LyleLanley
Banned
If I'm on a long, 12+ hours, flight in which my phone has to be on airplane mode anyways I think I'd rather have my watch securely charging so that it's ready to go when I'm about to land.
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Apple Watch |OT| Apple invents the watch!
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If I'm on a long, 12+ hours, flight in which my phone has to be on airplane mode anyways I think I'd rather have my watch securely charging so that it's ready to go when I'm about to land.
Frank Serpico
Banned
That's what I'm thinking, and if I do have a long 12+hr flight, I would just put it on power reserve or airplane mode and the battery should last me two days
Plus for a travel case, wouldn't it have made sense for it to have a battery in the base (plenty of space) so it can actually charge while in the case? I assume it doesn't even come with the charger, so it's just a $60 box?
For the steel watches, I'm sure someone will do an instructables thing to convert that case into a charger like the edition model has.
It's for charging at night (hotels, etc) without having to bring the full charging stand from atop my dresser.
eyeball_kid
Member
This is going to cause a lot of angst in Brooklyn, Portland, and Silver Lake.
I'm sick today so I'm keeping the Watch off, as I don't want to be harassed by the "Time to stand, meatbag!" notifications every hour.
whatevermort
Member
My watch arrived! Hooray! 42mmSG black sports like everybody else in the world.
Question: why have my message notifications on my phone stopped? So, the watch does a little ding and vibrates, but the phone no longer dings. Is that a thing? Can I stop that? I cannot find out how to make my phone ding as well.
Ding.
Question: why have my message notifications on my phone stopped? So, the watch does a little ding and vibrates, but the phone no longer dings. Is that a thing? Can I stop that? I cannot find out how to make my phone ding as well.
Ding.
SuperPac
Member
You probably already know this, but - you can turn that off. Or you can put it in do not disturb mode.
Pretty sure you can't have notifications ding both. Alarms and phone calls ding both - I'm not sure anything else does. If you want something to ding the phone and not the watch you can do that.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
My watch only made it to 6pm today. Why? Because the music Glance had been playing all day.
Except it was playing nothing.
Except it was playing nothing.
The Elite
BOSS
That sucks.
That's the one I will buy in gen 3 or 4 if I decide that Apple's flavor of smartwatch is my kind of thing.
It's really sexy, man. I'd say its worth whatever wait you have to suffer.
What's wrong with the normal charging cable?
SuperPac
Member
Yeah I wish the now playing widget and control center were smarter about keeping what you were playing in memory - even if the app and track have been shuffled out. Since I primarily listen to podcasts using Overcast, my now playing is sometimes blank if Overcast has been shuffled out of active memory. :\
jts
...hate me...
You are absolutely right, people are overthinking this.
Although, ideally I'd get a 1m cable for travelling. Don't want to roll and carry that 2m monster that comes by default. And with the charging cable being super proprietary (the super denotes it will be really hard to come across knock-offs) and pretty rare at least for a while, it doesn't hurt having some redundancy either.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
1 of 2 of my Apple Watches is now preparing for shipment.
The one shipping was ordered at 2:40am CT (aka 40 minutes after preorders went up)
It is a 42mm Stainless Steel with Classic Leather Buckle
The other one not shipping yet was ordered at 2:07am CT (aka 7 minutes after preorders went up)
It is a 42mm Space Grey Sport with Black Sport Band
The one shipping was ordered at 2:40am CT (aka 40 minutes after preorders went up)
It is a 42mm Stainless Steel with Classic Leather Buckle
The other one not shipping yet was ordered at 2:07am CT (aka 7 minutes after preorders went up)
It is a 42mm Space Grey Sport with Black Sport Band
Dreamwriter
Member
In addition to the Nomad stand I ordered this travel charging case as well..
http://www.studioproper.com.au/pages/apple-watch-charging-dock
If the watch actually floated above it like that, I'd buy one in an instant!
I don't care how much Apple PR spins this, I think they were truly taken aback at how many people opted for Sport over SS.
Frank Serpico
Banned
It's like Apple really thought people were easily going to spend $500+ when the internals were the same in all models. I'd love to get the stainless steel model but it's too much for me to drop $600+tax on a first generation device.
I'm fairly certain Apple had no idea how many was going to order what just like everyone else. This is also why they didn't disclose any numbers for the Watch sales.
LyleLanley
Banned
I doubt that. I can't imagine that Apple expected the standard Watch to be more popular than the Sport.
LyleLanley
Banned
Can't you force press for shuffle?
The Elite
BOSS
Everyone keeps missing those force press options.
Got the Shakes
Member
You can. Go to the "now playing" screen and force touch on the play button. It will open a menu with shuffle, repeat, source selection, and AirPlay options.
Edit: you can also force press on a song in the song view to shuffle all songs.
LyleLanley
Banned
It's a legitimate problem but I can't think of a good way around it.
adamsappel
Member
Does the watch not work for black people either?
Next thing you know Apple will be selling pants to store your Iphones!
My heroes! I sat there in disbelief there was no shuffle option. Thank you. I even scrounged through google and kept getting some iPod Nano watch results.
Dreamwriter
Member
No, they didn't expect everyone to want Space Grey. I'd bet they manufactured far more Sport watches than others, but everyone ordered Space Grey when Apple probably manufactured the various colors equally.
There's also the watch case itself if you don't mind hacking it a bit:In addition to the Nomad stand I ordered this travel charging case as well..
http://www.studioproper.com.au/pages/apple-watch-charging-dock
Course they'd be crappy if you have one of the bands that don't open up completely and lay flat.
Frank Serpico
Banned
No, I think it's that everyone wanted a black band. I couldn't believe there wasn't a black band option for the silver color. So people who wanted a traditional black band had to get the space grey or cough up extra money for another band. I know there is some replacement band option but I bet majority of people don't know about it
There's also the watch case itself if you don't mind hacking it a bit:
Course they'd be crappy if you have one of the bands that don't open up completely and lay flat.
Goodbye resale value!
That's the one I will buy in gen 3 or 4 if I decide that Apple's flavor of smartwatch is my kind of thing.
It's really sexy, man. I'd say its worth whatever wait you have to suffer.
Yeah. It'll be worth it. But the wait is killing me, heh
WordAssassin
Member
Yeah, weird right? I mean, as I said I'll survive the wait but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't irksome. It's like if you were waiting in line to buy movie tickets and you're third in line, and someone shows up at the end of the line 50 people behind you and they get their tickets first. You'll get your tickets too but still, what the hell.
everthustodeadbeats
Member
Other than alerts and paying for things, I'm not sure what this watch is for.
I'd rather use the Uber app on my phone as the interaction in the app is far better and waiting for a cab isn't always fun.
The apps need a great deal of work. None of the 'top 10 apps you need with your apple watch' work well or appeal to me.
It will get better as more developers actually use the watch. Maybe a month from now, someone will create a genius app.
I'd rather use the Uber app on my phone as the interaction in the app is far better and waiting for a cab isn't always fun.
The apps need a great deal of work. None of the 'top 10 apps you need with your apple watch' work well or appeal to me.
It will get better as more developers actually use the watch. Maybe a month from now, someone will create a genius app.
silentspork
Member
aaaand mine shipped
Getting it tomorrow after all. 38mm space grey black sports band, can't wait.
When did you order it? Sorry if you've already posted this before.
noomi
Member
Ordered @ 3:04AM EST.
Originally my ship date was May 13th - 27, this morning finally changed from processing to preparing to ship and a few hours ago it shipped. Hoped this helps.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Mine shipped.
This was my SS 42mm with Black Leather Belt Loop. Ordered at 2:40am CT
This was my SS 42mm with Black Leather Belt Loop. Ordered at 2:40am CT