I both laughed at this and then felt bad as it can wear on you when you don’t feel appreciated for your efforts.
There are some differences in features among the watches in the smart watch community. Some aren’t so much ‘smart watches’ as they are advanced watches with various additional features like step counters, exercise monitors & trackers, food/water trackers, etc.
One big thing that typically separates a full featured smart watch vs simply an advanced smart watch is the ability to sync with your phone for texts and phone calls.
The more spendy ones can actually send and receive phone calls while being completely independent of your phone (phone is off, watch will still ring if phone is called)
So if you receive a call, you can answer either on your phone or watch. The watch will also have its own separate number as it has its own sim chip. But with your provider you can ‘sync’ your phone and watch. It breaks down like this after you sync:
Smart watch:
-Will ‘ring’ when either the watch number or cell/mobile number is called.
-Can answer calls made to both phone or watch
Phone:
-Will only answer calls made to the phone.
My watch isn’t a full featured smart watch. It links to my phone via Bluetooth. If I receive a call when both my phone & watch are powered on and connected to each other, then both my phone and watch will display the incoming call, but if I swipe to ‘answer’ the call on my watch, I still need to do the actual talking on my phone.
Really the only benefit is if I’m in a situation where pulling my phone out of my pocket to talk is inappropriate, I can still see who’s calling by looking at my watch.
If it’s an important call, I can excuse myself from the room to take it. If it’s not important, I can let it go to voice mail or swipe to decline the call. I can also choose to swipe to decline and send a preprogrammed text to the caller. “I’ll call you back” or “busy, can’t talk”. The same thing can be done with text messages.
Good news is you don’t need to spend lots to get a watch that will give you a “you’re doing great” message if it detects your ‘exercise’ lol