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hey what is up guys I'm Kip HD here and these are my first impressions of the Apple watch now a lot of people got to go to the actual Apple event get some hands-on time footage I wasn't cool enough to get some hands-on time with the watch so I'll link some right below that like button and also be showing some in this video now people keep asking me about this watch because you know it's really exciting it's a new Apple entry into a new product category wearable stuff which is really interesting but after about a day or so later I just have really mixed feelings about it so for those who haven't seen the Apple watch was announced yesterday alongside the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus which I'll also be covering and the watch itself you know it's square it's made of metal it's a little bit thick it's not too flashy doesn't really stick out when you look at it at first but it has some very interesting software features for the hardware it's actually three different versions of the watch it's the Apple watch the Apple watch sport and the Apple watch edition edition or something the standard Apple watch is a stainless steel body has a pretty standard set of bands and a sapphire crystal display the Apple watch sport has a lighter weight aluminum body since you're going to be running around with it a lot and these colorful rubber bands and the addition is coated with 18 karat gold on the body and some fancier bands so that's the clear fashion statement one and all this hardware is actually really personalizable which is awesome so Apple seems to be realizing one size does not fit all here especially with the new iPhones and then with this watch there's actually a small size and a large size of the watch for every variation so the small size has a 1.5 inch display and the large size has a 1.6 5-inch display for reference the Moto 360 I'm wearing has a 1.5 6 inch circular display so right about in the middle so you know people with larger wrists tend to gravitate towards the larger watch and people with smaller wrists probably a lot of women will want to gravitate towards the smaller one naturally makes perfect sense and the band's oh the glorious bands I'm actually really happy about the band so they have a bunch of different material options they have leather metal rubber and they have different clasps and buckle design depending on how simple or elegant you want it to look there's a sport band that's sweat-proof and colorful there's the leather loop that has freaking magnets like an iPad Smart Cover it's brilliant I love the bands they're really awesome but what's really going to make the band's important is the way they click in and click out there's really easily removable standard that Apple's created for Apple watch bands and that's going to make the band's huge you can already see third-party manufacturers now making other different materials and designs for watch bands the same way they make different cases for the iPhone now there's a starting price of $349 but that's just the base price so that's probably the smallest faced with the most basic band so I'd expect to probably take more like 400 to 450 dollars for this watch which is not cheap but here's where the mixed emotion part comes in the software the knob there's a dial the knob looking thing on the side of the Apple watch to interact with this new software the watch sense is that you're raising your wrist and then activates the display you see an organization of apps that well knew is somehow familiar navigation is fluid and vital magnifying content on a small display is fundamentally important pass pass is it actually is it really though like are we actually going to be showing people pictures on our watch instead of our phone I don't know so it's called the digital crown and it's this knob or wheel and button on the side of the Apple watch that lets you move around inside watch apps you can zoom and pen and scroll and make a huge deal out of this knob even though it's still a touchscreen watch but it kind of reminds me of that Blackberry what was at the blackberry pearl which had a knob on the side to do everything but that's because it needed it because it wasn't a touchscreen phone I am really concerned though with this whole knob thing on the watch first of all it takes your interaction with the watch from this to this or if your lefty one of these and you know for if it's a knob is it going to move around when I accidentally bump it might it start switching through and scrolling through things if I cross my arms are on way is it going to scroll and select something I don't really know it's it's hard to tell because I haven't actually played with it yet the idea of it and the reason why there's a knob there is so you can interact with the watch without putting your finger over the display which covers a lot of the stuff and Apple doesn't want you to have to cover the display while you're using it even with the knob there I think a lot of people who get this watch are going to be using it as a touchscreen watch anyway but that's the other thing even though it has the whole tap versus press sensitivity thing the user interface is so much less finger friendly than the other SmartWatch user interfaces if you've seen my android wear SmartWatch review video you know it's blot nice and big all the notifications you can swipe through very very simple stuff even though your finger covers the screen this is Apple's watch homescreen if you want to know what's happening here there are a bunch of apps shortcuts to launch watch specific apps but I don't even think I want to be doing that anyway if that's going to be killing my watch battery here's my bottom line if you take the Apple logo off of this and you just imagine it was made by some other company Samsung for example and they come out and say here is our revolutionary new watch it's a square it has a knob on the side it has this really weird software and it only works with our phones you might have laughed it off the stage if that was a samsung galaxy gear or whatever it was but because it's an Apple watch we're willing to give it a shot just willing to give it a try it's technically not even out yet they have till the beginning of next year when they release it and they say they've been working on it for years but I guess they have a couple more months to get more revisions done with the software and the hardware but I'm not convinced yet smartwatches as a whole have a lot of convincing to do I'll talk more about that in my moto 360 review which is coming very soon and I hope to get my hands on the Apple watch soon and mess around with that too but until then very mixed feelings about this Apple watch and I'll keep my eye out for any improvements or impressions that come along in between now and early 2015 until then feel free to give a thumbs up on this video if you enjoyed it and a subscribe button is also below if you want to see more videos like 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