We are all familiar with smart phones. But what’s the next gadget that should be “smart”? It might just be your watch. The three biggest names in the smart phone industry, Apple, Samsung and Google either officially announced they are working on smart watches or are rumored to announce smart watches later this year.
There has been little detail on the features that the smart watch might have but an obvious feature would be that it will act as an extension to the smart phone. Imagine looking at your smart watch and you will also know that you have new emails and text messages. Or even Facebook notifications.
A feature I would like smart watches to have is a very convenient way to see the time from different timezones quickly. I work with people in different timezones so this feature would be important to me.
But we should not expect being able to send text messages over your smart watch otherwise, they’d be too large.
Battery life is very important so hopefully I don’t need to charge my smart watch every day. It becomes very inconvenient if one’s watch need frequent charging.
Later this year, we should start seeing smart watches announced and released by Apple, Samsung and Google. Let’s hope this new device would prove to be an improvement to the regular watch.