News - Samsung confirms it is preparing a smartwatch

[3dcandy]

Smart watches in general just look so bulky and ugly, not something I would enjoy wearing.

Which is 100% what Apple thinks and is working on...

[crossy]

Smart watches in general just look so bulky and ugly, not something I would enjoy wearing.

Yes to the bulky charge - anyone who thinks otherwise should look at the device in the picture in the article. Ugly though is in the eye of the beholder - as the cliche says. Give you 10 to 1 odds that Apple will (a) Make a "wrist brick" fashionable, and (b) Claim the credit for "inventing" it.

Got to be better than the Sony smartwatch I've got stuck in a draw! Connection over bluetooth was really unreliable so gave up on it. Wonder if samsung are planning a similarly dumb device and have fixed the connection issue or whether it'll just be a 'lite'/small smartphone that will just sync with the phone in your pocket and clip on your wrist?

Hmm, interesting coincidence that 100% of the Sony Xperia owners I surveyed also bought a Sony smart watch. I persisted with that watch although I've not had a chance (translation: couldn't be bothered) to try it with some non Sony kit. Reliability (at least for my Gen 1 device) did improve with later s/w revisions although I'm going to agree that the need to periodically "remind" the watch that it knew about the phone sitting next to it was galling. Then again, how much of that was due to Bluetooth's inherent issues - e.g. my Nokia featurephone keeps forgetting it knows about my Plantronics headset.

Speaking as someone who owned/owns one of these devices, the one that'll take off is the one that is more reliable than is currently the case; less "geeky" looking than currently the case; and has better functionality than is offered presently (it's a "oo, that's nice what is it?" rather than something I could have a sensible justification for).

Samsung's display tech could probably deliver the "less geeky" device and undoubtedly Apple could deliver on the better functionality. Also interesting that we've had no Apple fan boys levelling the "omg, spamsung are just like copying again", which of course ignores the fact that others have already trod this path before (not least of which Sony). Not that I'm complaining...

[TheAnimus]

Why would I want the same thing on my wrist as I have in my pocket? Makes... no... sense..

Why would you want the same thing in your pocket as you have in your bag?

Why would you want the same thing on your tablet that you have on your desk?

Why would you want the same thing on your desk as you have on your mainframe?

Why would you want the same thing on your mainframe as you have on your difference engine?

Why would you want the same thing on your difference engine as you have on your abbacus?

Why would you want the same thing on your abbacus as your draw on the sand?

Why would you want the same thing that you draw on the sand when you can have religion?

[Smudger]

Cue loads of people dressing in leather...

[jnutt]

I will buy one when the battery on my seiko kinetic runs out.

I've also got one of those and that's just not going to happen

[fail_quail]

If they can eventually make one of these with months of battery life* i'd be interested, i don't like the idea of having a wristwatch you need to manually charge weekly or more though...

I'm quite happy with my cheapish casio watch otherwise: i have one that syncs the time by radio signal, thats plenty smart enough for what i use a watch for

*tiny fuel cell maybe?