 Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCIX.com, your source for great technology, selection, and service, along with Corsair memory and Western Digital. We're here with the Qualcomm Talk Smartwatch. This is something I'm actually pretty excited about and I've been trying to get my hands on one. Hopefully we're gonna make a full review happen soon. But in the meantime, this is my first time actually touching it and I'm pretty impressed with the overall fit and finish. As you guys know, I'm a bit of a pebble aficionado. And if you're gonna try and convince me to spend double on one of these, you're gonna have to give me something that has a better ID and more functionality. So let's jump into the industrial design first. It's got an adjustable band, which is kind of a rubberized material. It doesn't look like there's an obvious way to change it out. And I suspect that's not going to be something you're gonna want to do because there are actually two touch-sensitive button surfaces on the band itself. So the top one, double clicking it will turn your backlight on or off and the bottom one acts as a back button as well as a way to switch between all of your sub menus or just your watch face. Now when you're on the standard watch face, you can go ahead and swipe the bottom to switch between them. I'm sure there will be customized ones coming later, but the SDK for the Talk isn't coming until early 2014. For the strap itself, you just pop open the latch. You can adjust it according to the size you need with the holes on the side and then you are pretty much ready to rock. I mean, it's a watch strap. It's not that much to go wrong. Charging wise, this is one of my complaints about the Pebble and one of my complaints about a lot of mobile devices in general is cables. There's micro USB, which is fragile, and then there's proprietary cables, which are easy to lose and expensive to replace. The Talk does use a proprietary sort of charging dock solution that you go ahead and you stick it on, but it's wireless. So at least it's convenient. It lives somewhere. It lives on your nightstand. You get home, you crawl into bed, you put it on there, and you're pretty much good to go. To me, wireless charging is sort of the holy grail of smart devices in terms of making them something that I'd be likely to actually use every day. Now let's walk through the functionality here. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to tap the bottom and we can see our Com Hub, which gives us notifications and gives us a log of everything that we have done on this phone pretty much. Now, of course, you don't have to go into the Com Hub if you get a call or a text message or whatever else. Those will come up automatically as you get calls, but of course, this isn't synced to my phone at the moment. Calendar shows you everything that's going on today and tomorrow. Music can be used to control your MP3 player, as long as it's, you know, built into a Bluetooth capable device. It's not magic, guys. Weather shows you the weather. Stocks show you the stock status is a cool one. So you can see the connected phone as well as battery life. You can turn your phone's rigour on and off using your smartwatch. It is only Android right now, but I've been I've overheard that there's talks about iOS, but nothing concrete one way or the other. You can also ping your phone by clicking on find phone. Settings is pretty self-explanatory. Bluetooth, airplane mode as well as software update. And finally, your notifications. So you can see any notifications, whether it's from USA Today or whatever else it happens to be. Like I said, the SDK is coming later, guys, so we can expect a lot more functionality here. Now, the last thing, and this is a big highlight of the device, is the Mirasol display, something I've never seen in person before. Now, the E Ink display on the Pebble is, in my opinion, one of the strongest things about that device because it enables for me about four days, but they're saying for most people about seven days of battery life. To me, a watch has to be visible without a gesture where I lift it up to my face. It has to always be visible. Now, Mirasol takes that E Ink advantage of battery life and adds colour and it also adds excellent performance. I'd say probably even better just looking at it in direct sunlight, maybe similar. But you're getting colour, you're getting that long battery life. And let's check this out. It also takes reflected light that comes from the space around you. So when you're in a very bright environment, it can be very difficult to read a digital display. So you've got the backlight for dark and then you've got the actual reflectiveness behind the screen to take care of that. So we're going to do what they're calling the talk challenge or something like that. And we're going to take our camera and B-roll here. We're going to dial it in to read the talk smartwatch correctly in direct sunlight. Then I'm going to put my phone up next to it on maximum brightness and we're going to see how they both look in direct sunlight. One way or another, guys, I'm extremely excited to check this out in a more in-depth sort of manner. And I appreciate them being here at the show so we can check it out. All right. So thank you for checking out this video here at CES 2014. Remember, our trip to the show is powered by NCIX.com, your source for great technology selection and service, as well as Corsair Memory and Western Digital. 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