Cheree Heppe here:
With all that has been posted and written, I finally stopped by our
city's Apple store to check out the two sizes of Apple watches.
The Apple store has installed a table for displaying the various band
types and the two watch sizes. There are demo watches kept in a drawer
built into the table. There is a trick way of opening the drawer.
Some people wrote about various elements of the watch and bands.
Leather bands. The bands I saw looked exactly like high end leather
bands. I have owned high end leather goods. The sides and surfaces are
finished in much the same ways. I have done leather and harness
crafting and know the rudiments, so, I don't feel that the leather bands
feel like composite materials or slurry made to seem like leather.
One type of metal band looks a lot like those expandable watch bands. I
personally would choose a different band style because I never liked
that type of band, but the workmanship is solid and good, as far as I
could tell by handling the demo items.
The sport band is very sport ready. It feels very smooth, sort of a
cross between rubber and metal. A wearer could sweat up a storm and the
band would remain impervious. Sorry, can't recall its color
There is a mesh type metal band that affixes via a magnetic closure.
This closure seemed to hold fast, although I did not attempt to whirl my
wrist around my head or anything exciting like that. This band is
silver in color. I found that the back of the smaller watch fit against
my skin well without noticeable gaps between me and it. I am not
over-nourished and feel that this band would be my first choice for an
Apple provided band.
I remember tooled leather bands made in the hippie mode that were broad,
even broader than the larger Apple watch. The Apple watches would look
great on those. This type of watch in a slightly different
configuration would work really well as a pocket or necklace watch.
Don't sneer. I have two mechanical, etched metal necklace Braille
watches about the same size.
I did not demo the watch, as the store was noisy with all the
customers. Our city;s Apple store is always busy and even iphones are
hard enough to hear that earphones should be used, at least by me.
The watch itself is sort of squared off around its edges and thicker
than a sighted watch, but would not be bad for a Braille watch. There
are two buttons on one of the sides without the band connectors. The
round button is the one that acts as the Home Button. I forget what the
rectangular button does. These buttons are eminently tactile. There is
no mistaking there shapes if you have finger sensitivity.
The price did set me back a bit. By the time I save for the watch, the
next generation will be ready for roll-out. I wonder what a creative
jeweler could do with a band for that kind of watch; or what could be
made for one of the tiny Apple devices, like a Nano? Interesting
possibilities.
Regards,
Cheree Heppe
On 18-Apr-15 07:39 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote:
You can't actually reply to email on the Apple Watch, only read it.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org
On 19/04/2015, at 10:35 am, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com
<mailto:doniado...@me.com>> wrote:
It does seem like using the watch to do email would be incredibly
tedious. I still seem myself doing that from my phone, too. I would
only advise getting the watch if you want to do the health tracking.
Cheers,
Donna
On Apr 18, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Sadam Ahmed <sadamahmed1...@gmail.com
<mailto:sadamahmed1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Interesting. After ordering mine on the first day I've
subsequently hit the cancel button.
I came to the conclusion that my iPhone can already do most of the
things I'd use the Watch for anyway.
Also me being a productivity nut I can't see myself powering through
my email on said Watch like I can on the phone.
Maybe I'll get the second generation but at this point it appears to
be not worth it.
Most first gen Apple products come with a quirk.
Kind regards,
Sadam Mohammed Ahmed
B.A. Business Information Systems
RMIT University
On 4/19/2015 7:32 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote:
It is a good thing. My order is due to ship around july and I am
going for an advanced mobility course with some other uni mates so
I will have the perfect occasion to really test it out against my
initial opinion. If it really doesn’t fit my needs, I can always
send it back via the local apple store. it really bogs down to
battery life for me. But I’m sure next generations will get much
better, especially with the upcoming leaps in battery life.
All the best,
On 19/04/2015, at 6:32 am, gs <geoffsli...@gmail.com
<mailto:geoffsli...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I guess this is a very wise way to look at things with regard to
the 14 days. I just can't see myself getting too much use from it
as others have said. I keep my phone in my shirt pocket within
easy reach and earpods around my neck. I don't like the way the
blue tooth headsets I have tried work with VO and just don't see
how having something on my wrist is really going to make that much
difference. Maybe I'm off track on this. For visual users I do
understand it though.
On Apr 18, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com
<mailto:doniado...@me.com>> wrote:
I had a chance to go into an Apple store this morning, so decided
to take a look at the Apple watch. I was very interested in it,
but not sure what I would think, based on the mixed reviews I've
seen. It was hard to tell much because they weren't able to demo
voiceover, but I liked the form factor, and thought the stuff I
was hearing from the video demo was pretty cool. Since I have
fourteen days to return it if I don't like it, I decided to go
ahead and pre-order one. I just got the aluminum sports model,
because I figure it's highly likely that I'll want to upgrade when
newer generations are released, so didn't see the sense in
shelling out the extra $200. Looking forward to its arrival and
getting to actually put it through its paces.
Cheers,
Donna
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