Apple Watch

Wearable technology has been on our radar for a while with fitness trackers, jewelry and some early timepieces, but Apple has combined all three elements to deliver a trifecta of smart technology, fashion and fitness with its truly innovative and feature-packed Apple Watch.

Here are the feature highlights:

First, you need to know that Apple Watch must be used in conjunction with your iPhone, as it syncs with your device to send you personal notifications and alerts, text messages, calendar updates and access to your favorite apps and contacts.

Release Date: Early 2015

Price: Starts at $350

Navigating the small screen is simple.

Given the very small amount of available real estate, the “Digital Crown” (aka, side dial) will let you zoom, scroll and select without touching/covering the screen.The Home screen lets you quickly find your favorite apps.

It’s sensory – you can touch and feel it.

The force-sensitive retina display can tell the difference between a tap and a press, allowing you to control the activity. Since it rests on your skin, you will feel a gentle tap when you receive incoming messages. A simple tap on your friend’s image in your contact circle will place a call or text.

It tells precise time.

Within 50 milliseconds! It will automatically adjust to local time when you travel, as well as daylight savings time. You won’t ever have to set your watch.

It’s highly customizable.

There are 3 watch models from which to choose – but you can customize how the time is displayed. There are endless options for displaying the time.

Customized Messages – dictate a message or select from preset options — Apple Watch will even make suggestions based on the things you write most. Or you can use animated emojis to express yourself.

Quirky Features We Love:

Walkie-Talkie - Just like Dick Tracey, but better, and real! Built-in speaker and microphone lets you to trade sound bites with friends.



Sketch – share a doodle. Your friend on the other end can watch your drawing animate, then respond with a custom creation for you.



It’s your personal trainer!

Apple Watch measures the number, quality and frequency of the steps you take throughout your day. A specially designed Activity ring shows a progress report to inspire you to get moving, stand and exercise more (or admire your achievement, if you’re really disciplined). Have a fitness buddy? You can also “send” a friend your heartbeat by pressing two fingers to the Apple Watch screen to allow it to measure your pulse.



Want dedicated cardio session workouts? There’s an app for that. Over time, Apple Watch can use what it learns about the way you move to suggest personalized daily fitness goals and encourage you to achieve them. So you can live a better day and a healthier life.

It’s your wallet! Use Apple Pay for secure, easy check out at numerous retail locations. Learn more about Apple Pay in our post about iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus.

The iPhone 6, Apple Watch And More

As usual, Apple’s Tuesday reveal was high on theatrics. Between CEO Tim Cook’s teasing “One more thing” (echoing the late Steve Jobs’ signature line—not once, but twice) and a U2 song release, the company announced several notable new gadgets.

iPhone 6 Plus

Apple announced its biggest iPhone 

yet, one with a display 5.5 inches across the diagonal. The phablet contains 185% more pixels than the previous iPhone 5S while measuring measures 7.1mm, or 0.5 mm thinner than the previous iPhone 5. Apple also claims the battery will survive 24 hours of 3G talk time (as if that's what smartphone users care most about). But the performance will be much faster, thanks to its new 64-bit A8 processor chip. The iPhone 6 Plus starts at $299 for 16GB, $399 for 64, and $499 for the equally enormous new 128GB—all prices that require a two-year contract.

iPhone 6

Technically this is the "small" one, but with a 4.7 inch display, it’s actually larger than any of its predecessors—the iPhone 5S screen was just 4 inches. A 64-bit A8 chip provides 25 percent faster CPU performance and up to 50 percent faster graphics performance. The iPhone 6 starts at $199 for a 16GB configuration, then goes up to $299 for 64GB and $399 for 128GB, all with 2-year contracts.



Apple Pay

Apple Pay is a new scheme that lets you make purchases in stores without taking out your credit card. Just add your credit card to the Apple Pay app on your iPhone, and tap it against an in-store terminal (at a participating merchant) to pay. Apple Pay relies on the security of the Touch ID fingerprint scanner and a new hardware component it calls the "secure element" to ensure your credit card information stays where it belongs.

Apple Watch

It does more than tell the time. This wrist-mounted wearable receives iPhone notifications, tracks your fitness, talks to other Apple Watches and captures your heartbeat pattern, among other both seriously useful-sounding and gimmicky-sounding features. Outside developers will be able to build apps for it using the upcoming WatchKit SDK. When it is available early next year, the Apple Watch will retail at $350.