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Top Smartwatch Daily Activities: Fitness Tracking, Notifications

The idea of consumers treating smartwatches as voice communication devices to make and receive phone calls hasn’t quite materialized.

Rather, smartwatches are being used more as devices for activity tracking and text-based communication, based on a new study.

Last on the list of what people’s daily smartwatch activity is making or receiving phone calls, according to the study by Parks Associates.

From the article "Top Smartwatch Daily Activities: Fitness Tracking, Notifications" by Chuck Martin.

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