[Galaxy Note II Accessories] willfck4beer:
odd. Yeah, I find it difficult to find apps too.

I generally search for "sony liveview"

or "sony liveview -canon";

"sony liveview mn800 -smartwatch";

"sony liveview plugins"

permutations of the above.

Hope that helps.

There's got to be a sticky somewhere of the best apps/plugins.

---------- Post added at 01:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:10 PM ----------

:) yeah... it's certainly not for everyone.

For me it's badass for several use cases:

1) PG county, DC, and Baltimore... I can use my phone without exposing the Note 2 to those that might jump me for a quick $1000 phone.

2) in a client meeting (phone stays in pocket... can still do everything with my watch)

3) phone on dashboard for heads-up display nav while driving... watch goes on steering wheel and can change songs, adjust volume, show additional map, directions, text... whatever.

4) phone plugged in to stereo at party... can roam the party and change songs while walking;

5) phone plugged in to pico projector... can change slides from watch... pause, play... whatever.

6) watching netflix... don't want to exit app, reenter, reload, ... can just receive the text on my wrist.

7) phone charging.... I'm laying on couch or on bed... can still be notified if text;

8) phone charging on boat... I'm floating in the water with liveview ($15 much less worried about it getting wet or lost relative to $1000 note2).

9) liveview velcrod to bezel of note 2 - serves as Dpad for games (wip) instead of finger blocking part of the note2screen.

...

I think that the liveview (for $15) SUPPLEMENTS not supplants the Note2.

Much as in a bluetooth mouse and/or keyboard or headset - the phone already has a touchscreen, keyboard, and earpiece... but these supplement and add flexibility to the note2.

I just don't see how anyone could hate on this thing for $15 - it's cheaper than anything else out there by a factor of ten (or higher).

Sure it's limited.

But it can do a **** ton for $15 and it's fun as hell to hackify/tweak/mod.

my 2 cents imho

---------- Post added at 02:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:33 PM ----------

Think we agree, smart watches extend the smartphone. :)

But I respectfully disagree on the lack of utility of the liveview vs. metawatch because screen turns off by default. Firstly - as you point out, the liveview illuminates responsive to notifications and to manual button presses. The metawatch also is off by default (in the dark) requiring you to manually actuate the backlight (if I read your review correctly). So, half the time, the metawatch and liveview are on equal footing in that regard. Do you feel metawatch utility that much degraded in the dark?

IMHO Liveview>>Metawatch:

1)Metawatch does look sick. But it's goofily thick at 14mm vs. 11mm liveview;

2)Metawatch binary black/white display (no shades of gray).... vs. Liveview's beautiful AMOLED full color 65,536 color display;

3)Metawach has 96x96 resolution vs. Liveview's 128x128

4)Metawatch has some weird external pad structure requiring goofy proprietary clamp charger... vs. Liveview's standard universal MICRO USB (love this!) same charger as any phone other than iphone - you can charge this guy anywhere;

5) Metwatch is about 10+ times more expensive.

6) http://shop.metawatch.com/pages/specs seems to imply email, calendar, twitter, alarm notifications "(coming soon)" ...... vs. liveview has multiple apps that provide these functions and has for a while

7) "Metawatch" 16apps playstore vs. "sony liveview -canon -nikon -vignette" = 265 apps!!!!!

8) Sony / Ericson vs. Metwatch????

9) Liveview has Official App AND Open reverse-engineered app, AND open firmware AND Sony has just committed to opening up, supporting dev and homebrew... Granted this may just be for Smartwatch 2 (but I humbly submit that they must come around and open up smartwatch 1 soon or suffer the wrath).

10) at $15 how many xda kids/devs are going to buy this little hackable thing? If the dev community continues to expand exponentially, the functionality of this watch is just going to explode!!!

11) with solar flexible watchstrap, this thing can run with screen ON all day*ish! AND

12) liveview has 6X the ram and 4X the internal memory of metawatch.

:) IMHO

---------- Post added at 02:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:00 PM ----------

Perhaps a playstore alternative (amazon...) or search google play store on PC web browser?

Odd. I'm wondering how many apps show up for others. For some reason, a lot of stuff doesn't seem to show on my note 2.

Like GTA3 didn't show up forever.

IIRC play store evaluates build.prop and limits apps based on compatibility with your phone???? IIRC