This x100 and bolded. I'd like to go running with the sport watch while listening to music via BT and tracking my mileage on a map, ala Runkeeper. I can't do this on the watch alone. I also need to haul along the iPhone. (Unless I've got that somehow wrong?) That's just plain silly if true. So the watch is a very nice looking, secondary display for the iPhone. Until it has more standalone functionality I'll pass.
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Apple Announces Apple Watch, Available in Early 2015 From $349
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This x100 and bolded. I'd like to go running with the sport watch while listening to music via BT and tracking my mileage on a map, ala Runkeeper. I can't do this on the watch alone. I also need to haul along the iPhone. (Unless I've got that somehow wrong?) That's just plain silly if true. So the watch is a very nice looking, secondary display for the iPhone. Until it has more standalone functionality I'll pass.
but like i said. my prediction came true. whatever apple released would be adored by fans and media alike and be hailed revolutionary. While the competition completely outclasses it.
By the way, samsung gear 1, 2, and S is straight garbage.
That goes with the LG G and now add Apple Watch to the list.
Who would have thought motorola would rise to claim design, technological innovation and user ability supremacy with Moto X, G & 360.
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The pulse sensors just emit light - and register the change as the blood flow varies. There are a lot of pulse watches out there - including smart watches - that are waterproof.
Indeed. Sad to say this but this is not an Apple watch. Even the Kenneth Cole digital watch I'm wearing right now looks more Apple than this.Switzerland should be scare of this.
Scare to laugh their pants off.
Meanwhile I think they should have focused more heavily on the fitness crap, since while I don't care to have a watch (or a second screen for my phone) I do like the idea of an advanced always-on biometric sensor. I'd like to see more than just heart rate in the future, but that's probably about all we can do right now.
Maybe it needed to split more heavily in two directions (watch vs sport, which are already two models of the device). Of course fragmentation like that is very un-Apple, but since Jobs is no longer around and everything we associate with Apple's behavior is mostly an expression of his personality being un-Apple might be just the right call.
Or, presumably any time you take the watch off to have a shower, a swim, or even to just rub your wrist!? I hope this isn't the case!
Care to link one? I have been looking for one for over a year, couldn't find any waterproof ones to use in the pool.
then forget it. I hope you are wrong. Don't expect huge depths but something like 50m resistant is a must. People surf, swim, etc and a waterproof watch is a must.
There's a reason why people still buy mechanical watches that are technologically obsolete...
I hate to be the negative keyboard critic, but I see this being a colossal flop. And this is coming from someone who owns an iPhone...
I hate to be the negative keyboard critic, but I see this being a colossal flop. And this is coming from someone who owns an iPhone...
The UI is not something you've seen before - there is nothing similar to it in the market now, of course you will feel it is confusing.
I think that this OS will be the reason people would use a watch as a smart device making their life easier - exactly like iOS did to phones back when the original iPhone was presented.
I don't know about the success of the watch in terms of the iPhone (i think that the watch market is a lot smaller than the phone market...) but i truly believe the wOS (short for Apple watch OS...) would leave Android wear far out back, and in the coming years we will see the same copying process we saw from Android.
You just raise your arm in the typical 'look at the watch' motion and it turns on I guess. That is how it is solved in most Android watches - in addition to manually activate it with a button if you want to.
If a device is 50m resistant, I'd call that waterproof tbh. Most water resistant watches break inside swimming pools. The ones that don't are always called waterproof.
This looks like a winner and though we expected it, it's not a bad product from what appears to be on the introduction but only time will tell on this new product.
Apple's entry into the credit card/security field may end up being the bigger idea.
Apple's entry into the credit card/security field may end up being the bigger idea.
So was the iPhone UI when it was released, but it was not confusing. It was crystal clear from the first demo. So this is not an excuse.
When you turn your wrist to look at the screen, it comes on. No need to touch it. Douches need to get the facts and stop posting crap like this.
It doesn't look that thick to me. Even sideways, sure you got the calculation right.
And don't forget that the iPhone you must carry with you on your run will now be BIGGER.
now when I go to dinner I'll watch a holes not only looking their phone as well as their watch....
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