Smarts on your wrist: Smartwatch benefits and advantages detailed

Smartwatches have been around for some time now, and are pretty popular as well. Options from brands such as Apple and Samsung are particularly well-received by premium buyers, but there are a lot of affordable and mid-range options available in India as well.

You might already have some experience with a smartwatch, or you may still be getting along with your trusty classic wristwatch, because you aren’t ready to get into the smart game just yet. If you’re considering it, we have some good points and factors to help you make a decision.

Regardless of your budget, a good smartwatch can be purchased and will help you add a bit of utility and capability to your wrist. It will connect to your smartphone and offer useful capabilities, including health and fitness tracking, communications, and more.

Read on to find out some of the most useful smartwatch benefits and use cases, to help you decide on your next gadget purchase.

Change the look as much as you like

One of the biggest benefits of a smartwatch is its customisability, letting you change the look of the watch face as often as you like. Most smartwatches come with multiple in-built watch faces, giving you the ability to change the style and display of the time and other functions quickly and frequently. Many smartwatches also let you create custom watch faces according you the complications you want, or download themed or seasonal watch faces.

Notifications on your wrist

You don’t have to pick up your smartphone every time it buzzes; a smartwatch will give you easy and convenient access to your notifications with a simple turn of your wrist. You can view text messages and notifications from various apps, see the caller ID to know who is calling, and more. Feature-rich smartwatches will also let you respond to messages from the watch itself, or even take calls on your wrist without using your smartphone.

Fitness and health tracking

Many smartwatches come with health and fitness monitoring features, such as heart-rate monitoring, step and exercise tracking, and sleep tracking. This helps you to gain useful insights into your health and habits, even encouraging you to be fitter and healthier through exercise or healthy eating and sleeping routines. 

Useful tools

Traditional wristwatches – analogue and digital – come with tools such as stopwatch, alarm, timer, and more. However, smartwatches go a fair bit further, by letting you access these and many more tools such as calculator, navigation, global time, and access to your contact list for phone numbers and other information.

Some functions such as alarms may be configured to alert the wearer silently through vibrations, thus working better and more discreetly than on traditional watches.

Leave your smartphone behind

Premium smartwatches, such as those from Apple and Samsung, come with enhanced connectivity capabilities including eSIM, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. This means that you can sometimes rely only on your smartwatch to respond to notifications or calls, as well as listen to music, without needing to take your smartphone along. This can come in particularly handy for fitness enthusiasts, who will have one less device to carry and worry about while on runs or in the gym.

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Smartwatches therefore, offer much more in terms of features and capabilities than a typical wristwatch. Are you ready to move on to a smartwatch yet?