Motorola Moto 360 smartwatch, 1st generation, $99.99 at AT&T corporate stores

@cengland0 How much battery life do you get out of it? Also, is it as big as it looks? What functions do you enjoy the most?

@DaveInSoCal

I get about a full day of use, off the charger at around 7:30am, back on around 11pm. It ranges from having 15% battery left to having been dead for an hour or so.

Notifications are the best use for me. I keep my personal phone quiet all day so seeing notifications on my wrist is nice. Step counting and heart rate are nice features. Voice search and text are useful but i will see it coming up randomly when I'm driving. Once it texted a random contact a reasonable transcription of a podcast i was listening to, that could have been awkward.

GPS turn by turn navigation is also excellent with the watch.

The gray leather band on mine has dyed my wrist from time to time if I got sweaty. Occasionally it will be weirdly unresponsive. But overall I'd rate it a good buy at this price.

The only huge disappointment I've had from it was the Ingress app. No fault of the watch on that one, though.

I bought mine a few months ago when at&t was selling it to employees for $125, a friend that works for them hooked me up. I also bought a brown band and later a pebble stainless band but haven't gotten around to swapping them.

@DaveInSoCal i guess i could do better with a size reference. Here it is next to a coin worth 0.75 Turkish Lira.

@djslack I have the exact same watch, same colors too. I also had the same battery life you are describing up till the last week or so. I've been getting really great battery life since the latest update to the Wear app (I think that's what did it). I thought it was a fluke at first but this whole week, I've been getting a ton more life out of it. It used to be pretty much dead or around 5% after 14 hours or so. As I am writing this I am at 52% and I took it off the charger 13.5 hours ago. This is the best battery performance I've ever gotten out of it, and I've owned it since launch. If this is the new normal, I would say $99 is a no brainer. Battery life has been the biggest downside to this thing so far.

@djslack one star for ingress reference! and what is the downside for the ingress app? i haven't ventured into the smart watch market yet...

@jaybird The ingress app eats battery (like would kill it in 2 hours), makes the watch uncomfortably hot, and isn't that useful in the places it would be most welcome (walking with high portal density). Basically requires you to scroll through nearby portals to access one, although having a hack button on your wrist is neat.

@crapstick mine shows updated to 9/18 version, no noticeable increase in battery life.

I desperately need to wipe my phone and upgrade to lollipop, a fresh start may improve things.

@djslack so not yet worth it. i glyph mostly anyway and if you can't do that on the watch, well... i guess if i had the watch already it would be neat, but not a good reason to go buy the watch just for ingress

@jaybird agreed. It made everyone I play with jealous, until I used it and reported back on it. Haven't used it since the first day.

The watch itself is insanely cool, though.

@DaveInSoCal I get a full day of battery life. There are other watches that can get a week but this is definitely not one of them. I take it off when going to bed to charge it for the next day.

About the size, it's just about as large as any of my other men's watches.

I use a weather app as my main screen. I like being able to read an email or text without having to un-snap my phone from the otterbox clip. I can see my schedule, use a calculator, "ask google" anything, find my phone, and control things I'm watching using chrome cast (shows pause and play buttons).

@cengland0 You're the first person to mention chromecast controls. That is a very nice feature.

@DaveInSoCal I didn't know it had that feature until one I went to use my chromecast and watched a youtube video. Suddenly, the watch had the controls and it surprised me. It also has controls when you listen to music but I don't do that often. It shows you the name of the song playing and allows you to control volume, play/pause, and skip to next song.

@djslack Mine was updated 9/18 also. I am running Lollipop on my 2014 Moto X so maybe that's the difference but I'm stoked by the performance either way.

@crapstick So today I have Hangouts notifications muted. I get them all day long. Watch on from 8 am until now, so almost 15 hours. Put it on the charger, 62% remaining. Didn't realize how dramatic a difference notifications would make.

@djslack There's your problem. Friends. I don't have any so my notifications don't drain my battery. It's a small price to pay to get a full day out of my watch.

@crapstick Lol. True. Those assholes are killing my battery. Guess I need better priorities.

@jqubed You're a customer if you're buying it in their store :)

Non-smartass answer: no need to be an at&t subscriber to purchase non-phone items from them, so I think you're good. They're doing this to blow them out in time for the next generation to arrive anyway.