Hands-on with the new Moto 360: Righting the wrongs of the original version

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ars.AD.queue.push(["xrailTop", {sz:"300x251", kws:["bottom"], collapse: true}]);The first Moto 360 was Android Wear's flagship device. It was a unique take on the smartwatch form factor, with its round display and relatively compact body. The device was pretty flawed, though—Motorola saddled it with an absolutely ancient SoC from Texas Instruments, and the result was a slow device with sub-par battery life.

For the second generation, Motorola is out to right the wrongs of the past. The new Moto 360 is even more compact than the original, and it has a more modern SoC and a new watch band design that allows for easy swapping.

First the specs, which are probably the watch's biggest improvement over the original. Motorola dumped the 2010-era OMAP SoC for a Dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, and the device has 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage.