At the end of the year, a big drama is about to kick off again. The annual final assessment of migrant workers is coming again. After a busy year, the impression left on our family and friends is really working hard, or whether we are busy every day with nothing to do, it all depends on our performances in the past few days. It is said that when you go out, your identity is given by yourself; Back at home, migrant workers also need some façade-adorning status symbols, such asA smartwatch
Business and practical smart watches are becoming the standard for young people.
In the early years, there was a saying on the Internet that "the poor play the car, the rich play the watch". Probably at some point people will start to fall in love with the feeling of heaviness on their wrists, whether it's a mechanical gold watch or a smart watchIt is all a status symbol, a spiritual totemFor young and middle-aged people who are currently in the rising period of their careers, the thickness of life brought by heavy mechanical watches has not yet been able to withstand it, or perhaps because of the increased attention to physical healthIn short, in recent years, smart watches are gradually becoming a must-have fashion item for a new generation of urban youth, focusing on a "poor and life-sparing."
The most convenient way to see the time is to look at your phone, rather than shaking your wrist to expose the dial.
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Major smart watch manufacturersAlso crazy involution in functionPick up **, brush the subway, measure blood pressure, almost everything. Its appearance seems to provide people with a "seemingly" lighter option, but are these features really necessary? When a smartwatch evolves into a "wearable device", it is no longer a "beautiful waste"? For smart watches that are out of the category of "watches", "watching the time" doesn't seem to be so important. 01
Smart watch, data slave" of the external electronic life.
What is the significance of smart watches in our lives? First debuted, it is a legend of the Internet"(not) beautiful waste".。In 2014, the original Apple Watch was just released, which attracted many complaints. For example, its square dial shape looks like a sense of disobedience, and what is even more unbearable is that it must be used with an Apple phone to achieve core functions such as networking. 
An Apple Watch without an iPhone is like a fish out of water.
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This makes people feel a little confused, a kind of same confusion as when opening the WeChat web version-If I had a mobile phone, what would I want you to do? However, with the abundance of smart watch functions, in the end, we still can't escape the law of true fragrance. According to data from Canalys, the total sales of smartwatches worldwide in 2023 will be 18.6 billion units, which shows that smart watches have set off a boom around the world. Health monitoring has become one of the most important features when people buy smart watches. "If you don't wear a watch, you don't have fitness. ”Nowadays, the health monitoring feature has become standard in most smartwatches. For migrant workers who are accustomed to quantifying everything with data, smart watches have a stable sense of security: when exercising, look at how many laps you have run; When work is not going well, see how high your blood pressure is kiloPa; Even when I wake up, I can know how long my eyeballs have been exercising at high speed, and he is simply the best "private health housekeeper" for workers. 
Except for your parents, it's the only one.
I can remind you to "pay attention to your body".
The market for smart watches is also different from the era when Apple "stood out" 10 years ago. Major manufacturers have rolled up a new height in function, in addition to the basic operations of **, blood oxygen measurement, NFC card swiping, it has also been developed by people to be more useful. This type of device is not so much a smart "watch", but rather another after the mobile phone"External electronic life
Like the OPPO Watch 3
Xiaomi Watch 2 Pro, etc., have already launched independent communications
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Strapped the watch to the steering wheel, it can become a mini navigator; Use it to see**, look**, it is the best artifact for workers to fish every day; It can even be a private and exclusive "kua group leader", even if you just wash your hands well, you can boast about it as a sign of encouragement. 
Netizens have developed smart watches.
All kinds of "hidden wonders".
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After experiencing the beauty of smart life, smart watches are now also introduced to their elders as a new thing by many young people, and have become the home of contemporary filial sons and daughters for the New YearThe best souvenir。"If you want to buy a smart watch for your parents, which one is the best? "As the Chinese New Year approaches, the frequency of such posts on social platforms is also increasing. My friend Xiaojiang recently returned to his hometown of Shandong, and found that many elders around him began to wear smart watches, some of which were specially bought as gifts by their children, and some of which were replaced with low-end products. But no matter whether the gift is new or old, most of the elders approve of this expression of filial piety for their children, "The watch my sister buys, my mother has to take it out and wear it when she goes out to meet relatives." 
Smart watch, a contemporary filial piety certificate.
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When the smart watch has become a kind of contemporary filial piety certificate,"Hold the core technology".of young people also found the meaning of going home for the New Year in this happy atmosphere.
The watch has more and more functions, but it has become an electronic shackle?
From "social currency" to "filial piety certificate", it seems that so many years have passedThe symbolic meaning of smart watches is still greater than the practical significanceMany people find that health monitoring, which was once regarded as a "just need", does not seem to be as accurate as people think, such as blood oxygen and heart rate monitoring, which are available on most smart wearable devices on the market today"HRV Pressure Detection"., it seems that there is no more practical meaning than to prove that you "want to go crazy". 
Contemporary youth routine: want to go crazy.
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Most people won't be too serious about this matter, even if it's a thousand-yuan smart watch, after all, it's not a professional medical device, most of the timeIt serves as an early warning and psychological comfortHowever, when it comes to the range of electronics, people are less forgiving. "Difficult to charge" is always the biggest pain pointNowadays, smart watches are becoming more and more functional, almost able to replace mobile phones perfectly, but too complicated functions make it as overwhelmed as the river god in "Spirited Away", and the requirements for battery life are also higher. At the same time, considering that smart watches must take into account the premise of "small", how to improve battery life is still a test for major brands. A few years ago, the OPPO Watch team proposed in an interview:Intelligent, battery life and thin, which constitutes the most difficult triangular problem for smart watch manufacturers. 
Without a little enthusiasm for life, how long can you last if you charge it once a day?
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Endurance anxiety is a common problem among contemporary peopleEven, when exactly to charge the smartwatch has become a big problem, and people have to choose between the habit of charging at night and the need for sleep monitoring. Coupled with small problems such as unreasonable location of the charging port, restoring factory settings at every turn, etc., finally,Smart watches are often shelved, continuing the fate of "beautiful waste"."Do I really need it? This kind of persuasion post is also common on social networks, and some people have begun to take the initiative to subtract and use back smart bracelets and little genius watches with a single function - too naïve for elementary school students, too boring for middle school students, and just right for adults. At present, manufacturers are committed to the functional involution of the fighting method, which has begun to make people feel uncomfortable rather than practical. What smart watches should do more is to adapt to people's lives, rather than endlessly increasing demand or even "creating demand", so that people will be "kidnapped" by electronic products again. Is a smart watch an IQ tax? The answer to this question may still be in our own hands. Written by Ah Meat
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