The Zenwatch is the best Android Wear-watch made so far. The screen is square, and therefore becoming less striking than the round displays of the Moto 360 and LG G Watch R.
However, the Zenwatch finish is so far unmatched in the smart watch market. The housing is made of stainless steel and has a slight curvature so that the watch is beautiful on the wrist.
On the side is a detail with a rose gold color. The device feels very sturdy and also the supplied strap brown leather (you can substitute other standard wristwatch) is of good quality.
I looked at the screen while testing the Zenwatch, I was regularly the remark: “I had first not notice it was a smart watch.” That is the best compliment that can get a smart watch at this time
In appearance the Zenwatch has really just one big flaw:. The snap closure of the strap works well, but is very thick. That makes the watch a lot less comfortable if you eg leaning with your wrist on the desk, because there is a big lump under.
However, the price of 229 euro is relatively moderate for an Android device Wear . The Moto 360 is the last few weeks to buy less, but the Zenwatch is a bit more affordable than several other Android watches
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Screen
the Zenwatch screen is 1.63 inches in diameter and has a resolution of 320 by 320 pixels. This is similar to the scenes of previous Android watches. The brightness is somewhat disappointing, so the clock on a sunny day was hardly to read, even at the highest brightness setting.
Unlike most competitors Zenwatch has no physical button to activate the screen. To the screen of the watch highlight has to be tapped out, or wrist should be lifted towards the face.
Although it generally works well, the lack of a physical button makes sometimes problems on. Touches designed to awaken the screen to life are sometimes interpreted as touches in the software, so that for example, the voice control is activated
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Performance and battery
Inside the watch is a Snapdragon 400 with 512 MB RAM. Same specifications we previously saw in smart watches from LG and Samsung, and the performance is again sufficient.
The Zenwatch of the battery kept it during testing always at least one full day, though the battery life seems slightly less then the G Watch R. That watch was in some cases only half empty at the end of the day, while the Zenwatch typically had 20 to 30 percent of its battery capacity available
| Screen Size | 1.63 inch |
| Resolution | 320 x 320 pixels |
| Processor | Snapdragon 400 (1 2 GHz) |
| RAM | 512 MB |
| Storage | 4 GB |
| Dimensions | 50.6 x 39.8 x 7.9-9.4 mm |
| Weight | 75 grams |
| Price | 229 euros |
Custom Applications
Android Wear can be adjusted not widened by manufacturers. Asus’m still add their own features to make the watch system available through various apps that work with the Zenwatch.
There are no less than four Zenwatch apps that are made available by Asus in Google Play. (It is unclear why these apps could not be combined into one organized whole). If you do not install the apps, you get to watch your smart messages urging you to do so. That’s quite pushy about it.
A nice addition is the Remote Camera app, which the smart watch makes a shutter for the smartphone camera. This is certainly not an essential feature, but it’s funny to make a selfie with a twist of the wrist.
In the loose Zenwatch Manager app are still some useful features, including the ability to watch vibrate when it is lost, or the ability to set an alarm when the watch is too far removed from a smartphone. So you get to see directly on your wrist if you forgot your phone.
For runners, there’s the Zenwatch Music app, which makes it possible to put music on the memory of the watch. Then the watch can be directly linked to a Bluetooth headset to listen music while running. It is useful that the smartphone not anymore need for the music, but it is with the Zenwatch not possible to track your route via GPS while running.
Fitness
The Zenwatch contains a jumble of fitness apps. Asus’s own Wellness app, which actually does exactly the same as Google Fit the supplied standard platform for counting steps.
In addition, even though standard with an app from Jawbone which focuses on tracking of steps and sleep patterns. It is unclear why Asus considers it necessary to make it three apps that do almost the same.
Another problem with health measurements, the heart rate monitor that is incorporated in the smart watch. There is no sensor on the back, like several competitors, but you can take a measurement by touching the sides of the watch with two fingers
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In short, this works for a yard. If a measurement is not half was demolished, my heartbeat was quietly sitting on an office chair set at between 35 and 179 beats per minute.
Even stranger is the function within Wellness you ‘relaxation’ can measure. I scored herein scores between 69 and 89 points (on which scale is unclear). At each score was a green screen and a smiling emoji shown, alongside a generic advice to relax.
Android Wear
It is good that Asus is trying to discern with their own features, but they do not break. Android Wear is itself slowly improved over the past year, but the system is still far from perfect.
The voice control works slightly better together with the Dutch language, but there are many errors occur. Android Wear watches remain above notification screens around the wrist. This is sometimes useful, but makes the smart watch not essential. On days when I was not wearing the Zenwatch, I really missed him at all.
This week it was announced that Android Wear will soon get a major update, which puts more focus on apps. Currently all pretty much wear apps are available, but is a huge tour through the need to start them menu.
Who knows, Android wear watches with the update a lot more useful. Currently, smart watches are mainly still experimental gadgets. The Zenwatch there is so one, albeit an above average beautiful
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- Beautiful design
- Additional Features
- Relatively affordable
- Poor Heart Rate Monitor
- Android Wear not essential
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