I am trying to decide between moto 360 2nd gen and gear s2. What I really want is any notification that comes up on my phone and causes a sound or vibrate on the phone, to pop up in some form on the watch and will light it up and vibrate (even if screen is off). Staying lit for at least a while would be good. Strength of vibration is important too. Comfort of the leather strap too.
Notifications and how well it works with S7?
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I'm using the 1st gen Moto360 with an S7 Edge and it does give out any notification that happens on your phone. HOWEVER, two things to note:
1) Not all notifications will light up the screen, only priority ones. Some apps (Whatsapp, Facebook's Messenger, Messaging apps) already set themselves as priority and thus light up the watch when you get a notification, but for those that don't, you can manually set them up as such, but it'd have to be in a per-app basis. You do get the vibration for all, though.
2) This only works for actual notifications. Alarms and timers on your phone don't give out a notification, just an action in your phone generated by the Clock app, so these won't do anything on your watch. You can set up timers in your watch that won't do anything on the phone, and if you give access to it, calendar reminders do notify you on both devices.
As for the leather strap, I find mine very comfortable but it's leather. You have to take care of it. Although the watch is waterproof to a certain extent, getting the strap wet and not caring for it properly, say, after a sweaty workout, will cause the strap to stink quite quickly.
1) Not all notifications will light up the screen, only priority ones. Some apps (Whatsapp, Facebook's Messenger, Messaging apps) already set themselves as priority and thus light up the watch when you get a notification, but for those that don't, you can manually set them up as such, but it'd have to be in a per-app basis. You do get the vibration for all, though.
2) This only works for actual notifications. Alarms and timers on your phone don't give out a notification, just an action in your phone generated by the Clock app, so these won't do anything on your watch. You can set up timers in your watch that won't do anything on the phone, and if you give access to it, calendar reminders do notify you on both devices.
As for the leather strap, I find mine very comfortable but it's leather. You have to take care of it. Although the watch is waterproof to a certain extent, getting the strap wet and not caring for it properly, say, after a sweaty workout, will cause the strap to stink quite quickly.
I was reading some things about the latest upgrades of watch OS and/or android wear app caused problems for people relating to lots of dropped connections or notifications not working right. It worries me a bit. I was looking at this vs the S2 because I can arrange for a good deal on the moto that pushes the cost below my cringe threshold.
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I'm on the 1st gen 360 since it launched and it only gets better with every update (except for one annoyance with watch-face re-rendering after leaving standby, but that's not terrible). Battery life just improves and improves and while I did have connection issues at the beginning, those were gone after a couple updates long ago.
That being said, can't speak for the 2nd gen watch, although I don't see how it would be drastically different.
That being said, can't speak for the 2nd gen watch, although I don't see how it would be drastically different.
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