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2.5-Inch iWatch with Wireless Charging and Pulse Sensor to Enter Mass Production in July

People still wear watches? Funny, you sure don't see many people wearing them now days. Smartphones do it all. So instead of pulling my iPhone out, I can just pretend its not there and use this watch thingy to control it.

Blowing minds
 
bigandtasty said:
People still wear watches? Funny, you sure don't see many people wearing them now days. Smartphones do it all. So instead of pulling my iPhone out, I can just pretend its not there and use this watch thingy to control it.



Blowing minds
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The Swiss watch industrys 40 bn annual revenue disagrees with you.
 
They should rename this thing the "iFlop".

I don't know any human being who could possibly want this thing.
 
Tough Guy said:
They should rename this thing the "iFlop".

I don't know any human being who could possibly want this thing.
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The pebble sold a ton and I'm sure a lot will want this. On a side note no ones cares what someone who signed up today for this site has to say
 
WeLovesDaMac said:
I'm also quite convinced that Apple will stick it to the tech press by naming their wearable something other than the "iWatch". My honest prediction: iPod Flex, iPod Wear, etc. I think Apple will bring the iPod branding to its wearable device, smartly re-using and breathing life back into the nearly endangered iPod line of products. You heard it from me first...
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I think they're more likely to call it the Android Watch than they are to call it an iPod. In other words, no chance at all. It's clearly not an iPod and naming it that would only cause consumer confusion.
 
ThisIsNotMe said:
Square? Ugh!. Guess that rules Apples product out. Time to pre-order the moto.
Probably going to skip the 'watch' revolution and stick with the good-old Rolex or another real watch from the collection that will last 100+ years instead of something I will need to drop $250 every 2-3 years and have look like crap..
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I found it's funny that people so readily judge something that is still completely non-existent. :confused:

But it happens to Apple products most of the time. :apple:
 
Gooberton said:
The pebble sold a ton and I'm sure a lot will want this. On a side note no ones cares what someone who signed up today for this site has to say
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Oh yeah. It sold so much that I have never once seen anyone... anywhere... wearing one. Ever. The iFlop is going to be a total disaster.

And I didn't sing up today. Not that it really matters.
 
MacHiavelli said:
An FYI... it won't be called iWatch.

It's far more than a watch and Apple don't want to restrict the device by alluding to an archaic product.
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Going by that logic, shouldn't they have used something other than "iPhone" for their music, calling, and internet communications device? It's far more than a phone, after all...
 
2.5-Inch iWatch with Wireless Charging and Pulse Sensor to Enter Mass Product...

iFit anyone?
 
Thermonuclear said:
Another status symbol for the insecure. If this mugger magnet is less expensive than an Omega or Rolex, then it will sell very well.

But will it tell time any better than my US$12 Casio?
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I am sure it will have a similar lock out feature like the iphone otherwise thefts will skyrocket.
 
Geometry can be such a pain!

J4B3 said:
2.5" (!!) wow. Typically watch measurements are given in millimeters, so 63.5mm seems crazy; I don't think that can be right. Steve Wozniak is famous for his HUGE Nixie Diode watch whose diameter exceeds the length of his wrist. The Nixie is (only) 55mm in width.

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Geometry doesn't seem to be your strong point: Woz's wrist is 'wide' not long. Woz's watch is circular and the "slightly rectangular" rumoured iWatch has corners that stick out (from a circular diameter) that give it the extra diagonal dimensions.
 
2.5-Inch iWatch with Wireless Charging and Pulse Sensor to Enter Mass Product...

reevans said:
Geometry doesn't seem to be your strong point: Woz's wrist is 'wide' not long. Woz's watch is circular and the "slightly rectangular" rumoured iWatch has corners that stick out (from a circular diameter) that give it the extra diagonal dimensions.
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No matter what, a nearly square shape with 2.5 inch diagonal will look silly on more than 70% of the population including women.

A thin rectangular shape would be much more palatable although the screen would have to be curved.
 
jasonklee said:
People who desire to spend their (or their parents') cash on these iOS devices just want them to be "cool." They want to be seen as "different" and "edgy" and "rad." It's not like these devices provide some usefulness, no, of course not. They're just status symbols. In fact, I take public transportation just to whip out my iPhone in front of morning commuters. And I don't even turn on the phone. I just pretend I do while I feel the look of envy of passersby.
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Great story, you should save that one for a party.

jasonklee said:
As for the usefulness of this alleged device, my expectations are rather muted. As I written in previous threads, I don't understand why Apple feels it needs to contribute to health. Apple should be focusing on real innovation. I don't know what that is, but I'm sure it isn't health. Especially when I haven't even used much less even seen the said device. I along with my fellow forum brothers and sisters just know it's DOA as far as usefulness is concerned.
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So a device you haven't seen, or used, is DOA? That's a logical fallacy.

jasonklee said:
I mean, have you seen Amazon's Fire Phone with its 3-D tracking thing? Samsung's air gestures? Yet Apple wants to create a device and ecosystem that helps us take better management over our wellbeing. Checking our vitals like checking e-mails? Is personal health enough of an important matter that technological innovation should be invested into providing a solution to help people take better stock of their wellbeing and perhaps even change people's attitudes about health so that maybe we can reverse this obesity fad that Americans have become enamored with for the last decade or so and realize health's correlation with quality of life? Ha! For all the Apple tax we pay we deserve innovation that's actually going to improve our lives. Like Home screen widgets. Because believe me, the current static icon-based Home screen will bore me to death long before any illness does. And to top it all off, associated with this watch thing is yet another stock app we can't delete. Sigh.
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Are you honestly comparing the general public's health to home screen widgets..?
 
bigandtasty said:
People still wear watches?
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Maybe. Maybe not. But people still buy many $Billion dollars of them every year. Even if to stick 'em in the bottoms of drawers, Apple wants some of that drawer space. A few $Billion worth of drawer space will do.

But, if they exist, I bet lots of people will wear them... millions of people... for the same reason they wear the same (expensive but mediocre fidelity) Beats headphones and buds that famous athletes wear.
 
jasonklee said:
Like Home screen widgets. Because believe me, the current static icon-based Home screen will bore me to death long before any illness does.
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The new iOS supposedly has home screen widgets. A bunch of Android fanboys were crying foul about it on another forum. LOL
 
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