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Good points. > I disagree with you about the concept of smartwatches that should be "thin terminals." The things I don't miss about my Pebble classic involve h
by darkarmani 5y ago
Good points.
> I disagree with you about the concept of smartwatches that should be "thin terminals." The things I don't miss about my Pebble classic involve how basic it was.
Let me restate this. Unless the watch is a phone replacement (including just part of the time), I think it is a waste making them more expensive and more power hungry. I can agree that the use-case of not carrying my phone around would make the "fat" smartwatch reasonable (or if it tied to a 3d headset or something for better consumption - stream netflix on wifi).
> The things I don't miss about my Pebble classic involve how basic it was.
I think the Pebble classic is not a good example of what a modern low power smart watch could do -- something that could offload everything to the phone and acts just like a display and input device.
For a thin-watch, I love that even my ancient pebble classic can answer phone calls (with BT earbuds in), display text messages, and control music playing (volume/skip/pause). I get so many spam calls now, i can instantly check on my wrist if it is someone i know and silence it otherwise.