"Smart" watches? I'm not getting the hype....

"Smart" watches? I'm not getting the hype....

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beanbag

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7,346 posts

240 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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I'm still not getting the point of a smart watch showing me the weather, messages, phone calls (so I can scream at my wrist), etc....it just doesn't make any sense to me.

I wear high-end watches daily but do so knowing the beauty of the time piece on my wrist. The engineering that goes within the mechanism and so therefore as a piece of jewellery.

The only "smart" watch which really isn't a smart watch I've taken to so far is the Withings Activité. I can see myself wearing this, but I can't see any business professional walking around with a chunky, bloated device on their wrist!

I'm probably missing the point entirely but this is nothing more than a gimmick for kids to have fun with (Remember those awesome Casio watches with a gazillion functions? This is modern version of this!)

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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beanbag said:
I wear high-end watches daily but do so knowing the beauty of the time piece on my wrist.
hehe Get you.

Lorneg

228 posts

178 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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I was talking to a chap who was trying to persuade me that a watch that just tells the time is pointless and that you really needed one that not only provides weather forecasts and social media updates, but would also tell you how fast your heart was beating.

His real clincher point was, 'thousands of people have mini heart attacks without realising it, this watch will tell you when your having one, so charging it every night is a small price to pay'

My response? 10 guesses but it started with, 'I don't want...

beanbag

Original Poster:

7,346 posts

240 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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el stovey said:
hehe Get you.
I fell into that one! hehe

rhinochopig

17,932 posts

197 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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el stovey said:
beanbag said:
I wear high-end watches daily but do so knowing the beauty of the time piece on my wrist.
hehe Get you.
hehe

Do you think he does so whilst making love to a beautiful women?




bigandclever

13,750 posts

237 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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I still think it's too early ... but I do already know I'm more likely to wear Google on my wrist than in glasses across my face laugh

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Apple will make a smart watch and everyone (me included probably) will wonder how they ever got by without it.

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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I just don't see the appeal of them...

wombleh

1,778 posts

121 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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I like the idea of being able to answer texts, emails and phone calls without getting the phone out. Will also help battery life on the phone as the screen is used less. They need to make them a lot nicer looking before I'm tempted.

lamboman100

1,445 posts

120 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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el stovey said:
Apple will make a smart watch and everyone (me included probably) will wonder how they ever got by without it.
This.

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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wombleh said:
I like the idea of being able to answer texts, emails and phone calls without getting the phone out. Will also help battery life on the phone as the screen is used less. They need to make them a lot nicer looking before I'm tempted.
Not sure it will help phone battery, as they all appear to require bluetooth to be on.

Butter Face

30,192 posts

159 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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el stovey said:
Apple will make a smart watch and everyone (me included probably) will wonder how they ever got by without it.

Foliage

3,861 posts

121 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Personally I don't see the point of having another device to charge etc, give me a watch with a sim card in it that I can text/email/internet on and add a Bluetooth headset for calls.

But I think it would be a tad too small, it may get fashionable to wear a really large wrist device (watch!) some day, but I cant see that being very soon unless apple has something in the works.

Current phones are imho too big and they are getting bigger.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Problem is that many people have multiple watches and like to swap them around for whatever reason. I might only wear this watch for 2-3 days in a row then put it down for a week. Next time I pick it up, I'd have to charge it up before using it. That'd make it worse than a mechanical wind up.

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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beanbag said:
phone calls (so I can scream at my wrist), etc....it just doesn't make any sense to me.
Surely everyone wants to be Michael Knight...


Foliage

3,861 posts

121 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Hoofy said:
Problem is that many people have multiple watches and like to swap them around for whatever reason. I might only wear this watch for 2-3 days in a row then put it down for a week. Next time I pick it up, I'd have to charge it up before using it. That'd make it worse than a mechanical wind up.
I agree but its about fashion, if it suddenly becomes fashionable to have a smart device strapped to your wrist, then the fashion may also be to have a watch on the other wrist.

The fashion of tech is rather weird, and things keep moving forward the main do all device just gets smaller, I cant see google glass or similar taking off any time soon but really who knows, price point is a big factor too.

Pistom

4,916 posts

158 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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That's right, there is no point yet as Apple haven't launched their device yet but once that is available we will understand how our lives were previously so incomplete.

ATG

20,485 posts

271 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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I too am a little sceptical. I'd expect them to be best at giving you realtime updates about "something" ... but the screen size is so limited whatever the something is, it'll have to be very succinctly put. A bit cap for news headlines. Can't reply to msgs. What's left? Telling you the time (!), navigate a planned route, monitoring exercise. So it might be a better version of existing Garmin or Suunto devices, but I can't think of killer apps for it that will really make them sell.

schmunk

4,399 posts

124 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Hoofy said:
Problem is that many people have multiple watches and like to swap them around for whatever reason. I might only wear this watch for 2-3 days in a row then put it down for a week. Next time I pick it up, I'd have to charge it up before using it. That'd make it worse than a mechanical wind up.
My emphasis, of course.

How many? I'll wager not many at all.

And for those who do, how about a modern version of the Pop Swatch?

Re charging, inclusion of an induction coil in the watch will make it easy to just leave it charging on the nightstand until next use.

Craikeybaby

10,369 posts

224 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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I'm a bit of a geek, and like having the latest gadgets, but I still like a mechanical watch. I've yet to see the point in a smart watch and can't see people with expensive watches suddenly stopping to wear them to replace it with a smart watch.