Smart watch is a bit silly - New Technology

Pebble was a great success on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Less than a year after the project has collected $ 10 million has Ny Teknik tested the smart klockan.En screen on the wrist may be a good idea, but needs tuned filters.

Pebble marketed as a smart watch. But really it’s about an extra monitor to your mobile phone. Without having been paired with an iPhone or Android model is not of great joy. But along with a cell phone can be much more than an ordinary watch. The functions can be divided into two categories.

Firstly, it is from Mobile to install new software in the watch. So far, supplies are limited, but include various timekeeping watches and a couple games.

Second, and more interesting, but a pebble to use as a direct extension of the phone screen. When receiving a text no longer have to find the phone but instead can read the message directly on the wrist when the bell vibrates slightly. You see who’s calling the meeting without taking your phone out of your pocket.

Do you run rap Runkeeper to log löprundorna clock can show how far you have run.

What applications on mobile phones that can display information on the watch depends on which phone it is paired with. The possibilities are greater together with an Android, which, inter alia, can choose which music player clock to steer.

But for all the opportunities in practice to be useful requires better filter functions. For example, you do not choose which friends’ status updates on Facebook to display in the clock. And it is therefore not needed many vibrations on your wrist before just that feature off in the Android handset.

Pebble feels even not as a completely finished product. Although it is a bit bulky on the wrist is the main shortcomings of the software. It is therefore possible to have hope that clock gets better with time, particularly as more app developers do as Runkeeper and build in support for Pebble.

Last week, the pebble a new version of the developer tools for the clock. The great news is two-way communication, which means that an app in the watch will be able to control what happens in an app on the phone.

But above all Pebble present model wanting more. With functioning filter and a bit smoother version, a smart watch absolutely be a useful accessory for your phone.