Timeless: wristwatch instead of smartphone and smartwatch

It's hard to imagine life without the smartphone. The mobile device offers many advantages, but there are much better alternatives for reading the time. If you're thinking of the smartwatch, you're not far off the mark. However, smartwatches have a significant disadvantage compared to the digital or analog wristwatch.

What time is it?

Has the bus, metro or train already left? What time is it actually? And the search in the handbag begins. It must be here somewhere, the smartphone you love so much. When you need it, you can't find it right away. For navigating the Internet, writing messages and scrolling through the hottest apps, the smartphone is an important everyday companion. For telling the time, on the other hand, it's never at hand at the drop of a hat. While men dig around in their pockets, women increasingly look in their handbags for their smartphones.

That doesn't have to be the case. Especially since smartphones disappear every day in Germany. Some lose their smartphone, others have it stolen. With a watch on your wrist, that can't happen so quickly. Thieves have to be very brazen and skilled to steal a person's wristwatch unnoticed.

Smartwatch - the multifunctional talent

All major smartphone manufacturers produce smartwatches. Most of these watches are only compatible with devices from their own manufacturer. Third-party suppliers solve this problem by producing smartwatches that are compatible with all systems. The watches are very practical. They show the time, how many steps the wearer has already taken, how he or she has slept.

Connected to a smartphone, users can also control incoming messages, calls and at least the music list. With high-quality smartwatches, it is even possible to open and close the door lock of the house or apartment door and operate kitchen appliances with it. Even smart speakers communicate with a smartwatch and order much-needed laundry detergent online as requested, which is delivered directly to the home. Provided that someone is at home when the delivery service rings.

The smartwatch should simplify people's lives. It should be an important aid in everyday life. As long as the watch always gets the latest update for the operating system, it certainly is. Even if not in all areas of life. If it is excluded from the next update and thus from the next security package because the manufacturer no longer supports the model with an update, the smartwatch is almost useless.

Time for the classic wristwatch

Anyone who wants to know what time it is in the future will do without a smartwatch in combination with a smartphone to read the time. The analog or digital wristwatch is a simple time indicator that does not require an update and whose batteries last longer than those of a smartwatch or smartphone. Zeitlounge.com presents a variety of watch models for the wrist, which come from established manufactories. The old watch manufactures have by no means missed the spirit of the times and have included various new functions in digital watches.

They differ in that the watches primarily display the time, some also the date, and still others the air pressure and temperature. Digital watches display incoming calls, and they can even be answered with them, but wearers still have to write mails or compose messages with the smartphone. Analog wristwatches with a dial do not track the latest likes, but simply show the time.

The advantage of such a wristwatch is easy to understand: What time is it? A glance at the wrist is enough to read off the time. It doesn't get any faster than that, when we all wanted to get a little faster with smart technology. The smartwatch first has to be tapped to wake up from sleep mode and display the time, the process simply takes longer. This shows that smart technology is not always more advantageous than proven analog or digital technologies.