What's smart (and dumb) about the latest smartwatches

(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Why wear a smartwatch? You might have said the same thing about smartphones before they got smart enough to be truly useful. Smartwatches are a sort of mini tech-trend of the moment, but here's the brutal truth: we wouldn't recommend that my friends buy any of these. Unless they're early-adopter watch fetishists, the smartwatches of today have a muddy mix of good, bad, and flat-out ugly features. At best, they're quirky and stylish. At worst, they're riddled with short

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