Author: David Phelan / Source: Forbes
Since the very first time we saw the Apple Watch, announced by CEO Tim Cook in Fall 2014, Apple has been pushing the envelope in terms of ways to communicate.
Back then, the company made a big thing of how you could send your heartbeat to another Watch wearer by pressing two fingers on the timepiece’s display.
You can still do this, and it feels surprisingly intimate. Now ,it’s also possible to send your own personal flub-dub from iPhone Messages, too, and perhaps your heart was beating that bit faster if you were messaging somebody special.At WWDC on June 4, Apple announced that from this Fall, when watchOS 5 is launched, the Apple Watch will have new a new way to talk: Walkie-Talkie.
I mean, there’s nothing new about a walkie-talkie, but as you might imagine, Apple’s execution of this connection on a Watch is superbly done. I tested it at WWDC and now developers who have downloaded the second dev beta of watchOS 5 have been able to try it out.
So, how good is it? It’s really good. If the standout feature at this stage in the watchOS 4 beta was the addition of those adorable scamps, the Toy Story characters…
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