Sony SmartWatch 2: No Price, No Bluetooth 4.0, Still A Bit Too Big And Useless For Normal People

Sony SmartWatch 2: No price, no Bluetooth 4.0, still a bit too big and useless for normal people

BY Stefan Constantinescu

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Published 25 Jun 2013

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Along with the newly announced 6.44 inch Sony Xperia Z Ultra, the Japanese company also unveiled a successor to their SmartWatch that’s aptly called the SmartWatch 2. What exactly is it? It’s a small Bluetooth enabled screen that you wear on your wrist. It talks to your Android phone to show you missed notifications, incoming calls and texts, and all that jazz. I’ll say this again, all the processing is done on your phone, not the watch itself. The watch is just a dumb terminal.

http://youtu.be/DoUzM7WYlP0

Unfortunately, the SmartWatch 2 doesn’t support Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy, so you’re going to have to charge this thing pretty regularly. Sony says it should give you four days of regular usage, but I highly doubt that’s going to be the case. Some of you, myself included, have push email turned on with multiple accounts, Twitter is also pushing notifications, as is Facebook, WhatsApp, Line, every few minutes.

Is it pretty? Sure. But is it mature? Highly unlikely.

[Via: SlashGear]