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apples got a watch I've been using it what does it feel like is the second you need well apples watch is part of a growing landscape called smart watches that are in this umbrella of wearable tech these things are accessories to your phone and Apple's only works with iPhone 5 or later so it's going to get messages and other things from your phone but it also works kind of like a standalone iPod Apple pushes three different types of core functions on the Apple watch Communications Fitness and notifications now notifications and glances which is the other term for these little widget like apps are like widgets those functions on your iPhone that you get for your pulldown menu right next to your notifications they're like smarter mini apps you can check information like sports scores or weather updates or tweets now underneath all that there are also full apps and that looks like a grid of iPhone apps except they're circles and you launch them a lot of them are living on your iPhone as well and they're kind of cross loading so they take a little time to load but you can get some boiled down simple functions like looking at tweets and even responding to tweets and a lot of different fitness apps including apples core apps their fitness apps are probably the most advanced on any SmartWatch they work a lot like what you get on a Fitbit or some sort of a Nike FuelBand they look at you're walking you're running it has a heart rate monitor built in and it will work with GPS on your phone and it does a lot of communication functions this thing will act as a speakerphone when paired with your iPhone it will also enable you to send texts to dictate audio messages or to send crazy animated emoji that if you find another Apple watch owner you can send a little doodle to them like this or you can send love taps or hold your fingers here and send your heart rate and did I mention this thing is basically like an iPod you can store two gigs of music on this that sink over from your phone and you can listen to them if you have Bluetooth headphones kind of like an iPod except there is no headphone jack here and it has Apple pay so you can pay for things that terminals even when you're away from your iPhone the Apple watch comes in a range of prices from $350 up to 17 thousand but they all do the same inside they all have eight gigs of internal storage of which you can access around six and you're really paying for the design of the band and the materials this is a steel one forty two millimeters with a white Floresta mer band this is six hundred dollars and the one I tried with a stainless steel link band a thousand dollars that's crazy expensive and they go all the way up to ten thousand seventeen thousand for the gold watch you're not gonna get the Apple watch is also hindered by its battery life the battery life lasts no longer than a day that's lower than most other smartwatches out there and I like wearing a watch at night so I really like to be able to use it at night for silent alarms or to check what the time is or to do sleep tracking you can't do that so who's the Apple watch for after wearing one for a while that's still a good question I'm not exactly sure and that's the problem with it it's an iPhone accessory because you need an iPhone it's battery life is not great and it's very expensive but if you're interested in exploring this and you want to spend $350 on an entry-level model it's possibly a toy that could appeal to some people I'm Scott Steiner Tina