Now seems like a good time to ask what a smartwatch is
What is a smartwatch?
I’m not asking this question in the literal sense; if I was, I’d be ill-equipped to have written as many smartwatch articles and reviews as I have over the past five years. A lot of us know what a smartwatch is conceptually; or at the very least, there’s a vague sense among the general public that a smartwatch is somehow smarter, the way a smartphone is smart, and that techies like to wear them.
But with so many connected watches selling now, what actually makes a smartwatch a smartwatch? Is it a specific operating system? The ability to run third-party apps? Or it is simply a watch that can show you notifications from your smartphone? If that’s the case: does it have to look like a watch? Or is a Fitbit a…
