/g/, are smart watches cringe?
Yes
If they looked like regular wrist watches and had a battery that lasted a week they'd be less dumb. Now they look like small gay butt plugs.
>>110224702I still don't understand what they're for. They do nothing.
>>110224702I use mine to help keep track of my heart health and monitor for any complications.
>>110224702I like both smart and dumb watches
>>110224702They are great at harvesting your bio metrics to send to corporations
>>110224887their consent agreements you sign outright say they don't do that so try again
>>110224906>Retard believes corporations when they say " we promise"LMAOYou have to be an iPhone user. I bet you are.
>>110224853They're pretty nice if you run a lot, otherwise yeah, they don't really do much.
>>110224702Probably good for running or for alerting about potential heart issues.My mom got an apple watch and I thought it was a useless purchase, but it alerted her to some heart issues, which finally pushed her to see a doctor, so I'm really thankful for that at least.I personally have used a miband like 8 years ago and while the convenience of being able to access notifications very easily was nice for a while, I grew tired of it rather quickly.
>>110224853I got a smartwatch to track my sleep because I thought I wasn't getting enough. Turns out my sleep time is mostly fine.I guess now I can check notifications on my watch instead, reducing the need for me to pull out my phone every five minutes.
>>110224853They're more useful if it has cellular data on it, think of it as a backup iPhone just in case.
I like my Apple Watch. I like that it tells my fatass to get up and do something. I dislike that I have to charge it daily.
>>110224702smart watches are just attention sapping mind control devices for the goyim ngl just wear a real watch
>>110224801I miss my pebble. Battery would last weeks.
>>110224702Pixel was the best design and feel for me but you have to have a pixel watch to fully utilize it and I sold my pixel phone because it was shit. Bought a samsung watch and it's health stuff is great but I miss the domed round pixel.
>>110224702na they're great. I like tracking my heart rate and blood pressure. I stopped drinking coffee at work because of them. It souked ny heart rate and blood pressure.
>>110225845Sounds like you missed out on the IQ train too. Too bad you only got the two digit model.
>>110225839they did a pebble reboot
>>110224702the worst thing about smartwatches is that they are a redundant, expensive tiny screen on your wrist so you can be bothered with useless notifications. I just need to see the time most of the time, so my casio is more than enough.then again, I'm interested in the health stuff. It would be nice having all the apple watch health sensors in a screnless band. Looks like John Apple is putting this together, fortunately.
I got one for fitness tracking. I fond the notifications way too intrusive.
I got a fitbit air a few weeks ago and it replaced my apple watch. Apple watches look faggy no matter how much you try to compensate for it.
>>110226216fuck off brownoid>>110226225yeah and it was garbage.
smart watches are gay and retarded
>>110225451You can enable beeps or vibration when you get a message, do you know that? It's what people do that don't like complicating things.
>>110230047a smart watch without complications is just a regular watch
>I need my le heart ratejust put two fingers against your neck, also you're probably fat>I need my le sleep trackingJust ask yourself how you feel>I need to check my le emailsno you don't>I need the timeJust buy a 10 dollar Casio watch that was perfected 40 years ago
>>110224702I'm a run fag so I like using them. I still think old fashioned watches can look way better than them. I find it annoying how often I have to charge it but I have it charging when I shower which is when I would take it off anyways.
>>110224869But do you like average IQ watches?
>>110230215>NOOOO THE HECKIN CORPOROONIES ARE HECKIN TRACKING ME AHHHHHHHH>OHHH NO LE SAMSUNG AND DA GOOGLY WOOGLY MIGHT SEE MY HR GETS TO 85 WHEN I WACK MY LIL PEEPEE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH>NOOOO LE HECKIN SAMSUNG AND GOOGLY WOOGLY MIGHT SEE I WENT TO BE AT 10!!!!! AAAIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE>NOOOO LE GOOGLY WOOGLY MIGHT SEE I GOT AN EMAIL FROM AMAZON AHHHHHHH AAIIEEEEEEEEEEKYS
>>110224702Ask Gemini 3.8+ to vibeslop an app to allow interfacing with Antigravity on a remote machine so you can vibeslop on the go. You'll look like James Bond whispering to your watch to do shit. >>110230362based
>>110230362who are you quoting?
>>110224961If you run a lot (or any sport for that matter) then you do not need a device that tells you your performance. You will never see a real athlete relying on an external device for help. "smart" watches are for posers only.
>>110230538bro never did sports in HS or college lol
>>110224801It's too bad Fossil gave up on their hybrid smartwatches. They looked great.
I've been wearing smartwatches since the original Pebble came out. Just bought one of these, it's very nice. There's a screen behind the face so you can't even tell it's a smartwatch until you tap it to wake it up or a notification comes through. My sole complaint is that the vibration is too weak when maxed out
>>110224702This may not be a popular opinion but wearing decorations is for closeted homosexuals, OP.
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>>110224702Look at the people who wear these things and then you tell me?
Not when they measure my heart rate
>>110224801Anon, I... I'm not seeing the buttplug resemblance.
>>110224853Great for health monitoring. Also good for staying off your phone without losing access to vital information. You can leave your phone at home entirely but still have access to directions, music, podcasts, phone calls, mobile payments, transit passes, texts and whatnot.
>>110230538athletes absolutely do track their performance you fucking retard.but even beyond that it’s super useful. apple pay means I have money in a pinch without having to carry a credit card or a rolled up 20 in a sock. and if I’m 5 miles from home and think of something I know I’m going to forget I can just ask siri to remind me in an hour.
ITT: poorfags
>>110230047My phone is usually on silent most of the day, so I tend to miss out on anything that's not a phone call. I'm more likely to feel vibrations on my wrist than in my pocket or sling bag.
>>110224702I prefer programmable watches like the Watchy or the m5stack cStick, I think they're cool :3Kinda question why they aren't more popular.
>>110232527every smartwatch is programmable now with AI
>>110224702cattle tags
>>110230215>just put two fingers against your neck, also you're probably fatI run half marathons and I like to know my HR immediately instead of wasting my time and my attention when I'm busy running.
>>110224853Aside from all the meme health things which are probably super unreliably measured anyway though it's still good to follow trends, not having to take your phone out of your pocket for many things is just really convenient. I noticed that I actually allowed far more notifications which I used to consider spam because it feels less spammy if you don't have to take your phone out of your pocket just to see if it's not more important. Controlling music and doing contactless payments with it is also nice.The issue is though that their potential is chronically unfulfilled because no one is supporting it. 2fa is a pain because no one wants to take his phone out of his pocket when he's sitting behind a desk which is highly inconvenience but none of these people support smarwatches for it either which would be very convenient. Would be great if musicolet had actual support for it so it could do more than simple playback controls or if one could do Anki reviews on it, but alas.>>110224935>Anon actually believes this wouldn't be found out leading to a massive lawsuit.
>i can le pay with it uwu :3Are you all retards that buy 10 different things per day on a whim? Are you women? What the fuck are you doing in this board?
I like my Garmin Instinct for hiking trips because I can check the compass, weather, sunset time, and use offline maps. I even took it swimming in water park one time because I needed to check the time so I wouldn't be late for a meeting later. With that being said, I think smart glasses > smart watches going forward. They can do most of the same shit and more.
>>110236005>I think smart glasses > smart watches going forward. They can do most of the same shit and more.I haven't seen a single Smart glasses that didnt make the user look like a fruitcake
>>110236897Even Realities G1 and G2 look good. That apple glass shit in your pic is designed for warehouse workers and shit. You're not supposed to wear those in public.
>>110236941>Even Realities G1 and G2 look good.they look good at wasting your money for almost zero gain. I could put a fucking projector onto the windshield for the same effect as this. The only way AR glasses will ever be useful is if they go full eyerape like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs which its own hell of its own.
>>110224702proper watches are better fashion accessories and a smartphone is a better gadgetthis shit literally has no use case unless you're a tech-illiterate teenage whoreif you own one of this shit, please kindly to the needful and gtfo of my board
>>110237089Your first argument was that smart glasses look ass and then when faced with a pair that doesn't you sperg out about them not being full ARslop or whatever. Seems like a skill issue if you can't figure out what to use the tech for and don't understand that I said smart glasses > smart watches GOING FORWARD. There is no doubt that smart glasses will have thinner profiles, longer battery life, and more/better features than you could ever manage to get with a smart watch in the future. None of that matters to retards like you who don't ever actually buy or use tech, as opposed to bitching about it online like annoying faggots.
ive had a garmin venu x1 for about half a year, i do a LOT of cycling and apart from the HRM being a bit inaccurate at times, the 5-6 day battery life and connectivity to my bike sensors is really useful. its a shame the watch faces are either shit or expensive and the supplied wrist strap is fabric so it gets sweaty.
>>110237529>longer battery lifelol thats an entirely different field from technology and has been stagnant for years after Lithium Ion batteries came out. Your only option is more efficient CPU usage (phones underclock most of the time when not active to extend battery usage) you're never going to get past the form issue where the frames need to be gigantic to store a fucking battery in them. They'll always be ugly, underpowered, weak on features and with pathetic battery life. Making these glasses your "thing" is the weirdest fucking shit ever, its like people who swore 3d was going to be everywhere and we had to listen to advertisements for years for 3d tv and shutter glasses and 3d video games now its all gone. Same with VR, big promises and no results because the form as it attaches to the human body is garbage. Watches are already a long established product that works and phones are just squares which the human hand has been picking up since time immemorial. Glasses on the other hand want to be as slim as possible because humans hate heavy things on their head.
>>110235933It's called going to work/university and back which is already 8 different times swiping your card if you have even one transit and 4 if you have none.You may have assumed n.e.e.t. such as yourself.
>>110236897Just own the look
