Moto 360 Review And Specs: New Smartwatch Sold Out Online And At Best Buy, Early Reports Indicate Battery Does Not Last The Promised 24 Hours [PHOTO]

Motorola announced the Moto 360 yesteday at their press event in Chicago, here are all the price, specs and details. 

First thing, the Moto 360 will cost 249 dollars. It is available online or at Best Buy, but they are both currently out of stock. 

Motorola asks users to wait for availability on its website, which can be accessed here.

"Moto 360 is currently sold out online, but we are working hard to replenish stock. Availability may be limited for a while due to high demand." According to Android Headlines, the watch is back in stock at Best Buy.

"There are definitely some software gremlins, too. In addition to Android Wear still feeling like an advanced beta, there would be occasional snags, like a third-party app being rotated 90 degrees for some reason, which is something I've only seen happen on the 360 (but, to be fair, it only happened with one app, so it could be an isolated problem). The heart rate stuff would be much more useful if you could always see it at a glance, or if it integrated with an app on your phone or in the cloud. On its own, most people wouldn't know what to do with that data," Gizmodo writes.

"Those early reviews (and I mean super early, they only had the watch for about 12 hours) about bad battery life were semi true. What they didn't both to tell you is that if you turn off Ambient Display, it'll last at least a full 24 hours or more. I can normally get around 15 hours and then have around 40% left," it says.

The Verge, got some hands on time with the device and had this to say, " There's an understated elegance to this device. It's utterly without flash or flair, but it's classy as can be. Its leather strap, made by Chicago tannery Horween, is high-end and comfortable - and not just compared to the plasticky, rubber straps on other smartwatches. Its round, stainless steel shell (which comes in black or silver) sits neatly on my wrist, without sticking out off the sides of my arm and knocking against my desk or catching on my sleeve. It's lighter than it looks (just 1.7 ounces), smaller than it looks, more comfortable than it looks. At 11.5mm, it's a little thick for my taste, but it still feels good on my wrist. It feels like the watches I've always worn. It's tough enough to wear in the shower or get dirty with, and I stopped worrying about it or fidgeting with it as soon as I got it working... IT'S THE JON HAMM OF SMARTWATCHES"

"The Moto 360 feels different from any of its competitors. In many ways, it feels like the first real smartwatch. Everything before it was a screen on your wrist, a mini-tablet made to bring you easy notifications. Those are a warped evolution of computers, not watches. But the Moto 360 is to a sundial as the iPad is to a stone tablet: it's the same, only completely different. Better. Swapping my Seiko for a Moto 360 involved zero cognitive effort, no idle touching of my wrist because it feels different now. It just fits."

 Some were less enthused with the watch, saying that it looked good, but still left something to be desired in the functionality department. Yahoo tech review said, " The software works only with Android phones running Android 4.3 and later, so if you don't have that, you're out of luck. And, unfortunately, Android Wear doesn't hit the mark yet as a good user experience.

I like the fact that the OS can receive every update and notification for my phone that appears in the Notifications Drawer, but you can't interact with these notifications on the watch very much.

Instead, you're usually met with the option to either dismiss the notification or open its associated app on your phone. And when you dismiss a notification, there's no way to get it back on your own. Instead, you'll have to wait until Android Wear determines that you need it again.

And that's the biggest issue I have with Android Wear. It controls what you see and when you see it. If you want to see something, like the score of the Mets game, you have to use voice dictation to ask for it. There should be a better way to see the information you want without having to talk to your watch in public.

Replying to messages is also a problem for Android Wear. If you get a Twitter notification, for example, you can see what someone tweeted at you, but you can't tweet back. The same goes for Facebook and most email apps besides Gmail.

Android Wear does have some redeeming qualities, though, such as the ability to control music on your smartphone. You can also perform searches for basic information via voice dictation and perform measurement conversions on the fly.

Speaking of voice controls, the 360's are activated by saying "OK, Google," followed by your command. Motorola's engineers told me that they went out of their way to make sure that the Moto 360's voice recognition is top-notch. But during my time with the watch, I found it lacking.

There were several times when I found myself yelling, "OK, Google" at the top of my lungs, because the 360 didn't recognize my input. Other times, the watch understood my input but timed out before I could give it a command.

The majority of the time, the 360's voice recognition worked well. But when it didn't, it was incredibly frustrating. Imagine how strange you'd look standing on a subway platform yelling, "OK, Google" at your wrist over and over again. That was me last week."

The reviewer went on to say that if you must get an Android wear powered smartwatch, then the 360 was probably the best best bet despite the flaws.

Here is a full list of the specs