Whats the point of smart watches? Is anyone actually using these things? A step from smartphone to full on Dick Tracy do-all communicator?
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Whats the point of smart watches? Is anyone actually using these things? A step from smartphone to full on Dick Tracy do-all communicator?
It would be nice to not have to pull your phone out but other than that with a one day charge I don't see it. It's pain enough keeping a phone charged.
Only things that I see as an advantage to them- if you wear a watch anyways, it will add and extend some of the phone capabilities. Just like some things, it is a bit of a fashion item also. The Apple watch announcement mentions things like heart rate monitor. Fitbit and the like are catching on as extensions to fitness phone apps...
Will be interesting to see if Apple does succeed in selling the smart watches where Samsung and a few others had very limited success with their phone/ smart watch ventures.
Two words. Google glasses.
No. I can't.
I assume this is aimed at Apple Watch. I am totally their target market. iPhone 6 / 2 Macs / 2 I pads & love watches and have a dozen of them and love gadgets and I have no interest in the Apple Watch.18 hours battery life😡 Not waterproof 😡. Basically extends your iPhone to your wrist. I bet Apple stock takes a hit on this
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You don't want a 10K+ watch with same guts as the commoner's watches?Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
My sister uses one if the Google watches. Not sure which but she seems used to it and it's not to obtrusive. The fit didn't really work for women though and I think she's working on something that runs in android on the watch so she has to use it.
What's wrong with recharging a watch battery every 18 hours?
To me it's the same thing as wearing an ankle monitor. They are basicly the same thing.
I don't get why people feel the need to be reachable 24 hrs a day. Who hasn't gone to a party and seen people standing around peering at their phones updating their status, checking if anyone they know posted some dumb shit, I carry a cell for work purposes. The MOMENT I am off I am out of touch. Phone's off and I am out actually living my life.
I recently went back home for a family gathering. I have a dozen cousins between the ages 18-30.
Each one of them had their faces glued to their phones. Making an attempt to catch up and have an engaging conversation with them was hilarious. Lots of mumbling while gazing into their phones.
Yeah....uh huh....yeeeahh.....uh huh....
I backed the Pebble kickstarter. It's nice to decline calls and acknowledge notifications without messing with the phone.
If you travel it is one more charger to bring . If you forget to charge it then no watch that day. Also $10,000 . No way. I was thinking $1000ish and still wouldn't get one. They will be on clearance for $400 in a few years when they can't sell them.Quote:
Originally Posted by puregravity
it's like that reece's peanut butter cup commercial.
chocolate. peanut butter. combined and confectioner's genius is the result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0
smart phone. watch. watch my smart phoniness.
But it's an Apple. Buy it, assholes!
You do realize that they're selling a $350 version, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ski to Be
They're like watches, but smarter.
A few things I like:
The not having your phone out during a meeting check of what's coming in
Integration with fitness apps
being able to start/stop apps like iTunes on a ride without digging out my phone.
What I don't like
All the people glued to their smart devices 24-7.. now even more intense
seems like 1st gen is good, not great yet....
another charger.
I'd take one as a gift now.. but will totally consider the second gen.... I've been putting off getting a fitbit esque type of gadget anyway..
Still needing to carry my phone on a bike ride...
I use one at work. It's nice to see notifications discretely without taking out my phone. Sometimes I'm meeting with someone and I get a text. I just glance at my watch and if it's not important then nobody is the wiser.
The Sony SM3 is pretty cool though. Load your music onto it so that you can stream it to your bluetooth headset. Then go for a run and the integrated GPS syncs up with the runkeeper app to give you all your progress info without carrying a phone along.
they're watches that're smarter than you
Not that I don't want to share tech per se ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
It's just that I don't get the appeal of them. I think I've made it known that I'm a watch slut and that through every watch thread here that there is no real rational basis for them to someone who isn't into them.
It's the same way with the smartwatch. It's ugly, cumbersome, has no cool mechanical movement and will eventually break, die, or become obsolete. I've got old dead watches that have only gone up in value. I doubt there'll be a rush for a 40 year old well-worn apple watch in the future like you can commonly find for the analog wrist wear.
To each his own though.
who gives a shit about fitness apps? go exercise and stop when you're done.
also, you guys know that if you get a text or some other notification you don't have to check it immediately, right?
True, but WTF is the point in having a device that instantly relays messages to you but then waiting until later to look at them. Maybe we should just go back to sending important news via telegram or carrier pigeon.
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/10/8182131...atch-huge-deal
When battery life with occasional use is around a week, I might get one. Or not.
Reminds me of:
Pawnbroker: Burnt my fingers, man.
Louis: I beg your pardon?
Pawnbroker: Man, that watch is so hot, it's smokin'.
Louis: Hot? Do you mean to imply stolen?
Pawnbroker: I'll give you 50 bucks for it.
Louis: Fifty bucks? No, no, no. This is a Rouchefoucauld. The thinnest water-resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculptured in design, hand-crafted in Switzerland, and water resistant to three atmospheres. This is the sports watch of the '80s. Six thousand, nine hundred and fifty five dollars retail!
Pawnbroker: You got a receipt?
Louis: Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad.
Pawnbroker: In Philadelphia, it's worth 50 bucks.
Louis Winthorpe III: Just give me the money.
Pawnbroker takes watch and gives Winthorpe a $50 bill
Pawnbroker: A pleasure doing business with you.
Winthorpe takes money, then looks at display case for another potential business transaction
Louis Winthorpe III: How much for the gun?
so not only are you enslaved by your own gadgets, but you're grateful for it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cruiser
Get one for your wench and program it to know when she needs to get her ass in the kitchen and make you a sammich.Quote:
Originally Posted by char
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FKNA! I heard that they make my life better. Course it was the manufacturers that told me that through their advertisements. But why would they lie, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by butterscotch
All the peeps who think that glancing at your watch during a meeting is any more polite than looking at your phone are on crack. I'd rather talk to someone who consults their phone once or twice in a meeting than someone who is constantly looking at their watch.
That and I hate nerds.
Will they work with italian GPS?
Or my mattress sale app?
I am going to invent the smart sundial, everyone will need one.
i'm watch curious
but i have no interest in having the phone in my pocket too
next gen: get rid of the phone part
No I didn't. Been too busy to check it out since the release. That makes a difference though I don't think I will buy one. My phone already occupies too much of my attention bandwith as is. Besides I like having a real watch on my wrist. It gives me the delusion that I am somewhat off the grid in a small aspect o my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster