any malaysian owned a moto 360 ady?

I have one

nice, how's the battery?

Lucky

Any pics to show off?

so ha, to have a moto 360 means u need to have bluetooth on always on your phone? i never tried turning on bluetooth perpetually. does bluetooth consume battery at a faster rate? how many percent faster averagely?

Yes, BT need to be on full-time, but since BT 4.0 (Low Energy) is available, the % batt consumed is minimal, in fact, overall you save battery on the phone, because you don't have to open the phone for each notification you receive. You can read it on the watch, some apps allow reply via Voice (Android Wear feature), all without taking out the phone.

Indirectly, also save you battery because usually we humans get distracted easily, after checking/respond to the notification, we might open Facebook, Instagram etc.

You save battery because mostly phone battery is consumed by SOT (Screen On Time), so overall you save quite a lot of battery. This is from my experience with the Pebble Smartwatch, but overall, smartwatch experiences are generally the same in this aspect.

This post has been edited by zhou86: Sep 17 2014, 05:10 PM

Can this watch be stand alone without phone.. not for the whole day..

Unfortunately, no. This watch, as with all other Android Wear devices, are companion devices. It has to be paired with a phone to utilize the features/apps.

If you want standalone, you can check out devices like the Omate Truesmart, Neptune Pine, and the upcoming Samsung Gear S.

p/s: Should have a few more other OEM standalones from China, but I don't have the full list.

Latest Bluetooth version consume low enough battery, that most likely you wont notice any battery drain. This is me compare old Bluetooth V2 against V4

Someonesim Did you pre-order the Moto 360 yet?

how long does it takes to charge it let say from 15% to 100%?

based on the capacity, it should not take an hour to do so, should be half an hour only right?

Yup, but not sure on ETA yet

Moto 360 Review



Battery Life

What about battery life, though? I shared some thoughts on battery life a week ago, and those thoughts have not changed. The Moto 360 has two display modes – Ambient Screen on or off. If you keep Ambient Screen on, your device will stay awake, dimly lit, all day long, so that you can quickly glance at it from any angle to check the time, just like a normal watch. The battery (320mAh) and processor (an ancient TI OMAP 3) together are not good enough for the device to last for more than 10-12 hours with this mode on. I would advise you leave it off. If you leave Ambient Screen off, your watch will last you all day, from the moment you wake up and take it off the charger until you take it off at night and go to bed. With Ambient Screen off, not once has the Moto 360 died on me in a day and left me stranded with a dead device on my wrist. On most days, I take the watch off, check the battery percentage remaining and typically see at least 15%.

So here is the deal. As with any smartwatch, you need to learn how to optimize it. A smartwatch isn’t supposed to replace your smartphone. It’s supposed to be an extension of it, to help you quickly view information before deciding if it needs more attention (which would mean pulling your phone out). A smartwatch is there for quick voice replies to texts or messages, seeing calendar appointments or new emails as they roll in, navigation here or there, and some fitness tracking. It is supposed to help you efficiently manage your time with your phone, to help you decide if items need action now or later. If you approach your smartwatch in that manner, you will get all-day battery.

Other Android Wear watches currently have better battery life than the Moto 360, there is no denying that. But in the end, they aren’t seeing 2-3 day battery life either. While the 360 may see 20-25 hours of use and need charging at night, others need nightly charges as well if you want to see them last throughout the next day. So in the end, all Android Wear watches need nightly charges.

Is battery life on the Moto 360 bad? No. Is it great? No. It really is somewhere in the middle, but again, it will last you a full day without worry.

Performance

The Moto 360 is powered by a TI OMAP 3 processor, which is the same processor used in 2010’s DROID 2 and Motorola’s previous smartwatch, the MOTOACTV. It’s old, slow, and power hungry. We still aren’t sure why Motorola decided to use this tired old processor to power their beautiful smartwatch when everyone else in the game is using a modern day Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, but I can’t help but mention how disappointing that fact is. The Moto 360 doesn’t need to do much, yet you will often find stuttering in the UI when swiping or scrolling between cards and activating voice actions. It doesn’t lag all of the time, but the lag is real. The “jank,” as Tim would put it, is real.

If you were rating performance on the 360, you could probably put it somewhere in the middle, bordering on semi-bad. That’s not to say that the 360 is ever unusable, because again, it doesn’t need to do much other than show cards, allow you to swipe between them, and be prepared for voice actions. The 360 just isn’t as fluid as one would like from a smart device in 2014. I guess chipsets from 2010 aren’t ready to leave 2010 behind.

This post has been edited by SyathibiyMegat: Sep 17 2014, 05:55 PM

hua~~ lucky you! i tried order mine from friend, but he failed. lol

You can't buy unless if you're residing there

any updates for our orders?

yeah we might asking friend in US to buy it.

Sept 18-23

I can buy for you