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Comment by DanielBMarkham | Hacker News Reader

I'm interested in watching this develop.

As a nerdy guy, I love signaling my nerdiness with gadgets -- tablets, notebooks, cars, etc.

But watches? When I wear a watch I want something analog with a lot of gears and complexity, not a stupid cell phone OS crammed on my wrist. Have you seen folks in airports and such poking at their watch, trying to open apps? Talking to their wrist? It does not leave one with a positive impression.

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I'm gonna shill here and say check the S3 (or S2 classic). The spinning bevel is really slick, and the OS feels really natural. Partly because it seems to understand there's approximately enough space on a watch to put like 4 icons ever. The voice works great, and I've had conversations with my arm at my side (but really, get a bluetooth headset - airports are too crowded to use a speakerphone).

And some of the watch faces are clever. The default chronograph one actually fakes the light reflecting around the face as your wrist moves. Complete BS, but passes the illusion nicely.

It sounds like you want one of the hybrid watches. No LCD, so they look like a traditional watch and don't have abysmal (for a watch, which I believe needs to go months between charges) battery life like the iWatch. But they connect with your phone over BlueTooth and give you vibrating alerts and the ability to control your phone using the watch buttons.

Here's one I came across today:

https://www.fossil.com/us/en/products/q-nate-hybrid-stainles...

(Disclaimer: I don't own one of these or recommend them...just pointing to one example. There are probably other vendors offering similar products)

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