Apple Watch, the trial: a beautifully designed questionable utility – Wired – Wired.it
The clock of Cupertino is nice, but like other smartwatch suffers from the lack of a unique feature that makes it necessary
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The Apple Watch is an object contradictory aesthetically is nice , more beautiful than you look in photos. Technically, though, we do not know because it should serve . And you can not ignore the price high, weighing negatively on the final judgment.
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I used Android Wear for a year, before the Watch, and I see the same flaws in the watch Apple’s initial suffered by Google: receive notifications on the pulse has an effect of astonishment It lasts 24 to 72 hours, depending on the degree of technological advancement of the owner, but the excitement wears off quickly.
things first.
design
Made of aluminum, steel or gold, with straps of steel, skin or fluoroelastomer (a type of high-quality rubber), Apple Watch is of unquestionable quality . As already on the iPhone 6 screens are a pleasure to touch, scrolling on small sheets of sapphire crystal and glass Edition Watch and Ion-X reinforced the Sport version.
The design is unique and shows to have been carefully designed , although the crown digital scroll lists and menus and enlarge the screens is not as important as you may think. Confusing at first, it is still required in a case of very limited opportunities, also because of habit to use your finger directly on the icon that interests you. With a long press, however, he wakes Siri. Good, but not very well : the ability to activate the virtual assistant with voice commands – as would be possible when moving the arm to see the time – would be more intuitive and certainly more useful, but so far I never got it to work.
The drawn shapes in Cupertino are less obvious than others as accessories Watch Urbane or Moto 360 and the display square is an exception that may seem an oddity. After the launch of the first G Watch and Gear Live, in fact, all manufacturers have struggled to draw smartwatch as real watches, focusing on round dials and traditional forms. Apple instead chose to focus on an interface of the app of the same form in which we have become accustomed smartphone – giving even an advantage to developers . Not surprisingly, Apple launched its smartwatch with already more than 3 thousand applications optimized, while on Android it took a year before reaching 4 thousand.
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Do not get distracted by the numbers, though: starting a business directly from the watch is a rare thing, because the apps are more immediate to navigate to the screen of the iPhone.
Restricted Functions
When the Watch is very useful for keep up with notifications If you’re around, much less when you spend the day at your desk and you realize you already have everything on the monitor of your PC; between notifications disabled immediately, those coming from the Post, with the exception of the responses to important conversations reported individually: everything else, on the wrist, it’s just noise; very useful, however, signs of path , especially if you need the browser while you are pedaling (and the phone, of course, is in the bag).
With Watch can track your activities – walking, movement and calories, as well as statistics of activity as walking, running or cycling – no advantage over many fitness tracker on the market.
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Of course, the watch can store up to 2GB of songs on the local memory, to listen to music with a Bluetooth headset also without carrying the iPhone, but it is an advantage enough limited (and not exclusive: you can do with Android Wear).
Of course, the delay of the launch of Google is felt: in a year, in fact, has released four Android Wear upgrades to improve the user experience, adding later features that were not initially planned – and that also lack on Apple Watch. These include the connection of smartwatch the phone via Wi-Fi, to receive notifications even outside of the short connection Bluetooth, and gestures of the wrist, to scroll notifications simply by rotating the arm: a very useful when you do not have a free hand to touch the screen and you want to see the latest updates. On the other hand, this is what serves the smartwatch how to keep up with the news without necessarily always have a phone in his hand.
Still, with the Watch I was often in a position to want to read some notification without having the immediate opportunity to touch the dial – because I carried the shopping, I was cycling, or any other reason. And the absence of Wrist Gestures Android Wear I heard . As well as the absence of Wi-Fi weighs especially at home, where you tend to leave the phone at the entrance – but just get away into the other room to lose the signal. Lack More importantly, though, at the moment is that of a virtual assistant as Google Now , can anticipate your needs based on context, location and the ability to receive information directly from the app – as for example, with options for Android, which notifies the smartwatch when we are near a saved place in one of its board or in one that we follow.
Other insights from Apple, however, are certainly guess, although Google has already prepared an update for its smartwatch to add the ability to send messages directly from clock clock and customize colors and details of the home screen.
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The Watch is perfect for respond to incoming information from the smartphone and the first effect of the dynamic is a longer battery life of the iPhone, while the Watch the (if not bombard you with notifications) manages to be as high as two consecutive days – as was the case already with Android Wear.
It is not the only thing in common between the two platforms, because the Watch suffers from the same defect of the whole category: a substantial lack of necessity. They glimpsed the potential, like the ability to control the car remotely or exploit NFC and Apple Pay for transport and payments: the chance to do it in Italy, however, when they are not so high .
Do you want it? If you are fixed with new technologies and you like being always among the first to try new stuff, you can not miss it. Bet on the Sport model, the most cheap , and customize it with one of the straps on hand to pair it with your style. If you are a consumer who looks at the practicality of buying things, expects at least to see if the announced update of the operating system will add important functions.
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