<div dir="ltr">I got a Fitbit Versa for Christmas. It's OK, I guess. Does what you want, for $149.<div><br></div><div>But I really want an Apple Watch for Christmas. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:35 PM Dan Rosenbaum <<a href="mailto:dan@panix.com">dan@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There’s now any number of watches from the Fossil Group (which has included Misfit for a few years now) that should do all this. Several of them don’t so much have easy-to-read displays as they have actual hands!<br>
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> On Oct 11, 2018, at 2:12 PM, Alan Zeichick <<a href="mailto:alan@zeichick.org" target="_blank">alan@zeichick.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi! I lost my trusty Pebble watch during a trip of San Francisco, and am looking for a replacement to wear at conferences. (I generally don’t wear a watch at home except for dressy events, and for that I always wear a vintage Rolex Oyster Perpetual that Carole bought me for our 20th anniversary.)<br>
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> Here are the requirements for a smartwatch:<br>
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> 1. Sync with my iPhone calendar, and show me the next event and event reminders.<br>
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> 2. Ping when I get text messages, and maybe show them.<br>
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> 3. Have a very easy-to-read time display that’s always on.<br>
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> 4. Have at least three day’s battery life.<br>
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> I don’t need health monitoring, step counters, entertainment, gps, blah blah blah. It’s okay if the watch has them, as long as I can turn those features off or easily ignore them.<br>
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> It seems the Fitbit Versa might be the best for me… any thoughts on it? Any other ideas?<br>
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> Thanks, -A<br>
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</blockquote></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dana Blankenhorn<div><a href="http://www.danablankenhorn.com">http://www.danablankenhorn.com</a></div><div><a href="http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/#.WJzBOzsrLIV">http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/#.WJzBOzsrLIV</a><br></div></div></div>