Week 1:
Setting up the clock went without a hitch. Android Wear app on your phone installed (for connecting Android Wear devices prerequisite) and is coupled to a Nexus 4. Apps come at the clock in the form of companion apps, which means that a normal app with a specific app for Android Wear comes that it transfers automatically to the phone. Even to install as usual the app on your phone or tablet, the companion app, if available, then popped automatically on the clock and is callable. In Play store itself can indicate the presence of Android-Wear support from the description of the app. The easiest ergoogelt you look at a market overview.
In principle, Android Wear Watches hardly be distinguished from the operation here. The hardware can also make a significant difference. The SW3 has a special feature, built-in GPS, is waterproof to IP68 and has NFC. The first two points they make formal definitely fit for sports. Wifi the clock would have, apart from the usefulness of this feature is not yet supported by Google with Android Wear, is therefore disabled.
Also Watch Faces, use, battery life has been safely received extensively under the other reviews. I find the use of Android Wear first getting used to, but so slowly I fummel me. Potential for improvement is definitely there. Let's see if soon in rustles Android Wear 5.1. My clock was shipped with 5.0.2.
On the arm, the clock carries wonderful: light and unobtrusive.
For my first trip I Wear the support the Android enabled in Google Music. The locally stored albums and playlists are transferred to the clock immediately. Selective choice is not possible (!), But I'm assuming that this serious limitation with the next update of Google Music will be canceled. What happens if you have more albums on the phone, as is space available on the clock? No Idea. After a very long transfer time, I had just about 1 GB of music on the clock. Man may well also transfer music through USB at the clock. Will I not try, because I only use Google Music.
Next up was the connection with my Plantronics BackBeat Bluetooth headphones to FIT (an incredible g ... he, waterproof Sportkpfhörer). Also it worked without any problems. The cordless listening to music directly from the clock was now possible, and the operation through the buttons of the headset work as usual, taking it to fiddly way is of course also possible to use the control element of the app on the clock.
There are a lot of running apps in the Play Goals. A few support Android Wear, still less the built-in GPS of SW3. I have chosen for the first test for "Ghost Racer". To use Android Wear one must participate however in the beta program. Equipped with my Polar RCX5 GPS and upper arm and my SW3 and headphones, it could now go to the sports field, 2 km away. On the GPS fix I had to wait a while between two rows of houses in Berlin, he remained well within the time tolerable. Unfortunately I had not dealt with the use of "Ghost Racer", so I did not get to the series, to pause the recording at a traffic light. I therefore pass over the measurement of the first section.
On the 400m track, unfortunately showed that the clock does not behave like other phones. While the Arctic after 45:00 min uniform running almost exactly 10.000m indicated (the correct value), the clock was already at 12,300 meters. An unacceptable deviation. I suspect it to the internal smoothing algorithms, whether of Android or where the app is located. I have to watch at times occasion the raw data and also look at other apps. I will, of course, repeat the test on normal plugging in the forest or in the city and reports. We will see.
Very positive I can report on the stability of the connection music. Although there was an unintended stop and one, two outs. But Kurt press pause and play brought the whole thing back into balance. The approximately 80-minute trip took me about 30% battery. A great value in my opinion.
External pulse belts the way you can also connect to the clock. At present I have no Bluetooth at hand, but I will soon buy myself one, because for endurance sports it is vital. Built-in optical sensors, as they offer some watches, you can forget about playing sports. I I shy before that to buy me a calibrate foot pod of Polar and Adidas (I prefer basically running sensors against GPS) because I nichgt can ascertain whether Android (Wear) supports it and if so Android Wear Apps can handle it.
Update 1:
Today 12 km again went headphones with the app Ghost Racer and Backeat FIT. This time mainly forest path. The deviation from the Polar RCX5 was in the end only about 200m. The difference can be explained by the 200m underpass without GPS and the different handling of such "obstacles" by the clock. I do not know what clock was correct, because I do not know the real length of the path. Am impressed.
I'll keep you informed ...
