14 DAY TRIAL // Persistence is a curious word, as it can mean both good and bad things, depending on the context. Admittedly, that can be said about many terms, but persistence is among the ones more naturally ambiguous. The ambiguity kind of goes away when talking about Motorola's smartwatch though.
According to posters on Reddit and Google Plus (+CoryM), the Motorola Moto 360 has a problem with image burn-in.
Burn-in is when the afterimage of a screen or background image lingers in the background of whatever new window or application you launch on a display.
AMOLED technology tends to have this issue if not implemented properly, but LCDs shouldn't exhibit this condition anymore.
Unfortunately, even though Motorola did use an LCD in the Moto 360 smartwatch (despite initial reports about AMOLED being chosen), burn-in seems to be happening anyway.
Reports of the charge screen haunting your eyesight
This is the issue that some users have begun to report in regards to the now famous wearable wrist device. Not all is well in paradise, we suppose.
In a nutshell, if you leave the watch charging for a long time, the charge screen, with its countdown / charge indicator, will linger in the background once you start to use the watch again, no matter what app you start.
Not a very great thing to happen. Let's face it, it is necessary to leave the watch to recharge once the battery depletes, however long it takes. And wireless charging isn't exactly the fastest solution in the world.
So you're guaranteed to have to leave the watch charging for hours, like you would a phone or any other portable device really.
You should be able to get the afterimage to go away if you shut off the screen for fifteen minutes or so, maybe less, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a convenient, always-on wearable gadget.
Displaying moving images can help resolve the problem as well, but that's not something that the Moto 360 is supposed to do, although some apps should be able to show .gif files.
The fix
There isn't one yet, since the problem has only now started to be reported, so Motorola hasn't had time to look into it. Maybe they're isolated incidents. If they aren't, the company could take any number of measures, including altering the charge screen to be more blank, maybe. It wouldn't remove the burn-in, but it would make it impossible to notice, or at least less glaring.
