As mentioned here (1) the IMHO cool and useful features are good battery life, heart rate and sleep tracking, "find my phone" and "tap to pay" / NFC payments.

As mentioned here (1) the IMHO cool and useful features are good battery life, heart rate and sleep tracking, "find my phone" and "tap to pay" / NFC payments. Find my phone: because sometimes you'd rather not spend 5 minutes checking where in the house you might have put it down, so making the phone beep saves time. Tap to pay: I live in a big city. Serious crime is low, but phone snatching is common. Paying without even taking a wallet or phone out of your pocket is ergonomic. People use it for public transport too. However, Tap to pay requires payments infrastructure and certification. A watch that does it will always come from a larger corporation because of this. e.g. Pebble watches do not do it. The "AI health coach" is pointless shovelware. The inevitable "AI feature" that no-one asked for. This is a failing of larger corporations too, so the sweet spot (if it exists) would be NFC without "AI health coach". 1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279527