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New Sony SmartWatch is the start of a good idea

By Hiawatha Bray

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 10, 2012

I don’t like watches, and stopped wearing them as soon as I got a cell phone. But Sony Corp wants to seize control of my wrist once again. The company’s new SmartWatch is a sort of remote control for smartphones, that takes many of the phone’s useful features out of your pocket and straps them on your arm. Like so many other Sony products, the SmartWatch has a half-baked feel to it. Performance is sluggish at times.

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