I've been reading a couple of articles about new 'smartwatches'. These devices are supposed to allow us to wear a bit of technology rather than carry it around in our pocket/handbag etc. I guess they are even supposed to tell the time. The articles bemoan the lack of a 'killer app', i.e. an application that is so good, we would put one on the Christmas shopping list immediately, and I tend to agree with them. I'm all for technology, especially useful technology, like when I got my first iPhone and was able to search for a business, tap on the location, which showed me how to get there, displayed a phone number, which allowed me to ring it immediately. As we have found, the 'ringing' bit is really not that important any more, although I am not suggesting they remove that particular functionality!
I want a smartwatch to be something like that - able to offer me so much more than telling the time, but also make sure it does that pretty well at the same time. I'm thinking that the models available now are nowhere near what we will get in a couple of years time, and I wonder what the manufacturers (Sony + Samsung) are trying to do with releasing them - surely they will not be able to recoup their development costs? Mind you, maybe it's just a cut-down phone without the phone bit included, in which case development costs will be confined to the construction. I'm sure they have done their calculations. I have done mine - don't buy.
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