"MICA is connected by AT&T’s mobile broadband network and includes two years of wireless service with the device purchase."
Well that's horrible. You need to pay for two cell phone bills with this? And you are locked in with AT&T?
(And did anyone else find "Opening Ceremony" to be a really confusing name? I initially thought, is that like some variation on designed by committee?)
Also, don't bracelets rotate? Won't the screen randomly be in different positions?
Is it any different from tablets or e-readers that come with a hundred megs per month of included data? This isn't new. The 3G Kindles are the same, the Chromebook, basically any tablet bought from T-Mobile comes with a few hundred megs a month for free.
It's not like they're charging you $120/mo like they would with your iPhone. The part of this that gets paid to AT&T is probably incredibly tiny compared to the cost that gets paid to the high-price designers slathering a smartwatch in gold and gemstones.
Well that's horrible. You need to pay for two cell phone bills with this? And you are locked in with AT&T?
It's ok. In two years these will all be forgotten in someone's sock drawer.
Seriously though, in two years the cell phone providers will have to come to grips with ancillary devices which use vanishingly small amounts of bandwidth. I suspect they just don't know how to bill them now.
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Looks interesting except for:
"MICA is connected by AT&T’s mobile broadband network and includes two years of wireless service with the device purchase."
Well that's horrible. You need to pay for two cell phone bills with this? And you are locked in with AT&T?
(And did anyone else find "Opening Ceremony" to be a really confusing name? I initially thought, is that like some variation on designed by committee?)
Also, don't bracelets rotate? Won't the screen randomly be in different positions?
Is it any different from tablets or e-readers that come with a hundred megs per month of included data? This isn't new. The 3G Kindles are the same, the Chromebook, basically any tablet bought from T-Mobile comes with a few hundred megs a month for free.
It's not like they're charging you $120/mo like they would with your iPhone. The part of this that gets paid to AT&T is probably incredibly tiny compared to the cost that gets paid to the high-price designers slathering a smartwatch in gold and gemstones.
Well that's horrible. You need to pay for two cell phone bills with this? And you are locked in with AT&T?
It's ok. In two years these will all be forgotten in someone's sock drawer.
Seriously though, in two years the cell phone providers will have to come to grips with ancillary devices which use vanishingly small amounts of bandwidth. I suspect they just don't know how to bill them now.