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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] -2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

What kind of sense does that make? Smartphones grab your attention too much, so use this other thing that grabs your attention instead. How about just turning off notifications? At least for specific apps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Smartphones grab your attention too much, so use this other thing that grabs your attention instead A smart watch doesn't have much functionality on its own so when it grabs your attention, you respond and move on. With a smartphone, people tend to respond to one thing and then continue to use the smartphone. Turning off notifications doesn't solve that, because the notifications are what users want to respond to on the smartwatch.

It sounds like you don't have the problems smartwatches address, so they're probably not for you. But that doesn't mean they're not useful for other people.