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Your pulse is the rate at which your heart beats. Your pulse is usually called your heart rate, which is the number of times your heart beats each ...
Well said. It should do more for the price. Hopefully os2 will revive the spark.
Maybe I'm too hopeful.
IF you bought it online, call apple, if you bought it at the apple store, take it back with your receipt.
14 days
I'm sorry you had to return the watch. I agree that it's an expensive investment, and not for everyone. This is why we have so many other brands that people can choose to buy that are thinner, less bulky or whatever the issue is. There's always Samsung, LG, Nokia. Hopefully you'll find one.
Are you saying Samung, LG or Nokia has a thinner or less bulky smart watch than Apple"s? If so, please post links. I'd love to know if any other company makes a smart watch I can actually wear!
You had a sweet SS 42mm with a leather strap and you returned it? I feel sorry for you man.
Back to your digital Casio I suppose.
Meanwhile I cant wait to get mine. I'll swing past your place and show it off to you. Just don't be jelly.
Well, I had a SS 42mm with a Milanese loop, and yesterday I returned it to the Apple Store on Miami Beach, not because of the price but because I wasn't receiving the notifications that came to my iPhone, especially mail, and I was only inconsistently getting haptics and no sound at all with notifications. I had the watch for a month, but they took it back anyway, However, the manager urged me to take a new one. I did, and it's having exactly the same problems. I suppose I won't return this one but wait for OS 2. Perhaps things will go better. I wonder if this is not more of an iPhone problem than an Apple Watch problem. Few people seem to be complaining about it.
I doubt it. Among other issues, you bought it with US dollars, so how are they going to refund you???
After two days I think mine is going back. I am a tester of mobile technology for my company and use both platforms. As of now, I have a bad taste in my mouth with Android, so I put my m360 away, switched back to my iPhone 6. Decided to get the Apple Watch.
For my use case, the watch simply isn't worth $428 (after tax). I use these watches simply for notifications. I don't care about ANY of the health stuff. Therefore, for it to tell me I have a text or call/email isn't worth the more than double the price of my m360. I have no desire to go back to AW, so I rather just go back to my Movado's.
The whole notification piece on this watch is complicated...show notification....glances, mirror watch, custom, etc. Yesterday, it just decided to alert me of what it wanted to. I tend to mute my phone and get notified from watch. I missed several texts....it wasn't doing anything. I grabbed another phone and sent test texts and calls...nothing. I ended up resetting it from the settings. Now it's working again.
I have several watches just under 1000 bucks, so spending the money isn't the issue. It's that Apple price pointed the watch all wrong to me. Then have the nerve to charge 150 for a band!
For my use case, the watch simply isn't worth $428 (after tax). I use these watches simply for notifications. I don't care about ANY of the health stuff. Therefore, for it to tell me I have a text or call/email isn't worth the more than double the price of my m360. I have no desire to go back to AW, so I rather just go back to my Movado's.
The whole notification piece on this watch is complicated...show notification....glances, mirror watch, custom, etc. Yesterday, it just decided to alert me of what it wanted to. I tend to mute my phone and get notified from watch. I missed several texts....it wasn't doing anything. I grabbed another phone and sent test texts and calls...nothing. I ended up resetting it from the settings. Now it's working again.
I have several watches just under 1000 bucks, so spending the money isn't the issue. It's that Apple price pointed the watch all wrong to me. Then have the nerve to charge 150 for a band!
You probably know all of this but you won't get notifications if the display of your phone is on. Be sure to turn your phone display off before putting it away so you don't miss anything. Mine has been very reliable in that respect. I did set up a VIP list for emails so I only get notified on emails form senders on my VIP list.
Just left the Apple store returning mine..lasted 3 days.
Just got the Sport model yesterday, already thinking of returning it. Can't remember ever being this underwhelmed by an Apple product. The UI is clunky and unintuitive, the fitness features are VERY basic, and for $400 I expected more than just an intermediary device that allows you to deal with iphone alerts/notifications.
Not trying to convince you of anything, but once app developers can get access to the sensors and can make native app in OS2 a lot of your concerns should be addressed.
Brah, I'm loving it. First and foremost it's a watch, but on steroids. The UI is different from the iPhone but it's not clunky or unintuitive. Just read the manual and you'll be fine. Calendar, weather, sunrise/sunset times, activity tracker, etc... all awesome.
What do you expect from the fitness app? I appreciate it tracks distance, calories, heart rate, time, etc.
I like being able to quickly read text messages and emails. Even answering phone calls on the watch.
Back to my original point, it's still just a watch man. I got mine to replace my old watch and loving it. Huge fan of the watch face that allows you to display your anagram.
"I was expecting more."
What? What exactly are you people expecting? Did you not do any research on it? Of course you did, because a lot of you have been posting about the watch since it was announced.
It's not a replacement for the phone. Repeat: IT'S NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR THE PHONE. Never will be. Never intended to be. It's a convenient add-on; a satellite device.
Is it worth the asking price? Subjective... and everyone has their own uses and the right to decide what they spend their money on, but that "I just expected more" line is ridiculous at this point.
What? What exactly are you people expecting? Did you not do any research on it? Of course you did, because a lot of you have been posting about the watch since it was announced.
It's not a replacement for the phone. Repeat: IT'S NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR THE PHONE. Never will be. Never intended to be. It's a convenient add-on; a satellite device.
Is it worth the asking price? Subjective... and everyone has their own uses and the right to decide what they spend their money on, but that "I just expected more" line is ridiculous at this point.
It's not that I need to read the manual, it's that navigating the interface is clunky and frustrating. Feels nothing like an Apple product should. Remember the first iPod? iPhone? The ease of use was its killer feature. The watch is a beautiful piece of aluminum, but it's annoying to actually use. Every single thing is done better and easier on the phone. The watch just adds an unnecessary and clunky middle man.
I'd love to use it for the next 12 days and fall in love with it, see the light, and change my mind. But i don't think it's going to happen.
Sorry to hear that man. Personally I haven't had any issues with the UI after reading the manual.
Ultimately it's of no concern to anyone else but yourself, but I think you'll be losing out man.
I don't think they could have done the UI anymore elegantly than what they have done. Look at what samsung were doing, put the Phone OS on the watch. Now they're coming out with a twisting dial around the watch face but this is just a variation on what apple has done with the crown.
It's an exciting time as hardware becomes smaller and wireless protocols will enable even cooler things to happen in the future. Stay on board man... it will be fun.
Seeing another peson around the base here that has a watch (and doesn't find it particularly useful) led me to this thought: the people who somehow don't get the benefit of the Watch or see its usefulness since "my phone does all of the same things" are the ones who have their phones in their hands/face at all times. We all know those types, and yes - you're probably one of them. This dude has his phone in his face every time I see him; scrolling, typing, etc. He answers messages before the notification finishes dinging. Makes sense then... the Watch would be pretty pointless there, particularly at its price point. No sarcasm... I think, because I go hours of the day without looking at my phone or wanting to be bothered with notifications all day, I definitely can appreciate the convenience of the Watch.
Seriously, people considering getting one: really look at your phone usage/attachment. I think people who aren't quite so connected to their phones, or those trying to get a little less connected, are quicker and more open to seeing some of the inherent benefits.
Seriously, people considering getting one: really look at your phone usage/attachment. I think people who aren't quite so connected to their phones, or those trying to get a little less connected, are quicker and more open to seeing some of the inherent benefits.