5 Reasons You’ll Wear a Smart Watch
Mar 22, 2013 04:41 PM EDT by People don’t wear watches anymore. You’ll look ridiculous. Why wouldn’t you just use your smartphone instead? These are just some of the negative sentiments skeptics are spewing about smart watches, which are still very much in their nascent stage. Guess what? They’re wrong.
Not only are there some promising smart watches already available, including the Pebble and Martian Watch, but Samsung has confirmed that it is working on its own watch. Meanwhile, Apple reportedly has more than 100 people working on a curved-glass iWatch that runs iOS and Google is said to be working on its own high-tech timepiece. All of these gadgets have the potential to improve your existence. Here are five reasons why smart watches will be anything but a fad.
You Can Glance at Info to Save Time
With all of the buzzing and beeping your phone does on a daily basis — I've personally come to despise the Galaxy S3's whistle and that awful “Droid” notification sound — a smart watch will let you know at a glance which calls are worth picking up (or ignoring), which messages are worth responding to, which tweets are worth re-tweeting and more. No more having to constantly unlock your phone only to discover that someone has invited you to try “My Birthday Calendar” on Facebook. Still, it will be critical for smart watch makers to let you customize alerts so your wrist isn't buzzing all day.
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March 25th, 2013 at 7:47 am
” I’ve personally come to despise the Galaxy S3′s whistle and that awful “Droid” notification sound”
I would hope that, being a tech site, you would know this, but you can actually change the whistle sound to something else!
Amazing how customizable some things are, huh?
March 25th, 2013 at 9:09 am
I’m aware that you can disable these sounds. I was merely stating that I don’t like them.
March 27th, 2013 at 4:00 pm
interested in purchasing I´m phone can you help? Thank you, Claudio.
March 29th, 2013 at 12:01 pm
For god’s sake…
“People don’t wear watches anymore. You’ll look ridiculous. Why wouldn’t you just use your smartphone instead?”
Are you stupid? I’m wearing a watch right now and even my sister has recently bought herself one despite never wearing one previously. I regularly mock people (usually, it has to be said, women) that spend ages fumbling for their phones in order to check the time when I take a quick glance at my wrist to find it.
Smartwatches may well catch on and become a big thing, but watches are a long long way from being dead and I don’t look or think I look ridiculous for wearing one.
March 29th, 2013 at 12:02 pm
I would also be surprised if Apple’s watch (the iWatch? An ingenious name if ever I’ve seen one) used curved glass – nothing else they’ve made has as far as I can remember.
April 5th, 2013 at 1:44 am
I’m curious as to what they can come up with. A watch usable as a headset would be nice, though ergonomics is tricky if you don’t want a everyone to hear; relaying new emails/texts/rss would be nice too.