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<blockquote data-quote="dbm" data-source="post: 1664138" data-attributes="member: 184286"><p>So, I've had the watch for a few days now, and have some initial impressions.</p><p></p><p>Some pics:</p><p><img src="http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e235/dan_martland/9eca86b8cf25e6a881f52ea342d4f1a9_zps5gpmteg7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Old vs new:</p><p><img src="http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e235/dan_martland/659a92eca10c2e7a9c7a964027f1d882_zps3lzhumns.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I went for a red theme:</p><p><img src="http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e235/dan_martland/78e9b5b5242301105a80834541af4de9_zpsmv2h68pa.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>First, it's a good looking watch, and feels a quality piece of kit. In terms of customising the watch face, there is a lot of choice so you can do a lot to make it yours. I opted for a simple, red scheme as red is easier on the eyes in the dark. </p><p> </p><p>Notifications are awesome. I have mine silenced, so only I know when I am being alerted. Unlike the vibrate function on a phone, the watch is completely silent in operation. I like how the watch reminds me to move around when I have been sitting for too long, and it tracks how much activity I do throughout the day. I've been on a bit of a health kick for the last couple of years but exercise have never been my thing. I am using the watch's activity monitoring as an encouragement.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of use cases, one of the main reasons I wanted the watch was for use in the car. My setup is that I have my iPhone Bluetoothed to the car handsfree kit. I also have a Tune2Air dongle attached to my car, meaning that my music can play over Bluetooth too, just as if it was plugged into the head unit directly. I have all my music collection on my phone - over 11,000 tracks. My car's iPod integration is rubbish in terms of its music controls. All you have is a rotary control which allows you to choose from folders, and push to select an item. Navigating to a specific item is practically impossible. My pragmatic solution to this has been to primarily use a small set of playlists which have the albums I am currently mostly interested in listening to on them. But that's really a quite poor solution, and losing a lot of the benefit of having all my music with me.</p><p> </p><p>With the watch, I can use Siri to tell my system to play any album, artist or playlist I like. You don't even need to touch the watch, just move your wrist to activate the screen and then start with 'Hey Siri'. The watch does the rest and the music goes straight to the head unit.</p><p>Similarly, initiating telephone calls via the watch is a breeze. Just tell it who you want to call and the call itself is seamlessly directed to the car handsfree.</p><p> </p><p>I have a lot of Apple kit at home, with two AppleTVs and two AirPorts sending audio to stereo systems. Whilst the Remote app is quite limited on the watch is does allow me to stop, start and move tracks. So it does as much as the physical remote does. My guess is watchOS2 and the next gen AppleTV will allow you to use Siri to select music or media from your library.</p><p> </p><p>So, all in all, it's a classy watch that makes all my other associated tech work better. watchOS2 is going to bring lots of software upgrades to the device, but even the gen 1 product with watchOS 1.0.1 is worth it for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dbm, post: 1664138, member: 184286"] So, I've had the watch for a few days now, and have some initial impressions. Some pics: [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e235/dan_martland/9eca86b8cf25e6a881f52ea342d4f1a9_zps5gpmteg7.jpg[/IMG] Old vs new: [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e235/dan_martland/659a92eca10c2e7a9c7a964027f1d882_zps3lzhumns.jpg[/IMG] I went for a red theme: [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e235/dan_martland/78e9b5b5242301105a80834541af4de9_zpsmv2h68pa.jpg[/IMG] First, it's a good looking watch, and feels a quality piece of kit. In terms of customising the watch face, there is a lot of choice so you can do a lot to make it yours. I opted for a simple, red scheme as red is easier on the eyes in the dark. Notifications are awesome. I have mine silenced, so only I know when I am being alerted. Unlike the vibrate function on a phone, the watch is completely silent in operation. I like how the watch reminds me to move around when I have been sitting for too long, and it tracks how much activity I do throughout the day. I've been on a bit of a health kick for the last couple of years but exercise have never been my thing. I am using the watch's activity monitoring as an encouragement. In terms of use cases, one of the main reasons I wanted the watch was for use in the car. My setup is that I have my iPhone Bluetoothed to the car handsfree kit. I also have a Tune2Air dongle attached to my car, meaning that my music can play over Bluetooth too, just as if it was plugged into the head unit directly. I have all my music collection on my phone - over 11,000 tracks. My car's iPod integration is rubbish in terms of its music controls. All you have is a rotary control which allows you to choose from folders, and push to select an item. Navigating to a specific item is practically impossible. My pragmatic solution to this has been to primarily use a small set of playlists which have the albums I am currently mostly interested in listening to on them. But that's really a quite poor solution, and losing a lot of the benefit of having all my music with me. With the watch, I can use Siri to tell my system to play any album, artist or playlist I like. You don't even need to touch the watch, just move your wrist to activate the screen and then start with 'Hey Siri'. The watch does the rest and the music goes straight to the head unit. Similarly, initiating telephone calls via the watch is a breeze. Just tell it who you want to call and the call itself is seamlessly directed to the car handsfree. I have a lot of Apple kit at home, with two AppleTVs and two AirPorts sending audio to stereo systems. Whilst the Remote app is quite limited on the watch is does allow me to stop, start and move tracks. So it does as much as the physical remote does. My guess is watchOS2 and the next gen AppleTV will allow you to use Siri to select music or media from your library. So, all in all, it's a classy watch that makes all my other associated tech work better. watchOS2 is going to bring lots of software upgrades to the device, but even the gen 1 product with watchOS 1.0.1 is worth it for me. [/QUOTE]
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