[Ipg-smz] Best simple smartwatch?

[Dan Rosenbaum]

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!

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Dan Rosenbaum
dan at panix.com
347-658-5855



> On Oct 11, 2018, at 2:12 PM, Alan Zeichick <alan at zeichick.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.)
> 
> Here are the requirements for a smartwatch:
> 
> 1. Sync with my iPhone calendar, and show me the next event and event reminders.
> 
> 2. Ping when I get text messages, and maybe show them.
> 
> 3. Have a very easy-to-read time display that’s always on.
> 
> 4. Have at least three day’s battery life.
> 
> 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.
> 
> It seems the Fitbit Versa might be the best for me… any thoughts on it? Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks, -A
> 
> 
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