{"id":749,"date":"2008-04-23T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T06:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2008-04-23T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T06:45:12","slug":"so-long-spot-watches-we-hardly-knew-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/so-long-spot-watches-we-hardly-knew-you\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long Spot Watches, We Hardly Knew You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, just read this over on Engadget&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/04\/23\/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008\/\">SPOT watches, R.I.P.: 2004 &#8211; 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I still use my Suuntto n3i Spot watch everyday and subscribe to the service that lets me sync with Outlook&#8217;s calendar. According to Engadget the data service will continue on for my watch. I sure hope so since Microsoft just auto-renewed the service and charged my credit card a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad Microsoft wasn&#8217;t able to make a go of the Spot watches. It might have done better if it could sync directly with a Windows Mobile device in addition to Outlook. And, if it grown to include Bluetooth to provide incoming Caller ID information, it might have been a better value for WiMo smartphone users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, just read this over on Engadget&#8230; SPOT watches, R.I.P.: 2004 &#8211; 2008 I still use my Suuntto n3i Spot watch everyday and subscribe to the service that lets me sync with Outlook&#8217;s calendar. According to Engadget the data service will continue on for my watch. I sure hope so since Microsoft just auto-renewed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","tag-spot-watch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-c5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}