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Thoughts on smart watches? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello.

For a long time I have considered smart watches to be a gimmick but since they have become more accessible and common now for some time, I was wondering what the people who own and use them think of them?

So what has your experience been of them?

One thing I am curious about is how functional these (especially the Android ones) are without being connected to a phone via bluetooth since bluetooth drains battery?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

IMO, it's completely unnecessary if you have a smartphone, which you probably do, and almost anything a smart watch can do, a phone can do better.

Also, other than one smartwatch made by Pine64, none of them allow libre operating systems, at least not without some major hacking, so you have no idea how much tracking they're doing. Get the Pine64 one if you really want a smart watch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago

I use my Pinetime daily with WaspOS. It's been great, but it's definitely not at the same tier as a mainstream smart watch. I see it as a handy tool for telling the time, acting as a flashlight for really dark rooms, and doing alarms. WaspOS does support notifications but only with android devices. I think once I start using my Pinephone as a daily driver in a month or two I will switch to Infinitime which has more features and has a native app for the Pinephone.