Well… that was certainly enlightening. So far the silicone Sport Band is comfortable for my wife and me. We'll see how it works in the heat of the summer. The band is certainly easy to change… much easier than on a conventional watch. Between my last post and today, we had a tutorial session with my brilliant daughter who's a pretty good techie and very intuitive. She's had an Apple watch for a couple of years and knows all about it. I love the 12 Pro, but it's the integration with the watch that so 'magical'.
She helped us set up the 'home' screen to have everything we want at a glance. On mine I have weather, camera, workout, moon phases, date, and… oh yeah… it tells time too. Between Workout on the bottom left, and Camera on the right, is moon phases. Because it's not showing anything, I'm thinking we're at a New Moon. I'll have to check that out. I like having the weather at a glance without having to pull the phone out of my pocket and then start and app.
Like the smart phone itself, I was a skeptic about the iWatch. "How would you handle all those tiny icons?" I asked. And "Who would want to read anything on a 40mm screen?" As usual, I didn't know what I was talking about. The iWatch and how it integrates with the iPhone and the Mac, is so seamless that it's the true genius of the whole deal. You just look straight at the Watch and say anything to the face and SIRI pops up.
We didn't get the cellular hookup, but it does have GPS. If you're within WiFi range of your phone, when the phone rings, the watch does too. You can answer the watch and conduct a conversation. You can easily respond to messages as well. Unfortunately, being a retiree who builds models, I'm not getting too many messages or calls. Most of my human interaction is with all you folks on the various forums to which I contribute regularly.
I've used the EKG feature and yup!… it says I'm in AFib. Tell me something I already know. I also used the blood oxygen level sensor and it was 99%.
And I do love the camera. I took some movies today to see how that worked. I also found that the watch will activate the movie function on the camera as well as all the other camera modes. So I stuck the camera in various spots to see how it worked. It did. The movies weren't very good so I scrapped them. But be sure that I will make more… and they'll be great!
One more thing… If I had one of these watches when in school, I would have done worse than I did. For a kid with ADD, that watch would have been my undoing.
