| don't forget: - convenient timers on a complication: use this a few times a day - an alarm which can wake me up without jarring my brain, this being the only alarm I've ever used where that's the case: five times a week - 2048 - ability to set reminders by speaking to it - heart rate tracker which actually works. I let my heart rate get below 130 between weight sets, and like to check my peak after a set as well. Also, it likes to alert me when I'm having one of my infrequent panic attacks. You'd think I'd notice anyway, but, not always - unlocks my computer when I'm wearing it. This is a tiny affordance but really a nice one - pay for groceries without bringing my phone or wallet out. Do I have to? No. Do I like to? Yeah, I'll cop to that. It's nice - take the occasional call when my phone is in another room or I don't want to dig it out. Works long enough to say "hey I'll call you back", which is usually about all I want to say - remind me what the date is, because I'm terrible at that. Granted that my automatic watches would do that too - when I'm feeling nostalgic, load up a watch face that shows me pictures of times when I was happy, and people I love - pause and play music/podcasts/whatever I'm sure I'm missing a few, but I'll also say this: it's way less fashionable than my automatics. It's actually kinda dorky when you get right down to it. But it's so much more functional that I just don't care, I've made my peace with it. Someday, I'll get to leave the house again and do fancy things, and I have a couple timepieces for those occasions. But in the meantime, and the rest of the time, it's a smartwatch for me. |