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Apr 19 2012

A few key Sony SmartWatch experiences that you might not have tried…

April 19, 2012 - 4:34 PM
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Sony SmartWatch is much more than an impressive remote for your Xperia smartphone – it’s a neat gadget brimming with features designed to complement you and your lifestyle.

We got hands-on with SmartWatch at this year’s MWC – you can browse your social networks, read emails, check for missed calls, even flick through your music player… but, by simply downloading some of the innovative apps from Google play, you can also enjoy these unique experiences:

1. The remote control camera, VFinder. Use this app to capture a photo from a different room or almost any accessible location. Simply place your camera ready to take a snap, look through the viewfinder on your SmartWatch, swipe to take your picture and capture it in your image gallery.

2. Take a run (or walk, or cycle) with Endomondo Sports Tracker. It acts as your personal trainer and social fitness partner, letting you track your workouts and challenge friends. With SmartWatch, you can access your performance stats on the move and break your personal best without needing to look at your phone. SmartWatch’s splash proof screen also lets fitness junkies monitor performance when braving the rain.

3. Become the grocery store uber-geek with Pocket To Do. No need for paper lists here – just swipe your items off your SmartWatch once in your basket.

4. Quickly switch your handset to silent mode with Modechanger, perfect for rushing in to work briefings. Talking of…

5. Presentation Pal lets you remotely set-up and configure your work slides and presentations. Simply click the SmartWatch screen to flick on to the next slide. No more fumbling for the laptop keypad or mouse during that all-important meeting.

6. But say you’re stuck in a less-than-important (or never-ending) meeting… Quickly and easily flick through your favourite RSS web feeds to catch-up with the latest news. Your boss will think you’re just checking the time to make sure the meeting isn’t running over ;-)

7. Want more reasons to take a break from work? You can now play classic games on SmartWatch such as retro puzzler, Tic-Tac-Toe.

8. SmartWatch doesn’t have a keypad, but you can still respond to texts with the Messaging app. Simply open a text message on SmartWatch then tap “Reply” and select a response from the pre-set options, such as “Call Me”.

9. If you have a Bluetooth headset, you can take calls from other Xperia smartphones on SmartWatch. Simply click your wrist and speak to fellow Xperia users hands free. You can also reject any call you (don’t) like.

10. Last but not least… SmartWatch even lets you tell the time! It may seem obvious, but with all the incredible functionality on offer it’s easy to forget. By downloading apps, you can also change the look of your watch face. Check out Droid Watches for starters!

Sony Smartwatch is shipping globally as you read this – have fun and let us know what you’ve been doing with yours :-)

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    • By anthony

      Hey Dmitry, thanks for stopping by.

      Sure – you can accept calls and speak to other Xperia smartphone users using SmartWatch and a Bluetooth headset. This feature is only open between Xperia users, but you can reject calls (and/or silence the phone’s ringer) from any handset.

      I hope that helps? Let me know.

      Ant.

      • By Clio Creslind

        Wait a minute… Do you mean if I have the SmartWatch, and an Xperia phone, and then someone calls me using a non-Xperia phone, I WON’T be able to pick up that call using the SmartWatch touchscreen while I can do so if my caller uses an Xperia phone?

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  • By Francesco Paolo Didonna

    Hi Antonhy , I am waiting impatiently for the sale of Smartwatch in Italy, can you tell me when it will be ‘available?
    As soon as it ‘I’ll use it for sport, for the running and i monitor my heart rate using a belt Garmin Ant+ connected to Arc and Endomondo!

  • By Tom Roseveare

    A number of recommendations that would make this device more usable (in order of priority)

    - Proper email support (Gmail, Exchange etc. a massive disappointment!!)
    - Music plugin that let’s you select player (not just “Automatic”)
    - Music plugin that can navigate music files – iPod had this 10 years ago!
    - Plugin that lets you choose screen timeout, brightness, and vibrate behaviour.
    - More than one reply option in Messages.
    - Mini notification icons on corner of screen when in sleep mode.

    Stop trying to flog Xperia devices and have some respect for users of other Android devices, when marketing this product. Sony needs to innovate to recover as a business, but this product is let down by underwhelming software.

  • By Neil Whitaker

    Please, PLEASE can we have an update to the SmartWatch app that will give us more watch faces? Surely one of the main advantages of having a lovely dot-matrix display is that it can show any kind of watch face imaginable – and we have to choose from three!

    You could really go to town here, get users to submit their designs, have celebrities design them, the sky’s the limit!

    It would really enable the user to personalise their watch.

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