Would you wear a smartwatch?

[tirediron]

Mehhhh... a smart watch on my dumb wrist seems rather pointless.

 

[sashbar]

I am wearing automatic mechanical watches and yet to switch to anything with a battery inside, never mind smart.

 

[TheLost]

Quick update and a review...

I've been wearing a Moto 360 for a while now... and to my shock.. I actually enjoy it!

Pro's

• Relatively inexpensive ($250 vs ~$5k for the watch on the right)
• I get a lot of mail/txts/meeting invites. I don't have to keep pulling my phone out of my pocket all the time. A quick glance at the wrist decides if the 'alert' is worth responding to.
• I can respond to texts & emails by voice dictation.
• best watch calculator ever!
• at-a-glance daily schedule. Most 'watch faces' have a way of showing meeting times and appointments.
• Health! keeps track of my daily activity and sets goals to help improve my health.
• I use my phone less!

Cons

• $250!! while it is currently the least expensive watch i own.. its needs to be cheaper.
• Battery Life.. 5:30am to 11pm i have ~10% left in the battery. The latest firmware update improves this (40% at eod) but you still have to charge it up every night.
• NERD!! it screams NERD!!!
• People look at you funny when you talk to your watch in public.
• Draws a ton of attention. I can walk around with a $8,000 Panerai on my wrist and nobody will notice. Losts of people notice a glowing display on your wrist. Some times you get more unwanted attention then you'd like.

I'm not going to sell my watch collection... but a smart watch is a fun little toy that will be on my wrist more then i thought

 

[dannylightning]

if you own a smart phone or tablet I really cant see the point of having a watch too. unless you want to track how far you run or something and do not want to have a phone in your pocket, I would imagine this will be quite the expensive watch

 

[e.rose]

F***ing. Yes.

So stoked for the WATCH.