It’s way cool. When it’s working.

And yes, it may be slightly easier to glance at a watch than to slip a phone out of a holster on your belt, but I sort of like the latter — the gesture is very like looking at a pocket watch. So at the same time, you’re being up-to-date, but with a gesture that’s old-timey. I like the irony.

I have soooo many watches, in part because I hate it when the battery fails. I also have a Citizens ecodrive watch that runs on solar power, but it doesn’t glow in the dark–indeed, the face is kind of hard to read…

Okay, I’ll admit it; I am a creature of habit.

There are just too many motions involved to reach to your belt, unclip the cell phone from the holster, bring the cell phone into view, flip up or punch a button on the cell phone to see the time.

Seconds have been wasted! I can also tell if a person is right-handed or left-handed if they wear a watch; there are a few odd balls. I’m right-handed, but I mouse left-handed at work.

I like the quick, easy glance.

If you had asked me the time, using the cell phone as a time piece, I would have had to say “Hold on”. If I wore a wristwatch, I could say “It’s 10:21″.

As far as I know, there are no “Dick Tracy” video/cell phone wrist watches on the market.

I may get an iPhone, but it won’t be until Apple unlocks the bounds from AT&T.

Crackberrys? I haven’t used them. I have multiple personal email addresses and all emails are funneled into Microsoft Outlook. I don’t know if Blackberry can do that or not.

I do have a Windows Pocket PC which has my contacts, tasks, and calendar from Microsoft Outlook. My Pocket PC is in my shirt pocket or pants pocket. But, I have to manually enter items from work since my employer uses Novell Groupwise instead of Microsoft Exchange and Novell and Microsoft don’t work that well together.

I went to a store today to buy a replacement Casio watch. They didn’t have Casio watches. They had an Origo watch, which is the same price as the Casio watch of $49, plus another $100. I said “No”. My wife went into the same store, saw the same watch and said “No”

But with the battery dead in my watch, I feel lost and naked.

The features that I like in a watch? time, calendar, stopwatch, sunrise/sunset

I am the proud owner of a MacBook and an iMac (my second), but just a dumb phone. I keep hoping they’ll come out with a Zoolander phone…I want smaller, not more.

And Kathryn — do you still maintain a carriage?

I will not buy an iPad, it’s just a neutered iPhone.

I thought Stanford was supposed to be a serious research university…