What with the advent of Smartphones and touch-screen systems being incorporated in just about everything it was inevitable that wristwatches also incorporate the Smartphone system. The Sony SmartWatch is one such product that has emerged to satisfy the needs of people who like to wear wristwatches and have dreamed of a futuristic model to don. It is a small clip-on device that you can connect to your phone over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The design of the product is sure to catch your eye, especially for people who prefer watching wristwatches.
The product has been around for a while now and has made quite an impact in technology fans. User reviews are especially grateful for the fact that the Smartwatch comes with preinstalled apps, so you don’t have to search the market for the basic functional apps as soon as you start using the product. If you want specialist apps, there is a predefined shortcut that searches for apps under the tag “smartwatch”. Once you turn on the product, you are active on your mobile as well as the watch, and can select any preinstalled app like Twitter or Facebook to work on the Smartwatch. Not only this, you can apply different settings such as “find phone” which tells you the location of your phone immediately. Owing to the fact that its been around for a while, the product has received a lot of attention and developers are coming up with different apps and newer technology to make use of its full potential. There are a lot of ways to be flexible with the smartwatch. You can take pictures with it, find out your phones location, and use the GPs tool to measure your driving speed, your heart rate, your climbing speed, and many other options.
One of the apps currently being worked on is the maps tool. Forecasted to be completed very soon, it will definitely improve the users experience since they don’t need to use their network service for GPs and pay for it. The product can only be described as being very handy for people on the go, since you don’t need to keep worrying about where you’ve put it and are in constant touch with your phone. Since it utilizes a touch screen interface, it is very easy to get used to it. The learning curve is hardly 10 minutes, with the touch system quick and responsive. The one flaw that many people have commented on is the shortage of internal memory, through which many apps are known to freeze. This is especially hard to manage since it is a small surface that you have to work on and it becomes hard to force close the app. There are also the complaints that it does not respond as quickly as a phone’s touch screen might. This again is due to the small storage space which tampers with cache memory. All in all, the app is considered quite handy and useful and is likely to be worked on further to bring it more into the mainstream. Currently, it is only considered as a side gadget and an age-limit is inferred onto it, but with advances in technology it is sure to be worn by people of varying ages.
