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Apple Watch Hack Adds a Browser For Your Wrist
TechCrunch reports that the Apple Watch now evidently has an tantalizing, but unofficial, feature: a browser, created by the jailbreak developer known as Comex. "Not great" is their headline-level assessment of what it looks like to use, which can't be too surprising: even a large watch face is still a small screen, by comparison to a laptop, a tablet, or even a phone. Venture Beat's assessment is similar: "As you’d expect, it’s an awkward mess." Making hardware do things it wasn't intended to is still a worthy pursuit, though, and TechCrunch notes: Out of the box, running arbitrary code like this shouldn’t be possible — while a native SDK is inbound, only stuff built with Apple’s somewhat limited WatchKit framework is supposed to run on the device for now. Is this a subtle demonstration of the world’s first jailbroken Apple Watch?
The return of WAP sites.
Are any of them still around?
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I've been wearing one for a week, and I've really been enjoying it. Some points:
* I was really surprised at how battery life wasn't a problem at all. The first week I was reaching the end of day with 50% charge left. Definitely requires overnight charging, but other than that no battery problems. I even took the battery indicator off the homescreen cuz it wasnt an issue.
* I'm of two minds on the notifications. Good in theory. But the "wrist tap" is a little subtle for me and I often miss it. also, I wish the notification was available for longer on the screen.
* the killer killer app for me, the thing that once I tried it once became indespensible, is seeing my next appointment on my watch face. holy cow it just blows me away how handy this it. it requires a bit of work to keep your calendar up to date and consise (the entry names should be less than 16 characters), but once that's in place it's super handy.
* I like the ability to change watch faces, but it's not a big deal. I have a workday info-packed face, a weekend relaxed face and an evening chill face. no big deal, but it's nice.
* the thing is really small and light. I can easily wear it all day and not notice.
* the apps are mostly a pain in the ass. jury is out on that one.
* an exception is the watch's remote app, which among other things can control my apple tv. it's surprisingly handy! good thing, too, because I lost my apple remote about a week ago and don't know where it went!
so there you go, first impressions on apple watch.
I'm building an iPhone app that tells you (on your iPhone screen) what time it is on your Apple Watch.
It's a way to use your phone, so that you don't have to glance at your watch.
It's going to be awesome. Next I'm going to make a way to show you the iPhone alerts on your Apple Watch, on your iPhone.
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