Trends in Smartwatches

Trends in smartwatches

In this ear of information explosion, we are receiving all kinds of information every day, and an app on our cell phone is like our eyes, which will keep getting new information from various channels.
Smartwatches are also becoming more and more popular these years.
Now, Apple, Samsung and other big brand smartwatches can already be said to be ahead of the curve.
However, as users' reliance on smartphones continues to grow and consumers' demand for health and fitness aspects gradually increases, consumers are beginning to pay more attention to smart products and wearable devices such as watches.
In this process, what will be the trend of the development of smart watches?

I. User experience
For smart watches, appearance and design have become an important part of user experience.
In terms of appearance, smart watches of big brands such as Apple and Samsung are already very mature in terms of design, and it can be said that they do not need much adjustment.
However, this does not mean that other brands of smartwatches do not have any characteristics in terms of appearance.
The biggest highlight of smartwatches is that they can integrate all the hardware on top of one platform.
And this integration can make the user experience better.
Just like how the iPhone doesn't even need to be connected to a computer anymore?
Of course so, we are still learning, and so far no product is perfect, but as a whole, we still have to make the best of everything to get it right!

II. Health management system
By using various sensors and software, smartwatches can measure heart rate, sleep quality, calorie consumption and other information.
But for smart watches to truly realize the intelligent monitoring function, they also need to go from data collection to information transmission to data processing and analysis, and finally realize the health management system.
At present, the monitoring of body status by smartwatch can be done by Bluetooth or low-power micro-connection technology, etc., and directly interact with third-party software for data.
However, this is not enough, because only the data processed by software can more accurately reflect the indicators of the human body.
In addition, it also needs to be used in conjunction with smartphones to achieve more functions.
Such as health monitoring and other test results can be transmitted to the cell phone through wearable devices, and then the cell phone will send a notification to remind the user; and wearable products can upload data to the cloud server, and continuous health tracking management of the user, etc..
However, in some countries and regions, people's awareness of health monitoring and management is not yet strong, and the acceptance of smart watches is not yet high, so there are no mature products like Google's GearPeak in the market yet.

III. Wireless charging
As more and more consumers start to use wireless charging, this has become a trend for future smartwatches.
First of all, wireless charging can bring better battery life to the device without plugging and unplugging the charging cable or making complicated data connections to extend the battery life, which greatly improves the overall user experience of the product.
Secondly, wireless charging is a great help for the battery, which can prevent users from replacing the battery frequently because they are worried about the damage of the charger.
Plus, smart watches themselves have higher requirements for power and charging speed, which can meet users' needs for high quality of life.
Therefore, it is likely that smart watches will become a trend in the future development of the industry.
At present, we have seen Huawei, Xiaomi and other cell phone manufacturers have started to layout this field.

IV. waterproof and dustproof performance
At present, smart watches have three kinds of waterproof functions: life waterproof, swimming waterproof.
For ordinary consumers, in daily life, they may not encounter the situation of using smart watches, but when swimming, smart watches still need to have certain protective performance.
When swimming, it is risky due to the nature of water.
If you wear a smartwatch too much for too long, it is easy to cause water damage to the smartwatch.
And when sports, such as mountain climbing, marathon and other high-intensity sports, it may lead to wear and tear or drop the smart watch and other situations.
Therefore, smart watches need to have a certain degree of water resistance.

V. Battery life
Wearable devices, is a big market. The speed of development of wearable devices is not expected by all the people in the digital technology industry, but it is foreseeable that there will also be more categories and functions of wearable devices in the future.
In the past few years, many people have been saying that Apple Apple Watch life time is too short, a day to charge once. Apple did make a lot of efforts in these years, and did do a great deal to improve the wearable device range.
But from the current point of view, Apple Watch is a very ideal and very unique and advanced product, it can not be said that the battery life is too short, but from the user use is also really some difficulties.
So if you want to develop a smart watch, the battery life needs to be further improved. At the same time, we hope that manufacturers can make more efforts in battery capacity and fast charging technology.

VI. more powerful sports and health functions
With the development of smart watches in these years, users have higher requirements for sports health functions, such as heart rate monitoring, sports distance and speed recording, and sleep quality monitoring.
In addition, the health function of smart watches can also achieve some data sharing.
Smart glasses are also in the process of continuous improvement, currently more mature and common is to achieve calls, music playback and data sharing, but because the smart glasses itself does not have the camera function, this function is not very powerful.
With the development of technology, people have a higher pursuit for health and quality of life.
At present, the biggest market for wearable devices is sports and health, and in these two areas will also become the biggest trend in the next few years.
We believe that with the improvement of technology and people's living standard, as well as the recognition of various health functions by more and more users, these functions will also become more powerful.

VII. the development trend of interaction and operating system
Although Apple Watch does not provide any operating interface, the system comes with Siri and powerful functions that allow users to feel the fun of "future technology" products.
Various touch screen control methods have been used since the early development of smartphones, but it is only in the last few years that they have been successfully applied to smartwatches.
Smart watches will use a new way of interaction, rather than the traditional sense of touch screen, etc.
The operating system will also change a lot: Android or iOS may launch more operating systems, such as Linux, while traditional systems such as WatchOS or Android may also launch new versions, so that the watch can be like a computer.
This aspect will be improved to a great extent.
In addition, due to the characteristics of smart watches, users will no longer need a smartphone to operate and use the device.
This also makes wearable devices a product that is closer to the real human lifestyle.
Therefore, this field is going to change a lot in the coming years!
There will probably be many new technologies coming to this industry in the next few years.