alt Hacker News> Notifications are the main thing
Maybe you mean types of notifications that I'm not used to using, because notifications were the first thing I would turn off on any smart watch I've used (pebble, Amazfit, galaxy). The last thing I need if to have yet another device (now being worn) vibrating every 5min for some message.
Truth be told I use the least smart feature of the watch: the alarm. I can set quite granular schedules for my alarms and that means no one else needs to wake up but me. The health tracking I barely care, but since I'm wearing it I track it. I could imagine using the payment feature tho, to avoid taking the phone out.
> Maybe you mean types of notifications that I'm not used to using, because notifications were the first thing I would turn off on any smart watch I've used (pebble, Amazfit, galaxy). The last thing I need if to have yet another device (now being worn) vibrating every 5min for some message.
At least on my smartwatch (Samsung one) I can choose which notifications I want to forward to the watch. And I have all the ones I don't care about turned off anyway, even on my phone. For me it replaces a lot of my smartphone (which I only use outdoors anyway, at home I have a real computer). The ability of the galaxy watch to also show pictures in notifications is a big plus (my old pebbles could not do that, not sure about the new repebbles)
The notifications on my watch are the main reason I have it. It avoids looking at my phone every time something comes in. It's not too often because I block so much and I don't use social media.
I don't care much about the health tracking, though I do sometimes use the sleep tracking. Especially the SpO2 tracking is handy because I have apnea. It does bother me that Samsung doesn't make it possible to turn off their health "gamifications" (every day I get nonsense messages like "Will you meet your goal today?", "You're halfway your goal, keep going!"). I still have to see if I can turn that crap off via ADB.