Then you realise it's a call you need to take then have to take your phone out of your pocket anyway but because you've been poncing about with your iWatch the caller has hung up.
When did glancing at a phone become some a chore?
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Then you realise it's a call you need to take then have to take your phone out of your pocket anyway but because you've been poncing about with your iWatch the caller has hung up.
When did glancing at a phone become some a chore?
Gee, I thought it was how my family viewed me that was my sign of success, never mind owning a house large enough to hold ten of us.
When I was in college (the last time I wore a watch) my watch snapped off its band and transformed into a car and a robot.
As for who is cool or not... meh
Actually, if it will function with only Apple devices that makes it very unlikely they would ever reach 10% of the watch market.
As with the iPod where there were far more Windows PC users than Mac users. That is even far more true for watches. Nonsmartphone + non-iOSsmartphone users are billions more than iOSdevice users.
If Apple caps this just to their own devices they will never get anywhere near 10% of the watch market.
Depends upon how much it is used. Bluetooth 4.0 is quite low powered if not sending any data. If constantly streaming data then it will be more. ( I suspect this is part of the Pebble problem with users and shorter lifetimes).
Also likely to be interesting when 500 of these are brought into the same room and they are all periodically chirping away with connection-status-heartbeat updates.
Compared to a highly focused watch the battery life is going to be horrible. Days as opposed to order of magnitudes longer amounts of time.
Similarly Apple's sealed battery policy. What happens when the battery needs to be replaced? Toss the whole watch?
Unpaired I doubt this device will do anything value added ( for the price paid ) at all.
Depends upon what doing. If the watch is prompting the phone to drag down data then have both radios , bluetooth and wifi/celluar, going at the same time.
Nominal standby mode with the screen displaying time wouln't not do much. Periodically the watch and phone make sure they can still contact each other then the radio mostly goes back to sleep. Shorter but not significantly shorter.
It can be when you have to take it out of your pants pocket, compared to a quick flick of your wrist. And then put it back later. Which part of this screams "less work"?
Heck, I have friends in the army who loop their watch straps to their uniforms' breast pocket so they can readily see the time simply by glancing down quickly.
My Sinn 656 looks like what a mechanical watch would look like if Apple designed mechanical watches.
Because most people lack the imagination to come up with features that don't already exist on a smartphone.
Apple won't release an iWatch that doesn't solve a unique set of problems.Seems like most of these negative comments operate under the assumption that Apple is unaware of potential problems or would choose to ignore them.
If it has music controls, I would use it in my car when my iPhone is connected to the radio. That would probably be enough for me to buy in for one of these.
When did "glancing at" become some sort of time consuming "poncing about"?
A potential solution to your stated problem. Look at your iWatch. Tap the screen if you want to take the call. Your iPhone automatically answers when you lift if up to your ear without requiring a swipe.
Agreed. Although it'd had to be quite cheap to make it worthwhile - £30-£40 - which I doubt it would be.
Plus, most people who exercise also listen to music so would likely just take their smartphone afterall.
And for the record, I really hope it's not called the iWatch. This whole 'i' thing has really been done to death.
"Long awaited"?! A month ago most of the world did not even know the entire idea of a "smart watch" existed or was even a know concept in development by apple or any other company, let alone a long anticipated or even rumored release.
The Apple Television is "long awaited"
An updated Mac Pro is "long awaited!"
The Apple Television is "long awaited"
An updated Mac Pro is "long awaited!"
There's also poor souls like me who have proportionately tiny wrists. I wore my Swatch forever because it was thin as a coin and had a smaller face, so it looked good. I gave it up entirely with my first cell phone. For me, strapping on something the size of an Iron Man watch makes it look like I have some massive box strapped to me. This iWatch thing better be pretty darned svelte, or it's a pass. Maybe it's just me, but this concept that's been making the rounds just looks clunky, huge and has zero aethetics:
Quite, so it'd need to be something more than a timepiece, SMS/email notifier and exercise aid.
But having said that, there are an awful lot of people who throw their credit cards at Apple regardless of how useful the product is to them.
As others have already said, a quick glace isn't adding much time. But, thinking about it further - when I'm out and about, I often have my phone in a case in my back pocket. If I'm somewhere busy, regardless of the volume I have the ringer set to, I almost always miss the call. If the iWatch has some form of vibration, that would solve that issue.
An iWatch is more convenient than an iPhone
Presumably it will be lighter, easier to carry, and harder to lose. I have no interest in an iPhone, but I would certainly consider one of these (if done correctly).
Presumably it will be lighter, easier to carry, and harder to lose. I have no interest in an iPhone, but I would certainly consider one of these (if done correctly).
I've had a mobile phone for as long as I've worn a watch, and I find it much easier to use my watch. And when my iPhone (4S) battery gives out my watch will still tell me the time.
But a smartphone will do a lot more than a watch (ie make calls, browse the web etc.)
Plus, I greatly suspect the iWatch will need to connect (via Bluetooth) to your iPhone to work. If you have no interest in an iPhone then you'll have no use for an iWatch.
Need to? I've seen a lot of watches that go for more than that!
That said, I think it's a pretty safe bet that it would do more than that.