Why don’t more smartwatches have a flashlight?
Acer announced a lot of new products today: powerful gaming laptops, fancy monitors to go with them, and even a 360-degree camera that can make voice calls. One item on that list was the Leap Ware smartwatch. Now, I don’t want to be mean without giving this thing a fair shot, but my initial impressions weren’t the best. The watch’s proprietary software felt sluggish, the display is fairly dim and difficult to read, and the design itself won’t appeal to everyone. But the Leap Ware does have at least one clever trick in its feature set: there’s an LED flashlight built in.
The product demo tables were outside in the Manhattan daylight, so I couldn’t get a good sense of how bright the LED gets in the dark. Acer says it’s good for things…
