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Tablets and smartwatches.. Why?
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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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I've bought probably 5 or 6 tablets in my life. Each time, I thought I'd find a use for them. Every time, though, I ended up giving them away to someone so they didn't languish in a drawer.
The only use I found for a tablet was as an e-reader, but it was never really great at it (too large/awkward, poor battery life, etc). Bought a Kobo for that, and it's perfect.
Smartwatches? I can see the appeal for those. I don't wear it anymore, but the one I had was useful to use as a remote control for my phone (answer calls, see incoming notifications, music control, etc) while leaving my phone in my pocket. It didn't have any radio besides Wifi/BLE and was purely an accessory device. It synced with my phone via GadgetBridge, and everything stayed local.
And a smartwatch with a cell radio is no more/less a tracking device than the phone you're already carrying. Assuming you're not syncing your health data to some cloud service, that is.