A smart watch is a digital watch. A watch is a small computer that runs on its own operating system. But how does a smart watch work and what can you do with it? In this article, I will tell you more about it.
Connect to your smartphone
To use a smartwatch, you need a smartphone. On your smartphone, you install the app that comes with the smartwatch, such as Android Wear or Watch from Apple. By opening the accompanying app on your smartphone and turning on Bluetooth, you can synchronize the watch with your phone. Now your devices are connected, and you will receive notifications from your smartphone on your watch screen. For example, you can read emails and messages, view your calendar appointments, or take phone calls. That’s useful because you no longer have to worry about missing an important message.
Measuring daily activities and exercise
If the android watch has a built-in GPS and/or heart rate sensor, the watch measures your daily activities. This includes counting the number of steps, stairs, calorie consumption, and sleep patterns. Thanks to GPS, a watch also measures your route during exercise. Is GPS not built into the smartwatch? Then it’s often possible to use the GPS signal from your smartphone. For this, you must take your phone with you while running or cycling.
Applications on your smartwatch
It’s possible to install third-party apps in the corresponding app store of the smartwatch. Popular apps are Spotify, WhatsApp, NS Reisplanner, Appie, or Buienradar. Thanks to these apps on your smartwatch, you no longer have to take your smartphone out of your pocket when you do your shopping, when you want to see if your train is delayed, or when you’re wondering if you need to bring an umbrella.
There’s no doubt that with the popularity of smartphones that can manage virtually every aspect of our lives, the trend in technology is to get more and more “connectivity” into smaller and smaller packages.
Simultaneously, wristwatches have become a lesson in technological redundancy for many people. Ask a friend for the time of day, and they’re just as likely to glance at their smartphone as they are to look at an actual wrist-bound timepiece. The newest wave of smartwatches aims to change all that.
Smartwatches are digital watches that do more – a lot more – than your old analog time tracking device. We’re not talking about that once-amazing calculator watch that you had in elementary school. These are full-fledged digital tools.
Smartwatches can run apps and playback all sorts of digital media, like audio tracks or radio streamed to Bluetooth headphones. Many of these watches have touchscreens, which allow you to access functions like a calculator, thermometer, compass, and more.
Most of the current iterations of smartwatches aren’t wholly standalone devices simply because they lack an Internet connection. Many of the watches are designed to link directly with other devices with Internet connectivity, namely your smartphone.
