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Fossil Wrist Net Smart Watch for MSN Direct (AU4000)
See it at Amazon.com for $199.99Average Customer Rating
(2.5 out of 5)
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Seemed to work great for an hour
(2 out of 5) by Jeffrey Baxter on Jan 22, 2004 (Broomall, PA United States)I charged the watch for 4 hours and set up my MSN Direct service. All without a problem. The watch worked for about an hour and went dead! I tried to recharge, reboot and manually start the watch but it is just dead
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Beware Static Charges
(3 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Jan 23, 2004 (NY)I loved the concept and the product, I was looking to buy one of these watches since last year. I am very disapointed by Fossil's design flaws: the antenna on the wrist is highly sensitive to static charges and my watch goes dead as soon as I enter my office building.
Limited usefulness
(1 out of 5) by David Thompson on Jan 30, 2009 (Denver, CO USA)This watch has a very limited usefulness. I live in Denver CO area. It doesn't provide very current traffic data, has a relatively short battery life and a relatively difficult to read face. It looked like a great idea when I bought it, but MS and all tech providers are changing rapidly. I'm having a hard time selling it and may just wind up making another contribution to our already overloaded landfills.
MSN still supports this watch
(4 out of 5) by C. Smith on May 4, 2007MSN Direct still supports this watch; personal info gets sent to me just fine.
It worked. It failed. It worked.
(3 out of 5) by Edward Self on Jul 23, 2005 (Seattle, WA, USA)The watch set-up seemed to take too long. It didn't get the signals, etc. but finally began working. It worked fine for about a month. Then after taking off a jacket that occasionally generates static, the watch stopped working. It had a blank screen. That's when I found out the hard way that static drives it crazy. I waited, hoping the watch would cure itself. It didn't. I tried to charge it. It didn't help. I read that some people take out the battery to reset it. After a few months of having a blank screen I opened the watch. Messing with the battery looked like too much of a job. So, I closed up the watch and put it on the charger. Nothing, again. I stick the watch in a drawer for a couple months. I put it on the charger. Nothing. I put in the drawer for another few months. I notice from my credit card bill that I am now getting charged $10 a month for the "service." Before cancelling the service. It put the watch on the charger and amazingly enough it started charging. The first charge and use was wierd, but after the second recharge it began acting normally. Well, it has now been about six weeks and it seems to be working fine. And I have no idea why. My guess is that the battery had to go totally 100% dead before it would "reset."
So to me it is a fine watch when it is working, and a pile of junk when it isn't.
So to me it is a fine watch when it is working, and a pile of junk when it isn't.