{"id":382,"date":"2016-08-06T00:03:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frella.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2016-08-06T00:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T00:03:44","slug":"apple-watch-review-from-a-non-tech-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/06\/apple-watch-review-from-a-non-tech-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch Review From a Non-Tech Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-blog-width wp-image-379\" src=\"http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1-630x630.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender-1\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1-630x630.jpg 630w, http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1-952x952.jpg 952w, http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1-572x572.jpg 572w, http:\/\/frella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/FullSizeRender-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been living with my Apple Watch since Christmas and so I feel I can now give an honest review. For the record, this is by no means solicited&#8230;just me on my own account. And can I start off by apologizing for my veiny hands and oddly tanned arms&#8230;we&#8217;ve spent a lot of time outside this summer. I actually edited the picture to make my arm look LESS orange \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>For a little back story, I wasn&#8217;t in the market for one, but my husband is a tech lover to the Nth degree and so several months after they came out, I ended up with one too. I&#8217;m not a huge tech person, but will try to stay at least somewhat up to date. But let&#8217;s just say I rely heavily on my husband to do all that for me \ud83d\ude42 I am a huge watch person however, so it wasn&#8217;t a struggle to get me to wear a watch, but I was really happy with my not too expensive wide banded gold watch. Looks and function-wise. I turned to look at my wrist and voila! There was the time!<\/p>\n<p>When I got my Apple Watch, I tried wearing it a few times, but it comes with a white sports band and that was just not \u00a0&#8220;me&#8221;. I like my watch to double as a jewelry piece as well as be functional. I thought the Apple gold bands were crazy expensive, but I guess on Amazon, there are tons of compatible bands for far less cost. The one in the picture I think was around $18. Because of the white band, I was hardly wearing it at all until my husband gave the suggestion to buy a band from Amazon. That was a game changer for me having the gold band. For the last few months I have been wearing it pretty much every day. That said, there are some pros and cons for me. Keep in mind, I am not a tech lover and still prefer to write my grocery list on an old fashioned notepad.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my breakdown list of PROS and CONS:<\/p>\n<h5>PROS:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>With a band that fits your style, it&#8217;s a good looking watch<\/li>\n<li>Tracks your steps, activity level and bugs you with a little buzz on your wrist to stand if you have sat too long<\/li>\n<li>You can quickly glance at a text when you receive one<\/li>\n<li>Tracks your walking and\/or running<\/li>\n<li>I can see when I&#8217;ve received an Etsy message<\/li>\n<li>Shows weather&#8230;and a whole lot of other features. Let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; I don&#8217;t use it to it&#8217;s full potential<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>CONS:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Incoming buzz updates on your wrist can almost cause an accident if you are driving in traffic<\/li>\n<li>Clock doesn&#8217;t always light up when you turn your wrist to look &#8211; big annoyance on my part! I like a watch to work when I need it too. And my hands are usually full so I can&#8217;t tap the screen with my other hand.<\/li>\n<li>You have to charge it nightly so you can&#8217;t use\u00a0it for the sleep monitoring function<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t use it to play soccer or when I exercise with a kettle bell so the fitness function is a moot point when I do these<\/li>\n<li>I also have a fitbit and the steps calculated are\u00a0more than on my fitbit. Sounds good, but which one is accurate???? I tend to lean towards\u00a0on the lesser side to be safe.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m always worried I will scratch or crack the screen<\/li>\n<li>Replying back to text messages isn&#8217;t practical when driving. Your phone is much easier when you have a moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there is my unbiased review! I hope my husband isn&#8217;t disappointed with all my cons, but for someone like him, he loves it. He optimizes his to it&#8217;s full potential and is a tech guy through and through. I&#8217;m on the fence about it and if you are someone like me, but aren&#8217;t sure about getting one. I&#8217;d wait until the next generation comes out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been living with my Apple Watch since Christmas and so I feel I can now give an honest review. For the record, this is by no means solicited&#8230;just me on my own account. And can I start off by apologizing for my veiny hands and oddly tanned arms&#8230;we&#8217;ve spent a lot of time outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,166,165,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frella.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}