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Originally Posted by Brave Ulysses An iPhone does all of the above better and more efficiently with a better user experience.

For now you are right, but there is a reason why not even the hipsters are sporting pocket watches these days. If you get close enough to feature parity, then the wrist beats the pocket.

Holding your wrist up to your ear? really?

How different is it from holding up a phone? And unlike the ear piece, you only need to do it when talking.

It seems more likely that if Apple were to make a smartwatch, they would focus on the things a watch and small connected display would do well at and do so simply..... that would include basic information, notifications, possibly messages, time, weather, call information, possibly simple navigational directions, workout statistics, song information/album art Really... just look at the 6th generation nano and imagine if it had an active sync to an iPhone.

But then you would still be having to deal with two devices instead of one.

Bluetooth headphones are a dead end. Yet another device to charge... so now you need to charge two devices just to use one, you always have to have them on to use, they aren't cheap, and Apple has even been tempted to try them out on their iPods.

I think that wire alone is annoying enough to keep trying to get rid of it. And perhaps with wireless charging the battery issue will be less of an issue.