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Phosphor World Time E-Ink Watch Review

2010-12-15
hey guys so today I'm here with a review of these phosphor world time curves inked watch so this is of course a watch which is not something I normally review however after you guys take a look at this I think you will kind of understand why I decided to go ahead and take a look at this so first thing I want to take a pay attention to is the packaging very very nice packaging here I have used this for about a week and a half or so but I want to go ahead and show you guys you have a little bit of information about the watch itself of course I will tell you guys all about that just a second and then inside the box we do have the pink watch itself so let's go ahead just pull all this out to the side here and show you guys the watch itself some people I can give you guys a closer look at the watch so we're go ahead and pull it in here just a little bit you'll see that the display is an eating display now this is what you might find in a Kindle Nook a lot of ears however this is the first one that I believe anyway for a watch and as you can see here very very clear you know the text is just just phenomenal looking and you can also go ahead you hold the left side for just a minute you actually go ahead and swap it so you can go ahead and see it white on black or black on white I kind of prefer the other way but of course it is totally customizable and up to you so moving on from the display we'll talk a little bit about the watch in just a second the web and what all features everything I do want to really show you guys the design it's a fantastic fantastic design and you can see here it's a fairly large watch you know it's a bit bigger than a standard kind of watch but one thing I really liked was the curved glass so as you can see here it's got nice curved glass and in fact this whole piece if I go ahead and pull it in on here you guys can see it's all stainless steel so this is all one piece now you can't remove the band so if the band ever wears out that might cause you a little bit of problems however the watch itself is excellent I mean just really secure and sturdy of course you don't want to get this scratched up but you know it's built very very solidly you know you can drop this probably no problem at all I think it's very very well constructed okay so let me go ahead and show you some of the modes now the way to do this is very simple there are this button right here is actually two two-piece so technically it's two buttons on the left side as I showed you before and it would change the screen and then you go ahead and press on the right side which go ahead and do right now no change the different modes so I'm go ahead just show you guys a few of the modes so right here you can see this is just the same time use your standard local time just in smaller format press it again you'll see that we're actually we can go ahead and pick world time so what this is about obviously since this is a really based on being world time for a traveler so you actually go ahead and pick out different cities and actually go ahead and see what time it is there so for example if I'm traveling London I can go ahead and take a look at my watch see that's 654 which is definitely very handy now the next mode is going to be a hybrid so we actually go ahead this is my local time right now and then this is London time so I should go ahead and take a look and say maybe by like for example if I was going into London I go ahead and see what time it is back home so that's definitely a very useful feature I'm not continuing on is the calendar mode now to be honest I didn't find a whole lot of utility for this one this was a little bit busier than some of the other ones of course you do you can go ahead and pick out the date and the time and the day and everything but again like I said really wasn't didn't find too much utility in this one and for me generally I just mostly just left on that just because it's so just you know very simple very clean now one thing I really have to talk about is whether it's worth it now obviously that's a huge thing in all my reviews and for this one I actually have to say it is this is a very unique watch with the ink display I think that's really you know just really unique you can actually go ahead and practice it's not you know it's not amazing here it's not gonna be you know life-changing or anything like that but you'll find go ahead just pull it in very close this is a very very clear screen which is something I really did appreciate now there are a couple of downsides namely the fact that this will not work in the dark I do the limitations of an eating display you know if you're in the dark you know if you middle night wherever you want to check your watch you're not gonna be able to do it unless you have at least sunlight so it's definitely something to keep in mind I know another thing I'm sure a lot of you guys would be asking about is what about buying maybe like an iPod Nano and using as a watch I know a lot of people are doing that these days go ahead and just buy an iPod Nano which is not much bigger than this I think it's a little bit wider but I'm gonna go ahead and just buy a watch band for it and do that now obviously that's going to have some advantages over the but one of the major things that I have a problem with is the battery life now this runs off as standard and when she goes and runs off a standard watch battery so you know this is gonna last a very long time you know I'm sure this will be you know you're gonna be measuring battery life and months if not years whereas you know with an iPod Nano you're gonna be measuring battery life and you know maybe it might last you a day so that's a big thing you know I just I just can't really understand why you want I mean that'd be kind of cool but to have to charge it every day so I think that by that alone really makes this a much better proposition if you're just buying it strictly as a watch so overall if this looks like something that you would be interested in and of course do keep in mind that depending on what band you get it can range anywhere in price from around 150 to close to $200 so it's not exactly a cheap watch but I do believe that you get what you pay for it's a very well-constructed watch definitely something that you know you'll get a lot of people ask me about I definitely did so if you guys are interested in go ahead and check out the description for more information I would definitely to give a big thanks to phosphor for going ahead and sing this out to me for free review so anyway guys thanks for watching
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