Category: WATCH

In preparation of this week’s release of the Nike+ version of Apple Watch Series 3, Nike on Monday updated its Nike+ Run Club app with a new Audio Guided Runs feature, a social networking function called Cheers and other features highlighted during the …
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Major League Baseball on Monday announced the Oakland Athletics recently trialled a contactless ticketing system that relies on Apple NFC assets to let customers enter the stadium with the tap of an iPhone or Apple Watch. The pilot, which ran for six home …
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Apple is ramping up the orders ahead of Christmas. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac The holiday season is always good for Apple, and this year is no exception. Along with the iPhone X’s possible record pre-orders and better-than-initially-thought iPhone 8 …
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Digitimes says a number of Apple suppliers of the wearable products are all predicting strong growth in Q4. Quanta Computer, Inventec as well as the ASE group’s Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) and the Foxconn group’s Shunsin Technology and …
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After years of flailing mediocrity, smartwatches have gotten good enough to be mainstream. Two devices released in the last month, the Apple Watch Series 3 and the Fitbit Ionic, are the best we’ve seen. Not only are they both very, very good at telling …
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Last week, excited new Apple Watch owners tried to activate their new cellular wrist devices on networks such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Unfortunately, many were not able to make calls or receive messages. The problems were especially prevalent on AT …
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Certainly Apple has attempted to address this with the inclusion of the new LTE version. This attempts to make the Apple Watch Series 3 a more independent device, capable of operating without the continually attendant iPhone smartphone. LTE is supposed to …
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The Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE is getting middling reviews. That’s not about the Apple Watch, which is terrific. The problem is the LTE. With that tiny Apple Watch battery, it only has about an hour of talk time. I’ve been thinking a lot this week about …
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Some Apple Watch Series 3 users are experiencing issues with connecting to LTE when away from their phones, which, you know, kind of defeats the purpose of having a cellular watch. Suddenly, your excitement for the watch is now mixed with frustration.
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It’s not me and it’s not really Apple, it’s the state of most smartwatches today. A couple of years ago I wrote that the Apple Watch was the best Apple product I’ve ever purchased. Yesterday, I sent my Apple Watch Series 3 back to Apple after a week and no …
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If you’re in the market for a smartwatch, and have a few dollars to spare, Apple Watch is the way to go. The new Series 3 offers more than any Apple Watch before it: make calls over a cellular connection, stream more than 40 million songs, and monitor your …
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With each generation, the Apple Watch’s purpose has seemed to shift. The first one demonstrated what Apple thought a wearable should be, and the second tried to be the perfect workout companion. When it came time to build the Series 3, though, Apple took …
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Go to the Dictionary.com entry for “early adopter” and you’re likely to see a picture of me. I love playing with new gadgets, and my job as tech stocks editor at TheStreet gives me an excuse to spend even more money on the latest gizmo (“It’s for work,” I …
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My hands-on look at the Apple Watch Series 3 is still forthcoming, but I have to say that I’ve been extremely impressed by the potential and speed of this device. The Series 3 is, in my opinion, what the original Apple Watch aspired to be. The hardware …
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I’ve never been shy about my disdain for smartwatches. Every company from Google to Apple to the now-defunct startup Pebble overpromised and under-delivered on wearables. There wasn’t a clear purpose for smartwatches other than they were geeky and kind of …
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This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Payments Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Starbucks is enhancing its app for the Apple Watch, allowing users to add money to their virtual Starbucks card from the watch …
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