...am I alone or am I crazy? I am just not all that enthusiastic about a smart watch or glasses. Until it puts me behind in information processing I just don't care much.
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#22Will smartwatches ever be a real thing? Everyone in the developed world has a mobile phone, do we need another device that does the same things albeit rather limited that our phones are already capable of doing? I like the idea of Google Glass, but a smartwatch, really?
If smartwatches are ever going to be a thing, they're going to have to not look like watches. Who wants a clunky, dorky looking watch like the Samsung version? Maybe a few of us geeks in the Valley, but certainly not mainstream and appearance-conscious consumers. I imagine I'd have had my ass kicked if I wore something like that to high school. (Nike got it right with the Fuel Band: if you're going to put something o…
Mainstream people don't seem to have much of an issue walking around with a hearing aid, I mean blue tooth device on their heads.
As for the watch, make it work like science fiction where you can raise your wrist and talk and I bet a lot would join in. I would not mind having a wrist device, even if it only queried my phone in my pocket, which I give simple voice commands. Bonus points to being a real phone.
"How soon before it rains" "Call boss" "Time to next bus"
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#23...am I alone or am I crazy? I am just not all that enthusiastic about a smart watch or glasses. Until it puts me behind in information processing I just don't care much.
Some people have been waiting for personal augmented reality since they were children.
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#24The only reason I'd wear a watch is to have something to look at impatiently. Smartwatches are about to ruin this.
When you look at your smartphone impatiently, you could be looking at anything -- because it can do almost anything. Watches have until now been about one thing: timekeeping. And looking at your watch is (was?) a recognizable social cue.
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#25I can't wait for the moment I can Google something in the middle of a conversation (to verify some points of the discussion) without disrupting it. Do you guys use Siri for that? (I have an "old" 3GS)
Ugh, I'm an iPhone junkie, but talking to it in front of others is something I can never see myself doing. Siri is a powerful tool (on the occasion that it takes less than 45 seconds to respond), but using it like hopping on a Segway. There's something so obnoxious about it, I can't bring myself to do it unless no one is around.
I tell Siri to read my emails in front of other people...
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#26Will smartwatches ever be a real thing? Everyone in the developed world has a mobile phone, do we need another device that does the same things albeit rather limited that our phones are already capable of doing? I like the idea of Google Glass, but a smartwatch, really?
Having had a pebble since shortly after they started shipping, I have found that it's helpful to be able to glance at a summary of each notification that comes in so I can address the urgent stuff and ignore the less important ones. This is only for me personally, but quickly glancing at a sentence vs pulling out the phone (,turning on the screen, getting distracted by other things on that screen) is far less disrupt…
Glance is the feature I love a lot on my Nokia as well. The glance screen allows me to look at things like time on my phone without even turning it on.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having had a pebble since shortly after they started shipping, I have found that it's helpful to be able to glance at a summary of each notification that comes in so I can address the urgent stuff and ignore the less important ones. This is only for me personally, but quickly glancing at a sentence vs pulling out the phone (,turning on the screen, getting distracted by other things on that screen) is far less disrupt…
Glance is the feature I love a lot on my Nokia as well. The glance screen allows me to look at things like time on my phone without even turning it on.
I had a feature kind of like that on a flip phone about a decade ago, a really small second screen you could look at without flipping open the phone, to see who's calling or the current time, and battery level.
All you need do is standardize android phones to have a secondary screen on the other side that never turns off or needs to be unlocked, eink or whatever. Then transition that small screen to also display on your wrist.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
If smartwatches are ever going to be a thing, they're going to have to not look like watches. Who wants a clunky, dorky looking watch like the Samsung version? Maybe a few of us geeks in the Valley, but certainly not mainstream and appearance-conscious consumers. I imagine I'd have had my ass kicked if I wore something like that to high school. (Nike got it right with the Fuel Band: if you're going to put something o…
> Maybe a few of us geeks in the Valley, but certainly not mainstream and appearance-conscious consumers. I imagine I'd have had my ass kicked if I wore something like that to high school. I get your point, but using high school as an example is detracting from it. We're not in high school anymore, nobody is going to get their asses kicked for wearing something. I'm sure if the most popular guy in high school showed…
I think high school is a perfect example, actually. High schoolers are highly influential in popular culture, and many trends bubble up from there. "Getting my ass kicked" wasn't meant to be taken literally; it was more of a rhetorical device. But my point was that, for a device to be widely accepted, it has to be appealing as an accessory. People in high school are extremely image conscious. So are most people outside of high school, for that matter.
"We're not in high school anymore..."
You and I aren't, but millions of people are -- whether literally or metaphorically.
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#29My ideal smartwatch would recharge itself from my body heat/movement, be waterproof, have a cell phone/wifi, and best of all be pay-as-you-go. 90% of the time I'd be on wifi so it would be free anyway like T-Mobile. GPS and bluetooth would be nice but not critical. But just being able to never worry about forgetting it, or having to charge the dang thing, and be able to contact anyone anytime would be very sci fi. An…
I see a day when devices won't need GPS when outside; access points/cell towers can have precision/differential GPS receivers and your device's location is calculated using RF signal strength/triangulation data (802.11ac already uses beam steering for better reception/throughput). I'm aware this is already done using CellID and signal strength data; I'm simply saying it'll become more accurate and widespread.
If you can offload the energy hungry tasks, these devices become much more realistic faster.
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#30I would love a smartwatch that acted as a 2nd display for my phone and controlled things like music and workout apps such as Strava. Then I could get updates on my HR, time, speed, music, location, who's calling me, text messages, etc. without having to dig my phone out. When running I use a waist belt with a water resistant pouch because anything else results in my phone getting drenched in sweat and becoming unusable.