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[Closed] Sport watches and the need to carry a phone

luket · 2021-02-18T12:08:01Z

Considering a Garmin Fenix or similar but there’s one aspect of these that I can’t quite get my head around. I expect I’d still be carrying a phone everywhere, just in case of emergencies really. Some smart watches do do cellular connection, but generally not the ones I'm interested in. I’m interested in the sports/nav stuff but not particularly the other aspects of a smart watch I don’t think, beyond the basics that a Garmin does, so maybe spotify and contactless payments. I think an Apple watch would also be a bit fragile plus I haven't got an iphone. I know the phone doesn’t work everywhere but we’re all used to that limitation and I’m not crossing the Antarctic. This makes me hesitate before buying. Because leaving the phone at home would be really nice, especially when riding without a pack. Important enough that it feels like a major part of moving to a different device. And I’m not the kind of person who buys something like this then chops it in for the latest and greatest a year later. However, I haven’t had one of these before, or even a bar mounted device. I’ve just used phones, but that has its considerable limitations – lack of various functions but also size, fragility (and expense when I break it, which I have), poor battery life. So – to users of these things – is this a widely held concern or trivial? Is this an imminent development? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

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anagallis_arvensis

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You should read The State of the Art by Iain M Banks

Posted : 19/02/2021 2:05 pm

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