Watch phone

Do watch phones have a chance to become mainstream?

As it seems there’s a shift when it comes to how people perceive watch phones. It was quite obvious for me that watch phones have no chance as alternatives to mobile phones: there just isn’t enough room to cram that much technology in a watch and not effect usability, but if you look at watch phones as accessories, things to use together with a phone there’s another story.

Imagine the following scenario: you’re in a meeting, you put your phone on silent/vibrate but want to see it something really important comes up so you pair your watch to the phone and wait for messages or important calls. Once those come they’re displayed on the screen of the watch, plus it’s much more subtle to take a peak at your watch than take the phone out and check for new stuff. In this case a watch phone can prove to be quite useful, also in crowded places when you can’t hold a phone in your hand but you can watch the phone that’s already attached to your arm. Add a bluetooth headset piece to that watch phone and everyting looks normal now.

Trying to advertise watch cell phones as a replacement for phones is an error, but looking at them as accessories takes everything to another level, one where watch phones can become more and more common, plus more models will mean more competition which in turn gives us better models, with better design and features.

I can’t predict when we’ll get to buy watch phones like cakes but I bet that one thing can make us look at them as potential gadgets: bundle them with regular phones. That’s how you give people a taste of the watch phone magic and you ensure that once they depend on one, the next purchase will be also a watch phone. Building momentum and getting people to use watch phones is the key thing here and I hope other big manufacturers will consider building watch phones as for now only LG and Samsung seem serious about it.

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