Ok, so let’s dig into what the Apple watch is and what it does, exactly. First of all , it comes in sizes 38mm or 42mm. It’s an extremely smart watch that can help you organize your daily activities very efficiently. It can receive and make calls for you, dictate text messages and send them to your friends or colleagues, call a taxi, browse through plenty of apps, and even track your fitness activity!
It does all those things without the use of a smartphone. The Digital Crown on the watch, allows you to swipe through app icons on the Ion-X OLED Retina display, while the side button gives you easy access to your preferred contacts. It allows you to send personal messages to your friends or even send your heart pulse to your significant other via taps, if they happen to own an Apple smartwatch too.
It features a unique Taptic Engine that delicates and fully customizable nudges when you get a notification. It boasts about 18 hours of battery life. It features a sleek aluminum case and a different array of wrist band options.
It’s maps features helps you get where you want to go with distinct taps on your wrist that tell you when it’s time to turn left or right. It features Siri, which is a voice robot that can assist you with all kinds of tasks just by asking it. You can pay for things with the Apple watch’s “Apple Pay” credit card reader/scanner. It features a workout app that lists your favorite exercises first, and remembers your last and best results for each activity type.
You can customize the watch face by pressing it down. It has a remote app built into it that allows you to control Apple TV if you own that. You can purchase movie tickets on the thing and just scan them in from the watch while at the theater.
As mentioned earlier, the face and wrist bands are totally customizable, allowing you to literally be able to change the entire look of the watch. You can make phone calls on the watch and even reply to people with your location by pressing the display button. You can also take or start a call on the watch, and then continue it on your iPhone.
It has a wallet app that allows you to display your plane tickets at the boarding gate. If you happen to lose your apple watch, you can ping it, meaning it can actually tell your iPhone to play an audible alert so you can find it fast. The watch can control the music on your Mac or Apple TV without leaving your current location.
A few technical specifications for the watch are:
BODY Dimensions for the 38mm version: 38.6 x 33.3 x 10.5 mm (1.52 x 1.31 x 0.41 in)
BODY Dimensions for the 42mm version: 42 x 35.9 x 10.5 mm (1.65 x 1.41 x 0.41 in)
Weight for the 38mm version: 62 g (25 g body) (2.19 oz)
Weight for the 42mm version: 70 g (30 g body) (2.47 oz)
Build : Aluminum
DISPLAY Type: AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size for the 38mm: 1.5 inches (~55.1% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution for the 38mm: 340 x 272 pixels (~290 ppi pixel density)
Size for the 42mm version: 1.65 inches (~57.2% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution for the 42mm version: 390 x 312 pixels (~302 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch: Yes
Protection: Ion-X strengthened glass- 3D Touch display
PLATFORM: OS watchOS 1.0, upgradable to v2.2
Chipset: Apple S1
CPU: 520 MHz
GPU: PowerVR SGX543
MEMORY: Internal 8 GB, 512 MB RAM
SOUND: Alert types Vibration; Ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
COMMS: WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth: v4.0, LE
FEATURES: Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, heart rate
Messaging: SMS(threaded view), Email, Push Mail, IM
MP3 player, Photo viewer, Siri natural language commands and dictation
BATTERY: Non-removable Li-Ion 205 mAh battery (0.78 Wh)
Stand-by: Up to 18 h (mixed usage)
Talk time: Up to 3 h
Colors: Silver/White, Orange, Blue; Gray/Black; Rose Gold/Lavender, Stone; Gold/White, Blue, Yellow, Apricot, Royal Blue, Pink/Royal Blue/Gold&Red/Black Woven Nylon.
The Apple watch is currently getting great reviews over at its Amazon.com product pages with over 2000 customer reviews and over 800 answered questions about it. The 38mm model price now ranges around the $299 mark, while the 42mm model ranges around the $349 mark.
You can check out all the different models, customer reviews, answered questions, the different pricing, and more on all the Apple watches at Amazon.com’s Apple watch product pages by Clicking Here.