Smart watches and smartphones - dreams and reality

Electronics manufacturers, in pursuit of profit, are afraid to miss any opportunities, and therefore actively experiment and create more and more new devices. Now most of the media are only talking about the prospects of smartwatches, predicting a great future for these devices. But most likely there is no great future for these devices, smart watches will only be needed by teenagers and lovers of new technologies.

The real benefits of smartwatches are very doubtful, only for people who are actively involved in sports, such a watch can bring some benefit. For the rest, it's just an accessory and a dubious addition to a smartphone. In addition, it is important to note that a smartwatch as an accessory is an adornment that is much inferior to traditional watches.

Modern smartphones have been following the path of increasing screen sizes for several years so that everything is combined in one device - a phone, a notebook, a music player, a camera, a small TV, a navigator and, most importantly, a computer with many applications and the ability to use all the delights of the Internet. And what about the watch, what can add to the list of features?

The only plus is that the smartwatch can measure your heart rate, the number of steps and, based on this, calculate the approximate activity during the day, as a result, display the number of calories burned by the body. Who needs it?

Women obsessed with diets and overweight? Sick old people? It is doubtful that old people will buy smartwatches for several hundred dollars in order to control their pulse, because old people have a lot of time, and they use devices that measure blood pressure and heart rate several times a day.

Electronics manufacturers need to think about the really important tasks - for example, create more capacious batteries of small sizes in order to ensure the operation of their devices for at least 3-5 days without recharging. But instead, they spend resources on creating a new gadget that is actively promoted and advertised in order to convince people - you just need to buy it!

People are taught through the media and various advertisements that they simply need these hours, so many will still spend on a useless gadget.

Smartwatches will not be able to accommodate all the functions of smartphones and replace them. They can only supplement the smartphone with a heart rate monitor. The watch has a big drawback, it has a small display, from which it is difficult to perceive texts, photos, and even more so video.

Perhaps in the future, when devices learn to project information directly into consciousness, the size of the display will not be important for a universal device, but as long as smartphones are getting bigger and there are no real alternatives.

Conclusions: smart watches with their current capabilities are a useless toy and not the most beautiful accessory that they want to impose on us in order to withdraw several hundred dollars.

Producers need to excite consumers' desires and force them to spend, which is what the current economic model is based on.