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jarledb

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#1262007 18-Mar-2015 22:10

dickytim:
I have signed up for the new Pebble Time Steel and it will be due around August

What? August?! Thats soooooo long away. Thought it would be out in may or something like that. Which still would have been after the Apple Watch.

I spied the Alcatel OneTouch watch, this looks like a nice piece of kit and should be around $300 NZD

I just get flashbacks to some really bad cellphones in the 90s from Alcatel.. I think having to deal with them has put me off the brand for life.. But it might they make better products now.

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#1262078 19-Mar-2015 06:38

jarledb:
dickytim:
I have signed up for the new Pebble Time Steel and it will be due around August

What? August?! Thats soooooo long away. Thought it would be out in may or something like that. Which still would have been after the Apple Watch.

I spied the Alcatel OneTouch watch, this looks like a nice piece of kit and should be around $300 NZD

I just get flashbacks to some really bad cellphones in the 90s from Alcatel.. I think having to deal with them has put me off the brand for life.. But it might they make better products now.

The first run for earlier supporters is May, I am a little later to the party!

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#1263682 19-Mar-2015 20:15

seoras:

Then there's the whole easy checkout payments thing with Apple pay.
That, i think, has Apple's rivals panicking right now more than anything.

LOL
Sony Smartwatch 3 has NFC, hell, all my phones for the last 3 years have NFC... until that payments gets wider than the US and banks let us use Google Wallet, it's all pretty much useless.

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#1264076 20-Mar-2015 14:30

blakamin:
LOL
Sony Smartwatch 3 has NFC, hell, all my phones for the last 3 years have NFC... until that payments gets wider than the US and banks let us use Google Wallet, it's all pretty much useless.

Its not the NFC that is new with Apple Pay though. Its the whole system around it which makes it really easy to add credit cards to use through NFC.

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#1264173 20-Mar-2015 16:31

Haven't seen any Apple Pay terminals here. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.

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#1264294 20-Mar-2015 19:48

Dingbatt: Haven't seen any Apple Pay terminals here. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.

They are everywhere, works on pay wave and pay pass terminals.
Someone here made a purchase using it in October with a US account.

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#1264329 20-Mar-2015 22:07

kendog:
Someone here made a purchase using it in October with a US account.

There's the big elephant in the room... google wallet works... with a US account too...

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#1265725 23-Mar-2015 13:29

Quite seriously, you would have to have rocks for brains to pay these sort of prices for the 1st gen edition... wouldn't you?

Basically, it's looking like around $1,000 for the 42mm watch with a bland strap ...

http://www.techradar.com/news/wearables/apple-watch-price-how-much-does-it-cost--1287843

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#1265796 23-Mar-2015 13:58

blakamin:
kendog:
Someone here made a purchase using it in October with a US account.

There's the big elephant in the room... google wallet works... with a US account too...

It "works" but it doesn't eliminate the negative cue of paying for goods/services as well as Apple Pay does.
That watch also feeds the need for "look at me", as someone pays by flashing their watch and tapping on it casually.
What is referred to as "self authenticating acts", by marketing & business academics in irrational consumerism.

As geeks we tend to think things through logically, but logic doesn't really apply to irrational consumerism.
That watch isn't made for geeks it's made for everyone else - meaning those who don't care if they can't get root access on their device(s).

I just refreshed my website and thought I'd write up my thoughts on the watch and the irrational, rather than logical, aspects of it's possible failure or success as a first article to kick things off.
Smart Watches, Irrational Necessities?

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