[XPERIA X10 Accessories] Esilar:
My experiences

I have my LiveView for 2 weeks now and use it with an rooted X10i.

Hardware:

First thing i noticed was the cheap apperance. All plastic and the wrist band is a joke. A watch is an accessory many people carefully choose. My X10 is stylish, the LV looks like a prototype right out of an SE lab. With goodwill let's say SE tried to make a gadget as cheap as possible for a test if there's a market for it.

In my daily use the battery makes it up to 3 or 4 days, i don't know what happens to others with 2 or 4 hours drain. When i don't wear the watch i shut it off, usually at night. Charging isn't comfortable cause i have to remove the LV from its frame. The resolution of the screen is OK for me but far away to be stunning, the information it provides is quite readable. The four "soft keys" on the screen lack any haptical feedback.

The news indication LED on the upper left corner is wrongly placed if you use the LV as a watch. The on/off button needs to be relocated too, if you wear a thick jacket in winter time it can make a button press without any notice.

Software:

The bluetooth connection to my X10 is weak. Sometimes when I check the device it start to reconnect to the phone first. So far it happened 2 times that I had to unpair/pair the bluetooth connection to the LV cause the reconnect failed reproducible. Meanwhile the LV app on the android market got updates and is more stable. The LV itself can be updated too, but my SE Companion shows the all time beloved sentence: "You already have the newest software.". :rolleyes:

It seems the LV app is now able to transfer events to the LV which arrived while it was disconnected but that needs more tests.

The use of the device isn't very intuitive cause "select" (short press) and "back" (long press) button are the same. Especially with the use of plugins you click and click and click…

Sometimes the responsiveness of the device is slow, but that seems by design. The software is in the mobile and the LV is a secondary display only. So any action on the LV goes over bluetooth to the phone, is examined by the LV application (or a plugin) and the result is sent back over the air to the LV. And the LV can receive bitmaps (PNG graphics) only to show it on screen, which slows it down further. On the other side this is an advantage, the LV is independend from any fonts and languages…

After two weeks I can say the device do what was advertised but not in a very satisfying way. It has its edges and shortcommings. Much room for a version 2.0.

My wishes for a next version would be:

- different styles, different colors

- metal frame, metal wrist band

- thinner

- glas screen

- touch screen

- reflexive color screen like an ebook reader with a illumination on keypress for the night (less battery drain, clock would be always visible without a keypress)

- water resistant

- longer battery life

- better start screen (the stylized home with a number above it don't say much, I always have to click on the softkey to explore what kind of news arrived. How about a user defineable 2x2 or 3x3 matrix?)

Edit: this morning when I arrived at the office the LV was gone, just the wrist band and the frame is left… game over. :eek: