 Poster: A snowHead
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kieranm, will take a look later cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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stewart woodward, as far as I'm concerned with that design, you lose half of things nowadays these sort of watches (including Polar V800) are bringing to athletes. Not to mention biometry is in domain of Polar not Garmin 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Markymark29, I use the web site on the ipad as opposed to the app.
I'm not sure I understand on the 2 bike bit though? Are you wanting, for example, to compare PBs on a road segment on your MTB and road bike?
This website takes strava info and allows you to click per bike etc
http://veloviewer.com/
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Torn between the androidwear watches. The sony swr50 the moto 360 and the lg g watch r
There are several ski orientated apps out and rossignal are updating theirs for androidwear soon.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@clashcityrocker, surely you will need one with GPS for ski tracking?
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The phone has that in my backpack. All androidwear watches link up with the gps on that. That said, the sony has gps in the watch and i have one reserved at my local argos to take a look at tomorrow, alomg with a moto 360...
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Got a Pebble. I was involved as an early adopter and specifically asked if apps could be developed for skiers. I find it much, much easier changing music, getting SMS and answering calls when I don't have to strip to get at my phone. You can also do weather checks and use Pebble Bike to track where you are how far/fast you have travelled, etc (watch has GPS). You can also attach it to a heart rate monitor via GPS.
If anyone is interested in the highly collectable Kickstarter Pebbles, I have one or two left that I can let people have at SnowHeads rates. Brand new in sealed box. They have standard strap attachments so you can change the watch strap if you want to.
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@RattytheSnowRat, do they have ski apps for Pebble? I'm watching the BASIS Peak with interest for some reviews once it is out....
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I have a fenix 2. It doesn't do texts etc but I didn't buy it for that, I rarely use my phone so don't care. It works very well for swimming, which is the only thing I have used it for so far. I'm going to try the skiing setting at christmas. It does hiking and biking too, I mainly bought it for that and swimming the skiing thing will be a bonus if it works.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@kitenski, don't have an android, not that I would connect it anyway.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@alicie, it does work with IoS as well I believe.
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I'll be interested to see what the Basis Peak can do. I've got a couple of Pebble and think they're spot on for what they do. I don't recommend the Kreyos Meteor, however. It's not as versatile as the Pebble and the USP of a mic and speaker is poorly executed, as well as it being much bulkier and less intuitive to use.
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You know it makes sense.
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Bought myself a Sony Smartwatch 3 today (AndroidWear) in the Amazon Lightening deals. It was £130. I tried one on it a store recently and liked it, but not for the £180 they wanted.
It's also got GPS, can can be used independently of my phone.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@clashcityrocker, be interested in how you get on with it, definitely one of the better ones out there currently
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Poster: A snowHead
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I have already tried a few instore (Argos do the Moto360 and the Sony SWR50). I really didn't like the look of the Motorola 360. In the promo pictures it looks great, in the flesh, not so. Way to thick. The round display is good for watchfaces, bad for displaying information.
The Sony looked the best on-wrist, and had the best specs. However I wasn't prepared to pay the £180 they wanted. (my only complaint with it was the charging method, microUSB port under a flap on the underside. When other watches charge wirelessly, or have docks, it felt a bit naff for the price).
When it popped up for £130 on the lightening deals, i couldn't resist. I can live with the charging port. It's handy for travel, as it doesn't need an special chargers or cables.
Will post some more info once I have it for a few days.
I am a bit handy at Android Development, so I might take a look at writing some ski-orientated apps 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@clashcityrocker, how are you getting on with the Sony?
It's £179 on amazon with a £30 amazon credit at the moment....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Really pleased with it so far. I'm a big guy, so it doesn't look too big on the wrist, the way it's designed, it looks quite "slim", not actually slimmer than the motorola 360 but it LOOKS alot slimmer due to it's design.
Battery-wise, 2 days is easy, hoping for a bit more when Android 5 arrives in the next week or so. (it's a staged rollout).
The Sony is the only one that goes for the transreflective display, which uses ambient light so, the backlight isn't needed. It works very well too. It could work better or worse when out in the white-stuff. That's an unknown.
The current apps are certainly very useful (make sure you install Google Fit). It's actually very accurate, I did 25mins on the bike at the gym and then 20 mins on the treadmill, and it measured it perfectly. I can also control my music, volume, see phone notifications with finding my phone (which for skiing is my main use-case).
It's not perfect, the charging is clunky (MicroUSB on the underside), but I still believe it's the best smartwatch on the market. This is Sony's 3rd generation smartwatch, all the others are on their 1st gen. It does show. There are smart design decisions. For sure smartwatches will get better, but at £130, I was prepared to jump in, and I have not regretted it.
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I'm sick of always being connected, and I see smart phones as just another way to achieve that.
So no, not for me.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I don't do facebook, and have effective spam prevention and filtering, so don't get loads of interruptuons. I may tech work for me, not me for it (sadly, I do work in the Technology sector, so that last bit it tecnically untrue).
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@clashcityrocker, can you control what notifications you receive? Ie not get notifications for new emails but do so for text/phone calls??
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Yes, you can block specific apps from sending notifications to an AndroidWear watch using the AndroidWear smartphone app.
https://support.google.com/androidwear/answer/6056843
More than happy to try and answer any other questions people might have about general AndroidWear or the Sony SWR50 (Smartwatch3).
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@clashcityrocker, cheers, does the Sony do sleep tracking? if so do you have any screenshots of what it tracks??
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I don't believe it does. There is no heart rate monitor. I have never worn it at night.
My previous activity tracker did (Withings Pulse), before the missus put it through the washing machine whilst still clipped to my jeans... It was interesting stats for a while, but ultimately a novelty. OK if it came with it, but not a deal breaker if it didn't.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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the missus put it through the washing machine whilst still clipped to my jeans...
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 it was obviously her fault!
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