Apple Watch: Day 3 & 4

Rubia Arfeen , a senior in Biological Sciences and a Libraries employee, will be blogging about her experience with the Apple Watch “a technology new to the NCSU Libraries lending pool.


DAY 3
 Okay, so I think I am finally getting a hang of this. I was able to send and receive texts without too much trouble! The watch also saves the last couple of texts in a conversion on the iPhone 6. The handoff feature is also pretty handy. One thing that I noticed is that whenever the watch would send me a notification about getting up and moving around and reaching my activity goals for the day, I would get up and move around. I know we are interested in possible research uses, so maybe the watch could be used for health benefits. That's all for now, good night!

Maria and Rubia
DAY 4
 I linked my email to the iPhone 6, and the fact that I can open my email on the watch is pretty cool and officially my 3rd favorite thing. But when you get a long email, it isn't practical to read it on the watch, especially if it has attachments.
At that point it's smarter to switch to your phone or laptop.

I volunteer as a teacher at the Islamic Association of Raleigh's Sunday school, and my first graders LOVED the camera on the watch and kept asking me if they could play with it! I ended up letting one of my students hold the iPhone 6 while I took a selfie of him from the watch. He basically thought it was the coolest thing ever.

One thing I've noticed about the watch is that the iPhone has to be pretty close by if you want to use Siri to search for something. I would say the phone has to be within 20ft. Also, I have no idea how this happened, but the watch keeps calling me Maria. Even technology gets me and my twin sister confused! I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Lastly, I noticed that the watch tends to get a little warm after a while, and I just take it off for a few minutes whenever that happens. I don't normally wear a watch, so I don't know if this is particular to this watch or if it happens with all watches. Besides that, it's pretty comfortable and doesn't cause any friction to my wrist or decrease mobility.