I can’t believe I waited this long to get a smartwatch

The life-changing magic of adopting a decade-old technology. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

I've used every new flagship phone from Apple, Samsung, and Google this year, and they're great! But they're also boring. They're impressive feats of engineering and software smarts, but they're mostly incremental upgrades. And none of them has changed my day-to-day life as much as finally getting a smartwatch.

I know. I'm an extremely late adopter. Even as they popped up all around me as friends bought them over the past... er, decade... I didn't think smartwatch life was for me. Why give your phone another way to beg for your attention? Besides, my phone and I had a good thing going, and I didn't want to introduce another piece of technology into the relationship.

Then I had a kid. Suddenly, I always seemed to be holding a baby, or...

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