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This is anecdotal but the same exact thing (albeit with an Apple Watch vs. Android) happened to me a few days ago- I had forgotten to turn on the watch's water

This is anecdotal but the same exact thing (albeit with an Apple Watch vs. Android) happened to me a few days ago- I had forgotten to turn on the watch's water mode before going in the water. After about like 5 minutes in the pool it started calling 911 for a medical emergency. My watch ended up calling 911 about 3 times (it probably tried to call them about 5 more times but I ended up taking it off in time to prevent those calls- since it wasn't responding to my inputs at all). I also got a call from the Sheriff's office a little bit later and had to sheepishly explain that my watch was spam calling 911. Still unsure what happened with it exactly, but whatever was triggering it to do this seemed to not simply be due to water on the screen since it tried to call 911 again even when I put the watch back on hours later after it had dried. I have since power cycled it a few times and let it run out of battery and it hasn't tried getting me arrested for spoof calling 911 again, so that's promising.

tazjin 3y ago
I have a nice, handmade mechanical watch and it's never tried to spam-call any emergency services. Also shows the time fairly reliably.
- DanHulton 3y ago
  These are not the same category of product in the same way that a smartphone and a rotary phone are not the same category of product, despite have words in their name in common.
  - gerdesj 3y ago
    You seem to have ignored the /s in your parent's comment. (EDIT: grammar)
    - taejavu 3y ago
      GP is being snarky, not sarcastic.
  - boringuser2 3y ago
    I have one, too. A swiss piece, ~20k retail. It's a nice piece of men's jewelry, but that's all it is.
- throwaway742 3y ago
  Yes, but can it collect large amounts of personal data about you?
  - teaearlgraycold 3y ago
    The big question is can it save you 18 seconds per day of time wasted pulling your phone out of your pocket?
    - deleted 3y ago
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  - nucleardog 3y ago
    It sure doesn't, and for me that's a point against. The continuous monitoring of a bunch of my health indicators is quite helpful when trying to determine how much more quickly than baseline the medication I'm on is trying to kill me.
- the__alchemist 3y ago
  A mechanical watch showing time reliably? I don't buy it.
nostromo 3y ago
Same here. I was swimming in a local lake last summer when I heard a faint voice from my watch. I look and it had unhelpfully called 911 and I was being asked what my emergency was.

tazjin 3y ago

I have a nice, handmade mechanical watch and it's never tried to spam-call any emergency services. Also shows the time fairly reliably.

DanHulton 3y ago
These are not the same category of product in the same way that a smartphone and a rotary phone are not the same category of product, despite have words in their name in common.
- gerdesj 3y ago
  You seem to have ignored the /s in your parent's comment. (EDIT: grammar)
  - taejavu 3y ago
    GP is being snarky, not sarcastic.
- boringuser2 3y ago
  I have one, too. A swiss piece, ~20k retail. It's a nice piece of men's jewelry, but that's all it is.
throwaway742 3y ago
Yes, but can it collect large amounts of personal data about you?
- teaearlgraycold 3y ago
  The big question is can it save you 18 seconds per day of time wasted pulling your phone out of your pocket?
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
- nucleardog 3y ago
  It sure doesn't, and for me that's a point against. The continuous monitoring of a bunch of my health indicators is quite helpful when trying to determine how much more quickly than baseline the medication I'm on is trying to kill me.
the__alchemist 3y ago
A mechanical watch showing time reliably? I don't buy it.

nostromo 3y ago

Same here. I was swimming in a local lake last summer when I heard a faint voice from my watch. I look and it had unhelpfully called 911 and I was being asked what my emergency was.