Bought My First Apple Watch
 

Bought my first Apple Watch. Not for me. A Xmas present for my wife.

I did this for one and only one reason. She leaves her phone in the depths of her purse on vibrate. So she is essentially unreachable, despite carrying a $650 smartphone connected 24/7 to high-speed data and cell networks. I'm hoping that I can set the watch to alert her when, and only when, I or the kids call or text.

What do you think?. Will it do this?. And do it well?

It will be interesting to see what other apps she uses, but honestly if all it does is allow me to contact her, that's all I need.

I got my wife an Apple Watch and that is the exact reason she loves it. Her iPhone gets buried in depth of her purse and the watch allows her to easily see who is calling etc. She will even talk on her phone Dick Tracy style too.

You did good!

it will also "find" her iPhone when she can't find it ex: we get in the car, start to head off and "where's my phone" hits her watch it starts beeping from wherever it is ....

I'm guessing the watch ends up buried in the purse before long too.

Custom alerts? No. It has haptic response or a tone, and for me as far as I've found just a single tone. Is your wife into fitness? Because that's what it excels at. The Outlook app is good, but the calendar is nearly non-functional. The calculator app I have, which is a good one is not very functional. Maybe it's better on the bigger screen?

Also don't mistake it for being able to text, it has a few simple canned text responses, like "yes," "no," etc. And you must get used to it being your nightstand clock or you will forget to charge it. And it doesn't last long on a charge. It's just now 7:00 PM MST, I got up at 6:00 AM and I have 55% left after lite use today.

I picked up a Pebble Time for $129 and it does the same thing.

Oh, and the battery lasts a week.

My totally boring home screen:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1450836735.jpg

Can you have it give a haptic alert if certain people call or text you, and no alerts for any other calls, texts, etc?

My wife and I have them and love them. I especially like alerts for multifactor authentication to websites, very handy to have them on your wrist.

Well, so far the wife likes this electronic tether (how I think of it). I've turned off all notifications besides phone, text, and calendar. She hates the sports band, but third party bands are only about $20-30. She likes being able to talk on the watch and dictate text replies. I also spent some time setting up custom canned text responses. The usual "on my way", "running late", "okay", etc. But also "I'm so sorry, that's a tragedy", "that's too bad", "is that good or bad?", "that sounds pretty good", "that's awesome!!!", and "I don't care", "what do you think", and "uh huh".

I got one for Christmas. Loving it so far. Really like the black sort band too actually. Would be cool on a leatherman tread if I can figure out how to hook it up!

Watch adapter for the Leatherman Tread Multi-Tool - TreadLinks

Apple Watch Universal Watch Band Adapter

Thanks! I had done a Google search but hadn't found that.

Ordered a black leather band with white stitching. $20.

Apple Watches and the accessories for them are widely discounted. Not sure if this means they aren't selling well. Analyst estimates of Watch sales sound pretty healthy. But Apple might need to drive higher units to attract more developers.

Edit: looks like at least $2BN sales in 2015 through Sept, implying about 4MM units.

I think more apps being developed will help too. As more functionality comes, so will more users. I think the navigation on it is awesome when driving. Gives you a haptic notice before the turn and lights up with your next direction. Very slick.

You forgot "feck off ya bloody bastage!"

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Did you check for "text templates"?

My cheap azz android came with a list of those like "I'm running late", "where are you?", "how's it going?", "when can we meet?", "my dog ate my homework", "sorry can't answer the phone right now, having a threesome with the twins across the street.", etc.

Sorry Enzo, too ADD to watch a 13 minute video, maybe it shows how to use the templates or whatever they are called in the apple world.

Wow. 10:46 pm and my wife's Watch still has battery at 53%. Her usage today was light: some texting, a couple short phone calls on the watch, occasionally checking the time. I'm surprised. Perhaps the battery life will decline as she uses it more.

Well, I received my own Apple Watch. Now I need to figure out how to attach it to a NATO band. That has my existing watch on it.

Timely (no pun). I actually just picked one up myself. I've been a bit of a skeptic on these things (saw them as a "solution in search of a problem to solve"). I really hadn't had a burning desire for one or anything, just a detached curiosity. I happened to start playing around with one in the store when I was in there for something else and it ended growing on me. Apple apparently dropped the prices on these recently (flagging sales?) so it was "only" $300 (not cheap, but not terrible). I'm pretty impressed so far and heck - there are a lot more boring watches out there for 300 bucks. :)

Still learning the ins and outs and I've noticed I haven't been getting 100% of my e-mail notifications but I figure that's something to do with how I've got it configured. Not a bad invention actually. Very slick, Apple-esque design and build quality. So far I'm happy with it.

My Pebble Time went into a drawer a few weeks ago and I haven't missed it. I stopped wearing a watch altogether.

Still wearing/using my Samsung Galaxy Gear S after almost a year and a half. I'd like to upgrade to the Gear S2, but there isn't a compelling reason. But they look a lot better...

http://www.mobilsiden.dk/gfx/public/...ons-138018.jpg

Especially the upgraded "classic" models. Except, the classic models are not 3G

http://smartwatch.review/wp-content/.../02/gears2.jpg

Wore the Apple watch from 8 am to 11 pm. Battery at 46%. I'm not fussing with it a bunch, though. Just some texts, a couple short phone calls, checking the time, checking a few apps.

The wake on wrist lift doesn't work reliably if I wear it on the underside of my wrist. But the heart rate does.

I didn't actually want it to tell time with. I have a watch already. I wanted it for the ease of answering texts and calls, and to be an activity monitor and notification tool, mostly. It is a pain to stop riding the bike, fish my phone out unlock the screen, take off my glove.

I'm definitely going to find a way to wear it on the same band as my regular watch. Plus my Road ID. My left wrist is going to be multifunction.

The Milanese band is really nice. I'll fit that to my wife's watch.

Sat down and tweaked all the settings earlier - seems to be working flawlessly now. The speaker is a little quiet and hard to converse through but not impossible (just not ideal when there's a lot of noise in the background for example). I like the idea of having something small and unobtrusive with me more-or-less all the time although I'm too paranoid to wear it in the water surfing or swimming; that was one of my biggest concerns since I'm in the water a fair amount but I figure it'll be more-or-less like the phone (just remember to take the thing out of your pocket before you go in you numkin...).

FWIW the Apple store guy said he wore his swimming regularly without issue but I'll just take it off for water sports and wear it for running, cycling, etc. Here's the "official" word on it (probably conservative but more-or-less what I'm going to follow):

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205000

Can you set the Apple Watch display to be always on? Or really, on at a low level, so you can quickly read the time, any time?

Im very confused. You want two watches on one band? Thats a whole new level of nerd.

I don't think so. The display turns on when you rotate your wrist. It works well when the watch is worn on the top of the wrist. Not so much, I
'm finding, if you wear your watch on the bottom of the wrist.

I want an S2 also... kinda hard to justify seeing as they cost more than my old Galaxy phone it would be paired with. :D

The Gear S can be set for a low level stay on,

Full power

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Low power

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And it pops up text for e-mails. Plus you can make calls. Are they going to make a cellular/3G version of the Apple Watch?

I haven't read any rumors about Apple Watch 2. Right now you can make phone calls from the watch but it uses the phone's cellular connection. I think giving the watch an independent cellular tx/rx would be impractical, for carrier reasons and for battery reasons. Apple was so concerned about battery life when they designed the watch, and there's very little room for the battery. Today I've worn it from 7 am to 4:17 pm and battery is still 74%.