After the flourish of the body-worn
health-monitoring devices, in the past few days, we continuously received the
new info of Google Glass or iWatch. Though now, it’s still in lack of a
powerful push so that this new market can actually develop – like the way
iPhone of Apple had changed the tech world a few years ago but there’s no
reason that we can’t expect the monumental launch of the Google Glass and
iWatch. A few days ago, we have introduced the reader the chronicle of The Verge
report about the first experience Google Glass and today let’s see what CNET
experts talk about the essential features to make the success of iWatch,
particularly, as well as the Smartwatch generation of the future, altogether.
Smartwatch
Music connection
When wearing a smart electronic device on
your wrist, what is the first app you can think of for it? Surely, every 10
people asked, at least 5-7 will think about music. Indeed, manipulating with
volume, music album through the watch on your wrist sounds very convenient and
will attract numberless of music believers.
Many
people, including me, have dreamt of controlling music through the watch,
modern but don’t expect to be … power-wasting!
The problem is that users have already had
all type of devices that need to be synchronized the digital content, PC,
laptop to smartphone, tablet, mp3. To ensure their usability, the smartwatch
models will need to have the ability to connect to the online services, as well
as the ability to link, control the media player driver and stream the content
from the traditional products. In other words, instead of encapsulating in a
role as a compact on-wrist music solution, smartwatch should have undertook
well the ability to be a bridge for managing a controlling the multimedia
content from the available library of the users. After all, we normally see the
hardcore followers flavor their music player combo and their personal amply
more than take advantages of the versatility of the smartphone. At such time,
with the tiny size and the position right on its users’ wrist, smartwatch will
be more suitable as a part of a connection-assistance. Of course, it would be
better that everything works… wirelessly because we have already had enough
connecting cables inside the house and on our body. The connecting options
through the traditional jack or connecting though Bluetooth with headphone are
also necessary.
Remind and display notification
The
poor call-notification screen of Martian Passport smartwatch
Another app that many would think of when
talking smartwatch is the ability to display the notifications for users about
the dates, calls or messages. Basically, they need to help us know what’s just
happened with our phone numbers or the online accounts just with a glance and a
wrist shake.
As the same way Google Glass helps users
read the new info without having to pull over and take the phone out like
Joshua has described, an ideal smartwatch is something that just with a wave as
when you watch the time- users who need will receive all the necessary
information to get back to their job they’re doing quickly. Maybe most ideal,
accompanying with that should be the ability to converse when having wireless
connection to the headset.
Expandability
A
watch will only be a "smart"watch if it’s provided with the ability
to “learn” new features.
Have you wondered yourself that the
platform iOS or Android have anything different from the one owned by Samsung
or Nokia? In terms of technical specs, there’re a lot to say, but one of the
most important factors is that they attracts a lot of app developers. A company
itself is difficult to create a number of apps that is diversified and
qualified enough to satisfy the users, even though it’s one of the giant such
Apple, Google, Microsoft.
With smartphone, we are capable of doing
numberless of jobs through the extra self-installed app – or even changing the
poor software provided with the device as a pack. And with feature phone, in
most cases, users have to accept what the maker provides. When “upgrading” the
smartwatch, the story was the same. A powerful platform allows developers to
write the app on it, provides the users with the ability of adding the functions
they want (following the radio, weather, charts etc.) and that will make the
attraction of these watches become much larger, showing the true meaning of the
“smart”watch name.
Of course, not all need this expandability
under all circumstances. Just think yourself, if you have enough financial
capacity, what would you prefer, a high-end smartphone for comfortably
customized or upgraded or a phone?
Health-monitoring
The
Fitbit’s health-monitoring bracelet, though just appeared, is sought by a lot
of people.
With the currently relative-level success
of the devices monitoring the health of the users such Martian Passport hay
iPod Nano Nike (which has appeared long before Google Glass and iWatch), the
missing of these functional groups on new models of smartwatch will be
illogical. We don’t require much for the professional health functions, just
some basic parameters like the motion info, blood pressure and heart rate are
extremely useful in most cases. The tech that monitors these parameters through
a wrist device is not a new challenge. This will be one of the key features
that help the smartwatch separate from the smartphone or other traditional
portable devices.
