I literally had a phone which did all that back in 2004-2005. Little Kyocera flip phone.
Can’t say I really miss it, per se, but it did have all those things, and a little LCD window which displayed the time when it was closed.
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Hate that, is used as a pretense to beg for money. Gets you into a conversation, a relationship has formed… oh by the way, got a dollar?
I just realized that there are, but these days none of them are actually functional anymore.
As a kid I used to daydream about having one of these, but the top of my list was a Jetson’s hover car to get me to and from school.
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I see it the other way around. I can easily glance at my phone during meetings while it rests on the conference table in front of me. If I see someone glancing at their watch though, it’s an obvious sign of “Yeesh, how much longer do I have to sit through this?”
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I just gave up a watch a few years ago just for simplicity. Phone was always in my hand or another time display is in front of me.
And yet I love watches, especially the finely crafted mechanicals, and even the redonkulously priced ones. Watchmaker videos are a personal YouTube rat hole.
I find having something around my wrist like that intensely uncomfortable when typing or mousing. Not sure why; but never found a fit that wasn’t either ludicrously loose or started to drive me to madness and distraction when my hands hit the keyboard.
Back when they were still something of a necessity I just had to settle for taking mine off when doing actual work; once I could dispense with that I simply did.
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I don’t know if this is typical, but I’ve found that if I set myself to meditate for a specific amount of time (from ten minutes up to an hour, but that’s the longest I’ve ever meditated) I somehow know when the time’s up even without external aids. So at first glance I figured that in the absence of a clock, you just meditated for an hour and then went to get your phone back.
Or more directly, just to get you to take out your phone so it’s easier to grab. I’ve had that, random dude asks for the time late at night, I look at my watch and tell him, he says “aren’t you going to check your phone?”, nah mate, you’re good…
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