Gadget king and dancing queen Steve Wozniak thinks smartwatches have got a long way to go before being useful.
Woz, who was the co-founder of Apple, was a well-known early adopter of shiny new toys. He owns a Segway and has a Tesla Motors’ electric-powered car. He also has an interest in getting a smartwatch that is useful.
Wozniak told xconomy that smartwatches will not be useful until the screens get bigger. He thinks foldable, plastic displays could be the answer to that problem.
He also thinks they will be useless until you can get the whole smartphone on your wrist and not a Bluetooth connection to the smartphone in your pocket.
Samsung, Pebble, and Qualcomm are among the companies that have come out with smartwatches, but thus far, Wozniak’s favorite is one made by Martian. It doesn’t have a touch screen, but a tiny display below the watch hands indicates who is calling, and the watch has a good speaker, Wozniak said.
The worst smartwatch that Woz was the Samsung Galaxy Gear which he sold on eBay because it was so worthless and did so little that was convenient.
The interview did not reveal anything about what Woz thought of the coming Apple iWatch and whether it would tick any of his boxes. Our guess is that it didn’t.
