Pros and cons of buying a watch phone?

Watch cell phones are a pretty new type of gadget and as expected the offer is relatively small, will few models availablet on market, but this is not the problem. The issue lies in weather is worth buying or not a watch with a mobile function, so in this post  I’ll try and present you with the options you have, pros and cons of making a purchase, what difficulties you should expect from such a product and then formulate a conclusion.

Before the two lists, let’s try and define what a watch phone is: from technical point of view a watch cellphone is a phone presented in the shape of a watch. It always features a touchscreen (with an aditional stylus for precision moves) and must be worn on your wrist, exactly like a watch.

PROS

Now, let’s see the list of pros points of a watch phone as I guess most of them you didn’t even knew existed:

• A watch phone replaces  two devices: a wrist watch and a cellphone, so there’s less luggage to carry arround in your pockets
• It usually comes with a Bluetooth headset in the package, making it almost usable on a daily basis
• It’s  easier to see if you have any missed calls or SMS messages
• A watch phone is always in reach, so you won’t miss a call or new message (this can also be regarded as a weak point, in case you don’t want to be reached). The alarm function will also be really loud as it’s closed to the ear, so you won’t fall asleep anymore in the morning when you have to go to work.

CONS

At last, the list of cons you might want to think about when buying a watch phone:

• A watch phone’s size is much bigger than a normal wrist watch,  making it not a fashion statement and hard to match with your clothes
• Because it weights almost as much as a phone it’s hard to wear it all day long, and your hand gets tired after a few hours
• The screen for the screen is very small, thus lacking precision so that many times the menu options are hard to access, even with the stylus
• Always phone functions are mostly basic (Calls, Messaging, Phonebook), so if you need more than that you won’t be satisfied with a watch phone
• Having a Bluetooth headset paired to the watch phone means there’s another gadget that needs to be charged regularly. Also it increases the chance (actually doubles it) that one of them runs out of juice at one time and you don’t want to use the speaker as everyone near you can hear what you have to say.
• Every watch phone uses its special operating system, so not much of support here from software developers, so even if you can install additional applications the offers is very limited.

There I think are the most important things to remember about watch phones. It’s still a virgin market but that doesn’t means it can’t grow up into a big one, but all this depends on consumers interest in this concept.

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