joining us this morning at post nine is the senior editor of c-net scott stein.o of what a lot of people are saying. what are the complications. >> you know, i want to make my life easier, right, and i think that's the idea of the watch to make you life easier. and there are fantastic shortcuts, ways they've reinvented notifications but a lot of ways to interact, apps and subapps and so many ways to interact, that it's going to be a little hard to figure out. i've used a lot of smart watches and tech, so i've given this a week and i find it's not always that seamless to get from one part to the other and i'm playing with this on my wrist a bit. >> we are men of action, right. lives do not become us. you were critical of this. under whelming for you, compared to a lot of the reviews. overall the reviews are positive for the first generation product. you find a lot to be skeptical of in this particular iteration. >> i think it's because there's a lot i wanted to like and, you know, you're hoping they've nailed it and compared to a very middle landscape right now in

solid gold runs $17,000, and the tech report scott stein wore one for a couple of weeks. >> it is a feature packed ambitious watch, but it is the expense of price and battery life. >> the battery lasts one day, and other smart watches lasts up to seven. and the reviewers seem to have a love/hate relationship with the watch. "the new york times" said that the watch was something like a natural extension of my body and a direct link in the way i never felt before from the digital world to my brain end quote. but farhat manju said that it has all of the quotes and limitations and flaws that you would expect from brand new technology. and this from the bloomberg business news, it is the most advanced technology that you can wear today close quote, but then he says who needs one? >> i think that it is beneficial for the women who put the phone in the bag and always shuffling for the phone and instead, that i can do it on the wrist. >> reporter: the apple customers seem divided. >> i can't believe i need one more unless it can do something that the other people can do. >> i have the iphone and th

cnet reporter scott stein tried it. >> reporter: its battery life lasts one day. others last about seven. "the new york times," quote, the watch became something like an natural extension of my body, a direct link in a way i've never felt before in a digital world to my brain, end quote. but one goes on to say it still has, quote, all the limitations and flaws you'd expect of brand-new technology. and this from the block berg business news the most advanced piece ofwarable technology you could wear but who needs one? >> women will also shuffling for their phone. >> am customers seem divided as well. >> i don't see the need for one more unless they they can show me one that the others don't. >> i've got the iphone, geeshet the ipad. i think people need to break away from all that tech yie gadgets and enjoy life. >> cary mcsweeney nbc, bay area new s news news. >> meanwhile samsung is going to get in on the action that. goes on sale tomorrow as well. the galaxy s 6. but samsung said it's going have trouble meet deeg panhandle. hard to tell in it's marketing. it's ex

scott stein has been trying it out. >> it's one of the most feature packed ambitious smartwatches.s doing it at the expense of elements like price and battery life. >> reporter: with prices ranging from several hundred dollars for the sports version to several thousand dollars for the 18-karat gold edition, it may be a tough sell to the average person. >> it's really up to people to decide whether they want to spend $350 to $17,000 on an accessory or whether they just want to stick with their phone. >> reporter: it works with newer iphones lets you stay connected track fitness play music and use apple pay and tap into apps. >> it's easy to send texts, audio messages, make speaker phone calls. the fitness app in particular seems well thought out. >> reporter: but the battery only lasts a day while other smartwatches last up to 7 days. >> it's less like a watch you would wear every day without interruption and a little more like a powerful computer that you have to charge more. >> reporter: they are far from mainstream. it could be a boost to the market. >> all that is going to make

tech reporter scott stein wore one for a couple of weeks. >> it's one of the most feature-packed ambitious smart watches. but it's doing it at the expense of elements like price and battery life. >> reporter: its battery only lasts about one day. other smart watches last up to seven. reviewers seem to have a love/hate relationship with the watch. "the new york times," quote, the watch became something like a natural extension of my body a direct link in a way i've never felt before from the digital world to my brain, end quote. but goes on to say it still has, quote, all the limitations and flaws you would expect of brand-new technology. and that from joshua of the bloomberg business news, quote, the most advanced piece of wearable technology you can wear today, closed quote. but then he goes on the say who needs one? >> i really think the apple watch is going to be beneficial for women mostly who put their phone in their bag, or are always shoving for their phone. instead they can do some of the things directly on their wrist. >> reporter: apple customers seem divide as well. >> i don't s

but scott stein brought us one this morning. he's a senior editor with our partners at cnet.what it really is a hybrid between a super type of an ipod. you know when we used to have ipods to listen to music, it's like that with the ability to act with sim bee yachtic connection to your phone. and the third part is fitness. it's a fitness tracker to compete with the best fitness trackers out there. >> what is the best feature? >> i think it's a tossup between -- i'm going to get messages tall time to show this off. the fitness app is nicely done. i think it's the best on the smart watch. i think the fact that this gets easy to use message responses. it's got great disdickation capabilities and you can respond to phone calls. the design is nice the watch faces are fun. the question is do you need all of that in addition to a phone. >> mm-hmm. >> how close does it have to be to your smartphone? >> it actually uses bluetooth so it's about 30 feet but it cleverly uses wi-fi as well, something you don't see in other watches. so throughout your home and office you can use it as long

scott stein, and may men mohyeldin is joining us because you want to get a look at this thing too. >>t at $375 -- >> $350. >> and that will be the bright color and look like the back of my phone. >> it has the synthetic rubber bands but very pastel and ipod like. >> that one is how much? >> this is a thousand dollars. but this is about the bands. the stainless steel ones is high. about $600 for the one with the rubbery band and then paying over $400 for the strap. this is the top of the line strap. nicely made but that is really expensive in the landscape. so the tule -- the technology is the same no matter how much you pay. it is like timex versus rolex. >> right. the smaller versus the larger watches should have differents in battery -- should have differences in battery versus cell life. >> it will be differences in different parts of the world. >> but however even if folks put in an order there is a wait time? >> they are posting in june or some are selling sellout. it is all june across the board. so months that you are possibly getting one of these. >> okay. you fiddled around w

big story in tech is the review of the apple watch out this morning and among them c-net scott stein

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