Monday, March 1, 2004
Got The Time? The SPOT Watch Review
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 10:00 AM
Next, I have the option for Calendar appointments. Rather than explaining the whole option, I’ll let this graphic do the talking:
Figure 6: The Calendar sync screen.
The MSN Direct interface also allows you to remove features you don’t need. Since I don’t own any stocks that haven’t already been de-listed (damn you crappy tech stocks of 2001!), I’ll remove this. There’s an option to receive a new watch face every month, which is cool, so I’ve added that. Let’s see, what else…aha, news! I like being up to date when things happen, so I’ll want to dive into this section. Ok, adding news, adding news….oh, there’s a limit of 10 news sources. Ok, so now I have to be more selective. I noticed that the defaults were things like Associated Press Business, Associated Press News, Associated Press International…and not MSNBC. See? Microsoft isn’t a monopoly about everything! ;-) There’s also an option for breaking news, so I’ll check that – I want to know instantly the next time Ben and Jen break up!
Figure 7: Configuring the news I want to come to my watch.
Figure 8: The messages explanation is a little dense – I’m not sure I understand it completely, so perhaps that means I’m a little dense. I’ll check the box and see what happens.
Hey look, my watch just told me it’s activated! Not bad at all – that was less than 30 minutes. Impressive!
The last channel is the Glance channel – this controls what information I’ll see when I glance down at the watch, because it will scroll it by on its own…which will interfere with the time display I’d think.
