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So, how did they got around Apple Watch locking up once the heartrate sensor detects it's been taken off the hand? They didn't, and they were extremely careful not to mention the issue anywhere on the page. So, be aware that you'll have to enter the PIN code every time you pick it up.
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> but I do need things that are essentially task-oriented tools: Uber/Lyft, Weather apps, Maps, Authenticator Code apps > because it's exactly what I'd want. I’m not sure it is. Most of the things you list aren’t that functional on Watch, in my experience. It’s ok-ish to pull up on Watch after you’ve set it up on your phone, but without a phone, Watch is much more limited, IME. You can definitely use Watch for a numb…
>It’s ok-ish to pull up on Watch after you’ve set it up on your phone, but without a phone, Watch is much more limited, IME. Don't you normally still have a phone nearby and synced to the watch? I don't think I know anyone that uses a smart watch in lieu of a phone, just as an accessory that keeps them from having to pull out their phone.
> What if sometimes you could just… leave your phone at home? With all the essentials to stay connected, tinyPod makes that actually possible. But that’s a feature of an Apple Watch, this case doesn’t impact this in any way - I already leave my phone at home like this and I don’t own this case.
I also thought it was funny that they are listing features like apple pay and magnetic charging as if these features have anything to do with the case.
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> he AW is doing a lot more in the background For Apple-blessed stuff only. They tightened third-party widget update budget so badly third-party widgets that should provide up-to-date information are essentially unusable. E.g. large Weathergraph widget still works because it shows a day-long forecast, so being an hour old is rarely noticeable, but Fantastical (can keep showing outdated event for a while and miss the…
Thanks - Weathergraph author here. The tightened update budgets are just a part of a puzzle, another bad parts are: - no background updates (for non-Apple apps, of course) once the low power mode is enabled - a buch of long unfixed bugs, like this one https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5568946145067008 - a WidgetKit cache of rendered widgets gets randomly corrupted (race issue when rendering maybe? seems to happe…
Would be cool if it also had a headphone jack
It's a fully mechanical shell with no electronics so you're asking for a jack in the watch itself which would be pretty comical. For this to add a jack you'd need Apple to have put in a port for 3rd party accessories and provide an API for using it.
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You’re in luck because it does and that’s exactly how my daughter uses it at school.
How? I mean without owning an iPhone at all, not without yours nearby. I'm aware they have 4G. I mean for Android/dumbphone users.
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Pockets? So 20th Century. I’m seeing people wear their massive phones on lanyards around their neck all day.
Really? What city or part of the world do you observe this? That is a wild fashion statement.
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A taxi with pre-calculated price, driver and vehicle rating, that actually arrives on time and the driver can't take you around the city with a boosted taxameter to overcharge you. Amazing indeed.
On time? Here in europe (Germany, Poland, CZ) you get ETA 7 minutes, but real time is 10-12 minutes every time. It's going down and only the cost agreement is now better than taxi. Money, as always, is the only matter working here.
I used a "real taxi" a lot in Germany, Poland and CZ before Uber. The best approximate they gave me was "in half an hour" and it usually was more like 45-60 minutes, if it arrived at all. The usual thing to do was to take one passing by, but that got you a terrible smelly car with a ganster driver that overcharged 2x-5x.
Since you mention CZ - the taxi mafia in Prague was especially legendary. Can't thank Uber enough for disrupting that.
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From the linked NIH page about the study (via the Wayback Machine): > “The exposures used in the studies cannot be compared directly to the exposure that humans experience when using a cell phone,” said John Bucher, Ph.D., NTP senior scientist. “In our studies, rats and mice received radio frequency radiation across their whole bodies. By contrast, people are mostly exposed in specific local tissues close to where th…
Sure, but is causing a little damage to a tiny part of the body acceptable? Exposure levels and durations -- common sense would suggest those are going up with people using more devices for more time every day. I was not inclined to believe this whole radiation business for such reasons too -- "it's one study", "if it were so bad this would make front-page of the NYT", "entire labs of scientists and governments canno…
I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware. I love that they put in all of the effort to figure out a mechanical linkage between the clickwheel and the digital crown! I don't think all hardware needs t…
It's art!