Hi,
What are other smartwatches such as the pebble or fitness bands such as things like the fitbit like when interacting with IOS? I did have a brief look at the Martian watches which are simple analogue watches with a bluetooth connection built in but I was wondering if there was anything else simple and worked well with hands free use, like activating siri from your wrist or making calls or sending texts? It seems to me that this is really all I want from a wearable at the moment and this can be done through a simple bluetooth connection and siri.
Views? Suggestions? A watch that lasts more than a day? Fashionable? Do swatch do anything?
It's mainly how voiceover works with it and whether there is anything we'd miss.
Thanks for your help.
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The pebble is not accessible
The pebble is not accessible because voiceover is not on it. It would display notifications for sighted but doesn't speak them. Siri is only availible from the apple watch. The fitbits are accessible but don't use siri it uses it's own app, so if you wanted to check the time or notifications just from that device you couldn't.
Guessed that
I'd imagined tht would be the case with the Pebble, was just using it as an example. There doesn't seem to be anywhere that says this wearable is accessible or not. Some will be, or partially so. For example google wear does have speech built in but only on certain watches which can then be paired with an iphone.
What about the tag watch, or any swatch watches? How well do they play with siri? Are they, in inverted comars, usable? IE can one achieve tasks on them?
Apple watch, for me, is just too feature rich and therefore expensive. I would like an attractive analogue watch with the ability to call up siri, that's probably all I'd be bothered about.
Any ideas?
BRL Watch
Someone in California created a Braille watch that you connect to your smart phone and the Braill rase up and down when you are reading emails or text. Suppose to come out this year for $300. I saw it in a the news in my iPhone but do not recall which.
The dot something or other?
Yes, I'm on the mailing list for this. Maybe I should wait for that. It's KoreanI believe but I'm not sure if it's going to have a mic and speaker built in on this generation of it. Thanks for reminding me though.
News
Hello. Removing the cobwebs from this thread, is there any news on this? I want an affordable smartwatch that is iPhone compatible but it's hard to find information. I considered buying a Galaxy Watch 4 or 5, but they are not compatible with iPhone;
I'm considering buying a Galaxy Active 2 as it has a screen reader and seems to be minimally iPhone compatible, but I don't know how compatible it is. Also, this device is old;
I considered buying a Xiaomi Smartwatch, but I did not find information about its accessibility. Tell me something, please.
go with apple watch
It will be accessible it is made by apple and it will most likely do what you need.
Besides a decent price tag, why are you afraid?
If you want multiple devices to be compatible, I am not sure anything works as apple Google and Amazon and the like all have their boxers in a twist to tight, well... I'd try out the Apple watch, this being said from a person who, doesn't want it, why get it? i don't care... Now besides being a judge when I don't want it to be, as in talking to a friend and it yells at me for not moving, I'm glad I have it. I can call 911 if I need it in a moment's notice. I have not read up on this thread so please, post what you want and why and perhaps something might come up. but all tech companies are in the: I don't wanna and wont' ever, share, like toddlers do, type of scenario. Let's help so just let us know what you want.
Hi,
The apple watch SE is pretty affordable these days however, there are reasons why someone might not want an apple watch... The rubbish battery for one, the fact that it is a full blown watch taking up wrist real-estate. It took me three attempts at an apple watch to finally decide it was worth it however, I did have a Fitbit for a time which was more of a wrist band that updated my iPhone with steps, cals etc. Naturally, it didn't speak, but I was okay with that because I could wear it on one wrist whilst wearing a dress watch on the other.
I didn't realise this but Fitbit is now owned by google which suggests there may be improvements to more recent watches regarding accessibility.
It is indeed true, you'll never find an smart watch with the same depth of integration as an apple watch, which makes sense, but it does depend on what you want from it. If you have apple fitness, you need an apple watch. If you want every notification in an accessible format, I'd say the apple watch is your best bet. If you simply want an activity monitor, pretty much every smart watch can integrate with apple health. It might not encourage you to move, stand every hour, but it can work as a passive monitor on your activities.
If you let us know the criteria you're looking at, EG battery, accessibility, what you want it for time telling/prompts to move/swimming/running etc, we might be able to point you in the right direction.
I would say, the apple watch, aside from bad battery, is the most versatile. You have all these features which means you can choose how you use it. I do WHM (Wim Hoff Method), and it is useful during breath retention to monitor my heart rate so I can try and push it down. Also nice to know if you've hit targets though, I've seen some rather odd anomalies on there, anomalies when travelling by car. One day I hit 9000 % of my exercise goal. I now no longer exercise. I'm good...
A watch isn't only a function, it is also a piece of jewellery. I'd love apple to release a simple fitness band that release and is discrete, but apple doesn't do discrete. Their advertising is cool people like us waving our fruit splattered nicknacks at passer's by.
smart watches
I would recommend the Apple Watch SE, as it does everything you wanted to do. It is completely accessible and all of the features you don't want can be disabled. I have the original Apple Watch SE and find it very useful. As for the battery, I usually get about a day and a half out of my original SE and that's after several years of use.
Hello. Thank you for your…
Hello. Thank you for your comments. I had not considered an Apple Watch due to the high price in my country. An SE is not cheap like in the US. I had bought a Galaxy Watch 3 because it seemed to work with the iPhone and had a screen reader. It has some issues, but it was fine. The integration isn't total like on an Apple Watch, but it was reasonable. I just want a health monitor and a sleep monitor. I loved the Galaxy Watch 3's sleep tracking. Despite this, I didn't like the screen reader that much, so I sold it and bought an Apple Watch 3, believing that Apple's sleep tracking would be awesome. Terrible mistake... For me, the Apple Watch 3 with Watch OS 8 sleep tracking was terrible, inaccurate and didn't record a three hour nap because it believed I woke up when the alarm went off. Incredibly, the Galaxy Watch 3 recorded everything automatically, without having to configure anything, such as a time to sleep and/or a time to wake up, for example. If I napped 5 times a day it would register. Also, the Apple Watch 3's battery is disappointing! I could get two days of battery life on a Galaxy Watch 3, with sleep tracking. On the Apple Watch 3, battery life is only 24 hours. The battery health of both devices is at 100%. I created another topic about this... I don't know whether to replace the Apple Watch 3 with Watch OS 8 for a Watch SE with OS 9/10 or if I go back to my old Galaxy Watch 3 with Tizen. I also heard about Mobvoi's Ticwatch, with Google Wear OS. Does TalkBack work well? It appears to be compatible with the iPhone.