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Suggestion: what about a lite version? I don't particularly want or need a watch that can display email alerts or interface with my phone or even run a program
by nathanb 15y ago
Suggestion: what about a lite version?
I don't particularly want or need a watch that can display email alerts or interface with my phone or even run a program I wrote (although that last one is really slick). I have a smartphone in my pocket which does all that.
And I definitely don't want a watch whose battery I have to charge every night. Last year I changed the battery in my current watch for the first time ever. I've had it since 2001.
What I would pay money for, though, is a slick watch with a brilliant and skinnable display. One of the reasons why I've stuck with the same watch for ten years is because it (Casio Databank Telememo 30) is one of the few watches I've found with a screen at a high enough resolution to display day, date, and time all at once at a size readable from 5 feet away without looking chunky or ugly.
(No, I don't care about my watch's ability to store telephone numbers. It's a curious example of an evolutionary dead-end; the ability to store 30 telephone numbers in my watch was barely convenient, though gimmicky, when I was in high school. This is true no longer. But the fact that Casio had to design a screen capable of displaying a name and telephone number means that the screen is also capable of fulfilling my requirements above.)