Rich Davies - Inside the SPOT watch team
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Rich Davies, program manager on the SPOT team shows us around the
latest MSN Direct watches.
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I can't wait until these SPOT watches are out in the UK.
Question to Mike, when you were over here last week (or week before?) what happens? I'm guessing the time can no longer sync.. but what else?
So, (can I start a sentance with 'so'?), I flew British Airways from Seattle to London Heathrow, I turned off the radio receiver on the watch since I knew that I wouldn't be getting services like news, weather etc...
The watch still keeps time (it's a watch!) but doesn't auto sync to BST/GMT - one of the custom watch faces you can download from http://direct.msn.com gives a dual time view, so I set this to show Seattle and London.
Once I arrived back in Seattle I re-enabled the radio receiver on the watch and started to receive stock/news/weather etc...
- Mike
I'm guessing that time sync will work in the UK etc when they get SPOT technology too.
But then again, is it too soon to speculate if it will be the same system in other countries?
The ultimate would be having the same technology across the world and just being able to go from country to country with your data following you around.
Oh when, oh when can we get these in the UK?
Hello - We currently offer service in select Canadian cities. Moving forward we intend to expand the MSN Direct service to other geographies. We do not have specific details to share at this time.
Thanks...Rich
2 ideas to improve msn direct that I do not think microsoft is in a hurry to use....
http://forum.spotstop.com/showthread.php?t=2985
http://forum.spotstop.com/showthread.php?t=2696
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