The Moto 360

Motorola caught everyone's attention with the moto 360, but after its release some are less enthusiastic about buying the smart watch.

Smart watches are still a niche product for the geeks and early adopters of new tech, but the moto 360 was supposed to change that. The circular display and watch design made the watch seem more like a standard watch rather than the square, less eye pleasing ,design.

After some use we can clearly see the moto 360 is not what it was meant to be.The circular display was not a perfect circle and the long lasting battery barely lasts a day.

The moto 360  has a 1.5" LCD with a resolution of 360 x 290. the display is not the sharpest and not the brightest but the display is good enough for viewing your notifications and Google Now cards. The watch runs on a TI OMAP3 chipset and has 4 GB ROM . The watch has 512 MB of RAM that should be sufficient for running android wear OS. The 320 mAh battery does not do any favors for the smartwatch, even with the under powered processor the moto 360 maxes out at 8 hours of battery life. When the moto 360 was torn down it was found that there was only a 300 mAh battery in the watch. The charging dock is actually usable with a desktop clock face when you dock the watch, but you'll be using the dock more often than you'd like. 

The moto 360 runs on android wear which is still not a very ironed out OS and it still  has its hiccups and glitches. 

All together the price ($249) and specs of the watch don't compel average consumers to buy a smartwatch.