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蘋果全新智能手表和iPhone6之體驗
蘋果的全新智能手表發布上市時，三星、索尼和摩托羅拉等公司的智能手表正處于短暫的繁榮時期。明年年初蘋果智能手表上市時，這款售價為349美元的設備（至少低端設計的價格為349美元）將有兩種不同的表盤尺寸（1.5英寸和1.65英寸），腕帶將由皮革、合成材料和金屬制成，而表盤使用的材料是防刮玻璃。表盤背面的傳感器可以檢測用戶的脈搏，以跟蹤燃燒的卡路里和走路或跑步的距離等指標。（更多全球資訊關注中國進出口網）
仔細檢查后，我們發現，蘋果智能手表是市場上造型最優美的智能手表之一，僅摩托羅拉的Moto 360可以與其外形相匹敵。大多數智能手表看起來要么笨重，要么缺乏創意——只能說比20世紀80年代造型庸俗的計算器手表好看一些。但是，蘋果在將其智能手表化作造型優美的傳統手表方面做得十分出色。蘋果智能手表足夠小，而且輕薄——即使是對像我這樣手腕很細的人也是如此——而且，樣品的優質腕帶還使用了與斯沃琪（Swatch）或更高檔手表相同的材料。
我試用的手表尺寸為38毫米——蘋果公司將出售兩種尺寸的手表，尺寸分別為38毫米和42毫米。皮質表帶使用與蘋果iPad皮套相同的、薄而平的材料制成。對于iPad外套而言，這種材料確實很不錯，而且可以將體積縮至最小。但是這種薄而平的材料用于表帶，在我看來則顯得有些廉價。當然，這是一個見仁見智的問題，而且還有其他種類的表帶可供用戶選擇。
表盤的右側有兩個按鈕——一個被稱為“數碼表冠”的撥盤，撥盤的操作很像人們過去用來給手表上發條的表冠。不過，對于蘋果智能手表而言，撥盤是用來導航屏幕菜單的。將撥盤向左或右旋轉，可以將主屏幕上顯示的應用放大或縮小。同時，按下撥盤下面的按鈕，將會顯示好友和家人的簡要列表。
在現實世界中，我從未見過用這種方式來分享脈搏跟蹤數據的情況，但是，如果我想在出去慢跑的時候向朋友口授一個文本，這個功能就十分有用了。蘋果還花費大量的精力制作了兩款新的健康應用程序——一款用于跟蹤用戶每天的活動，另一款用于跟蹤特定的活動（比如5公里跑）——但是我未能測試這兩款應用程序。
如果你不習慣三星等品牌的大屏智能手機，那么把尺寸更大的iPhone 6放在手上將會讓你感到震撼。這款手機輕、薄，但是很大，像小型的iPad Mini一樣。而較小一些的4.7英寸版iPhone 6僅比iPhone 5S大0.7英寸，所以尺寸差別可以忽略不計。
但是，這兩款手機的背面均采用鋁合金，背面和正面之間的邊框變成了弧面，這樣機身的接縫或縫隙變得更少。盡管iPhone 6和iPhone 6+很輕，但是給人的感受是制作精良，甚至比iPhone 5S還要好。里面配置全新的A8芯片，在上網時，或在打開的應用間切換時，均十分流暢，但說實話，5S在這方面也很出色。iPhone 6處理具有大量3D圖形的移動游戲的性能，應該更能體現蘋果新芯片的強大程度。
第一眼看到蘋果的最新設備似乎讓人印象深刻，但是這些設備仍然有一些問題。可穿戴技術，特別是手表，是非常新的設備類別，目前還不清楚人們對這些設備的需求大不大，即使是蘋果手表也無法確定這一點。（是否有足夠多的蘋果用戶想擁有與手機連通的手表呢？）。另外，蘋果沒有提及手表的電池壽命，而CEO蒂姆o庫克（Tim Cook）大肆贊揚了iPhone 6的電池壽命——這是一個令人不安的跡象，但也可能是因為蘋果智能手表明年才開始上市。同時，雖然iPhone 6制作精良，但是，如果沒有足夠的零售商注冊，那么蘋果公司的Apple Pay支付系統（系統通過手機內的芯片運行）可能面臨著與谷歌錢包（Google Wallet）相同的命運。然而，至少有一點很清楚：在周二，蘋果再次成為了萬眾矚目的焦點。所以蘋果公司就已經完成了任務。
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On Tuesday, Apple unveiled a new bigger iPhone andthe smartwatch aficionados have been waiting for.Fortune had 30 minutes to try them both out. Whatwe found in our limited test were two impressivedevices in keeping with Apple’s reputation forinnovation and design. But some questions stillremain.
Apple’s new smartwatch arrives amid a watch boomlet from companies like Samsung, Sony, andMotorola. When Apple Watch arrives early next year, the $349 device (at least for the low-enddesign) will come in two different watch face sizes with wrist straps made of leather, syntheticmaterials and metal. Its 1.5- and 1.65-inch displays use scratch-resistant glass. Sensors onthe back of the watch face detect a user’s pulse to track things like calories burned anddistance walked or run.
Up close, the Apple Watch is among the sleekest smart watches on the market, matched onlyin looks by Motorola’s Moto 360. Most smart watches look clunky or uninspired — just a fewrungs above those kitschy calculator watches made popular in the 1980s. But Apple’s does agood job masquerading as a slick, traditional timepiece. It’s just small and thin enough —even for folks with smaller wrists like myself — and the premium wrist straps provided in thedemos feature the kind of materials found in Swatch or higher-end time pieces.
The watch I spent time with was a size 38 — Apple will sell two sizes, 38 millimeters and 42millimeters — with the leather strap made of the same thin, flat material used in Apple’sleather iPad cases. For an iPad case, it’s nice, actually, and keeps bulk to a minimum. But whenused for a watch strap, that same thin, flat material felt sort of cheap to me. That’s a matter ofopinion, of course, and users will have watch strap options, regardless.
On the right side of the watch face are two buttons — a dial called the “digital crown,” whichoperates a lot like the crowns people used to wind up their old watches. only here, that dialhelps to navigate menus on the screen. Screwing the dial left and right zooms in and out onthe apps featured on the main screen. Meanwhile, pressing a button below the digital crownbrings up a brief list of favorite friends and family members.
Apple argues this feature will become popular with people seeking a shortcut to quickly theircontact list. As an example, Apple SVP of Operations Jeff Williams measured his heartbeat witha watch and sent it to one of his buddies, in this case, Apple SVP of Internet Software andServices Eddy Cue, who was onstage.
In the real world, I can’t see pulse-tracking being shared this way at all, but I can see thisbecoming useful if I want to dictate a text to a friend while out jogging. Apple also made a bigdeal over two new fitness apps — one for tracking my movements everyday, the other fortracking specific activities like a 5-mile run — but I wasn’t able to test those out.
If you’re not used to larger smartphones from Samsung and the like, cradling the larger iPhone6 in one hand will come as a shock. This thing is thin-and-light, but it’s big, like a miniatureiPad Mini. At 4.7-inches, the smaller iPhone 6 is just .7 -inches larger than the iPhone 5S, so thedifference there is negligible.
But both models now sport an aluminum back that curves around to the front, so there areless seams or gaps in the body. Despite being lightweight, they feel extremely well-made, evenmore so than the iPhone 5S. A new A8 chip inside zipped along while surfing the web orswitching among apps I had open, but the 5S isn’t sluggish either, truth be told. How theiPhone 6 handles 3-D graphics-heavy mobile games should be a better indicator of howpowerful Apple’s new chip is.
While Apple’s latest devices seem impressive on first blush, questions remain. Wearable tech,particularly watches, are such a new device category, it’s unclear whether there’s a hugeappetite for them, even those sold by Apple. (Do enough Apple users want a watch thatcommunicates with their phones?). Apple also failed to mention the watch’s battery life, afeature CEO Tim Cook bragged about for the iPhone 6 — a worrisome sign, but it also could bebecause the Apple Watch doesn’t hit until next year. Meanwhile, the iPhone 6 is well-made, butthe company’s Apple Pay payment system, which works via a chip inside the phone, could seethe same fate as Google Wallet if enough retailers don’t sign-on. But at least one thing wasclear: Apple intrigued people — a lot of people — on Tuesday. So mission accomplished.
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