moral vs. immoral support

[azurelunatic]

Tried to work out a Star Wars excursion with Purple, but no such luck (no good seats left at an hour when everyone could make it).
radius has successfully arranged a removalist.
Engaged the help of someone from another department in getting one of the lobby couches to a perhaps more useful place.
Got the post-its arranged nice and visibly. Sorted the odds and ends into usable and unusable, and put the usable ones in a little box in the war room. (Gentlemen!)
Made saving roll against excessive flirting via email, perhaps to the amusement of Purple and Mr. Zune.
Nice chat with Julia-without-a-nickname, who is doing rather better than when last heard from.
Nora is off to Family Stuff today, so no call.
Dawn was around on my way back, so chatted. Her brother-in-law had a disturbing, moderately violent, and profane break from reality while at the nursing home; no specific cause has yet been located.
I'm going to need to do laundry as soon as I wake up, unless I really want to go to work in ZOMG LAUNDRY ZOMG clothes.
Coffee is set up for my brewing in the morning.

Does there exist a smartwatch with the following capabilities:
* Android-compatible
* has a microphone
* can display texts, emails, and sundry notifications
* can launch phone calls
* is an activity tracker
* can measure heart rate
* the app to run it isn't terrifyingly huge

I will of course research but the circle is a fairly well-informed place in general who may have done some of this already. The fitbit freaked me out today with some disappointing battery life, until I recalled that I'd flipped the switch to where it was being perhaps excessively chatty with my phone, vs. the state where sometimes the phone spends several hours unable to locate it with either hand, much less both.

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[azurelunatic]

The more I hear from people whose lives have been changed for the better by estrogen, the more convinced I become that my ovaries are doing me not much good.

[azurelunatic]

Some weeks later, the helldesk guy on IM duty has conceded that maybe yes it is some bad UX when the user has the UI to do a thing, but it's been disabled server-side, and he can send some feedback to Microsoft.

I am cross with this idiot, but eventually he did arrive at the correct conclusion.

[shortcipher]

I've been using an Android Wear watch, specifically the Samsung Gear Live (no longer available from Google) since launch ~18 months ago and I'm very happy with it. I *think* it meets all of your requirements, with the following caveats:

• The charging clip is very fragile; one lost a vital plastic tab and a second clip... burned out somehow I guess, showing slight melting around one pin.
• The microphone is only for speech recognition; in terms of phone calls, it can only launch them, not pass audio to them (at least on my device).
• I can't comment on the quality of the activity tracking (Google Fit) as I don't use it.
• Only some devices have the heart rate monitor, and at least on this device it's a measure on demand deal (I guess an app could poll it, but it advises keeping still while measuring).
• The app is 47MB; I guess that's normal these days. :-/ (That's not even all of it; there's a ton of Wear-specific code already on your device in Google Play Services.)

[azurelunatic]

I've already got the app, as there are Pebble things which need it for stuff, so at least that would be less of an impact.

Fragile charging clip is a no-go, alas.

Consistent is more important to me than accurate in activity tracking. I'm mostly looking to maintain/increase activity.

There's a heart rate measuring case for one of the newer versions of Pebble; I may well wind up waiting for that and getting it and one of the compatible new Pebbles when my current one bites it.