How useful are smart watches? O don't really care about the step tracking features. What are some useful features?

How useful are smart watches? O don't really care about the step tracking features. What are some useful features?

Zero usefulness

It takes a whole 2 extra seconds to look at your phone

It's a red flag to let other people know you are an uninformed consumerist

Looking like a retard
Charging your """watch""" daily
Forgetting to charge your watch so you walk around with a hunk of metal on your arm to build forearm strength
Watching porn on it while you jack off and pretending the people on the screen are in awe because your dick is bigger then they are
Having third degree burns with the Li-Pos explode

Smart watches are pretty useless. Notifications are nice but unnecessary. That being said, I am waiting on my Apple Watch Series 2.

Answering calls and reading texts when your hands are occupied. That's it but for me that was more than enough to justify purchase.
Obviously it only works with headset.

> Charging your """watch""" daily
Sony SW2 works for 5-7 days.

anybody know of any really really thin and low profile wearables? I don't like the obvious bulk smart watches seem to have

>Charging your """watch""" daily
I charge my fenix once every 2 weeks for a hour maybe?

I just don't see the point at all. They don't look good first and foremost. Most of the people that would buy them have their head buried in their phone 90% of their fucking time on this earth anyway. And I see people who own them still pull out their phone to check the time.

I want one for primarily for audio controls.
>play, pause
>fast forward, rewind
>next, previous
>and very importantly, easy volume control

Which is the best cheapest smartwatch for that?

I don't care about heart rate or steps or GPS. If they come with it, fine, but I don't need them.

>go to college
>put image files about a specific subject on it
>use the watch during exams
>cheat your way to success like everyone else

It can give you the time

The definition of a fucking meme.

I like the idea of bluetooth streaming from my phone to my watch, and running an earphone cable down my sleeve to the watch.

otherwise mostly a novelty, only promoted because the smartphone market is mature unless you're selling to """"emerging markets""" i.e. poor brown mud hut-dwellers

Since this thread exists, anyone have experience with spotify on android smartwatches? Any compatibility?

i have a mi-band
the steptracking is as inaccurate as i would expect plus it doesn track biking, but does track riding the bus on a bumpy road

the only features that are useful is the vibration on incoming calls when you are outside in a noisy environment or in the kitchen/bathroom.
Customizable LED for notifications and
Smart alarm that tries to vibrate you awake if it detects light sleep shortly before your real alarm is supposed to go off

Smart watches are nice when you're driving and need to voice reply to text. Also if you're car has no Bluetooth but you have an AUX cord, you can tie the smartwatch on your wheel and contr the phone music through your watch.

In the winter, you want to be snug and just check the time, there you go. You just have another option to change music, see who texted you, without taking your comfy warm hands out of your pockets.

Pebble time round does not look like a smartwatch at all. Highly recommend it.

>audio control
>see caller name when wearing earbuds
>check schedule
>check urgent messages
that's the only useful features and even $10 ones have
higher-end Android/iOS-powered are overkill

It's a convenience.
One of those thing where people who don't have one think, "that's fucking stupid, what's so hard about pulling your phone out of your pocket?"
People who do have one think it's nice. They may not freak out if they forget it at home one day, but are very happy when it is around.

Just to be curious, how much are smartwatches today?

a cheap chinese one can go 15~20 bucks

Depends on how how much features you want it to have, or how much you're willing to be disappointed by some cheap sketchy shit.

Price range?

>How useful are smart watches?
About one hundred times more useful than an Omega Speedmaster which costs ten times as much. Also, Tim Cook claimed that in 2015 Apple was the number two watch maker by revenue in the world, second only to Rolex. Go figure.

>bluetooth streaming from my phone to my watch, and running an earphone cable down my sleeve to the watch.
What the fucking fuck, DUDE - why not just buy bluetooth ear-buds/headphones like a sensible person?!?

10-1000
i recommend a cheap fitness band with a build in watch and heartrate tracking that lasts weeks on a single charge over some huge ass overpriced watch with fidgety controls, a tiny screen and needs to charge every day

>Buying all new headphones that aren't compatible with a bunch of shit while you have perfectly fine headphones
Top kek.

The only one worth buying is a used plebble on ebay.
Buy a real watch

Work construction. Boss has smart watch. If we looking at ceiling to attach drywall and he gets a text or called he can see when his hands are full. Most of time ends up taking out phone anyway after this. Take from this what you will citizen.

He/you was talking about *buying a fucking smartphone* to connect the ear-buds to, dumbass. That said, I own a pair of nice wired heaphones which I never use because they're fucking wired and that's worse than anything I could say about my bluetooth headphones.

For more than 500€ a smart watch isn't worthy imo. For that price I can get an automatic watch made of premium materials that doesn't need charging in a life time.

>*buying a fucking smartphone*
No, there was no mention of this at all. You're just making shit up.

>I like the idea of bluetooth streaming from my phone to my watch, and running an earphone cable down my sleeve to the watch.

I do a bit of cycling, I want a smartwatch so I can skip tracks but I put my phone in the top of my rucksack and just use the smart watch as a remote client

Yes, that makes absolutely no mention of buying anything, let alone a fucking smartphone. Are you just trying to make yourself look like a dipshit?

I'm thinking of getting the new cheapo pebble for use while biking. I like to listen to podcasts on long bike trips and a smart watch seems good for that.

But really, it's pretty much useless.

They're good house fire starters, woke up and found mine as hot as a note 7 on a summer day.

(Never happened before, clearly moto knows I'm talking shit about them online and wanted to kill me)

Well, shit, I meant to write smart watch. But that doesn't change a damn thing - I was ridiculing the idea of wanting a watch to connect your headphones to instead of leaving out the middleman and connecting to the phone directly. Why are you so hung up on the details anyway? You know exactly what I meant.

>Well, shit, I meant to write smart watch. But that doesn't change a damn thing
Indeed, it doesn't, since it didn't mention buying a smart watch for that either. You're assuming that was his only reason for owning one, which is just baseless.

>Why are you so hung up on the details anyway? You know exactly what I meant.
No, I did not, I'm not fucking psychic. And now it seems that those details just prove that you were still making shit up.

This is so stupid. He said he liked the idea, I said it's dumb, and now you come along, loosing your shit because he didn't explicitly say that he's actually going to buy someting? What the fuck? Seriously!

>You're assuming that was his only reason for owning one
I'm working under the assumption that he does NOT in fact own a watch at all. Like since my first post. Nothing I wrote would make sense otherwise.

>I said it's dumb
For apparently the wrong reasons. Thus in reality you shouldn't think it's dumb.

>I'm working under the assumption that he does NOT in fact own a watch at all.
And that then, those aren't mutually exclusive. Would result in the same conclusion though, you hating something for shit you made up.

they are a meme

>you shouldn't think it's dumb.
I shouldn't think it's dumb to like the idea of connecting a smart watch to a smartphone so you can connect your wired headphones to the watch? WHY?

>shit you made up
I didn't make up anything - explain yourself!

>WHY?
Because the only reason you gave at that point for not liking it was because you needed to buy a smartwatch, which isn't true. I also gave you more reasons why it isn't dumb.

>I didn't make up anything
Really? Do you really need me to quote stuff that you made up for your argument? You admitted to it one fucking post ago.

Ive got a pebble steel i got for pretty cheap. Currently a student so it's useful during class so professors dont get upset for looking at your phone, knowing if a call is important to step out of the room and take it is nice, sending canned replies to text messages/calls, etc. Besides notifications i use it as an alarm in the mornings and as a regular watch. Charge it every Saturday although it could probably last 2-3 more days with no charge. Not something i need, but nice to have.

>you needed to buy a smartwatch, which isn't true.
What? Of course it's true! He doesn't have one, so he'd need to buy one. It's buying a smart watch vs. buying bluetooth headphones, since the very first post. And only once did I accidentally type "phone" instead of "watch", so what are you on about making shit up? Or do you mean my assumption that he doesn't have a watch? Saying "I like the idea of X" strongly implies that you don't actually do/have X, or you'd say "I like X for/because of/since. So again, what's your damn problem? This should be as straight forward as they come yet here we are.

>Of course it's true!
No, you can already have a smartwatch for example.

>He doesn't have one
Again, an assumption.

>so what are you on about making shit up?
Like the shit in this post. Almost all your arguments are based on shit that doesn't exist, shit you made up.

>Or do you mean my assumption that he doesn't have a watch?
Yes. Which you are, again, presenting as fact.

>Saying "I like the idea of X" strongly implies that you don't actually do/have X, or you'd say "I like X for/because of/since.
No, I'd use both of those regardless of if I own something or not. You're making baseless claims.

>So again, what's your damn problem?
That there's a little faggot on here arguing about problems that do not exist, as if they exist.

>No, I'd use both of those regardless of if I own something or not. You're making baseless claims.
You're doing it wrong. Using "I like the idea of" is a pretty standard way of describing theoretical situations. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard/read it being used another way. Your whole argument is based on a bad understanding of rhetoric, man.

>Using "I like the idea of" is a pretty standard way of describing theoretical situations.
Okay? It can still be theoretical even though he'd own a smartwatch, maybe he just didn't do it. I still disagree though.

Rest of the post is pretty much wrong.

I've based my shitposting on the most probable meaning of his writing - I'm not gonna account for potential mistakes before I call people dumb on the internet.

>Rest of the post is pretty much wrong.
What rest? Again: he thinks connecting wired headphones to a watch, which in turn is connected to a phone via bluetooth is NOT the dumbest shit anyone has ever thought. It doesn't even really matter whether he owns a watch or not - the mere fact that someone would do that is stupid. So I called him out on it. Nothing more, nothing less. Everything else is mostly in your head.

Grad students/College instructor here. My Sony Smartwatch2 has proven incredibly useful. It allows you discretely check a text message in professional situations without looking like a tool. Great if you keep catching yourself texting in class.

I'm in the same boat as this guy. I got the time steel though while it went on a sale.
I also drive a lot (for a student), 2hrs minimum every day and often get texts or emails regarding shit I'm heading to, so glancing at the info on my watch is incredibly useful to me. Fuck driving 1hr for a cancelled lecture or going to a wrong meeting point.

They have some useful things like calendar, notes, and even tasker which i like.

I have the first gen Apple Watch and like having access to notifications, my security camera alerts and Apple Pay during the day. If I could ditch my phone entirely and just use the watch I would if the tech was there.

>I've based my shitposting on the most probable meaning of his writing
And assumptions apparently. In case you don't understand, read my previous post again.

>What rest?
>In fact, I don't think I've ever heard/read it being used another way. Your whole argument is based on a bad understanding of rhetoric, man.
>It doesn't even really matter whether he owns a watch or not - the mere fact that someone would do that is stupid.
I disagree. It's also not what your original argument apparently was.

>So I called him out on it. Nothing more, nothing less.
So, you didn't assume he was talking about buying a smartwatch to do that? Because in that case you're just fucking lying.

>And assumptions apparently
I've never called someone an autist before, but I'm starting to get very close with you, and that is saying something. Of course I'm assuming a specific meaning when I read something - when somone says "I'm wearing a white shirt" I assume that he's indeed wearing a white shirt. I don't *know* he does, because there's no way of actually proving it, so I'm assuming it. Just because something is an assumption doesn't mean it's false or made up - I "assume" the guy doesn't own a smart watch because that's what he said, albeit indirectly.

>So, you didn't assume he was talking about buying a smartwatch to do that?
Jesus Christ, NO! In fact, what I got from his post was that he thinks smart watches are stupid and he's definitely NOT buying one in the foreseeable future, but he *likes the idea* of doing the thing which is what I called him out for.

I honestly hope you're just trolling me - I wouldn't even be mad, because I'm at work and writing angry Sup Forums posts makes time fly like nothing else!

>Of course I'm assuming a specific meaning when I read something - when somone says "I'm wearing a white shirt" I assume that he's indeed wearing a white shirt. I don't *know* he does, because there's no way of actually proving it, so I'm assuming it. Just because something is an assumption doesn't mean it's false or made up
Okay, I thought it was obvious that I didn't mean it that way. I meant it in filling in information, as in somebody says he's wearing a shirt and you assuming he's also wearing pants. I'll call it a baseless assumption from now on then, to be clear just for you.

>I "assume" the guy doesn't own a smart watch because that's what he said, albeit indirectly.
That's a baseless assumption.

>Jesus Christ, NO! In fact, what I got from his post was that he thinks smart watches are stupid and he's definitely NOT buying one in the foreseeable future
Okay, so for example is a lie. Or , or . Even the first post of you makes it clear that you tried there to convince him his plan was stupid. Okay, thanks for at least making it clear that your posts are extremely unreliable.

Also, "-" isn't what you think it is. It's not the symbol that should be used in the way you're using it.

Dude, your fucking arguments are all over the place. Shut the fuck up, or at least make it look like you're not moving goalposts constantly.