You’re still allowed to buy a normal watch
In the not too distant past this was a thing
Submitted 1 month ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
After something like a year of searching I finally got:
- solar powered, I never have to charge or change battery
- analog face with digital date, no need to adjust the date every month but looks good
- date in dd/mm format
- no GPS, no hear rate monitor, no notifications
Couldn’t find anything else that would tick those boxes.
Sonor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I know a ton of people love g-shock, and i respect you guys, but to me it looks like something i would pick up on my way to drive a main battletank into the heart of russia
cley_faye@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sounds like an upside.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
I definitely don’t love the look. There are tons of better looking watches but analog perpetual calendars are crazy expensive, classic digital watches are ugly and smart watches have to be charged regularly. The only other brand I was considering was Festina but their connected watches are huge. It’s crazy but g-shock was the only thing I found that had digital date in dd/mm format and didn’t have heart rate monitor.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Isn’t that one of the clear use cases?
Perish@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
vorpuni@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
The plain old digital ones with solar + radio time syncing are the best tool watches on the market in my opinion : set and forget, it even does DST automatically. The only limitation is you have to be outside during the day with the watch exposed a few hours a month or cheat with other light sources.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The only limitation is you have to be outside during the day with the watch exposed a few hours a month or cheat with other light sources.
You really don’t. Maybe other watches use more power but I left my gshock in a drawer for months, maybe even a year and when I took it out the battery was at “M.” Put it on a window sill and it was at H in no time. Haven’t actually seen it in years and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was still alive.
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“the touch screen is broken”
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Father, I cannot click the book!
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Does flipping the page by hand break the ebook?
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“Im gonna do a internet”
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Are people really not aware that you don’t have to have notifications for everything?
You can turn all the notifications off on your phone and watch.
The value the watch brings can be found in other places, for example, being able to stay connected and have music and emergency contact without needing to lug your phone with you during a run or if you lose your phone.
A smart watch means you can leave your phone at home more often in general while still being available to those who genuinely need to be in contact with you, which is great for reducing doom scrolling and the like.
dingus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Right?? One of the first things I do when getting a new phone is disabling all the useless notifications and keeping the ones I care about. My phone doesn’t spam with notifications all day.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Aren’t smartwatch sales going down? Anyways, never understood why anyone would use one, especially since we also have phones that we carry around every day and that can notify us whenever.
Oneser@lemm.ee 1 month ago
There was one case in the last 3 years that I thought about getting one. I started running and hated having to need my phone on me and needed a watch either way.
Then I went to dinner and saw how a friend was continuously and unconsciously flicking their eyes down at their smartwatch every few minute if they weren’t talking and decided against it. I’m getting old…
dditty@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Being able to track my runs with Strava while playing Spotify via Bluetooth to my earbuds without carrying my phone is amazing
Thoven@lemdro.id 5 weeks ago
I use one because it lowers my screen time. I can walk away from my phone and still be aware of texts and calls from family.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Mine is primarily a sports watch. The smartwatch features are just an added bonus.
lobut@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Same, it counts my steps and it measures my runs/swims. It’s a Garmin. I don’t really have it configured for notifications or anything else.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Edge case here: my hands are constantly dirty wirh things I don’t want to get on my phone (relevant hobbies include machining, gardening and calligraphy). A smart watch means I can check to see if a message is important (ex: kids/partner attempting to get ahold of me) and I can answer calls just using my nose/tongue + TTS. I never understood why they were such a mainstream accessory, but they are very convenient in some circumstances.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I work as mechanic and when my hand is either dirty or full or busy, it’s super useful to have a fitness band to help tell time or see who’s calling/messaging.
Sometime it’s also quicker to check time instead of having to pull my phone out.
hOrni@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Same here. They are just pointless devices. A smaller screen for your small screen. And I can’t understand the point of a “watch” You take off to charge. I’m using a solar powered G-Shock and take it off my hand maybe once every 3 months.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I use my Garmin instinct to track fitness. I love it
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I have a MiBand which for me is primarily a regular watch with notifications.
I haven’t used audio notifications or ringing on my phone for years. I can also just allow the most important, while the less important notifications I’ll see just on my phone when I unlock it, unless I blocked those notifications too.
Currently this means I get SMS notifications (mostly useful for verification codes / package pick-up codes), Lemmy reply notifications, bank notifications (like payments), phone battery charged (80%) notification, and notifications of upcoming space rocket launches with webcast available (within 10 minutes).
My phone doesn’t make a sound, it doesn’t light up the screen, it doesn’t show notifications on lockscreen, it doesn’t vibrate, it doesn’t use notification LED. The smartband is a replacement.
BULAJI@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Most of the time, it’s just a decoration.
SchadeMarmelade@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Have been wearing a Withings Scanwatch for close to two years now. I can check the time as usual and do not have to do a weird hand movement to activate the screen. On that tiny screen on top I can see who is calling on my phone.
The dial at the bottom goes to 100. That’s percent of predifined steps taken.
I like it. The Scanwatch 2 has a ton of more functioniality healthwise but it also quite expensive for a watch.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If we’re doing watches today, here’s what I’m rocking lately.
I stopped using my Garmin smartwatch because they finally fell into the enshittification trap and recently tried adding AI slop and a subscription scheme into their watch app. That’s a big old nope from me, dawg.
5in1k@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Nice. It is astounding what you can get for just a couple of bucks, and even more astounding that they genuinely work.
dingus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wow I love this!
Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I’m not really a watch person, but that one looks totally great!
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s also approachably yet suspiciously cheap. I think I paid $20 for this close to 15 years ago, and Sinobi is apparently still at it making mechanical watches in the $30 range.
This one does two things: Tells you the time, and does so while not needing batteries.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I found this in my jewelry box when I was packing for moving. Throwback to the 80s! Very much doesn’t work.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ll bet you it does, but you’ll need to put a new battery in it.
StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
I like my smartwatch. I’m extremely ADHD as well as hypoglycemic. I have a history of not eating, then working/exercising until i get woozy or pass out. I’m a terrible judge of what I actually need to stay functional. I just try to power through things when I actually can’t.
The watch helps me track my sleep/rem cycles and lets me know when I’ve been neglecting my health. It lets me know when I’m getting stressed and need to take a breather or how many calories I’ve expended on a given day.
BULAJI@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
ADHD plus anorexia?
StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
I’m not anorexic. In 225 pounds. I love eating. I just sometimes forget that it’s something you need to do everyday. 😅
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I love my phone to a not great degree, but I would hate a smartwatch. I don’t like wearing watches anyways, but something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty. At least on my phone I can listen to podcasts, music, radio, etc, and I can read books and magazines. A smartwatch just feels like a shackle. Also every time I go to concerts or theater now and see the lights go down and all the smartwatches glowing in unison it’s creepy.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty
It’s the same when it’s in your pocket. I’d say the issue is not that it buzz all the time on your wrist, but that it buzz all the time. I disabled most notifications, except for a selection of people and apps. When I get a notification, it is usually important enough that I should check it. Everything else (including non-emergency work stuff) is checked on my own accord, when I feel like it.
Having the notifications pop on my wrist, with that system, does not feel like a shackle more than a phone constantly turning its screen on to tell you you have unread whatever.
ChillPill@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
5in1k@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I broke two of those. One taking something out of my pocket the crown caught and once the crown caught on rubber gloves I was removing.
ChillPill@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sorry to hear that. I’ve had this one for a few years now and work out in the bush all day and I haven’t had any issues.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
A well executed ad.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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A photo of my current watch as I’m wearing it right now.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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Here’s mine. I bought it new in 2015, and I wear it almost daily. It has never needed work.
RidderSport@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Bought mine in 2019, partly graduation gift partly first paycheck
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Oh, I love skeleton watches! Beautiful!
Kanda@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Very nice. Here’s mine: captured_image107410525149055138
Sonor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wearing an oldie watch made in 1988 with a pulsometer on the dial. Love the beaten old thing. Image
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
That’s really cool!
Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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Here’s my reliable, simple Casio. Been with me for the past 7 years. I love this old fucker.
cod@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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Here is my Bulova Sea King “Whale” from 1971 that I bought used a couple years ago. Still runs very well 54 years later.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I’m not wearing it now. But I have an old Casio calculator watch I wear.
Same one Dennis Nerdy wears in Jurassic Park
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wow. That has to be 20 years old
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
The style, yeah, but this is a modern one.