I have an ipod and you know, an actual watch for that. Which did not cost me £300 together.
Poll: Which Apple Watch are you getting?
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I have an ipod and you know, an actual watch for that. Which did not cost me £300 together.
Early reviews say the battery life may be as short as 3 hours. Who wants to wear a watch that may die out in 3 hours.
Lets give Apple the benefit of the doubt and double the battery life to 6 hours. That means sometime throughout a regular 8 hour work day I have to charge my watch? That's crazy IMO
That's if you're using it to make a phone call for that whole time. With normal use it will be quite a bit longer.
So which one are you getting?
Granny Smith.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just strap an iPod to your wrist?
I am not sold on the idea of a watch with a display like that.
It might be situational useful, but ultimately I don't want to give up the simplicity of a regular watch.
Mostly because of the battery issue. A normal watch can run for years without issue and is a lot more resilient.
Also a display like that just looks wrong.
However, IF one gets released that has a significatly longer battery life, has a display protected by a regular clockface cover and preferably has some sci-fi genre design (vortex manipulator, star trek wrist communicator, etc...) I could get behind that.
It might be situational useful, but ultimately I don't want to give up the simplicity of a regular watch.
Mostly because of the battery issue. A normal watch can run for years without issue and is a lot more resilient.
Also a display like that just looks wrong.
However, IF one gets released that has a significatly longer battery life, has a display protected by a regular clockface cover and preferably has some sci-fi genre design (vortex manipulator, star trek wrist communicator, etc...) I could get behind that.
However, IF one gets released that has a significatly longer battery life, has a display protected by a regular clockface cover and preferably has some sci-fi genre design (vortex manipulator, star trek wrist communicator, etc...) I could get behind that.
Don't forget that it should also have an app to reset itself to whatever the local time is—for Timelords, of course. And it should also be bigger on the inside than the outside. (Sexy traveling companions not included.)
Totally not interested. Pretty useless and I definitely don't want another device I have to charge all the time.
Exactly. Apple claims under, 'normal use,' it will last up to 18 hours. Does that mean simply using it as a wrist watch? I can get a much more stylish wrist watch for $400 than theirs.
The product just isn't for me. I don't want to worry about charging yet 1 more device everyday. My phone and the Bluetooth ear piece are enough chargeable devices to keep up with. i already feel like my nightstand is an array of charging cords..
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Maybe the first step is that it needs to have the software intentionally 'failsafe' to watch mode when it's down to the last 10% of battery or whatever?
Basically let you use the hell out of it for whatever you think of for apps/games/phone/whatever, but when the battery gets down to a certain percentage, it just becomes a watch. Not sure how long the battery lasts in 'watch only' mode, but if it could fail in such a way that you can still get 12+ hours of just watch only, with all radios off, it would at least get you through the day.
I'm not carrying around a $400 watch that's dead before lunch. If it has a couple hours of being a gadget and then 12 more hours of just wrist-watch, maybe it's at least not dead weight...
Basically let you use the hell out of it for whatever you think of for apps/games/phone/whatever, but when the battery gets down to a certain percentage, it just becomes a watch. Not sure how long the battery lasts in 'watch only' mode, but if it could fail in such a way that you can still get 12+ hours of just watch only, with all radios off, it would at least get you through the day.
I'm not carrying around a $400 watch that's dead before lunch. If it has a couple hours of being a gadget and then 12 more hours of just wrist-watch, maybe it's at least not dead weight...
That's a great idea. i think the only compelling reason for anyone to buy this product - short of individuals who have $400 to blow on yet another Apple gadget to keep up with the other Apple nerds - is anyone who has a need to have their blood pressure monitored all the time. it's a more expensive way to monitor your blood pressure than an armband unit and i guess you don't have to be reminded to do so as it would do so continuously.
Edited to add; actually I wish my iPhone would do the same thing. When the battery starts to get low, start shutting down some of the apps running in the background that eat up power to save the battery for just phone calling.
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I have 4 watches already, a modern pocket watch with flat battery (about 5 years battery life non-stop), 2 old digital Casio's since both are still going with the straps gone (7-10 years non-stop battery) and a fun Union Flag watch someone got me (4 years or so battery life).
Total cost: £18
£300 minimum is absofuckinglutely insane even for Apple.
Total cost: £18
£300 minimum is absofuckinglutely insane even for Apple.
They just announced the Apple Watch today. Pre-orders start April 10. So which one are you getting?
I cannot think of any reason why I would want one.
I have a watch sitting on my dresser that I haven't worn in a few years. Other than being an hour behind, as I last wore in Standard Time, it's still keeping time.
Seriously. this Apple Watch is just another means for Apple to sap more money from fools who're impressed by shiny things and nifty-gadgets.
When I was in the AT&T Store a couple of weeks ago, they had at least one Android smart watch like the Samsung Gear S, possibly several others. (Wasn't at all interested, didn't look into them.) Any idea how those compare to the Apple Watch? Just from a quick glance, the Gear S is only $200 with contract (only, hah!) and has a standby battery life of 4 days with a talk time of 2 hours.
Still won't be getting one though.
Still won't be getting one though.
Ah, but did it say "Apple" on it somewhere? Because the geek-cred for that alone is worth an extra $200.
I honestly thought those images of $17,000 versions were jokes, but nope.
Give me a smart watch that's many times more useful, quite a bit cheaper, and has a battery life of weeks instead of hours and maybe we'll talk.
Give me a smart watch that's many times more useful, quite a bit cheaper, and has a battery life of weeks instead of hours and maybe we'll talk.
You know that Samsung products are more expensive and that most other flagship devices are at least as much as Apple right?
It's not a clearcut massive margin they have over everything else anymore.
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