How many of you own a smart watch? Well now I have one too. It is not something I would buy for myself but was a gift from the offspring who are concerned about my safety. Supposedly it has things like fall detection and calling 911 and even an EKG. The health array includes performance workouts. You also can receive text messages and emails.
The other bonus you can answer the phone on your Smart Watch. Believe it or not I would just like to know what time it is and that is the toughest thing to do! Once the Smart Watch is in a do loop mode navigating menus swiping up, swiping down turning the outer dial does not get you back to the watch face. Even though I was presented the largest form of the Smart Watch it is incompatible with FFS -- Fat Finger Syndrome.
I received a long-distance call yesterday from a ham friend who was sharing a tale of woe -- smoked finals. When I answered my phone, the call went to the watch where the puny audio output was hardly heard. Dumb Watch! You cannot increase the audio from the watch directly and you have to go to the app on your smart phone to do that.
My friend on the phone shared that when he pulls into his garage that his Smart Watch switches over to his wife's phone and requires a reset--- every time. That must be annoying.
So, I am thinking of a solution where with some duct tape on the watch you can defeat any buttons, and it always stays with the time and isn't that the purpose of a watch.
Now mind you I sound like some of the emails I receive about one of my projects not working. For me this miracle invention perhaps did not consider that users may not want everything including the kitchen sink.
For me it is obvious that answering the phone on my watch given you have to bring the watch up to your ear to barely hear the other end is not useful when driving warp speed down the 101 Freeway. That is plain dangerous!
I have a very repeat very expensive watch that was also a present from offspring and the last time I wore it was to the XYL's funeral. I am really hard on watches and my $10 watch I bought on Amazon tells perfect time and the watch face has two solder burns and at $10 it is no big deal. A solder burn on the expensive watch would really bother me. The watch was so expensive that I am uncomfortable wearing it for everyday use.
To gain a little practice with the text function while my coffee was brewing at 5AM, I accidentally sent the word OK to my daughter --- that prompted a call back to see if I was OK. I can't type word answers on the text screen you know FFS.
Again, I would not buy a Smart Watch as the functions are mostly gimmicks == I just want to know the time and pushing one of the buttons takes you to the Samsung Wallet--- I guess you can buy stuff with your Smart Watch --- now that is DUMB especially if you lose the watch!
73's
Pete N6QW