With Apple now offering the Apple Watch for pre-order and allowing interested parties to try the wearable out at retail stores, we're learning more and more about its functionality with every day that passes. Given the relatively small display of the Watch versus the likes of the iPhone and iPad, the software aspect is one that Apple has had to rebuild from the ground up, and while the design has been heavily lauded since we first clapped eyes on the device back in September, the UI and UX is unquestionably solid as well. Now, for the first time, we get a proper look at how multitasking will work.
The popular and irreplaceable Workflow app for iOS has just been updated to version 1.2, and adds support for the Apple Watch. With over 200 automated actions, the app's availability on the Apple Watch comes in ahead of fans actually getting their hands on their pre-orders, and to add to your excitement, the updated piece of software is on sale for a limited period right now.
The Apple Watch is decent enough on the battery front, but there will always be an accessory or two that will attempt to enhance it even further. Enter - wipowerband, the Apple Watch case that comes with a built-in battery that straps around your watch, nearly doubling the device's retention on the energy front.
The latter stage of last week was dominated by the opening of Apple Watch pre-orders, and with some analysts suggesting that the wearable could well be the Next Big Thing, the number of folk who've already secured their unit seems to corroborate this notion. In the United States alone, it is estimated that Apple Watch has been pre-ordered over 950,000 times, and with a number of other nations able to preorder, it seems certain that worldwide, Apple is comfortably over the million mark.
As we get closer to the Apple Watch going on sale and people start to spend time with one either in-store or during a review, we are finding out more and more about the device that we didn't already know. We already found out that despite Apple saying the Sport model came with two bands, it actually comes with three parts that make up two different sizes of the same strap, for example.
Here's our hands-on and first impressions of Apple Watch Sport, Steel and Gold Edition models. For more details, check out the photo gallery and the embedded video below.
Bad news for those of you that thought you might be able to swap a spare Apple Watch Sport band for another color after it was confirmed that while the Apple Watch Sport portion of apple.com does say that the device comes with two bands, that's not entirely accurate.
With Apple Watch being all the rage right now, Apple's CEO Tim Cook decided to step into the iconic Palo Alto Apple Store in California to check in person if the hype is in fact real. With the store abuzz with customers rushing in for the try-on sessions, Cook had a few words to say about the demand of the watch.
Apple, like all big-name tech companies, spends millions of dollars promoting its products through advertisement, but while it seems to be accepted as fact that most celebrities are iPhone users, Apple rarely utilizes star status to push unreleased products. With Apple Watch, however, things have changed, and a number of stars including Katy Perry and Drake have already been seen sporting their gold Apple Watch Edition models.
The first few photos of the Apple Watch Edition have started popping up on the Internet after Apple began accepting pre-orders and try-on appointments for its first ever wearable device. As expected, the 18-karat gold-laden Apple Watch Edition is packed in a jewelry box-like premium packaging.
















