![]() That means your date will always be right, unlike my Seiko watch, which likes to think there are 31 days in each and every month. My favorite: the watch syncs the time with your phone. Since it's connected to your phone, there are a couple of other handy things that they can do together. The biggest and most obvious thing missing is text message notifications, which would be really handy, but not only is that not available now, it probably never will be - it's not like Citizen can remotely update the big metal thing on my wrist so 7 o'clock says "TXT." When the hand is at 11, it means you're getting a call - it vibrates once when you get a call, and again if you miss it. That meant I often got a buzz on my phone for an email, and a few minutes later my watch would vibrate with the same thing. The watch can check any IMAP account, and they're easy to set up within the Citizen app, but it doesn't sync with any other apps on your phone, and only checks for new mail every five minutes. Even if connection isn't spotty, the watch automatically disconnects after six hours to save battery, but luckily it's just a press of the watch's top button to sync it back up. ![]() No text message alerts, and there's really no way to add themĩ is LL, which means the watch has lost connection with your phone - this happens a lot, often seemingly for no reason, so even though it makes your wrist jitter too often it's probably a good thing to have. But I kind of love it for its limitations. It can't tell you who's calling you, or control your music, or change its watchface depending on your outfit. The Proximity's power still pales in comparison to the Pebble, the Metawatch, or any of a host of other devices. But it gets you connected to the watch pretty quickly, and luckily there's not much setup. The app looks like it was coded in about a half-hour, completely absent of anything like an "interface." It's just a set of toggles and menus that let you connect and re-connect the watch and phone, and set up its smartwatch-like features. Most of what I needed to do, I did from the watch's companion iPhone app. None of this is obvious or intuitive, by the way I wound up poring over the Proximity's manual for pretty much every single thing I needed to do. ![]() ![]() By pulling out the watch's control dial halfway and twisting, you change the watch's mode - set it to pair with your iPhone (4S or 5, and no Android) via Bluetooth, quickly disconnect, and more. That dial is, for lack of a better word, the control panel. The Proximity's best feature might be that it looks like a watchīut in addition to the more standard dials, there's a tiny dial at the bottom featuring a handful of tiny, hard-to-read acronyms. ![]()
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