[General Accessories] rEVOLVE:
OP asked me to contribute to this thread, so I just wanted to chime in w/ my experience owning my Metawatch Frame for a few months now. Apologize, for the delay as I didn't notice the PM request until now...

The Frame doesn't look "sporty" as some of the other watches, but it looks classier - goes better in the business environments I sometimes work in. It still looks "geeky" but that's appropriate for the I.T. guy. When I get my white pebble, that will be for sporty looks, I guess. I prefer the smaller, less chunky look, too. I get compliments on it regularly.

I don't care about color or touch screen if it means i have to charge my watch every night or risk it not making it through the day. This was my experience with the v2 of Sony's Smartwatch, and ultimately why i returned it. Also I hated that i couldn't just "look" at the Sony to get info - I had to tap on the screen or wiggle my wrist to get it to display (battery saving measure), but even then it would sometimes not detect that action and I'd look like a fool shaking my wrist or repeatedly tapping on the watch. Hopefully the next version is better. Admittedly my week of testing the Sony was when it was still kind of new, and recent reports from other users seem positive, so they might have improved it. This is actually my post from when I chimed into one of the original Sony Smartwatch threads w/ pics of the band I swapped onto it: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27446509&postcount=34

I get 5 days on my Metawatch Frame without having to charge. That's probably because I really only send caller ID notifications to it in general use. I get so many emails gmails, texts,etc. It really isn't productive to have the watch keep going off with less important notifications, so I set just about all the notifications to off. At night I change the unit to show emails and SMS as I leave my phone silent, charging, on the nightstand and let the vibrations on the watch wake me for important notifications. Have set light to activate on incoming notifications. Best thing is, this way, my phone isn't waking up my wife, but if there's a service outage I have to attend to, my watch vibrates and wakes me up. I'm still trying to work out a system that lets me filter WHICH notifications (not all email, but certain ones by address/subject, etc.) I get on the watch.

I love that it vibrates to tell me I've wandered away from my phone. I love that the bluetooth connection enables my phone to suppress the password unlock screen when it detects the watch connected and turns on the lock when it doesn't see any of my "key" devices.

It saves battery on my phone, of course, because I now only check the Note2 when necessary. On the display I have time, date, 4 days of weather forecast, phone battery level, and next appointment. If I hit a button I can see a month view calendar. I don't see the usefulness of remote shutter trigger on my cellphone and I control the music on my device via AVRCP from my steering wheel or earpiece. I'm using Torque sometimes as well, but not with the watch as it's just throwing up a boost gauge on my Note 8 on my dash (the Mazdaspeed3 doesn't come with a stock boost gauge). I'm not going to be looking at my watch for that stuff while I'm driving - my tablet is on my dash in line of sight with the road and is much safer to check than the watch.

For the first few months I had the Frame, I had to carry the charging clip with me all the time because it would lock up and putting the charging clip on it, I learned, was the only way to unfreeze it. Since they fixed that in the firmware, I haven't had it freeze on me with the Community Edition. It still has that stupid 4 icon screen whenever I clear a notification if I use Noah edition.

So as it stands now, I'm still pretty happy with the purchase - but that's because I understand that this is an exercise in compromises until technology advancements in battery life and micronization edge closer to a more mainstream product. I'm happy with the looks and limited function as it currently gets me everything I wanted out of a smartwatch. I can wait for the next gens for the bells and whistles so that my main use of it isn't hampered - it probably doesn't appear worth it to people who see the price as a lot of money, though.

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I wouldn't have so much of a problem with a clip if only they made extra ones available to purchase. I don't know if it's changed but for a long time, you couldn't buy extras anywhere, and I needed a spare one to carry around to "unfreeze" my Frame the first few weeks I had it. The clip for the current Sony model was terrible - I had to weigh it down with a heavy object to make sure it kept contact for charging.