Are smart watches just a meme? I was recently gifted a fit bit blaze and I'm fairly athletic but is it worth it...

Are smart watches just a meme? I was recently gifted a fit bit blaze and I'm fairly athletic but is it worth it? They gave me the receipt so I might just return it and get 200$ cash

Keep the watch because it was a gift. Kind of messed up to return it for the money essentially rejecting someone's gift. The watches are kind of unnecessary, though. They're just too much. You could still play around with it. Maybe write some code for it.

fitbits are highly inaccurate and a shit product produced at high margins.

if you really want to try one, buy one at costco, realize what a piece of shit it is, then return it for a full refund after 6 months.

My dad uses his for canned responses to text messages while he's driving, a notification when he receives an email or package, a notification when someone is at the front door (he has a camera installed), and immediate notifications when any of his cards/accounts are charged more than some set threshold. It seems to me like they just provide a limited version smartphone features, but in a convenient location (just look at your wrist rather than take out your phone). It's an instance of diminishing returns in convenience/usability vs. cost/comfort, so I'd say it depends on how that balances out for you.

Fitbits are a meme, but android smart watches are not a meme. Super useful when you can't take your phone out in public.

what about the Pebble 2?

>Super useful when you can't take your phone out in public
When exactly can't you do that but tapping away at your watch is fine? Legitimately curious, I want to see some actual use cases for smart watches.

>when you're sitting down but you're so fat your pockets get sealed shut

people stopped wearing watches cos smartphones were more useful

now people are tired of smartphones but still want to stay connected

it's only useful if you need it to be

>fairly athletic
haha leave

I mean I workout to stay in shape because I play division 2 tennis for my uni and I was just wondering if it's actually useful for working out

I'm an accountant for H and R block and I have to talk to clients nearly 24/7. I have people calling my phone all the time and in the middle of appointments. It's infinity less rude to glance at your watch, decline phone calls with a preset text with a tap or swipe than to actually take out your phone right in front of them and decline the phone call. Public image is key when you don't want to look like an asshole.

Although none of this is relevant if you're the average kid with no friends to talk to or business appointments to make.

Phones have been able to do that automatically since...
Shit I remember my razr having that feature

Return it and buy a Surge for $80 off eBay.

>what about the Pebble 2?
They're literally dead now. Don't buy it. Sadly, I think they're the best smartwatch available...

Okay, but you still have to take out your phone to do it. I usually keep my phone in my back pocket so it's a hassle to take it out right in front of someone.

Plus a smartwatch is normie eye candy and it's almost one of the first things people ask me about when they sit down at my desk.

They're shit and pointless. Only buy one for purely aesthetic reasons (some of them do look pretty nice) since this is already a reason people buy normal watches for anyway. I'd return that shit for the money, Fitbits are fucking overpriced shit, if you REALLY wanted something with a Fitbit's functionality buy some chinkshit ripoff for 10% of the price.

t. Former Fitbit owner, current Sony SmartWatch 3 and Xiaomi Mi Band owner.

I said automatically for a reason
I remember you could even set it up through the network company itself, this was during the big no texting and driving campaign

I've had an Apple Watch Series 1 for a month now and while it isn't revolutionary, it's a nice touch. I particularly like notifications coming in the form of a discreet, silent tap on my wrist instead of a noise or vibrating buzz from my phone. It's less distracting and keeps me up to date without broadcasting it to everyone around me.

A number of shops in my area take apple pay now too, and being able to pay from my wrist and not have to pull out my wallet is pretty sweet

I'd say return it and get this one. The main reason why people get each other fitbits is that you can compete against each other via fitness stuff. If that's not your thing return it and get a flashier one so all the normalfags will talk to you about it.

>tennis
can you be more of a numale

Gotta work on those manbreasts you fat lard.

>go to drive thru, they accept Apple Pay
>smart watch is on right hand

I mean I played and competed my whole life. I don't give a shit what some sperg thinks is "nu-male"
I am a computer science student who like sports and plays at a collegiate level. Yeah fuck me for enjoying other things than computers

Yeah I could see NFC payments not being drive-thru compatible.

It's not something I've encountered, though, because I live in a city and don't drive. For me it's always walk-in or delivery, never drive-thru.

tennis is tight. how is it nu-male at all?

>implying that regularly posting on Sup Forums isn't the most beta thing you can do

Then get samsung pay. Apparently its designed to emulate a card swipe so theoretically you can use the thing anywhere.

It's a cuck sport for beta men who "try" to date their female acquaintances or who are too pussy to play badminton like real men

But why would I do that? If I wanted to decline all phone calls I would just turn off my phone completely. I need to see who is calling too.

>tennis is tight. how is it nu-male at all?
This. That shit's as physically exhausting as any of the more "masculine" sports and doesn't gradually drop your IQ over the course of your career

Why so you can get up and step away from the customer to answer it?

The point is I want to avoid that so I don't look like a disinterested asshole while still seeing all information that's going on in my phone.

Also
>customer
client.

Well my customers are customers, doesn't matter if they're literally the monopolistic companies making Sup Forums a shithole of consumer electronics arguments, if they pay money for my company's products and services, they're all customers

Customers buy a physical product and that's it.

Clients pay for a service and keep returning for that service. At least this is what the H/R block virtual quiz handbook shit tells everyone. I couldn't care less since I'm the one getting money.

Well in the real world customers are fickle and can pay or stop paying for services and orders of products at any time
Of course these are just multi million dollar orders of chips, the protocol service is an extended deal that can and will be terminated as soon as sandisk gets their PCIe 4.0 compliance, or until Intel changes their Xpoint design again, or when Hyundai decides to push the "latest and greatest" in noncompliant ram standards
Whether you think they're "loyal" or not, they're just there for what they need to buy

Receiving my Samsung Gear S3 tomorrow

Did I do something wrong?

I have an old Motorola MotoACTV on the way I bought for $70. Unlike most new smart watches its actually an Android device itself and now has simple programs to easily get root/recovery/custom roms. Should be interesting to play with and I think it will be pretty useful because I ride mountain/road bike year round and if you are much of a cyclist riding with a big phone in your pocket all the time is fucking terrible


Any modern smart watch that only works with a phone connected to it I wouldn't buy

I was on the verge on returning mine but after a few weeks it grew on me and now it's like my wallet and phone where I can't get out my place without having it on.