Looks good. Although I wouldn't have the world "Terrible" on the scale and definitely not auto-selected. Its not the first word I want to read when I wake. Maybe "Not Great"?
I think the Zeo uses the word "Terrible". But "3" is selected by default, so you don't see it. (Although I am not at home right now and am not actually looking at the thing. Strangely, despite looking at this menu every day, I have no memory of it.)
Does anyone know how they are accomplishing the bluetooth communication to the iphone? My impression was that you needed to work with apple and get permission to buy their $4 authentication IC.
We have fully implemented Apple's MFi authentication scheme/protocol for all communication between the iPhone/iPad/iPodTouch platforms and the WakeMate wristband. This involves the special Apple auth IC you mentioned.
Is it just me or is that the worst possible tone to wake you up? Hope there are more options than that or a song... like the actual alarm tones already on the iPhone.
The problem with SleepCycle that I found while I owned an iPhone is that you have to place it under your pillow, and the way that I sleep, I shuffle around a lot and my phone would often fall off the bed and onto the floor, rending the entire thing useless. The Wakemate is a device that you wear on your wrist; eliminating any shuffling/pillow problems.
I'm using SleepCycle until my WakeMate arrives. It's very good, but my problem is that I sleep with my girlfriend, and the iPhone seems to record both our movements. I tried last it last night without my gf sleeping (she's on a trip) and I found the graph to be quite different.
I imagine having WakeMate's wristband will negate anyone else's movements on the same bed, and record just your own.
except that the alarm may disturb your girlfriends sleep pattern as well (I emailed them about this and they were considering adding wristband vibrate functionality in there one day)
That's unfair. You have no way of knowing if the ten minutes they spent filming this demo were completely fungible with time spent solving their manufacturing problems.
Personally, I welcome any increase in communication from the WakeMate team.
Give them a break. They were roundly panned a couple of weeks ago for not communicating and now you're criticising for the opposite reason. I know it's frustrating that you can't have your product now but this sort of communication and preview is to be welcomed.
I agree with you in general, but their recent communications mostly serve (to me anyway) to demonstrate how wrong their original communications were to begin with. For instance, I vividly remember a "Works with all phones" tagline plastered everywhere. Intellectually I knew that claim to be ridiculous, but seeing their recent compatibility table (http://help.wakemate.com/faqs/phone-compatibility/supported-...) somehow drove home to me in a new way how wrong their original claim was (I was thinking something like iPhone, Android, WebOS, JavaME. The new page promises support on about a third of those platforms.)
So while your point of "Better talking than not talking" is ok I guess, I think it's perfectly fair to feel betrayed on a couple of levels by the way they've handled themselves in the past, and being honest about it now doesn't absolve them of the way they handled their launch.
Here's a story: I was in Little Italy in NYC today and I stopped to have a panini at a place that advertised the best Tiramisu in Little Italy. Both the panini and the Tiramisu were palatable, at best, but far from what I would have expected. The waitress was a little rude too.
I paid the bill, left 25% gratuity, and made a mental note to try the place across the street.
I didn't create a support group for victims of false advertising, I didn't drone on and on about how I was gastronomically assaulted, and I didn't demand to publicly crucify their chef.
Your reply smacks of the hyperbole, so I'm singling you out. These guys are people just like you or I. They were wrong, they admitted it, and they're trying their best. Relax, buddy.
