I looked at the Apple watch in an Apple store. The priciest gold watch is about seven thousand pounds. It might also make you a target for thieves. So you would need to wear long sleeves to conceal it, unless you are all dash and flash, in your own private Porsche and helicopter. (Or Prince Harry, with a bodyguard.)
But at £299 (just a little lower than £300) the cheapest watch is affordable if you get a group of friends and family to co-ordinate and merge funds for a birthday or Xmas, even if you have to work overtime, eat into your savings, or run it off the business as an expense.
Watch Safety
Why would you need a watch in addition to a phone? You could argue that a watch attached to you is less likely to get lost than an iPhone placed on a table in a restaurant.
Mobile phone Theft
Newspapers have reported that a common trick in London coffee shops is for a stranger to stop to ask a question, place a newspaper on the table over your phone, gather up the phone under the newspaper and run out of the door and disappear. CCTV in and outside chains of cafes and restaurants eventually caught one culprit, as well as revealing how it was done. So the phone attached to your wrist is less is easily moved in public places.
However, I have seen demos of people removing watches without the owner noticing.
Forgetting negative ideas about security and loss, let's move on to the positives. What can the iPhone do for you?
Restaurants Ban Phones
In some restaurants phones are banned. One reason is because customers take noisily on phones. If you sit on a train in any country you will hear entire personal conversations and business transactions from people shouting into their mobile phones.
Subtle Watches
The watch phone is more subtle. You can glance at it whilst waiting without anybody knowing you are doing more than checking the time.
Tanglin Club Restaurant
For example, the Tanglin Club restaurants in Singapore ban mobile phones. In one restaurant, the member cannot book a table but must sit at the table to secure it. The host has to sit without using a phone. Meanwhile the guest wants to text: 'Sorry, delayed in traffic, estimated time of arrival ten minutes late. Please start without me.'
With a watch which takes texts, no problem. So who will buy me, or you, a watch?
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker. Please follow me here and on Facebook, link to me on Linked in, watch me on YouTube and buy my books on Lulu.com
But at £299 (just a little lower than £300) the cheapest watch is affordable if you get a group of friends and family to co-ordinate and merge funds for a birthday or Xmas, even if you have to work overtime, eat into your savings, or run it off the business as an expense.
Watch Safety
Why would you need a watch in addition to a phone? You could argue that a watch attached to you is less likely to get lost than an iPhone placed on a table in a restaurant.
Mobile phone Theft
Newspapers have reported that a common trick in London coffee shops is for a stranger to stop to ask a question, place a newspaper on the table over your phone, gather up the phone under the newspaper and run out of the door and disappear. CCTV in and outside chains of cafes and restaurants eventually caught one culprit, as well as revealing how it was done. So the phone attached to your wrist is less is easily moved in public places.
However, I have seen demos of people removing watches without the owner noticing.
Forgetting negative ideas about security and loss, let's move on to the positives. What can the iPhone do for you?
Restaurants Ban Phones
In some restaurants phones are banned. One reason is because customers take noisily on phones. If you sit on a train in any country you will hear entire personal conversations and business transactions from people shouting into their mobile phones.
Subtle Watches
The watch phone is more subtle. You can glance at it whilst waiting without anybody knowing you are doing more than checking the time.
Tanglin Club Restaurant
For example, the Tanglin Club restaurants in Singapore ban mobile phones. In one restaurant, the member cannot book a table but must sit at the table to secure it. The host has to sit without using a phone. Meanwhile the guest wants to text: 'Sorry, delayed in traffic, estimated time of arrival ten minutes late. Please start without me.'
With a watch which takes texts, no problem. So who will buy me, or you, a watch?
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker. Please follow me here and on Facebook, link to me on Linked in, watch me on YouTube and buy my books on Lulu.com
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