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I bought a dumb-watch. So far I love it. Why? The price was a mere $22. The feature-set is simple. And its battery life is measured in years, not days or hours. It’s a Casio digital. Yet it’s kind of analog. Looks kind of like e-Ink. How’s a digital watch analog? Well, it’s not “smart.” It doesn’t track fitness. It only tracks time. That’s it. And it’s a dedicated single-purpose device: a wearable clock. The simple feature-set is: 12/24 hour time Stopwatch Alarm (only one) There’s just one more thing: a light. It’s the nice kind, an electro-luminescent blue-green display, similar to “Indiglo” on a Timex. (And technically it has an “Always-on display.”) I was using my 2020 Apple Watch SE for fitness tracking. But its battery life hardly lasted a day. So I ordered a Fitbit Inspire 3…but then I cancelled it after more thought. I decided to go with less, cheaper, simpler. So now when I walk or bike, no tracking steps or heart beats, just minutes. And if I really want to, my phone GPS will…

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