Other smartwatches released before the beloved apple JUST FYI

kojackJKU

Autism Family Travellers!
Since the apple loyalists think apple invented the smart watch. here are some examples of them that were out over a year before the apple watch.

http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/mobile/galaxy-gear/galaxy-gear/SM-R750WZKAXAC



https://getpebble.com/#/.e6syik:Fuqt


https://moto360.motorola.com/


https://kairoswatches.com/


http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/index.html#main (just so you don't think apple invented having a crown on a smart watch).


http://www.sonymobile.com/ca-en/products/accessories/smartwatch/


There are many more. However, this gives a good cross section of whats available before apple released, or even announced what they had on their watch.


Thank you.
 

LocoCoyote

World Citizen
and your point is? Never heard Apple claim to have invented it. They didn't invent tablet computers either....just made them useful. I suspect the smartwatch will be just another example of this.
 

kojackJKU

Autism Family Travellers!
My point is there are other smartwatches that are available in the market place other than the mighty apple.
 

Cole

Expedition Leader
....and there were other cars made before I bought any of mine.......so FNing what?
 

tgreening

Expedition Leader
My point is there are other smartwatches that are available in the market place other than the mighty apple.


I'm not entirely sold on the real usefulness of the smart watch period but in the context of this thread my understanding is that yes there are other earlier released smart watches, and they've all pretty much tanked with the Apple unit dominating the market, whatever it may be.
 

Cole

Expedition Leader
I've had my 42mm Apple watch for a few days now and thought I would offer a few first hand perspectives.:coffeedrink:

Before I dive into that, I should give a tiny bit of background info here. I've had a top tier Android phone since the original launch day G1 up to the Nexus 5. I finally switched over to an iPhone 6 and have loved the experience. I could give an easy dozen reasons why, but I won't. This is about the watch.

Secondly, I'm a "watch guy" I've got far more money and time into watches than I'd like to admit. I'm seriously afraid that the usefulness of the Apple watch will kill my mechanical watch hobby simply because it takes up the same arm real estate.

I bought the watch becuase I ride motorcycles, mountian bikes, ski, snowboard, hike, haul a toddler everywhere, etc. All activities where my phone is often buried deep inside a backpack or gear pocket where it can't be heard, felt or accessed quickly. When I'm not doing those activities I'm usually doing something that is dangerous to the well being of my phone.(welding,wrenching, carrying stuff, working out, etc) *hands full* type of things that prompt me to set my phone down "in a safe place".

I figured being able to peek at a watch to see if a notification is worth stopping to dig my phone out would be useful. (Pushing up a sleeve on a motorcycle/ski jacket is far easier than stopping to take off a back pack "just to check")

I also figured the health tracking abilities would be useful.


Here is what I have discovered so far in just a few days of use.

-The sleek look and tiny 42mm case are just not my style. Most of my watches are outdoorsy military style and greater than 50mm. So I may stick this thing in a "rugged" case just to give it some much needed bulk and character.

-I have the notifications filtered to just the most needed (texts and certain emails). So far it has been very helpful to quickly reply from the watch. I'm thinking this may extend the life of my phone since it can spend most of its time in a safer place. Not being yanked out of my pocket every 5 minutes.

-I've answered a couple of calls on the watch. This works surprisingly well. I use my speaker phone a lot anyway as my hands are normally full. It was nice to be able to walk around with stuff in my hands and still hve the speaker phone with me.

-Apple pay works awesome when you have a toddler in one hand and groceries in the other! (Why must the toddler always want to be carried over the pocket with the phone in it?)

-I can see being able to control music from the watch while skiing or riding the bike being extremely useful. I had an Android phone killed by rain on a 6 month trip. So now I burry my phones in safer places. Being able to control them with the watch will be a good way to protect the communications device itself(phone)

-The fitness tracking will be nice to follow over time.

-The remote control for the iPhone camera is a useful feature.

-The remote for the Apple TV is also very useful, usually because the toddler has hidden the Apple remote!
 

shoielsg0

New member
And your point is? Never heard Apple declare to have invented it with kids smartwatch reviews. They failed to invent tablet computers either....Simply made them beneficial. I suspect the smartwatch may be simply every other instance of this.
 

GHI

Adventurer
Who’s point are you questioning? The Original poster from 5 years ago or the last comment. Also from 5 years ago.
 

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