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The new arm race: Samsung Galaxy Gear, the Pebble and the Sony Smartwatch 2.[/caption]
Before cellular phones in the 1980s, pagers were the popular mobile device with professionals: little devices with tiny alphanumeric readouts that notified you when someone called your land line. Remember? No? Ask an old person, or a healthcare professional.
Cell phones made pagers obsolete over 20 years ago, but they're back again, retooled for the social media of the 21st Century and the irony?
The simple dumb phones that killed pagers, evolved into the complicated smartphones that are giving them a new lease on life.
Today's pagers still notify you of calls to your phone number; they also notify you of incoming SMS text messages or email or any social media nods -- they're all over Twitter and Facebook notifications. Most of them can "dial" your phone, and many of them can play MP3 files, and all of them can tell the time.
And "pagers" was so 20th Century -- they've changed their name to "smartwatches."
The new arm race: Samsung Galaxy Gear, the Pebble and the Sony Smartwatch 2.[/caption]Before cellular phones in the 1980s, pagers were the popular mobile device with professionals: little devices with tiny alphanumeric readouts that notified you when someone called your land line. Remember? No? Ask an old person, or a healthcare professional.
Cell phones made pagers obsolete over 20 years ago, but they're back again, retooled for the social media of the 21st Century and the irony?
The simple dumb phones that killed pagers, evolved into the complicated smartphones that are giving them a new lease on life.
Today's pagers still notify you of calls to your phone number; they also notify you of incoming SMS text messages or email or any social media nods -- they're all over Twitter and Facebook notifications. Most of them can "dial" your phone, and many of them can play MP3 files, and all of them can tell the time.
And "pagers" was so 20th Century -- they've changed their name to "smartwatches."
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