Just spent a couple of hours setting it up for my girlfriend and playing with it. . . my girlfriend is falling in love with it. She loves the Butterfly clock face with the digital time in military time, being raised a military kid.
We found one feature I have never seen mentioned in any review or comment. . . and that is the ability to find your iPhone which has been mislaid. It's in the Watch's Control Center which you access by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, there's a place to PING your iPhone. . . and it causes your iPhone to chime so you can find where you put it down. Very useful ability of the Apple Watch. It's next to the screen that shows the battery reserve left.
Yah, I discovered that “ping the phone” gizmo, sorta by accident while poking around. Could come in handy.
I’ve discovered another feature, that at first I thought was a malfunction but it’s not... I wasn’t getting any alerts on the watch for new messages that were showing up on the phone. Well, turns out that if you’re -using- the phone when new messages arrive it doesn’t bother to send the notification to the watch. It only sends the notification to the watch when the phone is sleeping or locked. Well...duh. Makes sense. No reason to annoy you with alerts you already know about.
I turned the brightness way down to about two thirds. It’s plenty bright and I suspect it saves a lot of battery. Yesterday was my first full day with it, waking to bedtime, and after about seventeen hours it still had over 30% battery remaining. No worries on battery life I think. Today I set the brightness down to about a third and it still seems plenty bright so I’ll try that and see how it goes.