Sony Xperia SmartWatch Review

    During CES 2012 Sony Ericsson had a new accessory to show off in the form of a new Bluetooth watch that can apparently play nicely with most Android smartphones running Android 2.1 and above and is called the Sony SmartWatch, so one can assume that Sony has now dropped the Ericsson part of the name.

    The device itself is connected to your handset via Bluetooth and can answer calls, play music, act as a notifier, and allows the user to check on their social networks such as Twitter and Facebook and all done by a new app running on your phone and controlling the SmartWatch.With typical usage the battery life of the Sony SmartWatch is said to last four days, which seems very reasonable to me, the device sports a capacitive touch screen that works well although when asleep you need to tap the side button to wake it up.

    Alongside its Sony Xperia Ion and Xperia S Android smartphones, Sony also used CES to launch its new Xperia Watch, the latest attempt at a connected watch.

   The Xperia watch features a 1.3 inch OLED 128x128 resolution display and is designed to connect to Sony's Xperia Arc S (the latest Xperia smartphone) via Bluetooth. This allows you to use the watch to answer calls, read texts, control music, interact with certain apps like Facebook and Twitter, and even check weather reports.

    Among the coolest (or most pointless - but aren't many of the coolest things in life?) is the ability to see the view through your phone's camera on the watch. The usefulness of this might be debatable but it works pretty well.

    Crucially the watch actually looks pretty good. It's slim at just 8mm thick, and is only 36mm square. It also feels well built with a glass screen and metal chassis and buttons, and a comfortable (if sweat-enhancing) silicone strap. It also weighs just 15.5g. 

   It’s still dependent on connection to an Android phone via Bluetooth for all of its functionality, and that’s where the missing the mark bit comes in. Unlike the MotoACTV or even the iPod nano, the Xperia Smartwatch has no memory of its own. It can’t play music by itself, it simply controls music streamed from your phone. Though it runs some flavor of Android, it’s little more than a dumb terminal.

                                      

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