What is a Smartwatch and What Does It Mean to You?
While keeping up with every new product in the technology world is nearly impossible, it’s now becoming nearly as difficult to keep up with new product categories as well. As mobile technology has expanded over the last decade, people no longer have to confine themselves to computing on their laptop and desktop computers. The vast majority people now use their smartphones or their thin, notebook-sized tablets exclusively for tasks once only associated with traditional computers. However, these innovations seem to be only the beginning, as another new type of mobile device has entered the technology world: the Smartwatch.
Smartwatch is the term used to describe a new category of mobile technology that takes the form of a wearable mobile computing device that affixes to a user’s wrist, much like a common wristwatch. Just as smartphones have evolved to do far more than make telephone calls, smartwatches do a lot more than simply show the date and time. Like other “smart” devices, smartwatches connect to the Internet through wireless signal. This signal can come either from a Wi-Fi connection or from a cellular network. Through the Internet connection, smartwatches can check news updates, weather forecasts, professional sports scores, movie times and many other pieces of information one will find on the web. With smartwatches, users don’t even have to dig a device out of their pocket or bag to check up on the web anymore. They can simply look at their wrist as if checking the time. Users who experience difficulties with their smartwatches will need mobile tech support to help them.
Like smartphones, smartwatches run small programs called apps, provided through a proprietary app store in most cases. Most smartwatches that are currently available, including options from both Samsung and Sony, use a modified version of Google’s Android operating system. Those who own these smartwatches can get Android computer repair to fix them when they break. There are other options for smartwatches that do not use Android. One of these is the popular Pebble smartwatch, which has a unique black and white screen and uses its own proprietary operating system.
What does the emergence of smartwatches mean to you? For one, it’s likely you’ll see more people in public staring at their wrists for extended periods rather than their phones. However, whether the added convenience of a smartwatch is right for you is a personal decision. It is still a new category of product in its early versions, much like the smartphone was in the early 2000’s. Many people may be better off waiting until smartwatches advance further and provide more value to them personally before choosing to buy one.
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