MOTO 360 has attracted countless attention since its launch, not only because it is a member of the first launch of Android Wear, but also because of its retro and exquisite appearance design and excellent workmanship. The excellent appearance design also makes it stand out in the ranks of smart watches. What about the practical use experience of MOTO 360 under the gorgeous appearance?
The package of Moto 360 is a white round box. The surface of the box has the shape of the product. What we got is the style of gray watchband.
There are some instructions on the back. You can see that the watch itself, charger and base are all made in China.
Open the box and you can see the shape of Moto 360. Unlike other Android smart watches, it uses a round dial design, which can be said to be more like an ordinary watch. It is also the only one of the first three Android Wear watches to be launched that uses a round dial (and the G Watch R has also adopted a similar design later).
The cover of the package is also very considerate. There is a shock pad on the back, which can better protect the surface and reduce the damage to the watch when the package is impacted.
Take out the Moto 360, and the first impression is that it is beautiful and exquisite. The round dial, high-end leather strap and stainless steel body all give you a feeling of "tall".
After careful observation, the Moto 360 screen is actually not a conventional round one. There is a black part at the bottom of the screen and a light sensor in the middle.
On the right side of the body is the only physical button on the Moto 360. The edge is decorated with gold metal rings. The button feels comfortable and elastic.
On the other side is the microphone of Moto 360, which looks strange when placed on the left side of the fuselage.
Before the appearance of Moto 360, we had hardly seen such excellent workmanship and materials on smart watches.
Genuine leather strap, full of retro flavor.
The back of the strap is printed with HORWEEN LEATHER, representing Moto 360. The strap is from the famous American leather company Horween.
The buckle of the watch strap is printed with Stainless Steel, which is made of stainless steel, and the workmanship is also excellent.
The back of Moto 360 adopts dense dot patterns, with a heart rate sensor in the middle, which is almost integrated with the surrounding patterns. It is not as abrupt as the heart rate sensor of Samsung smart watch products.
The heart rate sensor will light up the green led light when it is working.
Moto 360 has a 1.56-inch screen with a resolution of 320 * 290 and a gorilla glass surface. Due to the large dial and thick body, it is suitable for male users with thick arms.
The accessories of Moto 360 are simple, including relevant instructions, charger and wireless charging base.
The working current of the charger is 550mA, and the microUSB interface labeled with you is adopted.
The wireless charging base adopts streamlined design.
Seen from above, the wireless charger has a groove for Moto 360.
When the watch senses the base, it will change the dial to the charging mode and switch to the "horizontal screen" mode. The overall effect is also full of a sense of technology.
MOTO 360 and the G Watch Gear Live Similarly, they all use the Android Wear system. I believe there is no need to introduce more about the system. It is very similar to the other two Android Wear devices. In particular, MOTO 360 uses a circular screen. In fact, the MOTO 360 body still renders a rectangular picture with a resolution of 320 * 290, which is not square, but also due to the relationship between the MOTO 360 screen itself, It will bring people a different operating experience.
The menu layout is still in the standard Android Wear style, and is an operation logic centered on Google Now voice commands and search.
Voice search supports Chinese voice.
MOTO 360 also supports pedometers.
MOTO 360 also has several cool virtual dials, which can be switched immediately by pressing and holding down the starter.
and Gear Live 、 G Watch Similarly, Moto 360 can also replace the electronic dial, giving users more personalized space.
Android Wear has no shortage of basic functions, including various voice command operations, pedometers, calendar items, etc.
Like Gear Live (only the G Watch is not available in the first three Android Wear products, and the G Watch is also the only one without physical keys, showing a slight lack of sincerity), MOTO 360 also has a heart rate sensor. After clicking the heart rate detection function, the sensor on the back of the watch will turn on the green light and conduct heart rate detection.
Heart rate detection results.
In addition to heart rate detection, MOTO 360 also has a "Heart Activity" function, which can record the time of users' aerobic exercise and display progress according to the set goals.
PS: It can be seen from the above figure that the "background" with red patterns in the rendering is not red when you actually look at the screen because the dial is round, but can only be seen when you slide left and right.
In addition, MOTO 360 also has a light sensor at the bottom of the screen, which can adjust the screen brightness according to the ambient brightness. The other two Android Wear models do not have this function. Of course, the cost of convenience is that there is a black area under the screen, which has a certain impact on the visual effect.
Since MOTO 360 cannot connect to the computer by wire, it will be difficult to install some non Android Wear applications and screenshots on it. At this time, we need to use the "Debug over Bluetooth" function to connect the mobile phone by Bluetooth, and then connect the mobile phone to the computer to achieve the purpose of debugging MOTO 360.
Open the Android Wear application on the phone, and make sure that the Bluetooth debugging function is enabled on both the MOTO 360 itself and the computer to work normally.
We use the Bluetooth debugging function to push applications to MOTO 360. Theoretically, all APKs used by Android can be installed in this way to reach MOTO 360. However, due to the use of Bluetooth transmission, the installation speed will be very slow.
Here we use Anthare 5.1 to run points. We know that MOTO 360 uses the famous Texas instrument OMAP3630, a classic SoC, 512M Ram+4G Rom, with a score of 4790.
It may be due to Motorola's dedication to the product that it does not install metal contacts connecting the base on the MOTO 360, but uses wireless charging, which may also cause some inconvenience. For example, sometimes the charging speed is slow, or even cannot be charged. At this time, it is recommended to completely shut down the machine before charging. The MOTO 360 also uses SoC with relatively backward technology, and the heart rate sensor often works automatically, so the endurance is not very ideal. In normal use, the endurance is about two days (enable Bluetooth to connect to the mobile phone). Fortunately, the charging base can directly connect to the micro USB adapter for charging.
MOTO 360 is inferior to other Android Wear in terms of playability because it only has wireless connection. But this can't stop the foreign cattle. In order to solve the problem of the MOTO 360, they even connected an external USB interface after dismantling the machine to unlock the Bootloader (the picture is from the network).
In general, MOTO 360 is the most design conscious of Android Wear and even all smart watches. I believe that users who really touch it will be amazed by its appearance design and workmanship. In terms of use, MOTO 360 is similar to G Watch and Gear Live. MOTO 360's own advantages are the novel round dial and light sensor, and wireless charging is also a major feature (this feature also brings some trouble). However, since MOTO 360 uses the OMAP 3630, which is a relatively old product, its manufacturing process and architecture are relatively backward, resulting in some problems of power consumption and smoothness. Although MOTO 360 is not perfect, it is really a product worth buying for users who pursue product design and taste.
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