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This moto round smart Watch: five years ago triggered the "brush machine" fever

When it comes to 2014's smart watch, maybe many people will think of Apple watch. At that year's apple conference, the watch that appeared as one more thing attracted the public's attention. But if you turn your attention to the Android camp, you will find that another classic watch, moto 360, is officially launched. As the first smart watch with a round dial, its appearance has brought many people unforgettable memories. In this issue, the geek museum will let us talk about this distinctive product.

When fashion collides with technology

Five years ago, with the launch of moto X and moto g phones, Motorola brought its first Android wear smart watch, moto 360. As one of the few smart watches at that time, moto 360 was impressive in design. The 40 mm LCD round dial with a very narrow front frame is also amazing for people to see today. Although the front ambient light sensor affects the screen integrity, it is still cool under the black dial. Friends who are familiar with the geek museum may remember that as early as 2011, Motorola began to try smart watches, and launched motoactv, a smart watch that plays a major role in sports. Maybe it foresaw the bright future of smart wearable, moto 360 changed the design of motoactv square dial to adopt a more approachable round dial, and also tried to simplify the keys. Only one button was set on the side, so the simple appearance makes it fashionable. In the case part of the watch, moto 360 is made of stainless steel. The design of leather strap not only reduces the cold feeling of technology, but also makes it more dynamic. Compared with other Android wear system watches on the market at that time, it can attract the attention of ordinary users. The thickness of 11.5mm and the weight of 49G are also as light as possible.

It is worth mentioning that this watch also supports wireless charging function. Besides the official charging base, it can also be used as a small alarm clock on the current general wireless charging board. In the hardware part, moto 360 is equipped with Texas Instruments chip, with the main frequency of 1GHz. This processor is the upgraded version of motoactv in that year. Although the processing performance is not strong, moto has accumulated some experience on it. With 512MB + 4GB storage combination, it is basically not a problem.

As one of the earliest smart watches equipped with Android wear system, moto 360 not only has a unique product design style, but also brings a refreshing feeling to many people in the use of the system.

The beginning of watch "brush machine"

Android wear is a system designed by Google for wearable products based on Android platform. In this system, Google brings watch experience similar to native Android system, including Google built in Now, Google maps, google music, health and other applications, obviously, Google wants to create a complete Android ecological loop through these applications, but this idea of "follow the cat and draw the tiger" has brought many problems in moto 360. First of all, the interaction on the watch is not natural. Although moto 360 has a touch screen with a large area, it is easy to block the content when interacting with the mobile phone. Secondly, in order to meet the various functions of the watch, it is not only necessary to insert various sensors, but also easy to affect the endurance.

So there is no way to treat it like a normal watch, or use it like a mobile phone. These bad uses actually appeared in the early apple watch.

But with the release of moto 360, some domestic manufacturers seized the opportunity to experience Android In the case of wear system, the two-year walk out inquiry has provided ticwear system for this watch, which is well known by people. That is to say, during that time, it has become one of the daily fun for many digital enthusiasts to brush the watch, and the walk out inquiry has also seen the prospect of the smart watch, while the difficulty in solving the endurance pain of the watch has brought opportunities for products like Xiaomi bracelet. Moto 360 has attracted the attention of the media and geek enthusiasts since its release. In 2014, when wearable devices are still groping forward, its exquisite design has attracted many people. It is also the first Android wear watch with a round dial. Even now, we can still see its shadow from many smart watches. In the era when everyone is feeling the stones and crossing the river, moto 360 has opened the first lesson of many people's smart watches.

However, poor endurance performance, old processor, and far from mature system make this watch not easy to use, let alone brush the system when it is used in China. These barriers not only restrict its development, but also let many people put it into the drawer after it is fresh. Until the second generation of moto 360 was released in 2015, Android wear officially landed in China.

Now, a few years later, when Xiaomi watch was released, wear OS came into people's view again (Android wear changed its name to wear OS by Google in 2018), which also reminds people of this once amazing product again. Recently, there is a rumor that the new generation of moto 360 will return again. Do you know if you will be interested again?