It’s as smartphone in the sense that you can make/receive calls and run apps.
But, since the screen is so tiny, it isn’t able to function as a source of distraction to anything like the same extent as a phone. You can’t sit there browsing social media or reading random web articles with a phone. Watch interactions usually consist of briefly noticing a text message, or quickly checking your calendar.
So, if the main form of harm from a smartphone is the extent to which it distracts you from the real world, I think a watch is a lot less harmful, while providing most of the benefits of a smartphone (calls, calendar, maps, notes, siri reminders, etc).
Are you trying to say that an Apple Watch is NOT a smartphone by any reasonable definition of the term?
It depends on how you define “smartphone”.
It’s as smartphone in the sense that you can make/receive calls and run apps.
But, since the screen is so tiny, it isn’t able to function as a source of distraction to anything like the same extent as a phone. You can’t sit there browsing social media or reading random web articles with a phone. Watch interactions usually consist of briefly noticing a text message, or quickly checking your calendar.
So, if the main form of harm from a smartphone is the extent to which it distracts you from the real world, I think a watch is a lot less harmful, while providing most of the benefits of a smartphone (calls, calendar, maps, notes, siri reminders, etc).