A Wrist Watch? A Wrist Watch is hardware, -Right?
Here are some current  Wrist Watch choices
Photos of wrist watch smartphones
So my question is, what is your favorite  Wrist Watch when you are  away from your PC or laptop?
Also, do you have recommendations for a Writs Watch the is good for surfing and is a good phone?
I like the Nixie Tube wrist watch thats out there,  http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/    but I am guessing your frequently having to recharge it or buy new batteries for it. Currently I have a $5 wal-mart special plastic cheap one with velcro wrist strap because the watches with metal links rip the hair out of my wrist when it gets bumped. $5 watch has lasted me 3 years so far, but I will need to get a new one in the next year since the velcro is starting to get weak.

I really like the raw old electronic look of this LOL, even though you can see SURFACE mount components that drive its Nixie Tubes and it would be cooler to show old thru hole caps and resistors and hide the modern surface mount parts underneith the older style to make it as old looking as POSSIBLE. Also would be neater to be in old brass or silver with older glass, to be almost steampunkish with a leather band. I'd like to have a watch that looks like it belongs on the Warehouse 13 Series..LOL http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/nwrd-unlit.jpg

I suppose if someone wanted one that looked older they could buy this watch and gut it and place it into an older style watch holder to contain the guts and hide the modern electronics.

My mother for christmas like 4 years ago GAVE me a USB rechargeable Casio watch that docks with a computer and has the ability to put pictures on it and display jpg's etc on the 1.5" color LCD display, as well a choices for digital looking LCD display watch or hands displayed on the color display that is normally blacked out until you push a buttom to get the time and it displays for like 8 seconds and then blacks out again to save power. While it was neat to have these features it was too big on my wrist with a large rectangle of plastic with the 1.5" x 1" color LCD display with backlight that comes on momentary when checking time or showing a jpg image. It didnt HOLD a charge for very long after fully charged when docked with USB port of computer, so it has sat on my shelf collecting dust. It was too big, and I dont run up to people and say hey look at pictures of me and my family etc, and the charge would run out almost as fast as a cell phone would in which it would be dead and have to recharge again through mini-USB.

In addition to this I work in tight places with my hands and arms and the watch I have which is about 5/8" thick and as round as slightly larger than a half dollar has to be frequently taken off to reach into machinery that I service where if CAD shows that it mechanically works they design the machine to the CAD blueprints, but it makes it fun for a mechanic or an Electronics Tech such as myself to get into tight places and repair the machine when its broken and the watch has to come off and you are still with your wrist wedged between angle iron frame and a large motor trying to replace an idler roller that fit according to CAD which should have been designed to be about 3 more inches to the side and slightly longer drive belt to make it easier to service with no spatial conflicts. As an ET for the USPS, I am given all duties assigned from Electronics, IT Server and IS, as well as Mechanic duties all the way from most complex to least complex repairs so that everyone gets there mail every day when the machines sort the mail at 37,000 pieces an hour per machine with 206 bins to sort to per sort plan.

As far as a good watch for surfing or phone...., I still own a basic cell phone which I rarely ever use and if used its to ask what to pick up for groceries when in the store. I dont need text messaging, e-mail, or web access everywhere I go as for if I need web access I have my netbook and can find an open wifi connection and have a 10.1" display and keyboard to work with with touch pad and Windows XP OS which boots fast on SSD with Intel Atom Dual-core CPU. While others around me buy these tablets, iphones, and other devices and get locked into costly monthly fees, I resist buying into this as for everyone I know who owns a modern portable device is a slave to it and hooked like a drug to interacting with them as well as they are so addicted to them that it causes them to not do their jobs at work because they are on Facebook etc or texting to people because you know how important it is to tell your network of text friends that you just walked by a piece of bubblegum on the ground that looked like the symbol.

Maybe its that I am GOING to be 38 years old and not excited over this stuff like a 15 year old who has to have it because its the in thing to be connected and not having one is a symbol status that your too poor to own one. I could afford one if I wanted one, but I dont need it. I know other people who are up to 83 years old who buy them and get sucked into their usage as frequent as a teenager. With the fact that I am addicted to computers and everything about them so much that I need the time of seperation away from desktop or laptop computers to take care of the other responsibilities of life. Had I got hooked on one of these portable devices and had to fumble with it as much as everyone else I observe around me, I'd probably be served with divorce papers for being anti social and not doing my part around the home. ( Just had a flashback of the game The SIMS that I havent played in years to when the virtual people dont take care of their home everything goes wrong ...LOL  )And telling my wife to text me if she wants to communicate with me doesnt work. As a joke I told her to AIM me once when I was chatting back in the Dial-up AOL days and what she said was totally not heard for the last 10 minutes of her conversation. It was a bad joke!!! She stated that I should have married a computer instead in the AIM message from her computer! So I had to schedule my online and offline time so that I could have time with her and time to hang out with those who I interacted with online to keep me and her happy, then we had our daughter and I chopped my days into quarters for sleep, social time with family, work, and computer time for myself with order that depends on the day etc and if they are away for the day if its nice out I go out and enjoy the weather, but if its too cold or crappy out it = more computer time. I use to spend 6+ hours a day on the computer gaming, programming, or chatting etc, and now its down to 2 to 5 hours a day late night since I am a Dad and I have life responsibilities