What are the advantages of smartwatches?

This question can be answered according to the Zhihu tradition, first ask if, then ask why.

Judging from the people around me, probably more young people are not wearing anything, but the Watch-wearing crowd does have a majority of young people wearing smartwatches.

Smartwatches, and I have a few of them, I like them as a direct result of being able to pull out my phone less often.

In recent years, the watch is no longer as a single function of the decorative objects, the development of a more practical smart wearable devices, to make up for the lack of cell phones or replace some of the functions of the phone, so that the travel is more simplified.

However, with the development of the market, there are now a wide variety of smart wearable devices, and some questions arise when shopping, most people are at a loss when shopping, especially those who have not been exposed to smart watches.

I have purchased some smartwatches, and the following describes how my shopping process was.

The difference between smartwatches and smart bracelets
Smart watches tend to be much more expensive than smart bracelets, and many people say that smart watches are large smart bracelets, which is not wrong to describe a certain point of view, smart watches have a larger display area, more functions, and more professional data monitoring than smart bracelets.

Some good smart bracelets can receive phone calls, can have independent applications, similar to a small cell phone, while the bracelet is based on watching the time to add some health monitoring, sports records.

Watch Appearance
The appearance of a smartwatch is seen in three ways, one is the dial, one is the side buttons, and the other is the band.

If you want to talk about the effect of the display inside the dial, then most of them have a huge number of dials for the user to choose from, all kinds of this basically do not have to worry about.

Smartwatches are generally divided into two kinds, one is a round watch relatively traditional and mainstream, and the other is a square watch, display in the electronic display content has a natural advantage, the display area is larger.

You have to say really divided into a good and bad, in fact, it is impossible to say, in general, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, depending on personal preferences.

Strap this kind of thing, most of the smartwatches can be changed by themselves, so you can customize it according to your own preferences, so I will not expand on it.

Functions of smartwatches
In addition to brand and appearance, the main point of choosing a smartwatch is its function, which can be roughly divided into the following four sections:

Communication
The biggest advantage of the Smart Watch is that the watch has the role of communication, so that in the case of forgetting to bring a cell phone can also keep in touch, at present, the smart watch to have an independent call function needs to support the eSIM function and open.

eSIM call: independent eSIM, can realize one dual terminal, after the opening of the independent call, Internet, SMS receiving and other functions, can also be used to assist positioning.

Application notification: not only limited to the notification of communication application, but also the notification of other APPs.

Health Monitoring
Simply put, it is through the watch sensors can be achieved by the health data monitoring, with the Amazfit I'm wearing Amazfit GTR 4, there are step records / sleep records / heart rate / calories / PAI / blood oxygen / pressure / temperature / sedentary / physiological period, etc., generally speaking, the more sensors can monitor the more data, the more relatively more expensive.

Exercise Recording/Tuning
Through the sensing and monitoring physiological characteristics to calculate the ongoing exercise, and can be data monitoring and timely recording, to assist their own better exercise, to put it simply is the more support for sports mode, the better, some cell phones also support the movement of automatic identification, you only need to movement it will know what you are doing, and record the corresponding information.

System/Application/Entertainment
Have some convenient applications, such as conventional computer, weather, stopwatch, alarm clock, flashlight, NFC light function, some good smartwatches can support third-party applications can be expanded, if the opening of the eSIM then the playability is higher, but relatively also, the range will be more pull across.

Battery life
Why the battery life alone to take out to say, because this is the top priority, the traditional watch or electronic watch is no battery life anxiety, and intelligent electronic watch is not the same, if the battery life is too short, wear on the device needs a day a day charge or a day more charge when it is very annoying, this experience is very bad.

At this time have to say Apple watch, although high intelligence, good experience, but more than ten hours need to charge and not fast, this is very annoying, you also do not want to wear a watch every so often to charge it, so somehow, the smart watch range is certainly the longer the better.