Wristwatches have been around since early in the 16th century. Since then, wrists have been praised as one of the most convenient locations for simple information such as time and date. Today, technology evolves and simplicity becomes more complex. Simple notifications such as time, date, emails, text messages, and phone calls are in demand to be accessed more conveniently. Now, with a sudden advancement in Smart Watches, you can access text messages, make calls, take pictures and even more from your wrist.

The idea of an intelligent wristwatch has been around for a very long time. From James Bond movies to futuristic TV shows like the Jetson’s, all over the media the advanced watch has been featured as an idea of the future. We’ve all had those moments when you reach into your pocket and realize you’ve had a text message, email, or some other notification waiting for you to answer for a couple of hours. Some of us leave our phones out of our pockets and purses so that we don’t miss an important phone call. With advancing technologies, it seems that smart watches may be the solution to this problem. Now, the future and one of our childhood dreams is becoming present. Notable Smart Watches are now making an appearance in the tech market. The Pebble and Galaxy Gear are two of the leading Smart Watches on sale now. Both can receive your phone’s notifications, and both give you the date and time. Which one is better?

The Pebble is great for a lot of reasons. For one, the Pebble is much lighter than the Galaxy Gear and in some ways is more simple. Pebbles come with large and easily useable buttons on the side. In addition, the screen is more simple and has an old digital look similar to digital watches. What the Galaxy gear has is a Samsung touch screen, camera, video camera, microphone, and a store for downloadable apps.

What’s better about the Pebble, is that it’s simple and works great for what is says it can do. With a great battery life, the Pebble last on average 3-5 days based on how often you use it compared to the constant 2 day charge needed for the Gear. Along with a larger battery life, the Pebble is waterproof and can be taken anywhere with you.
The Galaxy Gear, on the other hand, is a much smarter watch. Not only can it do most of what the Pebble can do, it can do a lot more. It receives and makes phone calls, sends text messages, controls the phone’s music player, is a pedometer, and can even take photos. Its no wonder that this great device, unfortunately, costs twice as much as the Pebble.
What you wouldn’t expect, is that the Gear isn’t waterproof. One of its major setbacks.

What companies like Samsung don’t understand is that if you’re going to make a cell phone for your wrist, you need to realize that the wrist goes places and encounters the outside world a lot more often than a cell phone does in your pants pocket. Digital watches are becoming more useful because of their capability of accessing your information anywhere. A watch, like digital watches, need to be able to endure heat, cold, water, and weather. Phones don’t go everywhere with you, and they shouldn’t, but a wristwatch does.

What both these lack is the true essence of simultaneously being a phone and watch. The Gear is most like a phone in that it can make phone calls and send text messages, but it lacks the needed durability of a watch. It is too fragile and too expensive to be brought everywhere with you. The Pebble is the opposite. Its too much like a watch, Its durable, its waterproof, and it tells time and a few notifications. What the Pebble needs is the Gears ability to send out messages, make phone calls and take photos. Both watches are too swayed toward one of two directions, a phone or a watch. What need to happen before they become more of a success, is for these Smart Watches to be both a phone and a watch.