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Smartwatch : What it is all about?:-
Since wrist watches became more and more popular, people started imagining to increase the efficiency of a watch by giving it extra features rather than only displaying the time. And the idea of smartwatch came in the mid of 1980. Although it was there from 80’s, it become popular in the last couple of years. The Hollywood films played important role in paving future concepts for smartwatches, as smartwatch like watches were an important element in the 20th century movies like Dick Tracy (1940s), Star Trek (1970s), and more prominently in James Bond series. Although it looks very stylish, one has to understand what the smartwatch is, how it works, and more importantly is it really needed to buy a smartwatch? What is Smartwatch? In simple words, a smartwatch is a digital wrist watch with screen and having functions nearly same as your smart phone, so it can do much more than just displaying the time. The increased demand for smartwatches in developing and developed countries has created a great demand for top mobile app development company to develop apps for smartwatches. How does the smartwatch work? To get the full functionality of a smartwatch, it needs to be connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth pairing, or some devices allow connecting via NFC chips for quick and easy setup. If a smartwatch is not connected to a smartphone, it may function nothing other than only displaying the time. Once a smartwatch is connected to a smartphone, you can choose what notifications you want to get on your wrist, which can include notifications of emails, messages, social networks and calls too. To inform you about notifications, it will blink and/or vibrate on your wrist. It’s upon you which settings you want to get the notifications’ alert, as if you can on/off the notifications. The smartwatches have touch screen, rechargeable battery and graphical display. The functionality varies from smartwatch to smartwatch, but calculations, translations, game-playing, controlling via app what music is playing on your smartphone etc are the basic functionalities of most of the smartwatches. Latest smartwatches include the peripheral devices like camera, speaker, thermometer, compass, GPS receiver, and SD card. Also softwarelike calculator, map display, and scheduler etc. Now ‘sport watch’ is booming in the market, as it is having the functionality of activity tracker. The activity tracker is an app which tracks and monitors fitness related metrics like how much distance you will walk, how many steps you will take, calorie consumption, and heartbeat rate etc.