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> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
I still remember wondering how Clinkle raised so much money. Look how far we've come since then!
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Email on a computer? Voice and in person? A telephone that you plug into a wall?
I mean you could still achieve the same thing with an iPhone that's just always kept in Do Not Disturb...
Phones can be used as a tracking device, and are much more likely to be used as such since everyone carries them around.
Buying a phone also supports the phone industry, that I do not want to support. It supports more mining and the disposable electronics industry. (Computers are more useful and if you install Linux on them, you can make them last for much longer than a phone.)
> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
Here's a hot take: most people (hell, me included) don't want to stop using their smartphone.
I suspect anyone who works in tech is completely unsurprised. Sure, the tech exists to make this thing possible, but it requires an Apple-sized company to execute on it, and even then it’s utility would be doubtful There’s been a lot of pulling back on smart speakers because they’re not quite where they need to be - and this promised far far more than a smart speaker from a tiny new company. The question is: did they…
By the looks of it, this device uses 4g, and doesn't support 5g, so over time we might expect service to get worse as telecoms build out their 5+g networks and leave the 4g ones behind.
> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
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Here's a hot take: most people (hell, me included) don't want to stop using their smartphone.
Of course not, because it's an addiction. Drug users say the same.
A 4/10 is way too high for this review, when the conclusion is it barely ever works and instead "just buy an Apple watch".
> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
It might be an age thing (late 20s), but I can assure I would have absolutely zero social life if I didn’t have my phone — all planning, catch ups, bar hangouts, exchanging numbers while travelling and many more things initiate through one or another app. It sucks in some levels, but also not really possible to function without it, at least for me.