Here's my brief review of the Nixon mission on iOS. The watch is an amazing looking watch and by far the best looking one in the stable of androidwear watches. I have an Apple Watch and it's been very reliable and a solid performer, but of course it is because it's Apple talking to Apple. Nixon advertises that the Nixon mission works with iOS, and it does sort of. I was up and running in a matter of minutes and the pairing was easy. Unfortunately that's kind of where it ends, getting notifications on my watch was very spotty at best and sometimes I would get a text message and the watch wouldn't indicate a message came through at all. Other times I would feel a very faint vibration in my wrist indicating I received a message, and that was a big problem for me. For such a large watch the vibration is a total joke, and coming from an Apple Watch which is much more daintier and less heavy duty, the vibration on the Apple device is at least 5 to 6 times stronger than what is on the Nixon. I did notice that it seems to be an iMessage problem, sometimes I would get iMessages and be notified from the watch with the faint vibration. Other times I wouldn't, in fact most times I wouldn't. However my non-iPhone users seem to come through 9 out of 10 so I'm contributing this to an iOS versus android problem. I'm hoping that a future update will address this issue. Everyone seems to be excited about the upcoming androidwear 2.0, and it seems to be introducing some really cool stuff however there's not a lot of information about what it's going to do to fix the gap between androidwear and iOS. I was beyond excited when I saw this watch at Best Buy, as I've wanted it since the day they announced it but I was a little wary about buying it without being able to easily return it. So when I saw it on the Best Buy display I immediately bought it and took it home. I really gave it a shot and in fact I thought about holding onto it and just using it as a "dumb watch" until the next update comes however in the long run that seem to be a waste of money so I returned it after about a day of use. I'm certain most people here android users and won't experience these problems that I ran into.
A couple of things worth mentioning... there's a few watch faces that I really liked on the watch but was notified when selecting them that it was not compatible with iOS and that it was an android only face for the time being, bummer. Notifications from other applications on my phone such as news outlets, pulse point application, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram notified me on the watch without much problem. Again when it comes the notification even though those applications are still showing up on the watch the poor vibration makes it more less a moot point because I'm not feeling the notification. I certainly will give us one another look when androidwear 2.0 comes out.