Five reasons to buy the Apple Watch

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Having an Apple Watch attached to your wrist is a massive convenience. Why? If you get a call or a text, you dont need to stop what youre doing instead, just glance at your wrist. If youve got a call, you can answer it and talk to the recipient directly from the Apple Watch and if you get a text you can either send back an animated emoji, a voice note or a normal text via dictation. Granted, you dont really want to feel like Spock talking to your wrist all the time, but its a great feature for short calls.

It doesnt start and end with notifications and calls though. You can use the Apple Watch to, say, control the music playing from your iPhone using the Now Playing Glance. Instead of fumbling around, trying to get your phone out of your pocket on the train to work every morning, you can just tap your wrist to change song or browse your musical selection. It may sound like a small feature but its the little things that the Apple Watch does that make it a must have.

The Maps app is also extremely convenient, especially when paired with the Apple Watchs Taptic engine well come to that in more detail soon. Using the Maps app on your iPhone can be a pretty tedious experience, especially if youre on foot its a choice of either looking at the directions on your screen or watching where youre going. If youre using the Apple Watch for directions, you dont even need to look at the display because, for example, if you need to turn left then the Apple Watch will vibrate in a unique way that tells you that you need to turn left.

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The first thing that many people will notice is the display of the Apple Watch. Its significantly better than anything else on the market, as many early reviews are suggesting. That includes Nilay Patel at The Verge who, when discussing the display, said that Its light-years beyond everything else.

But just how good is it? It has a retina display with a 290 or 302PPI density, depending on whether you choose the 38mm or 42mm model. This brings vivid colours and clear, crisp images to your Apple Watch, which is a feat in itself considering that many smartwatch manufacturers use low-res displays to make sure their watches last all day on a single charge (the Apple Watch does too, by the way).

It also means that it delivers deep blacks that help to blur the line between display and bezel. It gives the Apple Watch a distinctly more premium feel than watches with displays that look like theyve been dropped into a watch frame.

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As we mentioned earlier, the new Taptic engine used in the Apple Watch (which is also used in the trackpad of the new MacBook) brings a new notification experience to the smartwatch. Many smartwatches have vibration motors theyre a pretty standard feature used to discreetly alert you of an incoming notification. The only issue is that when you get a notification, both you and the people around you can hear the traditionally loud rumble of the vibration motor.

Thats not the case with the Apple Watch. Instead of a loud rumble, the Apple Watchs Taptic engine will give you a gentle tap on the wrist, discreetly letting you know about an incoming notification. The tap can come in a variety of patterns and strengths, so you can differentiate between the different types of notification before you even glance at your watch. The type of vibration depends on the audio waveform of the notification, as the Taptic engine plays a vibration waveform thats directly related to the audio.

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Victory for eco warriors as court hearing allows them to remain in Englefield Green woodland

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Eco villagers living in woodland in Englefield Green are claiming victory after a court ruling that could allow them to remain until after the Magna Carta anniversary celebrations.

Runnymede Eco-Village, has been home to a collection of individuals and families who started building a community of wooden structures in 2012.

It was once the Brunel University Runnymede Campus. But the inhabitants have been issued with an eviction notice by landowners Orchid Runnymede.

Orchid have planning permission to demolish the former university campus and build a collection of care homes, student accommodation units, private homes and affordable housing near the Eco-Village.

However, at a hearing yesterday (Thursday) at Guildford County Court, District Judge Kubiak granted an adjournment after representatives for the landowners asked for an order for possession of the land, on the grounds of trespassing.

Adjourning the case for the villagers to serve their defence, Judge Kubiak said: It appears to me that there is some arrangement in place in some shape or form to occupy this land.

They now have until April 24 to put a defence together, ahead of the next hearing, expected in May.

Speaking afterwards, Peter Phoenix, who has lived in sustainable communities, with squatters and eco-villagers for 20 years, said he hoped it would raise awareness of the need for land for similar communities to live on.

That was a major victory, he said. The law is stacked in favour of the landowner.

Maybe people want to offer some bits of land for people to live on.

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