What would make you buy a 'Smart Watch'?
Firstly let me say that I am pretty much a Luddite, but I was given an Apple Watch for Christmas and I have to say, no other watch has really had a look in since. I spent the 6 months before Christmas being prodded and poked by half the cardiologists in Sussex before eventually being diagnosed with and something called athletic heart syndrome. I thought the watch would be good to monitor my heart rate during exercise, but it’s become a pretty indispensable item and I absolutely love it.
Aside from using it to monitor my sleep, it warms me when my heart rate gets too low in the night meaning - I need to ease up a little on the fitness regime. But I also use the health tracking, Strava and Spotify regularly as well as a couple of hiking apps.
I also travel around Europe a great deal for work - to different offices and I often have a few meetings in different places all over a particular city which I travel to on foot. The GPS is absolutely brilliant for this. Maybe I’m just a little over cautious, but nothing says “target” to a would be mugger like a lone person wandering round a strange city sometimes in the dark staring at his phone for directions to a hotel. A quick glance down at the wrist is all it takes to see where I’m going (incidentally not making myself a target is also the reason I no longer really wear expensive watches when I’m at work).
I will accept, it’s not to everyone’s taste, but I really can appreciate the outstanding level of technology and usefulness for something so small.
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