What You Should Know About Apple Watch
The highly anticipated Apple Watch is nearly here. This would be Apple’s first step into the smartwatch market. Apple actually took an estimated one million units for preorder in the USA and it initially sold out.
In case you don’t know the Apple Watch is Apple’s first smartwatch. Apple are also the makers of the ultra successful and revolutionary iPhone, iPad and iPod. Apple Watch features full watch functionality as well as having health and fitness tracking as well as music playback capabilities.
Apple Watch Sport
The watch actually comes in three ‘collections’ which are Apple Sport Watch, Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition. The watch connects wireless through Bluetooth or WIFI with an iPhone. It supports the iPhone 5 and above. When connected to the iPhone it has increased functionality such as calling and texting.
Features
The Apple Watch comes with 8GB of memory and uses Apple’s S1 Processor. The amazing thing about the Apple Watch is that it has a pressure-sensitive touchscreen so the watch can tell the difference between a tap and a press.
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch will also have its own dedicated Watch App Store with its own dedicated apps. Obviously during the start there won’t be many apps but as more developers start to develop apps for the Apple Watch they will have more apps for the Apple Watch.
The operating system that the Apple Watch comes with is Watch OS. The Operating system features 9 different watch faces, its own unique interface as well as SIRI, Passbook, iTunes and much more.
Apple Watch Edition
This is the first time Apple have used Flexible Retina AMOLED in one of its products.
Price
The Apple Watch comes in three ‘collections’, the Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition.
The Apple Watch Sport screen is made out of Strengthened Ion-X Glass while the back of the watch is Composite. However the Apple Watch and Watch Edition have a sapphire screen and the back is ceramic.
The watches have various prices. The cheapest being the Apple Watch Sport which is priced at between $349 – $399.
Beyonce rocking the Apple Watch Edition
Then the Apple Watch is priced at between $549 – $1,099. The most expensive model being the Apple Watch Edition which comes with 18-karat gold case. This is priced at $10,000-$17,000.
Now you might say that $10-$17,000 is expensive for a watch but Apple priced it at this price to make the brand appear like its luxury. Another reason for it being priced so high so that the other models of the Apple Watch appear much more affordable.
The Apple Watch is to be released on April 24 2015.