Apple iWatch is a smartwatch created by Apple Inc. and announced by Tim Cook on September 9, 2014. It is expected to have fitness tracking and health-oriented capabilities, as well as integration with iOS and existing Apple products and services. It is compatible with the iPhone 5 and later iPhone models running iOS 8.2. The device is scheduled to begin shipping in April 2015.
2. Apple iWatch is a smartwatch created by Apple Inc. and
announced by Tim Cook on September 9, 2014. It is
expected to have fitness tracking and health-oriented
capabilities, as well as integration with iOS and existing
Apple products and services.
3. •The Apple Watch is expected to work with Apple Pay, a mobile payment
service introduced at the same event as the watch.
•It is capable of receiving phone calls as well as iMessage and SMS Texts
and can track fitness, run third-party apps and use an Apple feature
called "Handoff" as long as the user owns a compatible iPhone.
•It can control Apple TV, as well as act as a walkie-talkie and a viewfinder
for an iPhone camera.
4. Apple designed a new font named San Francisco for the Apple Watch to
help users read text on the small display.
It has a pressure-sensitive touchscreen that can distinguish between a
tap and a press, and features a dial called a digital crown, which can be
turned to scroll or zoom and pressed to return to the home screen. The
watch also has a button for displaying a list of contacts.
The watch is charged by means of inductive charging, using a cable
similar to the MagSafe cable for Apple's MacBook family of laptops.
5. The Apple Watch uses Apple's new Apple S1 processor, advertised
as "an entire computer architecture on a single chip". It also uses a
linear actuator called the "Taptic Engine" to provide haptic feedback
when an alert or a notification is received.
The watch is equipped with a built-in heart rate sensor, which uses
both infrared and visible-light LEDs and photodiodes.
The watch is compatible with the iPhone 5, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S,
iPhone6, and iPhone 6 Plus, running iOS 8.2 or later, connecting via
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth 4.0.
6. In November 2014, Apple Watch was listed by Time as one of the 25 Best
Inventions of 2014.
7. The device is scheduled to begin shipping in April 2015
8. Venture capitalist Marc
Andreessen:- "can't
wait" to try it.
Steve Jobs' biographer
Walter Isaacson:-
"extremely cool" and an
example of future
technology that is
"much more embedded
into our lives“.
Benjamin Clymer(a writer
focused on the watch
industry):- "simply blows
away anything—digital or
analog—in the watch
space at $350“; he also
suggested the watch
would not have the same
emotional connection for
wearers as traditional
watches.