Apple Watch 'watchOS 2' is now available to download!

The wait is over...
Here comes the Apple Watch watchOS 2!

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If you own Apple Watch and haven't upgraded to Apple Watch latest OS: watchOS 2, then now you should upgrade it, because the watchOS 2 is available to download.

What's new and noticable
So what is new on watchOS 2?
There are plenty of new features built into watchOS 2, however here is the summary of the most noticeable changes and most usable for you:

0. Bigger and more 'full' buttons on Lockscreen

As you can see from the image above, watchOS 2 lockscreen buttons are bigger and square, make it more space for your finger to key in the passcode. 


1. New watch faces
Timelapse, photo album and photo are the new watch faces available in watchOS 2.
There are also background color addition to the existing watch faces, such as in Chronograph, you can now choose dark green, dark grey, instead of black and white only.

2. Nightstand mode
Apple has not yet successful to make battery life in Apple Watch to be as great as those in Pebble, that's why Apple made Nightstand mode instead, where when you put your Apple Watch in the night for sleeping, you can make it as a desk clock. Put the Apple Watch on its side while charging and that's it.

3. Native Apps
When I first run my first 3rd party app on my Apple Watch using watchOS 1, I'm a bit disappointed by the app performance, especially when you activate the app/game for the first time. It was just like forever loading.
Now Apple has fixed it with introducing native apps into the Apple Watch, where apps/games activate and run faster.
  
4. More powerful Siri
Just like iOS 9, watchOS 2 also includes a more powerful Siri. You can now ask her to do calculation for you, ask direction and transit direction, check your glances and so much more.

5. Activation Lock
I don't know why the reason Apple didn't bring this feature in the first place on the original watchOS, but right now they do it right by introducing Activation Lock to the Apple Watch, so should you lost your Apple Watch, nobody ever - at least for the time being - be able to use your Apple Watch without your permission - unlocking the device.

6. Add more friends
Previously on the original watchOS 1, Apple only allows you to save so-called speed dial of your friends/family members contacts up to 12 contacts. Now still the same 12 contacts, but Apple allows you to have multiple pages consists of 12 contacts each.

So, if you own Apple Watch and haven't upgraded it to watchOS 2, wait no more!



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Apple Watch: The Good and Bad - After 1 Month of Using it

Yesterday 2nd August 2015 is 1-month milestone for me using my Apple Watch.

And today I would like to share with you, my personal opinion about Apple Watch that probably can help you - if you are right now still deciding whether or not to buy the Apple Watch.

So, after a month of usage, I found that Apple Watch is pretty useful for me to:
1. Know the time. Of course! It's given.

2. Get notification and see them directly from my wrist and reply them directly also from my wrist - if the app has function to directly reply from Apple Watch

3. Catch up with my daily activity in relation to health activity: walk, move, stand up
Each and every hour, the Watch is reminding me to stand up and will give a praise if you did stand up. Personally I become motivated to always fill all the meters on the activity tracker.
See my activity record here:

4. Occasionally answering a phone call
If you ever been in this kind of situation, sorry for the example - you are on toilet and somebody is calling you and somehow you have to pick the call, then answering a phone call from the watch is become very handy rather than trying to reach your iPhone on the pocket to grab it and answer the call. 

5. Easily change from 1 strap to another strap
Yes, changing strap on Apple Watch is super easy. You can change your strap on daily basis - assuming if you have quite many straps. From Apple official straps to 3rd party straps. All you need to have, especially if you bought the Apple Watch Sport model, is the Apple Watch Strap Adapter.

And here are things I found that Apple Watch is sucks:
1. 3rd Party app is slow
Yes, on Apple Watch with WatchOS 1.0.1, 3rd party apps runs slow when you open the app and run it from the Watch - especially the first time you execute the app. Although when the app is running the slowness is gone, but still it took quite long to load the app on the Apple Watch that sometimes makes me change my mind and directly close the app even before finished loading.

2. Battery is draining faster
If I use it only for tracking time and my activity, the battery can last about 2 days. However, when I start playing games or running apps then the battery can simply run out within hours.

So:
If you really fans of Apple: you should go buy Apple Watch
If you want to look cool: go buy Apple Watch - Sport edition is enough for you
If you want to look damn rich: go buy the Gold Edition Watch
If you think you need something to track your heath and want something fancy to show the tracking, you should go buy Apple Watch
If you have extra money and right now using iPhone: go buy Apple Watch. It's still a great piece of technology. Don't forget, Apple Watch has heart rate sensor.
If you are on budget and looking for something to track down your activity, check time, get notification: you should go buy something else like Pebble which is definitely cheaper compare to Apple Watch

Which one are you?
If you already have Apple Watch with you, what is your usage? Tell me in comments below.

Thanks!

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[Apple Watch] Apple Watch Faces with all the features explained

Did you know that the Apple Watch with WatchOS 1.0 is coming with 10 default watch faces you can choose on?

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Here they are:
1. Chronograph
Main feature: as its name suggested, chronograph. show time with great accuracy.
What you can change: timescale, background color from black to grey to white, and gadgets.
You can have up to max 3 gadgets using this watch face.

2. Utility
Main feature: showing long information via gadget at the bottom.
What you can change: detail - adding or removing the seconds, second arm color, and gadgets.
You can have up to max 3 gadgets using this watch face. 2 small gadgets on both top left and right of the screen and 1 long gadget at the bottom of the screen.
The gadget at the bottom will show you the long version of the information you chose. Best is to be set as calendar.

3. Modular
Main feature: showing time and gadget like a pile of stacks. The gadgets shown are also quite big compared to other watch faces.
What you can change: color and the gadgets.
You can have up to max 5 gadgets using this watch face. 4 medium size gadgets on top and bottom of the screen and 1 long size gadget on the middle of the screen.

4. Simple
Main feature: similar to Utility watch face, the main difference is the watch does not shown any number to make it looks simple.
What you can change: detail - adding or removing the seconds, second arm color, and gadget.
You can have up to max 4 gadgets using this watch face.

5. Motion
Main feature: show animations, from butterfly to flower to jellyfish.
What you can change: animation, and date gadget.
You can have up to max 1 gadgets using this watch face and it has to show date.

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6. Astronomy
Main feature: show your current location on the earth, show the earth phase and moon phase.
What you can change: nothing. Astronomy is not customizable.
However, there are 3 gadgets on this watch face: calendar, solar system and earth/moon phase.

7. Color
Main feature: color customization - change to any color you like.
What you can change: color and gadgets.
You can have up to max 5 gadgets using this watch face.

8. Solar
Main feature: similar to Astronomy watch face, this watch face can't be customized. Solar is to show you where is the sun/moon phase right now using a curve.
What you can change: nothing.
However there is 1 gadget that shows date.

9. Mickey
Main feature: Mickey from Disney. If you have ever owned a iPod Nano 6th gen, the Mickey watch face is almost identical.
What you can change: gadgets.
You can have up to max 3 gadgets using this watch face. 2 small gadgets at both top left and right of the screen and 1 long gadget at the bottom of the screen.

10. X-Large
Main feature: shows you the clock in a very large size. If you owned Pebble before, this watch face is similar to one of Pebble watch face.
What you can change: font color.
Unfortunately there is no gadgets on this watch face.

So, have you figured out which one you like most?
Personally I like Chronograph because it looks masculine on my hand when wearing the Apple Watch.

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[Apple Watch How-To] How to Install Apps/Games to Your Apple Watch

Like to see your favorite apps or play your favorites games to your Apple Watch?
Follow these steps below to install them to your Apple Watch.

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Here is how to install Apple Watch Apps/Games to Your Apple Watch:
1. Make sure your iPhone iOS is at least iOS 8.3
Check your iOS version by going to iPhone Settings > General > About. Scroll down until you find "Version"

2. Make sure you have activated your Apple Watch

3. Make sure you are connected to your Apple Watch
Turn on your bluetooth by going to iPhone Settings > Bluetooth > Turn ON

4. Make sure you have installed your app/game on the iPhone, if not, install them first. And check whether the app/game have the "Offers Apple Watch App for iPhone" sign on it.
If the app/game have "Offers Apple Watch App for iPhone" logo, then you are good to go.
If the app/game don't have "Offers Apple Watch App for iPhone" logo, that means your app/game does not yet support Apple Watch instalation.

5. Make sure you have run the app/game at least once. If you just freshly installed the app/game, open them first.

6. Open "Apple Watch" app on your iPhone, and go to "My Watch" tab.

7. Scroll down until the last section and see if your app/game listed there. For freshly installed app/game make sure to run them at least once and wait for few moments until they are shown in the "My Watch" tab.

8. Once you see the app/game icon, click on the app/game icon, then "turn on" the "Show App on Apple Watch"

9. Once turned on, it will start installing the app/game, and depending on your app/game size to be installed, the installation process can take from few seconds to few minutes

10. Once the "installing..." has disappear from your iPhone screen, turn on your Apple Watch and go to the main menu, you should see the app/game now there on your Apple Watch

Enjoy running the apps or playing your favorite games on your watch!
At this point of time, based on my trial, the Apple Watch with Apple WatchOS 1.0 is quite slow when executing the app/game on the watch. So be patient and be merry!

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Finally I got my hands on my own Apple Watch!

Yesterday was 30th June 2015, the day I got my own Apple Watch!

For those who are wondering why it take so long, because I live in Singapore. And I don't know why Singapore was not on the first batch country list - where Singapore usually is in the list of first batch country.

Went to Japan last time to try grab the Apple Watch because the fact at that time, Singapore hasn't launched the Apple Watch yet, I found some models sold there but not the one I wanted to. So in the end, I end up with nothing. 

But never mind, now I got my Apple Watch already, hopefully in the next few days I can share with you guys my experience with it, all the tricks, all the apps and games.

To be honest from my personal experience, Apple Watch is not as simple as when I got my hands first time using iPod and iPhone.
Even as of now, I still don't know how to change the watch faces. Just managed to figure out how to check heart rate using the heart rate sensor.