| The dial on the side of the watch — its proper name is the crown — has been brought into the 21st century and turned into what Apple calls the Digital Crown | Another factor in its favour is the user interface |
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| In other words, you ought to be able to get through a whole day, but that will be about it: expect to charge it every night | Which, incidentally, rules out being able to sleep with the watch on — which is likely to be a disappointment to developers of sleep-related apps |
The Apple Watch is also pleasingly comfortable on the wrist.
8| watchOS 2 looked to speed up third-party apps by allowing them to run natively on the Apple watch, but as we mention in our watchOS 2 section of the review below, we still find apps pretty sluggish and we often give up and end up using our iPhone apps instead | In both cases, the Apple Watch screen is officially rated or perhaps we should say branded as Retina-quality, and our subjective experience with it has been great |
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| The resolution of the screen on the 38mm Apple Watch which measures 1 |
Numerous reviewers have found the interface sluggish in use and noticed a delay before certain actions.
| But it appears that yes, the Apple Watch is waterproof | You can scroll around the screen, tap on items to select them or press harder to get more options — akin to using right click on a mouse |
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| One activity tracker brand tried to convince us that their activity tracker was designed to appeal to a fashion-conscious woman; they even thought that women would wear it around their neck like a necklace | If you use the Apple Watch to play music you will also find that to be a bit of a battery hog |
The Watch and Watch Edition come with sapphire screens, the Sport version with ion-x glass.
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