This week on aBlogtoWatch Weekly, Ariel, David, and Rick are back together for the first time in 2024! It’s another rollicking episode, with favorites from 2023, the fate of watch collections when their owners pass on, the effect of shirt sleeves on watch size preference, and a lamentation of terrible brand websites. Plus, musings on the […] The post ABTWW: Shirt Sleeves, Brand Websites, And The Fate of Your Watches appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

Titanium is having a moment right now. The lightweight and strong metal has been familiar to consumers for several decades, but in the last few years, titanium has started to show up in more products, and for purposes beyond sheer performance. In 2023, Apple introduced the first iPhone (with the iPhone 15) to use titanium […] The post Hands-On: Titanium’s Time Has Come With The Apple Watch Ultra 2 appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

Over the last seven days, aBlogtoWatch’s David Bredan and I experienced “Competition Mode” in the Apple Watch. This is part of the Apple Watch’s larger suite of activity and fitness tracking features and has been around for at least a couple Apple Watch software generations. Testing the competition feature of the Apple Watch was something […] The post Testing The Apple Watch’s Activity Competition Mode appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

For a lot of people I know, a major victim of the pandemic has been the phenomenon of positive reinforcement. Nearly everyone I’ve been in touch with (well, very little actual touch) over the last year has experienced a decrease in positive feedback, and in many instances, an increase in negative reinforcement from an understandably […] The post The Surprising Wellness Value Of Smartwatch Fitness Notifications appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

The first thing Apple got right was not calling it the Apple Watch Pro. Over the last few years, consumer tech companies have knocked the wind out of the meaning of the term “pro,” which of course is an abbreviation for “professional.” Anything larger or more expensive was officially labeled “pro,” and accordingly, Apple was […] The post Review: Apple Watch Ultra (Series 8) appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

Apple’s watchOS 9 operating system for the Apple Watch introduces a new “sleep stages” tracking system as part of the sleep tracking feature that Apple originally introduced in watchOS 7. Being in bed with your smartwatch is another opportunity for you to keep your smartwatch on. This adds to the list of ways your Apple […] The post Sleeping With The Apple Watch Series 8 appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

With each new generation of Apple Watch, Apple adds functionality and variety to the available watch faces users can select and customize to meet their needs and interests. When the Apple Watch Series 5 was released, Apple went so far as to introduce some brand new “complications,” adding to the long list of information widgets […] The post Apple Watch Series 5 Displays Information I Most Appreciate On My Wrist appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

As watch enthusiasts, we often like to write off smartwatches as not being “real” timepieces. However, regardless of our personal thoughts on smartwatches and connected devices, in general, it is impossible to have a discussion about contemporary wristwatches in 2022 without including the Apple Watch. Whether you consider it the ultimate watch or the anti-watch, […] The post Hands-On: The Apple Watch Ultra appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

To quickly recap, the last time we checked in with the Apple Watch, the platform had just received its biggest update ever in the Series 4 Edition (go hands-on with that release, right here), with a slew of new functionality that pushed the device far beyond the definition of any watch – smart or otherwise. […] The post Apple Watch Series 4 Updated With WatchOS 6 At WWDC19 appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more

The latest Apple Watch is here, and it’s the Apple Watch Series 7 that will start to ship to buyers just a few days after this article is released in mid-October 2021. The Apple Watch Series 7 represents an incremental but meaningful improvement over previous-generation Apple Watch products, and today, I check out the aluminum-cased […] The post Smartwatch Review: Apple Watch Series 7 Aluminum appeared first on aBlogtoWatch ..read more