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What appeals to you about a normal watch that a smart watch fails to satisfy? And what specifically do you mean by normal?
by Dylan16807 10d ago
What appeals to you about a normal watch that a smart watch fails to satisfy?
And what specifically do you mean by normal?
- post-it 10d agoI like to look down at my wrist and see the time down to the second, and my Apple Watch S7 can't deliver on that. Either the screen doesn't light up, or it lights up after a second or so, or it lights up but it's showing me the Smart Stack or an old notification instead of the watch face. And the screen fades quickly and hides the second hand (my girlfriend's S10 shows the second hand when the screen is dimmed, so they've at least fixed that in newer models). It also needs to be charged daily which is inconvenient, whereas a normal watch lasts for years, and the smart ring lasts several days. The smart phone integration features don't really work well either. It'll buzz with a notification, I'll look down and there's nothing. 2-3 seconds later the notification appears, but it'll only say who it's from, not the contents, despite my privacy settings being set correctly. I tap it, and a second later the message appears. I may as well have pulled out my phone instead. By normal, these are the criteria I've decided I want in a watch, after trying out a handful from aliexpress: - Quartz mechanism - day-date - Arabic numerals - light face - some sort of illumination
- Dylan16807 10d agoSo that's all valid but those are pretty much all reasons to not want a smart watch, or it failing to do its basic job. When you talked about not wanting two watches, I thought you meant that even if you had a smart watch you liked, you'd still want a normal watch on top.
- post-it 10d agoI like the data collection features of smart watches.