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April 2, 2005
 

MSN Spot Watches

I have said before that I just couldn't see the utility of Microsoft's SPOT watch technology. That was when I was looking from afar. I now have a watch (thanks to Microsoft for the opportunity to look at it close up -- I have a Suunto N3) and a complimentary 3 month full subscription and have lived with it for a week or so.

As a watch it is a dinosaur(or an elephant depending on what analogy you are comfortable with) It weighs more than my 1970's Seiko (a must have tech gadget of the time) and doesn't have any more real features (well it does have an accurate automatic time synch so that is an improvment), costs $200 U.S. (there are much better watches at much less prices), goes through batteries quickly (requires a recharge every few days) and weighs more then some cell phones (well not really but it sure is big and clunky).

Add the $75.00 or so per year subscription and what do you get? News updates(very short stories) delivered to your watch, weather updates and forecasts that seem less than accurate, movie information ( for a dozen theatres when there are a hundred where I live) and your personal schedule delivered to your watch ( assuming you have Outlook as your calendar manager) but only if you are in one of the coverage areas (only big cities from what I can tell). All marginally userful information that is delivered elsewhere in much better fashion (unless of course you have to have this kind of information when you are out wandering around).

I am sure this kind of review is what cell phones received when they were first available and I could be way off base here but I think it is a waste of Microsoft's resources and money to develop such a turkey.

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