A personal favorite, Apple Pencil, can be used with the 8th Gen.Theres a lot going on, 99.9 percent of it bad, leaving scant hours to pick through blogs for fresh meat like the rabid tech vulture you were a blissful year ago.Apple really did train the world to have a Pavlovian response to the word keynote.
The pandemic slowed production down in many factories, including those that make iPhone parts, so Apple confirmed that the new generation of iPhone (presumably the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro) will be delayed beyond the traditional September release date and announced at a future Keynote. Still, that leaves a slew of other Apple products about due for upgrades: the Apple Watch, the iPad, and the AirPods in particular. For this 2020 Keynote, the tech blogs were aflame with rumors about an Apple Watch 6 that tracks blood oxygen levels, a new iPad Air, over-the-ear AirPods, even a new HomePod. What follows is everything worth knowing that Apple actually revealed. Understandably, as even outside of the pandemic wellness is all anyone can talk about. Itll feature a sleep tracker (in case you actually wear a watch when you sleep), a hand-washing timer (very timely for 2020), and blood oxygen tracking (the watch quite literally tracks the color of your blood). Generally speaking, blood oxygen level indicates good or bad breathing and circulation for the heart and lungs. Apple also gave a rundown on Apple Fitness, a new subscription service for the Apple Watch that goes the way of Peloton, Mirror, and Fight Camp. Itll sync your Apple Watch with an Apple device that has a watchable screen (your iPhone, your Apple TV) to play a trainers workout and also display realtime statistics about your performance as tracked by the watch. It costs 9.99 per month, and though a new Apple Watch purchase comes with three months free, that aint cheap. Beyond health and activity features, the Apple Watch Series 6 comes in four colors: gold and graphite, along with a navy blue and Product Red red. Its rumored that the Product Red watch actually draws blood to both measure your blood color and become sentient. Kidding, of course; Apple Watches arent trying to steal our humanity yet. Save for dual-tone gradients and some customization for pretty bland facesand the option to have Buzz and Woody fooling around on the face while you tried to check the damn weather forecastthere were few decent options. Now, Apple offers illustrated faces, well-designed numerals to mark the hours, and some really nice and simple two-toned circles. They nearly fill a Swiss-engineering-esque gap in the face gallery. The Apple Watch 6 is also equipped with a brighter display for sunny days, so if you want to confer with whatever monstrosity you made on Animoji for your watch screen while at the beach or whatever, you can. And, you can control your children, with family-orientated Apple Watch features. The SEs lower price actually makes the Family Set-Up for your kids somewhat viable, but were still not sure well see kids putting these on their holiday wish lists. Release Date: September 18 Apple One, from 14.95 To address the onslaught of Apple subscription services, Apples offering a bundling plan, starting at 14.95 a month for individuals and 19.95 a month for the fam, that comes with Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, and extended iCloud storage. Theres also a premium plan that works for the family and extends the subscriptions to include Apple Fitness and News. The 8th Gen works with Apples full-size keyboard cases and the extended line from Logitech, including the Rugged offshoot, which is a must for kids or the more drop-prone among us.
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