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our Aoife schedule in Berlin was pretty nuts when Motorola had its launch event for the Moto 360 in Chicago so we asked Adam Dowd to pick up the 360 for us and then Joe Levi unboxed it and set it up now that we've had it in the Boston office for a day or two we've finally got some initial thoughts here some of which we discussed on today's podcast I'm Michael Fisher with PocketNow and I'm here to share the rest of them with you in a short first look when I first saw the Moto 360 my reaction was pretty typical I thought it was the best-looking SmartWatch I'd ever seen and despite everything we've seen since I still feel that way the fit and finish of the casing is just exemplary the heavy feel on the wrist is reassuring the gray leather watch band looks and feels great and despite the so-called flat tire effect of the equipment Bay at the bottom the round display is quite not sure even the wireless charging cradle is fun in its own way with a desktop clock mode that I really like unfortunately I've been using that charger more often than I'd like yesterday with ambience mode on to keep the watch face visible at all times the Moto 360 only made it to 11 hours of use before expiring it's doing better today with ambience mode off down by only 20% or so after four hours but it's certainly no marathon runner when it comes to endurance also Android wear still has its hiccups and rough spots see our full Android wear review for details on that and I get the early sense that the 360 is a little more hesitant than some of its contemporaries as far as responsiveness goes as of yet none of these complaints are enough to overcome the novelty of this beautiful and very distinctive hardware but we'll see how I feel next week when the time comes for my full review you can help shape it drop a comment below letting us know what you want to see covered and check out PocketNow weekly 113 for reader submitted questions answered on the air finally see our moto x vs Moto X comparison as well live right now and right here and at pocket now until next time this has been michael fisher captain two phones on twitter reminding you to pure ambience to a minimum and we'll see you next time