Should you go on vacation with your smartwatch on your wrist? Traveling and smartwatches go hand in hand. You can’t leave your smartwatch at home since it has far too many handy features.
Here are some of the best travel-friendly features found on smartwatches.
Mobile Payments
This is a fantastic feature. It’s easy and just simply cool to escape an embarrassing situation with a language barrier and overcome it with a simple boop of the wrist.
It’s safer to have your cash on your wrist than to keep it in your pocket. Suppose you’re going somewhere that accepts contactless payments. In that case, you may be able to put your wallet or purse in a secure location. It would give you one less thing to stress about. In general, if a store or bar supports contactless payments, it will also accept the tap from your smartwatch. You might not even need to bring your phone if you can bear the notion of going without it.
Some of the great options are:
- Apple Series 6
- Fossil Q Explorist
- Fitbit Sense
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 3
Tickets and boarding passes
How often have you printed a ticket or flight pass only to misplace it or discover you printed the wrong thing?
You can download your trip tickets and/or boarding passes onto your smartwatch and utilizes them as you would your phone at the checkpoints. Apple Wallet is, obviously, the finest app for this. Wear OS also works.
Maps
Nothing can make you feel more anxious than becoming lost. Fortunately, many smartwatches include GPS, which means you can carry a map on your wrist. If you’re out and about sightseeing, this is ideal. Garmin Connect or Google Maps will be included in the smartwatches.
The following are the best watches for travelers:
- Fitbit Sense
- Garmin Fenix 6x Pro Solar
- Suunto Core
Music
You’ll have to pay more for this feature, but many smartwatches come with built-in music storage. The Apple Watch Series 6 contains 32GB of storage and doesn’t require you to be connected to the internet to use it. However, you will require a Bluetooth pair of headphones.
Many smartwatches can connect to Spotify, Deezer, or YouTube. The Apple Watch will play music from the iTunes library.
Look into:
- Garmin Fenix 6x Pro Solar
- Garmin Forerunner 945
Fitness Records
You should get out and jog if you’ve been celebrating too hard and eating way too much of the local cuisine. It’s also fun to know how many steps you took on your journey. You can set a target of walking 10,000 steps in Budapest or 20,000 steps in the Tuscan hills. It all contributes to your general well-being, which is especially important when you’re away from home.
Having real-time access to information like your heart rate and stress levels can help you stay motivated to continue going. Garmin, Samsung, and the pioneering Fitbit are just a few companies that offer this health monitoring feature.
Traveling messes with your body clock like nothing else. Your downtime is just as vital as your activities. Your smartwatch can track your sleep cycles and help you determine how to enhance the quality of the sleep you’re obtaining — potentially a game-changer for battling jet lag. Some have vibrating alarm clocks that gently wake you up from your slumber, so you’re prepared to undertake another day of adventure.
Sleep Time and Sleep Cycle are two of the best smartwatch sleep monitoring apps.
Fitbit is the most well-known brand for this feature.
Notes and Reminders
A favorite beer’s name, a destination you’d like to visit during your journey, or someone’s phone number. Because many smartwatches now have tiny microphones built-in, taking notes on them is becoming more popular. Talk to your smartwatch, and it will record what you say.
Smartwatches with in-built digital aides like Siri, Google Assist, and Bixby are the ultimate anti-forgetfulness tools. They eliminate the need to search for a phone.
Durability
Fitness trackers with smart features are the ideal vacation companion because they’re water-resistant, dustproof, and scratch-proof (ideal for going to the beach or visiting a waterfall). You do not have to worry about burying it on the beach; just keep it on.
Garmin and Polar, for example, offer durable smartwatches.
Summary
The term “smartwatch” was coined as such for a reason. Smartwatches are swiftly coming up and making life even simpler, just as smartphones have altered how we do anything.
Take care of your smartwatch when traveling, and it will take care of you.
