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so do you dream about being Dick Tracy well the Apple watch allows you to communicate in a lot of different ways on your wrist if you're texting you get text messages all the time just like you do on your phone here's how you respond to them they might pop up as notifications you can swipe down and see which ones you've missed or you can open up a separate messages app that's right here see your list of messages looks like an iPhone and you can reply but there's no keyboard here you're going to have to dictate press the microphone button here hi honey I love you when you're done you hit done you can click the text and send or you can actually send the audio message which comes in handy because the dictation is not always perfect now if you want something a little quicker you can also use a canned preset message the variety of options it could be something like okay sure see you soon if you want something a little less verbal you can go with emoji there are apples own strange animated ones there are ones that are hearts of right different types of hearts and there are thumb gestures thumbs up thumbs down etc and a collection of standard emoji hundreds of the good old-fashioned kind so I'm going to pick one of and confuse my wife you can actually make phone calls from your wrist to what are you going to use that for it maybe it's because your hands are occupied you're going to be getting coffee or something and your phones in your pocket and then your phone starts ringing you can answer really quickly on your watch oh hey look someone's calling me right now it's a wonder who it is hello oh hey it's Dan Graziano of CNN that's a coincidence hey what's going on I'm getting coffee about 50 feet from you um here actually pass off so if you want to do a handoff you actually just do this and then tap over here and now I can talk to you here it sounds a little bit better yeah so that's pretty good she just passed off the phone call like that all right I'll see you back at the desk in a moment yeah now let's say you've got another friend with an apple watch well you guys are part of a secret little communications club called digital touch you guys can do a few extra fun things together this I do it you open it up the friends wheel here which is your closest friends and if you add somebody on here that already has an Apple watch you'll see a third option normally you see call or message the third one in the middle is digital touch you press that little icon you bring up a screen that's going to basically be your doodle screen and you can draw with your finger anything that you can think of that would fit in that space alternatively if you start tapping your finger it will send tabs and finally if you hold down both fingers together you will eventually feel a throbbing heartbeat and it's actually saving your real heartbeat over to the other person it's pretty intimate and it finally works well for couples but maybe there are other uses too we'll see talking texting phone calls those are all the things that you can do on the Apple watch and there are bound to be more when more apps come out to take advantage of these features that's how you can be Dick Tracy on your Apple watch I'm Scott Stein at CNET