Meet the Apple Watch

During its iPhone launch event, Apple also announced its Apple Watch, the first completely new product in years. It’s a smartwatch with inductive charging, a square face, sapphire glass, swappable bands, a heartbeat sensor and a rotating digital crown.

Users will be able to choose between six different straps, including a sport band, a leather loop, a classic leather buckle and a stainless steel strap that is easily adjustable. The watch will come in two different sizes and three different collections: Watch, Watch Sport and Watch Edition.

The Apple Watch will only work in conjunction with an iPhone, but you will need a relatively recent model, starting with the iPhone 5.

The smartwatch has a small dial on the side called ‘digital crown’ with IR and LED diodes. Pressing the dial will take you to the watch’s homescreen, which users can personalize just like the watch face. The watch will also be using voice input through Siri.

Additionally, Apple developed “digital touch” to allow you to quickly share a sketch you draw on the watch face. Given that the watch doesn’t have a keyboard, these sketches allow you to still communicate relatively complex ideas easily.

The watch interface will heavily center around notifications and like Android Wear, it will feature the ability to send quick replies, but in a typical Apple twist, the company will look at the text and analyze that to automatically select a few possible replies. The watch also features customizable animated emoji.

The starting price for the Apple Watch will be $349 when it goes on sale early in 2015.

Source: techcrunch.com