Gadgetory

hey so I was just getting some work done the other day and I was wearing the Moto 360 that day and I got a quick email notification didn't respond to it didn't even have to take out my phone and I thought yeah that's neat but then I realized I haven't reviewed this yet so let's do that real quick this is the new Moto 360 I don't know what it is about this 360 but I keep coming back to it as my sort of de facto SmartWatch obviously the competition has gotten way better since the first one but still give it credit for sort of starting the circular revolution we see today and a focus on design anyway this 2015 Moto 360 is a really minor upgrade from the original and pretty much every way so it'll look familiar here is everything that's new number one the design okay not really it's pretty much the same design but you do get a couple improvements here and there the lugs that connect the watch to the bands are for one much easier to remove quickly so interchangeable bands are much easier now I have the leather one that it came with you can see just by removing both of them it will be easy to change to whatever other ones you buy and I now have some texture in the bezel of mine here you can see which is because I chose that in Moto maker this is actually the best new feature the Smart Watch compared to the competition the ability to build your own with any combination of the band and body colors and bezels built to order right out the box so you can build a pretty dope combo to your liking I went with a pretty clean all-black look as you can see pretty toned down but that's my choice and actually think having a black bezel sort of blends in with the display more and with the black watch face that also kind of hides the bar at the bottom which still holds the ambient light sensor and display drivers you pretty much get used to it being there alright number two new thing is the specs one of the biggest concerns with the first moto 360 if you remember was the slower outdated OMAP chip they gave it so this new one is now rocking literally a quad-core Snapdragon 400 new GPU and half a gig of ram so that concern is pretty much wiped and performance is consistently pretty smooth on the Moto 360 interestingly it's not the smoothest performance I've seen in any SmartWatch though I'd still give that edge to stuff like the Apple watch and even Samsung's gear s2 just as far as pure smoothness of graphics goes but among android wear smartwatches this is pretty much as good as it gets now here's an interesting thing the ambient mode that leaves the display on and dim forever is turned on by default when you get the new 360 which you would think with a small battery on a SmartWatch and an LCD display not an OLED like the Huawei watch you'd think that would kill the battery life but it has easily made it through a full day for me usually with more than 30% left with ambient mode on so if you turn ambient mode off and let the display fully sleep in between waking it this thing can go full two days between charges which is a nice improvement and the best part is since it's a small battery if you ever find yourself low on a charge the wireless charging is really fast so you can juice up in under an hour from being dead so you know I just left ambient mode on the only weird thing I noticed is some watch faces overlaps with notification text while its ambient but that never mattered because when I light it up and look at it everything snaps into place and into color this is definitely a better experience than the first mode of 360 it even actually works with the iPhone now despite you know much more limited control over how notifications work on iOS technically though that also makes it a competitor to the Apple watch for some buyers bottom line though I'm less of a SmartWatch guy than I was about a year ago I don't wear one every day anymore but it's nice to see improvements in these neat little pocket computers that you can put on your wrist especially in design we might be asking if it's worth upgrading over the old one I would say yes even if only for that improved battery and performance but the competition has gotten a lot better - so look out for a roundup video of the best wearables that you can get this year either way thank you for watching this one and I'll talk to you guys in the next video peace you