Items tagged with Apple Watch
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Kory Kessel - Tue, Apr 07, 2015
While not on par with the free iPhone the company doled out to every employee when that device first hit the market in 2007, the news that Apple will offer a 50% discount to all of their personnel who envision themselves adorned with...
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Rob Williams - Sun, Apr 05, 2015
We're not quite sure when Apple was planning to launch its Apple Watch in Switzerland, but one thing we do know is that it's not going to happen until at least the end of the year due to a patent roadblock.
In Switzerland, the rights to...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Apr 04, 2015
Wondering if Apple Watch is going to be worth the money? Well, that depends on several factors, including price, features, and how eager you are to jump into the smartwatch category. To help tackle the latter two, Apple has posted a...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Apr 02, 2015
Pre-orders for the Apple Watch open up on April 10, and the device is scheduled to gone on sale two weeks later. Analysts seem to be tripping all over themselves to project how big the opening weekend of sales will be for the Apple Watch...
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Kory Kessel - Wed, Apr 01, 2015
Light a candle for the 300-word news bite. The New York Times has announced its initiative to produce an app for the soon-to-be-everywhere (or not) Apple Watch that will offer all the news you need when you need it, in the form of...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Mar 30, 2015
It should come as no surprise that Apple is rolling out the red carpet for customers that purchase the Apple Watch Edition. The smartphone starts at a whopping $10,000 and goes for as much as $17,000 in the top-end configuration. As a...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 30, 2015
The world doesn't always make sense. Take for example smartphones; these wonderful little devices reduced wristwatches to a niche market. And now those same smartphone makers, the ones who beat wristwatch makers over the head, are now...
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Kory Kessel - Mon, Mar 30, 2015
The countdown to the Apple Watch is growing ever louder with the lead up to April 10, the date on which online pre-sales for the device begin. With that heightening of the drone...er, buzz comes greater clarity on precisely how Apple is...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Mar 27, 2015
Apple is riding high these days. The company is coming off a blockbuster [calendar] Q4 in which it sold a record 74.5 million iPhones. Apple’s stellar performance was enough to put it ahead of Samsung in global smartphone sales for the...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Mar 19, 2015
It looks as though Apple is about to get some major competition in the luxury smartwatch space. Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook lambasted existing players in the smartwatch field, stating, “We were arguably the first modern smartphone, and...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Mar 18, 2015
You have to hand it to Apple, it thinks big. Apple executives are confident in their products and seem to have a pretty good idea about what customers want. The “Apple Way” has also allowed Apple to become the world’s largest listed company.
However, with Apple’s success comes more than a...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Mar 15, 2015
The tech press is making a big stink about the upcoming Apple Watch, a device that will start at $349 (Apple Watch Sport, 38mm aluminum casing) and top out at $17,000 (Apple Watch Edition, 38mm 18-karat gold casing, with Bright Red Modern...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Mar 12, 2015
Apple Retail Stores are clearing shelf space again, and this time three companies are being shown the door: Nike, MIO, and Jawbone. All three companies produce fitness trackers that compete with built-in functionality found in the upcoming...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 11, 2015
It seems that these days everything Apple touches turns to gold, hence why the company was able to post an $18 billion profit for its fiscal first quarter of 2015. Be that as it may, can Apple popularize the smartwatch market as others...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Mar 10, 2015
At the end of February, it was revealed that Motorola was in the process of extending its Moto Maker customization tool to the Moto 360 Android Wear smartwatch. The Moto Maker has been available for the Moto X smartphone for quite some...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Mar 09, 2015
Well, it’s about time that we get some concrete details on battery life and pricing for the Apple Watch – Apple definitely delivered today at its keynote address, but the news is disappointing on many fronts. The Apple Watch will get 18...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Mar 08, 2015
We are sure to hear all of the exhausting details concerning the Apple Watch at tomorrow’s keynote, but Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, has given us an early glimpse into one of the smartwatch’s most important features: Apple Pay. Apple Pay is...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 06, 2015
Apple is preparing to reveal additional details on its Apple Watch wearable next week, but until then, more information continues to trickle out. One of the newest bits is that Apple is urging developers to design their applications to be...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Mar 05, 2015
Samsung is riding high following the debut of its flagship Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphones. But while the Galaxy S5’s launch in early 2014 was joined by the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches, a new smartwatch offering did not join the...
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Brandon Hill - Sat, Feb 28, 2015
Motorola dazzled us all when it unveiled the Moto 360 nearly a year ago. With its classic, round shape (which was marred slightly by its flat-tire display shape, that facilitated the inclusion of an ambient light sensor), it was easily the...
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Brandon Hill - Sat, Feb 28, 2015
Apple wants its upcoming smartwatch to be all things to all people, but it will first have to convince people to actually fork over at least $349 for an Apple Watch Sport. After all, many people began ditching their traditional wristwatches with the rise of smartphones — why do we now need two...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Feb 26, 2015
The smartwatch market is just starting to get interesting. Android Wear devices have been making the rounds since summer 2014, and Samsung has made some inroads with its Tizen-based smartwatches. And Pebble just announced its next big...
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