COFFEE. I've been trying this app out for about 3-4 weeks now.
(Johnny K, this is the app I thought about doing a video review of, but I simply don't like it enough to put in that kind of effort. lol)
Coffee - SMS on Android Wear - Android Apps on Google Play
Coffee, briefly, gives you a quick way to interact with text messages from your watch, without the clunkiness of using a keyboard and not having to speak to your wrist. It's all about the tapping. It works perfectly with any messaging app you have on your phone without interfering with it. (Of course, I can only confirm it works great with 8SMS, but the company says it works great with any, and I believe that).
It has 100's of canned responses you can use. Many of these canned responses can be edited and customized.
It is handled very well.
Click on this icon for a quick yes/no reply, click on that one for location related replies.
Click the star for you favorite replies, the question mark for answers to questions, or to ask one. These menus can take you into deeper ones with more icon based messages or replies.
You can initiate a new SMS to your favorite people. 4 of them, anyway. It seems to add the 4 most contacted favorited people to the app. I couldn't figure out how to see more.
Another neat thing is that you can actually browse your message history when you receive a new message.
Coffee can set a custom vibrate pattern that you can assign to specific contacts. I did play with this, but didn't find it all that useful. By the time I realize it is vibrating for a text, I've missed part of the pattern: "did it vibrate twice, one short and one long already..."?
I see that, in the last update, (which I did not try) every message is now editable. And they are trying to make things even faster. However, I have already uninstalled it.
Why?
I tried it. I wanted to love it. But the bottom line for me: I found that anytime I would start tapping on my watch to send a reply, unless it was just a quick "OK" or "OMW" type of reply, I would wind up pulling out my phone and just replying on that.
I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10 but, like many things, if you really put the time into it to customize it, you may get more out of it then I did.
(Johnny K, this is the app I thought about doing a video review of, but I simply don't like it enough to put in that kind of effort. lol)
Coffee - SMS on Android Wear - Android Apps on Google Play
Coffee, briefly, gives you a quick way to interact with text messages from your watch, without the clunkiness of using a keyboard and not having to speak to your wrist. It's all about the tapping. It works perfectly with any messaging app you have on your phone without interfering with it. (Of course, I can only confirm it works great with 8SMS, but the company says it works great with any, and I believe that).
It has 100's of canned responses you can use. Many of these canned responses can be edited and customized.
It is handled very well.
Click the star for you favorite replies, the question mark for answers to questions, or to ask one. These menus can take you into deeper ones with more icon based messages or replies.
You can initiate a new SMS to your favorite people. 4 of them, anyway. It seems to add the 4 most contacted favorited people to the app. I couldn't figure out how to see more.
Another neat thing is that you can actually browse your message history when you receive a new message.
Coffee can set a custom vibrate pattern that you can assign to specific contacts. I did play with this, but didn't find it all that useful. By the time I realize it is vibrating for a text, I've missed part of the pattern: "did it vibrate twice, one short and one long already..."?
I see that, in the last update, (which I did not try) every message is now editable. And they are trying to make things even faster. However, I have already uninstalled it.
Why?
I tried it. I wanted to love it. But the bottom line for me: I found that anytime I would start tapping on my watch to send a reply, unless it was just a quick "OK" or "OMW" type of reply, I would wind up pulling out my phone and just replying on that.
I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10 but, like many things, if you really put the time into it to customize it, you may get more out of it then I did.
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