Apple reveals how Apple Watch measures your heart rate

Apple posted a support page today detailing one of the features of the Apple Watch: heart rate detection. While numerous medical sensors were supposedly planned for the Apple Watch, this is one of the ones that made it to the first generation model. As expected, the Apple Watch is doing something a little fancy to measure your heart rate. The...

Apple preparing initial Apple Watch stock for shipment

Apple has begun preparing its initial Apple Watch stock for shipment. A number of customers have reported that their order status changed to "Preparing for Shipment" today and credit cards have begun being charged. These signs bode well for those who are seeing them and suggest that they will be among the first to receive their Watches on Friday, April...

Analyst on Apple Watch: 3M sales, $2B revenue, most profitable Apple product ever

Analyst Carl Howe posted a thoroughly interesting piece on Apple Watch sales, estimating that pre-orders for the device hit 3 million units with revenue for those orders totalling over $2 billion. Howe's "educated guesses" point to 1.8 million Apple Watch Sport orders, 1.3 million Apple Watch orders and around 40,000 Apple Watch Edition orders. With...

iOS 8.4 jailbreak shown off in new video

Just when things were starting to look a little bleak of the jailbreak community, a well-known hacker has emerged with a proof of concept video showing his iPhone running an iOS 8.4 beta 1 jailbreak. Earlier this month, Apple released iOS 8.3 to the public which included a number of security updates, closing exploits used by jailbreakers in the...

Inateck BK1002 keyboard review: There’s something about physical touch

The idea of user interfaces simply being pieces of glass goes back decades. What was once just a futuristic dream in science fiction now is reality with our iOS devices. But just because we can easily type on glass surfaces doesn't mean that it will always be our preference. I honestly have never felt the need to use a bluetooth keyboard before. After...

Angela Ahrendts: No Apple Watch sales in store until June

If you haven't pre-ordered an Apple Watch, don't bank on being able to walk into your local Apple Store on April 24th and buying one in person. In an email to employees, acquired by 9to5Mac, Apple's retail chief Angela Ahrendts has again confirmed that all purchases will be online through the month of May, blaming high demand and low initial supply. Apple...

Global Apple Watch pre-orders estimated to exceed 2.3 million

While Apple hasn't provided official word on Apple Watch pre-orders, industry analysts are of course offering their own estimates. KGI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo is the latest to guess at pre-order numbers, suggesting that global Apple Watch orders could have surpassed 2.3 million units. Kuo, who has a decent track record discussing Apple, gave his...