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It doesn't provide very current traffic data, has a relatively short battery life and a relatively difficult to read face. This watch has a very limited usefulness. I live in Denver CO area. It looked like a great idea when I bought it, but MS and all tech providers are changing rapidly. I'm having a hard time selling it and may just wind up making another contribution to our already overloaded landfills.
MSN Direct still supports this watch; personal info gets sent to me just fine.
Now everytime I try to go to the website, with the watch listed on my account, I get an error and it won't let me do anything. It looks like MSN Direct may have discontinued support for this particular watch. If I delete the watch from my account, I can access the site fine. They had disabled my watch even though I still had about 9 months left on my account. Then, when I tried to re-add my watch, I lost access to the msn direct website. Can't ever get a hold of MSN Direct to find out what's wrong. I wouldn't buy this watch if you want the customization features.
Called FOSSIL for help: send the watch in (my cost~10$) and include a money order for 10$ return. Great watch for 8 months. Seeing that the watch was only worth 50$ it hardly seems worth it, except for the 4 months remaining of my ~25$ year suscription to MSN direct. No problems until this week when it would not hold charge for more than 6 hours. Seems the battery or charging ciruit is not functioning fully. Like the watch, hope it would have lasted longer. RIP ABACUS.
I waited, hoping the watch would cure itself. I put it on the charger. Messing with the battery looked like too much of a job. It had a blank screen. but finally began working.
Then after taking off a jacket that occasionally generates static, the watch stopped working. I notice from my credit card bill that I am now getting charged $10 a month for the "service." Before cancelling the service. It didn't get the signals, etc. It didn't.
So, I closed up the watch and put it on the charger. I put in the drawer for another few months. That's when I found out the hard way that static drives it crazy. I tried to charge it. The first charge and use was wierd, but after the second recharge it began acting normally.
The watch set-up seemed to take too long. Nothing, again. I stick the watch in a drawer for a couple months. Nothing. I read that some people take out the battery to reset it. Well, it has now been about six weeks and it seems to be working fine. It worked fine for about a month.
And I have no idea why. It didn't help. After a few months of having a blank screen I opened the watch. It put the watch on the charger and amazingly enough it started charging. My guess is that the battery had to go totally 100% dead before it would "reset." So to me it is a fine watch when it is working, and a pile of junk when it isn't.
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