Post by WDB on Apr 7, 2017 16:52:53 GMT
Like everyone else, I took in the fuss over the launch of the Apple Watch. Like almost everyone else, I didn't buy one.
I know a few people who did, but nobody has been able to tell me what it's for. The moment it's more than a trouser's width from the phone it's paired with, it becomes as useful as a Casio calculator watch from 1983, with the added hazard that the battery might expire at any minute.
It might tell you that you have a text message - but if the watch is within communicating range of the phone, you already know that. It counts steps but can't track sleep as it has to spend its nights on the charging stand.
So I won't be buying one of those. But I am tempted by the Samsung Gear S3. It looks like a proper watch, for a start - with the option to make it look like several different proper watches - so even if I am a techy-tryhard, most people won't notice. It will work with an iPhone, but has enough built-in intelligence to function adequately when the phone is not in the room. And it has a nice, chunky rotary bezel rather than the fiddly crown of the Apple. And it might be the car-safe Deezer controller I've been searching for.
£300. Not outrageous. I have some major job decisions to make, but perhaps if I get those right, perhaps one of these could be my reward. *
* Along with the E61 espresso machine, and the outdoor pizza oven. And maybe the 430e GC - which is dependent on BMW getting round to making one.
I know a few people who did, but nobody has been able to tell me what it's for. The moment it's more than a trouser's width from the phone it's paired with, it becomes as useful as a Casio calculator watch from 1983, with the added hazard that the battery might expire at any minute.
It might tell you that you have a text message - but if the watch is within communicating range of the phone, you already know that. It counts steps but can't track sleep as it has to spend its nights on the charging stand.
So I won't be buying one of those. But I am tempted by the Samsung Gear S3. It looks like a proper watch, for a start - with the option to make it look like several different proper watches - so even if I am a techy-tryhard, most people won't notice. It will work with an iPhone, but has enough built-in intelligence to function adequately when the phone is not in the room. And it has a nice, chunky rotary bezel rather than the fiddly crown of the Apple. And it might be the car-safe Deezer controller I've been searching for.
£300. Not outrageous. I have some major job decisions to make, but perhaps if I get those right, perhaps one of these could be my reward. *
* Along with the E61 espresso machine, and the outdoor pizza oven. And maybe the 430e GC - which is dependent on BMW getting round to making one.
