No longer at the mercy of your phone
Whether it's Garmin, Android Wear, or Apple Watch, notifications can be viewed on your smartwatch. With a simple lift of the wrist, you can view notifications such as text messages, phone calls, and WhatsAPP on your smartwatch. Depending on the importance and urgency of the notification, you can decide whether or not you want to stop what you're doing and turn on your smartphone to deal with the notification.
This is one of the most important reasons why I like wearing a smartwatch. Since I have one, I no longer worry about missing out on some important information. It's very convenient to just lift my wrist to see the information that my smartphone has received. Smartwatches such as the Apple Watch and Android Wear also allow you to reply to messages such as WhatsAPP directly from your watch.
In addition to viewing notifications, smartwatches like Garmin, Apple Watch, and Android Wear can display useful information like weather, alarms, schedules, and reminders on the dial.
Stand up and take a step
In addition to information notification, I like to wear a smartwatch because another important function of a smartwatch is to record exercise data. Although many smartphones already have the function of recording exercise, the accuracy is still inferior to that of smartwatches. Since smartwatches can be worn on the hand all the time, the exercise data recording tends to be more accurate. In addition, the recent launch of many smartwatches are added to the heart rate sensor, some smartwatches also added GPS positioning function, like Garmin's smartwatch heart rate monitoring and GPS positioning can be said to be more professional, the function can be comparable to a lot of professional appearance.
Garmin, Apple Watch and other smart watches also provide a sedentary reminder function. The smart watch will vibrate to remind you to get up and exercise a while since you had been sitting in front of the computer for a few hours . At the same time, many smartwatches can now be customized to fitness programs based on the information provided by the user, along with the data collected by multiple sensors on the watch, so smartwatches can play a certain role in guiding exercise and fitness.
Extend cell phone battery life
Nowadays, many people use their cell phones all the time resulting in serious power consumption, but smartwatches can extend the battery life of cell phones. Smartwatches can transfer many functions such as looking at the time, keeping track of exercise, checking notifications and so on from the cell phone to the watch, which can reduce the time we use the smartphone and theoretically reduce the power consumption of the smartphone. Of course, the price is that you need to charge your smartwatch often.
But compared with many smartphones that run out of power in less than a day of heavy use, the battery life of smartwatches is still a bit better. Charging your smartwatch every night can be a hassle, but the good thing is that this prevents your smartwatch from running out of power before you're done with work the next day. But after using my Garmin watch, I can clearly feel that the original smartwatch can have such a strong battery life! It lasts longer than other smartwatches' batteries, and can last up to two weeks on a single charge, not at all like charging it every day like smartphones and other smartwatches.
Smartwatches can also be fashionable
Watches started out for owner to read time. But with more and more devices around can fulfill so, watches tend to diminish such role, but elevate its function as ornament.
And now, smartwatches are also developing in this direction. Look at Garmin's iconic Vivomove HR, its functionality doesn't differ much from conventional smartwatch. The selling point is the simple and fashionable appearance, pointer + hidden touch screen.It is a fashionable and beautiful fashion watch when smart mode is turned off.
In addition to this fashionable smartwatch, the attractivity of mainstream smartwatches has also improved significantly over the past year. With more and more smartwatches adopting round screens, smartwatches have become very close to traditional watches in terms of appearance, and we can now buy attractive round smartwatches relatively low prices.
More Functional than smart bracelet
A wearable device that's just as popular as smartwatches is the smart bracelet. While it's cheaper than a smartwatch, the data accuracy of a smart bracelet can't match that of a smartwatch. The biggest advantage of a smartwatch is the much larger screen (oh, don't forget there are many smart bracelets that don't have a display).
A larger screen allows smartwatches to carry more functions. Compared with the perfect notification viewing function in smartwatches, notifications on smart bracelets often only turn into a bit of vibration on the wrist or scrolling left and right on the narrow screen. When exercising, the larger screen of a smartwatch also allows for a more intuitive view of exercise data.
Unlike smart bracelets, smartwatches can give users a more pronounced experience in terms of appearance and functionality, so that they don't have to wear it for a few weeks and then throw it into a drawer or post it on Craigslist or the alike.
