[Ornate TrueSmart] vectron:
Show me a link to the last updated video of HOT watch? So far all I have seen is 5 updates since the end of their campaign with no videos and a bunch of pretty photoshoped pictures. Not saying they will not deliver, but delay is inevitable. And I have no idea about the progress.

I'm not trolling my friend. What I do on XDA and been recognized for is writing pro reviews about accessories and helping others, at least that's how you can interpret a number of posts and thanks I received in the last 12 months since I actively joined this community. What is your contribution to this community? 131 posts whining about ROM and Omate?

I monitor very closely and analyze all the smartwatch news, and have exchanged emails with Samsung, Sony, Omate, MetaWatch, and others. Coincidentally, HOT are the only one that never replied back. I'm not saying anything bad about HOT or any other companies. They all hard at work, and this work is still in progress. Just don't be naive about crowdfunding promises. And also I see no reason to jump in to crucify one specific company while saying everybody else are darlings. They all have exaggerated sales pitch, dump all the promises at us, delay their deliveries, and at the end deliver finished hardware with semi-finished firmware/software. The delays are not because of software, that could be updated down the road. Delays are always about hardware. If you messed it up, a small company will go out of business recalling everything back for replacement. With software, you will just wait for another dot release.

But anyway. I'm happy you are a loyal HOT supporter. Good luck.

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@iraqigeek: just my own observation and opinion, no facts since I never backed any KS or IGG projects. But I have read so many negative comments about everybody and also have a bunch of "geek" friends who constantly complains about it. Btw, I could have swear Agent had a different deadline. If you say it's still the same from their original campaign, than I stand corrected. Pebble "mistakes" were forgiven because there was no other real competition, although it's still beyond me how MetaWatch never got any publicity. You also supported my point with your reply about issues during campaign and release, and then correcting it down the road. As I mentioned in the reply above, for a release all you need to do is to have a final hardware with software/firmware to follow.

Now, and keep in mind I'm not a backer of Omate or have anything to do with that or any other company, Do you think the success of Omate campaign is purely based on those misrepresented points? True, they should have stated more clearly from get-go as a possibility rather than a fact, and be straight forward with what they know for sure and what is on to-do list with a question mark. But overall, I still think they ran a brilliant campaign and have a product that caught people's attention amid Gear and SW2 announcements and other recently ended smart watch campaigns. Just my opinion, don't have to agree with me.

That's the whole point of XDA community, to get together, have a discussion, and express our opinions in civilized manners ;)