The LG Watch Sport officially doesn’t support swapping straps, since the antenna lives in the strap. But anything that comes apart can be replaced, as long as you can find the parts. There are two ways to buy a strap for the LG Watch Sport. One is to order from a Korean site, which comes to $58. https://www.tntkstore.com/product-page/lg-watch-sports-w281-band-international-edition-band-gray-color The other is to pick up a dead unit on Taobao. I went with the latter, because it’s cheap!

I’ve had the Moto 360 v2 for almost two years now, and Android Wear 2.0 has been out for nearly a year too, yet the update only showed up today. It’s not that I hadn’t thought about switching watches—there just wasn’t anything suitable. So since the update rolled out today, I might as well use it for now.

Last year I bought the first-gen Moto 360, swapped the band later, and it turned out great. I wore it for a full year and honestly it changed my life a little. Now the upgrade, Moto 360 2nd, is here — redesigned lugs, better battery life, more customization options, and an official China release. I wasn’t really unhappy with the first gen. Battery was enough for me, and the second gen’s “a bit over a day” feels awkward anyway — you still have to charge it at night… The main reason I bought the Moto 360 2nd is… looks. I hated the black first-gen Moto 360. Plenty of people saw it and said it looked like plastic. So while I was kicking myself for not buying silver, I kept refreshing the Google Store until the silver version came back in stock, ordered it and shipped it through a forwarding service. Arrived without a hitch.

I’ve been using the Moto 360 for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve swapped the strap. The stock one isn’t bad, supposedly genuine leather, but I wanted to mess with it anyway, and the matching band wasn’t expensive. The Moto 360 theoretically supports most mainstream watch straps, though I don’t know those markets — I’d never worn a watch before the Moto 360.

It’s been nearly a month since I got the Moto 360, long enough that I figure I owe it some proper impressions. Photos of how this thing looks are all over the internet already, so I’ll just talk about the parts I think people overlook.