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4.5 stars
"Innovative, Flashy, I like it!"
Pros: News, Stocks, Sports, etc. all on your watch. Easy to use Interface. Easy to read screen. Flashy look. Band locks securely. Not too bulky for a mans watch.
Cons: Wristband may be a little uncomfortable until you get used to it. For all features except weather, national news, stocks, and time, you have to subscribe. Customer support isn't amazing.
Summary: This opinion may be helpful to the slightly younger croud. I'm 17 and I recently purchased this watch via ebay. Anyways, there's alot about this watch that amazed me when I wore it for the first day. I'm deffinately more up to date with national news and weather if someone decides to bring it up(and time... it's a watch). Overall the watch felt great on my wrist the first day after calling up msn to ask how to get the band undone(i didn't want to break it) the call was free though so I can't really complain about that. What I can and will complain about is that msn directed me to fossil because "they don't handle the technical features". So I called fossil... and I was of course redirected to msn. This may sound strange but once again... back to fossil where they put me on hold so they could find a watch to see how it opens. They told me how and I couldn't exactly pop the thing open with my fingernail... it broke(my fingernail) so i got a handy dandy pair of scissors and pried that beast open. Further instruction said to yank on it a little. "It might feel like you're going to break it but you won't" oh thanks. Anyways, I can't really blame this on the watch but beware if you need customer support(unless you want to subscribe! they seem to like that.) after taking the watch off and putting it back on for a few days the "snapping" parts loosened up just right. For anyone having trouble with the band, there's a trick; after you unsnap the first part, give the metal piece a good push in the opposite direction of the opened part. You might have to get the "feel" first but it works. Everything else about the watch is amazing, I'm wearing the watch as I type this. I've been shocked by a spark-plug cord to an engine on the watch arm and the thing was fine. Earlier today some water splashed up on it. It was fine. It's really an innovative piece of technology. The subscription is kind of a downside but it's not a fortune, 10 bucks a month or 40 a year(without messenger I think). If you're worried about getting good reception I couldn't help you. I live near Buffalo, NY and the reception is usualy very good. Lets see, what else... aha the battery life. The first day I tried this bad boy out, the battery only went down 10 percent by the end of the day. Not that I have anything to really compare that too but I think that's pretty da.mn good for a watch that gives you news, weather etc. When I go to sleep I just put it back on its' charger. The charger is also very innovative, it charges through induction; no wires, no contacts. Oh yeah, the watch interface is amazingly easy to use, even with only 5 buttons(if you include the backlight one). Besides the backlight button, there's a menu button, an enter button and a scroll up and a scroll down button. The menu key brings up the menus, the other keys scroll and select(pie). All in all, I wouldn't change too much, it's a good watch and i'm sure i'll have it or one of its' brothers for a very long time.
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Fossil Abacus AU4000:
$199.99
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