Would love to know what you guys think and your reasoning for it. I’m starting to see a lot of Apple Watches/Fitbits/Galaxy Watches in my area compared to more traditional timepieces.
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I’ve personally been using a apple watch series 2. See no need to upgrade it tells the time battery lasts a long time even after all these years of use and it can tell me my heart rate,play tappybird and I can listen to music on it I bought it used for £40 3 years ago complete with the box extra straps and a charger literally one of the best purchases I think I’ve ever made only compliant is that because the watch was manufactured in 2016 support dropped several years back and support for some applications such as audible has dropped which is a shame
Regular watch
I currently have a smartwatch but I don’t like how I can’t prevent it from getting my text and phonecalls which I find useless because my phone is on me 95% of the time. The only way is to keep it on Do Not Disturb. It also for some reason has trouble updating, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. I just want it to tell time without all the fancy annoyances.
If you really want it to just tell the time you can turn off the Bluetooth. It’ll stop getting notifications
I take that back. I remembered I also wanted to track my heart rate. It’s pretty ridiculous I can’t simply disable notifications without turning off bluetooth.
Turning off bluetooth is just one option. You absolutely can set all notifications to only go through your phone. I don’t know your exact set up but I am certain that is possible and likely not too difficult
No watch at all - I check the time on my phone and I don’t see the point in saving a half second here and there checking notifications on a smart watch.
Either, depending on my mood and if my batteries/charge are good.
Dumb watch. I have a digital Casio watch (A158W) and it’s great. The battery lasts years and is easy to replace. It’s cheap and looks decent enough.
Maybe in years down the line when Smart Watches become cheap, easier to fix and give more health features, I might be more tempted. But right now, I love my Casio and highly recommend it.
Neither; I don’t like the feeling of something on my wrist. I used to have a pocket watch, but finding a modern one is rather difficult, so I just use my phone.
Smartwatch. It’s very useful for triaging notifications (messages, email, phone calls, etc) and turning HomeKit devices on/off quickly or when my hands are full (Siri, open the garage door). Also extremely useful for fitness.
I see the appeal, having home automation on your wrist would be very convenient indeed.
Smart watch. Great for notifications and telling me if I need to pull my phone out and reply or not, whether mid conversation, driving, cooking, etc. Also fitness tracker so I don’t need my phone on a run.
I would never wear a dumb watch. I need my watch to do more than tell time.
I have yet to find a smartwatch which reasonably fits my tiny wrist, so there’s really no competition.
Why would you wear either? Have not worn watches since cellphones became a thing in the late 90s and smart watches are just a solution looking for a problem…
I like being able to check the time without pulling my phone out in situations where that may be considered rude.
It’s fashionable. I understand you might have a little problem reading from analog watch, but this is what people wear.
I am not a watch guy but I love the data I get from my Garmin so I wear it pretty much 24/7
I enjoyed having a smartwatch back in the pebble days. I was kind of addicted to notifications (especially from datadog) at the time. My Pebble time made me feel less stressed because glancing at my watch was less effort than pulling out my phone.
Then Pebble was killed off, web-scale infrastructure became more reliable, and I learned to recover from my notification addiction. Now I’m happily watchless again.
Have you looked into Rebble? I’m still wearing my Time Steel as a daily driver. I’ve yet to find a newer smartwatch that hits all the features I care about.
Pebble was so nice back in the day.
Now I just wear a Casio and it will be my forever watch. They let you repair everything about the watch.
I tried a cheap smartwatch to test out the concept to see if a smartwatch would add anything of value to my life before I spent hundreds on a good one.
I liked that I didn’t have to reach in my pocket to take my phone out to check the time, see what a text was, and take calls on speakerphone. The best use case was while I was working and that was very handy. The problem was that my job destroyed that cheap smartwatch in a couple weeks. I don’t have anywhere near the same utility outside of work. So no smartwatch for me despite wanting one, because technology.
What work do you do? Testing electromagnets or something?
Construction. Lots of abrasion, vibrations, moisture, impacts, various sealants, masonry dust, mortar mixes, etc. Basically it is not a great enviroment for electronics kept near your hands. I honestly expected the watch to last a few days and only my caution kept it going as long as it did. Though I did get it ripped off my wrist, the magnetic band sticking it to the truck saved it.
Oh yeah, that will do it. I wonder if a G-shock would fare better. Casio is making smartwatches now, though Im not sure if they’re from the G-Shock line. Maybe those would fare better.
Regular watch. I don’t need more things sending me notifications, and a nice watch makes me feel more confident.
Happy for you! If wearing a regular watch makes you feel better, then the value of that far outweighs any other option.
Like many, I stopped wearing watches when smartphones became a thing. Then I adopted the Apple Watch when that came out and wore one or another of them until this month. Something switched in my brain and I just decided that I hated that thing. Hated having to charge it. Hated the notifications. Hated feeling a need to close the rings. Hated the look of the thing. Hated that everyone seems to wear the same thing.
I started to learn about mechanical watches and bought an inexpensive but reportedly good quality one that looks nice to me. So far, I love it. There’s something viscerally satisfying about watching the movement through the display back, hearing the subtle sound, occasionally winding it, and contemplating that people can make such complex things that actually work.
