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kleinbl00 · 3685 days ago · link · · parent · post: Wearable tech needs to find a genre-defining product | Digital Trends
I don't think so. Wristwatches are smaller and more convenient than pocketwatches. Smartphones are bigger and more involved than dumb phones. More than that, smartphones are defined by feature creep - my first smartphone had a 240x320 screen and one camera. My current smartphone is 1080p, has two cameras (one of them shoots 14MP or 4k video at 120hz - it has better still resolution than my Canon 5D and better video resolution than my friend's RED MX), stereo speakers, a GPS antenna, bluetooth, a compass, a gyroscope and wonders I don't even know how to use. Wearables are supposed to be less complex, smaller and more convenient than our phones. The analogy is inverted.