Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers
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On the moto360 (and I presume it's the same on the iWatch) you can read your email/text on the watch. Aside from that, you can control Spotify/Audible and I also frequently use an app that shows my calendar. Once in a while, when I go to Starbucks, there's an app that lets me pay with my watch. Oh, and it displays the time & date, gives me updates on steps walked that day, and shows the weather in the morning.
Obviously, none of that is critical to life. Neither is a smartphone. It does, however, make a number of things slightly more convenient, and they happen to be things that I do dozens of times per day. That makes it worth $250 to me.
I don't really get the hate for smartwatches. It's clearly not an earth shattering piece of technology, but so what?Alkorin_sl said:
You could say exactly the same thing about a smartphone. Presumably, you have a computer at home or in the office. Do youreallyneed email and social media updates while you're on the go?
Vaclav
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Lanx
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As a pebble watch user for 15months? i can tell you the apple watch and all other watches are/will be shit.
Simple, E-ink.
All these other watches are shit b/c you'll never wear them 3 months down the line, cuz they'll be dead, cuz you couldn't be bothered to charge them.
Simple, E-ink.
All these other watches are shit b/c you'll never wear them 3 months down the line, cuz they'll be dead, cuz you couldn't be bothered to charge them.
BrutulTM
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I'm kind of curious how well the motion sensor to turn on the clock face works. If you have to push a button to see the time then that's a deal breaker for me. Charging isn't a big deal as long as it gets you through the day. I don't mind taking the watch off and setting it on a wireless charger before I go to bed every night but if it is going to be dead at 6 PM then that's probably a deal breaker as well. I actually kind of prefer charging nightly to once a week just because it's easy to remember. Not that I wouldn't like the battery to last a long time, but if I had a pebble I would probably still charge it nightly.
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No hate here, but I'll maintain that there is absolutely no use for a smart watch that can't just be a watch 99% of the time and a useful gadget when you need one. If I wanted a phone, I'd... oh, hey, I'm carrying my phone. I don't need another phone screen. Might just be me, though.
One of the selling points for a smart watch (according to Apple, so grain of salt), is to reduce our dependence on checking our phones and bring us back into the moment. So a smart watch could be a more passive device that we don't interact with constantly compared with a smart phone which is a more active interaction.
Seems kinda weird that you would buy a device to not interact with it much
Seems kinda weird that you would buy a device to not interact with it much
One of the selling points for a smart watch (according to Apple, so grain of salt), is to reduce our dependence on checking our phones and bring us back into the moment. So a smart watch could be a more passive device that we don't interact with constantly compared with a smart phone which is a more active interaction.
Seems kinda weird that you would buy a device to not interact with it much
Seems kinda weird that you would buy a device to not interact with it much
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I just honestly dont see a need for this type of device. The only ones to buy this shit are the i-plebs that stand in line for the next morsel of apple hipster tech which is usually already obsoleted. Id rather get a nice $500-$1000 analog watch that wont be obsolete within a year and I can actually give to my son or grandson.
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Can't speak for the apple watch, but the moto 360's screen goes from off to a dimmed mode at the tiniest of movements. So even typing, it's easy to glance down at the watch and see the time. It goes to full brightness/listens to "ok Google" when I lift up my arm (e.g. to give a voice command). That works most of the time, but sometimes I have to quickly tap the screen.
The moto 360 is generally known for not having a great battery. I think they improved battery life with software patches, though, and I now easily get a full day out of it. I start wearing the watch when I get up and put it back on the charger before I go to bed -- so about 18 hours of use, with 10-20% of the battery left by the end.
Sure, but the purpose of any watch > $20 isn't to tell you the time. A $1,000 watch is jewelry that happens to tell the time. Nothing wrong with any of that, and I do think it's a nice item that can be passed on to future generations (although it might just go the way of the pocket watch: something you keep in a safety deposit box because it has sentimental value, but wouldn't actually use day to day). It's just a completely different domain from a smartwatch.
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Yep. At that point, I might as well go back to wearing my Nano 6G as a watch. Yes, I was one of them.
Truth be told, that was as smart a watch as I wanted anyway, and I could wear it at work because it wasn't wireless. Having to push the button to see the clock, though? Ugh.
The selling point is for me to look at my watch and then need to grab my phone to do something useful? No wonder I see zero value in them. Much less the technical issues of battery life and needing to be tethered to my phone regardless.
The Apple Watch allows you to dictate messages via Siri, I think Google watches have something similar so you can respond to notifications. My point was that one of the selling points of a smart watch is that it allows you to quickly answer things and get back to life, but that's it. You're not going to be browsing Rerolled on your wrist.
At the gym it sucks badly when checking time between reps and shit but then I just hate carrying my phone period in a gym.
I actually dig the upcoming pebble watches more. The minimalist OS suits me more better then the over crowded apple watch or whatever it is called.
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Funny how the more gizmos people get to help them work out the fatter the country gets. How did i manage to work out in the 90's without even a phone!
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To be fair Abe, it is a pretty handy thing to have when you've got something to answer while you're in the car or otherwise have your hands completely engaged in something that you can't take them off to manipulate something.
I don't think it's that odd that smartphones really started getting traction shortly after tons of places enacted traffic laws regarding texting when driving/etc. So for those that were addicted to that now illegal activity they can still say "Ok Google - Text Bob "Bob, I love you"" or whatever that they've been missing the past year or so of it being illegal.
I don't think it's that odd that smartphones really started getting traction shortly after tons of places enacted traffic laws regarding texting when driving/etc. So for those that were addicted to that now illegal activity they can still say "Ok Google - Text Bob "Bob, I love you"" or whatever that they've been missing the past year or so of it being illegal.
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And this is what it all boils down to. This isnt about buying something that is useful/functional, its cosmetic. Apple isnt an electronics company, its a fashion company.