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How does the watch play music?

 
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Once I was gifted a lousy digital watch/mp3 player. It had an headphone jack. Trust me, a watch with headphone cords coming out of it is the worst idea ever.
 
troop231 said:
If I'm wrong about the WiFi thing I apologize, but Apple definitely should've made it to where you can connect the Watch to a regular WiFi access point so your phone could be anywhere at your place of work and not miss anything.

(Assuming your work has WiFi :D )
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Your correct it was mentioned quite specifically at the keynote
 
Yr Blues said:
Why would you want to listen to music from your watch when you have to pair the watch to an iPhone anyway? You'll always have the 2 together, for the most part.

I don't understand the use-case for playing music from the watch.
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Running or any other kinds of exercising. You don't wanna keep the phone on you (you don't have to) and to listen music from an wearable seems more easy.
 
troop231 said:
Then why did Apple say in the keynote you can be anywhere within your home's WiFi range (or something similar)? Makes me think they tunnel through your router to reach your iPhone..
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I have seen nothing that suggest the Apple watch has WIFI. I believe it uses low power bluetooth to connect to the phone. WIFI is pretty power hungry and would have a major effect on the battery.
I search apple web site and the internet and nothing suggest wifi.

EDIT. Was able to find this




Apple states that its upcoming watch borrows GPS and WiFi from its paired iPhone, but has also told journalists that the watch includes WiFi wireless networking. The reason for this apparent contradiction lies in how the watch will use WiFi. Rather than connecting to nearby base stations, it appears to pair WiFi with Bluetooth to speed transfers over a connection initially established by the more power-efficient Bluetooth specification.

An examination of Apple's history in engineering WiFi and Bluetooth solutions for Mac and iOS users helps to explain why this design is necessary and desirable. It's also useful to look at how the Bluetooth specification has changed over time. While WiFi wireless networking has primarily just gotten faster and increased its range and reliability over time, the Bluetooth specification has changed dramatically, particularly over the last half decade.
 
nebo1ss said:
I have seen nothing that suggest the Apple watch has WIFI. I believe it uses low power bluetooth to connect to the phone. WIFI is pretty power hungry and would have a major effect on the battery.
I search apple web site and the internet and nothing suggest wifi.
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The Apple watch will use bluetooth to connect to your iPhone. If your iPhone goes out of bluetooth range (> 30 feet), the watch will try using wifi. This isn't your router's wifi, but a iPhone hot-spot wifi, which works up to 300 feet.

The wifi in the watch can't surf the web or anything like that - ONLY connect to the phone. Then the PHONE's wifi connects to the internet.
 
troop231 said:
Then why did Apple say in the keynote you can be anywhere within your home's WiFi range (or something similar)? Makes me think they tunnel through your router to reach your iPhone..
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That's not what they said (there is another thread about this). He said it uses wifi to extend the range over bluetooth, and he just happened to use home as an example. The watch connects directly to the phone with wifi to increase the range. It does not connect to a wifi router.
 
troop231 said:
Well they need to make it so it should in Gen 2 then.
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I would guess that newer generations will start to do more and more of the things that the iPhone is relied on for now. Wifi is fairly battery intensive so I can see why it works the way it does.
 
One of the things i've noticed over the last few years is BT 4.0, and how crazy low the power consumption is. I mean, like it doesn't use ANY power.

Point is: I haven't seen Apple really use this fully, which would mean making a headset.

The last BT headset they made was one of the biggest flops in their illustrious history.

But they will need to make on again I think.
 
Lucifer666 said:
One of the things i've noticed over the last few years is BT 4.0, and how crazy low the power consumption is. I mean, like it doesn't use ANY power.

Point is: I haven't seen Apple really use this fully, which would mean making a headset.

The last BT headset they made was one of the biggest flops in their illustrious history.

But they will need to make on again I think.
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It sounds like a ripe opportunity for a Beats Branded Bluetooth 4.0 headset "made for Watch" :)
 
bbeagle said:
The Apple watch will use bluetooth to connect to your iPhone. If your iPhone goes out of bluetooth range (> 30 feet), the watch will try using wifi. This isn't your router's wifi, but a iPhone hot-spot wifi, which works up to 300 feet.

The wifi in the watch can't surf the web or anything like that - ONLY connect to the phone. Then the PHONE's wifi connects to the internet.
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I'm pretty sure that is incorrect, but alas, I don't have hardware to test it out.

But if I am right: The Apple Watch with use BT to connect with the iPhone and will only use wifi to extend the connection if there is a mutual network for both the iPhone & Watch to sit on. The iPhone itself will not create a hotspot.

The only time a direct iPhone<->Watch wifi connection is created will be in instances where BT shifts to BT high-speed, and in that sense it is not "Wifi" (though the protocols and antennas are similar and shared). The Wifi networking for the phone will continue to do its own thing on the side (whether it be attached to another network or is looking for available networks), and the high-speed connection will be created intermittently since it is more taxing than BTLE on both devices.

If the watch is moved outside of the BT range, it can present itself to the Wifi network for the iPhone to connect, and then the iPhone will resume acting as a conduit for channeling information across the network (Wifi network now instead of p2p BT). Similar to Bonjour.

I may be wrong but am very confident in this.
 
Clearly says Wifi...



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