Smart watches are becoming more and more popular. Not only Apple and Samsung have invaded, but semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm is not to be weak. Even the old mobile phone manufacturer Nokia seems to be developing smart watches, but there has not yet been a smart watch device that can establish industry benchmarks.
As the advertisement for the Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch points out, people's desire to have a smart device that can be worn on the wrist is as old as the electronics industry itself.
For smart watch enthusiasts, 2013 is undoubtedly a good year: Kickstarter crowdfunding project Pebble has been successful, Samsung and Sony are also working to turn these products into civilian products. The choice of smart watch buyers has never been so extensive. . And this trend will only intensify, because Nokia, Google, Apple and Microsoft are all eagerly eyeing the big cake of wearable devices.
Even if we continue to move towards our final goal, there are still many obstacles ahead of this path that need to be overcome. For most consumers, the price of smart watches is still too high, the functions and battery life are very limited, and the appearance is still relatively large.
To attract a wider audience, smart watches are still a little rough now.
Ian Drew, ARM ’s executive vice president, recently said that smartwatches are still in their own “pre-iPod†era.
This is not to say that the high-tech industry is waiting for Apple's direction, but that a device that can set the industry benchmark, a device that other companies want to fight against or simply imitate, has not yet appeared.
While waiting for this device to appear, we might as well take a look at the best smart watches currently on the market to see how they can inspire you.
Android companion, strong dependence
This year's Christmas holiday, the most common smart watch in the store should be the "Android companion" type. Although merchants will advertise that they are smart and can help you do a lot of things, there is a common problem with such devices, that is, they rely heavily on your Android smartphone to provide them with information and reminders.
Since Sony launched the first LiveView in 2010, it has called this wrist device “the second screen of your phoneâ€.
Imagine: everything you check with your mobile phone, such as new Weibo, SMS, weather forecast, if these things are transferred to the watch, it becomes much easier to check them, just glance at your wrist Screen.
More importantly, after connecting your phone and watch with Bluetooth, you can also control the media player and camera on the phone. In this way, the smart watch is called a genuine remote control.
However, there is a drawback to this symbiotic relationship: your smart watch is actually "smart" by relying heavily on another device.
Even if Sony's latest SmartWatch 2 is not only exquisite in design, but also has a longer battery life, it is a pity that it still needs to rely on your mobile phone, and there is still an invisible rope to tie it to your phone.
Yes, it can really save you some minor troubles, so you do n’t have to take out your Android phone every time you receive an email, but you do n’t think you can leave your phone at home and just wear this watch to go out. . That will definitely not work.
Compared with Sony's smart watches, Samsung Galaxy Gear is more dependent on smartphones. Some of its basic settings must be made through the Gear Manager app, and at the beginning only the Galaxy Note 3 and Note 10.1 2014 versions were compatible with Gear.
If this is not enough to make you doubt the "intelligence" of smart watches, then consider the following issues: Gear's battery life is very limited, support for third-party applications is messy, and the appearance is still bulky.
It is frustrating that the two smart watches of Samsung and Sony have already been regarded as the pinnacle of the well-known rich and powerful companies can provide for the mainstream public.
Judging from the functions of Gear and SmartWatch 2, their prices are unreasonably high. These two watches can only provide the most basic notifications and reminders, and there are also profound limitations in function. The most obvious example is this: every time you want to see the time, you must activate the Gear screen first.
In recent years, many people have tried to develop this "Android companion" type of watch, but most of them have shamefully disappeared. Everyone prefers the Android platform because of its popularity, and Apple is usually reluctant to let third-party developers dig too deep in iOS.
This trend has not escaped Google's gaze. It bought the WIMM laboratory in August this year, and the purpose may be to personally develop more wearable devices.
Because it is simple, it succeeds
Therefore, if the strategy for developing a "wrist-type mini Android smartphone" is not mature, what is the best alternative solution? There are many projects on Kickstarter hoping to answer this question, but they all failed. The only success is Pebble.
Pebble's success should be attributed to a very simple idea: to make the useful functions that other smart watches can provide at the cheapest possible cost, and to cut off everything else. This means that the color screen is gone, the luxury camera is gone, and the microphone and aluminum alloy case are gone. All that remains is a pure and simple thing: a notification device worn on the wrist.
If, at present, the biggest advantage of smart watches over their traditional competitors is to become the second screen of your phone, then they might as well perform this task as efficiently as possible.
Pebble is cheaper, lighter, and has a longer battery life than any of the devices mentioned above. And there is a sense of accomplishment to be a buyer of Pebble, because you will feel like you are supporting a small startup. In addition, the compatibility of iPhone and Android devices has not brought any disadvantages to it.
More importantly, Pebble represents the most fundamental hardware limitation, and all development plans for perfection are subject to this limitation.
Everyone wants to compress a feature-rich smartphone into a watch, but there is currently no feasible solution to achieve this goal.
If you want to build a 3G wireless, you must sacrifice a lot of battery life and internal space. If you want to use a color screen and a faster processor, you have to charge it at least once a day. Since then, you have developed a Galaxy Gear or LG GD910 watchphone.
So, before the breakthrough in battery technology, the breakthrough in the power consumption of the display, or as Ian Drew of ARM said, "Before the chip does not consume power, anything that is more ambitious than Pebble seems to be Lack of value for money. "
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