20 July 2012

Motorola GPS

Sleek, black, and sporting an attractive square touchscreen, this new offering from Motorola packs a GPS tracker, MP3 player, and general-purpose pedometer and activity monitor into a watch-sized form factor that’s seriously unobtrusive. Its logical interface, clear screen, and strong online tools make it a joy to use, and if you wear it all day it’ll count your steps and estimate your caloric burn from your everyday activities. It’ll even sync with its website over your wireless network, no computer needed.

All that functionality takes its toll on the watch’s battery life, and it works better with Android devices than iPhones, but as an all-in-one fitness tracker and music player, it’s top notch. At around $250 for the basic 8 GB model, it doesn’t seem cheap — but stack that up next to the cost of replacing an on-contract iPhone after dropping one in a muddy puddle mid-run, and it’s suddenly better value.

 

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