It is said that the market for watches is falling as so many people have the facilities on their Smartphone.

However, as the watch is about the only socially acceptable piece of jewellery that a man can wear, I see a market for Smartwatches to replace Smartphones. All that is needed is an earpiece/mike that does not look as-if you have a mini Mars Bar strapped to the side of your head and it becoming voice opereted.

What watch!

The day I retired so did my watch.

sat nav watch would be better

oops!

TonyV

If it's anything like the rest of the small bits that Apple make, like mice and Trackpads keyboards et al, it won't work and will be sent flying to the iBin. A complete waste of time. (Metaphorically speaking!) There are devices around that will do exactly as that will and probably better!!

Jaundiced MAC user!!

TonyV

Quickbeam - idon't know.

Quickbeam - It isn't an Apple one. It is another firm using the "I" and I suspect that Apple may be annoyed. It may have more functionality than the Sony one but Sony are not usually the cheapest. Apple are rumoured to be working on producing one.

woolwell Why is the iApple one £200 more expensive than the Sony one, is it more iNtelligent?

Will it work down caves? I remember quite a few years ago buying cheap LCD watches from the local shops and garages and setting them in araldite to use when caving. I might sill have a few about in the caving/climbing junk boxes.

In addition to Quickbeam's imsmart. It is rumoured that Apple is developing one.

I posted a link earlier.

Will they have touch screens? If so do you have to use your "pinkie" or will they be the size of touch screen mobile phones so you can use your fingers?

For the record, I'm very much in the 'I don't see the point but I kind of want one' camp. It's how I feel about tablets (and I have a couple of them...)

More importantly: sorry all posts were seen as spam on this thread for a while. It turns out we had banned the word 'watch', because a watch vendor was spamming the site! Apologies.

You could always put a smart MP3 player on a gold watch chain across your weskit.

But having said that, I often speak to myself in supermarkets and out and about,

Probably the less said about that the better spuds. Lol

What's a smart watch?

Can we expect a new generation that speaks to their wrist 24/7 to evolve?

I've already got a smart watch. It does everything I want it to. Are they not satisfied with turning a mobile phone in to an all round entertainment center. They want to do the same to a normal watch.

Eat your heart out Dick Tracy!

I did not want to show my ignorance by adding my vote to What's a smart watch?

I'm with the pointless camp.