand it seems a shame they stuck with the A7 cores, I find my HW2 to sometimes lag when waking up from ambient mode. Hopefully there's at least a clock increase to help but nothing about that has been revealed so far. And I guess it makes sense to stick with 32-bit since 64-bit will most likely increase the die size.
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I was hoping for speed with the new chipset. So my watch will have to last a few more years.
I got August security update today.
 
new apple watch https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-watch/
.. need to do some googling .. so is the optical hrm out , replaced by something electrical from the wrist :confused: ? game changer ?

At a Glance
  • The Apple Watch Series 4 features a new design with a slimmer body, 30% larger display, and electric sensors for taking ECG readings. There's a faster, more efficient S4 chip and a new gold stainless steel model.
Apple Watch Series 4 Features
  • Two sizes: 40mm and 44mm
  • Faster S4 processor
  • Slimmer body
  • Larger display
  • New watch faces
  • ECG sensors
  • Haptic Digital Crown
  • LTE and non-LTE options
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edit from reddit

It’s left and right arm electrodes. The back of the watch is one electrode and the dial on the side is the other elctrode, so when your hand touches the dial you effectively have lead 1 of an EKG (I assume you tell the app which wrist the watch is on so it knows which to make the positive and negative electrodes
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I'm less than enthused about this. The best thing I see about the EKG feature is capturing paroxysmal afib and sending the rhythm to a PCP or whomever to read and follow up on, but other than that...I can't really think of anything I'd like to see immediately? It MAY be able to figure out intervals for something like long QT, but I really doubt it'll be able to catch ST elevations or depressions. The worst scenario I think could come from this is somebody having an MI, check their ECG on their watch and figure it's nothing major when it doesn't detect anything abnormal, and having an adverse outcome as opposed to if they came into an ER to get it checked out.
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There is no new affordable wear os watches coming out currently I sent me ionic back as it didn't have NFC for UK banks, noticatuons were hit and miss at best

Can't decide what to try next :(
 
jubei said:
Why they can't make a quality looking watch like the gears I don't know :/
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Most likely because apple design there watches more for females

I think they look more like a girls watch then a bloke watch..
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Picked up a Huawei watch 2 sport after much deliberation between it and the tic watch pro.

It's a massive upgrade from my 2nd gen Moto 360. This watch will be worn 24/7 so it's will take a pounding with my job. Will see how it holds up.
 
I'm on the verge of ordering a Galaxy Watch. I'e generally wanted to avoid Tizen, but it seems to be the best watch about at the moment. It might be handy having Samsung Pay on it, but at the same time I only really want an always on display and my notifications, so the Galaxy Watch might be overkill. I'm not bothered by health features really. Any recommendations?

(My current Huawei seems to stop charging at 66%. Maybe I just need a new charger?)
 
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