Gadgetory

so the first thing you're going to need to do when you get your live view is charge it up using this microUSB port down at the bottom now I've done that just for a few minutes here so we might not be able to run through everything I want to in this demo but of course you should do that for about six to eight hours just to get a full charge on the device the second thing that you need to do is decide if you're going to wear it as a clip you can see the little spring-loaded clip here or if you aren't going to wear it as a watch and what I've done here from the last video is I've gone ahead and put those a little Wachee Springs in and that's the technical term I looked it up on Wikipedia and if you found it on Wikipedia it must be true now I have decided that I want to wear the watch in this fashion which means the band goes up that way and I put and tighten it back around this way and that matters because this this little frame here the clip that the device is gonna go into has a top and a bottom you can tell the tell them apart because the bottom has a little bit of an opening down here and that's I assume to accommodate that microUSB port if you can see that a little bit better up here it's right down in there you can see that little teeny divot and up on the top is this little grippy spring so next thing you need to do is get the clip off and the way that I found to do that is you open up your micro USB door here and you wedge your fingernail in there and just kind of run it along that seam and it just pops right off just like that so now we can move that to the side close our little door up here to make the next step easier and in the process I've turned on the device and what you do next is just align it and snap it down in place now it's a bit thick for a watch but compare that to the other Sony Ericsson watch that I've been wearing and you can see it's just marginally thicker if if that it looks a little bit thicker but that's because the band isn't all designed to make it look nice like a watch now this watch is also a Bluetooth watch I've shown it to you in previous videos and it connects up to my android phone using open watch open watch is cool it's not that open because it's not open source but you know you can write plugins and stuff weird and I've been really happy with it but it's got this analog display which I don't really like if I want to look at the time in digital I have to push that button twice and there it shows me the time and the battery and that it's connected to be a Bluetooth so you know it does its job it shows me email and incoming calls and whatnot right down here on the bottom but that's about it this on the other hand is less a watch and more a information display so let's see how this is going to work together and this should be fun because you know live stuff always is now I've gone out to the Android Market and I've downloaded the live view application it is a free app in the marketplace to search for Live View and the first thing it does wants me to connect my live view or the watch to my phone so let's go ahead and do that say ok and I'm going to turn this on here's our first boot and now this is asking me to connect my device to the live view so let's go ahead and manage we're going to search for it and this takes you over to the Bluetooth settings so this is really a bluetooth device you can see down here that I have a new device at the bottom I'll see if it comes up with a name rather than just a MAC address and yes it says live view right there so we will select that and it says two pair of live you confirm that it's showing the passkey is 0 5 2 7 7 5 0 yep that matches so we're going to say pair and there's your watch display and I think I just ran out of battery life but now you can see how to to go ahead and do the pairing with the device which is kind of neat so let's go ahead and throw this back on the charger see if we can get some more juice and finish up with the rest of the cool stuff that this device can do now once it's paired I have an option to search for another live view device and it shows me the live view devices that I have connected the live view in this case has the MAC address at the end and shows me there I go I've got it all set up it's over on the charger off camera right now so let's just go through the software part and see what we can do first thing is I've set it to vibrate whenever I give receive a notification which is the same thing that that Sony Ericsson watch did under notifications says the device memory will be cleared and content on the phone is not going to be affected that's fine it's a new device so it goes ahead and it resets all of the notifications on the watch or on the live view so that you're not gonna have stale information over there which is kind of good let's go in now to customize tiles and this is really the interface of the device with that you can show text messages unfortunately I don't believe that's going to include Google Voice text messages you can display incoming calls missed calls you can hook it up with Facebook which I've already done I've already linked my Facebook friends select Facebook activities in here notifications and inbox is what I want I don't want to pull in the newsfeed because I have an awful lot of friends on Facebook and no I'm not being any kind of bragging about that most of the people I don't know who they are anyway back here we can send our update frequency and I've set this to every half an hour and that's basically because I don't want this polling Facebook and using up all that basically all the battery life that it takes to go out and pull every 15 minutes or or whatnot and I might scale that back my facebook app I have that set to about every four hours every six hours I forget which but every 30 minutes should be good and then we can delete the account if we want to which of course we don't want to do next is Twitter and in Twitter same thing link Twitter friends which I've already done update frequency I've set to every half an hour type of Facebook and then of course we can delete the account moving right along RSS I can add an RSS feed so this is where you can go in and you know subscribe to the pocket now RSS feed and get notified on your phone whenever you well notify it on your watch rather through your phone whenever PocketNow posts a new article which is quite frequently we're up to what 20 some-odd plus a day so hey that's awesome news coming at you from all directions calendar this is one of the things I really like your watch now displays calendar information so if you've got an upcoming appointment your watch will remind you it's awesome it's great manage plugins we'll come back to that in just a minute and then focus application the focus application I have no idea what this is but I assume that you can set the default view and we'll we'll follow up in at the the article that's gonna accompany this video if that's not the case but I've set it to all events for right now and then plugins yes there are plugins available for this and I've gone out and downloaded a couple from the market already I've downloaded a weather plug-in which just like you would imagine shows you the current weather so that's very nice I've got that set up and then Gmail as well so if I have an incoming Gmail rather than just a regular email it'll show me here I can set the snippet length that's the amount of characters in that email that's gonna be sent to the device so right now I've got that set into like seven hundred and fifty and you can go up or down from that so that's really cool you can actually lead part of the email on the phone or rather on the device without having to go to the phone to get it lets you select your gmail account if you've got more than one you can go ahead and do that and then select various labels and whatnot then it shows you that this is version one point three point two and it is enabled so plug-in architecture that's really cool there's even an open watch plugin so you can use some of your open watch plugins with this through the open watch plugin I haven't gotten into that too much and I might be wrong on on how that exactly works but it's really really cool so coming back here I think we've covered everything if we go to menu has an open-source licenses so not really a menu but a you know this is open source type of stuff they're using stuff from the open source which means that this may be actually more open than the open watch program it'll be interesting to see what we do there but once that's running it's running and you're good to go you don't have to have a status indicator up here anymore in fact I'm going to go ahead and turn off open watch and use this exclusively for the next few days and I'll let you know how that works out of course we're gonna have a follow up right after this to show you some of the the interactions of the device itself so make sure you stay tuned for that after a full amount of charging here's what we've got now remember the Y view is first and foremost a watch or at least that's my interpretation of it unfortunately it doesn't do a very good job as a watch because as you can see here there's nothing on the screen there's no day there's no date there's no time so when when you want to see what time it is you have to push this button up here on the top and that brings up the time the charge indicator and the calendar date as well so if you want to get to the tiles what you need to do is push this button again and that'll take you to the tiles now this is a touch screen but not like you'd expect you can't tap to take you into a tile you do have this swipe gesture to go across the screen but you can't for some reason go back to the other way if you see it's not going back it's regardless of how I swipe it's going forward so that's kind of dumb in my opinion but if we come in here and look there's our RSS feeds Find My Phone the plugins let's go into plugins now this is unfortunate you have a plugins box and to get into it you have to push the button again and that takes you into plugins you can see I've got two plugins Gmail and whether I want to go into that I have to push up there again not just tap on the screen and it'll go out communicate with the phone and get the current weather with kind of really bad graphics I was expecting quite a bit better graphics but that's probably because the plug-in and the the plug-in rather than the watch let's put it that way the text isn't as sharp as I'd like it to be and as far as I know there's no way to get back so yeah in trying to go back up to the top and this is not letting me do it so I've got to let it timeout before I can go back to something I hope that's a drawback to the plug-in architecture and I really don't like that plug-in folder what I'd like to see is those plug-in tiles be in line with the watch it's not so you just kind of have to live with it so since I can't show you anything else here for a minute I'm gonna go ahead and turn the camera off and we'll come back when we can do something else with it and you remember what I said about this device failing as a watch well what you saw right there was a bunch of zeros and dashes on the screen to get back I actually powered off the device then when I did that I severed the Bluetooth connection between that and the phone which is right over here and then the time went out to zeros which I mean come on keep track of the time if I'm out of range of my phone I still want to be able to know what time it is if my phone is turned off or out of battery power I still want to know what time it is and please don't turn the screen off it's just crazy but anyway let's get back so calendar we'll go ahead and look at calendar really quick I don't have any calendar event so we can't do that and now of course we're stuck at a tile and yeah do you guys want me to continue I mean if you want an in-depth look at the UI of this device I'm happy to do it it's just gonna take me a long time to do because it's just it's not intuitive it doesn't do what you would think and you can see here even with the phone and arm's reach away the device disconnected I don't know why it just does that bluetooth should go quite a bit further than you know 10 12 inches and here you can see my swiping problem and now it's sort of thing the other way but not the right way anyway just kind of crazy I don't have any Facebook alerts I have a couple events so let's look at that here's a gmail I'd like to be able to read more of this but you can see here it's not reactive to any swiping at all but push the button it takes me back that's the behavior supposed to have so all in all cool geek toy it fails as a watch it's halfway decent as a geek toy it's not as cool and as revolutionary as we thought it was going to be but you know it's still something neat unfortunately it's not quite as good as its predecessor made by the same company so I'm probably gonna go back to my Bluetooth watch to date rather than my live if you watch but anyway let us know what you think especially if you get a live view are these experiences the same as what you're getting are they out of the ordinary let us know in the comments below subscribe to our video channel and for pocket now I'm Joe Levi