With its new RAZR devices this week, Motorola also announced a new smartwatch, and it just serves as a reminder that it is the previous time for a new Moto 360.
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Moto 360 was the first generation standout fan of Google’s Wear OS platform, at that time called Android Wear. This is despite the fact that, impartially, it was a very bad product. Spherical performance was broken by a “flat tire” cutout, the performance was abysmal, there was a pain to connect the band and threatened to physically damage the clock’s habitat, and the battery life was terrible. But futuristic, borderless design was just so seductive that it did not make any difference.
Motorola released a handful of sequels for that basic release, but design changes from other brands and better equipment eventually thrown the company into the towel. But listening to “Moto 360” still invites Giddy Joy that is looking at the original smartwatch, and at least one looks worth. This is why many people were excited about the Moto 360’s 2019/2020 reboot, even though Motorola was not involved in it. Rather, that device only licensed the name and logo. It was a good smartwatchBut a handful of poor options and at that time were held back by the underbaked state of both OS and Qualcomm Chips.
Since that time, Motorola has been releasing its own fitness-centered smartwatch in both the US and international levels, but they walk on an RTO instead of wearing the product, and the Moto 360 name is essentially overtaken.
It is time to change it.
With the recent progress, which has come in the underlying chips from Wear OS and Qualcomm and other chipmeckers, as well as the revival of Motorola recently, another Moto 360 reboot simply makes sense. A premium wear OS Smartwatch that takes the 2014 design and modernize it with 2025 hardware can actually be a killer product. Everything wrong with the original can be easily decided at this point. Even the glass design raised had suspected durability that is available in 2025, it should be better.
So what a holdup? I can see that two reasons Motorola has not yet drawn the trigger.
First, it is a simple fact that when Motorola is growing, most of the action is being done in the more affordable market. When most of your customers are buying your phones because they are cheap, the $ 300+ smartwatch does not appeal for that core base. Alternatively, a watch that is $ 150 or less (possibly) is much more seductive to those customers.
Secondly, the question is whether Motorola can still put a product under that name. Ebuynow is the company that licensed the name “Moto 360” years ago, and they are Like Still using it. A series of Moto watch product Playing clearly on the name “Moto 360” are still sold by EbuyNow using names such as “Moto Watch 120” and others. Motorola sells some of these devices directly, but the Watch fit appears to be different from those.
But all these are speculation. If Motorola has rights, however, I think the time has come. Wear OS Market requires some more options and still there is nothing that seems to have previously done by Moto 360. Even 2020 reboots gave one of my favorite smartwatch designs over the years, so a fair release could be even better.
What do you think? Will you buy a new Moto 360? let’s discuss!
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