Name: How Apple’s Watch Stacks Up
Uploaded: 2014-09-10
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Description: How Apple’s Watch Stacks Up

Apple's new watch is finally announced. Riding a wave of hype and buzz that only Apple products can generate. And while it's still too early to answer for sure, the question becomes. How does it stack up to the competition? Apple's a later entrant in the smart watch race behind models from LG and Motorola. And as is typical for Apple, its new watch carries a premium price tag starting at $ 349. But to be fair, that gets you a very smart watch. Each one uses curved Retina displays, and some are decked out in sapphire faces and 18 carat gold. But it's not just how you look doing things, it's what you can do that sets you apart. And it appears Apple will be the dealing the same trends as the rest of the smart watch industry. For a lot of people, phones are the time keeping device of choice these days. And while modern smart watches do a lot more than just tell time, they don't do much that a phone doesn't already do. In short, ZDNet says smartwatches have more or less extended smartphone apps and notifications to the wrist, albeit with some wrist specific input methods and interfaces. Apple has made a case for health tracking services, which will use the Watch's infrared sensors to track heart rates and as linked to the phone GPS to track distance and speed during exercise. Oh, and the iWatch requires an iPhone model 5c or later to connect with, to run all these features. Apple also didn't make any mention of its battery life, which is generating its own set of worried headlines. The company could have time to keep working on it though. Apple's watch isn't expected on the market until 2015. And it's not going anywhere until it's done dealing with the FCC. At the bottom of its watch site, Apple it's still waiting on authorization before it can start selling its watches.