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Smartwatch search

VMuser

VMuser

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Hi,

For sometime I have been looking for a smartwatch that meets the following criteria:

- Reasonably sized: in other words the size of a regular watch.
- Long battery life: at least 6 months of timekeeping, maybe a secondary battery for connectivity to my phone
- Waterproof: I want to be able to swim, take showers, etc without worrying about the watch
- See notifications on the watch: I dont need to reply to texts or email, or answer phone calls, take pictures, listen to music from the watch but I would like to see a mirror of my notifications in the watch.
- Physical activity

Maybe I am looking for a hybrid watch, but I have yet found one that meets these basic criteria.
Has anyone found a watch like this?

Thx

R
 
You want a smart-watch that's the same size as an ordinary watch and has at least six months battery life? I'm quite sure no such beast exists. All smart-watches I've seen are pretty thick things compared to conventional watches, and battery life depending on use, maybe a day or two before it needs charging.
 
mikedt said:
You want a smart-watch that's the same size as an ordinary watch and has at least six months battery life? I'm quite sure no such beast exists. All smart-watches I've seen are pretty thick things compared to conventional watches, and battery life depending on use, maybe a day or two before it needs charging.
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Mike,

You got it, hence I believe that what im looking for is one of the new hybrids

R
 
Mikedt,
Fossil is close and Hugo Boss is a little closer, but these watches are fairly big compared to a regular watch.

I have been reading quite a bit about wearables, and I believe that I am not the mass market for smartwatch makers, or maybe I am and most people just dont know it. I am looking for a watch that I can wear with a long sleeve shirt, or go to the pool/beach and the watch will be just perfect in either occasion.

I am looking for a "slave" device to my phone, not a replacement. The watch does not need to have a GPS, speaker, touch screen, microphone, etc. The phone has all of those, it is the job of the watch to let me know that there is an event of interest happening, and without having to remember what the needles at 2 & 6 means I know what event happened. In addition, let me know activity (activity/rest), steps which can be done with one sensor, and blood pressure, which would be a 2nd sensor.

Again, maybe I am not in the market magic quadrant for watchmakers.

R
 
I guess even the hybrids still need additional complications, that are not in simple analog quartz watches, like the processors and associated electronics, Bluetooth antennas, vibration motors, physically larger batteries, which would all add to bulk.
Until you mentioned them, I'd never heard of the hybrid type as opposed to full-blown Android Wear ones, which can install apps, have 4G, make phone calls, GPS, cameras, heart rate, and may not need a phone at all.
 
I can't speak to Hugo Boss, but I love my Fossil and it's really no bigger than my more expensive watches (Tag Heuer, Tissot, Raymond Weil, Gucci, etc.). Granted I don't have a small wrist, but I wear it daily for work and get compliments or nobody notices it's not a standard watch.
 
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