OK, so the first serious smartwatch is here.
It is getting very mixed reviews. Some say the interface is really good, but the design and heft are much reviled.
In any case, it's a start, and I guess further developments and model are inevitable.
Given though that the screen necessarily is even smaller than that on a normal cell phone, I don't expect to get much reading done on watches ever!
It has been said that the ad ows a lot to an older Apple commercial:
... But I don't know. Like David Pogue said; you can't keep a good idea down. It's OK to fight for your copyright to the exact details of your work, but if broader ideas get tied up one by one, creativity will stall over time.
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Given though that the screen necessarily is even smaller than that on a normal cell phone, I don't expect to get much reading done on watches ever!
No, but it sure would be nice not to have a stupid phone that is so bulky and a PITA to carry, if you're a woman and don't like to carry a purse!! It would just be nice to wear a bluetooth and answer calls, from there, and check messages, etc., from something that small, and get on w/the day, instead of having to lug all these silly phones around...
The issue is that if it only has bluetooth, you need a phone nearby anyway, because bluetooth is only meant to reach a few meters, between peripherals.
I don't know if anybody has yet developed a true wrist-phone, with a cell-phone connection.
I meant having a bluetooth in the ear, to pick up the calls that came in...on the cell phone... I don't see why they couldn't make a wrist-sized cell phone, soon; there's some pretty tiny phones out there and I'm sure that the technology could get smaller, as time goes by...
Indeed. 12 years ago I had a cell phone half the size of an iPhone.
Of course it didn't have all the computing power and gadgetry.
But I miss it. It was an Erickson before the merger, and the user interface was probably the first and last phone interface in the world to be really simple and intuitive, I never needed the manual once.
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